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 disci-plinary 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.
Recommended Reading:
Nash, June. 1981. “Ethnographic Aspects of the World Capitalist System.” Annual Review of Anthropology 10: 393-423.
Laura Bear, Karen Ho, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, 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
Course Requirement: Active course participation. More will be announced at the first meeting.