Module ANT3021 for 2021/2
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
ANT3021: Anthropology of the Middle East
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:
- Ethnography of the Middle East, Politics of Representation
- Orientalism and Ethnography
- Kinship and Social Organization
- Anthropology of Religion
- Gender and Feminism
- Arts, Aesthetics, and Heritage
- Nations, Ethnicities, and the State
- Cultural Production
- Youth and Popular Culture
- Mass Displacements, Movement and Mobility
- Emerging Trends
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 |
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26 | 124 | 0 |
...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:
Category | Hours of study time | Description |
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Scheduled Learning & Teaching | 22 | Twelve 2-hour seminars |
Scheduled Learning & Teaching | 4 | Film and documentary screenings |
Guided independent study | 20 | Preparing seminar-presentation |
Guided independent study | 74 | Reading and research |
Guided independent study | 30 | Web-based activities |
Online Resources
This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).
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.
The key text for this module will be: Altorki, Soraya, ed. A Companion to the Anthropology of the Middle East . 1 edition. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2015.
Silverstein, Paul, Susan Slyomovics, and Ted Swedenburg, eds. Anthropology of the Middle East and North Africa: Into the New Millennium . Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013.
Bowen, Donna Lee, Evelyn A. Early, and Becky Schulthies, eds. Everyday Life in the Muslim Middle East . 3 rd edition. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2014.