Basic Anthropological Concepts
Study Cycle: 1
Lectures: 30
Seminars: 0
Tutorials: 0
ECTS credit: 3
Lecturer(s): prof. dr. Muršič Rajko
The course introduces basic anthropological concepts: culture, symbolic, social structure, evolution and humanity, experience and practice, sensuality.
Culture: Historical overview of the notion of culture and etymological layers of its meaning. Critique of the concept of culture and basic kinds of its understanding and definitions. Culture as a way of life and habitus.
Symbolic: Culture as a symbolic sphere. Sign(icon, index, and symbol); and symbolic communication. Semiological understanding of subjectivation processes.
Social structure: Socialization, initialization and inculturation.
Evolution and humanity: Coevolution of human culture and nature. Category of humankind as biocultural whole.
Experience and practice: pragmatism, theories of practice.
Sensuality: cultural conditioning of sensory perception and sensodial conditioning of social practices.
1. Fuentes, Agustin, 2022, Race, Monogamy, and Other Lies They Told You: Busting Myths about Human Nature. Oakland: University of California Press. [COBISS.SI-ID - 119982595]
2. Brightman, Robert, 1995, Forget Culture: Replacement, Transcendence, Relexification. Cultural Anthropology 10(4). Str. 509-546. [COBISS.SI-ID - 589077]; https://www.jstor.org/stable/656256
3. Edgar, Andrew in Peter Sedgwick, 1999, Key Concepts in Cultural Theory. London in New York: Routledge. (pogl. Koncept kulture, 5 strani) [COBISS.SI-ID - 22259042]
4. Keesing, Roger M., 1993 (1990), Ponovno o teorijah kulture. Antropološki zvezki 3. Str. 23-32. [COBISS.SI-ID - 38766336]
5. Mauss, Marcel, 1996, Esej o daru in drugi spisi. Ljubljana: ŠKUC, Filozofska fakulteta. . [COBISS.SI-ID - 60090112]
6. Howes, David in Constance Classen, 2014, Ways of sensing: understanding the senses in society. London; New York: Routledge. [COBISS.SI-ID - 1750918]
7. Marks, Jonathan, 2015, Tales of the ex-apes: how we think about human evolution. Oakland, California: University of California Press. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=e000xww&AN=10232…
8. Roberts, Simon, 2020, The power of Not Thinking: How Our Bodies Learn and Why We Should Trust Them. London: 535 - Blink Publishing.