Study programme 2021-2022 | Français | ||
Social Anthropology | |||
Learning Activity |
Code | Lecturer(s) | Associate Lecturer(s) | Subsitute Lecturer(s) et other(s) | Establishment |
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H-SANT-100 |
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Language of instruction | Language of assessment | HT(*) | HTPE(*) | HTPS(*) | HR(*) | HD(*) | Term |
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Français | Français | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Q1 |
Content of Learning Activity
This course will allow students to know, understand and criticize: (a) the major theoretical currents and major themes of anthropology; (b) the debates they raise, their possibility conditions and their challenges; (c) the plurality of ways of thinking, of forming society, of being in the world and of imagining the world. The teaching will be given ex cathedra. Students will have readings and practical work to be done; course will address the following topics: evolutionism, diffusionism, the French school, American culturalism, British functionalism, structural anthropology, critique of structural-functionalism, Marxist anthropology, dynamic anthropology, "post-modern" criticism, state anthropology, and ethnographic method.
Required Learning Resources/Tools
Each session is built around a PowerPoint presentation containing the main ideas, definitions, concepts and bibliographic references. These PowerPoint will be made available to students on a weekly basis. For each class session, a particularly illustrative article will also be made available to students wishing to immerse themselves in the literature before class.
Recommended Learning Resources/Tools
Not applicable
Other Recommended Reading
Not applicable
Mode of delivery
Type of Teaching Activity/Activities
Evaluations
The assessment methods of the Learning Activity (AA) are specified in the course description of the corresponding Educational Component (UE)