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2020/2021

Seminar on Advanced Anthropological Theories and Research

Code: 101256 ECTS Credits: 12
Degree Type Year Semester
2500256 Social and Cultural Anthropology OT 3 0
2500256 Social and Cultural Anthropology OT 4 1
The proposed teaching and assessment methodology that appear in the guide may be subject to changes as a result of the restrictions to face-to-face class attendance imposed by the health authorities.

Contact

Name:
Isabel Graupera Gargallo
Email:
Isabel.Graupera@uab.cat

Use of Languages

Principal working language:
catalan (cat)
Some groups entirely in English:
No
Some groups entirely in Catalan:
No
Some groups entirely in Spanish:
No

Prerequisites

There are not prerequisites

Objectives and Contextualisation

A key feature of this seminar is that it is a space for the debate and exchange of visions about the fitting of the anthropologist in the field of cultural management and on the contribution of anthropology to museology and collecting. In fact, the world of cultural heritage is one of the classic fields of action of anthropology professionals. Their work is mainly in museums, interpretation centres and public administration apart from the increasingly numerous private initiatives. Even so, cultural heritage is undergoing significant changes, which make it possible to broaden its view on this field of work and to make its management more complex today. New professionals break into the cultural management scene as a sign of the overflow of traditional boundaries between disciplines.

The objective is to review and analyze theoretical and methodological proposals from an anthropological perspective, as well as their application in the field of heritage. Through a historical synthesis of museology, historical memory policies, visits to different collections and/or heritage interpretation centres, case study, cultural project design, reading support, class participation and group work, students will achieve basic understanding of the professional practice of anthropologists in the field of heritage and cultural management in a broad sense. These skills are to consider for possible career outings.

The purpose of the seminar is to transcend historically contingent disciplinary boundaries and become a laboratory where, in a safe environment, it rehearses methodological and anthropological intervention proposals. In this sense, efforts will be made to collaborate with external professionals linked to the heritage or with teachers of other degrees of the faculty. In addition, special emphasis will be placed on the methodology of virtual ethnography, which can become the means of developing the proposal for sociocultural intervention that has to constitute the final work of the subject.

 

 

Competences

    Social and Cultural Anthropology
  • Assessing epistemological and methodological problems attached to the dialectics between particularism and comparison.
  • Assessing in theoretical, methodological and ethical terms the anthropology investigations aimed to basic objectives or oriented to intervention.
  • Developing critical thinking and reasoning and communicating them effectively both in your own and other languages.
  • Students must be capable of applying their knowledge to their work or vocation in a professional way and they should have building arguments and problem resolution skills within their area of study.
  • Students must be capable of collecting and interpreting relevant data (usually within their area of study) in order to make statements that reflect social, scientific or ethical relevant issues.
  • Students must be capable of communicating information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialised and non-specialised audiences.

Learning Outcomes

  1. Applying the current ethical codes to the ethnographic fieldwork.
  2. Carrying out oral presentations using appropriate academic vocabulary and style.
  3. Classifying and defining different transcultural comparison procedures.
  4. Critically considering and trying to avoid ethnocentric projections in theory building.
  5. Differentiating specific methodological aspects of basic researches.
  6. Distinguishing ethnographic specificity and theoretical definitions of fields and concepts in the comparative processes.
  7. Effectively expressing themselves and applying the argumentative and textual processes of formal and scientific texts.
  8. Identifying main and supporting ideas and expressing them with linguistic correctness.
  9. Identifying the transcultural variability of economic, kinship, political, symbolic and cognitive, educational and gender systems as well as their corresponding anthropological theory.
  10. Providing a context for a research related to the state of its concerning anthropological theory .
  11. Recognising the ethical implications of the ethnological relationships established during the fieldwork internship.
  12. Recognising the ethical implications of the investigations aimed at basic objectives.
  13. Relating elements and factors involved in the development of scientific processes.
  14. Summarising acquired knowledge about the origin and transformations experienced in the several fields of anthropology.
  15. Summarizing the characteristics of a written text in accordance to its communicative purposes.
  16. Using suitable terminology when drawing up an academic text.

Content

The Seminar on Advanced Anthropological Theories and Research will be divided into three thematic blocks. The first one will be dedicated to make a first approach to the world of heritage and its relationship with anthropology and anthropologists today.

