Course Details
Country:
Netherlands
Institution:
Free University of Amsterdam
Course Title:
Challenges of the 21st Century
Course Number:
S_C21C
Course Description:
The aim of the courses is to make student familiar with the anthropological discipline, its key issues, the various conceptual approaches, the theoretical discussions and contemporary efforts to understand a contemporary world in turmoil. Basic concepts such as culture, socialisation, resistance, embodiment, and power, and how they developed throughout the history of the discipline and how they are applied in understanding and explaining contemporary societal issues. There are six central themes or recurring issues that will be revisited implicitly and explicitly in all three courses within the cluster. These themes are: 1) the nature of cultures, 2) the individual and society, 3) beliefs and belonging, 4) structure and agency, 5) the body and materiality, and 6) language and categorisations. Anthropologists have time and again addressed these six themes in different ways and under different circumstances. They constitute the basis for theoretical disagreements, methodological reflections, but also for assessing contemporary societal
Language:
English
Approved Equivalent:
ANTH 396
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