DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY
UNDERGRADUATE COURSES SYLLABUS
520003 Introduction to Social Anthropology I
D. Riboli
anthropology. The first lessons focus on the fundamental issue of Otherness, either in the study of other cultures, either in the culture to which the anthropologist belongs. Particular emphasis is given to the importance of fieldwork and related methodologies. The course will continue with the comparative study of kinship, economic, political and religious systems, their organization and maintenance in societies with different modes of production (from hunter-gatherer to industrial societies). At the end of the course, students should have developed the analytical skills necessary to think cross-culturally and ‘anthropologically’ about the human condition.
520011 Introduction to Social Anthropology II
P. Geros
The course offers an introductory discussion of forms and theories of social organisation through the use of ethnographic examples coming mainly though not entirely from ‘simple’ small-scale societies. The main theoretical focus of the lectures is to familiarise students with the notion of otherness and with the comparative method of long-term fieldwork with participant observation. Among the institutions and practices discussed are included kinship and descent systems, family and marriage, notions of locality, economic and political institutions as well as a discussion of religious systems and practices, including witchcraft, spirit possession, ritual and ceremony, and myth.
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The course introduces students to the basic notions and theoretical approaches of social
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PANTEION UNIVERSITY OF SOCIAL AND POLITCAL SCIENCES
Ou. Astrinaki
The course develops along two axes. First, it examines the emergence of Greece as an object of study for anthropology. It emphasises the global political and social developments, which influenced anthropology’s turn to the “familiar” space and analyses the epistemological shifts that conditioned it (redefinition of the Other, introduction of the historical and local-national perspective and so on). It also explores the context of anthropology’s introduction into the Greek academy. Second, it examines
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520025 Anthropology of Modern Greece
the subjects and approaches developed in the anthropological study of Greece from the 1950’ to the present. Starting from the approach of Greece as a rural space, and common values, the course moves on to examine more recent views, which point to differentiations within and between communities and explore the urban space and the transformations which took place in Greek society, as well as the multiplicity of its identities.
520141 Introduction to Political Economy
Y. Sakellis
Introduction to Political Economy enables students to develop the necessary analytical tools to understand the structure and socio-economic relations of the contemporary economies. The course deals with the basic economic problem, scarcity and choices are made to satisfy the human wants. It is divided into three broad parts: The first part focuses on the historical evolution of the social and economic relations from the slavery and feudalism to the era of the globalized capitalist system. The second part refers to an analysis of the fundamental microeconomic concepts with the center of attention lying in the consumer’s and producer’s behaviour along with the four models of the firm. The third part considers the main macroeconomic notions ending with a broad discussion of the consequences of public debt, the features of economic crisis and the prospects of the Greek economy.
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conceived of as made up by homogeneous communities structured on family, kinship
E. Tountasaki
Since the last decades of the 20th century assisted reproduction by introducing technologisation to the biological data of procreation has shaken established beliefs regarding
some
dominant
dichotomies:
nature/culture,
sexuality/reproduction,
gift/exchange, human/non-human, local/global. New reproductive technologies by allowing the desexualisation of procreation, the disembodiment of conception, the fragmentation of motherhood, the detachment of
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520174 Kinship and New reproductive Technologies
reproduction from life itself and the separation of reproduction from kinship, not only create new people but also give birth to new relationships. At the same time they cause unsettle the perceptions about what constitutes a “natural” bond, challenge the fundamental ideological specifications of biogenetic relatedness and force us to accept new significations of kinship. However, reproductive technologies do not cause shifts and reconsiderations only in the western conceptions of kinship but also challenge important assumptions of western social theory. During the course of studies we examine the anthropological researches which by doubting that biology at a global level constitutes the material basis for kin connections emphasizes the way in which the biological and the social get produced through the conceptualization and enactment of relatedness. They deal with a pluralistic kinship system where kin relationships are through substance, legislation, affection and love. Ethnographic studies from across Europe and other parts of the world will assist us in understanding how infertility and the use of new reproductive technologies are experienced in relation to different religions beliefs, state policies and legislations.
520027 Introduction to Social and Historical Demography
Y. Sakellis
The course deals with the key population developments and introduces students to quantitative methods and sources of data. It includes the introduction to the population theories and the formation of the main demographic indices and rates. Some of the topics to be covered include:
The history of world population
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fundamental changes in conceptualizations of parenthood and family forms. They
economic growth
The relationship between population and the labour force
Implications concerning the labour force (employment – unemployment) and the social security system
520008 Introduction to Statistics-Social Statistics
Y. Sakellis
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The relationship between population growth, economic development and
The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the methods of descriptive statistics, understand and extract useful knowledge from official surveys concerning social data. Specifically, the course includes methodologies of conducting sample surveys and techniques of dealing with data arising from periodical surveys, carried out by the European member states but under the supervision of Eurostat. Close attention is given to the quantitative aspects referring to developments in the labour market (Labour Force Survey) along with changes in income distribution and people in poverty and social exclusion (Statistics of Income and Living Conditions).
520187 Economic Policy, International Organizations and Globalization
Y. Sakellis
The course aims at introducing students to the nature and the role of international organizations in fostering development, managing economic crises and supporting human development. Furthermore, the course assesses the links between globalization and development in a framework of unequal trade relationships. Some of the topics to be covered include:
The operational framework of multilateral institutions such as , the IMF, World Bank, World Trade Organization, International Labour Organization, World Health Organization and the European Union
A brief introduction to international economics (the role of free trade, balance of payments, exchange rates and economic integration)
The nature of economic development with special reference to African Countries
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sampling and graphical techniques of presenting data in order to enable them to
G. Makris
The course focuses on the following issues: mediaeval notions of otherness and alterity, the influence of the Enlightenment on the emergence of anthropology, the West as social construction, the construction of otherness during early modernity, colonialism and social evolutionism, the cultural relativism of Franz Boas and the emergence of the American School, the functionalism of Bronislaw Malinowski and the structuralfunctionalism of Radcliffe-Brown and the British School, the historical structural-
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520028 History of Anthropological Thought
functionalism of Edward Evans-Pritchard, anthropology and colonialism, the theoretical impact of Edmund Leach and Max Gluckman.
E. Tountasaki
This course focuses on the anthropological theory, basic principles and methodological tools which were defined from the middle of the 19 th century until the beginning of the 21st century in relation to kinship and family. Firstly, the classic theoretical approaches (British Structural Functionalism and French Structuralism), which regard kinship as the structural basis for the formation of human society, are presented. Following the theoretical directions taken by the anthropology of kinship -according to different schools of thought- after the turn towards the study of western societies, emphasis is placed on the modern theoretical approaches which had freed kinship and its standard concepts from strict definitions and formal relationships and had allowed kinship to then absorb influences such as a new emphasis on social process and human agency, attention to historical context and emic conceptions, interests in political economy and social inequality, and intersections between gender, ethnicity and class. Particular attention is paid to the role of New Technologies of Reproduction in the fracture of Western concepts of kinship. In effect, since the end of the 20 th century the development of biotechnology has forced the perception of kinship as social construction and has “destabilized” the classical dichotomy between natural and artificial reproduction, resulting in the acceptance of kinship as a matter of choice rather than a matter of nature.
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520031 Anthropological theories of Kinship and Family
G. Makris
The course discusses the basic theoretical anthropological approaches of religion and symbolic systems with special reference to the following issues: religion and witchcraft, shamanism, spirit possession and exorcism, ancestral cults, rationality and religion, religion and gender, religion and politics, the relationship between religion, environment and culture, myth and cosmology, systems of classification and symbolic systems, religion and modernity, New Age, secularism and religious fundamentalism.
E. Papagaroufalli
The course introduces students to the various theoretical approaches of the analytical category ‘body’: from the body as the source of symbolism to the body as the locus of social practice or habitus; the body as the object and the subject of knowledge/power relations. Analyzed are the cultural and political dimensions of the terms ‘experience’, ‘embodiment’ and ‘somatization’, as well as on the politics of emotion/sentiment. Particular emphasis is put on the deconstruction of the distinction between the ‘body language’ and the language as a ‘verbal gesture’. At the end of the term, students participate in final written exams. Optional is a paper (5-8 pages) based on the analysis of sociocultural and political practices in Greece, approached through the bibliography on the anthropology of the body.
520040 Anthropology and Material Culture
E. Yalouri
Τhe world of ‘things’ and materials produced by humans, constitutes an integral part of past and present cultures. Although interest in material culture has been as old as anthropology itself, ‘Μaterial Culture’ as an autonomous field of studies became the subject of a more intensive and systematic concern much more recently. No longer seen as passive markers of social relationships or artefacts simply serving functional needs, things are today recognized as playing an active and crucial role in society and culture. ‘Things’ do not simply illustrate human action, but participate in it and are involved in the production of social realities and the shaping of human behaviours and values.
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520033 Anthropology of the Body
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520032 Anthropology of Religion and Symbolic Systems
developing the field of material culture studies and which inform more general discussions about our relationship to matter and ‘materiality’, and the boundaries between subjects and objects. It also focuses on different significant areas of flourishing research in this area (e.g. technology, consumption, museums and cultural heritage, food and clothing).
520046 Economic Anthropology
A. Angelidou
discipline of anthropology which focuses on the organization of the “economy” and on the different meanings it takes in various cultural contexts. We will first focus on theory, examining in a historical perspective the notions of “exchange”, “production” and “consumption”. We will supplement theoretical approaches with material from ethnographies published in the last few years. Our aim is to show how anthropology allows a shift from ideological and abstract debates to the study of concrete economic practices, considered more as “cultural” rather than as “natural” events.
