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Regional Studies (ethnography) Caucasus
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:4.00
Study Course Accepted:05.02.2024 12:56:06
Study Course Information | |||||||||
Course Code: | KSK_231 | LQF level: | Level 7 | ||||||
Credit Points: | 4.00 | ECTS: | 6.00 | ||||||
Branch of Science: | Sociology; Social Anthropology | Target Audience: | Social Anthropology | ||||||
Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
Course Supervisor: | Susanne Christiane Helma Fehlings | ||||||||
Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
Structural Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences | ||||||||
The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
Contacts: | Dzirciema street 16, Rīga, szfrsu[pnkts]lv | ||||||||
Study Course Planning | |||||||||
Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
Lectures (count) | 6 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 12 | ||||
Classes (count) | 18 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 36 | ||||
Total Contact Hours | 48 | ||||||||
Study course description | |||||||||
Preliminary Knowledge: | General social science/humanities education at the Bachelor's level. | ||||||||
Objective: | To introduce students to the culture and history of the Caucasus region, paying attention to the common and distinct features in the numerous ethnic groups and communities of the region; as well as to introduce students to the most important directions in the anthropological study of the region. | ||||||||
Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
1 | Introduction | Lectures | 1.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||
2 | What is the Caucasus? | Classes | 1.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||
3 | Traditions and today | Lectures | 1.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||
Classes | 2.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||||
4 | Past values | Classes | 2.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||
5 | The gap between urban and rural | Lectures | 1.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||
Classes | 1.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||||
6 | Countries and citizenship | Classes | 2.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||
7 | Ethnic conflicts | Lectures | 1.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||
Classes | 1.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||||
8 | Work and the economy | Lectures | 1.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||
Classes | 1.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||||
9 | Trade and markets | Classes | 2.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||
10 | Informality | Classes | 1.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||
11 | Society, kinship and family | Lectures | 1.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||
Classes | 3.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||||
12 | Religion | Classes | 1.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||
13 | Migration | Classes | 1.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||
Assessment | |||||||||
Unaided Work: | Reading the mandatory literature, preparing written assignments and oral presentations. In order to evaluate the quality of the study course as a whole, the student must fill out the study course evaluation questionnaire on the Student Portal. | ||||||||
Assessment Criteria: | Seminar participation (50%), final essay (50%) | ||||||||
Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam (Written) | ||||||||
Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
Knowledge: | Knowledge about the most important aspects of the socio-anthropological study of the Caucasus region; knowledge about significant historical, social and political process in the Caucasus. | ||||||||
Skills: | As a result of learning the study course, students acquire the ability to use anthropological theories for conducting regional research, and the ability to argue their point of view in essays and seminars. | ||||||||
Competencies: | Ability to assess the studied material critically, apply the knowledge gained in the class to the interpretation and analysis of other materials, apply to the knowledge gained in the class in own research. | ||||||||
Bibliography | |||||||||
No. | Reference | ||||||||
Required Reading | |||||||||
1 | Anthropologies, Histories and the Making of a World Area. Berlin: LIT VERLAG | ||||||||
2 | Mühlfried, Florian. 2014. Being a state and states of being in highland Georgia. Oxford, New York: Berghahn Books. | ||||||||
3 | Parkes, Peter. 2007. "Milk kinship in Southeast Europe. Alternative social structures and foster relations in the Caucasus and the Balkans*". Social Anthropology 12 (3) (19. janvārī): 341–358. doi:10.1111/j.1469-8676.2004.tb00112.x. | ||||||||
4 | Yalçın-Heckmann, Lale. 2010. The Return of Private Property. Rural Life after Agrarian Reform in the Republic of Azerbaijan. Münster: LIT | ||||||||
5 | Dragadze, T. 1988. Rural Families in Soviet Georgia: A Case Study in Ratcha Province. London & New York: Routledge. | ||||||||
6 | Bruce G. & Yalçin-Heckmann, L. (eds.). 2007. Caucasus Paradigms: Anthropologies, Histories and the Making of a World Area. Halle Studies in the Anthropology of Eurasia | ||||||||
7 | Darieva, T. & Kaschuba, W. (eds.). 2007. Representations on the Margins of Europe: Politics and Identities in the Baltic and South Caucasus States. Frankfurt a. M. & New York: Campus Verlag. | ||||||||
8 | Shnirelman, V. A. 2001. The Value of the Past: Myths, Identity and Politics in Transcaucasia. Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology. | ||||||||
9 | Platz, S. 2000. ‘The Shape of National Time: Daily Life, Historym and Identity during Armenia’s Transition to Independence, 1991’. In Altering States: Ethnographies of Transition in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union, edited by D. Berdahl, M. | ||||||||
10 | Antonyan, Y. 2012. ‘The Armenian Intelligentsia Today: Discourses of Self-Identification and Self-Perception’. Laboratorium 4, 1: 76-100. | ||||||||
11 | Abrahamian, Levon. 2007. Troubles and Hopes – Armenian Family, Home and Nation. In: Darieva, Tsypylma & Kaschuba, Wolfgang (Hrsg.). 2007. Representations on the Margins of Europe: Politics and Identities in the Baltic and South Caucasus States. Frankfurt a. M. & New York: Campus Verlag: 267-281. | ||||||||
12 | Mühlfried, F. 2014. Being a State and States of Being. New York & Oxford. Berghahn: 51-63. | ||||||||
13 | Stefes, Christoph H. 2008. ‘Governance, the State, and Systemic Corruption: Armenia and Georgia in Comparison’. Caucasian Review of International Affaires 2, 2: 73-83. | ||||||||
14 | Voell, S. 2015. Moral Breakdown among the Georgian Svans: A Car Accident Mediated between Traditional and State Law. In S. Voell & I. Kaliszewska (Eds.), State and Legal Practice in the Caucasus: Anthropological Perspectives on Law and Politics. Farnham: Ashgate | ||||||||
15 | Grant, B. 2010. Cosmopolitan Baku. Ethnos 75, 2: 123-147. | ||||||||
16 | Yalcin-Heckmann, Lale. 2014. Informal Economy Writ Large and Small: From Azerbaijani Herb Traders to Moscow Shop Owners. In: Morris, Jeremy &Polese, Abel.The Informal Post-Socialist Economy: Embedded Practices and Liveliyhoods. London & New York: Routledge: Taylor & Francis Group: 165-186. |