Note from June 29, 2020
Although we do not yet know how long the social distancing related to the Covid-19 pandemic will last, and regardless of the changes that had to be made in the evaluation of the June 2020 session in relation to what is provided for in this learning unit description, new learnig unit evaluation methods may still be adopted by the teachers; details of these methods have been - or will be - communicated to the students by the teachers, as soon as possible.
Although we do not yet know how long the social distancing related to the Covid-19 pandemic will last, and regardless of the changes that had to be made in the evaluation of the June 2020 session in relation to what is provided for in this learning unit description, new learnig unit evaluation methods may still be adopted by the teachers; details of these methods have been - or will be - communicated to the students by the teachers, as soon as possible.
4 credits
20.0 h
Q1
Teacher(s)
Laurent Pierre-Joseph;
Language
French
Main themes
In the light of work undertaken in the Laboratory for Prospective Anthropology, a basic issue will be examined such as systems of belief, death, relations between man , animals and the world at large, human identity, kinship, gender, territory, objects, virtual reality, violence, beauty, art, language, exchange, law and order. The fundamental options of anthropology together with ongoing debates will be woven around the theme chosen thus allowing for a contextualised presentation of disciplinary and interdisciplinary issues be they resolved or still at stake in such matters as natural sciences, ecology, ethology, ethnology, genetics, linguistics, paleoanthropology, archaeology, psychology and philosophy.
Aims
At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to : | |
1. | Find his way through the debated fields of contemporary anthropology. |
2. | Personally treat a basic anthropological issue. |
3. | Critically examine anthropological discourse as resulting from diverse currents, thanks to an historical perspective on the cultural causes and conditions underpinning it as well as on the trends making today for its unity in the light of overarching themes such as Nature, the Psyche, social Bonding. |
The contribution of this Teaching Unit to the development and command of the skills and learning outcomes of the programme(s) can be accessed at the end of this sheet, in the section entitled “Programmes/courses offering this Teaching Unit”.
Content
Lectures centred on a key work by a major theoretical anthropologist will detail chapter by chapter the author's position (now and then) together with the trends influencing him and the debates aroused.
Lectures will also highlight the research and epistemological issues encountered by the author - themes will be treated in keeping with the lecturer's ethnological experiences in Africa
Pedagogically each intervention follows this pattern: 1. during the week prior to the lecture, the reading of the chapter concerned together with supple-mentary texts; 2. sharing of opinions and synthesis by the teacher followed by a synthesis; 3. the lecture
On occasion ethnographic films will be projected.
Other information
Pré-requis : connaissances du premier cycle en sciences humaines et sociales
Evaluation : Ce cours sera évalué selon les modalités des cours faisant partie du jury (cf. master en anthropolo-gie)
Livre de référence obligatoire et articles scientifiques
Encadrement : Professeur
Autres : Synthèse du cours et suivi des étudiants par icampus.
Faculty or entity
PSAD
Programmes / formations proposant cette unité d'enseignement (UE)
Title of the programme
Sigle
Credits
Prerequisites
Aims
Master [120] in French and Romance Languages and Literatures : French as a Foreign Language
Master [60] in Sociology and Anthropology
Master [60] in Philosophy
Master [120] in History of Art and Archaeology : General
Master [120] in Philosophy
Master [120] in Anthropology