UCL DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY
FOR TERM 1 AFFILIATE STUDENTS ONLY*
PROVISIONAL ANTHROPOLOGY
UNDERGRADUATE COURSE OPTIONS 2015-16
* Term 2 and Whole-Year affiliate students should refer to the Provisional
Undergraduate Modules 2015/16 available at
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/courses/ug
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First Year Compulsory
ANTH1001A
Introduction to Material and Visual Culture I
ANTH1005C
Introduction to Social Anthropology I C
Second Year Only
ANTH2006A
Theoretical Perspectives in Social
Anthropology and Material Culture A
Second / Third Year
ANTH2003A
Palaeoanthropology A
ANTH3007A
Medical Anthropology A
ANTH7005A
Population Studies A
ANTH7009A
Primate Behaviour and Ecology A
ANTH7022A
Human Brain, Cognition and Language A
ANTH7013
Anthropology of the Built Environment
ANTH7021
Mass Consumption and Design
ANTH7022A
Human Brain, Cognition and Language A
ANTH7023
Ethnography of Forest Peoples
ANTH7026A
Anthropology of China A
ANTH7027
Anthropology of India
Third Year Only
ANTH7028
Linguistic Anthropology
ANTH3030
The Anthropology of Nationalism, Ethnicity
and Race
ANTH3055
Transforming and Creating the World:
Anthropological Techniques and Technology
ANTH3057
Ritual Healing and Therapeutic Emplotment
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ANTH1001A
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Introduction to Material and Visual Culture I
A general introduction to material culture studies including their history,
comparative study of technology; theories of artifacts; art and museum
practice and theory; theories of social evolution and an outline of social
development from early hunter-gatherers to pre-modern states and the
development of the modern world.
Themes treated: Museums, Technology, Art, Photography
0.5
1500 words essay (20%) + 30 pages lab book (50%) + 1500 words object
Analysis (30%)
None.
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Term 1 only
Material Culture
3 x 1 hour lectures + 1 hour tutorial + 2 hour lab session every 2 weeks:
1st week: 2 x 1 hour lectures + 1 hour tutorial
2nd week: 1 hour lecture + 2 hour lab session
TBC
Prof Chris Pinney
c.pinney@ucl.ac.uk
ANTH1005C
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Introduction to Social Anthropology I C
This course introduces students to the role of culture in defining humanity
and how anthropologists study it, the role of politics in society, with
principles and types of political organisation in both small and large-scale
societies, and with aspects of religious belief and practice such as
witchcraft, magic, belief and initiation. It also considers the local and
global integration of these societies. Readings (2-3 per week) are a mixture
of book chapters and journal articles.
0.5
Essay 1 1500 words (50%) and Essay 2 1500 words (50%)
None
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Term 1 only
Social Anthropology
2 hour lecture + 1 hour tutorial per week
TBC
Dr Jerome Lewis
jerome.lewis@ucl.ac.uk
ANTH2003A
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Palaeoanthropology A
The course provides a thorough introduction to the biological evidence for
human evolution, as well as to the way in which this evidence is analysed
and interpreted. The anatomy of various hominid species is discussed
from the perspective of reconstructing human evolutionary history and the
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evolution of human behaviour. We will also relate fossil discoveries to the
archaeological record and reconstructions of environment, ultimately
arriving at a synthetic view of human origins.
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One essay 3000 words (100%)
None.
2/3
Term 1
Biological Anthropology
2 hour lecture + 2 hour lab session per week
TBC
Dr Matthew Skinner
m.skinner@ucl.ac.uk
ANTH2006A
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Theoretical Perspectives in Social Anthropology and Material Culture A
An introduction to social theory including functionalist models, Marxism,
structuralist approaches to social structure/kinship and to conceptual
organisation/communication; phenomenological theory in anthropology,
agency and structure, post-modernism and post-structuralism, postcolonialism, globalisation and cognitive approaches within the discipline.
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One essay 3000 words (100%)
Core course for Anthropology 2nd year students and joint degree BA
Archaeology/Anthropology students. Subsidiary students should have
completed ANTH1005: Introduction to Social Anthropology or ANTH1001:
Introduction to Material and Visual Culture. Affiliate students – please
contact Prof Charles Stewart or Prof Chris Tilley or Dr Marc Brightman.
