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COURSE DESCRIPTION (Group C)
Course
code
Course group
Volume in
ECTS credits
Course valid
from
Course valid to
SAT 5001
C
6
2016.06.01
2019.06.01
Course type (compulsory or optional)
Course level (study cycle)
Semester the course is delivered
Study form (face-to-face or distant)
Reg. No.
Compulsory
MA
I
Face-to-face
Course title in Lithuanian
ŠIUOLAIKINĖS SOCIALINĖS ANTROPOLOGIJOS TEORIJOS
Course title in English
CONTEMPORARY THEORIES IN SOCIOCULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY
Short course annotation in Lithuanian (up to 500 characters)
Kursas kritiniu ir palyginamuoju aspektais supažindina su šiuolaikinėmis antropologijos teorijomis,
požiūriais ir terminais. Pagrindinis dėmesys skiriamas šiuo metu antropologjoje diskutuojamoms
problemoms (kultūros samprata, deteritorializacija ir kultūros kaita, socialinė tranformacija ir
socialinis netikrumas, kultūra ir materialumas, simbolinis socialinės realybės konstravimas,
globalizacija ir fragmentacija, kultūra ir galia, globalus procesas ir identiteto politika,
postmoderniosios antropologijos teorija ir metodologija t.t.) ir joms spręsti taikomoms
koncepcijoms išgvildenti. Studentai išmoksta kritiškai analizuoti ir savarankiškai taikyti
antropologinius požiūrius ir tyrimo perspektyvas jas taikant šiuolaikinio pasaulio kultūrų ir
visuomenių sociokultūrinėms problemoms tirti bei tiriamajai medžiagai analizuoti bei tiriamiesiems
projektams kurti ir vykdyti.
Short course annotation in English (up to 500 characters)
The course critically and from comparative perspective discusses contemporary anthropological
approaches and concepts by focusing on recent debates on concept of culture, deteritorialisation and
culture change, social transformation and uncertainty, culture and materiality, symbolic construction
of social worlds, globalization and fragmentation , culture, power and identity politics, debates on
nature, culture and after-nature as well as the development of postmodern anthropological theories
and methodologies etc. Students will learn critical and comparative perspectives in applying modern
and postmodern anthropological approaches for studying contemporary human problems as well as to
enhance theoretical approaches for dealing with research materials and research project design.
Prerequisites for entering the course
Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology
Course aim
Knowledge of contemporary anthropological theories and research paradigms and its critical and
comparative application in studying contemporaneous problems of humanity as well as in building
analytical platform to deal with research materials.
Links between study programme outcomes, course outcomes and criteria of learning achievement
evaluation
Study programme
Criteria of learning achievement
Course outcomes
outcomes
evaluation
1. Ability to master
anthropological concepts,
theories , approaches and
ability to use a variety of
analytical perspectives in
studying human sociocultural diversity and
Ability to master anthropological
theories, concept and approaches
through a critical evaluation,
interpretation and by providing
analytical perspectives of their
application
To demonstrate ability to
understand
anthropological
research from a critical,
systematic
and
analytical
perspectives
communality
2) ability to critically
assess, compare and
contrast concepts, ideas
and data from different
disciplinary
and
interdisciplinary contexts
as well as to analyze and
synthesize research data,
provide an interpretation
supported by evidence as
well as develop an
argument
based
on
critical engagement with
research material
To demonstrate ability to
identify research questions,
Ability to evaluate contemporary theoretical approaches, and
anthropological
research
in concepts used in contemporary
comparative perspective
anthropological research by
employing
comparative
perspective
To demonstrate ability to apply
theoretical perspectives in the
study
of
contemporary
Ability to apply an anthropological
problems of contemporaneous
theoretical perspectives in the studies
world as well as to elaborate
of contemporary human problems as
analytical platform for an
well as by engaging in research
argument based engagement
material and in the analysis of
with research material.
research data.
Link between course outcomes and content
Course outcomes
Content (topics)
1. Anthropological theories in contemporary perspective. Classical
approaches and current debates. Application of anthropological
theorizing in critical and comparative perspectives.
2. Contemporary anthropological approaches , concepts and
methodologies focused on recent debates in the discipline and
interdisciplinary.
3. Concept of culture and ‘against culture’ (A. Gupta, J. Ferguson,
Richard Fox).
4. Concept of space, deteritorialisation and culture change (A.
Appadurai, M. Age, J. Clifford).
5. Problem of social transformation and uncertainty (E. Wolf, C.
Verdery).
2.Ability
to
evaluate
6. Interrelation of culture, economy and materiality (M. Sahlins, M.
contemporary
anthropological research Harris).
in
comparative 7. Symbolic construction of social worlds (V. Turner, M. Douglas, C.
Geertz).
perspective.
8. Understanding of the processes of globalization and fragmentation (U.
1.Ability
to
master
anthropological theories,
concept and approaches
through
a
critical
evaluation, interpretation
and
by
providing
analytical perspectives of
their application
3.Ability to apply an
anthropological theoretical
perspectives in the studies
of contemporary human
problems as well as by
engaging in
research
material and in the
analysis of research data.
Hannerz, R. Rosaldo, T. H. Eriksen).
9. Problem of culture, power and identity politics (M. Herzfeld, J.
Friedman, L. Malkki).
10. Debates on nature, culture and after-nature (T. Ingold, M. Strathern).
11. Development of postmodern anthropological theories and
methodologies. Reflexive anthropology, ‘new ethnography’ and
‘anthropology at home’ (J. Clifford, G. Marcus, M. Fischer, A. Cohen,
K. Hastrup).
12. Critical and comparative perspectives in applying modern and
postmodern anthropological approaches for studying contemporary
human problems.
13. Application of contemporaneous anthropological theorizing through
critical and comparative assessment of theoretical approaches. Creating of an
analytical platform for dealing with research materials and research
project design.
Study (teaching and learning) methods
Lectures, seminars, group discussions, individual presentations, independent work
Methods of learning achievement assessment
Mid -term exam – 30%, student‘s homework –20%, final exam – 50%.
Distribution of workload for students (contact and independent work hours)
Lectures
Seminars
Group work
Individual students work
Total:
30 hours
15 hours
15 hours
100 hours
160hours
Structure of cumulative score and value of its constituent parts
Homework - 20 %, mid-term exam -30%, final exam – 50% of final grade
Recommended reference materials
No.
Publication
year
Authors of publication and
title
Publishing
house
University
library
Number of copies in
Self-study
Other
rooms
libraries
Basic materials
1.
2.
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4
5
6
1998
1993
2012
1997
2001
1996
Borofsky, R.,
Assessing Cultural
Anthropology
Kuper, A.,
Anthropology and
Anthropologists: The
Modern British School
McGraw-Hill
1
London:
Routledge
1
Mayfield
McGee, J.& R.Warms,
Pub.
Anthropological Theory
Company
Cambridge:
Layton, R., An
Cambridge
Introduction to Theory
University
in Anthropology
Press
Eriksen, T. H. & F. S.
London:
Nielsen, A History of
Pluto Press.
Anthropology
Ingold, T., Key
Debates in
Anthropology
London:
Routledge.
1
1
1
1
7
2006
Moore, H. & Sanders,
T.(eds.) Anthropology
in Theory. Issues in
Epistemology
Blackwell
Supplementary materials
1.
1995
Hastrup, K., A Passage
to Anthropology:
Between Experience
and Theory
Course programme designed by
Prof. Vytis Čiubrinskas,
Oslo: Oslo
University
press
1