（中文300-500字，含课程性质、主要教学内容、课程教学目标等） 《审美人类学》是面向全校本科生中，那些希望加深自己理解艺术和审美在社会文化的作用的学生，而开设的一门旨在提升学生人文素养的公选选修课。审美人类学是在现代人文学科走向跨学科研究趋势的背景下，运用现代人类学的理论与方法与当代美学研究相结合起来的一门跨学科研究的新兴学科。要求学生在掌握美学、艺术学和文化人类学的相关课程知识的基础上，运用人类学的理念和方法分析具体的艺术作品与审美观念在特定的社会文化语境中的含义和功能，思考艺术和审美与其他文化体系之间的关系。通过学习和参观实践掌握审美人类学的基本问题、研究理论和研究方法，培养学生具有学科前沿问题意识，跨学科的思维方式和综合创新能力。有利于培养学生建构一种全球化视野下的文化整体观，跨文化的研究视野和多元文化的包容心态，具有适应不同文化的能力和跨文化交流的素质。 （英文300-500字） The course is aimed at those who wish to deepen their understanding of art and aesthetic, of its place in society and its role in long-term change. We may take for granted that art presents us with the key indicators of cultural diversity and alterity, assuming that visual experience is culturally coded and thus open to sociological as well as art historical analysis. However, this certainty, which has prevailed for long over the visual in culture, is fast disappearing as theoreticians of social and historical studies are looking beyond the boundaries of their disciplines to science. Through a careful blending of cutting edge anthropological and art historical research into the neglected role of the material and of the mind in shaping visual experience with rich and varied case studies, the course seeks to invite a critical perspective on the culture concept and on the theoretical and methodological consequences of rising ‘new’ perspectives.