FSS:SAN106 Anthropology of Politics and E - Course Information
SAN106 Anthropology of Politics and Economy
Faculty of Social StudiesSpring 2020
- Extent and Intensity
- 1/1/0. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- Mgr. Zuzana Sekeráková Búriková, Ph.D. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- Mgr. Zuzana Sekeráková Búriková, Ph.D.
Department of Sociology – Faculty of Social Studies
Contact Person: Mgr. Zuzana Sekeráková Búriková, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Sociology – Faculty of Social Studies - Timetable
- Tue 10:00–11:40 U35
- Prerequisites
- ! SANb1008 Anthropology of Politics and Economy && !NOW( SANb1008 Anthropology of Politics and Economy )
Ability to read academic texts in English - Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- there are 14 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
- Course objectives
- The aim of the course is to introduce students to key themes and debates in economic and political anthropology. The course is designed in two blocks. Firts part cofuses on political anthropology and explains anthropological approach to power and politics. The first part of the course tackles topics lik power and politics in traditional and current societies, colonialism and postcolonialism, ideology, governmentality, symbolic power and biopolitics. The second block focuses on economic anthropology and introduces students to various conceptualisations of economic practices in social anthropology.
- Learning outcomes
- At the end of the course students shuold be able to understand and explain different patterns of power and of economic behaviour. They should acquire and anthropological approach to economic and political behaviour and organizations ant to their mutual relationships. They should get a knowledge of ethnographic works in these subdisciplines.
- Syllabus
- 1. Introduction. Maximalist and minimalist understanding of what political is. 2. Power and legitimacy; power and social stratification 3. Stateless societies, early and traditional state 4. Genesis of modern state 5. Byrocracy and Gevernmentality 6. Nationalism 7. Reading week. Reading and preparing anotation. 8. Cultural interpretations of economic behaviour, dilemas of economic anthropology 9. Debate of formalists and substantivists 10. Economic anthropology after the debate. 11. Money, market, finances 12.Capitalism and modernity 13. Global capitalism and world system
- Literature
- required literature
- HANN, C. M. and Keith HART. Economic anthropology : history, ethnography, critique. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2011, x, 206. ISBN 9780745644837. info
- recommended literature
- A handbook of economic anthropology. Edited by James G. Carrier. Northhampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2005, xvi, 584. ISBN 1845429524. info
- WILK, Richard R. Economies and cultures : foundations of economic anthropology. Boulder, Colo.: WestviewPress, 1996, xvii, 189. ISBN 0813320585. info
- The social life of things :commodities in cultural perspective. Edited by Arjun Appadurai. 1st ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986, xiv, 329 s. ISBN 0-521-35726-8. info
- not specified
- LEWELLEN, Ted C. Political anthropology : an introduction. 3rd ed. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2003, xii, 262. ISBN 0897898915. info
- KURTZ, Donald V. Political anthropology : power and paradigms. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 2001, viii, 251. ISBN 0813338042. info
- BALANDIER, Georges. Politická antropologie : Anthropologie politigue (Orig.). Praha: Dauphin, 2000, 285 s. ISBN 80-86019-90-X. info
- Political anthropology. Edited by Marc J. Swartz - Victor Witter Turner - Arthur Tuden. 1st pub. Chicago: Aldine publishing company, 1966, viii, 309. info
- Teaching methods
- Lectures, class discussion, critical readings, group project
- Assessment methods
- - 2 tests
- written examination
- essay - Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- Study Materials
The course is taught annually. - Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
- Enrolment Statistics (recent)
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