Study Programmes 2016-2017
ANTH0375-1  
Social Anthropology of Contemporary Worlds
Duration :
30h Th
Number of credits :
Master in anthropology (120 ECTS)3
Lecturer :
Yves Winkin
Language(s) of instruction :
French language
Organisation and examination :
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite :
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit 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.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit :
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.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills :
A good command of the history of Anglo-Saxon and French anthropologies, as well as a good command of written English.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
None
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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.
Recommended or required readings :
A reader is offered and readings are suggested
Assessment methods and criteria :
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.
Work placement(s) :
Organizational 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.
Contacts :
Yves Winkin yves.winkin@ulg.ac.be