Seminar: MA: Seminar - Advanced Course: Theories of Social and Cultural Anthropology - Details

Seminar: MA: Seminar - Advanced Course: Theories of Social and Cultural Anthropology - Details

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Veranstaltungsname Seminar: MA: Seminar - Advanced Course: Theories of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Veranstaltungsnummer MA_AC
Semester WiSe 2025/26
Aktuelle Anzahl der Teilnehmenden 20
Heimateinrichtung Ethnologie/Kulturvergleichende Soziologie
Veranstaltungstyp Seminar in der Kategorie Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen
Erster Termin Mittwoch, 22.10.25, 10:00 - 12:00 Uhr Seminar für Ethnologie/Seminarraum
Lehrsprache(n) Englisch
SWS 2

Räume und Zeiten

Seminar für Ethnologie/Seminarraum

  • Mittwoch, 10:00 - 12:00, Wöchentlich (ab dem 22.10.25)
  • Mittwoch, 04.02.26, 10:15 - 11:45 Uhr

Kommentar/Beschreibung

The Advanced Course offers an overview of important theoretical orientations and thematic domains of the discipline. It conveys state-of-the-art international theoretical work and disciplinary differentiation. The three main intended learning outcomes of the course are:
(1) Advanced knowledge of central theoretical positions in anthropology.
(2) Competence to read and discuss sophisticated anthropological texts in English.
(3) Advanced competences in scholarly argumentation and substantiated deployment of
theoretical positions.
Literaturempfehlung: Nash, June. 1981. „Ethnographic Aspects of the World Capitalist System.“ Annual Review of Anthropology 10: 393–423.
Bear, Laura, Karen Ho, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, und Sylvia Yana-gisako. 2015. „Gens: A Feminist Manifesto for the Study of Capita-lism.“ Cultural Anthropology, https://culanth.org/fieldsights/gens-a-feminist-manifesto-for-the-study-of-capitalism.
Modulleistung: Klausur
Besonderheiten: The lecture will be held in English and can only be taken together with the corresponding seminar. The whole module must be com-pleted within one semester. Modul requirements are conducted in English.