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About Study Course

Credit points / ECTS:4 / 6
Course supervisor:Ieva Puzo
Course level:Master's
Target audience:Social Anthropology
Branch of science:Sociology; Social Anthropology

Objective

1) Familiarizing students to current debates in the anthropology of Central-Eastern Europe; discussing the specificity of the region and also deconstructing homogenising approaches.
2) Enabling students to draw on insights from the anthropology of post-socialism, economic anthropology and political economy in order to explain encounters with global capitalism in the region and gaining a critical view on the transformations and continuities in its social relations.
3) The course will put an emphasis on new ethnographies of food and agriculture, as this is an arena where competing value and practices of transforming CEE societies are most visible.

Prerequisites

N/A

Learning outcomes

Knowledge

Ability to critically assess popular discourses on Central and Eastern Europe; to explain the theoretical concepts introduced during the course; to use the studied theoretical and ethnographic concepts in one's own research.

Skills

Acquisition and honing of theoretical analysis skills, written and oral presentation skills, based on the newly acquired theoretical knowledge and empirical observations.

Competence

Critical assessment of the theoretical and empirical material introduced during the course; use of these materials in the interpretation and analysis of other theoretical and empirical materials; reliance on the covered material in research and solving practical problems.

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