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SA1001 ANTHROPOLOGY IN THE WORLD This module provides an introduction to some of the key issues and debates in Social Anthropology. We begin by asking what is Social Anthropology, and in what ways it is different and similar from other ways of learning about the world. The guiding motive for the module is that all social anthropologists, no matter their approach or their subject of study, deal with one basic question, what does it mean to be human? In this module we approach this fundamental question by focusing on five sets of issues and questions that have been central to the development of our discipline: • Introduction: the distinctiveness and scope of Social Anthropology. • Hunter‐gatherers and other so‐called ‘primitive’ peoples, usually represented in Euro‐ American society as our living ancestors and as the remnants of an unchanging preindustrial world. • Movement in a globalising world and the ways in which people such as Gypsies, tourists, migrants and exiles make sense their transient environments. Just what is ‘home’? • Issues of power and resistance, and the ways in which peoples across the world have resisted and continue to resist their domination by others. • Tourism as an industry and a component of globalisation and the cross‐cultural encounters it engenders. • Children and young people and their place in anthropological studies. ___________________________________________________________________________ Module Convener: Lecturers: Dr Stan Frankland (mcf1). Please address all problems to him. Dr Stan Frankland (mcf1), Dr Mattia Fumanti (mf610), Professor Christina Toren (ct51), Dr Stavroula Pipyrou (sp78) Credits: 20 Teaching: Lecture Hour: Tutorials: Ethnographic films: Weekly lecture series, ethnographic films, workshops and tutorials 4pm Buchanan Lecture Theatre on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday These are held WEEKLY in either the department seminar room or in the Arts Building Films will be shown on Fridays at 4pm in the Buchanan Lecture Theatre Course Assessment: Two assessed essays = 60% Two hour examination = 40% A Reader Pack is available for this module. It contains key readings for the course including all those necessary for the tutorials and a core of those required for the essays. The packs can be purchased through the Online Shop, https://onlineshop.standrews.ac.uk/ and collected from the Departmental Office. Other readings are available in Short Loan and, in some cases, via MMS. 4
INTRODUCTION WHAT IS SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY? WEEK 1 Dr Stan Frankland mcf1@st‐andrews.ac.uk 1st Floor, 71 North Street WEEK 1: GENERAL INTRODUCTION TO THE COURSE AND TO SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY The module begins with a general introduction to Social Anthropology, raising a number of broad themes that will be picked up on throughout the semester. In the first three lectures, you will be introduced to the central concepts, the way of thinking, and the methods and the modes of presentation that constitute professional anthropology today. The aim of this introductory session will be to provide a solid grounding for the more detailed sections of the module to follow. It will also begin the process of promoting an awareness of the assumed notions that each one of us has about social values, and encouraging a consciousness and questioning of such values through the use of anthropological approaches and data. KEY READINGS While there is no particular textbook for this module, all of these books provide useful introductions to the complexities of social anthropology. They will be useful in providing students with a clear overview of the subject and will also be helpful in relation to all other aspects of the module. • Barnard, A., 2006. Social Anthropology: Investigating Human Social Life. Abergele: Studymates • Eriksen, T.H., 2001. Small Places. Large Issues. An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology. London. Pluto Press. • Eriksen, T.H., 2004. What is Anthropology? London: Pluto • Hendry, J., 1999. An Introduction to Social Anthropology: Other People’s Worlds. London: Macmillan Press. • James, W., 2003. The Ceremonial Animal: A New Portrait of Anthropology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. • Keesing, R.M. & Strathern, A.J., 1998. Cultural Anthropology: A Contemporary Perspective. Forth Worth: Harcourt Brace College Press. • Monaghan, J. & Just, P., 2000. Social and Cultural Anthropology: A very short introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press. • Rapport, N. & Overing, J., 2000. Social and Cultural Anthropology: The Key Concepts. London: Routledge. LECTURE 1: WHY ANTHROPOLOGY? This lecture stresses the importance of studying anthropology in the current era of globalisation and of understanding the connections and disconnections in the modern world. How do we make sense of the apparent chaos that confronts us everyday? 5
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