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Social Anthropology/Material Culture
2 x 1 hour lectures + 1 x 1 hour tutorial per week
TBC
Prof Charles Stewart; Prof Chris Tilley
c.stewart@ucl.ac.uk; c.tilley@ucl.ac.uk
ANTH3007A
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Medical Anthropology A
Using data from societies throughout the world, the course covers
biomedical and behavioural definitions of disease and illness: systems of
classification, the distribution of disease and illness; the roles of healer and
the sick; rituals of healing; politics of diagnosis; competition between, and
change with, medical systems; the assessment of efficacy.
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0.5
One essay 4000 words (100%)
None.
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Medical Anthropology
1 x 2 hour lecture + 1 hour tutorial per week
TBC
Dr Joseph Calabrese; Dr Sahra Gibbon
j.calabrese@ucl.ac.uk; s.gibbon@ucl.ac.uk
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ANTH3030
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The Anthropology of Nationalism, Ethnicity and Race
This course focuses on theories and practices of ethnicity, race and
nationalism. The reading material is divided between theoretical work on
these issues and ethnographic examples. The readings primarily are from
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what sometimes are called the '1 and 2 worlds'. Though most of the
readings are contemporary, historical sources will be used as well.
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2 x 2000 words essays (50% each)
Course in Social Anthropology. 3rd year students only. Affiliate students –
please contact Dr Galina Oustinova-Stjepanovic.
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Social Anthropology
2 hour session (lectures, discussion, and a few relevant films) and 1 hour
tutorial per week
TBC
Dr Galina Oustinova-Stjepanovic
g.oustinova-stjepanovic@ucl.ac.uk
ANTH3055
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Transforming and Creating the World: Anthropological Perspectives on
Techniques and Technology
The aim of this module is to provide students with the methodological and
theoretical tools to engage critically with the notion of “techniques” and of
“technology”. “Technology”, in particular, pervades both public and
academic discourses and often appears as a hazy term defining a high-tech
device, a form of knowledge, of practices, a mode of organisation of
production, or even a way of being in the world.
Challenging the underlying assumptions that isolate “technology” from
“society” (thus keeping it outside of most anthropological investigations),
or which see it only as an mode of production, we will instead focus on the
processual nature of actions that we can call “techniques” and explore
how they recruit and mobilise, at different scales, bodies, knowledge,
materials, imagination, personhood, politics or cosmologies, produce
ontologies, logics and meta-physics.
Our exploration might take us through a series of examples ranging from
indigenous gardening systems to modern transport technology, from
carving or cooking to rituals and magical operations as well as digital
technology.
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1 x 2500 words essay (75%) + 1 x 1000 words logbook (25%)
ANTH1005/A: Introduction to Social Anthropology and
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ANTH2006: Introduction to Theoretical Perspectives in Social Anthropology
and Material Culture. 3rd year students only. Affiliate students – please
contact Dr Ludovic Coupaye or Dr Marc Brightman.
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Material Culture
2 hour seminar + 1 hour tutorial per week
TBC
Dr Ludovic Coupaye
l.coupaye@ucl.ac.uk
ANTH7009A
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Primate Behaviour and Ecology A
Current Darwinian theory is applied to explore the evolution of primate
social systems. A particular focus lies on the interplay between
environmental conditions and reproductive strategies as well as cognitive
abilities.
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0.5
Essay 1 1500 words (50%) and Essay 2 1500 words (50%)
None
2/3
Term 1
Biological Anthropology
2 hour lecture and 1 hour tutorial per week
TBC
Prof Volker Sommer
v.sommer@ucl.ac.uk
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ANTH7022A
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Human Brain, Cognition and Language A
The course analyses human cognition from evolutionary and functional
perspectives. The first part of the module places the human brain in a
comparative and evolutionary context. The second part analyses
differences and similarities between the human mind and other forms of
animal cognition and the concept of consciousness. The final part of the
module is dedicated to language. We analyse the theories proposed by
Chomsky, Pinker, the idea of a ‘universal grammar’, recent research in
neurolinguistics, comparative studies of animal communication, and
sociolinguistic studies of language differentiation, in order to categorise
the origin, uniqueness and diversity of human language.
