Master
2023/2024
Mentor Seminar “Social Anthropology"
Category 'Best Course for Career Development'
Category 'Best Course for Broadening Horizons and Diversity of Knowledge and Skills'
Category 'Best Course for New Knowledge and Skills'
Type:
Compulsory course (Global and Regional History)
Area of studies:
History
Delivered by:
Department of History
When:
1 year, 1-4 module
Mode of studies:
offline
Open to:
students of one campus
Instructors:
Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov
Master’s programme:
Global and Regional History
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
3
Contact hours:
20
Course Syllabus
Abstract
This seminar provides academic guidance to those students who opt for major in social anthropology within the MA in Global and Regional History and those students who major in history but who would like to incorporate courses in social anthropology into their curriculum.
Learning Objectives
- to gain necessary background in anthropology
- to understand history of the discipline, and its main contemporary theories
- to learn how to develop anthropological MA research project
Expected Learning Outcomes
- A student knows the history of the discipline and subfields
- interpret the specificity of research methods of social anthropology
- interprets goals and scope of the discipline
- A student interprets the state of the art in contemporary anthropology
Course Contents
- introduction to social anthropology
- history of anthropology
- anthropological methods
- schools of thought in anthropology
Interim Assessment
- 2023/2024 4th module0.5 * домашнее задание + 0.5 * домашнее задание + 0.5 * эссе + 0.5 * эссе
- 2024/2025 3rd module0.5 * 2023/2024 4th module + 0.5 * 2023/2024 4th module + 0.5 * домашнее задание + 0.5 * домашнее задание
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- Hannerz, U. (2010). Anthropology’s World : Life in a Twenty-First Century Discipline. Web server without geographic relation, Web server without geographic relation (org): Pluto Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.7AC7B27E
- Ingold, T. (2018). Anthropology : Why It Matters. Medford: Polity. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1801558
- Kuper, A. (2014). Anthropology and Anthropologists : The British School in the Twentieth Century (Vol. Fourth edition). Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=850102
- Sherry B. Ortner. (2008). Anthropology and Social Theory : Culture, Power, and the Acting Subject. Duke University Press Books.
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- Radcliffe-Brown, A. R., & Kuper, A. (2004). The Social Anthropology of Radcliffe-Brown. London: Routledge. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=661115