- Course Code
- AT 3018
- Credit Points
- 30
- Course Coordinator
- Dr A Whitehouse
Pre-requisites
AT 2002 and AT 2507 or by permission of the Head of Department.
Overview
This course examines how the guiding ideas of Western thought and science have emerged historically out of European encounters with the indigenous inhabitants of other lands, and how these ideas have, in turn, influenced contemporary anthropological understandings of ‘other cultures’. We will focus, in particular, on ways of describing and analysing the relations between people and their environment, and between human beings and non-human animals. Through a review of the ways in which the concept of society has been set against that of nature in the work of several prominent anthropologists, the course will lay foundations for subsequent study of history of anthropological thought, while also introducing students to basic techniques of genealogical inquiry, library research and ethnographical writing.
Structure
2 one-hour lectures and 1 one-hour tutorial per week.
Assessment
1st Attempt: 1 three-hour examination (60%) and in-course assessment: one essay (40%).
Resit: 1 three-hour examination (100%) unless candidate opts to carry forward internal assessment mark.