SOC463 Changing Concepts in and of Cultural Anthropology

Faculty of Social Studies
Spring 2004
Extent and Intensity
0/0/0. 12 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Miklós Vörös, Ph.D. (lecturer), doc. PhDr. Csaba Szaló, Ph.D. (deputy)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Ing. Radim Marada, Ph.D.
Department of Sociology – Faculty of Social Studies
Contact Person: Veronika Šenkýřová, DiS.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The course will concentrate on changing concepts in and of cultural anthropology. More precisely on Time, Space, and Identity. Three workshops (26.03.2004, 23.04.2004, 21.05.2004) will be organized on the following topics: A critique of a practice: conceptions of time and space in modernist anthropology. Time in anthropology. Space and place in anthropology. Evaluation criteria: preparation and participation 30%, 1500 words academic paper based on readings 70%.
Syllabus
  • 1 A critique of a practice: conceptions of time and space in modernist anthropology 1.1 Malinowski, participant observation and the monograph genre 1.2 The exotic other: distantiation in time and space 1.3 What makes a field? 1.4 The ethnographic present 2 Time in anthropology 2.1 Rites of passage 2.2 Work, time, and discipline 2.3 Invented traditions and constructed pasts 2.4 Collective memory and nostalgia: past in the present 3 Space and place in anthropology 3.1 Classification and standardization: divisions in space 3.2 Social space and symbolic power 3.3 Borders and transgressions: bounding and unbounding identities 3.4 Landscapes of culture
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught: in blocks.
Note related to how often the course is taught: (trikrat za semestr: ctvrtek + patek).
Credit evaluation note: 3 původní kredity.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2003.
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