Anthropology of Kinship and Gender

2025/2026

Учебный год

ENG

Обучение ведется на английском языке

Кредиты

Кто читает:

Департамент истории

Статус:

Майнор

Когда читается:

Преподаватели

Рахманова Лидия Яковлевна

Рыжков Алексей Маркович

Ссорин-Чайков Николай Владимирович

Course Syllabus

Abstract

Social anthropology explores social and cultural diversity of contemporary world drawing on a distinct research method of ethnography — an in-depth participant observation of human communities and institutions. This English language-taught minor offers a project-oriented introduction to contemporary theories and methods of social anthropology. It does so by looking at anthropology’s foundational problematic of kinship and gender — the topics formed the core of anthropology since its inception and constitute vibrant fields of study today. The aim of the course is thus both to convey one of the state-of-the-art areas of anthropological research while also serving as a window into the history of anthropology.

Learning Objectives

• be able not only read key ethnographies, but also make an individual research, based on the unique ethnographic experience, applying the skills learnt through the course.

Expected Learning Outcomes

• Able to learn and demonstrate skills in the field, other than the major field
• A student knows the history of the discipline and subfields
• interpret the specificity of research methods of social anthropology
• interprets goals and scope of the discipline
• A student interprets the state of the art in contemporary anthropology

Course Contents

• What is anthropology?
• Main schools of anthropology in early 20th century.
• Gender and kinship: not nature
• Kinship

Assessment Elements

• Project essay
  не блокирует
• Final essay exam

Interim Assessment

• 2025/2026 2nd module
  0.5 * Final essay exam + 0.5 * Project essay

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

• Croce, N. (2016). Anthropology. New York: Britannica Educational Publishing. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1151423
• Ingold, T. (2018). Anthropology : Why It Matters. Medford: Polity. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1801558

Authors

• Ssorin-Chaikov Nikolai Vladimirovich
• Nevskii Andrei VLADIMIROVICH