Course Information
SemesterCourse Unit CodeCourse Unit TitleT+P+LCreditNumber of ECTS Credits
2ANTH 518/618Anthropolgy of the Political3+0+038

Course Details
Language of Instruction English
Level of Course Unit Master's Degree
Department / Program PhD Program in Sociology (English)
Type of Program Formal Education
Type of Course Unit Elective
Course Delivery Method Face To Face
Objectives of the Course Upon successful completion of this course, students should be able to:
? Grasp and appreciate the distinction of an anthropological (as opposed, for instance, to a typical behavioral approach in political science) framework to understand politics;
? Identify and understand major themes & issues in contemporary political thought;
? Acquire capability and tools to critically examine the strength and weakness of arguments and be equipped to formulate their own informed position on the diverse aspects of modern power;
? Critically compare strands of thoughts and approaches that characterize politics in the wake of Western colonialism, which is at once political and intellectual-epistemological; and
? Recognize the general features of modern power as well as know the specifics of how it operates in particular contexts around the world.
Course Content Ne etnografyayı ne de devleti apaçık olarak kabul etmeyen bu ders, öğrencilere siyasetin antropolojisinin tarihini ve vaadini tanıtır. Hem etnografya hem de devletin aksine, antropoloji ve politik, sırasıyla daha geniş kapsamlıdır. Siyasal antropolojinin alt alanının başlangıcından başlayarak ve siyasal yaşamların tarihsel olarak örgütlendiği çeşitli biçimleri inceleyerek, sömürge döneminden günümüze ulus-devlet biçimine odaklanır. Modern gücün ulus-devlet biçiminde nasıl işlediğini göstererek ve dünyanın dört bir yanından etnografik örnek olay incelemelerinden yararlanarak, aidiyet ve kimlik, çıplak yaşam, sınır duvarları, sivil toplum, ırk, din, direniş, akılcılık/büyülülük gibi önemli temaları işliyor. devlet ve daha fazlası. Avrupa Birliği gibi ulus-biçimlerine alternatifleri ve Hilafet hakkındaki fikirleri tartışarak, küreselleşme ve ulus biçiminin dinamiği ile sona ermektedir. Çoklu teorik çerçeveler ve metodolojiler kullanan bu ders, öğrencileri modern siyaset hakkında doğal olarak kabul edilen ve yaygın kavramları yeniden düşünmeye yönlendirir.
Course Methods and Techniques Lecture & Seminar modes
Prerequisites and co-requisities None
Course Coordinator None
Name of Lecturers Prof.Dr. IRFAN AHMAD
Assistants None
Work Placement(s) No

Recommended or Required Reading
Resources This course deploys a range of books and other materials to meet its goals. Some books are listed below and students can consult them on their own. ------Blom Hansen, Thomas and Finn Stepputat (eds). 2001. States of Imagination: Ethnographic Explorations of the Postcolonial State. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Deeb, Lara and Jessica Winegar. 2016. Anthropology’s Politics: Disciplining the Middle East. Stanford: Stanford University Press. Eriksen, Thomas. 2010. Ethnicity and Nationalism: Anthropological Perspectives. London: Pluto. Lewellen, Ted. 2003. Political Anthropology: An Introduction. Westport, CT: Praeger. Gledhill, John. 2000. Power and its Disguises: Anthropological Perspectives on Politics (second edition). London: Pluto. Sharma, Anuradha and Akhil Gupta (eds). 2006. The Anthropology of the State: A Reader. Blackwell. | 21 Vincent, Joan (ed.). 2002. The Anthropology of Politics: A Reader in Ethnography, Theory, and Critique. Malden, MA: Blackwell.
This course deploys a range of books and other materials to meet its goals. Some books are listed below and students can consult them on their own (some materials from them are used here too).
Blom Hansen, Thomas and Finn Stepputat (eds). 2001. States of Imagination: Ethnographic Explorations of the Postcolonial State. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Deeb, Lara and Jessica Winegar. 2016. Anthropology’s Politics: Disciplining the Middle East. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Eriksen, Thomas. 2010. Ethnicity and Nationalism: Anthropological Perspectives. London: Pluto.
Lewellen, Ted. 2003. Political Anthropology: An Introduction. Westport, CT: Praeger.
Gledhill, John. 2000. Power and its Disguises: Anthropological Perspectives on Politics (second edition). London: Pluto.
Sharma, Anuradha and Akhil Gupta (eds). 2006. The Anthropology of the State: A Reader. Blackwell.
Vincent, Joan (ed.). 2002. The Anthropology of Politics: A Reader in Ethnography, Theory, and Critique. Malden, MA: Blackwell.

