Diverse approaches which have a persistent influence on anthropology literature from the second half of 20th-century to the present.
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Course Learning Outcomes
Learning Outcomes | Teaching Methods | Assessment Methods |
1-Students will have a grasp of the contemporary Debates in anthropology | 1,2,5,8 | A, C |
2-Students will acquire a capability of conceptual thinking | 1,2,5,8 | A, C |
3-Students will learn the channels from which they can follow Current developments in anthropology literature. | 1,2,5,8 | A, C |
4-Students will learn the new research techniques. | 1,2,5,8 | A, C |
5-Students will learn the contemporary ethnography applications. | 1,2,5,8 | A, C |
6-Students will recognise social scientists who contributed to the anthropology literatüre. | 1,2,5,8 | A, C |
Course Flow
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Introduction to the Lecture |
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Praxis Theory: The Contributions of Pierre Bourdieu |
Jan Blommaert. (2005). Bourdieu the Ethnographer the Ethnographic Grounding of Habitus and Voice. The Translator, 11(2), 219-236. Loïc Wacquant. (2004). Following Pierre Bourdieu into the Field. Ethnography, 5(4), 387-414. Pierre Bourdieu. (1961). The Algerians. Boston: Beacon Press. Pierre Bourdieu. (1979). Algeria 1960. Cambridge, London, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. Pierre Bourdieu. (1986). The Forms of Capital. J. G. Richardson (Ed.), Handbook of Theory and Research for the Sociology of Education. New York: Greenwood Press. Pierre Lamaison, Pierre Bourdieu. (1986). From Rules to Strategies: An Interview with Pierre Bourdieu. Cultural Anthropology, 1(1), 110-120. Richard Jenkins. (2006). Pierre Bourdieu. London and New York: Routledge. Sherry B. Ortner. (1984). Theory in Anthropology since the Sixties. Comparative Studies in Society and History, 26(1), 126-166. Sherry B. Ortner. (2006). Anthropology and Social Theory Culture, Power, and the Acting Subject. Durham and London: Duke University Press; pp. 1-18.
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Praxis Theory: Sherry Beth Ortner |
Sherry B. Ortner. (1984). Theory in Anthropology since the Sixties. Comparative Studies in Society and History, 26(1), 126-166. Sherry B. Ortner. (2005). Subjectivity and Cultural Critique. Anthropological Theory, 5(1), 31-52. Sherry B. Ortner. (2006). Anthropology and Social Theory Culture, Power, and the Acting Subject. Durham and London: Duke University Press. Sherry B. Ortner. (2016). Dark Anthropology and its Others Theory since the Eighties. Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 6(1), 47-73. T. M. S. Evens and Don Handelman. (2005). The Etnographic Praxis of the Theory of Practice. Social Analysis, 49(3), 1-11. Ulf Hannerz. (1986). Theory in Anthropology: Small is Beautiful? The Problem of Complex Cultures. Comparative Studies in Society and History, 28(2), 362-367.
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Praxis Theory: Loic Wacquant and Territorial Stigmatization |
Loïc Wacquant. (2008). Urban Outcasts a Comparative Sociology of Advanced Marginality. Cambridge: Polity. Loïc Wacquant. (2007). Territorial Stigmatization in the Age of Advanced Marginality. Thesis Eleven, 91, 66-77.
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Anthropology and Postmodern Challenge |
James Clifford. (1986). Introduction: Partial Truths. James Clifford, George Marcus (Eds). Writing Culture the Poetics and Politics of Ethnography (pp. 1-26). Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press. Marvin Harris. (1999). Theories of Culture in Postmodern Times. London, New Delhi: Altamira Press. Pp. 153-160 Melford E. Spiro. (1996). Postmodernist Anthropology, Subjectivity, and Science: A Modernist Critique. Comparative Studies in Society and History, 38(4), 756-780. Paul Smith. (1989). Writing, General Knowledge, and Posmodern Anthropology. Discourse, 11(2), pp. 158-171. Robert C. Ulin. (1991). Criticial Anthropology Twenty Years Later Modernism and Postmodernism in Anthropology. Critique of Anthropology, 11(1), 63-89. Rosalind C. Morris. (2007). Legacies of Derrida: Anthropology. The Annual Review of Anthropology, 36, 355-389. Sherry B. Ortner. (2016). Dark Anthropology and its Others Theory since the Eighties. Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 6(1), 47-73. Stephen Linstead. (1993). From Postmodern Anthropology to Deconstructive Etnography. Human Relations, 46(1), 97-120.
