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Ethnology of Asia

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Course ID:	3102-LPAZ
Erasmus code / ISCED:	14.7 Kod klasyfikacyjny przedmiotu składa się z trzech do pięciu cyfr, przy czym trzy pierwsze oznaczają klasyfikację dziedziny wg. Listy kodów dziedzin obowiązującej w programie Socrates/Erasmus, czwarta (dotąd na ogół 0) – ewentualne uszczegółowienie informacji o dyscyplinie, piąta – stopień zaawansowania przedmiotu ustalony na podstawie roku studiów, dla którego przedmiot jest przeznaczony. / (0314) Sociology and cultural studies The ISCED (International Standard Classification of Education) code has been designed by UNESCO.
Course title:	Ethnology of Asia
Name in Polish:	Etnologia Azji
Organizational unit:	Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology
Course groups:	(in Polish) Moduł L2: Antropologia globalizującego się świata i mobilności (in Polish) Przedmioty etnograficzne do wyboru
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores):	3.00 Basic information on ECTS credits allocation principles: the annual hourly workload of the student’s work required to achieve the expected learning outcomes for a given stage is 1500-1800h, corresponding to 60 ECTS; the student’s weekly hourly workload is 45 h; 1 ECTS point corresponds to 25-30 hours of student work needed to achieve the assumed learning outcomes; weekly student workload necessary to achieve the assumed learning outcomes allows to obtain 1.5 ECTS; work required to pass the course, which has been assigned 3 ECTS, constitutes 10% of the semester student load.
Language:	Polish
Mode:	Classroom
Short description:	Far from being a complete description, this course offers insights into some areas of life and culture of a few Asiatic societies, where the author had a chance of doing his own ethnological fieldwork. Concentrating on the issues of religion, symbolism and ritual, it is a presentaton of elementary forms and institutions of spiritual life of the traditional nomadic groups of Central Asia and Siberia as well as an introduction into analysing the basics of their symbolic language. Additionaly, some recent processes and phenomena in contemporary Asiatic societies like the Japanese or the Chinese are presented.
Full description:	Far from being a complete description, this course offers insights into some areas of life and culture of a few Asiatic societies, where the author had a chance of doing his own ethnological fieldwork. Concentrating on the issues of religion, symbolism and ritual, it is a presentaton of elementary forms and institutions of spiritual life of the traditional nomadic groups of Central Asia and Siberia as well as an introduction into analysing the basics of their symbolic language. Additionaly, some recent processes and phenomena in contemporary Asiatic societies like the Japanese or the Chinese are presented.
Bibliography:	A. Kuczyński, Polskie opisanie świata. Studia z dziejów poznania kultur ludowych i plemiennych, t. 1. Azja i Afryka, Wrocław 1994. A. Sadakata, Góra Sumeru i kraina Sukhawati. Zarys kosmologii buddyjskiej, Poznań 2000. S. Szynkiewicz, Rodzina pasterska w Mongolii, Warszawa 1981. J. S. Wasilewski, Podróże do piekieł. Rzecz o szamańskich misteriach, Warszawa 1983. J. S. Wasilewski, Tabu a paradygmaty etnologii, Warszawa 1989, s. 12-45.
Learning outcomes:	Students can depict some peculiarities of Asian religious cultures.
Assessment methods and assessment criteria:	written exam

Classes in period "Winter semester 2024/25" (future)

Time span:	2024-10-01 - 2025-01-26	Selected timetable range: weekly course term Navigate to timetable MO TU WYK W TH FR
Type of class:	Lecture, 30 hours more information
Coordinators:	Jerzy Wasilewski
Group instructors:	Jerzy Wasilewski
Students list:	(inaccessible to you)
Examination:	Grading

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