L. Economou
The aim of the course is to introduce students in urban anthropology and explore issues related to both the history of the city and urban ethnography, and the recent trends in urban theory and research. In order to achieve this we examine a number of topics and perspectives that include: i) the emergence of the industrial cities and urban theory, ii) Schools and paradigms of urban ethnography, iii) the city in time and space and the concept of the urban, iv) from the study of the urban community and “the anthropology of the city” to the production of locality and transnational urbanism, v) from subculture and network analysis to urban paths, scenes, and imaginaries vi) the anthropological study of the social production of urban space, vii) inequality, marginalization, and fear in the modern metropolis v) the city of representation and the city as representation.
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The course deals with the main topics developed by economic anthropology, the sub-
520047 Urban Anthropology
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This course introduces theories and ethnographic studies which have been pivotal in
Ou. Astrinaki
The course discusses the terms and questions leading to the construction of the political field as an object of study in social anthropology and the contribution of political anthropology in the reconceptualization of the political phenomenon through the exploration of the various disguises of power: from the “stateless societies” and the political role of kinship, gender, age and ritual to the questioning of (physical) force as the main attribute of power and the rethinking of the autonomy of the political sphere
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520049 Political Anthropology
back in the western societies. The course examines the different political systems, practices, ideas and values, the different power articulations and formations of socioexamines the different approaches formed in political anthropology from the study of “traditional” societies to the study of modern states.
520051 Ethnography of non-Western Societies
G. Makris
The course aspires to introduce students in the ethnographic body of work that concerns a particular non-Western society, its anthropological representations and the wider theoretical issues it raises on a number of fields such as political anthropology, anthropological studies of religion and symbolism, kinship and descent, perspectives on tradition and modernity. The central example we currently employ is that of the ṭumbura spirit possession cult of the Sudan. 520057 Anthropological Research in the Mediterranean
P. Geros
Presentation of the anthropological research in the Mediterranean and analysis of the historicity of networks and cultures in the area. Family, household, village and community. The world of women and men. Forms of political representation and the phenomena of patronage. The Mediterranean ecosystem and the forms of organization of work, family and kinship. Analysis and deconstruction of the concept of ‘honour and shame’. Presentation of the ‘Great and little tradition’ in the study of religion and ritual. Society, state and forms of political integration.
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political stratification that anthropologists explored in non-western societies. It also
E. Papagaroufali
The course presents and analyses current post-Boasian and post-Malinowskian anthropological theory and practice from the 1950s-60s until today, introducing students to important theoretical issues and debates of current anthropological thought. Social evolutionism, structural-functionalism, structuralism, anthropology and Marxism as well as the early symbolic and interpretative approaches are critically discussed in relation to more recent post-1950s theoretical trends. At the centre of the course lies the study of
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520059 Contemporary Anthropological Theory
the concepts of ‘culture’ and ‘ethnography’ as significant categories and heuristic tools through which anthropologists map out, analyse and interpret social phenomena. recent symbolic and interpretative approaches, as well as theoretical trends such as “cultural
critique”,
constructivism,
theories
of
practice,
post-structuralism,
and
experimental/reflexive anthropology. In the same context, the course discusses the relationship between anthropology and other disciplines such as philosophy, history, psychoanalysis, feminism, literary criticism, art and cinema. 520060 Methodology of Social Anthropology
D. Riboli
The course discusses the theory and method of ethnographic research, focusing on (a) the historical development of anthropology and (b) the way in which the collection of ethnographic data is associated with both theoretical and methodological issues. The course
refers
to
methodological
and
epistemological
concepts and
tools
of
anthropology and critically discusses issues such as: the politics and practices of fieldwork; the ethnographer as subject and object of observation; inter-subjectivity and reflexive anthropology; the faces of incorporation observation, and also by the use of biographical methods and interviews. An ethnographic approach to archival material and communication networks is also introduced. The course also considers the art and the technique of observation and participation and the comparison between the socalled ‘quantitative’ and ‘qualitative’ methods of study. It also introduces the method of content analysis with the use of computerised /integration during fieldwork and the processes of ‘immersion into otherness’. It also analyses issues of “anthropology at home”, “anthropology as text", as well as issues of ethnographic research in complex societies and urban populations. The course also discusses methodological and epistemological issues referring to the collection/construction of research ‘data’ through
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Through the use of ethnographic examples a critical presentation is attempted of the
of video, film and photographs in the presentation and analysis of fieldwork data.
520064 Anthropology of Islamic Societies
G. Makris
The course offers a critical discussion of issues related to the emergence and development of Islam in the Middle East, the dogmatic content and ritual practices of
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participant analytical packages and discusses the benefits of techniques such as the use
Islamic tradition as this is realised at the local level, the inner tension and political character of the process through which Islamic ‘orthodoxy’ is produced, the political Islamic societies and Europe or more generally with the ‘West’. Through the use of ethnographic examples, the course will also focus on the role and significance of the theologian juriconsults, the importance of Islamic modernism, issues related to gender and women, the importance of Islamism and contemporary forms of Islamic activism as well as on the emergence of Islamophobia and negative stereotypes in the wider context of the so-called ‘Arab Spring’.
520083 Anthropology and Folklore
E. Tountasaki
This lesson systematically develops the emergence and the evolution of the two scientific fields, Anthropology and Laographia in Greece. Initially, the lesson outlines the “transfer” of the western anthropological theory and how it can be applied to the study of small agricultural communities in the periphery of Europe. At the same time, the stages of development
in
Greek
ethnographies
are
described
chronologically
and
the
construction of native anthropological discourse is analyzed. Moreover, the historical conditions and ideological processes which defined the physiognomy of Laographia are presented. The analysis of the meaning of the terms “Peoples” and “Nation” assists to comprehend the significance of the formation of the Greek Laographia. In addition, the mention of ideological of the meaning of “traditional culture” highlights the significant role of Laographia in the constitution and the reproduction of the modern Greek identity. The trends and re-examination of the methods and objects of laographic resesarch following the 2 nd World War are explored.
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and economic dimensions of Islamic discourses, as well as the relationship between
study of modern Greek society are developed.
520084 Anthropological Approaches to Migration
G. Tsimouris
The course explores different aspects of Im/migration as an integral part of globalization that brings up anew issues concerning the modern nation-state. It investigates both
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Finally, some examples of the convergence of Laographia and Anthropology in the
migration and forced migration in the contemporary world with a special focus on the immigrations of 20th century. We focus on the causes of migration, its impact on both countries. Assimilation, integration, multiculturalism, anti-racism, hybridization and intercultural coexistence are among the key concepts, discussed and debated. The course examines and interrogates immigration and asylum policies in the framework of immigrant and refugee narratives. The course departs from anthropological theory drawing also concepts from political economy, political science, cultural studies, history and psychoanalysis in order to discuss immigration in relation to citizenship, transnational experience, trauma, diaspora, development, innovation, xenophobia and gender issues. 520089
Introduction to Social Theory
P. Geros
Introduction to the classical thinkers and the concepts of social theory. Historical contextualization of the basic concepts of social theory. Examination of representative examples of the work of classical thinkers. Topics: The first liberal thinkers and the positivist current of 19th century. The socioeconomic analysis of capitalism, the Marxist theory for history and society, the historicity of knowledge. The concept of ‘social fact’, the sociology of religion and the collective representations, the social division of labour. The concept of ‘culture’ in social sciences, the Weberian epistemology, the relation of ethics to the development of capitalism.
520103 Medical Anthropology
A. Athanasiou
This course introduces students to key concepts, readings, epistemological questions and research methods of medical anthropology (medical anthropology, or anthropology of
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sending and destination countries and on immigration policies implemented by host
psychological harm, healing practices, biomedicine and health care systems in diverse socio-cultural contexts. It explores the particular forms of power and knowledge involved in the social and cultural demarcations of “health”, “disease”, “normal” and “abnormal”. It examines the social and cultural formation of medical knowledge and power, putting special emphasis on the ways in which social subjects experience, perceive and interpret health and illness. It fosters an understanding of the social, political, conceptual and economic dimensions shaping illness and suffering. Topics covered include: colonialism
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health). It involves the comparative study of health, illness, social suffering, physical and
and histories of the clinic; theories of embodiment; medicalization; structural violence; modernity and the distribution of risk; illness and narratives; clinical encounters; patient construction of “populations”; biopolitics and biosociality.
520105 Anthropology of modern western societies
L. Economou
The course aims to introduce students in western culture both from the perspective of social history and the history of ideas, and the perspective of contemporary ethnography. The topics discussed during the course include: 1) the emergence of modern spirit and the core ideas of Protestantism, scientific revolution and the Enlightenment, 2) the political philosophy and the political revolutions of 16 th and 17th centrury, 3) The ideas of classic liberalism and the emergence of the “free market”, 4) modernity and postmodernity, 5) individual and society in early and late modernity, 6) love, marriage and kinship in early and late modernity, 7) the ideas of western rationality in anthropological perspective, 8) the ideas of growth and progress in contemporary western thought and political discourse, 9) technology, social organization and social ideology in modern western societies.
