2024-25

The course acquaints students with the various forms of contemporary rituals found in Greek folk culture and with the basic social and ideological parameters that inform the functioning and formation of these rituals.  It also gives them an understanding of the meaning of the evolution and of the handling of older forms of tradition and the ways in which these forms function.  The course also acquaints students with the functioning of phenomena, such as secularization, the introduction of cultural prototypes, folklorism and cultural globalization in practice, which it does through the use o

The aim of the course is two-fold: It offers a compact and global overview of fundamental theoretical knowledge centering upon the manifold subject in psychology, the development of the individual. It also highlights the application of this knowledge, to facilitate the understanding and better handling of the individual during the vital periods of childhood and adolescence.

The course deals with the primary sources for the period and the basic chronology of the Hellenistic period (323 - 31 BC). It then examines the main political and cultural trends, including the sciences, philosophy and art.

The course commences by clarifying the meaning of the term 'ethnography' and its development, so that the student understands the relationship between social and political anthropology, on the one hand, and Ethnography, on the other, both in the context of so-called 'Ethnographic Realism', that is, the classic version of Social Anthropology, and as part of 'Cultural Critique', which has revived academic discussion of Social Anthropology and Ethnography.