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| ANTH0375-1 | Social Anthropology of Contemporary Worlds
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| Duration : | 30h Th |
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| Holder(s) : | Yves Winkin |
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| Language : | French language |
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| Course contents : | Introduction to a school of thought embodied in France by Marc Augé, Michèle de la Pradelle and others. The basic tenet is that all cultures are time-wise identical; they all belong to "contemporaneity". A long exotic journey is no reverse time machine anymore. Visual anthropology belongs to that perspective. |
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| Course objective : | The idea is to sensitize students to the very notion of "contemporaneity", and to the questions addressed by J. Fabian in /Time and the Other/. While the old opposition* *ethnology vs.
anthropology seems to be back institutionaly, there is a conceptual necessity to get rid of the oppositions endotic vs. exotic, in vs. out, near vs. far. |
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| Prerequisites : | A good command of the history of Anglo-Saxon and French anthropologies, as well as a good command of written English. |
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| Workshops : | None |
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| Organization : | Three 10-hour modules are the backbone of the course; a module every month and ten hours on a two-day blocked period. Epitomes of contemporary visual anthropology are presented in each period. |
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| Written notes : | A reader is offered and readings are suggested |
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| Assessment : | Oral examination based on a written document, which is an answer to a general question presented by the teacher at the beginning of the course. |
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| Contacts : | Yves Winkin
Yves.Winkin@ens-lyon.fr |
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| Remarks : | The course is offered during the first semester, at the request of students who need a second semester fully devoted to their fieldwork and their memoir. |
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