520106 Anthropology of Tourism
G. Tsimouris
The course is designed to give an overview and critical assessment of the developing field of tourism study in anthropology. It aims to engage the student in the debates of anthropology of tourism concerning the connections of modern travel with the pilgrimages of the past, identity issues, the meeting of hosts and guests, the impacts of
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subjectivities; disability; new medical technologies; global health; public health and the
practice. Tourism is explored as one of the world's largest industries in the context of modern developments in technology, the media and the electronic advertising. Tourist activity is investigated as a leisure time closely associated with consumption, issues of style and identity formation. We examine the multiple types of tourism, adventurous, recreational, cultural, religious and environmental. We also explore the transformation of tourism in the post-war period and we also consider issues of tourist policies with a special focus on sustainable tourism development. 520109 Identity, alterity and multiculturalism
A. Notaras
a critical presentation and analysis of the concepts of 'community' and 'identity'. Community is being discussed both in its historical dimension and in comparison with the concept of "society," as well as in its modern, pluralist conceptualisations. In this first section we also examine 'identity' as a process of social construction and we discuss its inherent polarities, namely 'similarity and difference', 'collective and individual', ascription and self-ascription. Reference is also being made to the constitution of the 'subject' and its multiple facets (gender, ethnic, ideological, class, etc.). The second part of the course focuses on some major aspects of the modern globalization process (mass migration, national
borders, increased
role
of transnational capital
and
organizations) and particularly on the proliferation of identities and the politics of identity and difference. We also examine what we could call the "paradox of multiculturalism" and the difficult balance between equality and difference, universalism and particularism, liberalism and communitarianism with some reference to approaches that attempt to creatively overcome these long standing binary oppositions. 520110 Interculturalism and Education: Pedagogic Theories
E. Tountasaki
The core of this course is the treatment of multiculturalism in the domain of education, examining the models and the practices followed by the modern western nations in order to confront the questions raised by the presence of students of different ethnic identities. Focusing on a critical approach of the models used by the European countries when facing the problems arising from the multicultural classrooms, can be seen the factors
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The course is divided into two, internally interrelated, sections. The first section focuses on
permeability of
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tourism on destination societies and the overlapping among tourism and anthropology
beyond the principles of nationalist education and insisting on the importance of the meaning of culture, is based on the ideals of freedom and equality and tends to be established as the main “medium” for the creation of conditions for symmetric interaction between different cultures. Particular attention is paid to the examples of the education of minority groups and the intercultural education in Greece and they will be linked to particular characteristics within the Greek educational system.
Introduction to Cultural Geography
L. Economou
The course explores different aspects of the relations between space, social practice and culture, focusing for the most part on urban space. In the first part of the course we discuss the most important macro-theories for the understanding of the social geography of modern cities, and the anthropological approaches to the social production and construction of urban space. We examine different ethnographic studies and analyze various issues related to the cultural meaning of urban space, the processes of transformation of urban landscapes, and the political and cultural meaning of urban planning and architecture. The second part of the course concentrates on the historic and contemporary geography of the Athenian conurbation and examines the shaping of the patterns of urban growth in Greece, and the dominant spatial ideas and practices. The course highlights the importance of the production of space in the construction of political and cultural identities, and offers an interesting viewpoint for understanding modern Greek culture.
520129 Anthropology of Gender
A. Athanasiou
This course fosters a critical engagement with the social and cultural articulations of gender as a significant domain of social subjectivity, agency, and power. It explores diverse strategies for enacting “maleness” and “femaleness” cross-culturally, as well as the intersections between gender and other axes of social demarcation and inequality (social class, ethnicity, race, sexuality, and kinship). It examines the ways subjects
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520116
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which forced the shift from the “melting pot” to intercultural education. The latter,
different social-cultural settings. It engages anthropological theories of gender and traces the ways in which anthropology of gender has been influenced by shifts in feminist and queer scholarship and politics. Topics to be considered include: gender performativity; perspectives on same-sex sexualities and transgender cross-culturally; gendered forms of violence; critical examination of the stereotypes about the “natural” foundation of gender; critical analysis of the fixed categorizations and binarisms through which gender has been historically established.
The course aims to introduce the students to the anthropological study of contemporary European societies and the European Union. We will first employ some critical approaches on the notion of “Europe” and on different aspects of its socio-historical construction and transformations in juxtaposition to various cultural “others”. In addition, the course focuses on shifting meanings and understandings of concepts such as ‘European identity’ and ‘European culture’ in the national and local level. We will also discuss the redefinition of the role of the nation-state in relation to the enforcement by the EU of regional and supranational political structures and identities, the parallel process of the emergence of European identity in the context of the EU unification and the rise of nationalism and xenophobia in most European countries, as well as the status of socio-cultural groups (especially of the immigrants and the refugees) in the processes of national and local European communities’ constructions. Emphasis is also given to the European Union as an institution and as a symbol of emerging socioeconomic, political and cultural realities, which during the last two decades are constantly redefined while the EU is getting geographically enlarged towards the ‘Southern and Eastern Europe’. We will examine the above-mentioned questions through the study of ethnographies of European societies as well as ethnographies of European Union institutions and of the processes of the European enlargement and integration.
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520135 Anthropology of Europe and the European Union A. Angelidou
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experience, construct and challenge gender and sexuality perceptions and norms in
E. Papagaroufalli
The course introduces students to the main traits of symbolic anthropology and its structuralist-functionalist character, as well as to its connections with the hermeneutic anthropology.
Analyzed
‘signifier’/‘signified’,
is
the
significant
‘metonymy’/‘metaphor’
role in
the
of
the
terms
production
of
‘sign’/‘symbol’, ethnographic
knowledge to this day. Particular emphasis is put on poststructuralist approaches of symbolic anthropology, on the various trends in the theory of social construction and of
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520138 Cultural Anthropology
notions such as ‘practice’, ‘performance’ and ‘performativity’. At the end of the term, students participate in final written exams. Optional is a paper (5-8 pages) based on
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Anthropology of Popular Culture
L. Economou
The “popular” is a contested notion, which has a long and complicated semantic history. The first part of the course traces that history and examines the conception of popular culture in folklore studies, social anthropology and the modern social sciences, in conjunction with its perception and evaluation in the public discourse. The rest of the course examines different anthropological and ethnomusicological perspectives, theories and methodologies for the study of popular music, and explores a number of topics related to Greek laiko music that include: i) conceptions and representations of rebetiko in the social sciences and the public discourse, ii) trauma, pain, and injustice in the laiko song (1950-1970), iii) love, gender and sex in the laiko song, iv) understanding artistic agency and myth: the art and the autobiographical narratives of Stelios Kazantzidis v) love, money and madness in the skyladiko song (1970-1980), vi) popular music, social ethos, and national identity.
520142 State and Society in Modern Greece (19th century)
N. Maroniti
This lesson discuss the most important events, procedures and developments of the modern Greek society, starting from the first stirrings of the national movement in the late eighteenth century, until the first decade of the twentieth century. Its ambitious task is to re-examine the conventional assumptions, interpretations and assessments of Greek
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bibliography and the analysis of sociocultural and political practices in Greece.
rivalry, with the state as the bone of contention; to record the complex distribution of power between the central government, the domestic political leadership, the Greek crown and the Great Powers; including to a lesser degree the Greek Diaspora and the military. Thus, the lesson focuses in the essential issues to Greek political history, such as: politics and the formation of the state in Greece; national question as the Greek version of the Eastern Question; the role of the Great Powers during the long duration of the nineteenth century; the nature of the Greek parliamentary monarchy; political
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political life. More specifically, its intention is to understand the conditions of the political
clientelism and the character of the Greek party-system; the role of the Greek Diaspora, inside and outside of the borders of the Greek state; the relations between the state and of the increasingly violent political conflicts (minor discords) .
520143 Ethnography and in situ Research examples (Seminar)
E. Papagaroufalli
Students are asked to conduct a small-scale research ‘in situ’ and to use anthropological theoretical approaches already known to them through lectures. In collaboration with the tutor, students are required to choose a topic that interests them and to study it through participant observation, informal conversations and interviews, through the analysis of life histories and other forms of narratives, including archives, pictures, and films. At the end of the term, students have to hand in a final paper (15-20 pages). Only two absences permitted. Students have to participate weekly in order to discuss with the tutor and fellow students their problems during fieldwork.
520144 Anthropology of Violence and Conflict
Ou. Astrinaki
The course examines recent anthropological approaches of formations of violence (symbolic, latent as well as open) in non-western and western societies, which treat violence as historical, social, political and cultural practice. It analyses the ways in which violence has been approached by classical anthropological and social theory and the dominant conceptions of violence in the so-called civilized world, which connect it with “the human nature”. It explores the relevance of these conceptions for western imaginaries and social practices and, further, for the constitution of western societies and
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the church; the social issue and , as we approach the turn of the 20th century, the culture
western peoples and cultures as “savage”, which contributed to legitimate the global domination of the West. Finally, the course will discuss ethnographic examples, which show the complex relation of the formations of violence to local and global transformations of power, to the production of social inequalities and to the construction of local histories and identities. 520108 Anthropology of Law
Ou. Astrinaki
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polities; it discusses the role of these conceptions in the imaginative construction of non-
The course examines the discussion which took place in social and anthropological definition of the law and the possibility of situating it in societies without discrete legal and political institutions. It analyses the paradigms formed in the anthropological study of law. It explores the main implications resulting from this discussion for the study of the institutions, processes, and practices for the management or resolution of disputes as points of entrance to the manifestation of the legal in non-western societies. It traces the ways in which different social and cultural discourses and practices as well as different legal logics are embodied in disputes and their treatment in both non-western “traditional” or postcolonial and western societies. Finally, it discusses the rethinking of the dispute approach and the view of law in relation to wider socio-cultural processes and practices. 520145
Teaching Methods of Social Anthropology and the Social Sciences:
Experimental Methods of Teaching
G. Tsimouris
The course is designed according to the principles of critical pedagogy that connects knowledge to power and the ability of self-reflection in the course of pedagogical praxis. According to critical pedagogy orientation the course puts at the center of action the student, condition his/her learning and social needs, seeking to perform forms of teaching associated with justice and the building of a political consciousness among pupils. In this context, the teaching act is not seen as a mere technique but as an act that interrogates constantly what is taught, how it is taught and how it should be the relation among students and teachers. After Freire the learning activity and the struggle against illiteracy is seen as an ideological process in which teachers should be actively involved in cooperation with their students and should have an active role at all the
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theory, from the middle of the19thcentury to the middle of the 20th, concerning the
of
schooling.
