MA Sociology Part I (Sem II) Notes Paper III Contemporary Perspectives in Cultural Anthropology

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CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES IN CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Unit I: Cultural Materialism and Marxism

• Neo-evolutionism

• Cultural Ecology

• Cultural Materialism

• Marxist Anthropology

Unit II: The Interpretive Turn

• Symbolic and Interpretive Anthropology

- Concepts and Terms

• Thick Description, Liminality and Communitas

• Theorizing the Nation State, Ethnicities

• Multiculturalism

- Culture

- Interpretive Approach

Unit III: Reflexivity, Feminism and the Subaltern

• Fieldwork and Reflexivity

• Critique of Classical Ethnographies

• Feminism and Anthropology

- Feminist Anthropologists India

• The Subaltern Turn

Unit IV: Post-Modern Locations

• Post-Structuralism

• Post-colonialism

• Globalization: Hybridity, Flows, Boundaries

• Cultural Studies