{"id":1100,"date":"2017-10-17T11:33:15","date_gmt":"2017-10-17T09:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/?p=1100"},"modified":"2017-12-14T18:31:26","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T17:31:26","slug":"lecture-introduction-to-cultural-social-anthropology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/lecture-introduction-to-cultural-social-anthropology\/","title":{"rendered":"Lecture: Introduction to Cultural &#038; Social Anthropology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2017, the lecture &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/ufind.univie.ac.at\/en\/course.html?lv=240002&#038;semester=2017W\">Introduction to Cultural and Social Anthropology<\/a>&#8221; at the <a href=\"https:\/\/ksa.univie.ac.at\/en\/\">Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology<\/a> of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.univie.ac.at\/en\/\">University of Vienna<\/a> is organized by <a href=\"http:\/\/homepage.univie.ac.at\/philipp.budka\/\">Philipp Budka<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/homepage.univie.ac.at\/wolfgang.kraus\/\">Wolfgang Kraus<\/a> &#038; <a href=\"http:\/\/homepage.univie.ac.at\/elke.mader\/\">Elke Mader<\/a> and discusses the following topics:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Introduction &#038; Discussion: Why Social &#038; Cultural Anthropology? What is Social &#038; Cultural Anthropology?<\/li>\n<li>Colonialism &#038; Post-colonialism (&#038; Cinema\/Film)<\/li>\n<li>Globalization: Theoretical Discourse<\/li>\n<li>Globalization &#038; Migration<\/li>\n<li>Tourism<\/li>\n<li>Economy &#038; Subsistence<\/li>\n<li>Material Culture &#038; Consumption<\/li>\n<li>Nature &#038; Environment<\/li>\n<li>Social Organization &#038; Kinship (Wolfgang Kraus)<\/li>\n<li>Ritual &#038; Mythology (Elke Mader)<\/li>\n<li>Religion &#038; World Views<\/li>\n<li>Media &#038; Communication Technologies \/ Visual Culture<\/li>\n<li>Film: \u201e<a href=\"http:\/\/www.der.org\/films\/oh-what-a-blow.html\">Oh, What a Blow That Phantom Gave Me!<\/a>\u201c &#038; Discussion<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The lecture is connected to the preparatory lecture <strong>&#8220;Propaedeutic Social &#038; Cultural Anthropology&#8221;<\/strong> (Wolfgang Kraus) which includes basics such as: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Cultural and the Social<\/li>\n<li>Diversity<\/li>\n<li>Ethnocentrism<\/li>\n<li>Social &#038; Cultural Anthropology Methodology\/Methods<\/li>\n<li>Universalism &#038; Relativism<\/li>\n<li>History of Social &#038; Cultural Anthropology<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Required Reading<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>General: Eriksen, Thomas H. 2010 or 2015. Small Places, Large Issues. An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology. London: Pluto Press.<\/li>\n<li>Colonialism: Wolf, Eric R. 1986. Die V\u00f6lker ohne Geschichte: Europa und die andere Welt seit 1400. Frankfurt: Campus-Verlag, pp. 192-227.<\/li>\n<li>Gender: N\u00f6bauer, Herta. 2014. His\/Her-Story war einmal: Sex\/Gender\u2013Systeme im historischen und regionalen Vergleich. In: Karl R. Wernhart and Werner Zips (Hg.). Ethnohistorie. Rekonstruktion und Kulturkritik. Eine Einf\u00fchrung. 4. \u00fcberarbeitete und aktualisierte Auflage. Wien: Promedia, pp. 204-218.<\/li>\n<li>Media &#038; Visual Culture: Murdock, Graham and Sarah Pink. 2005. Picturing Practices: Visual Anthropology and Media Ethnography. In: Eric W. Rothenbuhler and Mihai Coman (Hg.).  Media Anthropology. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: SAGE, pp. 149-161.<\/li>\n<li>Migration:<br \/>\n1) Armbruster, Heidi. 2009. Anthropologische Ans\u00e4tze zu Migration. In: Maria Six-Hohenbalken and Jelena Tosic (Hg.). Anthropologie der Migration: Theoretische Grundlagen und interdisziplin\u00e4re Aspekte. Wien: Facultas.WUV, pp. 52-69.<br \/>\n2) To\u0161i\u0107, Jelena, Kroner, Gudrun and Susanne Binder. 2009. Anthropologische Fl\u00fcchtlingsforschung. In: Maria Six-Hohenbalken and Jelena To\u0161i\u0107 (Hg.). Anthropologie der Migration: Theoretische Grundlagen und interdisziplin\u00e4re Aspekte. Wien: Facultas WUV, pp. 110-126.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2017, the lecture &#8220;Introduction to Cultural and Social Anthropology&#8221; at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology of the University of Vienna is organized by Philipp Budka, Wolfgang Kraus &#038; Elke Mader and discusses the following topics: Introduction &#038; Discussion: Why Social &#038; Cultural Anthropology? What is Social &#038; Cultural Anthropology? 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