Current Methodological Challenges in Anthropology 3102-LWMA
Topics will include:
1. Ethnographic description - from field experience to ethnographic text.
2. Pre-reflective knowledge, experience and knowledge.
3. Redefinitions of field in anthropology.
4. Anthropology as cultural critic.
5. Reflexive anthropology.
6. Engaged/multi-sited anthropology.
7. New anthropology of material culture.
Type of course
Course coordinators
Learning outcomes
Having completed the course, students gain self-consciousness as researchers and writers in the field of cultural anthropology.
Assessment criteria
written exam
Bibliography
T. Csordas, Introduction: The Body as Representation an Being-in-the World [w:], Embodiment and Experience. The Existential Ground of Culture and Self, red. T. Csordas, Cambridge 2001.
K. Kaniowska. Opis a wiedza antropologa [w:] Opis. Klucz do rozumienia kultury, Łódź 1999.
Freedman D.C., Wife, Widow, Woman: Roles of an Anthropologist in a Transylvanian Village, 221 [w:] Women in the field. Anthropological experiences, red. P. Golde, Berkeley 1986.
G. Marcus, Użyteczność kategorii uczestnictwa w zmieniających się kontekstach antropologicznych badań terenowych [w:] Clifford Geertz. Lokalna lektura red. M Brocki, D. Wolska, Kraków 2000.
A. Gupta, J. Fergusson, Poza "kulturę": przestrzeń, tożsamość i polityka różnicy, [w:] Badanie kultury, t.2, red. M. Kempny, E. Nowicka, Warszawa 2006.
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