Прикладная антропология

2020/2021

Статус: Майнор

Кто читает: Департамент истории

Где читается: Санкт-Петербургская школа гуманитарных наук и искусств

Когда читается: 3, 4 модуль

Преподаватели: Кулева Маргарита Игоревна, Мельникова Екатерина Александровна, Ссорин-Чайков Николай Владимирович

Язык: английский

Кредиты: 5

Контактные часы: 60

Full Syllabus

Abstract

This is a concluding course in the social anthropology minor. Its goal is to situate anthropological research in a broader landscape of social theory from Marx to Agamben and Schmitt, explore uses of anthropological knowledge that were engendered by this social theory and the history of anthropology, and revise the readings for this minor. This course links the history of anthropological theory with the history of applied anthropology, action anthropology and engaged anthropology. Lectures and seminars are structured by main schools of thought in social theory, which are illustrated by chapters from ethnographies, by applied anthropology examples and by readings from the other courses of this minor that we have already studied.

Learning Objectives

This is a concluding course in the social anthropology minor. Its goal is to situate anthropological research in a broader landscape of social theory and to provide a comprehensive overlook of key anthropological therories.

Expected Learning Outcomes

Able to learn and demonstrate skills in the field, other than the major field
Work with information: find, define and use the information from different sources which required for solving of research and professional problems (including the system approach)
Able to efficiently communicate based on the goals and communication situations

Course Contents

Ethnography, applied anthropology and social theory.
Anthropology since the 1960s.
Marxist perspectives.
Durkheim and the invention of society.
Durkheimian perspectives.
The invention of Society.
Weber and ‘understanding anthropology’.
Ethics and Economy.
Polanyi.
Distributed personhood and dividual.
Distributed personhood.
Feminist theory.
Panopticism.
The state of exception.
Schmitt.
Anthropology since the 1980s.

Assessment Elements

Attendance
Discussion
Colloquium
Research paper
Essays

Interim Assessment

Interim assessment (4 module)
0.05 * Attendance + 0.2 * Colloquium + 0.05 * Discussion + 0.4 * Essays + 0.3 * Research paper

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

Agamben, G. (2005). State of Exception. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=324615
Butler, J. (2007). Gender Trouble : Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. New York: Routledge. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=881409
Foucault, M. (1995). Discipline and Punish : The Birth of the Prison (Vol. 2nd Vintage books ed). New York: Vintage. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=733102
Gane, M. (2002). Radical Sociology of Durkheim and Mauss (Vol. Taylor & Francis e-Library ed). London: Routledge. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=69706
Gusterson, H. (2016). Drone : Remote Control Warfare. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1239854
Louis Althusser. (2014). On the Reproduction of Capitalism : Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses. [N.p.]: Verso. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1694954
Polanyi, K. (2014). The Great Transformation : The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time (Vol. Unabridged). Boston, Mass: Beacon Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=715728
Poovey, M. (2002). The Liberal Civil Subject and the Social in Eighteenth-Century British Moral Philosophy. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.D328B293
Ssorin-Chaikov, N. (2015). Sociopolitics. Reviews in Anthropology, 44(1), 5–27. https://doi.org/10.1080/00938157.2015.1001645
Strathern, M. (2016). Before and After Gender : Sexual Mythologies of Everyday Life. Web server without geographic relation, Web server without geographic relation (org): HAU Books. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.AAFF0396
Tsing, A. L. (2015). The Mushroom at the End of the World : On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=980728
Weber, M. (2011). Methodology of Social Sciences. New Brunswick, NJ: Routledge. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=580683

Recommended Additional Bibliography

Emile Durkheim, & Steven Lukes. (2014). The Rules of Sociological Method : And Selected Texts on Sociology and Its Method. [N.p.]: Free Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1963188
Eriksen, T. H. (2015). Small Places, Large Issues - Fourth Edition : An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology (Vol. 4th ed). London: Pluto Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1057037
Strathern, M. (DE-588)130415774, (DE-627)501121730, (DE-576)16519202X, aut. (1988). The gender of the gift problems with women and problems with society in Melanesia Marilyn Strathern. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edswao&AN=edswao.018919200

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