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Regional Studies (Ethnography): South Europe
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:5.00
Study Course Accepted:02.02.2024 12:25:42
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | KSK_030 | LQF level: | Level 7 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 4.00 | ECTS: | 6.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Sociology; Social Anthropology | Target Audience: | 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) | 6 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 12 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 18 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 36 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 48 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Introduction to Anthropology or Anthropological Theory. | ||||||||
| Objective: | The aim of this course is three-fold: 1. To critically engage with the notion of cultural areas. 2. To familiarise the students with the Anthropology of Southern Europe, the Anthropology of the Mediterranean and their frictions. Via the use of different media and disciplinary approaches (i.e., film, literary fiction, music, etc.), the course will deal with the main anthropological topics that have contributed to define Mediterranean region. 3. To grasp the current social dynamics of the Mediterranean. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | The re-emergence of cultural units within social anthropology | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 2 | The anthropology of Southern Europe vs the anthropology of the Mediterranean | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 3.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 3 | The religious frontier | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 3.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 4 | Honour and shame | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 3.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 5 | Patronage and clientelism | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 3.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 6 | The city and the country | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 7 | EU migration policy and the Mediterranean | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
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| Assessment Criteria: | Attendance 10% Class Participation 20% Oral Presentation 30% Final Paper 40% | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam (Written) | ||||||||
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| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Collin Matthew (2004) This is Serbia Calling. Rock’n’roll radio and Belgrade’s underground resistance. London: Serpent’s Tail. | ||||||||
| 2 | Hann, C.M. (1995). The skeleton at the feast. Contributions to East European anthropology. Canterbury: Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing, University of Kent. | ||||||||
| 3 | Duijzings, Ger. (2000). Religion and the politics of identity in Kosovo. London: Hurst | ||||||||
| 4 | Kideckel, David A. (ed.) - (1995). East European communities. The struggle for balance in turbulent times. Boulder: Westview Press | ||||||||
| 5 | Milich, Zorka (1995) A Stranger’s Supper. An Oral History of Centinenarian Women in Montenegro. New York: Twayne Publishers. | ||||||||
| 6 | Halpern, Joel Martin & David A. Kideckel (eds.). (2000) Neighbors at war: Anthropological perspectives on Yugoslav culture and history. University ark: Pennsylvania State University Press | ||||||||
| 7 | Boehm, Cristopher (1984), Blood Revenge. The Enactment and Management of Conflict in Montenegro and Other Tribal Societies. University of Pannsylvania Press | ||||||||
| 8 | Bringa, Tone. (1995) Being Muslim the Bosnian Way. Identity and Community in a Central Bosnian Village.Princeton University Press, Princeton. | ||||||||
| 9 | Helpern, Joel M. and Kideckel, David A. (2000) Neighbors at War. Anthropological Perspectives on Yugoslav Ethnicity, Culture and Hisotory. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press. | ||||||||
| 10 | Herzfeld, Michael (1985) The poetics of manhood: contest and identity in a Cretan mountain village. Princeton: Princeton UP. | ||||||||
| 11 | Hammel, Eugene, A. (1968) Alternative Social Structures and Ritual Relations. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc. | ||||||||
| 12 | Judah, Tim. (2000) The Serbs. History, Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslavia. Yale: Nota Bene. | ||||||||
| 13 | Stalh, Paul H (ed) (1998) Name and Social Structure. Examples from Southeast Europe. New York: Columbia University Press | ||||||||
