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Kar

Társadalomtudományi Kar

Szervezet

TÁTK Kulturális Antropológia Tanszék

Kód

EKAN101

Cím

Introduction to Cultural Anthropology 2.

Tervezett félév

Tavaszi

Meghirdetve

2024/25/2

ECTS

3

Nyelv

en

Oktatás célja

The goal of the course and ability to acquire: Anthropologists interpret their micro focusing research in a holistic way with comprehensive analyses of the historical and sociological contexts of their field. With this in mind, the students of the course get to know in detail theories, approaches, main interests, research topics and results of anthropology from the perspective of human societies and cultures. We analyse numerous case studies, communities, examples of social and cultural phenomena and practise with the help of particular research results, documentaries as well as performances, movies, novels and different visual or written sources. Moreover, we interpret and discuss with the students how social and cultural anthropology contributes to the deep understanding of the processes, changes and social-cultural meanings of humanity in the 21st century, as well as the social utility and applications of anthropological knowledge. Furthermore, the students of the course will be expected to give presentations individually or in groups about particular questions of social and cultural problems. The students choose a question or problem which connects to the topics reviewed in the semester and to their own research topic (possibly). During these practices students can improve their skills of teamwork. Besides, with the help of these practises and the related discussion they will be able to use the approach and interpretive skills of cultural anthropology to understand and analyse social and cultural questions from the perspective of cultural anthropology. Critical anthropological thinking helps the students to understand the differences and difficulties of social interactions, cultural and intercultural communication and their significance in a sensitive and interpretative way. As a result, the students will be able to apply their social and cultural anthropological knowledge and skills in their future studies. The Introduction to Cultural Anthropology 2 course is also the basis of the theoretical and methodological courses of the Master programs’ curriculum.

Tantárgy tartalma

Detailed syllabus and topics: 1. Introduction The first class will be a space for meeting each participant of the class and discussing the progress of the students regarding their research, as well as going through the syllabus. 2. Cultural identities (rethinking ethnicity) We will discuss the cultural identities, including the politicisation of culture which involves the cultural identity being exposed at risk, such as marginalisation, stigmatisation, assimilation or powerlessness of a group of people. What happens when cultural identity correlates firstly with an ethnic aspect? Or when, for example, the ethnic/national aspect is not central in the identity spectrum but other components are? We will go through a variety of topics from symbolic social structures, to relations of thought and communication, without forgetting the place of the anthropologist and her or his world view in relation to that of the other. 3. Globalisation and Community Here we will examine the social and cultural anthropological questions of the globalised world, focusing on connections of the global processes, their adaptations to the local cultural significances and social reality. We will use examples of West-East dichotomy, neo-tribal forms of practices, trying to understand contemporary lifestyles and the sense of belonging, including the influence of neo-colonialism. How globalisation changes societies? How does a local culture give new meaning to globalised phenomena or what does it reject from these phenomena? 4. Decoloniality and the Anthropology of race In this section, we are going to explore the relation between colonial heritage and the social construction of race. We will learn about decolonial theory and the possible anthropological approaches to it, particularly in the case of Latin America, Africa and the Middle East. How are ‘social positions’ and hierarchies configured by the cultural perceptions of race? What are the narratives and discourses that concern indigenism and afro-diasporic groups in relation to modernity/coloniality and the conception of race? 5. Power and inequality: Anthropology of class and gender Early twentieth century anthropologists presumed that the social and political differences or divisions between men and women were 'natural', relating this to women’s reproductive role, confining them to the domestic sphere. In this section we will review the distinction between sex as biological given and gender as culturally variable. How does gender play a role in the divisions of labour? How are unequal gender relations connected to poverty? We will discuss gender as a symbolic construction and gender as a complex set of social relations as well as the ways in which power and knowledge are linked. 6-13. Students’ Presentation

Számonkérés és értékelés

Conditions of the course completion 1. Regular class attendance is a course requirement. 2. Each student is encouraged to contribute and participate in the in-class discussions. 3. Each student will be expected to give presentations individually or in groups from anthropological questions and problems which are connected to the semester’s topic ➢ Requirements of the presentation: ● every student must give a presentation (alone or in a group) ● the presentation should contain an overview and introduction to the anthropological problem/ problems of the presentation ● the student has to present case studies/examples (ideally related to the student’s research interests) ● it is important to finish with a conclusion from the anthropological perspective of the interpreted problem ● Every student must also send the slides of the presentation to the professor before the end of the semester! Assessment Final marks will be based on attendance and in-class participation (30%) and active participation in the presentations and discussion (70%)

