Undergraduate Module Descriptor

ANT2005: Current Debates in Anthropology: Practice

This module descriptor refers to the 2016/7 academic year.

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.

Crate, Susan A. and Mark Nuttall (2016) “Introduction: Anthropology and Climate Change,” in S. A. Crate and M. Nuttall, eds., Anthropology and Climate Change: From Encounters to Actions, Routledge.

Bharadwaj, Aditya (2012) “Enculturating cells: the anthropology, substance, and science of stem cells,” Annual review of anthropology 41 : 303-317.

Abramowitz, Sharon (2014) “Ten Things that Anthropologists Can Do to Fight the West African Ebola Epidemic,” Somatosphere: Science, Medicine, and Anthropology September [http://somatosphere.net/2014/09/ten-things-that-anthropologists-can-do-to-fight-the-west-african-ebola-epidemic.html].

Holmes, Seth M and Castañeda, Heide (2016) “Representing the ‘European refugee crisis’ in Germany and beyond: Deservingness and difference, life and death,” American Ethnologist 43 (1): 12-24 [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/amet.12259/full].

Shore, Cris and Susan Wright (2015) “Governing by numbers: audit culture, rankings and the new world order,” Social Anthropology 23 (1): 22–28.

Hylland Eriksen, Thomas (2016) |”Waste,” in Overheating: An Anthropology of Accelerated Change, Pluto Press, chapter 6.

Juris, Jeffrey and Razsa, Maple (2012) "Occupy, Anthropology, and the 2011 Global Uprisings," Hot Spots, Cultural Anthropology website, July 27, 2012 [https://culanth.org/fieldsights/63-occupy-anthropology-and-the-2011-global-uprisings].

Bunten, Alexis Celeste (2008) “Sharing culture or selling out? Developing the commodified persona in the heritage industry,” American Ethnologist 35 (3): 380-395.

Checker, Melissa, et al (2011) “‘Year That Trembled and Reel’d’: Reflections on Public Anthropology a Decade after 9/11,” American Anthropologist 113 (3): 491-497.

Green, Sara, et al (2016) “Brexit Referendum: ?rst reactions from
Anthropology,” Social Anthropology 0 (0) 1–25 [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1469-8676.12331/epdf].