| CODE | ANT3082 | ||||||||
| TITLE | Anthropology and the Hellenic World | ||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 03 - Years 2, 3, 4 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 6 | ||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 4 | ||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Anthropological Sciences | ||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | Greece and the Greek world have occupied a privileged but ambiguous position in anthropological thought: the origins of ‘rational thought’ in contrast to myth, the emergence of the polis and political life, of tragedy, money, and of writing., etc. This course examines how anthropological insights and theories have been applied to the study of the Greek world and society. These include Structuralism (Vernant, Detienne, etc), science (GER Lloyd), the ancient economy (Polanyi, Mauss, Graeber, Derrida), gender relations, the origins of money (‘State’ vs ‘Barter’ theories), Gifts and Commodities, Tragedy, ancient Globalization, etc. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: - Mirko Canevaro, Andrew Erskine, Benjamin Gray, and Josiah Ober: Ancient Greek History and Contemporary Social Science . University Press Scholarship Online. 2019. - James N. Davidson: Courtesans and Fishcakes. The Consuming Passions of Classical Athens Chicago University Press 2011. - Leslie Kurke: Coins, bodies, games, and gold: the politics of meaning in archaic Greece, Princeton University Press, 1999. - Seaford, R.: Money and the Early Greek Mind. Homer, Philosophy, Tragedy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2004. - David M. Schaps: The Invention Of Coinage And The Monetization Of Ancient Greece. The University of Michigan Press. Ann Arbor. 2007. Other readings will be posted on VLE. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | ||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Paul Sant Cassia |
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