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136-476 Anthropological Debates

Year 4 Anthropology.

Credit points: 16.7 4th year

Coordinator: Dr Roger Just.

Prerequisite: Entry to Fourth Year Honours.

Contact: Three hours per week.

Timetable: Second semester

Objectives:

Students completing this subject should:

• have a thorough knowledge of the main traditions of anthropology in Britain, the United States and Europe;
• have examined a selected number of debates over particular anthropological issues which have shaped anthropology in the twentieth century;
• have an acquaintance with fundamental problems in the philosophy of anthropology and with the relation between theory and method in ethnographic research and reporting.

Content:

Introduction to the principal approaches to theory and explanation in British, American and French anthropology.

Assessment:

Written work of up to 6,000 words.

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