| CODE | ANT1004 | ||||||||
| TITLE | Ethnography and Anthropological Theory | ||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 01 - Year 1 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 5 | ||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 8 | ||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Anthropological Sciences | ||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | Students learn through the entire academic year the close connections between ethnography and social theory since the start of modern Social Anthropology in the early 20th century. The objective of this study-unit is to remove the wrong-headed difference in students` minds between `theory` and `ethnographic research`. Students learn from the beginning that ethnographic research and ethnographic writing have been part of evolving theoretical debates. They should see that ethnography is not just interesting description of a culture for its own sake, but the ethnographer`s personal response to some theoretical puzzle(s). This study-unit introduces major theoretical paradigms which have emerged chronologically in Social Anthropology (as it has proceeded in Britain and North America) – functionalism, structural-functionalism, cultural determinism, French structuralism, transactionalism, Marxism, culture theory, and feminism. Students present frequent short essays. NB: This study-unit is open only to students with Anthropology as their Main or Subsidiary subject. Reading List: - M. Candea (ed.) (2018) Schools and Styles of Anthropological Theory, London: Routledge. - R. Layton (1997) An Introduction to Theory in Anthropology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Selected readings from classical and contemporary ethnographies. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | ||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Daniela DeBono Michael Pio Deguara Gisella Orsini |
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