Undergraduate Module Descriptor

ANT2002: Ethnography Now

This module descriptor refers to the 2021/2 academic year.

Module Content

Syllabus Plan

Whilst the module’s precise content may vary from year to year, it is envisaged that the syllabus will cover some or all of the following topics:
- A brief history of ethnography
- Challenges to ethnographic authority
- The end(s) of contemporary ethnography
- Reflexivity and fieldwork
-New British ethnographies
- New forms of inquiry
- Student culture
- Ethnographic fieldwork and analysis.

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 and Teaching activity	22	Weekly 2 hour meetings with lecture and seminar component will form a basis upon which you can build your own interpretations of module materials.
Guided independent study	50	Preparation for oral presentation and tutorial discussions
Guided independent study	50	Researching and writing written assignments
Guided independent study	28	Fieldwork and data analysis

Online Resources

This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).

ELE – http://vle.exeter.ac.uk/

Other Learning Resources

Contemporary ethnographic and documentary films on relevant topics

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.

Boellstorff, T. (2008). Coming of age in Second Life: An anthropologist explores the virtually human: Princeton Univ Pr.
Bourgois, P. I. (2003). In search of respect: Selling crack in El Barrio: Cambridge Univ Pr.
Clifford, J., & Marcus, G. E. (1986). Writing culture: The poetics and politics of ethnography: Univ of California Pr.
Clough, P. T. (1998). The End (s) of Ethnography: From Realism to Social Criticism. 2nd edn. New York: Peter Lang.
Fonarow, W. (2006). Empire of Dirt: The Aesthetics and Rituals of British Indie Music (Middletown, CT, Wesleyan University Press).
Faubion, J. D., & Marcus, G. E. (2009). Fieldwork is not what it used to be: learning anthropology's method in a time of transition: Cornell University Press.
Kulick, D. (1998). Travesti: sex, gender, and culture among Brazilian transgendered prostitutes: University of Chicago Press.
Rabinow, P., Marcus, G. E., Faubion, J. D., & Rees, T. (2008). Designs for an Anthropology of the Contemporary: Duke University Press.