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Cultural Studies

Class at Faculty of Social Sciences |
JKM127

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.