Undergraduate Module Descriptor

ARA2134: Ethnography of the Middle East

This module descriptor refers to the 2024/5 academic year.

Overview

NQF Level 5
Credits 15 ECTS Value 7.5
Term(s) and duration

This module ran during term 1 (11 weeks)

Academic staff

Dr Ross Porter (Convenor)

Pre-requisites

None

Co-requisites

None

Available via distance learning

No

In this course you will explore a range of themes animating the anthropology of the Middle East, from classic theories of tribal egalitarianism to the workings of statist ideology, and from revolutionary morality to everyday Islamic ethics. You will learn what is distinctive about anthropology as a discipline, its method, and how anthropologists who work in the region have approached questions of culture, difference, power, and value. Each week we explore a different anthropological concept through grounded ethnographic insights from the region.

Module created

01/10/2004

Last revised

15/05/2023