College of Social Sciences and International Studies
Introduction to Social Anthropology-Theorising the Everyday World
Module ANT1004 for 2023/4
Module ANT1004 for 2023/4
- 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 2023/4 academic year.
Module Content
Syllabus Plan
Lecture topics for this module include:
- Studying the ‘other’: the emergence of the anthropological perspective
- Anthropology and its colonial legacies
- People and things: family, houses, objects, materials
- Economics & Exchange
- Worlds in and out of control: order, disorder and dirt
- Power and resistance
- Embodied culture
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 | 11 | 11 x 1-hour lectures |
| Scheduled Learning & Teaching | 11 | 11 x 1-hour tutorials |
| Guided independent study | 55 | Weekly reading for lectures and tutorials |
| Guided independent study | 68 | Research and writing of summative essays (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
