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SANT2008

Sound, Form and Motion - The Anthropology of Aesthetics

Lessons are not given in the academic year 2010/2011

Credits 7.5
Level Intermediate course, level II
Examination arrangement Home examination

About

About the course

Course content

The course presents approaches to aesthetic and expressive manifestations: music, dance, theatre, art, architecture and literary genres. It also provides an introduction to anthropological analysis of material culture. The course shows how art forms are expressions of social realities, and it identifies an essential aesthetic element in ‘pragmatic’ practices. It includes local understandings of time and space as they are expressed in, or constituted by, aesthetic activities.

Learning outcome

To develop an analytical anthropological understanding of various aesthetic ways of expression.

Learning methods and activities

Lectures/seminars and written assignements (approx. 16 hours).
Form of assessment: Home exam.

Required previous knowledge

None.

Subject areas

  • Social Sciences
  • Social Anthropology

Contact information

Department with academic responsibility

Department of Social Anthropology

Examination

Examination

Examination arrangement: Home examination
Grade: Letters

Ordinary examination - Autumn 2010

Home examination
Weighting 100/100 Date Release 2010-11-22
Submission 2010-11-29

Ordinary examination - Spring 2011

Home examination
Weighting 100/100 Date Release 2011-05-09
Submission 2011-05-16

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