History of Classic Anthropology
Objectives
The curricular unit aims to provide solid reference points for classical or modern anthropology and its historical background. It is intended that students:
a) acquire knowledge of texts and figures that marked the development of anthropological theory and practice until the 1950s, contextualizing them historically and equating their timeless and founding legacy;
b) comparatively identify the pioneering "paradigms" of anthropology and develop familiarity with the different sensibilties of pre-modern and modern anthropology;
c) perceive the connections between anthropological theory and the methods and contents of ethnographic observation;
d) reflect on the ethical and heritage dimensions of classical anthropology, both in its vernacular and collaborative aspects and in its colonial implications;
e) understand the referential role of the history of anthropology in the identity and construction of anthropological knowledge.
General characterization
Code
01105730
Credits
6.0
Responsible teacher
Frederico Delgado Chaves Rosa
Hours
Weekly - 4
Total - 168
Teaching language
Portuguese
Prerequisites
Available soon
Bibliography
- Darnell, R., 2001. Invisible Genealogies. A History of Americanist Anthropology. Lincoln, London: University of Nebraska Press
- Erickesen, T. H. and F. S. Sivert Nielsen. 2001. A History of Anthropology . London: Pluto Press.
- Kohl, K-H., 2003. "The Future of Anthropology Lies in Its Own Past: A Plea for the Ethnographic Archive", Social Research, 81 (3): 555-70
- Kuklick, H. (ed.), 2008. A New History of Anthropology. Malden, Oxford, Carlton: Blackwell Publishing.
- Stocking, Jr., G. W., 1995. After Tylor. British Social Anthropology 1888-1951. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press.
- Singh, B. & J. I. Guyer. 2016. "Introduction: A Joyful History of Anthropology", Hau, 6 (2): 197–211.
- Stocking, Jr., G. W.. 1996. Volksgeist as Method and Ethic. Essays on Boasian Ethnography and the German Anthropological Tradition.Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press.
- Young, Michael. 2019. "O Jasão da Antropologia", in BEROSE International Encyclopaedia of the Histories of Anthropology, Paris.
Teaching method
Courses follow a theoretical-practical methodology. In each course, there is a first moment of presentation of key ideas by the teacher, with the help of a powerpoint show with selected quotations and images, in open interaction with the students through questions, comments and free interventions. In a second moment, which may cross the first presentation, students are invited to analyse in more detail, through a collective discussion, certain passages or other contents which permit to deepen the subjects previously exposed in a synthetic way; and also also to make brief group exercises of analysis and interpretation. In some courses, a third moment is dedicated to debating.
Evaluation method
Continuous assessment - Evaluation is based on two written tests e and on brief exercises made in class, although students may choose as an alternative a single global written test(100%)
Subject matter
1. introduction: why study the disciplinary past?
2. Roots of Anthropology: from the Enlightenment to Romanticism
3. Evolutionism, exoticism and folklore: deep diachronies
4. Nineteenth century queries and ethnographies
5. Religion and magic in Durkheimian school
6. European diffusionism: ethnology as "cultural history"
7. Bronislaw Malinowski: the modern anthropologist as hero
8. Before and after Franz Boas: vernacular priorities of the Americanist tradition
9. Landmarks and transformations of British social anthropology
10. Histories of French anthropology after Marcel Mauss
11. A colonial science? The 1960s and the critique of classical anthropology
12. Other anthropologies: marginal traditions and excluded ancestors