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Lecture: MA: Lecture: Advanced Course: Theories of Social and Cultural Anthropology - Details
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Course name Lecture: MA: Lecture: Advanced Course: Theories of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Course number MA_AC
Semester WiSe 2023/24
Current number of participants 10
Home institute Ethnologie/Kulturvergleichende Soziologie
Courses type Lecture in category Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen
First date Monday, 16.10.2023 14:15 - 15:45
Learning organisation Besonderheiten:
The lecture will be held in English and can only be taken together with the corresponding seminar. The whole module must be completed within one semester. Module requirements are conducted in English.
Performance record Klausur
SWS 2
Miscellanea Diese Lehrveranstaltung ist im Studienbegleitprogramm von gender*bildet (Zertifikat Gender Studies) anrechenbar.
ECTS points 15

Rooms and times

No room preference
Monday: 14:15 - 15:45, weekly

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 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
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 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.