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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Course name Seminar: MA: Seminar - Advanced Course: Theories of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Course number MA_AC
Semester WiSe 2025/26
Current number of participants 20
Home institute Ethnologie/Kulturvergleichende Soziologie
Courses type Seminar in category Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen
First date Wednesday, 22.10.2025 10:00 - 12:00, Room: (Seminar für Ethnologie/Seminarraum)
Lehrsprache(n) Englisch
SWS 2

Rooms and times

(Seminar für Ethnologie/Seminarraum)
Wednesday: 10:00 - 12:00, weekly (12x)
Wednesday, 04.02.2026 10:15 - 11:45

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, 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.