Critical
learning,
cooperation,
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learning
communities, learning and innovation are among the key concepts used in the course.
520147 History of the Balkan States (19th – mid20th century)
N. Maroniti
This lesson discusses the history of the major Balkan nationalities- the Bulgarians, Greeks,
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Romanians, Serbs, Albanians- in the nineteenth century and in the first two decades of the twentieth century. At the commencement of this period these people lived either experiences of the nationalities are described. The major emphasis, however, is on the national movements, including their programs and the revolutionary activity associated with them, as well as the demand for the modernization of each Balkan state and society. By the end of the nineteenth century, Greece, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro were able to establish independent governments. Bulgaria and Croatia had autonomous regimes. The gradual disintegration of the Ottoman Empire and the national revolutions were major causes of dispute between the Great Powers. The Eastern Question, a dominant issue in the international relations in both centuries, made the Balkans a constant center of international attention and earned it a reputation for instability and unrest. This lesson thus, covers the national movements, their successes and failures to 1900, and the place of these events in the international relations of the day.
520149 Anthropology of Space, Place and Landscape
E. Yalouri
This course reviews various approaches to ‘space’, ‘place’ and ‘landscape’ from older positivist, functionalist, structuralist to more recent ones viewing it through the prism of the theory of practice and phenomenology. The latter approaches treat space not as an abstract dimension, or as a simple ‘container’ or ‘frame’ within which human action takes place, but as dynamically involved in human activity and experience. Various ethnographic studies will be discussed to illuminate different experiences of space that are not necessarily related to Western European ways of life and thought. We will also explore ways in which space becomes a field of negotiation of power and contestation. Last but not least, we will investigate new meanings of ‘space’, ‘place’, and ‘landscape’
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under Ottoman or Habsburg rule. The different conditions in the two empires and the
national borders and are not tied to a single place of origin.
520152 Anthropology of Social Rights and Social Movements
P. Geros
The course examines contemporary forms of political intervention in the public space, such as the Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and the so-called “New Social
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emerging at a time when flows of people, information, ideas and commodities transgress
Movements”, which tend to replace the older forms of collective political action, such as political parties, trade unions etc. It focuses on the cultural framing of the action of feminism and the struggle against the neoliberal globalization. In addition, it examines, in a critical manner, concepts such as ‘civil society’, ‘humanitarianism’, ‘development’ and ‘resistance’.
520155 Modern European History (19th century-first decades of 20th century) N. Maroniti The course focuses on major aspects of the economic, political and social history of Europe, from the Age of Enlightenment and French Revolution till the Word War I. More specifically we examine the following thematic units:
Enlightenment- Industrial
Revolution-French Revolution-Europe after the Congress of Vienna (1815) and the revolutionary movements (1821-1848) - Urbanization and Industrialization in the 19 th century-Romanticism- History of social and political thought (Marxism, Darwinism, Idealism, Utilitarianism and Positivism, Christian Ideology)- The creation of nation statesEastern Question and the conditions in the Balkans and the Ottoman Empire- The triumph and crisis of European capitalism (1870-1914). 520177 Special Issues of Europe’s Twentieth Century
N. Maroniti
This lesson discusses the most important, multifaceted procedures and phenomena that defined and re-defined Europe’s “short” twentieth century: a)the collapse of the old European order after the First World War and the emergence of the “old”/ “new” interwar era, (in more words, democracy’s rise and fall, the collapse of the four major empires and the handling of minorities’ issue, the crisis of capitalism, the communist
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organizations and movements, which deal with issues such as ecology, refugees, racism,
of the new morality, the transformations of the state); B)the Hitler’s New Order (1938-1945) , the consequences of the Second World War and the traumatic options of the “brutal peace”(forced displacement and social crisis, the division of Germany, Cold War); C) the building of People’s Democracy and the ways that democracy transformed in Western Europ3 during the years 1950-1974; D) the crisis of the social contract and the impact of “Thatcherite Experiment” in Britain and anywhere in Europe, and finally E) the collapse of communism, the reunified Germany and the War in former Yugoslavia. 520156 Anthropology and Philosophy
A. Athanasiou
an interdisciplinary encounter of anthropology and philosophy, such as the theorization of subjectivity, selfhood, alterity, knowledge, agency, and power. In engaging critical moments of intersection between the two disciplines, the course fosters a reflection upon a range of topics: social structure, violence, collectivity, liminality, subjectivity, ideology, power, resistance, discourse. Different directions of thought are examined: historical materialism, phenomenology, critical theory, structuralism, post-structuralism, philosophies of language, study of symbolic interaction. Also, various philosophical approaches are considered: Karl Marx’s philosophy of social production, Max Weber’s interpretive sociology, Frankfurt School’s antipositivist critique of modernity, Antonio Gramsci’s theory of hegemony, Mary Douglas’s analysis of ritual purity and impurity, Michel Foucault’s theorization of power and of emergent discursive formations, Erving Goffman’s dramaturgical analysis and study of symbolic interaction, Pierre Bourdieu’s analysis of habitus and the dynamics of economic, political and cultural fields, Jacques Lacan’s psychoanalytic theory, Judith Butler’s performativity theory. A. Angelidou
The course presents the ethnographic studies conducted by foreign and indigenous anthropologists in Greece after the WW2 and until nowadays. Through a historical perspective we will look at the main topics that have been discussed by ethnographers of Greece, as well as both their theoretical approaches and their methodological choices. We will discuss the positioning of these anthropological studies in the context of the larger theoretical and methodological trends in anthropology. Departing from the
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The purpose of this course is to address fundamental questions and core ideas related to
520158 Greek Ethnography
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revolution and the building of socialism, the formation of fascists empires, the character
developed in the Greek ethnography, giving emphasis on those of the last two decades, such as the construction of multiple individual and collective identities (local, gender, national, ethnic), performances and representations of kinship, gender and sexuality, social construction of space, uses of history and memory, and the politics of cultural difference and cultural intimacy. 520160 Anthropology of the Balkans
A. Angelidou
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study of concrete ethnographic examples our discussion will unfold the main topics
The course aims to explore the ways in which the anthropological studies conducted in better understanding of Southeastern European societies. Departing from a critical approach of the term “Balkans” as a geographic and political category, the course discusses the notions of “Balkanism” and “Balkanization”. We will also present the first ethnographic accounts on South East Europe since the interwar period and mostly after the WW2 when western scholars, under the influence of the structure-functionalist paradigm of Mediterranean anthropology and of Community studies, gradually began to focus on rural Balkan societies. We will explore the special conditions created for ethnographic research because of the Cold War, the development of local epistemological paradigms (folklore, ethnology, ethnography) and the relationships between local and foreign scholars during the socialist period. Finally, the course looks at some recent ethnographies, written during the last two decades, when the anthropological interest for East European societies has drastically escalated, giving emphasis on topics such as the (re)construction of national and ethnic identities, migration, boundaries, the politics of memory and inter-religion relations in the Balkans. Furthermore, we will discuss all the above issues in relation to some ethnographic film screenings. 520162 Anthropology and Archaeology
E. Yalouri
Archaeology being a field of research recording and interpreting aspects of the cultural and social past has encountered theoretical, methodological and analytical issues similar to those encountered by anthropology, being a field of research which records and interprets aspects of the cultural and social present.