Course Category
Social Sciences %100

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
Activities are given in detail in the section of "Assessment Methods and Criteria" and "Workload Calculation"

Assessment Methods and Criteria
In-Term Studies Quantity Percentage
Quizzes 1 % 10
Attendance 1 % 15
Practice 1 % 15
Project 1 % 20
Final examination 1 % 40
Total
5
% 100

 
ECTS Allocated Based on Student Workload
Activities Quantity Duration Total Work Load
Course Duration 14 3 42
Hours for off-the-c.r.stud 14 6 84
Presentation 1 17 17
Practice 1 24 24
Project 1 20 20
Final examination 1 39 39
Total Work Load   Number of ECTS Credits 8 226

Course Learning Outcomes: Upon the successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
NoLearning Outcomes
1 ? Know the distinctive contribution of an anthropological-ethnographic approach to politics;
2 ? Become “de-naturalized” vis-à-vis the ubiquity of contemporary political vocabulary;
3 Identify salient concepts, issues and themes in modern politics in general and in anthropology of the political in particular, including politics within the discipline of anthropology;
4 Acquire analytical & methodological resources to critically assess the (de)merits of diverse approaches to understanding politics, including how to pose productive questions and critique a position. These resources will enable them to also evaluate issues not directly treated here;
5 Present, orally and in writing, ideas in a coherent, logical and structured manner; and
6 Think historically, comparatively, empirically and relationally about politics in general.


