Regional Ethnography (SZF_277)

The course offers an in-depth insight into how anthropologists have described and analysed societies of a particular world region, focusing on region-specific themes, social, cultural, political, and other processes, as well as key theoretical approaches. The course description is designed as a flexible framework whose content is specified by focusing on a particular region (for example, Regional Ethnography: the Baltics, Regional Ethnography: the Amazon Basin, etc.).The aim of the course is to introduce students to anthropological research characteristic of the selected region and to develop their ability to analyse social and cultural processes in a specific regional context using an ethnographic perspective, while also critically evaluating how anthropological knowledge about that region has been produced.During the course, students:become familiar with ethnographic studies of a particular region and their theoretical frameworks;analyse social, political, economic, and cultural processes that are significant for the region;reflect on the representation of the region in anthropological literature;develop a comparative perspective by relating regional empirical material to broader anthropological questions.