Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology

Description

This aim of the course is introduction into socio-cultural anthropology offering fundamental, introductory-level understanding of the development of cultural and social anthropology as a discipline, its main methodological approaches and their relatedness to anthropological theory. The task of the course are covering topics – such as kinship, politics, religion, economics, personhood, body, post-socialism and post-colonialism – are discussed introducing students to terminology, allowing them to build and back their argumentation and navigate anthropological theory. The course is based on building factual ethnographic and theoretical knowledge, using mostly textbooks and processes of memorising. Evaluation in the course is based on checking factual knowledge, precise recognition and formulation of terminology and argumentation. Language of instruction: Latvian and English.