Study programme competencies |
Code
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Study programme competences / results
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A1 |
Conocimiento de los componentes básicos de las desigualdades sociales y las diferencias culturales. |
A12 |
Conocimiento de la especie humana a través de la cultura, parentesco y hábitat con especial atención a los pueblos preindustriales. |
A35 |
Actitud crítica frente a las doctrinas y las prácticas sociales. |
A36 |
Actitud de compromiso frente a los problemas sociales y culturales. |
B3 |
Capacidad de análisis y síntesis. |
B9 |
Reconocimiento a la diversidad y a la multiculturalidad. |
B13 |
Razonamiento crítico. |
B20 |
Conocimiento de otras culturas y costumbres. |
B27 |
Capacidades en reconocer la complejidad de los fenómenos sociales. |
Learning aims |
Learning outcomes |
Study programme competences / results |
To define, to compare and to discuss critically basic concepts of anthropology, linking them to the diversity of realities and problems of human societies framed in different domains of culture. |
A1 A12 A35 A36
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B9 B13 B20
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To describe and to examine, using ethnography, diversity, specificity and regularities of socio-cultural phenomena, its problems and its potential, interpreting them from a committed and developed point of view, from the local perspective. |
A1 A12 A35 A36
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B3 B9 B13 B27
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Contents |
Topic |
Sub-topic |
Topic 1: A scheme of the contemporary social and cultural anthropology |
THEME 1: Emergence of new research fields and phenomena, and rethinking the classics; Methods and techniques in contemporary anthropology. Reflexivity, interpretation and reconfiguration of the field work. |
TOPIC 2: Economic anthropology and cultural economy. Work cultures. |
THEME 2: The economy and economies as dimensions of culture. Classical theories (formalism substantivism Marxist approaches). The cultural economy.; Exchange. Theory about the gift of Mauss and subsequent discussions. The goods-Arjun Appadurai. Production. Production systems, modes of production and sociocultural correlates.; Work in anthropological perspective:-symbolic rituals of work and activity, and diversity of cultural perspectives on the same dimensions. The cultures of work. |
TOPIC 3: The family and the process of change. Models of family life from the intercultural comparison. Facts about kinship studies |
THEME 3: Classical Theories of kinship, family and marriage; Family and domestic group; The types of family reunification and family processes in contemporary comparative cultural perspective; Facts about kinship studies. |
TOPIC 4: Political anthropology. Power, violence and political symbolism. |
THEME 4: Structures and political systems in different societies: segmental linages, bands, chiefdoms, big men, associations and societies, systems ages, divine monarchies, State structures. Clientelismo formations. The fields of power. Power as built-hegemonic discourse. Collective "dumb" and "empowerment". Nationalism and ethnic policies. Recurrent vectors in political anthropology: leadership, memory hierarchy, violence. Analysis of symbolic ritual dimension of political action. |
TOPIC 5: Associations, social categories and hierarchies. |
THEME 5: Gender and age. The private and the public. Domination and subordination. Age grades and age groups. Caste: varnas and jatis. Caste and social mobility. Classes and social strata. Cultural classes. The "symbolic capital" in Bourdieu. The complexity of the social differentiation. The power and the powerless. Methods of study of social stratification. |
TOPIC 6: Ritual, myth and symbolism. Anthropological analysis and interpretation of symbolic action and narrative |
THEME 6: Symbolic analysis in anthropology. Classical background -symbolism, religion and sacrifice, totemism. Turner methodology. The "Thick Description" Geertz. Schneider, Leach, Mary Douglas and "natural symbols" Cohen, Sperber. Myth, history and narrative in the production of cultural social reality. Sahlins. The structural analysis of myth and cultural hermeneutics -Lisón- . The ritual as performative action: its properties and effects. Van Gennep, Turner again, Rappaport. |
TOPIC 7: Performances, beliefs and thinking styles |
THEME 7: Religion, belief and thought in anthropology: Intelectuallist approaches of Tylor, Marett, Frazer and Lang. Sociologist Approaches of Robertson Smith, Durkheim and Radcliffe-Brown. Morris. The Lévy-Bruhl's pre-logical thinking. The interpretive translation of beliefs and the discussion of the rationality of thought forms: Evans-Pritchard and Lienhardt. Winch replication. Needham: Belief, language and experience. Wild thoughts, civilized thoughts , bricoleurs and engineers: the structural approach of Levi-Strauss. Classifications and symbolic thinking styles: Mary Douglas and the method of "Group & Grid." The problem of practice. Structure and practice, habitus and cultural schemes root paradigms: Bourdieu Sherry Ortner through Turner, Giddens and Sahlins, |
TOPIC 8: Other fields of contemporary anthropological analyzes |
TOPIC 8: The new medical anthropology; Risk and culture; Anthropology and emerging technologies; Anthropology of sport; Anthropology, brain, mind and consciousness. |
Planning |
Methodologies / tests |
Competencies / Results |
Teaching hours (in-person & virtual) |
Student’s personal work hours |
Total hours |
Guest lecture / keynote speech |
A12 B20 |
52 |
0 |
52 |
Objective test |
A12 B3 B20 B27 |
2 |
20 |
22 |
Summary |
A1 B3 B13 |
7 |
25 |
32 |
Directed discussion |
A35 A36 B9 |
30 |
10 |
40 |
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Personalized attention |
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4 |
0 |
4 |
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(*)The information in the planning table is for guidance only and does not take into account the heterogeneity of the students. |
Methodologies |
Methodologies |
Description |
Guest lecture / keynote speech |
· Master session: Explanation by the teacher of the contents of the subject in the classroom. It will be complemented by visual support materials - schematics and presentations in Power-Point. The objective of these sessions will be to provide, develop and guide students in knowledge about the contents, theories and complexities of culture's phenomena, and to stimulate participatory debates about all this. An added objective will be to promote the recognition of the diversity characteristic of how cultural phenomena manifest.