Irodalomjegyzék

Bibliography for the course: 1. Appadurai, A. (1999). Globalisation and the research imagination. International Social Science Journal, 51(160), 229-238. 2. Appadurai, A. (2013). The future as cultural fact: Essays on the global condition. Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia, 14(4), 649-650. 3. Assmann, J., & Czaplicka, J. (1995). Collective memory and cultural identity. New German critique, (65), 125-133. 4. Barth, F. (1998). Ethnic groups and boundaries: The social organization of culture difference. Waveland Press. 5. Blackhawk, N., & Wilner, I. L. (Eds.). (2018). Indigenous Visions: Rediscovering the World of Franz Boas. Yale University Press. 6. Brubaker, R. (1996). Nationalizing states in the old ‘New Europe’–and the new. Ethnic and Racial studies, 19(2), 411-437. 7. Brubaker, R. (2004). Ethnicity without groups. Harvard university press. 8. Burchianti, M. E. (2004). Building bridges of memory: The mothers of the Plaza de Mayo and the cultural politics of maternal memories. History and Anthropology, 15(2), 133-150. 9. Cohen, A. P. (1993). Culture as identity: an anthropologist's view. New literary history, 24(1), 195-209. 10. Comaroff, J., & Comaroff, J. (2014). Ethnicity, Inc (pp. 249-266). University of Pennsylvania Press. 11. Engelke, M. (2018). How to think like an anthropologist. Princeton University Press. 12. Geertz, C. (2008). Thick description: Toward an interpretive theory of culture (pp. 41-51). Routledge. 13. Gibb, R. (2001). Toward an anthropology of social movements. Journal des anthropologues. Association française des anthropologues, (85-86), 233-253. 14. Gimenez, M. E. (2018). Marx, Women, and Capitalist Social Reproduction: Marxist-Feminist Essays. Brill. 15. Grey, S. (2004). Decolonising feminism: Aboriginal women and the global ‘Sisterhood’. Enweyin: The Way We Speak, 8(1), 9-22. 16. Gupta, A., & Ferguson, J. (1992). Beyond “culture”: Space, identity, and the politics of difference. Cultural anthropology, 7(1), 6-23. 17. Hall, S. (2020). Cultural identity and diaspora (pp. 231-242). Routledge. 18. Haviland,William A. – Prins, Harold – Walrath, Dana – McBride, Bunny’s The Essence of Anthropology 19. Jack David Eller’s Cultural Anthropology. Global Forces, Local Lives 20. Jenkins, R. (1994). Rethinking ethnicity: identity, categorization and power. Ethnic and racial studies, 17(2), 197-223. 21. LaCapra, D. (2016). 5. Culture and Ideology: From Geertz to Marx. In Soundings in Critical Theory (pp. 133-154). Cornell University Press. 22. Lewellen, T. C. (2003). Political anthropology: An introduction. ABC-CLIO. 23. MacKinnon, C. A. (1982). Feminism, Marxism, method, and the state: An agenda for theory. Signs: Journal of women in culture and society, 7(3), 515-544. 24. Mirpuri, A. (2016). Racial violence, mass shootings, and the US neoliberal state. Critical Ethnic Studies, 2(1), 73-106. 25. Nugent, D., & Vincent, J. (Eds.). (2008). A Companion to the Anthropology of Politics. John Wiley & Sons. 26. Richard Papp: Ephemeral Reality. Many Faces of Culture https://www.eltereader.hu/media/2020/12/Many-faces-of-culture_WEB.pdf 27. Schröder, I. W. (2010). The Making and Breaking of Collective Identities: Analytical Inspirations from the New Marxist Anthropology. Ethnicity Studies/Etniskumo Studijos, (1). 28. Smith, L. T. (1999). Decolonising methodologies: Researching and indigenous peoples. 29. Thomas Hylland Eriksen’s Small Places, Large Issues: An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology, 30. Walsh, C., & León, E. (2006). Afro Andean Thought and Diasporic Ancestrality. Shifting the geography of reason: Gender, science and religion, 211-224. 31. Wimmer, A., & Glick Schiller, N. (2002). Methodological nationalism and beyond: nation–state building, migration and the social sciences. Global networks, 2(4), 301-334. 32. Yaqin, A. (2007). Islamic Barbie: The politics of gender and performativity. Fashion Theory, 11(2-3), 173-188.

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