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Social Anthropology
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:2.00
Study Course Accepted:02.02.2024 12:25:41
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | KF_079 | LQF level: | Level 6 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 2.00 | ECTS: | 3.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Sociology; Social Anthropology | Target Audience: | Communication Science; Sociology | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Klāvs Sedlenieks | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Dzirciema street 16, Rīga, szf rsu[pnkts]lv | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 5 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 10 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 5 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 10 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 20 | ||||||||
| Part-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 5 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 10 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 5 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 10 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 20 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Basic background knowledge in social sciences. | ||||||||
| Objective: | To introduce students to the basics of social anthropology. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Introduction | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Main directions of social anthropology (economics and politics; kinship, sex and gender; health and illness; religion) | Lectures | 4.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | Seminar discussion of the main lecture topics as well as the following topics: language and communication, ethnicity, modes of thought, cross-cultural psychiatry. | Classes | 5.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Topic Layout (Part-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Introduction | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Main directions of social anthropology (economics and politics; kinship, sex and gender; health and illness; religion) | Lectures | 4.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | Seminar discussion of the main lecture topics as well as the following topics: language and communication, ethnicity, modes of thought, cross-cultural psychiatry. | Classes | 5.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | Compulsory readings for all five seminars; preparing a group presentation that discusses one one of the seminar questions. 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. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | • students know the compulsory readings; • students understand the actual problems of the current topic; • students can formulate their opinion and provide argumets for it. | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam (Written) | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | Exam (Written) | ||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | Students will be able to know: • what is anthropology; • what are the main research methods used in social anthropology; • what is the range of questions asked by anthropology; • understand the most important issues of kinship, communication, economic, political, gender, health and illness, and religious aspects of human life from the point of view of anthropology. | ||||||||
| Skills: | After successfully completing the course, students: will be able to analyze academic literature; will be able to write a reasoned text; will be able to analyze social processes using anthropological knowledge. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | You will be able to analyze anthropological texts; justify own opinion while giving group presentations; analyze social phenomena drawing on acquired anthropological knowledge. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Hendry, J. 2016. Other people’s worlds : an introduction to cultural and social anthropology. Palgrave Macmillan. | ||||||||
| 2 | Lee, Richard B. 1969. 'Eating Christmas in the Kalahari.' Natural History, 78(10):14-22. | ||||||||
| 3 | Conklin, Beth A. 1995. “Thus are our bodies, thus was our custom’: mortu-ary cannibalism in an Amazonian society”. American Ethnologist 22 (1): 75–101. | ||||||||
| 4 | Clarke, Morgan. 2006. “Islam, kinship and new reproductive technology”. Anthropology Today 22 (5): 17–20. | ||||||||
| 5 | Humphrey, Caroline. 1999. “Shamans in the City”. Anthropology Today 15 (3): 3–10. | ||||||||
| 6 | Bonta, Bruce D. 1996. “Conflict Resolution Among Peaceful Societies: The Culture of Peacefulness”. Journal of Peace Research 33 (4): 403–420. | ||||||||
| 7 | Ferraro, G. P., & Andreatta, Susan. 2010. Cultural anthropology : an applied perspective. Chapter 6. Language and Communication. | ||||||||
| 8 | Lock, M. 2002. Medical Knowledge and Body Politics. In MacClancy, J. (ed.) Exotic No More. Anthropology on the Front Lines, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. | ||||||||
| 9 | Martin, E. 2022. Persuasive Technology and Personhood on Social Media. Science, Technology, & Human Values, 16224392211370. | ||||||||
| 10 | Ulturgasheva, Olga. 2017. “Ghosts of the Gulag in the Eveny World of the Dead.” The Polar Journal 7 (1): 26–45. | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Delaney, C. L., Kaspin, D. 2017. Investigating culture : an experiential introduction to anthropology. Chapter 6. Our Bodies, Our Selves. Pp.1-33. | ||||||||
| 2 | Zirnīte, Māra. 2017. Etnisko kultūru saskarsmes dzīvesstāstos. In "Piederēt un atšķirties: romu, krievu un latviešu dzīvesstāsti Latvijā" 18–50. Rīga: LU Filozofijas un socioloģijas institūts, Latvijas Mutvārdu vēstures pētnieku asociācija. | ||||||||
| 3 | Glazier, S. D., & Ember, C. R. 2018. Religion. Explaining Human Cultures. | ||||||||
