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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. 3 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