Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
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2500256 Social and Cultural Anthropology | FB | 1 | 1 |
“The subject 101277, Ethnographic Texts and Audiovisual Material, is taught in Catalan. There is no group entirely in Spanish”.
No specific requirements are needed to follow the course
This course develops basic training in Social and Cultural Anthropology. It is part of the "basic concepts and fields of anthropology" subject.
This course will anlyze concepts and classic fields of anthropology through ethnographic texts and audiovisual sources by placing descriptive and theoretical categories in the historical context of the discipline and by crititcally aprproaching stylistic resources of ethnographic documents.
After this course, the student will be able:
1. Culture, ethnography and otherness.
2. Audiovisual productions as ethnographic documents.
3. The historical contexts of ethnography. Contributions of ethnography to current social contexts.
4. Ethnographic approaches to systems of: subsistence, sex/gender, kinship, social control and beliefs.
Methodology:
Training activities:
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Type: Directed | |||
Lectures and analysis of textual, audiovisual and archival ethnographic documents | 42.5 | 1.7 | 10, 1, 6, 7, 8, 2, 11 |
Type: Supervised | |||
Tutoring | 4 | 0.16 | 6, 8 |
Type: Autonomous | |||
Individual study and preparation of essays | 39 | 1.56 | 10, 1, 6, 7, 8, 2, 11 |
Information search (archives, repositories...) | 20 | 0.8 | 6, 11 |
Reeading and documentary viewings | 20 | 0.8 | 10, 6, 7, 8 |
The evaluation of the subject will consist of four items:
Module 1: Group work. [35%]
Module 2: Co-evaluation by group members. [5%]. This module is excluded from re-assessment.
Module 3: Exam. [40%].
Module 4. Active participation and classroom activities. [20%]. This module is excluded from re-assessment.
Procedure for reviewing grades awarded.
Consideration of "Not avaluable."
Conditions for re-assessment.
The highest grade in a re-assessment exercise will be 5.
Other conditions.
Other general evaluation considerations.
Plagiarism
In the event of a student committing any irregularity that may lead to a significant variation in the grade awarded to an assessment activity, the student will be given a zero for this activity, regardless of any disciplinary process that may take place.
In the event of several irregularities in assessment activities of the same subject, the student will be given a zero as the final grade for this subject.
Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Active participation and classroom activities | 20% | 6 | 0.24 | 10, 1, 4, 6, 8, 2 |
Co-evaluation of group members | 5% | 1 | 0.04 | 9 |
Exam | 40% | 1.5 | 0.06 | 1, 5, 7, 2 |
Exercise, in group, of search and analysis of ethnographic information. | 35% | 16 | 0.64 | 10, 1, 8, 2, 11, 3 |
On-line database (only available form UAB-connected computers or those connecting via Virtual Private Network):
Compulsory monograph:
Additional compulsory readings:
Bibliografía general:
It is strongly advised to have a general anthropology handbook to follow the course. You can use, for example, any of the following list:
As for Anthropology dictionaries, you can use, among others, any of the following list:
Course filmography will be posted on Moodle at the beginning of the course.
Should any change be made, it will be promptly announced at the Moodle of the subject.
There is not specific software for this course.