Study Programmes 2015-2016
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| Social Anthropology of Contemporary Worlds | ||||||||
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Duration :
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| 30h Th | ||||||||
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Number of credits :
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Lecturer :
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| Yves Winkin | ||||||||
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Language(s) of instruction :
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| French language | ||||||||
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Organisation and examination :
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| Teaching in the first semester, review in January | ||||||||
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Units courses prerequisite and corequisite :
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| Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program | ||||||||
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Course contents :
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| 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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Learning outcomes of the course :
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| 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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Prerequisite knowledge and skills :
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| 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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Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
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| None | ||||||||
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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| 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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Recommended or required readings :
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| A reader is offered and readings are suggested | ||||||||
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| 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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Work placement(s) :
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Organizational remarks :
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| 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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Contacts :
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| Yves Winkin Yves.Winkin@ens-lyon.fr |
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