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(in Polish) Anthropology of Everyday Life WH-KON-Antropology
Conversatorium (KON) Summer semester 2021/22

Information on classes (common for all the groups)

Class hours: 30
Places limit: (no limit)
Zaliczenie: graded credit
Bibliography:

1. Douglas Mary, 1973, Rules and Meanings. The Anthropology of Everyday Knowledge, Chapter: Orientations in Time and Space, Routledge, p. 71-111.

2. De Certeau Michel, 1984, The Practice of Everyday Life, University of California Press.

3. Eco Umberto, 1986, Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language, Chapter: Indiana University Press, p. 14-17; 87-90; 164; 193; 202-203.

4. Amato Joseph, 2016, Everyday Life: How the Ordinary Became Extraordinary, Chapter I: Bodies and Things, London, p. 13-35.

5. Wolf-Meyer Matthew, 2019, “Human Nature” and the Biology of Everyday Life, American Anthropologist 121, p. 338-349.

6. Merten Don and Gary Schwartz, 1982, Metaphor and Self: Symbolic Process in Everyday Life, American Anthropologist 84, p. 796-810.

7. Ammann Carole, Everyday Politics, in: Women, Agency, and the State in Guinea : Silent Politics, New York : Routledge. 2020, p. 153-178.

8. Hammarlin Mia-Marie, Exposed : Living with Scandal, Rumour, and Gossip, Chapter: In the Middle of the Media Storm, Lund University Press. 2019, p. 31-75.

9. Ammerman Nancy, 2014, Finding Religion in Everyday Life, Sociology of Religion 75(2), p. 189–207

10. Keane Webb, 1997, Religious Language, Annual Review of Anthropology 26(1), p. 47–71.

11. Fors Vaike, Martin Berg, Tom O'Dell, Sarah Pink, Imagining Personal Data: Experiences of Self-Tracking, Chapter: Encountering the Temporalities and Imaginaries of Personal Data, London : Routledge 2020, p. 33-56.

12. Haddow Gill, 2021, Embodiement and Everyday Cyborgs. Technologies that Alter Subjectivity, Chapter: Everyday cyborgs and the love-hate cybernetic relationship, Manchester University Press p. 115-154.

13. Paterson Mark, Consumption and Everyday Life, Chapter: Bodyshopping: the commodification of experience and sensation, Routledge 2019, p. 87-111.

14. Buch Elana, 2015, Anthropology of Aging and Care, Annual Review of Anthropology 44, p. 277-293.

15. Wilson Samuel and Leighton Peterson, 2002, The Anthropology of Online Communities, Annual Review of Anthropology 31, p. 449–467.

List of topics:

1. Cultural turn in social science

2. Practice of everyday life

3. Semiotics of everyday life

4. Things and bodies in daily life

5. Human nature and biology in daily life

6. Metaphor and self in everyday life

7. Experience of politics

8. Living with fake news

9. Finding religion in everyday life

10. Speaking religion

11. Experience of self-tracking

12. Embodiment and technology

13. Experiencing consumption

14. Anthropology of aging

15. Anthropology of online communities

Class groups

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Group Timeframe(s) Lecturers Places Number of students in group / places limit Actions
1 every Wednesday, 8:00 - 9:30, room e-learning
Wojciech Sadłoń 11/15 details
All lectures are taking place in this building:
(in Polish) e-learning
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