AT5520: ANTHROPOLOGY OF THE NORTH (2014-2015)

This study of the Anthropology of the North will take advantage of lectures already being taught in the anthropology department at the 4th year level, but it will contain separate advanced seminars for the MSc students. Each one hour lecture will be followed by a one hour student lead seminar where the students can develop their interests and receive instant feedback from their cohort and the course coordinators on their ideas.

The course will teach students to identify the main principles and issues in the anthropological theorising and ethnography of the North and apply them to specific research problems. The course will communicate the ways in which anthropological approaches to northern peoples’ lifeways relate to intellectual and theoretical debates in Anthropology and related disciplines. Students will demonstrate an advanced ability to critically interpret northernist anthropological sources and evaluate their relation to broader social and ideological processes and to theoretical principles and debates in anthropology. Students will demonstrate a critical understanding of basic and contemporary anthropological concepts, principles, and terminology related to the Anthropology of the North. Students will understand the process through which anthropological knowledge of a study area develops and changes. Students will learn to critically analyse popular descriptions of the North and the people who live there that they encounter in their day-to-day lives and relate them to broader anthropological thinking. The course will promote student study skills in writing analytical, critical essays that draw upon more diverse and advanced ethnographic sources. Students will learn to formulate and express coherent and reasoned arguments in class discussions about the Anthropology of the North. The course will engage students in the preparation of material for directing and participating in seminar discussions. This course will promote self-directed learning by encouraging the students to identify and apply sources relevant to the Anthropology of the North. 

Course not running 2015/16

Course not running 2015/16

Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.

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100% coursework - One 6,000 essay

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