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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. |
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