Eliane Sebeika Rapchan

Eliane Sebeika Rapchan is Professor at the Department of Social Sciences-UEM and she is also currently a Collaborative Researcher at the LAAAE (Laboratory of Archeology, Environmental and Evolutionary Anthropology) IB-USP. She developed her postdoctoral studies at LEEH-IB-USP under the supervision of Prof. Walter Neves (2010-12) and IP-USP (2005) under the supervision of Prof. César Ades. All of these projects address the debates about the definitions of humanity and animality. She concluded his doctorate in Social Sciences by Unicamp (2000), consolidating his career in the dedication to research in anthropological theory with an emphasis on the approach of intellectual trajectories, nature/culture relations and relationships (theoretical, historical, epistemological and sociocultural) between anthropology and biosciences, especially primatology, biological anthropology and ethology, in the light of the anthropology of science, ideas and knowledge. In the same direction, she develops research to analyze human-animal relations from ethnographic records, emphasizing behavioral research on chimpanzees, bonobos, monkey-natives and, more recently, elephants. Her articles, published in the last 18 years, as well as her participation in events, are critical discussions about the conceptions of chimpanzee "cultures" from the perspectives of sociocultural anthropology. Some of her manuscripts also address the various and possible dimensions of human-nonhuman relations, the theoretical, methodological, epistemological, and ideological relations between anthropology and biosciences and the influences of Darwinian thought on the social sciences. She teaches at two postgraduate programs: PGC-UEM and PROFCIAMB-UEM. These research interests also directly or indirectly influence the orientations and co-orientations completed, and in progress (scientific initiation, graduation and masters). The researcher is a member of the Brazilian Association of Anthropology (ABA) and the Group of Studies of Anthropology of Science and Technology (GEACT). He also participates in the following CNPq Research Group: the Research Laboratory in Anthropology (LAPA) and the Human Non-Human Interfaces (INUMA-UFS). She is also a researcher associated to the Laboratory of Socioanthropological Studies on Knowledge and Nature (LESCON) of UFF. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)