Identifying Data

2020/21

Subject (*)

Social and Cultural Anthropology

Code

615G01102

Study programme

Grao en Socioloxia

Descriptors

Cycle

Period

Year

Type

Credits

Graduate

1st four-month period

First

Basic training

Language

Spanish

Teaching method

Face-to-face

Prerequisites

Department

Humanidades

Coordinador

Couceiro Dominguez, Enrique

E-mail

enrique.couceiro.dominguez@udc.es

Lecturers

Couceiro Dominguez, Enrique

E-mail

enrique.couceiro.dominguez@udc.es

Web

General description

O curso de Antropoloxía social e cultural concíbese como un estudo introdutorio, pero exhaustivo, da sistemática da antropoloxía contemporánea, centrado nas achegas, enfoques teórico-metodolóxicos e campos de investigación de vangarda na disciplina e na súa conexión cos grandes problemas e procesos da globalizada realidade sociocultural actual. Con iso proxéctase ampliar e fundamentar no alumno as súas competencias no coñecemento crítico e as ferramentas conceptuais e técnicas para abordar a complexa tarefa de interpretar a diversidade, especificidade e regularidades dos fenómenos socioculturais contemporáneos e as súas problemáticas inherentes, dende a perspectiva do local, característica da disciplina antropolóxica.

Contingency plan

1. Modificacións nos contidos
Non hai modificacións previstas nos contidos

2. Metodoloxías
*Metodoloxías docentes que se manteñen:
Prueba obxectiva
Discusión dirixida
Sesión maxistral (todas elas con medidas de adaptación a condicións de docencia non presencial que se expresan en cada caso)
Menos a "Sesión maxistral", todas elas computan na evaluación.

*Metodoloxías docentes que se modifican:
Resumen. Se trata de un resumen-crítico de films etnográficos, que sustitúe á anterior metodoloxía de 'Traballo tutelado'. Asimismo prevé medidas de adaptación ás condicións de non presencialidad

3. Mecanismos de atención personalizada ao alumnado:
A atención personalizada realizaráse de xeito individual respecto ao resumo fílmico, a materia impartida en clase e as discusións dirixidas cando a retroalimentación cara ao alumno así lo requira. (1 vez á semana, mínimo).
No caso de situación de presencialidad, terá lugar durante el desenrolo das tutorías dala materia.
No caso de situación de non presencialidad, terá lugar online, en horario de tutorías previamente concertadas, e a través do correo electrónico (diariamente) ou de Moodle.
Para o alumnado con recoñecemento de dedicación a tempo parcial e dispensa académica de exención de asistencia, acordaráse al inicio do curso as tutorías específicas, ben mediante Moodle, ou ben concertadas telemáticamente a través do correo electrónico, e que sexan compatibles con a sua dedicación

4. Modificacións na avaliación:
non se preven modificacions nos porcentaxes de evaluación asignados a cada metodoloxía, e ainda cando o resumo fílmico sustitúa ao traballo tutelado, manten o mesmo porcentaxe do 30% que cubría iste derradeiro. Avaliarase a capacidade de síntese e interpretación das dimensións socioculturais por parte do alumno.

*Observaciones de evaluación: Prevense os xeitos de evaluación das metodoloxías en función dos contextos de presencialidad/non presencialidad.

5. Modificacións da bibliografía ou webgrafía:
Añadese un título introductoreo á bibliografía xeral da materia, y se comunica que no caso de confinamento, o alunnado poderá acceder a textos e artículos antropolóxicos na aplicación eLibro, a través da páxina web da Biblioteca UDC.
Os enlaces web aos films etnográficos obxecto de resumo y valoración iránse proporcionando ó alunnado durante el curso, ben presencialmente, ben a través do Moodle, dependendo do contexto presencial/no presencial.

