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This course will explore the major classical socio-anthropological
paradigms underlying the existing relation between theory
and fieldwork and how early theorists have influenced
modern and contemporary social-anthropology. The course
begins with general social science epistemological problems
and early anthropological and sociological approaches
and proceeds with the intellectual currents, major schools
and their main representatives.
The seminars are intended to provide an analytical dimension
to the course and guide the students through the understanding
and interpretation of the theoretical assumptions underlying
the fieldwork of some of the most important figures
in anthropology and sociology. One of the main objectives
is to stimulate critical thinking and to provide an
overview of the general hermeneutical structures and
methodology subsequent to the most influential approaches
in social-anthropology in the 19th and the first part
of the 20th century by showing how anthropology and
sociology advanced and changed through the constant
interaction between different theoretical systems in
the light of new ethnographic and sociological studies.
By the end of the course students should be able to
provide an overview of the main trends in classical
anthropological and sociological theory, be capable
of giving a critical account of the key problems, theoretical
framework and the application of those theories to different
fieldwork problems. It is intended that this course
should provide the basic foundations for the modern
and contemporary social-anthropological theory course
for the next semester and to some additional more specialized
courses.
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