Practical Introduction to Anthropology. Finding the way to interpret the dynamics of sociocultural change 3700-ISSC-23-PIA
Warsztaty (WAR) Semestr zimowy 2023/24

• Folklore studies, ethnography, ethnology, cultural anthropology, social anthropology, linguistic anthropology – explanation of the notions.

• Evolutionary concepts of development of culture and language.

• Functionalism. Shaping the ethnographic method.

• Language and culture – system of signs. Structuralism

• Anthropological approaches to crisis and social change: transactionsim and interactionism

• Phenomenological and hermeneutic approaches. Cultural onomastics

• Dimensions of relativism

• Postcolonial critique of the concept of development

• Postmodernism,… and what next?

• Participatory action research

• Researching linguistic change. Selected issues of linguistic anthropology (orality and literacy, linguistic ideologies, language and relations of power, linguistic revitalization)

• Methodology of ethnographic fieldwork. Participant observation

• Methodology of ethnographic fieldwork. Narrative interview

• Digital tools in anthropology

Lecture, discussion, analysis and interpretation of texts, individual project, fieldwork, elements of individual tutorial