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Southeastern Europe have influenced anthropological theories and contributed to the
the history, theory and method of the two disciplines and it discusses in particular those issues in Archaeology and Anthropology which have flourished over the last decades. For example, we will discuss how archaeological sites and antiquities participate in cultural and social processes, and how they are connected to experiences, values and memories beyond the time of their original creation, expanding their history up to the present. We will also explore the ideological and political dimensions of archaeology and cultural heritage management, the ways in which ‘antiquity’ becomes a field of
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This course examines different moments of intersection, convergence or divergence, in
negotiation, contestation and appropriation. We will particularly refer to the role of Greek archaeology, which from its first steps acquired the status of a ‘national discipline’ national ideology of the newly established Greek state. Finally, we will explore the role of antiquity in everyday aspects of social life, as well as the complex processes through which we select which aspects of the past to remember and which ones to forget. 520168 Αnthropology of Socialism and Postsocialism in Eastern Europe
A. Angelidou
During the last two decades, sociocultural and economic transformations which followed the end of socialist regimes in Europe are at the centre of growing anthropological studies. This course aims to critically discuss concepts such as “socialism”, “postsocialism”, or “transition” and the ways they have been informed and reshaped through ethnographies of transformations in Eastern Europe. In addition, during the last decade the ethnographies of east European societies are more engaged to a dialogue with the anthropological approaches of globalization and started to include broader issues on ‘capitalism’, ‘neoliberalism’ and ‘europeanisation’. We are going to examine the ways these ethnographies participate in critical discussions on the cultures of late capitalism and on the multiple connections between the ‘local’ and the ‘global’ in the contemporary world. Theoretical approaches will be supplemented with the presentation of ethnographic works and film screenings produced in the last few years and with my own ethnographic material from Bulgaria. 520172
Anthropology, Orientalism and Colonialism
P. Geros
The course examines the genealogy of Orientalism as a research area, as well as its current transformations in the public discourse. The point of departure for this
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in Greece and which, together with folklore studies, was mobilised to support the
established the basis for the study of the ways in which the ‘East’ is being viewed and perceived by the ‘West’. Based on this theoretical framework, we will, firstly, examine specific examples of the process of exoticization of the Middle East in the public discourse, as well as in the texts of various writers. Secondly, we will examine older sociological and anthropological approaches of the Middle East and their relations with the colonial regimes. Since the current study of the colonial period has been greatly affected in a recent period by “Post-Colonial Studies”, the course will also provide an
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examination was the theory of Edward Said (elaborated in his book Orientalism), which
introduction to the basic theoretical concepts of this theoretical current. We will also examine more recent anthropological approaches that have integrated this approach contemporary expressions of Orientalism in public discourse. 520174 Anthropology and Museology
E. Tountasaki
This course examines the socio-historical conditions which led to the creation of museums, the evolution of the institution of museums and the role of the museum within modern society. It focuses on the procedures through which the museums, as a consequence of their “objective” scientific authority, have become a significant political institution which serves to form and reproduce national ideology. Particular attention is paid to the processes involved in the formation of the collections and the constitution of anthropological museums. Finally, through the study of Greek archaeological, historical and ethnographic museums can be seen their contribution to the construction of the historical continuity of the Greek culture and the Greek national identity. 520183 Anthropology and Art
E. Yalouri
This course introduces the dialogue between anthropology and (mostly visual) art from the 19th century, to the 1980s renewal of the dialogue between these two fields. Some of the questions that will be addressed are the following: How have Western European perceptions of art and aesthetics been influenced by the study and the collection of artefacts from other parts of the world? Conversely, how have the production, circulation and consumption of ‘other’ cultures’ objects been influenced by Western European institutions of contemporary art? What happens when, in the context
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in their analyses of current phenomena of cultural interaction. Finally, we will examine
contexts of their production and use to places where they are been re-classified as ‘works of art’. How are these artefacts’ values and meanings transformed through the intervention of activities and institutions, such as auctions, museums and galleries, and how are they re-interpreted in contemporary conditions of commodification and reevaluation of ‘the aura of authenticity’? What does art ‘do’ in the lives of people and how does it ‘act’ on social relationships? Finally, what are the borderlines between art and other categories such as ‘kitsch’, ‘souvenirs’, or advertisements? 520181 Ethnography of the Middle East
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of an increasingly globalised market, non-European artefacts move from the traditional
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economic organization of the countries of the Middle East through older and more recent ethnographic approaches. Starting from a critical discussion of the ‘Middle East’ as a geographical/cultural category, we will examine the multiplicity of the ways in which social relations are being organized and made meaningful in specific ethnographic contexts. Topics: The process of urbanization and the subsequent social transformations in the countries of the area, Arab nationalism and the rise of Islamism, the structuralfunctionalist approaches in the ethnography of the area, the role of Islam in the social and political life of the Middle East, the relation of Islam with gender, state power and political mobilization, the Muslim and Christian minorities in the Middle East. 520182 Anthropological theories of nationalism and ethnicity
A. Notaras
The course undertakes a critical presentation and analysis of the major theories of nationalism and ethnicity. It aims to familiarize students with concepts such as nation, nationalism, ethnic groups, ethnicity, minorities, all of them being crucial tools for understanding the modern world. These concepts are being discussed in their historical context and examined through the light of current trends in social anthropology and social theory. Some of the topics discussed during the course are: a) the paradigm shift in ethnicity studies and the terminological and conceptual switch from 'race' and 'tribe' to the 'ethnic group', b) ethnicity as a sense of affinity and collective identity and as a form of social organization and political mobilization, c) the relationship between ethnicity (and nationalism) and culture, d) the debate about the ethnic origins of the modern
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The course provides a review of the cultural concepts, social practices and socio-
spread around the world and the multiple faces of nationalism. Ethnographic examples from different parts of the world are presented for the better understanding of the above mentioned concepts and theories. 520185
Ethnography of Russia and the post-Soviet states
A. Notaras
The course undertakes an anthropological insight into the space of the erstwhile Soviet
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nations, e) the main theories about the emergence of the national phenomenon, its
Union with references to both the "short 20th century" and the post-Soviet era. For this purpose, ethnographic texts on selected topics (gender and kinship, religion, economy comparative spirit that puts side to side the socialist past and the post-socialist present. Particular emphasis is given to the ethnic and cultural diversity of the USSR and to the socalled "national question." More specifically, we are analyzing the two competing conceptions of nationhood and national belonging (ethnic and territorial) as constitutive elements of the federative construction and nationalities policy of the USSR and as a crucial legacy for the new independent post-Soviet states. Finally, the course provides an acquaintance with the 'Soviet school' of ethnography and the current directions of postSoviet Russian anthropology. 520150 Anthropological approaches of Diaspora A. Notaras The course is providing a critical analysis and understanding of the concept of Diaspora through a presentation of the contemporary theoretical discussion and with the use of historical and ethnographic examples from Greek and various other diaspora communities. More specifically, the course addresses the following topics: - Past and present uses and connotations of the Diaspora concept. From the historical diasporas (Jewish, Armenian, Greek) to diasporas in the era of globalization. - A critical presentation of the main theoretical approaches to Diaspora. From the essentialist to the anti-essentialist example. - Diasporic strategies, transnational networks and long-distance nationalism. - Diaspora identity and social representations: Place, memory, homeland. - From immigration to Diaspora. Conceptual clarifications.
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and labor relations, political institutions, popular culture) are being examined in a
organization, collective identity and cultural expression in late modernity.
520186 Politics of Memory, Trauma, and Testimony
A. Athanasiou
This seminar explores the ways in which remembering and forgetting, provide a site for collective negotiation and contestation in diverse socio-cultural contexts. It studies how
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- Diaspora and transnationalism as alternative (to the nation-state) models of social
memory, and especially traumatic memory, is invoked, archived, performed and lived in the present, putting special emphasis on the ways in which gender, ethnicity, sexuality, examine the relations between collective memory, political violence, loss, vulnerability, commemoration, and reconciliation, in various local and translocal, national and transnational contexts. It addresses the social practices of remembering and forgetting as public enactments of affective subjectivities and communities in the aftermath of trauma. Emphasis is put on the politics of counter-memory and the ways in which it unsettles normative configurations of commemoration. Ethnographic research studies on various - colonial, postcolonial, nationalist, and transnational - enactments of mnemonic politics are considered. Finally, the course engages methodological issues related to the representation and narrativization of trauma and traumatic memory (i.e., oral history, testimony, language and poetics).
520188 Methods of data collection in quantitative research
N. Kyriazi
The purpose of the course is to introduce students to the basic methods of research design and data collection used in quantitative social research. The topics covered in the course are the following: formulation of the research topic, relationship between theory and research, formulation of the research hypotheses, development of the research plan, the basic logic of experimental design, random and non-random sampling methods, structured questionnaires/interviews, transition from theoretical concepts to empirical measurement, attitude scales, methods of reliability and validity. In relation to each topic covered, students are exposed to a variety of examples of quantitative research in practice.
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and class regulate what is memorable and what is not. The aim of this course is to
N. Kyriazi
This course is intended to immediately follow the course “Methods of data collection is quantitative research” and to complete the sequence of stages included in quantitative research. The students are taught the basic methods of quantitative analysis and their appropriate use for the production of reliable research results. The course begins with a description of the basic methods of univariate analysis including frequency distributions, measures of central tendency and dispersion. The students are then introduced to
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methods of bivariate analysis that are most often used to test the hypotheses on which the research is based. Finally, also presented in the course, are methods of multivariate which enable us to decipher under which conditions a bivariate relationship is strengthened or weakened. 520189 Applied quantitative research through the use of SPSS (seminar)
N. Kyriazi
In this seminar, students are given the opportunity to design and carry out quantitative research covering all the necessary stages included in this type of methodological approach. Quantitative research is actually experienced in practice, from the selection of the topic until the stage of data analysis and interpretation. A basic part of the course is the acquisition of knowledge regarding the use of the programme SPSS. The data that are selected in the context of the research carried out in the seminar are then analysed using different quantitative methods appropriate for the description of the sample and the testing of the research hypotheses. At all stages of the seminar, an emphasis is placed on the characteristic problems that might arise, the ways that such problems are resolved, as well as the constraints placed on the interpretation of the data, given the methods and procedures applied. 520191 Social research and the use of mixed methodology (seminar)
N. Kyriazi
The course is based on the assumption that the interrelationship and complexity of the multiple levels of social reality require the use and combination of a variety of research methods. More specifically, a mixed research methodology that allows for a variety of focal points on the research phenomenon in question is a more fruitful, effective and holistic approach to the study of the interrelationship between social structure and
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analysis such as the elaboration of bivariate relationships as well as multiple regression
integration of elements related to the macro societal level, but also processes and subjective interpretations that occur at the meso or micro levels. As a result, the mixed methodological approach is now considered an important alternative to the exclusive use of either qualitative or quantitative research methods and has essentially put an end to the methodological “wars” of the past in the research community. The usefulness of the approach will be described and demonstrated through the presentation of relevant research examples from different areas of social research. 520192 ‘Indigenous’ peoples, sustainability and globalization
D. Riboli
Is a sustainable development,
sensitive to indigenous environmental perceptions possible? The course discusses the main threats and challenges indigenous communities over the world have to deal with, in their struggle for survival and recognition of rights. Through critical sensitive debate and analysis, the course explores contemporary issues and debates of ecological anthropology, anthropology of development as well as the role of indigenous knowledge, practices and perspectives for sustainable development. 520193 Ethnomedicine
D. Riboli
This course explores medical systems in different cultural contexts. Students will engage in analysis and investigation of ethnomedical systems such as shamanism, healing systems in different oral cultures, alternative and complementary medical systems (with particular emphasis to Chinese medicine and Ayurveda). The course will also introduce the students to medical pluralism, ethnopsychiatry, and ethnobotany. Starting from the fact that biomedicine can be considered the main ethnomedical system of industrialized and mostly western countries, the lessons will present cases of conflicts, acceptance and/or collaboration between different medical systems, in the global world.