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Historical Anthropology Today |
Charles Tilly. (1978). Anthropology, History and the Annales. CRSO Working Paper 173. Michigan. Cherly Rodriguez, Yvette Baber. (2007). Reconstructing a Community through Archival Research. Michael V. Angrosino (ed.), Doing Cultural Anthropology Projects for Ethnographic Data Collection. Illinois: Waveland Press, Inc. Clifford Geertz. (1990). History and Anthropology. New Literary History, 21 (2), 321-335. David M. Anderson, Douglas H. Johnson. (1991). Diviners, Seers and Spirits in Eastern Africa: Towards an Historical Anthropology. Africa, 61(3), 293-298. Don Kalb, Hans Marks, Herman Tak. (1996). Historical Anthropology and Anthropological History: Two Distinct Programs. Focaal, 26/27, 5-13. Gunter Gebauer, Christoph Gulf. (2009). After the ‘Death of Man’: From Philosphical Anthropology to Historical Anthropology. Iris, I, 171-186. James D. Faubion. (1993). History in Anthropology. Annual Review of Anthropology, 22, 35-54. |
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Midterm |
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Globalization versus World-System |
David Graeber. The Anthropology of Globalization (with Notes on Neomedievalism, and the End of Chinese Model of the Nation-State). American Anthropologist, 104(4), 1222-1227. Hans Peter Hahn. (2008). Diffusionism, Appropriation, and Globalization Some Remarks on Current Debates in Anthropology. Anthropos, 103, 191-202 Ted C. Lewellen. (2002). The Anthropology of Globalization. Westport, Connecticut, London: Bergin & Garvey. |
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Arjun Appadurai: Global Ethnoscapes |
Arjun Appadurai. Disjunction and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy. Meenakshi Gigi Durham, Douglas M. Kellner (eds.), Media and Cultural Studies Keyworks (584-603). Malden: Blackwell Publishing. Arjun Appadurai. (1998). Dead Certainty: Ethnic Violence in the Era of Globalization. Nēthrā, 2(2), 1-31. Arjun Appadurai. (2000). Grassroots Globalization and the Research Imagination. Public Culture, 12(1), 1-19. Arjun Appadurai. (2003). Illusion of Permanence: Interview with Arjun Appadurai by Perspecta 34. Perspecta, 34, 44-52. Terhi Rantanen. (2006). A Mand Behind Scapes an Interview with Arjun Appadurai. Global Media and Communication, 2(1), 7-19.
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Feminist Anthropology in the Postmodern Era |
Frances E. Mascia-Lees, Patricia Sharpe, and Colleen Ballerino Cohen. (1989). The Postmodernist Turn in Anthropology: Cautions from a Feminist Perspective. Signs, 15(1), 7-33.
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Contemporary Evolutionism |
Chris Knight. (2007). Revising Matrilineal Priority.Émergence et évolution de la parenté. Paris: Éditions Rue d’Ulm/Presses de l’École normale supérieure, 25-43. Chris Knight. (2008). Early Human Kinship was Matrilineal?. N. J. Allen, H. Callan, R. Dunbar, W. James (Eds.), Early Human Kinship (61-82). Oxford: Blackwell. Mhairi A. Gibson, Dawid W. Lawson. (2015). Applying Evolutionary Anthropology. Evolutionary Anthropology, 24, 3-14. Warren Shapiro. (2009). A (P)lot of Marxist Crop: A Review Article. International Journal of Sociology of the Family, 35(1), 123-141.
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Cultural Studies and Anthropology |
Paul Willis. (1997). Theoretically Informed Ethnographic Study. Stephen Nugent, Cris Shore (Eds.) Anthropology and Cultural Studies (182-192). London: Pluto Press. Signe Howell. (1997). Cultural Studies and Social Anthropology: Contesting or Complementary Discourses. Stephen Nugent, Cris Shore (Eds.) Anthropology and Cultural Studies (103-125). London: Pluto Press. Stephen Nugent. (1997). Brother, Can you Share a Paradigm?. Stephen Nugent, Cris Shore (Eds.) Anthropology and Cultural Studies (1-10). London: Pluto Press
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Cyborg Anthropology |
Antonio Sandu. (2015). The Anthropology of Immortality and the Crisis of Posthuman Conscience. Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies, 14 (40), 3-26. Gary Lee Downey, Joseph Dumit, Sarah Williams. (1995). Cyborg Anthropology. Cultural Anthropology, 10(2), 264-265. Neil L. Whitehead, Michael Wesch. (2009). Human No More Digital Subjectivities in a Post-Human Anthropology. In Focus, Anthropology News, December, 12. Neil L. Whitehead. (2009). Post-Human Anthropology. Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, 16, 1-32.
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Do we still Need Anthropology? |
Immanuel Wallerstein. (2003). Anthropology, Sociology, and Other Dubious Disciplines. Current Anthropology, 44(4), 453-465. P. Steven Sangren. (2007). Anthropology of Anthropology?: Further Reflections on Reflexivity. Anthropology Today, 23 (4), 13-16.
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Final Exam |
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Assessment
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Course’s Contribution to Program
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The student learns about the cultural and physical development of human beings throughout history, the basic terminology of Anthropology and its basic theories. |
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The student gains the ability to think analytically and approach topics from a critical perspective |
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The student gains the ability to convey information effectively both in oral and written manners. |
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The student gains an occupational ethics, social ethics, and a social responsibility. |
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The student gains the ability to interpret cultural and historical dynamics, the cultural characteristics of Turkish culture and world cultures, analyzing the culture phenomenon and its intricate dynamics. |
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The students maintains an occupational and personal development beyond the understanding of the world and nation problems. |
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The student gains an ability to make use of the sources outside of the discipline and make this a life-long ability. |
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The student gains the ability to designate a research topic in line with anthropological guidelines and form the required methodology. |
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The student will gain the ability to question scientific and societal problems, being able to take part in individual and team projects. |
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