Description
Book Synopsis Aimed at professional anthropologists, their students and academic policy-makers, the contributions to this volume provide an unprecedented array of insights into the current teaching and learning of social anthropology across Europe. With case-studies from eighteen different countries this volume presents a rich panorama of local histories, contexts and experiences, which are essential contributions to current debates on the role and significance of anthropology in an era of converging Higher Education policies. More practically,the volume offers teachers and students the possibility ofdeveloping international exchanges supported by a previously unobtainable knowledge of institutional historiesand differing local contexts.
Trade Review “Learning Fields, a magisterial two-volume consideration of Social Anthropology in Europe,…provides us with a stimulating , varied, yet deeply coherent range of ways of learning about our shared field…Dracklé, Edgar, Schippers, and the contributing authors have made a significant contribution with these two volumes: intellectually stimulating, pragmatically indispensable and epistemologically invaluable.” • Don Brenneis in Social Anthropology
Table of Contents List of Tables
List of Figures
Foreword
Ulf Hannerz
Chapter 1. Introduction
Dorle Dracklé, Iain R. Edgar and Thomas K. Schippers
PART I: NORTHWESTERN EUROPEAN ANTHROPOLOGIES
Chapter 2. Teaching the ‘Uncomfortable Science’: Social Anthropology in British Universities
David Mills
Chapter 3. Teaching and Learning Anthropology in the Netherlands
Wim Hoogbergen
Chapter 4. Teaching Anthropology in Norway and Denmark
Peter Hervik
PART II: CENTRAL EUROPEAN ANTHROPOLOGIES
Chapter 5. Farewell to Humboldt? Teaching and Learning Anthropology in Germany
Dorle Dracklé
Chapter 6. Teaching and Learning Anthropology in a New National Context: the Slovak Case
Alexandra Bitusikova
Chapter 7. Teaching Anthropology in Post-1989 Poland
Janusz Mucha
Chapter 8. Teaching and Learning Anthropology in the Czech Republic
Ivo Budil
Chapter 9. From the Dictate of Theories to Discourses on Theories – Teaching and Learning Social Anthropology in Vienna
Thomas Fillitz
Chapter 10. Teaching Anthropology in Slovenia: ‘Small’ Languages – Chaos in the Field?
Rajko Muršiè
Chapter 11. Hungary in Anthropology and Anthropology in Hungary
László Kürti
Chapter 12. Rethinking Local and Global: New Perspectives among Swiss Anthropologists
Barbara Waldis
PART III: SOUTHERN EASTERN ANTHROPOLOGIES
Chapter 13. Then and Now: Teaching Anthropology in France
Gérald Gaillard
Chapter 14. Cultural and Social Anthropology in the Portuguese University: Dilemmas of Teaching and Practice
Graça Índias Cordeiro and Ana Isabel Afonso
Chapter 15. Teaching and Learning Anthropology in Italy: Institutional Development and Pedagogic Challenges
Pier Paolo Viazzo
Chapter 16. Between Self and Others: the Academic Establishment of Greek Anthropology
Panayotis Panopoulos
PART IV: EASTERN EUROPEAN ANTHROPOLOGIES
Chapter 17. The Legacies of a ‘Nation-Building Ethnology’: Romania
Vintila Mihailescu
Chapter 18. The Past, Present and Uncertain Future of Georgian Ethnography
Nana Meladze
Chapter 19. In Search of a New Academic Profile: Teaching Anthropology in Contemporary Russia
Dmitri M. Bondarenko and Andrey V. Korotayev
Notes on the Contributors
General Index
Index of Names
