Anthropology of the contemporary

General data

Course ID:	05-AWS-35-Etn
Erasmus code / ISCED:	(unknown) / (unknown)
Course title:	Anthropology of the contemporary
Name in Polish:	Antropologia współczesności
Organizational unit:	Faculty of Historical Studies
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ECTS credit allocation (and other scores):	(not available) Basic information on ECTS credits allocation principles: the annual hourly workload of the student’s work required to achieve the expected learning outcomes for a given stage is 1500-1800h, corresponding to 60 ECTS; the student’s weekly hourly workload is 45 h; 1 ECTS point corresponds to 25-30 hours of student work needed to achieve the assumed learning outcomes; weekly student workload necessary to achieve the assumed learning outcomes allows to obtain 1.5 ECTS; work required to pass the course, which has been assigned 3 ECTS, constitutes 10% of the semester student load. view allocation of credits
Language:	Polish
Module type:	compulsory
Major:	Ethnology and cultural anthropology
Cycle of studies:	1st cycle
Module learning aims:	C1. Provide basic knowledge about the sources of sub-discipline, its development, condition and further perspectives C2. Presentation of the specificity of anthropology of the contemporary and its connections with other fields of humanities and art C3. To provide general knowledge about the specificity of the subject of anthropology of contemporary and its research perspectives C4 To familiarize students with the basic terminology used in the framework of anthroology of the contemporary C5. Presentation of research methods and tools of this sub-discipline C6. Presentation of main ethical dilemmas C7 To develop the skills of a particular anthropological perception, representation and interpretation of reality C8 To develop an attitude of critical understanding of cultural phenomena, especially from our own social reality.
Year of studies (where relevant):	Year 3
Course module conducted remotely (e-learning):	-
Pre-requisites in terms of knowledge, skills and social competences:	Knowledge about basic theories and methods of cultural anthropology
Information on where to find course materials:	-
Methods of teaching for learning outcomes achievement:	Lecture, conwersatory, fieldwork
Short description:	These lectures were prepared as introduction to specific kind of recent anthropology - anthropology of the contemporary. Another lecture will be focus on main thesis, methods and ethic dimension of it. The main aim of these lectueres is presentation an alternatuve technics thinking and interpretation of culture. They are very close to the artistic and literary discourses.
Full description:	1. Anthropology of the contemporary as a separate movement of research and interpretation 2. Defamiliarization and its strategies 3. An ethnographic surrealism 4. Anthropology at home (US, UK, France, Skandinavia, Poland) 5. Reflexivity 6. Anthropology as a genre of literature 7. Anthropology of the contemporary and its ethic dimensions
Bibliography:	Anthropology at home. A. Jackosn (ed.), London 1987. J. Clifford, Kłopoty z kulturą. Dwudziestowieczna etnografia, literatura i sztuka, przeł. E. Dżurak i inni, Warszawa 2000. J. D. Faubion, G. E. Marcus, P. Rabinow, Designs for an Anthropology of the Contemporary, 2008. M. J. Fischer, G. E. Marcus, Anthropology as Cultural Critique. An Experimental Moment in the Human Sciences, Chicago 1986. C. Geertz, Dzieło i życie. Antropolog jako autor, przeł. E. Dżurak i S. Sikora, Warszawa 2000. W. Kuligowski, Antropologia współczesności. Wiele światów, jedno miejsce, Kraków 2007. Tubylcy własnego świata. W stronę antropologii bliskości, W. Kuligowski (red.), Wrocław 2011. Writing Culture. The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography, J. Clifford, G. E. Marcus (eds.), Berkeley 1986.
Learning outcomes:	TK_01 The formation of anthropology of the contemporary as an academic subdiscipline (I) TK_02 The formation of anthropology of the contemporary as an academic subdiscipline (II) TK_03 Strategies of anthropology of the contemporary: defamiliarization (I) TK_04 Strategies of anthropology of the contemporary: defamiliarization (II) TK_05 Strategies of anthropology of the contemporary: ethnographic surrealism TK_06 Strategies of anthropology of the contemporary: anthropology at home (I) TK_07 Strategies of anthropology of the contemporary: anthropology at home (II) TK_08 Strategies of anthropology of the contemporary: reflexivity (I) TK_09 Strategies of anthropology of the contemporary: reflexivity (II) TK_10 Anthropology as a kind of writing (I) TK_11 Anthropology as a kind of writing (II) TK_12 Ethical dilemmas of anthropology of the contemporary (I) TK_13 Ethical dilemmas of anthropology of the contemporary (II) TK_14 anthropology of the contemporary in relation to other fields of cultural research (I) TK_15 anthropology of the contemporary in relation to other fields of cultural research (II)
Practical placement:	-

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