Module ANT3053 for 2021/2
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
ANT3053: How Organisations Work: Ethnography in Institutions
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:
- Ethics
- Finding a Site
- Gatekeepers
- Learning How to Ask
- Rapport
- Observing and Participating
- Infrastructure
- Paper
- Numbers
- Writing Up
- Disseminating Findings
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 |
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Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activity | 11 | 11 x 1 Hour Lectures |
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activity | 11 | 11 x 1 Hour Practicums |
Guided Independent Study | 8 | Ethics Assessment |
Guided Independent Study | 44 | Weekly Reading for Seminars |
Guided Independent Study | 48 | Hands-on Ethnographic Research |
Guided Independent Study | 6 | In-Class Presentation |
Guided Independent Study | 22 | Research Report |
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.
Smith, Dorothy. 2005. Institutional Ethnography. Altamira.
Borges, J.L. 1969. ‘The Ethnographer’. Penguin
Pratt, Mary Louise. 1986. ‘Fieldwork in Common Places’. Writing Culture, Marcus and Clifford, eds. University of California Press.
Marcus, George. 1995. ‘Ethnography in/of the World System: The Emergence of Multi-Sited Ethnography’. Annual Review of Anthropology.
Nader, Laura. 1969. ‘Up the Anthropologist: Perspectives Gained From Studying Up’. Reinventing Anthropology, D. Hymes, ed. Pantheon.
Briggs, Charles. 1986. ‘Introduction’. Learning How to Ask. Cambridge
Hull, Matthew. 2010. ‘Democratic Technologies of Speech’. Linguistic Anthropology.
Herzfeld, Michael. 1992. The Social Production of Indifference. University of Chicago Press
Lewis-Krauss, Gideon. 2016. ‘The Trials of Alice Goffman’. New York Times
Deloria, Philip. 1998. Playing Indian. Yale University Press.
Star, Susan Leigh. 1999. ‘The Ethnography of Infrastructure’. American Behavioural Scientist.
Latour, Bruno. 1990. ‘Technology is Society Made Durable’. The Sociological Review.
Hull, Matthew. 2003. ‘The file: agency, authority, and autography in an Islamabad bureaucracy’. Language and Communication.
Garfinkel, Harold. 1967. ‘Good Organizational Reasons for ‘Bad’ Clinical Records’. Studies in Ethnomethodology. Polity.
Porter, Theodore. 1995. Trust in Numbers. Princeton University Press.
Bakhtin, Mikhail. 1981. ‘Forms of Time and Chronotope in the Novel’. The Dialogic Imagination. University of Texas Press.
Ortner, Sherry. 1995. ‘Resistance and the Problem of Ethnographic Refusal’ Comparative Studies in Society and History.