SAN510 CULTURE: CONCEPT, THEORIES, APPROACHES
| Course Code: |
8400510 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): |
3(0-3) |
| ECTS Credit: |
8.0 |
| Department: |
Social Anthropology |
| Language of Instruction: |
English |
| Level of Study: |
Graduate |
| Course Coordinator: |
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| Offered Semester: |
Fall and Spring Semesters. |
Course Content
The course offers a brief intellectual history of the Culture concept in Anthropology with special focus on methodologies adopted by Boas, Tylor, Malinowski, Mauss, Barthes, Jameson, Benedict, Geertz, Strathern, Weiner etc. In addition to showing how to write about Culture, the ``work`` it does as well as the theoretical and comparative perspectives it offers, the course will focus on how the concept has enhanced understandings of the Gift, Space and Place; Emotion and Language. The course will investigate the limits of cultural analysis and interrogate the utility of the concept for anthropological understanding.
