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Course Code etc
Academic Year 2023
College College of Intercultural Communication
Course Code DM603
Theme・Subtitle
Class Format Face to face (all classes are face-to-face)
Campus Ikebukuro
Semester Spring Semester
DayPeriod・Room Fri.2・5322
Credit 2
Course Number ICC2430
Language Japanese
Notes 基礎科目(一般)
Text Code DM603

【Course Objectives】

- To think of others, and at the same time to think of oneself: this is a basic and unique way of thinking of cultural anthropology.
- Explain fieldwork and ethnography as essential methodological tools for cultural anthropological studies.
- Identify some epistemological and ontological problems of considering categories such as "culture", "society" and "ethnicity" as solid facts.

【Course Contents】

Cultural anthropologists are those who do fieldwork and write ethnography. They have shown diversity of human life all over the globe, and at the same time have explained universal phenomenon across different cultures. What underlies anthropologists' such endeavor is their willingness not only to try to understand and accept what is unknown, but also to defamiliarize their taken-for-grantedness.
This course reviews general topics and methodologies of cultural anthropology and focuses on some research examples of cultural diversity and universality. Participants will find some ways to discover alterity within themselves through knowing other people's way of doing and being.

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