This course is compulsory on the BA in Anthropology and Law, BA in Social Anthropology and BSc in Social Anthropology. This course is available on the BA in Geography, BSc in Economic History and Geography, BSc in Environment and Development and BSc in Psychological and Behavioural Science. This course is available as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students.
This course is compulsory on the BA in Anthropology and Law, BA in Social Anthropology and BSc in Social Anthropology. This course is available on the BA in Geography, BSc in Economic History and Geography, BSc in Environment and Development and BSc in Psychological and Behavioural Science. This course is available as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students.
10 hours of lectures and 10 hours of classes in the MT. 10 hours of lectures and 10 hours of classes in the LT. This year, some or all of this teaching will be delivered through a combination of virtual lectures, classes and online interactive activities. The contact hours listed above are the minimum expected. This course has a reading week in Week 6 of both the MT and LT.
Students are expected to prepare discussion material for presentation in the classes and are required to write assessment essays. Anthropology students taking this course will have an opportunity to submit one tutorial essay for this course to their academic mentor in the MT and one in the LT. For non-Anthropology students taking this course, a formative essay may be submitted to the course teacher in the MT and in the LT.
M Engelke, Think Like an Anthropologist (2017) R Astuti et al (eds.), Questions of Anthropology (2007) M Carrithers, Why Humans Have Cultures (1992) T Eriksen, Small Places, Large Issues: An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology (2001) M Bloch, Prey into Hunter (1996) L Tuhiwai Smith?Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples (1999) B Larkin, Signal and Noise: Media, Infrastructure, and Urban Culture in Nigeria (2008) R. Govindrajan, Animal Intimacies: Interspecies Relatedness in India?s Central Himalayas (2018) K. Stewart, A Space on the Side of the Road: Cultural Poetics in an ?Other? America (1996)
Essay (50%, 2500 words) in the LT. Essay (50%, 2500 words) in the ST.