Elements of Historical Anthropology (2nd grade) Instructors: Drago Rotar & Taja Kramberger Spring Semester 2007/2008 (14 courses, 90 min/week; 14 research seminars, 180 min/week) Lectures: Tue, 19.10–20.40: LEVANT 4 Research seminar: Wed, 15.00–18.15: LEVANT2 Office Hours: Wed, 18.15–19.10 (after the seminar in the cabinet) E-mails:
[email protected] [email protected] See also Taja Kramberger’s web-page (About the Dreyfus Affair): http://tajakramberger.wordpress.com/afera-dreyfus-the-dreyfus-affair-laffaire-dreyfus/ 1. Course Overview: In the frames of this course – during its lectures – students will get to know different approaches and perspectives in historiography between 18th and 21th Centuries. Special stress will be given to the shaping of a special French paradigm of making history called historical anthropology (anthropologie historique). We will examine its gradual formation, its particularities, some of its concepts for social analysis, its leaders and orbits, its institutions (such as: journal Annales, school EHESS etc.). We will also verify its dissemination outside France and become aware of its criticisms. At the end of the course we’ll debate the achievements of historical anthropology in the light of Slovene historiography, its methods and its discursive representations. 2. Research seminar overview: Starting with this year (2007/2008) we’re launching an undergraduate research seminar, which has an aim to arm an undergraduate student with a model of an investigative praxis, help him/her to form his/her own comprehension of social world and make suitable and coherent arguments. At the same time students will get to know research methods and benefit in using some of the notions and concepts from lectures in the investigation itself.