Master
2024/2025
Mentor Seminar “Social Anthropology"
Type:
Compulsory course (Global and Regional History)
Delivered by:
Department of History
When:
1 year, 1-4 module
Open to:
students of one campus
Instructors:
Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov
Language:
English
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
- 2024/2025 4th module0.5 * essay + 0.5 * homework
- 2025/2026 3rd module0.5 * essay + 0.5 * homework
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