CURSO : TEORIA ANTROPOLOGICA III
TRADUCCION : ANTHROPOLOGICAL THEORY III
SIGLA : ANT160
CRÉDITOS : 10
MÓDULOS : 02
REQUISITOS : ANT100
CARÁCTER : MINIMO
DISCIPLINA : ANTROPOLOGIA
I. DESCRIPICION
Este curso ofrece una introduccion a la teoria de antropologia cultural tradicional y contemporanea con
particular enfasis en las teorias de ritualidad y simbolo, cultura y personalidad, antropologia fenomenologica
y teorias de la multi-culturalidad.
II. OBJETIVOS
1. Estudiar y comprender las teorias clasicas de la antropologia cultural.
2. Conocer y discutir criticamente los conceptos antropologicos de cultura, ritualidad y simbolo.
3. Comprender teorias antropologicas de fenomenologia, posmodernismo y globalizacion.
III. CONTENIDOS
1. Cultura y personalidad.
1.1 El concepto de Cultura.
1.2 Relativismo cultural.
1.3 Cultura, medio y lenguaje.
1.4 Cultura y psicologia.
15. Cultura y personalidad.
2. Ritualidad y simbolos.
2.1 Ritos de paso.
2.2 Fiesta, vida cotidiana y performance.
2.3 Ritualidad politica.
2.4 Cultura y simbolos.
2.5 El cuerpo como simbolo.
2.6 La cultura como simbolo.
3. Antropologia fenomenologica.
3.1 Fenomenologia.
3.2 Cuerpo y enfermedad.
3.3 Sufrimiento Social y violencia.
3.4 Antropologia posmoderna y estudios de globalizacion.
4. Cultura escrita.
4.1 Critica y representacion.
4.2 Antropologia de genero.
4.3 El estado-nacion.
4.4 Cultura y globalizacion.
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IV. METODOLOGIA
- Clases expositivas.
- Ayudantias.
V. EVALUACION
- 3 Pruebas escritas: 20% c/u
- Examen oral: 40%
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