New Trends in Anthropology 3102-MNKA
1. Postmodermism in art, literature and anthropology.
2. Late modernity, postmodernity and self-identity.
3. Theories of globalization.
4. "Power" as an analytical category in contemporary social sciences. Relation between power and knowledge.
5. Anthropology of the state. Studies of agency, power and resistance.
6. Anthropology after the Cold War. Studies of postcolonialism and postsocialism.
7. Psychoanalysis and its influence on social sciences.
8. Anthropology of emotions and nonverbal forms of communication.
9. Cultural studies.
10. Body as a subject of anthropological inquiry.
11. Contemporary directions in kinship.
12. Gender as an analytical category in contemporary social science.
13. Social dimensions of developments in science and technology.
14. Political engagement of anthropology. Applied anthropology.
Type of course
Course coordinators
Learning outcomes
Having completed the course, students:
- gain knowledge of the current directions in humanities: poststructuralism, non-anthropolocentric humanities, postcolanialism, post-socialist studies among others;
- can apply the knowledge in their own research.
Assessment criteria
essay
Bibliography
Agamben, G., Co zostaje z Auschwitz, Warszawa 2008.
Appiah, K. A., „Postmodernizm, postkolonializm. O różnicy w przedrostku”, przeł. Dorota Kołodziejczyk, „Literatura na Świecie”, nr 1-2, 2008.
Appadurai, A., Nowoczesność bez granic. Kulturowe wymiary globalizacji, przeł. Zbigniew Pucek, Kraków: Universitas, 2005.
Butler, J. Uwikłani w płeć, Warszawa 2008.
Cavanagh, C. „Postkolonialna Polska. Biała plama na mapie współczesnej teorii”, przeł. Tomasz Kunz, „Teksty drugie”, nr 2-3, 2003.
Foucault, M., Nadzorować i karać, Warszawa 1998.
Hall,S „Tożsamość kulturowa a diaspora”, przeł. Krzysztof Mejer, „Literatura na Świecie”, nr 1-2, 2008.
Hryciuk, R. i A. Kościańska (red.), Gender. Perspektywa antropologiczna, t. 1, t. 2, Warszawa 2007.
Janion, M., Niesamowita słowiańszczyzna. Fantazmaty literatury, Kraków 2007.
Sassen, S., Globalizacja. Eseje o nowej mobilności ludzi i pieniędzy, Kraków 2008.
Žižek. Przewodnik Krytyki Politycznej, Warszawa 2009.
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