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Study Course Description

Social Anthropological Approach to Public Research

Main Study Course Information

Course Code
KF_024
Branch of Science
Social Anthropology; Sociology and social work
ECTS
3.00
Target Audience
Communication Science; Social Welfare and Social Work; Sociology
LQF
Level 8
Study Type And Form
Full-Time

Study Course Implementer

Course Supervisor
Structure Unit Manager
Structural Unit
Faculty of Social Sciences
Contacts

Dzirciema street 16, Rīga, szf@rsu.lv

About Study Course

Objective

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Preliminary Knowledge

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Learning Outcomes

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Assessment

Individual work

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Study Course Theme Plan

FULL-TIME
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Total ECTS (Creditpoints):
3.00
Contact hours:
16 Academic Hours
Final Examination:
Test

Bibliography

Required Reading

1.

Okely, Judith. 1996. Own or Other Culture. Routledge

2.

Georges, R. A., and M. O. Jones. 1980. People Studying People: The Human Element in Fieldwork. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press (nodaļa "Skaidrība un kompromisi" lasāma latviski žurnālā Kentaurs XXI, nr.27, 2002.g.).

3.

Džordžs, R.A. and Džounss, M.O. 2002. Skaidrība un kompromisi. Kentaurs XXI.

4.

Segalen, Martine, and Francoise Zonabend. 1987. “Social Anthropology and the Ethnology of France: The Field of Kinship and the Family.” Pp. 109–19 in Anthropology at Home, edited by A. Jackson. London, New York: Tavistock Publications.

5.

Lien, Marianne, and Marit Melhuus. 2011. “Overcoming the Division between Anthropology at Home and Abroad.” Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift 22 (2): 134–43.

6.

Meijerhofa, B. 2002 [1978]. Ko Jūs no mums īsti gribat? Kentaurs XXI, 27, 98-126.

7.

Skultans, V. 1998. The testimony of lives. Narrative and memory in post-Soviet Latvia. London & New York: Routledge. Chapters 1 & 2.

8.

Skultans, V. 2007. The Appropriation of Suffering: Psychiatric Practice in the Post-Soviet Clinic. Theory, Culture and Society 24:27-48. Fails

9.

Dzenovska, Dace. 2018. School of Europeanness : Tolerance and Other Lessons in Political Liberalism in Latvia. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

Additional Reading

1.

Ķīlis, R. (sast.). 1998. Atmiņa un vēsture. No antropoloģijas līdz psiholoģijai. Rīga.

2.

Lūse, A. (sast.) 2002. Cilvēks, dzīve, stāstījums: rakstu krājums. Riga: Latvijas antropologu biedrība; Latvijas Universitātes Literatūras folkloras un mākslas institūts

3.

Myerhoff, B. 1978. Number our days. New York: Dutton.

4.

Reed-Danahay, D. Editor. 1997. Auto/Ethnography. Oxford, New York: Berg.

5.

LANKAUSKAS, GEDIMINAS. 2014. The Land of Weddings and Rain: Nation and Modernity in Post-Socialist Lithuania. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

6.

Fehervary, K. 2002. American Kitchens, Luxory Bathrooms, and the Search for a 'Normal' Life in Postsocialist Hungary. Ethnos 67:369-400. Fails

7.

Oushakine, S. A. 2000. The Quantity of Style. Imaginary consumption in New Russia. Theory, Culture, and Society 17:97-120. Fails

8.

Cole, John W. 1977. Anthropology comes half-way home. Community studies in Europe. In Ann. Rev. Anthropol. 6: 349-78.

9.

Praspaliauskiene, Rima. 2022. Enveloped Lives: Caring and Relating in Lithuanian Health Care. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

10.

Putniņa, A. 2002. "Komunikācija un pieredze: stāsti par dzemdībām un grūtniecību Latvijā," // Cilvēks, dzīve, stāstījums: rakstu krājums. Sast. A. Lūse. Rīga: Latvijas Antropologu biedrība; Latvijas Universitātes Literatūras folkloras un mākslas institūts.

11.

Runnel, P. 2003. Europe as a measure of Change: Soviet-time values and the construction of Estonia's post-communist turn to Europe. Pro Etnologia 26:113-134. Fails

12.

Caughey, J. L. 2006. "Negotiating Cultures and Identities: Life History Issues, Methods, and Readings," University of Nebraska Press. Introduction