Module ANTM113 for 2021/2
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Postgraduate Module Descriptor
ANTM113: Humans and Other Primates
This module descriptor refers to the 2021/2 academic year.
How this Module is Assessed
In the tables below, you will see reference to 'ILO's. An ILO is an Intended Learning Outcome - see Aims and Learning Outcomes for details of the ILOs for this module.
Formative Assessment
A formative assessment is designed to give you feedback on your understanding of the module content but it will not count towards your mark for the module.
| Form of assessment | Size of the assessment (eg length / duration) | ILOs assessed | Feedback method |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tutorial participation | Duration of all tutorials | 1-10 | Peer-assessed and oral feedback during tutorial) |
Summative Assessment
A summative assessment counts towards your mark for the module. The table below tells you what percentage of your mark will come from which type of assessment.
| Coursework | Written exams | Practical exams |
|---|---|---|
| 100 | 0 | 0 |
...and this table provides further details on the summative assessments for this module.
| Form of assessment | % of credit | Size of the assessment (eg length / duration) | ILOs assessed | Feedback method |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Essay | 100 | 4000 words | 1-10 | Written feedback |
| 0 | ||||
| 0 | ||||
| 0 | ||||
| 0 | ||||
| 0 |
Re-assessment
Re-assessment takes place when the summative assessment has not been completed by the original deadline, and the student has been allowed to refer or defer it to a later date (this only happens following certain criteria and is always subject to exam board approval). For obvious reasons, re-assessments cannot be the same as the original assessment and so these alternatives are set. In cases where the form of assessment is the same, the content will nevertheless be different.
| Original form of assessment | Form of re-assessment | ILOs re-assessed | Timescale for re-assessment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Essay | Essay (4,000 words) | 1-10 | August/September re-assessment period |
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.
Basic reading:
Campbell, C.J., Fuentes, A., MacKinnon, K.C., Panger, M. and Bearder, S.K. 2007. Primates in perspective. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Cheney, D. and Seyfarth, R.M. 2007. Baboon metaphysics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Corbey, R.H.A. 2005. The Metaphysics of Apes: Negotiating The Animal-Human Boundary. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Cormier, L.A. 2003. Kinship With Monkeys: The Guaja Foragers of Eastern Amazonia. New York: Columbia University Press.
de Waal, F.B.M. 1982. Chimpanzee politics: power and sex among apes. London: Cape.
de Waal, F.B.M. 1989. Peacemaking among primates. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
de Waal, F.B.M. 2001. The ape and the sushi master: cultural reflections of a primatologist. New York: Basic Books.
Fuentes, A. 2006. Human–nonhuman primate interconnections and their relevance to anthropology. Ecological and Environmental Anthropology 2(2): 1–11.
Fuentes, A. 2010. Naturalcultural encounters in Bali: monkeys, temples, tourists and ethnoprimatology. Cultural Anthropology 25(4): 600–624.
Fuentes, A. & L. Wolfe (eds) 2002. Primates Face to Face: Conservation Implications of Human-Nonhuman Primate Interconnections (Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology volume 29. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Haraway, D. 1984. Primatology is politics by other means. PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 2: 489–524.
Haraway, D. J. 1989. Primate visions: gender, race, and nature in the world of modern science. London: Routledge.
Haraway, D. 1991. Simians, cyborgs, and women: the reinvention of nature. New York: Routledge.
Knight, J. 1999. Monkeys of the move: the natural symbolism of people–macaque conflict in Japan. Journal of Asian Studies 58(3): 622–647.
Knight, J. 2005. Feeding Mr Monkey: cross-species food exchange in Japanese monkey parks. In J. Knight (ed.) Animals in person: cultural perspectives on human–animal intimacies, pp. 231–253. Oxford: Berg.
Knight, J. 2006. Monkey Mountain as a megazoo: analyzing the naturalistic claims of ‘wild monkey parks’ in Japan. Society & Animals 14(3): 245–264.
Knight, J. 2011. Herding monkeys to paradise. London: Brill.
Loudon, J.E., Howells, M.E.and Fuentes, A. 2006. The importance of integrative anthropology: a preliminary investigation employing primatological and cultural anthropological data collection methods in assessing human–monkey co-existence in Bali, Indonesia. Ecological and Environmental Anthropology 2(1): 2–13.
Loudon, J.E., Sauther, M.L. Fish, K.D., Hunter-Ishikawa, M and Ibrahim, Y.J. 2006. One reserve, three primates: applying a holistic approach to understand the interconnections among ring-tailed lemurs (Lemur catta), Verreaux’s sifaka (Propithecus verreauxi), and humans (Homo sapiens) at Beza Mahafaly Special Reserve, Madagascar. Ecological and Environmental Anthropology 2(2): 54–74.
MacClancy, J. and Fuentes A. (eds) Centralizing fieldwork: critical perspectives from primatology, biological and social anthropology .Oxford: Berghahn.
Patterson, J.D. and Wallis, J. (eds) 2005. Commensalism and conflict: the human–primate interface. American Society of Primatologists.
Perry, S.E. 2006. What cultural primatology can tell anthropologists about the evolution of culture. Annual Review of Anthropology 35: 171–208.
Riley, E.P. 2006. Ethnoprimatology: toward reconciliation of biological and cultural anthropology. Ecological and Environmental Anthropology 2: 1–10.
Strum, S. 2000. Primate encounters: models of science, gender and society. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
