POLITICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

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1 COURSE OUTLINE (1) GENERAL SCHOOL SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES ACADEMIC UNIT DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY AND HISTORY LEVEL OF STUDIES UNDERGRADUATE COURSE CODE SΑ-151 SEMESTER E COURSE TITLE POLITICAL ANTHROPOLOGY INDEPENDENT TEACHING ACTIVITIES if credits are awarded for separate components of the course, e.g. lectures, laboratory exercises, etc. If the credits are awarded for the whole of the course, give the weekly teaching hours and the total credits WEEKLY TEACHING HOURS CREDITS 3 6 Add rows if necessary. The organisation of teaching and the teaching methods used are described in detail at (d). COURSE TYPE general background, special background, specialised general knowledge, skills development PREREQUISITE COURSES: SPECIALIZED GENERAL KNOWLEDGE NONE LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION and EXAMINATIONS: IS THE COURSE OFFERED TO ERASMUS STUDENTS COURSE WEBSITE (URL) GREEK YES (2) LEARNING OUTCOMES Learning outcomes The course learning outcomes, specific knowledge, skills and competences of an appropriate level, which the students will acquire with the successful completion of the course are described. Consult Appendix A Description of the level of learning outcomes for each qualifications cycle, according to the Qualifications Framework of the European Higher Education Area Descriptors for Levels 6, 7 & 8 of the European Qualifications Framework for Lifelong Learning and Appendix B Guidelines for writing Learning Outcomes Students are expected to familiarise themselves with the basic concepts, with which the subfield of political anthropology today analyses political relations. The course aims to highlights some of the central fields, around which the anthropological discussion on the political is being organised and to help students understand the different and multiple forms that political relations attain both in traditional and modern societies. General Competences Taking into consideration the general competences that the degree-holder must acquire (as these appear in the Diploma Supplement and appear below), at which of the following does the course aim? Search for, analysis and synthesis of data and information, with the use of the necessary technology Adapting to new situations Decision-making Project planning and management Respect for difference and multiculturalism Respect for the natural environment Showing social, professional and ethical responsibility and

2 Working independently Team work Working in an international environment Working in an interdisciplinary environment Production of new research ideas sensitivity to gender issues Criticism and self-criticism Production of free, creative and inductive thinking Others. Search for, analysis and synthesis of data and information, with the use of the necessary technology. Criticism and self-criticism. Production of free, creative and inductive thinking. (3) SYLLABUS The course aims to familiarise students with the basic concepts that the subfield of Political Anthropology today analyses forms of political relations, both in traditional and modern societies. The lectures are being organised around specific fields of interest such as resistance, nation and nationalism, the state and civil society, gender, globalization and social movements. The concluding lecture aims to highlight the discussion of the political dimensions of the production of the anthropological knowledge.

3 (4) TEACHING and LEARNING METHODS - EVALUATION DELIVERY Face-to-face, Distance learning, etc. USE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY Use of ICT in teaching, laboratory education, communication with students TEACHING METHODS The manner and methods of teaching are described in detail. Lectures, seminars, laboratory practice, fieldwork, study and analysis of bibliography, tutorials, placements, clinical practice, art workshop, interactive teaching, educational visits, project, essay writing, artistic creativity, etc. Face-to-face Use of ICT in teaching and communication with students Activity Semester workload Lectures 39 Personal study 108 End of semester exam 3 Course total 150 The student's study hours for each learning activity are given as well as the hours of nondirected study according to the principles of the ECTS STUDENT PERFORMANCE EVALUATION Description of the evaluation procedure Language of evaluation, methods of evaluation, summative or conclusive, multiple choice questionnaires, short-answer questions, open-ended questions, problem solving, written work, essay/report, oral examination, public presentation, laboratory work, clinical examination of patient, art interpretation, other Language of evaluation: Greek Final Written Exams Optional Presentations in class Specifically-defined evaluation criteria are given, and if and where they are accessible to students. (5) ATTACHED BIBLIOGRAPHY - Suggested bibliography: Gledhill, John, Οι μεταμφιέσεις της εξουσίας. Αλεξάνδρεια: Αθήνα Lewellen, C. Ted, Πολιτική Ανθρωπολογία: Μία εισαγωγή. Κριτική: Αθήνα J. Vincent, Political anthropology, στο A. Barnard και J. Spencer, Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Routledge. N. Dirks, G. Eley και S. Ortner (edts), Introduction στο Culture / Power / History, Princeton University Press. Α. Kuper, Ανθρωπολογία και Ανθρωπολόγοι, Εκδόσεις Καστανιώτη. G. Balandier, Πολιτική ανθρωπολογία, Εκδόσεις Παπαζήσης. E. Evans-Pritchard, The Nuer: A Description of the Modes of Livelihood and Political Institutions of a Nilotic People, Clarendon Press. E. Leach, Political systems of Highland Burma, Athlone Press. J. Woodburn, African hunter-gatherer social organisation: is it best understood as a product of encapsulation?, στο T. Ingold, D. Riches και J. Woodburn (επιμ.), Hunter and Gatherers, Berg. Β. Morris, Anthropological Studies of Religion, Cambridge University Press. V. Turner, Dramas, Fields and Metaphors: Sympolic Action in Human Society, Cornell Univeristy Press.

