136-476 Anthropological Debates

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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.

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

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