2018-19

The course deals with the main artistic trends and tendencies in painting in Orthodox lands of eastern Europe and the Middle East. At the same time, it places particular emphasis on the historical and ideological context in which the painters worked, so as to offer an iconographic interpretation of the painting produced during the Ottoman occupation.

The aim of the course is to acquaint students with the biology of man and the demography of a series of populations studied by anthropologists, such as the Ache, !Kung, Rendille and the Hutterites and to lead students to the study of the forces that shape the progress of such populations in space and over time.
Course outline:
Population structure and size of population: The examples of the Ache and the Dobe !Kung
Mortality and life expectancy among the Ache, !Kung, Bari, Agta, etc.

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.