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 2026/27
Aktuelle Anzahl der Teilnehmenden 7
erwartete Teilnehmendenzahl 35
Heimateinrichtung Ethnologie/Kulturvergleichende Soziologie
Veranstaltungstyp Seminar in der Kategorie Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen
Nächster Termin Mittwoch, 21.10.26, 10:15 - 11:45 Uhr Seminar für Ethnologie/Seminarraum
Lehrsprache(n) Englisch
SWS 2

Räume und Zeiten

Seminar für Ethnologie/Seminarraum

  • Mittwoch, 10:15 - 11:45, Wöchentlich (ab dem 21.10.26)

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 dis-ciplinary 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 the-oretical 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 Yanag-isako. 2015. „Gens: A Feminist Manifesto for the Study of Capital-ism.“ 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.