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

General information

Course name	Lecture: MA: Lecture - Advanced Course: Theories of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Course number	MA_AC
Semester	WiSe 2025/26
Current number of participants	22
Home institute	Ethnologie/Kulturvergleichende Soziologie
Courses type	Lecture in category Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen
Next date	Tuesday, 20.01.2026 10:00 - 12:00, Room: (Seminar für Ethnologie/Seminarraum)
Lehrsprache(n)	Englisch
SWS	2

Lecturers

• Olaf Zenker

Tutor

• Selcuk Kilic

Rooms and times

(Seminar für Ethnologie/Seminarraum)

Tuesday: 10:00 - 12:00, weekly (12x)

Wednesday, 04.02.2026 10:15 - 11:45

Fields of study

• Lectures and Courses in English (International Studies) > Faculty of Philosophy I
• Philosophische Fakultät I - Sozialwissenschaften und historische Kulturwissenschaften > Institut für Ethnologie und Philosophie > Ethnologie > Master Ethnologie 120 LP
• Philosophische Fakultät I - Sozialwissenschaften und historische Kulturwissenschaften > Institut für Ethnologie und Philosophie > Ethnologie > Master Ethnologie 45/75
• Philosophische Fakultät I - Sozialwissenschaften und historische Kulturwissenschaften > Institut für Ethnologie und Philosophie > Ethnologie

Module assignments

• Ethnologie EthnoAnthrMA45/75, Version of accreditation valid from WS 2022/23 > Pflichtmodule > PHI.07829.01 - Advanced Course: Theories of Social and Cultural Anthropology (AC) PO2022, valid from WiSe 2023/24 > Course 1: Lecture (Vorlesung)
• Ethnologie EthnologieMA120, Version of accreditation valid from SoSe 2023 > Pflichtmodule > PHI.07829.01 - Advanced Course: Theories of Social and Cultural Anthropology (AC) PO2022, valid from WiSe 2023/24 > Course 1: Lecture (Vorlesung)

Comment/Description

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, and 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 comple-ted within one semester. Module requirements are conducted in English.