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| Course name | Cultural Anthropology |
| Course ID | 14.7-WP-SOC-AKUL |
| Faculty | Faculty of Social Sciences |
| Field of study | WNS - oferta ERASMUS / Sociology |
| Education profile | - |
| Level of studies | First-cycle Erasmus programme |
| Beginning semester | winter term 2020/2021 |
| Head faculty | Faculty of Social Sciences |
| ECTS credits to win | 5 |
| Course type | obligatory |
| Teaching language | english |
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| The class form | Hours per semester (full-time) | Hours per week (full-time) | Hours per semester (part-time) | Hours per week (part-time) | Form of assignment |
| Class | 30 | 2 | - | - | Credit with grade |
Is to give a student spossibility to obtain anthropological competences so they could avoid “over-socialized” vision of society and culture.
No special prerequisites
· Anti-naturalistic character of cultural anthropology as a social science.
· Beginnings of anthropological thinking – its historical and elementary matters.
· Initiation of relativistic point in estimating strange, abroad cultures.
· Understanding cultures as ideative reality.
· Main issues of classical and contemporary anthropology.
Lecture with discussion. Demonstrating - teaching through examples and case studies description.
Multimedia learning process – using Power Point presentations, use of filmstrips, recordings etc.
| Outcome description | Outcome symbols | Methods of verification | The class form |
Individual assessment based on active participation during the course and written essay.
1. Barnard A., History and Theory in Anthropology, Cambridge 2000.
2. Benedict R., Patterns of Culture, New York 1934.
3. Clifford J., The Predicament of Culture. Twentieth Century Ethnography, Literature and Art, Cambridge 1988.
4. Gennep van A., The Rites of Passage, London 1977
5. Hemmersley M., Atkinson P., Ethnography. Principles in Practice, London 1995.
6. Mead M., Culture and Commitment. A Study of the Generation Gap, 1970.
1. Geertz C., Local Knowledge. Further Essays in Interpretative Anthropology, New York 1983.
2. Malinowski, B., Argonauts of the Western Pacific: An account of native enterprise and adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea, London 1922.
3. Sahlins M., Islands of History, Chicago 1985.
the subject can be run every semester, in case there is not enough persons to make a group there will be individual class run during instructor hours.
Modified by dr Jarosław Wagner (last modification: 08-07-2020 17:37)
