Caucasus in the Perspective of Political Anthropology 3102-LKAP
The course is based on literature on Caucasus as well as on theoretical works from the field of anthropology of state. Students will be encouraged to draw comparisons between caucasian context and cases from other parts of the world.
Type of course
Prerequisites (description)
Learning outcomes
Haing completed the course, students:
- can apply anthropological political theories to ethnographic material from Caucasus;
Assessment criteria
written assessment
Bibliography
L. Abu-Lughod, The Romance of Resistance: Tracing Transformations of Power Through Bedouin Women, American Ethnologist, Vol. 17, No. 1 (Feb., 1990), pp. 41-55.
T. Asad „On Suicide Bombing”, New York, Columbia University Press, 2007.
V. Das, D. Poole „Anthropology in the Margins of the State”.
G. Derluguian, „Abkhazia:A Broken Paradise”, Sarai Reader 2007: Frontiers.
E. Kapustina „Elections in Dagestan” (w druku).
Y. Navaro-Yashin „Faces of the state. Secularism and public life in Turkey”, Prineton University Press, 2002.
H. Pilkington, G. Yemelianova, Islam in Post-Soviet Russia, 2002.
I. Raubisko "Proper 'Traditional' versus Dangerous 'New': Religious Ideology and Idiosyncratic Islamic Practices in Post-Soviet Chechnya," Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford 1 (2009).
N. Scheper-Huges, P. Bourgois „Violence in War and Peace – and anthology”.I. Raubisko. Chapter VI. “Blood feud as the ultimate means to achieve justice”
J. Scott „Seeing Like a State. How Certain Schemes to Improve The Human Condition Hava Failed?”, 1998.
E. Sokratinska „Teips in Chechenya and Inguszetia”
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