0.5
Essay 1 2000 words (50%) and Essay 2 2000 words (50%)
None
2/3
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Biological Anthropology / Medical Anthropology
1 x 2 hour lecture per week + 4 x 1 hour tutorials
TBC
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Dr Lucio Vinicius
l.vinicius@ucl.ac.uk
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ANTH7023
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Ethnography of Forest Peoples
This course looks comparatively at four key themes in the ethnography of
forest peoples. With a focus on forest people in Amazonia and the Congo
Basin the course will trace the different ways that societies in these
regions construct and understand the relations between nature and
society; space, gender and the house; cosmology and ritual; violence and
peacefulness.
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One essay 3000 words (100%)
ANTH1005: Introduction to Social Anthropology or ANTH1005A or
ANTH1005B. Affiliate students – please contact Dr Marc Brightman.
2/3
Term 1
Social Anthropology
2 hours per week in a format of lecture or seminar or lecture + seminar
depending on topic
TBC
Dr Marc Brightman
m.brightman@ucl.ac.uk
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ANTH7028
Linguistic Anthropology
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This course explores the linguistic construction of gendered cultures. It is built
around a set of key ethnographies on language, power and gender:
© Veiled sentiments
© The hidden life of girls
© Masking terror
© Vicarious language
© Pronouncing and persevering
© Eloquence in trouble
© I could speak until tomorrow
© The give and take of everyday life
© In the realm of the diamond queen
© From grammar to politics
The lectures include multi-media presentations, and draw on theory within
contemporary linguistic anthropology. First of all we consider linguistic relativism,
and the language socialization of boys and girls in differing cultural contexts. This
initial debate provides a framework to consider gendered affective regimes,
soundscapes, and verbal art. Finally, we consider the impact of rapid cultural
change, globalization and modernization on language and gender: the loss of
genres/gender, the postmodern construction of voices, and emerging rhetorical
and ironic selves.
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0.5
1 x 1500 word essay (60%) + 1 x 1000 word field report (40%)
Affiliate students will require permission from the tutor.
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3
Term 1
Social Anthropology
2 hour seminar + 1 hour tutorial per week
TBC
Dr Alex Pillen
a.pillen@ucl.ac.uk
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ANTH7013
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Anthropology of the Built Environment
'Buildings are good to think'. This course will explore anthropological
approaches to the study of architectural forms. It will focus primarily on
the significance of domestic space and public private boundaries, gender
and body, the materiality of architectural form and materials and the study
of architectural representations. The course will be structured
chronologically beginning with early anthropological encounters with built
forms and the philosophical, historical and social context of these
approaches up to the present day within anthropology.
0.5
2 x 2500 words essays (50% each)
At least ANTH1001A: Introduction to Material and Visual Culture I,
ANTH1001B: Introduction to Material and Visual Culture II or ANTH2006:
Theoretical Perspectives in Social Anthropology and Material Culture.
Affiliate students will need permission from the tutor or from Dr Ruth
Mandel or Dr Marc Brightman.
2/3
Term 1
Material Culture
2 hour lecture and 1 hour tutorial per week
TBC
Prof Victor Buchli
v.buchli@ucl.ac.uk
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ANTH7021
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Mass Consumption and Design
The course examines the key historical literature on mass consumption
and critical approaches to the theory of culture as a form of
objectification. We then evaluate the ways in which the paradigm of
design as a cultural field continues or replaces the paradigm of
consumption in social relationships and identities. The course covers
ethnographic studies of the role of goods in everyday life, as well as
examinations of the role of corporations and multinationals and goods as
mediators of their presence in social life. (The course replaces, and partly
continues, the older option in media and mass consumption)
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1 x 3000 words essay (80%) + 1 x 1000 words project (20%)
None
2/3
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Term 1
Material Culture
2 hour lecture + 1 hour tutorial per week
TBC
Dr Adam Drazin
a.drazin@ucl.ac.uk
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ANTH7026A
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Anthropology of China A
China has been in transition from the long rule of Mao Zedong since 1978
when policies of ‘reform and opening-up’ were introduced. In this course
the reform era will be analysed through a variety of themes, including
education, social stratification, urbanisation, economic transformations
and modernity. Throughout we will pay particular attention to the impact
of top-down policies – such as the creation of special economic zones, the
continued imposition of the household registration system, and family
planning rules (the “one-child policy”) – on the everyday lives of Chinese
people.
