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Ethnology of Asia

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Course ID: 3102-LPAZ-OG
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: General university courses
General university courses
General university courses in the humanities
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.

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Language: Polish
Type of course:

general courses

Prerequisites (description):

For students interested in symbolic cultures of Asia

Short description:

Far from being a complete description, this course offers insights into some areas of life and culture of a few societies, where the author was doing his fieldwork. Concentrating on the issues of religion, symbolism and ritual, it analyzes basic ideas and institutions of spiritual life and symbolic language of traditional nomadic groups of Central Asia and Siberia as well as some phenomena in modern societies like Japanese or Chinese.

Full description:

Far from being a complete description, this course offers insights into some areas of life and culture of a few societies, where the author was doing his fieldwork. Concentrating on the issues of religion, symbolism and ritual, it analyzes basic ideas and institutions of spiritual life and symbolic language of traditional nomadic groups of Central Asia and Siberia as well as some phenomena in modern societies like Japanese or Chinese.

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,

unjustified non-attendance is permitted twice in a semester

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

Time span: 2024-10-01 - 2025-01-26
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Type of class:
Lecture, 30 hours more information
Coordinators: Jerzy Wasilewski
Group instructors: Jerzy Wasilewski
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