Module ANT1004 for 2017/8
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
ANT1004: Introduction to Social Anthropology-Theorising the Everyday World
This module descriptor refers to the 2017/8 academic year.
Module Content
Syllabus Plan
Lecture topics for this module include:
- People and things: houses, objects, materials
- Worlds in and out of control: order, disorder and dirt
- Power and resistance
- Embodied culture
Typical questions for formative assignment and tutorial participation are:
1) Do objects have social lives?
2) How have anthropologists characterized life inside ‘total institutions’?
To what extent can the house be regarded as a microcosm of a wider social order?
3) Is culture embodied?
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 |
---|---|---|
27 | 123 | 0 |
...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:
Category | Hours of study time | Description |
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Scheduled Learning & Teaching | 22 | Eleven 2-hour lectures, involving group discussion and film screenings |
Scheduled Learning & Teaching | 5 | Five 1-hour tutorials |
Guided independent study | 33 | Weekly reading for lectures and tutorials |
Guided independent study | 18 | Preparing tutorial presentation individually or in pairs |
Guided independent study | 27 | Research and writing of formative essay |
Guided independent study | 40 | Exam preparation (reading, library-based research) |
Guided independent study | 5 | Web-based activities |
Online Resources
This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).
ARD - Anthropology Review Database
Internet Anthropologist
Anthrobase
SOSIG: Social Science Information Gateway
Anthropology Resources on the Internet
Other Learning Resources
ethnographic film
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.
Appadurai, A. (ed.) 1986. The Social Life of Things: Commodities in cultural perspective. Cambridge: CambridgeUniversity Press.
Barnard, A. and J. Spencer (eds) 1996. Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology. Routledge.
Benda-Beckmann, K. von & F. Pirie (eds) 2007. Order and Disorder: Anthropological Perspectives. Oxford and New York: Berghahn.
Carsten, J. 2004. After Kinship. Cambridge: CambridgeUniversity Press
Douglas, M. 1966. Purity and Danger. London: Routledge.
Dumont, L. 1980. Homo Hierarchicus: The Caste System and its Implications. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Gell, A. 1998. Art and Agency in Anthropological Theory.Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Mauss, M. 1990 (1924). The Gift: The form and reason for exchange in archaic societies. London: Routledge.
Miller, D. (ed.) 1993. Unwrapping Christmas. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Turner, V. 1969. The Ritual Process: structure and anti-structure.
ELE – http://vle.exeter.ac.uk/