{"id":1740,"date":"2022-10-04T10:45:58","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T08:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/?p=1740"},"modified":"2024-10-08T13:37:19","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T11:37:19","slug":"lecture-introduction-to-social-cultural-anthropology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/lecture-introduction-to-social-cultural-anthropology\/","title":{"rendered":"Lecture: Introduction to Social &#038; Cultural Anthropology"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/smallplaces.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/smallplaces-643x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1744\" width=\"322\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/smallplaces-643x1024.jpg 643w, https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/smallplaces-188x300.jpg 188w, https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/smallplaces-768x1223.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/smallplaces-90x144.jpg 90w, https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/smallplaces.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 322px) 100vw, 322px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>It is for the last time that the lecture &#8220;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/ufind.univie.ac.at\/en\/course.html?lv=240002&amp;semester=2022W\" target=\"_blank\">Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology<\/a>&#8221; in the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/ufind.univie.ac.at\/en\/vvz_sub.html?path=281907\" target=\"_blank\">BA program &#8220;Social and Cultural Anthropology&#8221; at the University of Vienna<\/a> will be held. 11 years ago, the late Elke Mader and Wolfgang Kraus conceived and organized this lecture for the first time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This winter term, I have the pleasure to give this lecture one last time &#8211; again with contributions by Wolfgang Kraus &#8211; before a new curriculum and introduction lecture will be implemented. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The lecture has been using Thomas Hylland Eriksen&#8217;s seminal book <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.plutobooks.com\/9780745335933\/small-places-large-issues\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Small Places, Large Issues<\/a><\/em> as main teaching and learning resource. I find it therefore fitting to end this journey with a quote from his volume: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Anthropology tries to account for the social and cultural variation in the world, but a crucial part of the anthropological project also consists in conceptualising and understanding similarities between social systems and human relationships.&#8221; (Eriksen, 2015: 2)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is for the last time that the lecture &#8220;Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology&#8221; in the BA program &#8220;Social and Cultural Anthropology&#8221; at the University of Vienna will be held. 11 years ago, the late Elke Mader and Wolfgang Kraus conceived and organized this lecture for the first time. This winter term, I have&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/lecture-introduction-to-social-cultural-anthropology\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lecture: Introduction to Social &#038; Cultural Anthropology<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,29,265],"tags":[187,19,24,104],"class_list":["post-1740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lecture","category-anthropology","category-teaching","tag-lecture","tag-sociocultural-anthropology","tag-teaching","tag-university-of-vienna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1740"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1748,"href":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740\/revisions\/1748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}