Intro to Sociocultural Anthropology

Pre-requisites: Knowledge of the English language as well as knowing how to utilize the internet/access.

Course objectives: Introducing students to basic ideas and frameworks of social and cultural anthropology. Enabling students to work independently and developing a tolerant view and intercultural understanding.

Course description: This course encompasses an examination of the fundamental tenets of anthropology, an examination of the history of anthropology as a discipline, fundamental anthropological theory (unilinear, multilinear, universal evolutionism, neo-darwinism, difusionism, culture and personality, functionalism, structural functionalism, structuralism, symbolic-interpretive anthropology, elements of political anthropology), methods of anthropological research (simultaneously – historical methods and research techniques).

Learning Outcomes: By taking this course students will gain knowledge of the fundamental ideas in sociocultural anthropology and general theory on intercultural and cultural differences.

Literature/Reading:

• • Mils, Rajt (1998): «Perspektive društvenih nauka» (5-29), u: Sociološka imaginacija, Plato, Beograd • Eriksen (navedeno delo, isti delovi kao i za prvo predavanje) • Fabijeti, Ugo (i gru
• • Fabijeti, Ugo (i grupa autora) (2002): Uvod u antropologiju, CLIO, Beograd, (Poglavlje: Zavera ćutanja /109-138/) • Eriksen, Thomas Hylland (1995): Small Places, Large Issues – An Introduction
• • Gerc, Kliford (1998): «Uticaj pojma kulture na pojam čoveka» (47-77) u: Tumačenje kultura , Biblioteka XX vek, Beograd • Golubović, Zagorka (1973): „Kultura kao svojevrsni izraz ljud
• • Barnard, Alan (2000): History and Theory in Anthropology, Cambridge University Press (poglavlje: Promene u shvatanju evolucije /27-38/)
• • Barnard (navedeno delo, isti deo kao i za prethodno predavanje, kao i deo poglavlja o primitivnoj misli koji se odnosi na Levi-Brila /105-108/)
• • Barnard, Alan (2000): History and Theory in Anthropology, Cambridge University Press (poglavlje: Difuzionizam i teorije kulturnih polja /47-60/ i Od relativizma do kognitivne nauke /99-114/)
• • Obavezna literatura: Barnard, Alan (2000): History and Theory in Anthropology, Cambridge University Press (poglavlje: Univerzalni evolucionizam, Multilinearni evolucionizam i kulturna ekologija, Neo
• • Barnard, Alan (2000): History and Theory in Anthropology, Cambridge University Press (poglavlje: Kultura i ličnost /102-105/) • Eriksen, Thomas Hylland (1995): Small Places, Large Issues – An
• • Barnard, Alan (2000): History and Theory in Anthropology, Cambridge University Press (poglavlje: Funkcionalizam i strukturalni funkcionalizam /61-79/) • Layton, Robert (1997): An Introduction to Th
• • Barnard, Alan (2000): History and Theory in Anthropology, Cambridge University Press (poglavlje: Strukturalizam, od lingvistike do antropologije /120-137/)
• • Gerc, Kliford (1998): „Ka interpretativnoj teoriji kulture“ (7-47) u: Tumačenje kultura , Biblioteka XX vek, Beograd • Fabijeti, Ugo (i grupa autora) (2002): Uvod u antropologiju, CLIO, Beogra
• - delovi dela Eriha Froma, Herberta Markuzea, u dogovoru sa nastavnikom
• • Fabijeti, Ugo (i grupa autora) (2002): Uvod u antropologiju, CLIO, Beograd, (Poglavlje: Protok kultura /193-224 i 247-257/)