Course for international guest/part time students
- Faculty
- Faculty of Social Sciences
- Organization
- TÁTK Department of Cultural Anthropology
- Code
- EKAN102
- Title
- History of Cultural Anthropology – An Introduction
- Usual semester
- Autumn
- Published semester
- 2026/27/1
- ECTS
- 3
- Language
- en
- Learning outcomes
- History of Anthropology regarding its historical development as a scientific discipline; All major relevant methodologies used by anthropologiests today.
- Course content
- Course content: The birth of cultural anthropology, significant “armchair” anthropologists (classical evolutionism: Lewis Henry Morgan, Edward Burnett Tylor, James George Frazer, Emile Durkheim; the German-Austrian "Kulturkreis"-school; the British heliocentric diffusionism; Marcel Mauss; Robert Hertz, Arnold Van Gennep)
- Assessment method
- - Weekly written annotations of all assigned readings - Class participation - Group work - Final Presentation and/or essay
- Bibliography
- Eriksen. T. H. & Nielsen, F. S. (2001). A History of Anthropology. Pluto Press, London Boas, F. (1962). Anthropology and Modern Life. W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. New York
Programmes of the course
| Title (code) | Lang. | Level | Mandatory | Year | ... |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cultural Anthropology (TÁTK-KAN-NMEN) | en | 7 | Mandatory | 1/2 | |
| Erasmus Programme (TÁTK-ERASMUS-B-NXXX) | en | ||||
| Erasmus Programme (TÁTK-ERASMUS-M-NXXX) | en |