ANTH4009/7018 - Select Topics 'Anthropology of Art and Method'

The module takes as its starting point a provocation from the panel discussion 1984 and Beyond (Playboy Magazine 1963 June and July issue), which suggests that if we're to discover aliens, it would not fall to engineers and hard scientist, but to anthropologist to define these aliens. It goes further and points out that it would not be long before they recognize the anthropologist's limitations and bring in the science fiction writers to do the job. The module brings together a series of disparate texts.

ANTH7020 - Anthropology and Ethnographies of South Africa

The course explores the anthropology and ethnographies of sub-Saharan Africa. It does so by exploring different genres/forms of what might legitimately be considered an "ethnographic" text in an African context.

ANTH7026 - Craft of Anthropology

This course is designed to teach Anthropology Honours and Masters students the craft of ethnography. The course will give students the opportunity to engage ethnography through:

Reading some excerpts of its classic iterations
Practical exercises
The course will also serve as a workshop for students to prepare research proposals for their degrees.

ANTH7024 - Medical Anthropology in the Global World

Medical Anthropology helps make sense of suffering and recovery as a social experience. It carries us into refugee camps, birthing centres, factories, boardrooms, rehabilitation centres and schools.

ANTH7029 - Sociocultural Theory

Social theory, cultural theory, and critical theory, often just plain ‘theory’: these terms denote a literature that lies between philosophies on the one hand and empirical work conducted in the humanities and social sciences on the other. The thread that runs throughout is a critical attention to the notion of the human: anthropology’s defining object but one that is deeply problematised by ongoing political and intellectual developments.

ANTH7007 - Identity & Culture

This course covers key questions around identity and culture. As the notion of identity proliferates, it troubles anthropology as a discipline which emerged out of the Enlightenment period where classifications of persons became a raison d’etre of the discipline. Seeking to understand, unravel and possibly reverse primordial, essentialist and ethnocentric descriptors in processes of identification, whilst attempting to think through the mobilisation of hard notions of identity in everyday social practice, is a daunting task for contemporary anthropologists. Identity and culture are two of the most ubiquitous terms in anthropology.

ANTH7027 - Ethnographic Analysis and Writing

ANTH7013 - Research Topic

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