Overview

Aimed at professional anthropologists, their students and academic policy-makers, the contributions to this volume provide an unprecedented array of insights into the current teaching and learning of social anthropology across Europe. With case-studies from eighteen different countries this volume presents a rich panorama of local histories, contexts and experiences, which are essential contributions to current debates on the role and significance of anthropology in an era of converging Higher Education policies. More practically,the volume offers teachers and students the possibility ofdeveloping international exchanges supported by a previously unobtainable knowledge of institutional historiesand differing local contexts.

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Author:   Dorle Dracklé ,  Iain R. Edgar ,  Thomas K. Schippers
Publisher:   Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Imprint:   Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Weight:   0.372kg
ISBN:  

9781571819055

ISBN 10:   1571819053
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   01 October 2004
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Tables List of Figures Foreword Ulf Hannerz Chapter 1. Introduction Dorle Drackle, Iain R. Edgar and Thomas K. Schippers PART I: NORTHWESTERN EUROPEAN ANTHROPOLOGIES Chapter 2. Teaching the 'Uncomfortable Science': Social Anthropology in British Universities David Mills Chapter 3. Teaching and Learning Anthropology in the Netherlands Wim Hoogbergen Chapter 4. Teaching Anthropology in Norway and Denmark Peter Hervik PART II: CENTRAL EUROPEAN ANTHROPOLOGIES Chapter 5. Farewell to Humboldt? Teaching and Learning Anthropology in Germany Dorle Drackle Chapter 6. Teaching and Learning Anthropology in a New National Context: the Slovak Case Alexandra Bitusikova Chapter 7. Teaching Anthropology in Post-1989 Poland Janusz Mucha Chapter 8. Teaching and Learning Anthropology in the Czech Republic Ivo Budil Chapter 9. From the Dictate of Theories to Discourses on Theories - Teaching and Learning Social Anthropology in Vienna Thomas Fillitz Chapter 10. Teaching Anthropology in Slovenia: 'Small' Languages - Chaos in the Field? Rajko Mursie Chapter 11. Hungary in Anthropology and Anthropology in Hungary Laszlo Kurti Chapter 12. Rethinking Local and Global: New Perspectives among Swiss Anthropologists Barbara Waldis PART III: SOUTHERN EASTERN ANTHROPOLOGIES Chapter 13. Then and Now: Teaching Anthropology in France Gerald Gaillard Chapter 14. Cultural and Social Anthropology in the Portuguese University: Dilemmas of Teaching and Practice Graca Indias Cordeiro and Ana Isabel Afonso Chapter 15. Teaching and Learning Anthropology in Italy: Institutional Development and Pedagogic Challenges Pier Paolo Viazzo Chapter 16. Between Self and Others: the Academic Establishment of Greek Anthropology Panayotis Panopoulos PART IV: EASTERN EUROPEAN ANTHROPOLOGIES Chapter 17. The Legacies of a 'Nation-Building Ethnology': Romania Vintila Mihailescu Chapter 18. The Past, Present and Uncertain Future of Georgian Ethnography Nana Meladze Chapter 19. In Search of a New Academic Profile: Teaching Anthropology in Contemporary Russia Dmitri M. Bondarenko and Andrey V. Korotayev Notes on the Contributors General Index Index of Names

Reviews

-Learning Fields, a magisterial two-volume consideration of Social Anthropology in Europe, ...provides us with a stimulating, varied, yet deeply coherent range of ways of learning about our shared field...Drackle, Edgar, Schippers, and the contributing authors have made a significant contribution with these two volumes: intellectually stimulating, pragmatically indispensable and epistemologically invaluable.- - Don Brenneis in Social Anthropology

Learning Fields, a magisterial two-volume consideration of Social Anthropology in Europe, ...provides us with a stimulating, varied, yet deeply coherent range of ways of learning about our shared field...Drackl�, Edgar, Schippers, and the contributing authors have made a significant contribution with these two volumes: intellectually stimulating, pragmatically indispensable and epistemologically invaluable. �����Don Brenneis in Social Anthropology

<i> Learning Fields, a magisterial two-volume consideration of Social Anthropology in Europe, ...provides us with a stimulating, varied, yet deeply coherent range of ways of learning about our shared field...Drackle, Edgar, Schippers, and the contributing authors have made a significant contribution with these two volumes: intellectually stimulating, pragmatically indispensable and epistemologically invaluable. </i><b> - Don Brenneis</b> in <b>Social Anthropology</b></p>

Learning Fields, a magisterial two-volume consideration of Social Anthropology in Europe, ...provides us with a stimulating, varied, yet deeply coherent range of ways of learning about our shared field...Drackle, Edgar, Schippers, and the contributing authors have made a significant contribution with these two volumes: intellectually stimulating, pragmatically indispensable and epistemologically invaluable. . Don Brenneis in Social Anthropology

Author Information

Dorle Dracklé is Professor for Social Anthropology and Intercultural Studies at the University of Bremen, Germany.

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