Study programme competencies

Code	Study programme competences
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
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	B9 B13 B20
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	B3 B9 B13 B27

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	Ordinary class hours	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

Personalized attention		4	0	4

(*)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 (if in person). 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. Under conditions of face-to-face, regular attendance at the course is recommended, with reference to the use of what has been given in the face-to-face sessions. In non-in-person conditions, the master session will be conducted through sessions through the Teams app (for the two larger groups), and providing summaries of the different themes of the program through the Moodle platform
Objective test	· The objective test will consist of a written test, at the end of the quarterly course, on the knowledge achieved by the student, which will consist of the argumental development supported by ethnographic examples, from a small thematic list provided by the teacher. Basic knowledge of cultures will be valued from the anthropological angle, the ability to recognize social complexity, the capacity for analysis and synthesis and attitudes towards cultural diversity. Under conditions of face-to-face, regular attendance at the course is recommended, in reference to the preparation and subsequent evaluation of this objective test. If the online completion of the test is specified, it can be carried out as a 'task' to be developed through the Moodle platform, and will consist of the development of two headings of the subject's agenda, followed by two ethnographic examples.
Summary	The summary will consist of the elaboration by the student of a single work of summary and critical commentary elaborated on the sociocultural argument and the technique of elaboration of two ethnographic films, selected by himself, from more than twenty that will be projected in the classroom during the course (in conditions of presence), or - alternatively, whose links will be provided weekly through Moodle by the teacher, for viewing and autonomous analysis (under conditions of non-face-to-face). It will be delivered in mid-late December.
Directed discussion	Directed discussion: presentation and discussion in class, during group practice sessions, of texts selected for their theoretical-ethnographic value, in line with the thematic unit that is developing at that time, and in which after the presentation of a schematic summary of the text developed by groups of 3-5 students, everyone can intervene with comments to aspects of that reading. It will be valued how it is critically and committedly argued. Under conditions of face-to-face, regular attendance at the course is recommended, with reference to participation in, and evaluation of, targeted discussions. In case of non-in-personity, groups of students will replace the class presentation of the text assigned to them, with small collective works with a maximum length of five pages, to which you can add conceptual maps of the subject matter. These papers will be sent by Moodle to the teacher, the date on which the presentation would have been due.

Personalized attention

Methodologies

Summary

Guest lecture / keynote speech

Directed discussion

Description

Personalized attention will be made individually with respect to the film summary and the discussions addressed when the feedback for the student requires it.
In case of presence situation, it will take place during the development of the tutoring of the subject.
In case of non-in-personity situation, it will take place online, during pre-arranged tutoring hours, and via email.

For students with recognition of part-time dedication and academic exemption from attendance, specific tutoring will be agreed at the beginning of the course, either to attend, or telematically arranged via email, and compatible with their dedication

Assessment

Methodologies	Competencies	Description	Qualification
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. Particular effort and skill in the synthesis and critical commentary on films, to work for each student, as well as the selection and treatment of the key concepts of the film argument will be 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 students will develop arguably, supported by ethnographic examples, a mid-level issues, chosen within a small theme list provided by the teacher (60% of the grade this objective test), and in combination with brief answers to four specific questions on aspects of the subject (which account for 40% of the grade). Overall, the objective test score is a value of 50% of the overall mark. Is inexcusable overcome this objective test requirement to consider the other elements of assessment.	50
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 20% of the evaluative consideration. In case of non-in personity, the evaluation will be made on the written in digital format delivered by each group of 3-5 students who have worked the same article or chapter of book.	20

Assessment comments
For the evaluation of the 2nd opportunity, a weighted average of the objective test results (50% of the final rating) will be made with those resulting from the other two methodologies (30% and 20%, respectively). The student must take the objective test on the date of the call for 2nd opportunity (either in person, or online, depending on the circumstances on the date), 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.

Sources of information

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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.
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Recommendations

Subjects that it is recommended to have taken before

Subjects that are recommended to be taken simultaneously

Subjects that continue the syllabus

Ethnographic research methodology/615G01403

Other comments
Sin observaciones ni recomendaciones específicas

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