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This course introduces students to the subject by focusing on how anthropologists understand and explain social and cultural differences. We will explore a range of contemporary topics through a set of key questions that form the foundation of the di...

This course introduces students to the study of social and cultural diversity by exploring culture and its role in our lives. Topics include ritual, symbolism, the body, exchange, belief, inequality, globalisation, kinship, gender and class. Case stu...

This course examines anthropological approaches to kinship, sexuality and gender. It will explore the shifting social norms surrounding gender, sexuality, the family and relatedness across diverse cultural settings. It will reveal how practices of ge...

This course introduces topics in economic anthropology by examining the various. forms that capitalism takes within different cultural contexts, how it produces inequalities, and the varied ways that people and cultures respond to, appropriate and re...

This course explores inspiring and influential ideas in recent Anthropology by discussing the writings of some of the discipline's greatest thinkers. Among the topics considered are: symbolism and the interpretation of cultures; culture and globalisa...

This course will examine the cultural encounters and human experiences that emerge out of contemporary human rights regimes, humanitarian interventions, development projects, and global politics. Taking case studies from a range of different cultural...

This course focuses on anthropological approaches to conflict and reconciliation, exploring the relationship between the two, and considering how we as anthropologists approach these topics at local, national, and international levels. These themes a...

This course explores human relationships with ecological and material environments. It will examine diverse cultural perceptions of and approaches to the environment, the relationship between nature and culture, and anthropology’s contribution to con...

How do communities give meaning and order to the world? What binds us together in collective relations with one another? This course offers an introduction to the anthropology of ritual. It will consider the ways rituals give order to social life, ho...

This course applies anthropological insights and theories to ideas about education in different historical and cultural contexts. We will examine core issues in the anthropology of education (such as gender, race and class) to ask how and where peopl...

This course applies anthropological insights and theories to ideas about education in different historical and cultural contexts. We will examine core issues in the anthropology of education (such as gender, race and class) to ask how and where peopl...

Science and technology are fundamental parts of all cultures. In this course, we examine how diverse sciences and technologies shape peoples’ interpretations of the world, their relations with one another, and their understandings of themselves. Cons...

This course explores how Anthropology might contribute to human emancipation from racism, gender inequality, class disparities, and other forms of oppression and exploitation. We will consider what it means to approach anthropology from a decolonisin...

This course explores what roles our cultural beliefs and practices play in shaping our understandings of health, wellbeing, illness and medicine. We ask how culture mediates our experiences of our bodies, our emotions and diseases, and how local and ...

This course offers an in-depth exploration of the cultural diversity in Oceania by analysing the complex interplay between colonial encounters, postcolonial impacts, Indigenous epistemologies, and identity formation. We will explore these themes thro...

In this course we will explore some of the methodologies anthropologists use to collect and analyse data (including participant-observation, interviews, collaboration, visual ethnography, and auto-ethnography), and consider ethical and political issu...

This course examines anthropological approaches to the role of food and eating in human life. It explores how food reflects social relations, expresses power structures, shapes cultural practices, and enacts systems of meaning.

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This course will consider the use of visual media in both the practice and production of ethnography by examining how visual representations are both products of cultural norms, values and actions and Considering the development of visual anthropolog...

In this course we explore migration as both empirical phenomenon and subject of anthropological study. We compare the intentions, outcomes and experiences of migrants, considering citizenship, belonging, and the nation-state, and look critically at r...

Design anthropology is a form of applied anthropology that uses ethnographic, anthropological and design methodologies to foster positive social change. It is critical, collaborative, and interdisciplinary. This course uses the core principles and me...

This course explores the aftermath of World War II, namely the problem of displaced persons, refugees and expellees on the quest for peace and governance of Europe. It will include attention to humanitarian organisations, international law, the geogr...

This course critically examines culture, a concept central to anthropological thought that arguably shapes all aspects of social, economic, and political life worldwide. We will explore the relationship between culture and ethnography and interrogate...

This course explores the purposes and processes of, and debates around, social and cultural theorizing. Students will learn about conceptualization and about scholarly discussion of description, explanation, classification, evaluation in social and c...

This course reviews social and cultural research methods and analytical practices. Social and Cultural Studies staff members will draw on their disciplinary backgrounds to share a variety of methodologies and experiences of working with diverse commu...

What does it mean when we call something 'ethnographic'? In this course we will critically examine the diverse anthropological approaches to ethnography, and read key texts that have shaped and reshaped the ethnographic method and writing model. We w...

In this course, we will examine how people anticipate, cope with, and thrive across radical social, political, technological, and environmental changes. Through close readings of selected anthropological, philosophical, and historical texts, as well ...

There are many methods for conducting empirical research. This course will concentrate on those used in ethnographic research, and guide students through their own fieldwork projects. Students will learn how to write a research proposal, a field repo...

This course examines contemporary issues in anthropological theory. Focusing on cutting-edge ideas in the discipline, it explores historical, ethnographic and philosophical contexts of their development.

Approved and supervised voluntary work placement of the student in a public sector agency, private sector establishment, or non-governmental organisation with a focus on any of research, policy or service provision issues.