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Contemporary methodological and theoretical reflection in archaeology

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Course ID: 19-WRMTA-11-ArchU
Erasmus code / ISCED: (unknown) / (unknown)
Course title: Contemporary methodological and theoretical reflection in archaeology
Name in Polish: Współczesna refleksja metodologiczna i teoretyczna w archeologii
Organizational unit: Faculty of Archaeology
Course groups: (in Polish) Moodle - przedmioty Szkoły Nauk Humanistycznych
Course homepage: http://archeo.amu.edu.pl
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores): 0 OR 3.00 (depends on study program) 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.

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Language: Polish
Module type:

compulsory

Major:

ARCHAEOLOGY

Cycle of studies:

2nd cycle

Module learning aims:

Students will gain an understanding and skills necessary to evaluate explanatory models offered in archaeology as well as critical look at the role of archaeology in contemporary world. They will also gain an ability to put a knowledge into practice while conducting their own research projects.

Students will understand differences and similarities as well as consequences of different ways of practicing archaeology in contemporary world.

They will gain the skills necessary to consciously choose a particular model or a way of interpreting the past as well as to define the role of archaeology at present.


Year of studies (where relevant):

Year 1

Full description:

This lecture is a synthesis of problems regarding contemporary theories and methodology of archeology. It addresses issues that relate to archaeology as a discipline as well as potentials and threats it faces in twenty-first century. Of crucial importance is a question concerning social role of archaeology in addressing by it new issues / research themes. These problems are discusses in relation to such topics as: social and cultural change in archaeological perspective, issues of agency, identity and power and the role of archeology in their approaching and constructing.

Bibliography:

Ankersmit F. 1997. Modernistyczna prawda, postmodernistyczne przedstawienie, po-modernistyczne doświadczenie, (w:) Historia: o jeden świat za daleko?, red. E. Domańska, Poznań, s. 19-36.

Bahn P., Renfrew C. 2002, Archeologia, Warszawa.

Barański J. 2007. Świat rzeczy. Zarys antropologiczny, Kraków.

Rzeczy i ludzie. Humanistyka wobec materialności, red. J. Kowalewski, W. Piasek, M. Śliwa, Olsztyn, s. 261-298.

Braudel F. 1992. Struktury codzienności: możliwe i niemożliwe, Warszawa.

Bugaj E. 2004. Badania archeologiczne a obrazowanie wizualne przeszłości, (w:) Archeologia – kultura – ideologie, red. B. Gediga, W. Piotrowski, Biskupin-Wrocław, s. 253-263.

Dant T. 2007. Kultura materialna w rzeczywistości społecznej, Kraków.

Domańska E. 2006. Historie niekonwencjonalne, Poznań.

Foucault M. 2006. Słowa i rzeczy. Archeologia nauk humanistycznych, Gdańsk.

Gardin J.C. 1979. Une Archéologie théorique, Paris.

Giddens A. 2003. Stanowienie społeczeństwa: zarys teorii strukturacji, Warszawa.

Heidegger M. 1994. Bycie i czas, Warszawa.; 2003. Technika i zwrot, Warszawa.

Jones A. 2001. Archaeological theory and scientific practice, Cambridge.

Kopytoff I. 2004. Kulturowa biografia rzeczy: utowarowienie jako proces, (w:) Badanie kultury. Elementy teorii antropologicznej. Kontynuacje, red. M. Kempny, E. Nowicka, Warszawa, s. 249-274.

Kristiansen K. 1993. The strength of the past and its great might: an essay on the use of the past, “Journal of European Archaeology” 1, s. 3-32.

Latour B. 2005. Reassembling the social: an introduction to Actor-Network-Theory, Oxford.

Mauss M. 1973. Szkic o darze. Forma i podstawa wymiany w społeczeństwach archaicznych, (w:) tegoż. Socjologia i antropologia, Warszawa, s. 489-532.

Nobis A., Zmiana kulturowa: miedzy historią a ewolucją, Wrocław 2006.

Pałubicka A. 2006. Myślenie w perspektywie poręczności a pojęciowa konstrukcja świata, Bydgoszcz.

Podborsky V. 2007. Naboženstvi starych Evropanu, Brno.

Schiffer M.B. 1999. The material life of human beings. Artifacts, behavior and communication, London.

Shanks M. 1992. Experiencing the past: on the character of archaeology, London, New York.

Toporow W. 2003. Przestrzeń i rzecz, Warszawa.

Learning outcomes:

A result of this lecture is a knowledge about the new research problems in archaeology and its theoretical foundations.

Assessment methods and assessment criteria:

Final exam.

Classes in period "Academic year 2020/2021, winter semester" (past)

Time span: 2020-10-01 - 2021-02-28
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Type of class:
lecture, 30 hours more information
Coordinators: Danuta Minta-Tworzowska
Group instructors: Danuta Minta-Tworzowska
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Examination: Completion

Classes in period "Academic year 2021/2022, winter semestr" (past)

Time span: 2021-10-01 - 2022-02-23
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Coordinators: Danuta Minta-Tworzowska
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Classes in period "Academic year 2022/2023, winter semester" (past)

Time span: 2022-10-01 - 2023-02-26
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Coordinators: Danuta Minta-Tworzowska
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Examination: Completion

Classes in period "Academic year 2023/2024, winter semester" (past)

Time span: 2023-10-01 - 2024-02-25
Selected timetable range:
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Type of class:
lecture, 30 hours more information
Coordinators: Danuta Minta-Tworzowska
Group instructors: Danuta Minta-Tworzowska
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Examination: Completion
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