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CBT Field Methods Course 2006
Teacher: Oleg Pachenkov
Administrator: Mimi Larsson

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You think its the end, but it's just a beginning
Reflections on 'the ending' as an analytical concept and an empirical reality
Teacher: Finn Sivert Nielsen

This course, which is the last regular course I will hold at the Department of Anthropology in Copenhagen, will attempt to develop an analytical concept out of a non-anthropological idea: the idea of "the ending". The course will build on the initial hypothesis that endings "punctuate" sequences of events, separating them from each other (as before vs. after), and thus, in a sense, defining them as entities. An event cannot be grasped as an event before it is over; life is not complete without death.

Pētījuma metodes antropoloģijā
Teacher: Aivita Putnina

Kurss sniedz teorētisku un praktisku ievadu antropoloģijas "virtuvē" -
lauka pētījumā. Pētniecība antropoloģijā ir mācīšanās process. Soli pa
solim tas ved cauri paša pētnieka priekšstatiem un aizspriedumiem,
attīsta spēju redzēt, sajust un cienīt citādo, kā arī saredzēt kopīgo.
Kā piedzīvoto, dzirdēto un redzēto saglabāt atmiņā, ko darīt ar
informācijas un iespaidu jūkli? Kā no tā visa veidot antropoloģiju, kas
Kurta Vonnegūta vārdiem ir "dzeja, kas izliekas par zinātni"?

Human - Object - Tool: Toward an anthropology of technology
Teacher: Finn Sivert Nielsen

This course sets out to explore the significance and meaning of the tools and technologies that human societies construct and utilize. Its point of departure will be the idea that tools function as intermediaries between human beings and the world - extensions of the human body, which cannot be adequately understood either as objects or things, or as entities with agency.

Introduction to the Anthropology of Postsocialism - Beta 04
Teacher: Finn Sivert Nielsen
Teacher: teacher teacher

This is the test site for an upcoming WBL course on the anthropology of postsocialism. Access to the preliminary version of the course will be opened for members of the Circum-Baltic Teaching Network on:

Friday, 16 February 2007
Please do not attempt to access the course before this date!
An earlier version of the course (Beta-01) was tested on a group of students at Copenhagen University. We hope to be able to launch the fully developed course in November 2007.
Finn Sivert Nielsen (course editor)

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