Weekly Detailed Course Contents
WeekTopicsStudy MaterialsMaterials
1 Core Readings Lewellen, Ted. 2003. “The Development of Political Anthropology.” In Political Anthropology: An Introduction. Westport, CT: Praeger: 1–14. Kurtz, Donald. 2001. “Introduction” and “The Paradigms of Political Anthropology”. In Political Anthropology: Power and Paradigms. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press: 1–5 & 8–17. Ahmad, Irfan. 2021. “A New Holistic Anthropology with Politics In.” In Anthropology and Ethnography Are Not Equivalent: Re Orienting Anthropology for the Future, edited by Irfan Ahmad. New York: Berghahn: 112–140.
2 Kottak, Conard Philip. 2008. “Political System.” In Anthropology: The Exploration of Human Diversity. New York: McGraw Hill International Edition. 12th edition: 381–407. Lewellen, Ted. 2003. “Types of Pre-industrial Political System.” In Political Anthropology: An Introduction. Westport, CT: Praeger: 15–41. Scott, James. 2009. “Preface.” In The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia. New Heaven: Yale University Press. ix–xv. Also first chapter, if you can!
3 Core Readings Anderson, Benedict. 1991. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Rise and Spread of Nationalism. Revised edition. London: Verso: 1–33. Chatterjee, Partha. 1993. The Nation and its Fragments. Princeton: Princeton University Press: 3–13. Berezin, Mabel. 1999. “Emotion, Nation, Identity in Fascist Italy.” In State/Culture, edited by Geotge Steinmetz. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press: 355–77.
4 Core Readings Hall, Stuart. 2000. “Who Needs Identity”? In Identity: A Reader, edited by Paul du Gay, Jessica Evans et al. London: Sage: 15–31. Barth, Fredrick. 1969. “Introduction”. In Ethnic Groups and Boundaries: The Social Organization of Culture Difference, edited by Fredrick Barth. London: Allen & Unwin: 9–38. Gidden, Anthony. 2000. “The Trajectory of the Self.” In Identity: A Reader, edited by Paul du Gay, Jessica Evans et al. London: Sage: 248–266.
5 Core Readings Geertz, Clifford. 1980. Negara: The Theatre State in 19th Century Bali. Princeton: Princeton University Press: 11–25. Carneiro, Robert. 1970. “A Theory of the Origin of the State.” Science. 169 (3947): 733–738. Kantorowich, Ernest. 1981[1957]. The King’s Two Bodies. Princeton: Princeton University Press: 7–23. Texts for Student Panel
6 Core Readings Mitchell, Tim. 1988. “An Appearance of Order.” In Colonizing Egypt. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 63–85. Dirks, Nicholas. Castes of Mind. Colonialism and the Making of Modern India. Princeton University Press: 81–106. Mardin, Şerif. 1991. “The Just and the Unjust.” Daedalus. 120(3): 113–129.
7 Core Readings Hansen, Thomas and Finn Stepputat. 2001. “Introduction: States of Imagination”. In States of Imagination: Ethnographic Explorations of the Postcolonial State, edited by Thomas Blom Hansen and Finn Stepputat. Princeton: Princeton University Press: 1–38. Halliday, Fred. 2005. “International Relations Theory and the Middle East: Five Approaches.” In The Middle East in International Relations Power, Politics and Ideology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 21–40. Ahmad, Irfan. 2011a. “The Categorical Revolution: Democratic Uprising in the Middle East.” Economic and Political Weekly. 46(45): 30 – 35.
8 Core Readings Gramsci, Antonio. 2006. “State and Civil Society”. In The Anthropology of the State: A Reader, edited by Aradhana Sharma and Akhil Gupta: Malden, MA: Blackwell: 71–85. Comaroff, John L.and Jean Comaroff. 1999. “Introduction”. In Civil Society and the Political Imagination in Africa: Critical Perspectives, edited by John Comaroff and Jean Comaroff. Chicago: Chicago University Press: 1-25.
9 Core Readings Seymour, Susan. 2006. “Resistance”. Anthropological Theory. 6(3): 303–321. Scott, James C. 1985. Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance. New Haven: Yale University Press:1–25. Gupta, Dipankar. 2001. “Everyday Resistance or Routine Repression? Exaggeration as a Statagem in Agrarian Conflict”. Journal of Peasant Studies. 29(1):89–108.
10 Core Readings Veer, Peter Van der. 2009. “The Religious Origins of Democracy”. In Religion and Democracy in Contemporary Europe, edited by Gabriel Motzkin and Yochi Fischer. London: Alliance Publishing Trust. 75–81. https://ec.europa.eu/migrant-integration/library-document/religion-and-democracy-contemporary-europe_en Casanova, Jose. 2009. “Religious Situation in Europe”. In Secularization and the World Religions, edited by Hans Joas et al. Chicago: Chicago University Press: 207–227. Asad, Talal. 1999. “Religion, Nation-State, Secularism”. In Nation and Religion: Perspectives on Europe and Asia, edited by Peter van der Veer and Hartmut Lehmann. Princeton: Princeton University Press.178–196.
11 Core Readings Kottak, Conard Philip. 2008. “Race”. In Anthropology: The Exploration of Human Diversity. New York: McGraw Hill International Edition. 12th edition: 304–313. Lieberman, Leonard, Blaine Stevenson and Larry Reynolds. 1997. “Race and Anthropology: A Core Concept Without Consensus”. Anthropology & Education Quarterly. 20 (2): 67–73. Fanon, Franz. 2000. “The Fact of Blackness.” In Theories of Race and Racism, edited by Les Back and John Solomos. London: Routledge: 257–266. Malcolm X. 1964. “Malcolm X. Oxford Union Debate, Dec. 3 1964” [On Race, Religion, Segregation, Democracy.” (12.38 minutes). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auWA7hMh5hc&t=191s
12 Core Readings Eriksen, Thomas Hylland. 2020. “Globalization.” In Handbook of Political Anthropology, edited by Harald Wydra and Bjørn Thomassen. Cheltenham, UK: Elgar: 462–475. Crockatt, Richard. 2007. “Americanism: A Short History”. In After 9/11: Cultural Dimensions of American Global Power, edited by Richard Crockatt. London: Routledge: 94–126. Ahmad, Irfan. 2020. “Coronavirus, Naked Life and the Importance of Giorgio Agamben.” The Polis Project. 25 May.
13 Core Readings Ahmad, Irfan and Jie Kang. 2021 “Introduction: Imagining Alternatives to Globalization of the Nation Form.” In The Nation Form in the Global Age: Ethnographic Perspectives, edited by Irfan Ahmad and Jie Kang. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan: 3–44. Habermas, Jürgen. 2003. “Making Sense of the EU: Toward a Cosmopolitan Europe.” Journal of Democracy. 14 (4): 86–100. Appadurai, Arjun. 1996. “Sovereignty without Territoriality: Notes for a Postnational Geography.” In The Geography of Identity, edited by Patricia Yaeger. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press: 40–58
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