Veidlapa Nr. M-3 (8)
Study Course Description
Social Anthropology
Course Code
KSK_061
Branch of Science
Social Anthropology; Sociology and social work
ECTS
3.00
Target Audience
Communication Science; Sociology
LQF
Level 6
Study Type And Form
Full-Time
Study Course Implementer
Course Supervisor
Klāvs Sedlenieks
Structure Unit Manager
Karina Palkova
Structural Unit
Faculty of Social Sciences
Contacts
Dzirciema street 16, Rīga, szf@rsu.lv
About Study Course
Objective
To provide a general and attractive introducton to Social Anthropology
Preliminary Knowledge
Basic background knowledge in social sciences.
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge
1.Students know: • what is anthropology; • what are the main research methods used in anthropology; • what is the range of questions asked by anthropology; • understand the most important issues of political, economic, gender, kinship and religious aspects from the point of view of anthropology.
Skills
1.Improved skills in analysing academic literature. Improved skills in producing an argumentative text. Improved skills in analysing social processes, by use of anthropological knowledge.
Competences
1.Analysis of texts, writing essays, state one's opinion, based on the anthropological knowledge.
Assessment
Individual work
Title
% from total grade
Grade
1.
Individual work
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Compulsory readings and essays (1000 words) for each of the seminars.
In order to evaluate the quality of the study course as a whole, the student must fill out the study course evaluation questionnaire on the Student Portal.
Examination
Title
% from total grade
Grade
1.
Examination
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• students know the compulsory readings;
• students understand the actual problems of the current topic;
• students can formulate their opinion and provide argumets for it.
Study Course Theme Plan
FULL-TIME
Part 1
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Introduction
EventType
Modality
Location
Contact hours
1.
Lecture
On site
Auditorium
2
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Main directions of social anthropology (gender, kinship, economics, politics, religion)
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Modality
Location
Contact hours
1.
Lecture
On site
Auditorium
2
2.
Lecture
On site
Auditorium
2
3.
Lecture
On site
Auditorium
2
4.
Lecture
On site
Auditorium
2
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Discussion of the main topics in seminars
EventType
Modality
Location
Contact hours
1.
Class/Seminar
On site
Auditorium
2
2.
Class/Seminar
On site
Auditorium
2
3.
Class/Seminar
On site
Auditorium
2
4.
Class/Seminar
On site
Auditorium
2
5.
Class/Seminar
On site
Auditorium
2
Total ECTS (Creditpoints):
3.00
Contact hours:
20 Academic Hours
Final Examination:
Exam (Written)
Bibliography
Required Reading
1.
Ember, Carol R, and Ember, Melvin. 1999. Anthropology. Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall. Chapter 1 'What is Anthropology'
2.
Ēriksens, Tomass Hillans. 2010. Mazas vietas - lieli jautājumi. Ievads sociālantropoloģijā. Rīga: LU Akadēmiskais apgāds. 1. nodaļa 'Sociālantropoloģija: salīdzināšana un konteksts'
3.
Bohannan, Laura. 1966. 'Shakespeare in the Bush'. Natural History.
4.
Lee, Richard B. 1969. 'Eating Christmas in the Kalahari.' Natural History 78(10):14-22.
5.
Malinowski, Bronislaw. 1922. Argonauts of the western Pacific. London,: G. Routledge & sons, ltd. Chapter III 'The essentials of the Kula'
6.
Barnard, Alan. 2000. Social anthropology. Plymouth: GLMP Limited. Chapter 4 Economics: Interpreting production and distribution
7.
Laidlaw, James. 2000. 'Free Gift Makes no Friends.' The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 6:4, pp. 617-634.
8.
Graeber, David. 2011. Debt : the first 5,000 years. Brooklyn, N.Y.: Melville House. Chapter 5, pp. 89-126
9.
Strathern, Marilyn. 2012. 'Gifts money cannot buy.' Social Anthropology 20 (4): 397-410
10.
Barnard, Alan. 2000. Social anthropology. Plymouth: GLMP Limited. Chapter 7 'Sex and Gender'
11.
Ortner, Sherry B. 1974. 'Is female to male as nature is to culture?' In Michelle Zimbalist Rosaldo and Louise Lamphere (eds). Woman, Culture, and Society, 67-87. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
12.
Martin, E. 1991. 'The egg and the sperm: How science has constructed a romance based on stereotypical male-female roles.' Signs 16:3, pp. 485-501.
13.
Murphy, Yolanda, and Robert R. F. Murphy. 1974. Women of the forest. New York,: Columbia University Press. Chapter Chapter 6 (women and married life), AND Chapter 8 (men and women)
14.
Cornwall, Andrea. 1994. 'Gendered identities and gender ambiguity among travestis in Salvador, Brazil.' In Dislocating Masculinity : Comparative Ethnographies edited by Nancy Lindisfarne and Andrea Cornwall. London; New York: Routledge: 111-132
15.
Sponsel, Leslie E. (1996) ‘Natural History of Peace: The Positive View of Human Nature and Its Potential.’ in Thomas Gregor (ed.) A Natural History of Peace. Vanderbilt University Press. http://www.peacefulsocieties.org/Archintr/spo96int.html
16.
Warneken, F. and Tomasello, M. The roots of human altruism// British Journal of Psychology (2009), 100, 455–471
17.
Overning, Joanna (1989) ‘Styles of Manhood: an Amazonian contrast in tranquility and violence’ in Signe Howell and Roy Willis Societies at Peace: Anthropological Perspectives. London and New York: Routledge. Pp 79-99
18.
de Waal, Frans B. 2000. 'Primates--a natural heritage of conflict resolution.' Science 289:5479, pp. 586-590.
19.
Ēriksens, Tomass Hillans. 2010. Mazas vietas - lieli jautājumi. Ievads sociālantropoloģijā. Rīga: LU Akadēmiskais apgāds. XIII nodaļa Reliģija un rituāli
20.
Sosis, R. 2006[2004]. "The Adaptive Value of Religious Ritual. Rituals promote group cohesion by requiring members to engage in behavior that is too costly to fake," in Anthropology. Annual Editions, vol. March-April. Edited by E. Angeloni, pp. 153-158. Dubuque, IA: Contemporary Learning Series.
21.
Evans-Pritchard, Edward E. 1976. Witchcraft, oracles, and magic among the Azande. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Chapter II 'The notion of Witchcraft explains unfortunate events'
22.
Bloch, Maurice. 2013. In and out of each other's bodies: theory of mind, evolution, truth, and the nature of the social. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers. Chapter 2 "Why is religion nothing special but is central" pp 23-40