A record of attendance will be kept, in order to to take advantage of what has been given in the face-to-face sessions.
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Objective test |
The objective test will consist of a written exercise, at the end of the four-month course, on the knowledge achieved by the student, which will consist of answering twenty short-answer questions. Basic knowledge about the contents of the course topics, and mastery of the concepts will be valued.
We insist on regular attendance to the course, in reference to the preparation and subsequent evaluation of this objective test.
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Summary |
The summary will consist of the student's elaboration of a summary and critical comment work elaborated on the sociocultural argument and the elaboration technique of two ethnographic films, selected by the student, from among more than twenty that will be provided through Moodle by the teacher, for autonomous viewing and analysis. It will be delivered in mid-late December. |
Directed discussion |
Guided discussion: presentation and debate in class, during the group practice sessions, of texts selected for their theoretical-ethnographic value, in accordance with the thematic unit that is being developed at that time, and in which after the presentation of a Schematic summary of the text developed by groups of 3-5 students, all can intervene with comments on aspects of said reading. How critically argued and knowledge of the conceptual content will be valued.
Regular attendance at the course is recomended, in reference to participation in, and evaluation of, directed discussions.
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Personalized attention |
Methodologies
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Summary |
Guest lecture / keynote speech |
Directed discussion |
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Description |
Personalized attention will be carried out individually regarding the film summary, the subject taught in class and the discussions directed when the feedback for the student so requires.
Personalized attention will take place during the course of the subject tutorials. It will be scheduled in date and hour, via e mail
For students with recognition of part-time dedication and academic exemption from attendance, specific tutorials will be agreed at the beginning of the course, either to attend, or arranged electronically through email or Moodle, and that are compatible with your dedication. |
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Assessment |
Methodologies
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Competencies / Results |
Description
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Qualification
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Summary |
A1 B3 B13 |
The unit summary of the two ethnographic films will have a maximum length of 10 pages, and will compute a value of 30% in the overall rating as a whole. The effort and skill in the synthesis and critical comments on the films, to be worked on by each student -in the sociocultural aspects that they present-, as well as the selection and treatment of the key concepts of the filmic plot, will be particularly valued. |
30 |
Objective test |
A12 B3 B20 B27 |
The objective test is considered as a single exam at the end of the course, in which the student will answer twenty short-answer questions about the content of the course matter. Altogether, the qualification of the objective test supposes a value of 60% of the global note. It is an inexcusable requirement to pass this objective test to consider the other elements of evaluation.
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60 |
Directed discussion |
A35 A36 B9 |
The targeted discussion will be evaluated on the understanding, expositional skill and critical argumental criteria of each student in their presentation of their respective summary-schema of the reading to be assigned to them; readings that will be delivered throughout the course. It provides 10% of the evaluative consideration.
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10 |
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Assessment comments |
For the evaluation of the 2nd opportunity, a weighted average of the objective test results (60% of the final rating) will be made with those resulting from the other two methodologies (30% and 10%, respectively). The student must take the objective test on the date of the call for 2nd opportunity, if he would not have passed or attended such a test in the 1st call. If the film summary or the directed discussion were the cause of not exceeding the subject on the 1st opportunity, you must present the film summary and/or the written-summary of the discussion addressed at this 2nd opportunity. In the case of students with recognition of part-time dedication and academic exemption exemption from attendance, the same evaluation criteria for the 1st and 2nd opportunity as for the remaining students, even though, in the case of the "directed discussion", the oral presentation in class will be replaced by the delivery of the scheme-summary of some of the indicated readings. -Implications of plagiarism: Suspense rating in the call in which the offense is committed and regarding the matter in which it was committed: whoever incurs it will be graded with "suspense" (numerical grade 0) in the corresponding call of the academic year, whether the commission of the foul occurs in the first opportunity as in the second. To do this, we will proceed to modify his qualification in the first opportunity record, if necessary.
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Sources of information |
Basic
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In a situation of non-in personity, there is possibility of access to books and readings of anthropology in eLibro, through the page of the Library of the UDC. |
Complementary
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Recommendations |
Subjects that it is recommended to have taken before |
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Subjects that are recommended to be taken simultaneously |
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Subjects that continue the syllabus |
Ethnographic research methodology/615G01403 |
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Other comments |
No observations, or specific comments |
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