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Designed primarily for international and Erasmus students from diverse academic backgrounds, this interdisciplinary course offers an accessible introduction to key concepts and methods in Social Anthropology and History, while encouraging comparative, cross-cultural, and interdisciplinary thinking.
The course introduces students to the complementary perspectives of Social Anthropology and History in the study of human societies across time and space. Although the two disciplines emerged from distinct intellectual traditions and employ different research methods, both seek to understand how human beings create, sustain, and transform social worlds. Historians investigate social change through archives, written documents, oral testimonies, and material traces of the past, while anthropologists explore culture, social relations, beliefs, and everyday practices through ethnographic observation and engagement with living communities. By bringing these approaches into dialogue, the course examines how the study of the past can illuminate contemporary societies and how anthropological insights can enrich historical interpretation.
The course explores the relationship between continuity and change, structure and agency, memory and history, and local experience and global processes. Through a series of thematic case studies drawn from different geographical regions and historical periods, students will examine how individuals and communities construct identities, negotiate power relations, remember and reinterpret the past, and respond to social, political, and economic transformations. Particular attention is given to the ways in which historical and anthropological perspectives challenge conventional assumptions.
Topics include memory and identity, kinship and family, religion and ritual, migration and mobility, colonialism and postcolonialism, nationalism and nation-building, inequality and social hierarchies, heritage and the politics of the past, as well as contemporary processes of globalisation and transnational connection. Throughout the course, students will engage with diverse forms of evidence, including archival sources, ethnographies, oral histories, visual materials, and material culture, developing a critical understanding of how knowledge about societies is produced and interpreted.
A central aim of the course is to demonstrate that neither history nor anthropology alone can fully explain the complexity of human experience. Historical approaches reveal the temporal depth of social phenomena, while anthropological perspectives highlight the meanings, practices, and lived experiences through which people understand their worlds. Together, they provide powerful tools for analysing both past societies and contemporary global challenges.
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| Δραστηριότητα | Φόρτος Εργασίας Εξαμήνου |
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| Σύνολο Μαθήματος | 140 |
| Διαλέξεις | 40 |
| Ασκήσεις στην τάξη | 15 |
| Εκπαιδευτική εκδρομή | 10 |
| Αυτόνομη μελέτη στην διάρκεια του εξαμήνου | 45 |
| Μελέτη προετοιμασίας για τις εξετάσεις | 30 |
Αξιολόγηση Φοιτητών:
Η αξιολόγηση των φοιτητών/ριών γίνεται μέσω εξετάσεων με ερωτήσεις ανάπτυξης και αποκλειστικά στην ελληνική γλώσσα. Τα κριτήρια είναι προσβάσιμα για τους φοιτητές/ριες στην ηλεκτρονική πλατφόρμα του μαθήματος (e-class).