General information

Course name	Seminar: Phenomenology and Pragmatism
Course number	MA: ETRANS 5/10
Semester	SS 2018
Current number of participants	2
Home institute	Ethnologie/Kulturvergleichende Soziologie
participating institutes	Lectures and Courses in English (International Studies)
Courses type	Seminar in category Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen
First date	Thursday, 12.04.2018 14:15 - 15:45
Pre-requisites	Recommended Reading: Talisse, R. and S. Aikin (eds.) 2011. The Pragmatism Reader: From Peirce through the Present, Princeton: Princeton University Press, Chapter on John Dewey, pp. 109-140. Desjarlais, Robert, and C. Jason Throop 2011. “Phenomenological Approaches in Anthropology.” Annual Review of Anthropology 40(1): 87-102.
Learning organisation	Specificity: This course is given in English and all requirements must be completed in English as well
Performance record	Requirements: Active participation based on the readings of the seminar. More will be announced at the first meeting Exam: Term paper (Hausarbeit) Specificity: This course is given in English and all requirements must be completed in English as well
Studiengänge (für)	MA Ethnologie, MA International Area Studies
SWS	2

Lehrende

Rooms and times

No room preference: Thursday: 14:15 - 15:45, weekly(13x)

Fields of study

Philosophische Fakultät I - Sozialwissenschaften und historische Kulturwissenschaften > Institut für Ethnologie und Philosophie > Ethnologie > Angebote für andere Fakultäten und Fachbereiche
Lectures and Courses in English (International Studies)
Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät III - Agrarwiss., Geowiss. und Informatik > Institut für Geowissenschaften und Geographie > Master International Area Studies
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

Comment/Description

Course Description:
Anthropology has traditionally been concerned with the ordinary, everyday world as seen from the perspective of those who are entangled in this world. It has delivered detailed and microscopic descriptions of mundane practices. In this endeavor anthropology took inspiration and theoretical grounding mainly from two philosophical schools: Pragmatism and Phenomenology. In this seminar, we discuss the inspiration coming from these schools to anthropology by reading some of the foundational texts in philosophy and in social theory and by probing how contemporary anthropology employs phenomenological and pragmatist tools.