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What does ‘indigenous’ mean in a globalized world? How ‘authenticity’ was and is perceived in colonial and postcolonial imaginary?
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agency. A comprehensive research approach and analysis imply the use and
Symbolic Systems and Religious Movements: Anthropological Perspectives G. Makris The seminars discuss critically the basic research fields of anthropological studies of
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religion and religiosity both from a theoretical point of view as well as through the use of fertilising between anthropology on the one hand and history of religions, philosophy, sociology of religion and theology on the other is also considered, with special reference to the classics (Durkheim, Weber and Marx) as well as more recent theorists such as J. Casanova, T. Eagleton Ch. Taylor and S. Zizek. Secularism and secularisation, religious violence, New Age and New religious Movements as well as religious fundamentalism are also among the issues discussed.
Anthropology of Health and Body
E. Papagaroufali
The course examines the theoretical approaches of the analytical categories ‘health’ and ‘illness’, ‘body’ and ’soul’/‘spirit’/‘mind’ cross-culturally. Particular emphasis is put on the intersection of these terms with socioeconomic and political categories, such as class, ethnicity, gender, age, as well as on their role played in scientific and popular practices of hygiene and therapy. The issue of knowledge/power relations is examined both from top-down and bottom-up levels and is analyzed through ethnographic case studies, including medical and popular narratives of ‘health’ and ‘illness’. At the end of the term, students have to hand in a final paper (15-20 pages). Only two absences permitted. Students are assigned the presentation of books or articles on a weekly basis. Urban anthropology
L. Economou
The city has become in recent years the most usual locus of anthropological fieldwork, and has come in various ways to the center of social theory and research. The aim of the course is to introduce students to the anthropological problematic about the city and
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extended ethnographic examples from Western and non-Western societies. The cross-
specifically, we will explore a number of topics that include: i) the city as the site and producer of modernity in the west and the peripheries (Simmel, Park, Benjamin, Lefebvre, Foucault, King), ii) urbanism, colonialism, and the world system, iii) modern perspectives on urban social life and urban fieldwork, iv) urban planning, ideology and power v) modern perspectives on metropolitan space and culture vi) the city of representation and the city as representation, vii) spatial discourses and social boundaries and social movements. Kinship, Family and New Reproductive Technologies
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urbanism, and develop some of the contemporary perspectives and issues. More
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the theoretical approaches which, since the middle of the 19 th century, have demonstrated kinship as the most significant domain for the expression of scientific anthropological concerns and dilemmas. Particular attention is paid to modern theoretical models which, since the end of the 20 th century, have re-orientated anthropological research towards the study of kinship in relation to gender, human agency, political economy and social inequality. Our focus will be on the changes brought about during the same period by the use of New Reproductive Technologies, rising rates of divorce, the growth of single-parent families and also the increase of lesbian or gay families who choose biotechnology as a means of having children. These changes, having caused the ambiguity impregnated in the traditional representation of parenthood and relatedness, have provoked a revival of interest in the anthropological study of kinship and have contributed to the emergence of the “studies of new kinship”. Ethnography of Greece, the Mediterranean and the Middle East
P. Geros
The course aims to examine a series of issues that, in various ways, connect the ethnographies of Greece, the Mediterranean and the Middle East. Firstly, we will approach, in a critical manner, the concept of ‘cultural area’, which has become the basis for constructing a specific ethnographic orientation, while we will also discuss its epistemological and political repercussions. Secondly, through the presentation of classical and more recent ethnographic examples, we will examine the following topics: The construction and renegotiation of ethnic and national identities that takes place
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This lesson charts the history of anthropological theories of kinship and family. It presents
articulations of gender with wider social relations and political-ideological conflicts, as well as with state mechanisms and social asymmetries. Religion, as an axis around which various political and social claims are being expressed. The state, as a field within which various subjectivities are being constituted and socio-political conflicts are manifested. All these issues are being examined through the theoretical approaches of current social theories, which have problematized the older paradigms of anthropological analysis regarding the specific regions (for example, the value system of ‘honour and shame’)
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within a context of intense mobility of populations and geopolitical fluidity. The multiple
and -especially as far as the postcolonial critique is concerned- have challenged the conceptual and geographical restrictions of ethnographic research. Ou. Astrinaki
The seminar deals with aspects of the development of the anthropological approach to the political. Starting from a brief review of “classical” political anthropology’s approaches to “stateless societies”, “traditional” political systems and local-level politics, it proceeds to examine the critical currents, which introduced into political anthropology an increasing concern for the (historical) transformations of the local through its articulation with global political, economic, social and cultural processes, for the processes through which the global hegemony of the West was formed and therefore for power and inequality. The seminar focuses on the broad conceptualisations of power that these currents introduced (notions of power as viewed by social theorists such as Bourdieu, Foucault, Gramsci, Weber, Williams and Wolf). It then discusses their implications for the study of the political, namely the interest they provoked for the study of modernity: for the new articulations of power, the new forms of governance and the study of the state. Economic Anthropology
A. Angelidou
The course deals with the main topics developed by economic anthropology, the subdiscipline of anthropology which examines the organization of the ‘economy’ and the different meanings it takes in various cultural contexts. We will first focus on theory, analysing in a historical perspective classic and more contemporary theoretical approaches of the economic phenomena. We will also address the relation of economic anthropology with mainstream economics. Finally, we will critically discuss ways in which
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‘privatisation’, ‘labour’, ‘production’, ‘money’, ‘market’ and ‘consumption’, have been informed and reshaped through ethnographies and film screenings produced in the last few years and their links with anthropological approaches to late capitalism. Nationalism and Ethnicity: Anthropological approaches
A. Notaras
The course discusses the major recent theoretical and ethnographic contributions to the
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anthropological understandings of economy, and more specifically notions of ‘property’,
study of nationalism and ethnicity. The course's first objective is to provide a thorough understanding of concepts such as nation and nationalism, ethnic groups and ethnicity, that, the main topics discussed during the semester are a) the paradigm shift from essentialism to constructivism and the conceptual and terminological switch from race and tribe to ethnic group, b) the primordialist, instrumentalist and constructivist conceptualizations of ethnicity and the symbolic dimension. c) the relationship between ethnicity and culture, d) the debate about the ethnic origins of the modern nations, e) the emergence of the national phenomenon, its spread around the world and the multiple faces of nationalism in late modernity (banal nationalism, long-distance nationalism, ethno-nationalism etc.). Particular emphasis is given to the contemporary discussion on identity politics and the dilemmas of multiculturalism. The course combines lectures and close readings of theoretical and ethnographic texts with a particular emphasis on the wider European territory. Issues of Modern and Contemporary Greek History: Critical approaches
N. Maroniti
Aim of the course is to examine and understand major issues of modern and contemporary Greek history and place them into the broader European framework. More specific, thematic units such as Greek identity/ies-“Greekness”-relations between Greeks and ‘others’- citizenship- interactions between public and private sphere-‘social question’-civil discords-reforms strategies-autocratic policies-relations between state and church- are discussed in a faceted/multiple approach in order to interpret, comparatively, the main transformations take place during the 19 th and 20th century in Greek society. Importance is also attached to familiarizing students with the problems and methods of historical research, as well as with the contemporary trends and thematic of historiography at an international level. Furthermore, to show how the
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national and ethnic identity, the politics of difference and multiculturalism. In addition to
How does the past turn into history? How do we create cohesive, meaningful histories out of the chaotic events and phenomena of past times? How we come to terms with ‘dark pasts’, mainly those pasts that still create suffering and are related
with historical
traumas? Is history the sole way modern societies relate to the past? What is the role of myth, of memory, of art? What is public history? What is historical experience? Economic Policy, International Organizations and Globalization
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historians of now days deal with pressing questions, as, for example, are the following:
The course aims at encouraging students to critically approach the nature and the role supporting human development. During the course students will work with published extracts from the news media and will be asked to comment on them based on discussions that will have taken place in class. Some of the topics to be covered include: ·
The operational framework of multilateral institutions such as , the IMF, World Bank,
World Trade Organization, International Labour Organization, World Health Organization and the European Union ·
A brief introduction to international economics (the role of free trade, balance of
payments, exchange rates and economic integration) ·
The links between globalization and development in a framework of unequal trade
relationships. ·
The nature of economic development with special reference to African and Latin
America Countries
Αnthropology of Migration
G. Tsimouris
The course explores different aspects of Im/migration as an integral part of globalization that brings up anew issues concerning the modern nation-state. It investigates both migration and forced migration in the contemporary world with a special focus on the immigrations of 20th century. We focus on the causes of migration, its impact on both sending and destination countries and on immigration policies implemented by host countries. Assimilation, integration, multiculturalism, anti-racism, hybridization and intercultural coexistence are among the key concepts, discussed and debated. The
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of international organizations in fostering development, managing economic crises and
immigrant and refugee narratives and discusses issues of transnationalism and diaspora in the modern world. The course departs from anthropological theory drawing also concepts from political economy, political science, cultural studies, history and psychoanalysis in order to discuss immigration in relation to citizenship, transnational experience, trauma, diaspora, development, innovation, xenophobia and gender issues.
