Course syllabus

CLASS TIMES:   Lecture Friday: 12:00 - 2:00 pm   (Architecture – West, Room 201)

                          Seminar: Wednesday 11:00-12:00 (ARTS 1, Room 315)

Convenor and Lecturer:   Professor Cris Shore

Office Hours: Wednesday 3:00–4:00 pm:  Friday 4:15– 5:15 p.m. (or by appointment . Email me:  c.shore@auckland.ac.nz  Tel: 923 4652

WELOME!

Bonjour e bienvenue à l'anthropologie de l'Europe. (Or, Welkom op de antropologie van Europe. Bienvenido a la Antropología de la Europa. Tervetuloa Antropologian Euroopassa. Bonvenon al la antropologio de Eŭropo. Lorem ipsum ad anthropologiam Europae...).

This course explores a selection of key issues and debates in the Anthropology of Europe paying close attention to the use of anthropological approaches and methodologies for understanding key social, economic and political processes that are reshaping European cultures and societies.

The course is divided into two sections. The first part (weeks 1-6) explore some of the key themes and issues that have defined European ethnography and anthropology since the 1960s. These include debates over the characteristics of peasant society, the values of honour and shame, the nature of patron-client relations, the politics of memory and forgetting, ethnic conflict and war in the former Yugoslavia, and the metamorphosis of post-socialist societies in Eastern Europe. Part two (weeks 7-12) turns to examine more recent developments, particularly in the context of the European Union (EU) and its project for European integration. Among the key themes we address are anthropological perspectives on the EU and its policies; the cultural politics of European integration, European identity and citizenship; immigration and the refugee crisis; the shifting borders and boundaries of Europe; the Eurozone crisis, and Brexit.

There is also a complementarity to these works: many of them relate to, and build upon, each other in ways that map the trajectory of change in contemporary European societies. Together, they also offer useful insight into the new directions that Europeanist anthropologists are exploring and the contribution that ethnography and fieldwork in Europe have to offer the discipline at large.

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