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1 x Essay + 1 x Presentation
ANTH1005/A/B: Introduction to Social Anthropology. The course is limited
to students taking the BSc Anthropology / Anthropology with a year
abroad and the BA in Archaeology and Anthropology. Affiliate students will
require permission from the tutor and must have taken an introductory
course in social anthropology at a good level.
2/3
Term 1
Social Anthropology
1 hour lecture + 1 hour seminar per week
TBC
Dr Kimberly Chong
Kimberly.chong@ucl.ac.uk
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ANTH7027
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Anthropology of India
This course offers students a firm grounding in ethnographic and
theoretical perspectives on the anthropology of India. The course explores
classical anthropological themes and different analytical approaches to the
conceptualisation of Indian society in relation to contemporary and cutting
edge empirical case studies. Drawing on an expansive range of
ethnographic material, the course examines how anthropological theories
of India have developed and expanded in light of recent social
developments. This includes: contemporary political agenda and
democratization, the globalisation of biotechnologies, moralities of ‘love’
and marriage, the increasing role of civil society and cosmopolitan urban
lifestyles, contemporary religious affiliations, the emergence of ‘neo’ascetic subjectivities and the Indian diaspora. The course aims open up a
forum for theoretical consideration of Indian ethnography for the
discipline of anthropology as a whole.
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1 x 1500 word essay (50%) + 1 x 2000 word mini project report (50%)
ANTH1005/A/B: Introduction to Social Anthropology. Affiliate students will
require permission from the tutor or from Dr Marc Brightman or Dr Ruth
Mandel.
2/3
Term 1
Social Anthropology
2 hour lecture + 1 hour tutorial per week
TBC
Dr Alison Macdonald
alison.macdonald@ucl.ac.uk
ANTH3057
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Ritual Healing and Therapeutic Emplotment
Summary of the course contents:
1. Overview of the Seminar and Definitions of Ritual and Emplotment
2. An Introduction to Ritual Process
3. The Social Production and Ethnographic Description of Religious and
Healing Experiences
4. The Anthropology of Symbolic Healing
5. Therapeutic Emplotment and Narrative Persuasion
6. Therapeutic Consciousness Modification and Psychedelics
7. Case Study: The Peyote Ceremony
8. Expressive and Therapeutic Aspects of Spirit Possession
9. Ritual Efficacy
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1 x 3000 word essay (100%)
ANTH3007: Medical Anthropology. Affiliate students please contact the
course tutor or Dr Marc Brightman of Dr Ruth Mandel.
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Medical Anthropology
1 hour lecture + 1 hour seminar per week
TBC
Dr Joseph Calabrese
j.calabrese@ucl.ac.uk
ANTH7005A
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Population Studies A
An introduction to the study of human populations focusing on patterns
and determinants of fertility and mortality. The course examines the
interplay between biological and social determinants of change in the
basic population parameters, using examples drawn largely from
contemporary developing countries, although issues in historical
demography and contemporary developed-country demography are
touched upon; theories of population change, population and resources,
population policy. This course is a natural continuation from the human
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and disease ecology part of ANTH1014 and ANTH1014B. High levels of
quantitative skills are not required although students should be able to
interpret simple graphs.
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2 x 2000 words essays (85%) + group presentation (10%) + practical book
(5%)
None
2/3
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Medical Anthropology
14 x 1 hour lectures + 1 x 1 hour practical + 4 x 1 hour tutorials, 3 x 2 hour
country profile sessions
TBC
Prof Sara Randall
s.randall@ucl.ac.uk
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