| School: | Social Sciences | ||
| Academic Unit: | Social Anthropology and History | ||
| Level of studies: | Undergraduate | ||
| Course code: | SA-100 | Semester: | 1st |
| Course Title: | Introduction to Social Anthropology | ||
| Independent teaching activities | Weekly teaching hours | Credits | |
| Lectures | 3 | 5 | |
| Course type: | General Background | ||
| Prerequisite courses: | None | ||
| Language of instruction and examinations: | Greek | ||
| Is the course offered to erasmus students: | No | ||
| Course website (Url): | https://en.sah.aegean.gr/course/sa-100/ | ||
(2) LEARNING OUTCOMES
Learning outcomes: The course’s aim is to make the students familiar with the objects, the perspective and the methodology of Social Anthropology and develop their capcity to use its basic concepts for the study of culture and society.
More specifically, students are aimed to:
Recognize «ours», culturally constructed, and ethnocentric ways of interpretation.
Recognize the importance of cultural diversity for the formation of Social Anthropology.
Delineate different anthropological approaches to culture and society and the historical context of their development.
Recognize different forms and expressions of ethnocentrism and racism and their relationship with antrhopology.
General Competences:
The course aims to:
– Search for analysis and synthesis of data and information with the use of the necessary technology
– Respect for difference and multiculturalism
-Social, professional and ethical responsibility and sensitivity to gender issues.
-Criticism and self-criticism
(3) SYLLABUS
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.
(4) TEACHING and LEARNING METHODS – EVALUATION
| Delivery: | Face-to face | ||
| Use of information and communications technology : | Use of ICT in teaching and in communication with students | ||
| Teaching methods: | Activity | Semester workload | |
| Lectures | 40 | ||
| Practice during the lecture | 15 | ||
| Educational trip | 10 | ||
| Individual study of bibliography | 45 | ||
| Study for preparing final exams | 30 | ||
| Course total: | 140 | ||
| Student performance evaluation: | Language of evaluation: Greek Final Exam, Summative and/or conclusive | ||
(5) ATTACHED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Suggested bibliography:
• Eriksen, Thomas Hylland. 2007. Μικροί τόποι, μεγάλα ζητήματα. Μια εισαγωγή στην κοινωνική και πολιτισμική ανθρωπολογία. Αθήνα: Κριτική.
• Hendry, Joy. 2011. Οι κόσμοι που μοιραζόμαστε: Εισαγωγή στην πολιτισμική και κοινωνική ανθρωπολογία. Αθήνα: Κριτική.
• Colleyn, Jean-Paul. 2005 [1998]. Στοιχεία Κοινωνικής και πολιτισμικής Ανθρωπολογίας. Αθήνα: Πλέθρον.
• Geertz, Clifford. 2003 [1973]. Η ερμηνεία των πολιτισμών. Αθήνα: Αλεξάνδρεια [«Πρόσωπο, χρόνος και συμπεριφορά στο Μπαλί»], σελ. 358-377.
• van Gennep, A. 1997. «Διαβατήριες τελετές κατά τη γέννηση και την παιδική ηλικία». Στο Παιδική ηλικία. Μακρυνιώτη, Δ. (επιμ.). Αθήνα: Εκδόσεις νήσος, σ. 358-368.
• Leach, R. Edmund. 1961 «Χρόνος και ψεύτικες μύτες» (μετάφραση δακτυλογραφημένη). Στο Rethinking anthropology, Πανεπιστήμιο του Σικάγου.
• Παραδέλλης, Θόδωρος «Πρόλογος του επιμελητή» στο Mary Douglas. 2006 [1966]. Καθαρότητα και Κίνδυνος: Μια ανάλυση των εννοιών της μιαρότητας και του ταμπού. Αθήνα: Πολύτροπον, σ. 9-27
• Douglas, Mary. 2006 [1966]. Καθαρότητα και Κίνδυνος: μια ανάλυση των εννοιών της μιαρότητας και του ταμπού. Αθήνα: Πολύτροπον, [«Εξωτερικά όρια»], σ. 215-239.
• Λέβι-Στρως, Κλωντ. 1987. Φυλή και ιστορία. Φυλή και Πολιτισμός Αθήνα: Πατάκης.
– Related academic journals:
The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (JRAI)
L’Homme
Εθνολογία
Σύγχρονα Θέματα