3rd Bachelor in Social Services

Anthropology

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ECTS Credits2
Number of Hours (h/year)30
Teaching staffBAJOMEE, Alain
Course UnitCompulsory
TermQuad. 1
CodeSOC-SSOC0009/3
Prerequisite

None

Aims and Objectives

The interest in other cultures arousing.

To prove our culture is just one culture, not “the” culture to avoid ethnocentrism

Description

Anthropology, its goals and methods (rejection of ethnocentrism) cultural and societal notions

History of anthropology

Anthropology of parenthood

Myths

Some peoples in particular : observation and analysis

Bibliography

J.CAMPBELL, puissance du mythe, J'ai lu, 1991.

J.COPANS, Introduction à l'ethnologie et à l'anthropologie, Nathan Université, Paris, 1996.

M.D'HERTEFELT, Anthropologie culturelle, Ulg, 1984.

P.P. GOSSIAUX, Anthroppologie culturelle, notes de cours, 1996

E.T.HALL, La dimension cachée, coll.Points, 1971.

F.LAPLANTINE, La description ethnographique, Nathan Université, Paris 1996.

F.LAPLANTINE, L'anthropologie, Seghers, Payot, 1985.

B.MALINOWSKI,Les Argonautes du Pacifique occidental, Paris, Gallimard,1963

Teaching and Learning MethodsLectures

Audiovisual method showing anthropologists at work and allowing a better understanding of various human behaviour.

Assessment MethodsOral examinations
NotesYes
LanguageFrench

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