Syllabus
Week 1: Introduction
Week 2: The Concept of Culture.
Week 3: Culture and Nature.
Week 4: Language and The linguistic landscape
Week 5: Cultural construction of Gender
Week 6: Drawing as a research tool
Week 7: Photography and its Objectivity
Week 8: Culture Change, Migration, and Globalization
Week 9: Colonialism and the Question of Veiling.
Week 10: Who owns culture?
Week 11: Doing fieldwork - ethnography
Week 12: Final Summary
Annotation
The subject of the course is an introduction to the study of culture, especially from an anthropological perspective. The course will address not only the basic topics (language, cultural change, social constructivism, etc.), but will also focus on some specialized issues (drawing as a research tool, etc.).
The course also includes an introduction to the use of ethnography as a research methodology. In the course, the lecturer builds on his field experience gained in New Guinea, the Philippines and India.