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 136-475 Problems in Ethnography and Ethnological Theory

Credit Points

16.7 4th year

Coordinator

Dr E. Douglas Lewis

Prerequisites

Entry to Fourth Year Honours.

Semester

1

Contact

A weekly 3-hour seminar

Subject Description

An in-depth reading and examination of ethnographies and methods of comparative ethnology that have defined the discipline of anthropology in the twentieth century. Students who complete this subject should: have a thorough knowledge of a corpus of classic and contemporary ethnographies on which the discipline has been built; have thorough knowledge of the historical development of the discipline; have a broad-based general knowledge of ethnological methods.

Assessment

Essays and assignments not to exceed 6000 words. A final examination may be substituted for part of this work.



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