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course examines and interrogates immigration and asylum policies in the framework of
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major trends of classical anthropological theory, such as structural functionalism, structuralism and essentialist theories. These theoretical paradigms are then counter posed with current-post-structural trends of symbolic and interpretative anthropology, theories of practice and agency, as well as the theories of social construction, cultural critique and psychoanalysis. Briefly presenting and analyzing texts by classical anthropologists such as Franz Boas and Bronislaw Malinowski, in relation to the concepts of ‘culture’, ‘self’ or ‘subjectivity’, the seminar discusses in more detail works of more recent theorists such as: V. Turner, D. Schneider, Cl. Geertz and M. Douglas (symbolic and interpretive anthropology); P. Bourdieu, Sh. Ortner and M. Sahlins (theories of practice); G. Marcus, M. Fischer and J. Clifford (cultural critique). The works of theorists such as M. Foucault, R. Shweder, R. LeVine, R. Wagner, B. Anderson, E. Wolf, A. Kuper M. Bloch, M. Strathern και Abu-Lughod, are also analysed in the seminar. Through the discussion of pertinent works, the seminar attempts to analyse and offers bibliography on the following concepts: (a) anthropological understandings of culture; (b) symbolic/interpretive anthropology stemming from the Chicago School (and partly from the Manchester School as its precursor); (c) issues on discourse authority and heterotopias – (Michel Foucault); (d) theories of practice; (e) cultural critique; (f) understandings/interpretations/conceptualizations of the self, identity construction and de-construction, anthropology and psychoanalysis; and (g) the post-cultural critique and the emergence of multi-sited or multi-focal ethnography.
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The seminar discusses the main anthropological paradigms from the point of view of the
A. Athanasiou
This seminar promotes a critical reflection upon the cultural constructions, epistemologies, and social conditions that shape normative configurations of gender, sexuality, and the biopolitics of “humanness”. It addresses how established norms and regimes of truth (about what life is, what human is) shape identities and subjectivities marked by gender, race, ethnicity, class, and geopolitical dynamics of power. The course brings together thinking from feminist theories and theories of biosociality (Paul Rabinow) / biopolitics
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Gender, biosociality, biopolitics: Theories of subjectivity and power
(Michel Foucault) to better understand how the canon of universal humanity is a way to think about the individualizing and collectivizing effects of biopower through the perspective of gender. Emphasis is put on the different roles that forms of resistance and alternative enactments play within such configurations of governing life itself. Anthropology and Material Culture This
course
explores various
E. Yalouri theoretical
approaches to ‘things’,
‘matter’,
‘materiality’, and the borders between subjects and objects. We discuss the contribution of key thinkers from different fields of studies: Bruno Latour, Alfred Gell, Timothy Ingold, Daniel Miller, among others, who are interested in the active and recursive role of materials in shaping our social worlds and in defining what it means to be human. The goal of the course is to question long-held binary oppositions which reproduce dualisms such as mind v body, thinking v making, subject v object and attain a critical perspective on the borders between them. The students themselves will be given the opportunity to grapple with materials and with the help of artists, architects and/or photographers to experiment with ways of thinking through making.
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constructed as white, male, heterosexual, property-owning, and able-bodied. It provides
Aliki Angelidou (
[email protected]) is Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Anthropology,
Panteion
University,
Athens.
She
completed
her
PhD
in
Social
Social Anthropology
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Anthropology at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, in Paris, exploring socio-economic transformations in postsocialist rural Bulgaria. Additionally, she has collaborated with the Laboratoire d’Anthropologie des Institutions et des Organisations Sociales (LAIOS/CNRS), Paris, investigating the (re)definitions of the European identity after the enlargement of the European Union towards the East. She has also published on migrants’ mobility from East European countries to Greece and on the economic elites’ mobility in the Balkans. Currently, she carries out research on household economy and Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, and is external partner of the Institut d’ethnologie méditerranéenne, européenne et comparative (IDEMEC/CNRS), Aix-en-Provence. Her academic interests include economic anthropology, anthropology of Eastern Europe and postsocialism, migration, borders and transnationalism, the comparative history of anthropology in Southeast Europe as well as applied anthropology. Rania Astrinaki (
[email protected]) is Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Anthropology, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens. She holds a degree on public law and political science from the University of Athens and on Anthropology from the University Paris X-Nanterre. She also holds a master’s degree on international law from the University Paris I-Panthéon Sorbonne. She received her PhD from Panteion University. For her doctoral thesis she has conducted fieldwork and extensive archival research on issues of violence, identity and history in the mountain communities of Western Crete. Her publications concern issues of violence, state formation and state violence, politics, gender, identity formation and historical transformation. Her research interests include the anthropology of violence and of state, the new technologies of power and the social imaginaries of crisis. Athena Athanasiou (
[email protected]) is Associate Professor of Social Anthropology at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens, Greece.
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the effects of crisis in a Greek agrotown. She has been a Visiting Scholar at Max Planck
at the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women, at Brown University (2001-2002). She has authored the books: Life at the Limit: Essays on Gender, Body and Biopolitics (Athens, Resistances (Athens,
2007); 2012).
and Crisis She
has
as
a
also
State
of
Exception:
edited:Feminist
Theory
Critiques and
and
Cultural
Critique (Athens, 2006); Rewriting Difference: Luce Irigaray and 'the Greeks'(co-ed. with Elena
Tzelepis,
SUNY
Press,
2010);
Anthropology(Athens, 2011). She
and Biosocialities:
recently co-authored
Perspectives
on
Medical
(with Judith Butler) the
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She holds a Ph.D. from New School for Social Research, and was a postdoctoral fellow
book Dispossession: The Performative in the Political (Polity Press, 2013). Her written work on biopolitics, feminist theory, crisis governmentality, performativity, and the technologies of the body has been published in various journals. She has participated in international research programs, such as on equality and difference in liberal democracies (FP6) and resilience in times of crisis (FP7). She is a fellow at the Center for the Study of Social Difference, Columbia University, through the working group "Re-thinking Vulnerability: Feminism and Social Change," directed by Judith Butler.
Social Anthropology, in Panteion University/Athens, specializing in issues concerning the Middle East, post-colonialism, humanitarianism and social movements. Dr. Geros studied History at the University of Athens (BA) and Social Anthropology at the University of the Aegean (Postgraduate Program) and the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)/University of London (MA and PhD). His PhD thesis examined the Arab Christians and
the
production
of
communalism
in
Damascus,
and
included
long-term
ethnographic fieldwork in Syria during the period 1999-2001. He has worked as a teaching assistant at SOAS and as the Mission Coordinator for Medecins du Monde (Greek Delegation) in the Palestinian Territories (2006-2007). During the period 2007-2008, he was a researcher in two projects related to Syria, Lebanon and Palestine, which were conducted by the Institute of International Relations (Panteion University). He is currently working on an ethnography examining the notions, social practices and political implications of humanitarianism with regard to the IsraeliPalestinian conflict.
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Dr. Panagiotis (Takis) Geros (
[email protected]) is a lecturer at the Department of
Economics in 1994. He is presently Associate Professor at the Department of Social Anthropology, Panteion University. His research interests include urban theory and ethnography, the social production of space, urban representations and culture, and the history of cities with particular emphasis on Athens. He is also interested in the anthropology of music and ethnopoetics, especially in relation to the Greek popular music (1950-2000). His publications include various articles and the books: The Social Production of Urban Space in Post-war Athens The Case of Voula (Athens 2008, Ellinika
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Leonidas Economou (
[email protected]) (1960) received his PhD from the London School of
Grammata), and Stelios Kazantzidis. Trauma, Religion, and Politics in Post-war Laiko Song (Under publication, Athens, Patakis). Nota Kyriazi (
[email protected]) is currently full professor in the department of social anthropology at Panteion University. Prior to this appointment, she taught for many years in the sociology department of the same university, as well as in the department of sociology and social anthropology at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. She Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris as well as in the sociology department at Indiana University (Bloomington) U.S.A. She studied at McGill University in Montreal, Canada and Indiana University (Bloomington) from where she received her Ph.D. in sociology. Her teaching and research interests fall primarily within the areas of research methodology and social demography including gender and employment issues. Her recent publications include: N. Kyriazi (2015) “Prologue” in K. Fellas and D. Balourdos, Society and Research, Contemporary Quantitative and Qualitative Methods, Papazissis Publishers. N. Kyriazi et al (2012) Gender and Journalism in Greece (in Greek, 2012), Pedio Publications. N. Kyriazi (2011) Sociological Research, A Critical Review of Methods and Techniques (revised edition, in Greek), Pedio Publications. Gerasimos Makris (
[email protected]) is Professor of Social Anthropology at Panteion University, Athens. PhD in Social Anthropology from the London School of Economics. Member of the Royal Anthropological Society, Sudan Studies Society of the United Kingdom
and
the
Association
of
Social
Anthropologists
of
the
UK
and
the
Commonwealth. Since 2011 member of the European Research Council SH2 Panel ‘Institutions, Values and Beliefs and Behaviour’. His main research interests are in the anthropology of Islamic societies, Greek diaspora in the Middle East, anthropology of religion and the anthropological study of Christianity. He has published extensively on Arab Islam, Christianity and issues of the Greek diaspora. Books in English: Islam in the
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also taught as invited professor in the D.E.A. Program of Economic Demography at the
Spirit Possession and Identity Construction among Slave Descendants and Other Subordinates in the Sudan. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2000. Latest book in Greek: The Way of the Spirits: Spirit Possession and Magic in the Sudan, Athens: Patakis, 2015. Among his most recent articles in English: ‘The Greek Orthodox Church of the Sudan: Ethnically Greek and Black African believers in a Missionary Vacuum’. In ARAM Periodical for Syro-Mesopotamian Studies, vol. 25, 2013. ‘The Greek Orthodox Church and the Economic Crisis since 2009’. In the International journal for the Study of the
