COURSE DESCRIPTION AND APPLICATION INFORMATION
| Course Name | Code | Semester | T+A+L (hour/week) | Type (C / O) | Local Credit | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anthropology and Law | LW 141 | Spring | 02+00+00 | Compulsory | 2 | 4 |
| Academic Unit: | Law |
| Mode of Delivery: | Face to face |
| Prerequisites: | None |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Course Unit: | Undergraduate |
| Course Coordinator: | Reyda ERGÜN |
| Course Objectives: | 1. To give students general information about the research areas, the purpose and the methods of anthropology. 2. To introduce students to basic issues of legal anthropology. 3. To provide students with a perspective, which is not based on modern legal thought, by approaching law from an anthropological point of view. 4. To broaden and enrich the students’ perception on issues like cultural diversity and intercultural communication. 5. To improve students’ ability of critical thinking. |
| Course Contents: | In this course, law is considered from an anthropological perspective. Within this scope, information about the research areas, the purpose and the methods of anthropology (as a distinct discipline) will be given primarily. And then, by referring to the legal anthropology’s inseparable connection with socio-cultural and political anthropology, we will examine the historical background of these sub-disciplines of anthropology. In this context, we especially will focus on the works of anthropologists who study the law’s reality in primitive societies. Finally, in the light of this basic knowledge we will examine the existence of inequality and discrimination in society, and discuss which role the findings of legal anthropology could play in social change. |
| Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit (LO): |
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| Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods: | Lectures and discussions through active participation of students |
WEEKLY SUBJECTS AND RELATED PREPARATIONS
| Week | Subjects | Related Preperation | LO |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What is anthropology? | 1 | |
| 2 | The method: fieldwork and ethnography | 1-3 | |
| 3 | The problem of ethnocentrism | 1-3-4 | |
| 4 | First anthropologists-lawyers: Maine and Morgan | 1-2 | |
| 5 | Frazer: myth and religion | 1-2-3 | |
| 6 | Engels: the origin of family, private property and the state | 1-2-3 | |
| 7 | Establishing the research method for cultural anthropology: Boas and ethnography | 1-3-4 | |
| 8 | Malinowski: a functionalist approach to law | 1-3-4 | |
| 9 | Claude Lévi-Strauss: structural anthropology | 1-3-4 | |
| 10 | Clastres: society against the state | 1-2-3-4 | |
| 11 | Politics, power, and law | 1-2-3-4 | |
| 12 | Gender, race, class | 1-2-3-4 | |
| 13 | An anthropological approach to inequality and discrimination | 1-2-3-4 | |
| 14 | Legal anthropology in 21th century | 1-2-3-4 |
At Kadir Has University, a Semester is 14 weeks; The weeks 15 and 16 are reserved for final exams.
REQUIRED AND RECOMMENDED READING
| ERIKSEN Thomas Hylland, Small Places, Large Issues: An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology, Pluto Press, New York, 2010. ROBERTS Simon, Order and Dispute: An Introduction to Legal Anthropology, Quid Pro Books, New Orleans, 2013. |
OTHER COURSE RESOURCES
| CLASTRES Pierre, Society Against the State: Essays in Political Anthropology (çev. Robert Hurley, Abe Stein), Zone Books, 1989. CONLEY John M., O’BARR William M., “Legal Anthropology Comes Home: A Brief History of The Ethnographic Study of Law,” 27 Loy. L. A. L. Rev., 41 (1993). ENGELS Friedrich, The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State, Penguin Books, 2010. ERIKSEN Thomas Hylland, What is Anthropology?, Pluto Press, New York, 2004. FRAZER, James George, The Golden Bought: A Study in Magic and Religion, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1998. LEVI-STRAUSS Claude, Anthropology Confronts The Problems of the Modern World, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Londra, 2013. LEVI-STRAUSS Claude, Structural Anthropology, University of Chicago Press, 1983. LEVI-STRAUSS Claude, Tristes Tropiques, Penguin Books, 2011. MALINOWSKI Bronislow, Crime and Custom in Savage Society, Routledge, New York, 1940. MOBERG Mark, Engaging Anthropological Theory: A Social and Political History, Routledge, New York, 2013. MOORE Sally Falk, Law and Anthropology. A Reader, Blackwell Publishing, Cornwall, 2005. MORGAN Henry Lewis, Ancient Society, University of Arizona Press, 1985. NADER Laura, The Life of the Law: Anthropological Projects, University of California Press, 2002. PIRIE Fernanda, The Anthropology of Law, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2013. |
ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA
| Semester Requirements | Number | Percentage of Grade (%) |
|---|---|---|
| Midterms / Oral Exams / Quizes | 1 | 40 |
| Final Exam | 1 | 60 |
| Total: | 2 | 100 |
WORKLOAD
| Events | Count | Duration (Hours) | Total Workload (hour) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Hours | 14 | 2 | 28 |
| Extra-Class Activities (reading,individiual work, etc.) | 12 | 1 | 12 |
| Midterms / Oral Exams / Quizes | 1 | 5 | 5 |
| Final Exam | 1 | 5 | 5 |
| Total Workload (hour): | 50 | ||
1 ECTS = 25 Hours Workload
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (LO) AND PROGRAM QUALIFICATIONS (PQ)
| # | PQ1 | PQ2 | PQ3 | PQ4 | PQ5 | PQ6 | PQ7 | PQ8 | PQ9 | PQ10 |
| LO1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | |
| LO2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | ||
| LO3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | ||
| LO4 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
Contribution: 1 Low, 2 Average, 3 High