Module ANT3088 for 2019/0
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
ANT3088: Health, Illness and Bodies in Contemporary Society: Part 2: Bodies in Society
This module descriptor refers to the 2019/0 academic year.
Module Content
Syllabus Plan
Lecture topics may include:
- Theorising the body
- Categorising the body – deviance, cultural constructions, and social inequality
- Regulating bodies – discipline and punish? Social control and beyond
- Marking, performing and displaying bodies
- Bodies as sites of consumption
- Experiences of bodies and embodiment
- Bodies of/in ethnography
- Technologies of/and bodies
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 22 | 128 | 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 & Teaching | 22 | 11 x 2 hour lectures, involving presentations, group discussion, and film screenings |
| Guided independent study | 18 | Preparing a formative, research based presentation individually |
| Guided independent study | 80 | Reading and research, with roughly 10% dedicated to seminar preparation |
| Guided independent study | 30 | Web-based activities |
Online Resources
This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).
news media, blogs and online fora
Other Learning Resources
films and relevant feature films
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.
Lock, M. and Farquhar, J. (2007) Beyond the body proper: reading the anthropology of material life.
Malacrida, C. and Low. J. (2008 ) Sociology of the body: A reader.
Shilling, C. (2005) The body in culture, technology and society.
Lucy Grealy. (1994) Autobiography of a Face New York: Harper Collins
Alice Domurat Dreger (2004) One of Us: Conjoined Twins and the Future of Normal
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Victoria Pitts. (2003) In the Flesh: The Cultural Politics of Body Modification
Rich, E. and Evans, J. (2005) “Fat Ethics: The Obesity Discourse and Body Politics.” Social Theory and Health 3(4): 341-358.
Gill, R et al. (2005) Body Projects and the Regulation of Normative Masculinity Body and Society 11 (1): 37-62.
