2026/2027
Письмо и власть
Статус:
Майнор
Кто читает:
Департамент истории
Где читается:
Санкт-Петербургская школа гуманитарных наук и искусств
Охват аудитории:
для всех кампусов НИУ ВШЭ
Язык:
английский
Кредиты:
5
Course Syllabus
Abstract
This final paper of the social anthropology minor links two themes of this course. The first is political anthropology that looks at hierarchies and relations of power. The second is the linguistic turn (‘writing culture’) of the 1980s that marked a radical shift from ‘classical’ to ‘contemporary’ anthropology. It did so by looking not just the anthropology of home, rather than far away places, but also at the social and political relations between anthropologists and the people, communities and relationships that they studied. This put forward the relations of power between the observer and the observed, and also paved the way to the current prominence of such theorists as Foucault. This course takes this ‘home’ also by looking at case studies from Russia/Eastern Europe.
Learning Objectives
- This is a concluding course in the social anthropology minor. Its goal is to situate anthropological research in a broader landscape of social theory and to provide a comprehensive overlook of key anthropological theories.
Course Contents
- Main schools of anthropology in early 20th century.
- Fieldwork methods: examples and origins
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- Arnott R.J., McMillen D.P. A Companion to Urban Economics. John Wiley & Sons, 2006. 604 p.
- Scollon, Ron, and Scollon, Suzie Wong. Discourses in Place : Language in the Material World, Routledge, 2003. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/hselibrary-ebooks/detail.action?docID=172831.