Undergraduate Module Descriptor

ANT2005: Current Debates in Anthropology: Practice

This module descriptor refers to the 2016/7 academic year.

Module Content

Syllabus Plan

Themes explored on the course will include:
Climate Change: Anthropological Perspectives on the Anthropocene
The Promises and Perils of Bioengineering
Ebola: Of What Use is Anthropology?
Refugees in Europe: Whose Crisis?
Audit Culture, Big Data, and Hacking
Consumption, Waste, and the (Re-)placing of Matter
Debt, Austerity, and Solidarity
Tourism, Development and the Commodification of Identity
Terrorism, Security, and the Anthropologist
Brexit, As Viewed by Anthropologists

Learning and Teaching

This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:

Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities	Guided independent study	Placement / study abroad
28	122	0

...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:

Category	Hours of study time	Description
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities	11	Lectures (including film screenings where relevant) (11 x 1 hours)
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities	11	Tutorials (11 x 1 hours)
Guided independent study	33	Lecture and seminar preparation: Reading of the set texts for weekly lectures and the tutorials
Guided independent study	33	Additional independent reading under the guidance of the lecturer
Guided independent study	20	Preparation and writing of the coursework essay
Guided independent study	30	Recapitulation of reading done throughout the term; preparation of essay plans; mock exam writing, etc.
Guided independent study	6	Web-based research and learning: background research conducted by the student depending on need and interest

Online Resources

This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).

Indicative Reading List

This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.

Crate, Susan A. and Mark Nuttall (2016) “Introduction: Anthropology and Climate Change,” in S. A. Crate and M. Nuttall, eds., Anthropology and Climate Change: From Encounters to Actions, Routledge.

Bharadwaj, Aditya (2012) “Enculturating cells: the anthropology, substance, and science of stem cells,” Annual review of anthropology 41 : 303-317.

Abramowitz, Sharon (2014) “Ten Things that Anthropologists Can Do to Fight the West African Ebola Epidemic,” Somatosphere: Science, Medicine, and Anthropology September [http://somatosphere.net/2014/09/ten-things-that-anthropologists-can-do-to-fight-the-west-african-ebola-epidemic.html].

Holmes, Seth M and Castañeda, Heide (2016) “Representing the ‘European refugee crisis’ in Germany and beyond: Deservingness and difference, life and death,” American Ethnologist 43 (1): 12-24 [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/amet.12259/full].

Shore, Cris and Susan Wright (2015) “Governing by numbers: audit culture, rankings and the new world order,” Social Anthropology 23 (1): 22–28.

Hylland Eriksen, Thomas (2016) |”Waste,” in Overheating: An Anthropology of Accelerated Change, Pluto Press, chapter 6.

Juris, Jeffrey and Razsa, Maple (2012) "Occupy, Anthropology, and the 2011 Global Uprisings," Hot Spots, Cultural Anthropology website, July 27, 2012 [https://culanth.org/fieldsights/63-occupy-anthropology-and-the-2011-global-uprisings].

Bunten, Alexis Celeste (2008) “Sharing culture or selling out? Developing the commodified persona in the heritage industry,” American Ethnologist 35 (3): 380-395.

Checker, Melissa, et al (2011) “‘Year That Trembled and Reel’d’: Reflections on Public Anthropology a Decade after 9/11,” American Anthropologist 113 (3): 491-497.

Green, Sara, et al (2016) “Brexit Referendum: ?rst reactions from
Anthropology,” Social Anthropology 0 (0) 1–25 [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1469-8676.12331/epdf].