The second part of the subject will deal with a global phenomenon closely linked to heritage: cultural tourism. Tourism has recently been recognized as its role in the framework of sustainable development.

Thirdly, there will be a methodological purpose: we will review the design of a cultural project. It is a way to provide resources for students as they can achieve the technical level necessary to overcome the final work of the subject.

Methodology

1. Reading the proposed texts for all purposes, which shall be credited with the delivery of a small comment to the session at which they are discussed. The comment must include points that are selected for collective discussion.



2. The preparation in writing and presentation by each of the subgroups of classroom exercises that were specified at the beginning of the course on each of the blocks.



3. The realization and defence of a proposal for sociocultural intervention on an element, space or heritage institution, whether material or intangible.



Students' work will consist of participation in classes, showing a proactive attitude as members of the group with clear involvement in the papers, reading for the expected date the texts for classroom discussions, committing to the advancement of the intervention proposal and attending follow-up tutorials.

Activities

Title Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Type: Directed      
Assistance to conferences, with preparation prior to theoretical guidance and later discussion 10 0.4 1, 5, 2, 9, 4, 11, 13
Proposal of general reading texts, in their theoretical and methodological context 12 0.48 3, 10, 5, 6, 4, 14
Readings to be done by each group, in their disciplinary context and articulation with the readings made by the other groups 13 0.52 3, 10, 5, 6, 4, 13, 14
Theoretical classes, discussion of common readings and presentation of group works 45 1.8 1, 10, 7, 2, 12, 13, 14
Tutorials for groups 45 1.8 1, 3, 10, 5, 9, 13
Type: Supervised      
Elaboration of group work and preparation of a ppt or an audio-visual document for presentation in the classroom 50 2 7, 2, 8, 13, 14
Type: Autonomous      
Individual reading of texts and synthesis of basic and / or problematic topics for the, discussion in the classroom 40 1.6 5, 16, 9, 8, 4, 12, 15, 14
Preparation of individual essays that critically synthesize the main topics throughout the course, including those presented by the different groups. 40 1.6 10, 5, 6, 7, 16, 8, 12
• Individual reading of texts for later discussion in a group and presentation to the classroom. 45 1.8 10, 5, 6, 16, 9, 13, 15, 14

Assessment

It is a seminar with a high number of credits being mandatory presence and participation. In this sense, the purpose is to subdivide the class group to work in small groups to maximize peer learning and have more time for personal contribution.

The evaluation will be structured into three parts:

PART1 Mandatory Reading Reviews 30% reviews and debate

PART2 Group Activities 30% Practices

PART3 Individual Final Work 40% proposal for sociocultural intervention


A minimum of 3 follow-up tutorials will be made, which will be mandatory to validate the intervention proposal. Delivery date: January 2021.

If a student performs any irregularity that may lead to a significant variation in the qualification of an evaluation act, this act of assessment shall be graded with a zero, regardless of the disciplinary process that can be instructed. If ther are several irregularities in the evaluation acts of the same subject, the final qualification of this subject will be zero.

In the case that the tests cannot be done in person, their format (maintaining weighting) will be adapted to the possibilities offered by the virtual tools of the UAB. Homework, activities and class participation will be done through forums, wikis and/or exercise discussions by Teams, etc. The teacher will ensure that the student can access or offer alternative means.


Reevaluation

Only individual essays and individual projects may be reassessed, but not comments on the proposed texts for discussion of the classroom or group activities.

 

 

Assessment Activities

Title Weighting Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Elaboration and Presentation of two group work papers. The group's work process will be monitored in tutorial meetings. 25% 0 0 1, 3, 10, 5, 6, 7, 2, 16, 9, 8, 4, 12, 11, 13, 15, 14
Reading and discussion in the class-room of the texts proposed 40% 0 0 1, 10, 5, 6, 7, 2, 16, 9, 8, 4, 12, 15, 14
Realization of an individual essay on each of the blocks 25% 0 0 3, 10, 5, 6, 7, 16, 9, 8, 4, 12, 15, 14

Bibliography

BIBLIOGRAFIA 

 

PATRIMONI CULTURAL

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TURISME CULTURAL

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SANTANA, A. Antropología y turismo, ¿Nuevas hordas, viejas culturas? Barcelona: Ariel, 2006.


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CANDAU, Joël. 2002. Antropología de la memoria. Buenos Aires: Nueva Visión
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ETNOGRAFIA VIRTUAL


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