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SA-100 Introduction to Social Anthropology

SA-100 Introduction to Social Anthropology

COURSE INFORMATION

This course explore the basic concepts of the discipline of Social Anthropology, its history within Greece and abroad, and its relation to other social sciences and humanities. We will proceed to a presentation of the most important theoretical approaches to the study of societies and cultures, their differences and their political and historical context, as well as a detailed account of the methodological particularities of social anthropology in terms of research, interpretation and writing. During the course we shall examine questions of cultural difference as the object of anthropology and discuss how they are related with issues of “race” and racism. Based on ethnographic examples with emphasis on uses of tools and symbols, including language, rituals and myths and on cultural dimensions of the concept of person and time, the students will be acquainted with various ways in which members of different societies perceive and classify the world around them.

Units

  1. Anthropology: The study of cultural alterity
  2. The origins of anthropological thought
  3. Cultural evolutionism
  4. North American, British and French Anthropology: Theoretical orientations in anthropology until the 1960s
  5. Classification systems and impurity
  6. Cultures, «races» and racisms
  7. Religion, Ritual και rituals of passage
  8. The indigenous point of view and the notion of person
  9. The notion of time in Social and Cultural Anthropology
  10. The fieldwork in Anthropology

School:

Social Sciences

Academic Unit:

Social Anthropology and History

Level of studies:

Undergraduate

Course code:

SΑ-100

Semester:

Independent teaching activities

Lectures:

Weekly teaching hours

3

Credits

6

Course type:

Prerequisite courses:

None

Language of instruction and examinations:

Greek

Teacher:

Plexousaki Efi

Is the course offered to erasmus students:

Yes

Course website (URL):

ΔΙΔΑΚΤΙΚΕΣ και ΜΑΘΗΣΙΑΚΕΣ ΜΕΘΟΔΟΙ – ΑΞΙΟΛΟΓΗΣΗ

Τρόπος Παράδοσης:

Πρόσωπο με πρόσωπο

Χρήση Τεχνολογιών, Πληροφορίας & Επικοινωνιών:

Παρουσιάσεις σε Power Point, προβολή σύντομων βίντεο μέσω διαδικτύου, επικοινωνία μέσω eclass

Οργάνωση Διδασκαλίας: 

Δραστηριότητα Φόρτος Εργασίας Εξαμήνου
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).