Last modified: 22 May 2019 17:07
The aim of the course is to address the relevance of landscape to method and theory in anthropology. Developing advanced themes in environmental anthropology, it will allow students to develop an anthropological approach to landscape in ethnography and human-environment relations. Teaching is by way of one lecture and one tutorial per week. The coursework comprises of a project involving fieldwork on the theme of walking.
| Study Type | Undergraduate | Level | 4 |
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| Term | Second Term | Credit Points | 30 credits (15 ECTS credits) |
| Campus | Old Aberdeen | Sustained Study | No |
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The course will creatively explore the tensions and overlaps between landscape as physical landform, as scenery, and as the site of human activities and journeys. Topics include the cultural history of landscape, movement and mobility, and politics, and in the second half a series of case studies on cities, heritage, forests and national parks will be explored. Lectures will put the course co-ordinator’s own research in Scotland into a dialogue with studies of landscape around the world. Throughout we will use perspectives from archaeology, geography and history of art as well as core work in anthropology.
Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.
1st Attempt: 1 three-hour examination (60%) and in-course assessment (40%). Resit: 1 three-hour examination (100%).
Compulsory tutorials and occasional meetings with the course coordinator and/or tutor in case of need, initiated by the student or coordinator/tutor.
Feedback on work submitted for continual assessment will be provided in the marking sheet - a narrative comment indicating strengths and weaknesses, advice for improvement will always be included as part of this. Students are encouraged to arrange meetings with the course coordinator/tutor for feedback meetings if they feel the need.
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