4 M. Bloch, Prey into Hunter: The Politics of Religious Experience, Cambridge University Press. N. Dirks, Ritual and resistance: subversion as a social fact στο N. Dirks, G. Eley και S. Ortner (edts), Culture / Power/ History, Princeton University Press. J. Comaroff, Body of Power and Spirit of Resistance, University of Chicago Press. R. Keesing, Custon and Confrontation: The Kwaio Struggle for Cutlural Autonomy, Univeristy of Chicago Press. L. Rival, Prey at the centre: resistance and marginality in Amazonia στο S. Day, E. Papataxiarchis και M. Stewart (edts.), Lilies of the Field: Marginal People who live for the moment, Westview. M. Sahlins, Historical Metaphors and Mythical Realities, University of Michigan Press. M. Sahlins, How Natives Think, About Captain Cook for Example, University of Chicago Press, 1995 Ν. Τhomas, Taking people seriously, Critique of Anthropology 9: 59-69, 1989 Ε. Παπαταξιάρχης, Συναντήσεις στον Ειρηνικό: Δομή και συμβάν στην ανθρωπολογική ιστορία, στο Δ. Μαδιανού (επιμ.), Ανθρωπολογική θεωρία και Εθνογραφία, Ελληνικά Γράμματα. L. Danforth, Η μακεδονική διαμάχη, Εκδόσεις Αλεξάνδρεια. Γ. Αγγελόπουλος, «Εθνοτικές ομάδες και ταυτότητες.. Οι όροι, η εξέλιξη της σημασίας και του περιεχομένου τους». Σύγχρονα Θέματα (63): Β. Anderson, Φαντασιακές Κοινότητες. Νεφέλη. Μ. Bankus, Εθνοτισμός: Ανθρωπολογικές κατασκευές. Ελληνικά Γράμμαρα. Φ.Τσιμπιρίδου, 2006 «Πως μπορεί κανείς να είναι Πομάκος» στην Ελλάδα Σήμερα; Αναστοχασμοί για ηγεμονικές πολιτικές σε περιθωριακούς πληθυσμούς», στο Ε.Παπαταξιάρχη (επιμ.), Περιπέτειες της Ετερότητας: Η παραγωγή της πολιτισμικής διαφοράς στη σημερινή Ελλάδα. Αλεξάνδρεια. T. Eriksen, Ethnicity and Nationalism: Anthropological Perspectives, Pluto Press. Κ. Ροζάκου, Ε. Γκαρά και Γ. Γιαννιστσιώτης, «Εισαγωγή. Τόποι του πολιτικού: Δημόσια κοινωνικότητα και βία στην Ελλάδα» στο Κ. Ροζάκου και Ε. Γκαρά (επιμ.), Ελληνικά παράδοξα: Πατρωνία, κοινωνία πολιτών και βία, Αλεξάνδρεια. Μ. Κομνημού, και Ε. Παπαταξιάρχης (επιμ.), Κοινότητα, κοινωνία και ιδεολογία. Ο Κωνσταντίνος Καραβίδας και η προβληματική των κοινωνικών επιστημών. M. Herzfeld, The Social Production of Indifference: Exploring the Symbolic Roots of Western Bureaucracy, Σικάγο, The University of Chicago Press. Sharma, A., & Gupta, A. (Eds.). (2009). The anthropology of the state: a reader. John Wiley & Sons. J. Harriss, Civil Society and Politics: An Anthropological Perspective, στο I. Clark-Decès (edt), A Companion to the Anthropology of India, Wiley-Blackwell. C. Calhoun, Civil Society and the Public Sphere, στο Michael Edwards (επιμ.), TheOxford Handbook of Civil Society. Oxford. Α. Gupta, Blured boundaries: The discourse of corruption, the culture of politics, and the imagined state, American Ethnologist 22: C. White, Patrons and Partisans: A Study of Politics in Two Southern Italian Communi, Cambridge University Press. J. Campbell, Honour, Family and Patronage, Oxford University Press.

