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136-476 Anthropological Debates | |
Credit Points | 16.7 4th year |
Coordinator | Dr Roger Just |
Prerequisites | Entry to Fourth Year Honours. |
Semester | 1 |
Contact | Three hours per week |
Subject Description | This subject offers an historical overview of the principal approaches to theory, method and forms of explanation that have shaped anthropology in the twentieth century. It traces the dominant anthropological traditions in Britain, the United States and France from functionalism through to poststructuralism, and critically examines the historically changing conception of the scope and aim of anthropology and its philosophical underpinning. |
Assessment | Written work of up to 6000 words. |
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