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Kar
Társadalomtudományi Kar
Szervezet
TÁTK Kulturális Antropológia Tanszék
Kód
ESZOCBA81
Cím
Cultural Anthropology
Tervezett félév
Őszi
ECTS
3
Nyelv
en
Oktatás célja
What is this course about? An anthropologist walks into a bar and asks: Why is this joke funny? According to Clifford Geertz, "man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun”. We can take culture to be those webs, and the analysis of it to be therefore should not be an experimental science in search of law but rather an interpretive one in search of meaning. How and why should one proceed to acquire this meaning is what we are going discuss during the lectures. At the core of the anthropological perspective we find the pressure of human diversity. The human species is the most widely distributed animal on the planet, and one that has successfully adapted to an extreme wide variate of conditions, without going through speciation, meaning that this adaptation is first and foremost behavioural, or cultural if you will. It is culture that makes us humans and what keeps us human as well.
Tantárgy tartalma
Course Topics: The course aims to give you an entertaining introduction to the cultural anthropological perspective through a set of anthological lectures revolving around six topics: Cultural Relativism and the method of anthropology. Behavioural Genetics and Aggression. The Anthropology of Genocide. Humour Homophobia and Antisemitism. Racial thinking Moral tribes
Számonkérés és értékelés
Course requirements Since I fully understand how challenging this semester will be, I decided to make the requirements somewhat more “student-friendly.” This means that the students can complete the course without a final exam. Assignments: The assignments will be uploaded to CANVAS Based upon the lectures and the compulsory readings, students will have to answer a single question every month. The answer should not be longer than one page and should be uploaded before the assignment deadline as a pdf. The answers should be written in the student's own words (NOT copied/pasted from the book or other sources) and MUST demonstrate that both read and understood the main arguments of the lecture and the reading.
Irodalomjegyzék
Readings will be uploaded to the Canvas

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