Lecture in category Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen
First date
Tuesday, 11.10.2011 10:15 - 11:45
Type/Form
TME/AC
Participants
Studienprogramm: Master Ethnologie 45/75/120; PhD-Programme
Modul: TME/AC
Modulleistung: Klausur
Besonderheiten: The language of instruction will be English
(Prof. Dr. Chris Hann / PD Dr. Lale Yalçin-Heckmann)
This course gives an overview on an advanced level of central themes in anthropological
theory and methodology. The goal is to acquire the competence to frame and formulate a
scientific argument by drawing on theoretical and methodological approaches appropriate to
the object of study. The lectures address the following issues:
Social structures & social spheres: economy (division of labour), law (normative orders),
politics (forms of domination), knowledge and religion, social organisation, differentiation
Collective identities: categorizations, groups, networks, descent, kinship, territoriality,
gender, age, class, lifestyle, ethnicity/nation
Interaction & microsocial analysis: social roles, practices, situations, agency and
performance
Historical approaches: ethnohistory, processes of change, memory
Diffusion & evolution: development, globalization, transnationalism
Space & materiality: spatiality and materiality of social orders
Knowledge, reflexivity, epistemologies: social constructivism, post-structuralism / postfoundationalism,
regimes of knowledge
Fieldwork: participant observation, interviewing, fieldnotes, microcensus, genealogical
method, plurilocal ethnography, situational analysis, self-reflexivity, research ethics
Identifying, accessing and analyzing sources: oral history, material and immaterial
products from the field, cultural traits, performances, gray literature, archives
Quantitative und qualitative generalizations: comparison, extended case method, network
analysis, use of quantitative data.