5 C. Mouffe, «Ο φεμινισμός, η έννοια του πολίτη και η ριζοσπαστική δημοκρατική πολιτική», στο Α. Αθανασίου, Φεμινιστική θεωρία και πολιτισμική κριτική, Αθήνα. Α. Αθανασίου, «Οι λόγοι της "μαντίλας": Φύλο, σεξουαλικότητα, έθνος και η μεταφορά της "άλλης γυναίκας"», Το Βήμα των Κοινωνικών Επιστημών 44: Κ. Γιαννακόπουλος (επιμ.), Σεξουαλικότητα. Θεωρίες και πολιτικές της ανθρωπολογίας, Αλεξάνδρεια. L. Alcoff, Cultural feminism versus post-structuralism, στο N. Dirks, G. Eley και S. Ortner (επιμ.), Culture / Power / History, Princeton University Press. Ν. Σερεμετάκη, 2006, Τοξικές ομορφιές: Ιατρική, μέσα ενημέρωσης και η κατανάλωση του σώματος στην υπερεθνική Ευρώπη, Νεα Κοινωνιολογία 42: Appadurai, Grassroots Globalization and the Research Imagination στο J. Vincent (edt) The Anthropology of Politics. A reader in ethnography, theory and practice. Blackwell Publishing. M. Edelman, Peasants against globalisation, στο J. Vincent (edt) The Anthropology of Politics. A reader in ethnography, theory and practice. Blackwell Publishing. S. Saskia, The Global City στο D.Nugent και J.Vincent (eds), A Companion to the Anthropology of Politics. Blackwell Publishing. J. Friedman, Globalisation, στο D.Nugent και J.Vincent (eds), A Companion to the Anthropology of Politics. Blackwell Publishing. S. Duval, «Νέες μαντίλες και νέες φωνές: Γυναικεία ισλαμιστικά κινήματα στην Αίγυπτο», στο Φ.Τσιμπιρίδου (επ), Μουσουλμάνες της Ανατολής. Κριτική. Μ. Ψημίτης, Εισαγωγή στα Σύγχρονα Κοινωνικά Κινήματα. Διάδραση. Α. Escobar, Culture, Practice and Politics; Anthropology and the Study of Social Movements. Critique of Anthropology 12(4): J. Nash (edt), Social Movements: An Anthropological Reader. Blackwell Publishing. T. Salman και Willem Assies, Anthropology and the study of social movements στο B. Klandermans και C. Roggeband (επιμ.), Handbook of social movements across disciplines. Springer. E. Παπαταξιάρχης, Για την ανθρωπολογία σήμερα: Θέσεις, αμφισβητήσεις, αναθεωρήσεις, Διαβάζω 323, 1993 J. Clifford & G. Marcus (επιμ.), Writing Culture. The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography, University of California Press. G. Marcus & M. Fischer, Anthropology as Cultural Critique. An experimental moment in the human sciences, The University of Chicago Press. R. Fox (edt), Recapturing Anthropology: working in the present. Santa Fe.