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Middle East: A Living Tradition. Malden: Blackwell Publishing, 2007. Changing Masters:
Christian Church, 13, 2, pp. 111-32, 2013 (with Bekridakis, D.). Dimitra
Gefou-Madianou
(
[email protected])
is
professor
in
social
anthropology at Panteion University Athens (head of Department 2003-2007). She studied social sciences and anthropology at Panteion University, Pierce College and Columbia University in New York. Her research interests focus on Europe, Greece, Balkans (especially Albania) and the Mediterranean and include issues of ethnicity, ‘alcohol and ethnography, anthropology and psychoanalysis. Her publications include: Alcohol, Gender and Culture (ed.), London: Routledge, 1993; Alcohol and the Community, (ed.) 1995, WHO publ., Current Trends in Anthropological Theory and Ethnography (ed.) 1998 new edition in 2011;‘Cultural polyphony and identity formation: negotiating tradition in Attica’ (Amer. Ethnologist, 1999); Culture and Ethnography: From Ethnographic Realism to Cultural Critique (1999) – new edition in 2011; Self and Other: Conceptualisations, Identities, and practices in Greece and Cyprus (2003); Anthropology and Psychoanalysis: The Construction of [Anthropological] Subject, Athens, Aposteriori (2006); Facets of Anthropological Research: Culture, History, Representations (2009) – new edition in 2011. She has conducted ethnographic research in Athens greater area, in Messogia regionAttica, in Thessaly and in South Albania. Niki Maroniti (
[email protected]) is an Assistant Professor of Modern Greek History at the Department of Social Anthropology, Panteion University of Social & Political Sciences. She is teaching the courses of Modern and Contemporary Greek and European History at graduate and post-graduate level. She has also taught Greek History at the Open University (2001-2003) and from 1996 to 2007 she worked as a researcher in the Historical Archives of Athens. She has published three books: a) Politics and the ‘National Question’ in Greece, 1890-1910 (Alexandria Publications, 2009), b) ‘The Military Revolt of 1909’ 100 years Later. Understandings, Questions, Perspectives, (Alexandria Publications 2010) and
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gender’, identity formation, drugs, migration, anthropological theory, culture and
Greece, Historical Archive, 2011). Her main research interests are the modern history of relations of political power and the political institutions as well as cultural history. Andreas Notaras (
[email protected]) graduated from the Department of Social Policy and Social Anthropology at the Panteion University of Athens (1996). He holds a Master's degree (1998) and a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology (2005) from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris. For his doctoral thesis, he
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c) Alexandros Th. Zaimis. Aspects of a Multifarious Life, 1885-1936 (National Bank of
conducted extensive fieldwork among Pontic Greeks in the Black Sea and Caucasus regions of South Russia. His research interests include nationalism, ethnicity and diasporas as well as theories and policies of multiculturalism. He has published four articles in Greek journals and he is the author of the forthcoming book “Russian dolls”: Nations, nationalities and the political management of difference in the Soviet and post-Soviet space (Athens, 2015). Since 2006, he participates in the multi-year educational project “Education of the Muslim Minority children in Thrace”, which is co-financed by the scientific supervisor of one of its main actions. He is a Lecturer at the Department of Social Anthropology, Panteion University, Athens. Eleni Papagaroufali (
[email protected]) has studied anthropology at Columbia University, New York, and she is Professor at the Department of Social Anthropology, Panteion University. She has carried out extensive field research in Greece and is the author of two monographs (in Greek): Gifts of Life after Death (2002); Soft diplomacy. Transnational twinnings and pacifist practices in contemporary Greece (2013). Some of her publications are: “Disasters that Matter: Gifts of Life in the Arena of International Diplomacy”. Outlines – Critical Practice Studies 2010, 2: 43-68; “Of Euro-Symbols and EuroSentiments: The Case of Town and School Twinning”. Historein 2008, 8: 72-82; “Town Twinning in Greece: Reconstructing Local Histories through Translocal Sensory-Affective Performances”. History And Anthropology 2005, 16 (3): 335-347; “Playing with One’s Own Death While Being Alive: The Case of Registered Body-Organ Donors in Greece”, Anthropology and Humanism 2006, 31 (2): 111-123; “Marrying a ‘Foe’: Joint Scripts and Rewritten Histories of Greek-Turkish Couples”. Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power 2006, 13: 557-584. Her research interests include the anthropology of the body, gender studies, and the complex links between norm production by international organizations and processes of implementation, domestication, supervision and translation, in everyday practices by a variety of state and non-state actors.
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European Social Fund (ESF) and in which he currently holds a position of researcher and
the Department of Social Anthropology, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens, Greece. Since 2011 she is Vice-President of the International Society for Academic Research on Shamanism (ISARS), formerly known as International Society for Shamanistic Studies (ISSR). She has been carrying out ethnographic research among the Chepang of Central and Southern Nepal and she is currently directing a research project on resilience of Batek and Jahai religions and ethnomedical systems in Peninsular Malaysia. Her published works include Tunsuriban. Shamanism in the Chepang of
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Diana Riboli (
[email protected]) PhD is Assistant Professor in Social Anthropology at
Southern and Central Nepal (Mandala Book Point, 2000), Shamanism and Violence. Power, Repression and Suffering in Indigenous Religious Conflicts (edited with Davide Torri) (Ashgate, 2013), Consciousness and Indigenous Healing Systems: Between Indigenous Perceptions and Neuroscience (Nova Publishers, 2014). She is the author and co-author of numerous articles and essays on shamanism, indigenous concepts of health and illnesses, altered states of consciousness and strategies for survival of indigenous cultures.
Policy, Department of Social Anthropology, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens. Member – Country Coordinator of the European Network of Independent Experts on Social Policy (Program financed by the European Commission). Member
of
the
Scientific
Council
at
the
European
University,
Cyprus.
Born in Athens in 1950. He has studied Economics in Greece and the UK. In the period 1983-84 he worked as an Academic Visitor in the Faculty of Economics and Politics of the University of Cambridge (UK) where he met the main supporters of the Institutional approach of the labour market. He
was
awarded
Ph.D.
in
1984
at
Panteion
University
of
Athens.
Since 1979 he has been teaching courses relative to Social Policy issues in the Department of Economic and Urban Development of Panteion University and during the last years Introductory Courses in Economics in the Department of Social Anthropology.
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Yiannis Sakellis (
[email protected]) Professor of Labour Economics and Social
Ministry of Labour and Social Security (Greece, 2001-2004) and as a member of Employment Committee (EMCO) of the European Council. In the period 2001-2008 he was Director of the Institute of Social Policy of the National Centre of Social Research and Vice Chairman of the Managing Council. He is the author of books and articles and he has accomplished numerous scientific studies on Social Policy, Economics of Labour and Social Demography.
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He has worked as Chairman of the Council of Employment and Social Security of the
In the period 2008-2013 he worked as Deputy Ombudsman authorized for Social Protection, Health and Social Solidarity affairs.
Eirini Tountasaki (
[email protected]) is Associate Professor of Social Anthropology at Panteion University, Department of Social Anthropology. Her main research interest is in re-conceptualisation of motherhood and parenthood due to social and technological reforms brought about by assisted reproduction. She has also researched topics related to historical anthropology, the politics of culture, anthropological museums, the process of strengthening national identity through the museum exhibits, multiculturalism and intercultural education and also the relations between anthropology and Greek folklore. Articles written by her have been published in scientific journals in the Greek and foreign languages. Her book “Anthropological Theories of Kinship during the 20th century” was first published in 2008 and republished in 2011 by Patakis publications. Her latest book entitled “‘The child growing inside you will take after you’. Egg Donation, Motherhood and Kinship” will soon be brought out by the same publishers. Giorgos Tsimouris (
[email protected] ) graduated from the Department of Political Sciences, Panteion University, Athens (1980). He studied Sociology at the University of Essex, UK (M.A. 1994) and Social Anthropology at the University of Sussex, UK (PhD 1998). For his doctoral thesis he conducted research among refugees of the Greco -Turkish war of 1922 from Asia Minor, who settled in Greece. He has published in Greek and English on nationalism, intercultural education, oral history, refugee and migratory issues. He is the author of the book “Ίμβριοι: Φυγάδες απ’ τον τόπο μας όμηροι στηνν πατρίδα (Imvrii: Fugitives from our place, hostages in our homeland”) Athens, 2007 & 2013), concerning the the trajectory of the Greek community of Imvros (Gökceada). His last research
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the field of anthropological theory of kinship, the modern forms of kinship and family, the
Panteion University, Athens. Eleana Yalouri (
[email protected]) is an assistant professor at the Department of Social Anthropology at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences in Athens. She has a BA in Archaeology (University of Crete, Greece) an MPhil in Museum studies (University of Cambridge) and a PhD in Social Anthropology (University College London), and conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Princeton, USA. She has been
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concerns the lives of seafarers. He is teaching at the Department of Social Anthropology,
a visiting lecturer at the University of Westminster, London and at the University of Malta, and a lecturer at the Dept of Anthropology of University College London. Her research interests include theories of Material Culture, cultural heritage and the politics of remembering and forgetting, theories of space and the social construction of landscape, anthropology and contemporary art, anthropology and archaeology. Her book The Acropolis. Global Fame, Local Claim (Berg 2001) discusses the modern life of the Athenian Acropolis, and the ways in which modern Greeks deal with the national Πολιτισμός. Η Ανθρωπολογία στη Χώρα των Πραγμάτων [Material Culture. Anthropology in Thingland] (Alexandria 2012) offers a systematic review of theories and ethnographies on key fields of Material Culture. Her current research projects involve collaborations with visual artists and art historians exploring the borders between contemporary art and fields of inquiry dealing with the material culture of the past or present, such as archaeology and anthropology.
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and international features of their ancient classical heritage. Her edited volume Υλικός
