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Social Anthropology
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:7.00
Study Course Accepted:02.02.2024 12:25:58
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | KSK_061 | LQF level: | Level 6 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 2.00 | ECTS: | 3.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Sociology; Social Anthropology | Target Audience: | Sociology; Communication Science | ||||||
| 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 provide a general and attractive introducton to 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 (gender, kinship, economics, politics, religion) | Lectures | 4.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | Discussion of the main topics in seminars | 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 (gender, kinship, economics, politics, religion) | Lectures | 4.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | Discussion of the main topics in seminars | Classes | 5.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | 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. | ||||||||
| 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 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: | Improved skills in analysing academic literature. Improved skills in producing an argumentative text. Improved skills in analysing social processes, by use of anthropological knowledge. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | Analysis of texts, writing essays, state one's opinion, based on the anthropological knowledge. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| 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 | ||||||||
