UCL ANTHROPOLOGY
PROVISIONAL ANTHROPOLOGY UNDERGRADUATE
COURSES 2016-17
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First Year Compulsory
ANTH1001
Introduction to Material and Visual Culture
ANTH1001A Introduction to Material and Visual Culture I
ANTH1005
Introduction to Social Anthropology
ANTH1005A Introduction to Social Anthropology I
ANTH1005B Introduction to Social Anthropology II
ANTH1010
Researching the Social World
ANTH1013
Methods and Techniques in Biological
Anthropology
ANTH1014
Introduction to Biological Anthropology
ANTH1014A Introduction to Biological Anthropology I
ANTH1014B Introduction to Biological Anthropology II
Second Year Only
ANTH2006
Theoretical Perspectives in Social
Anthropology and Material Culture
ANTH2008
Being Human
ANTH3801
ANTH3802
ANTH3803
ANTH3804
Palaeontology and Paleoecology
Geology of the Turkana Basin
Ecology of the Turkana Basin
Archaeology of the Turkana Basin
Second / Third / Fourth Year
ANTH2003
Palaeoanthropology
ANTH2009
Anthropology of the Body
ANTH3007
Medical Anthropology
ANTH3020
Social Construction of Landscapes
ANTH3037
Anthropology and Photography
ANTH3052
Primate Evolution and Environments
ANTH3060
Anthropologies of Islam
ANTH7002
Political and Economic Anthropology
ANTH7006
Anthropologies of Religion
ANTH7009
Primate Behaviour and Ecology
ANTH7015
Fishers and Fisheries; Anthropology, Aquatic
Resources and Development
ANTH7018
Human Behavioural Ecology
ANTH7020
Anthropologies of Science, Society and
Biomedicine
ANTH7021
Mass Consumption and Design
ANTH7022
Human Brain, Cognition and Language
ANTH7027
Anthropology of India
ANTH7028
Linguistic Anthropology
ANTH7029
Digital Infrastructure: Materiality, Information
and Politics
NEW
Art in the Public Sphere
ANTH7030
NEW
Current Themes in Social Anthropology
ANTH7031
NEW
The Social Forms of Revolution
ANTH7033
NEW
Ethnography of a Selected Area
ANTH7038
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Third / Fourth Year
ANTH3001
Advanced Topics in Digital Culture
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Anthropology of Crime
ANTH3002
ANTH3017
Anthropology and Psychiatry
NEW
Atapuerca and Human Evolution in Europe
ANTH3035
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ANTH7035
Reproduction, Fertility and Sex
Ritual Healing and Therapeutic Emplotment
Ethnographic and Documentary Film Making –
a practice-based introduction
Anthropology of Ethics and Morality
NEW
Aspects of Applied Medical Anthropology
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ANTH1001
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Introduction to Material and Visual Culture
A general introduction to material culture studies including their history,
comparative study of technology; theories of artifacts; art and museum
practice and theory.
Themes treated:
Term1: Museums, Technology, Art, Photography
Term2: Consumption, Architecture, Landscape, Digital
1.0
Unseen 2 hour written exam (30%) + 1500 words essay (10%) + 60 page lab
book (40%) + 1500 words object analysis (20%)
None. Core course for BSc Anthropology students.
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Terms 1 & 2
Material Culture
2 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: 2 hour lab session
TBC
Dr Timothy Carroll
t.carroll@ucl.ac.uk
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.
Themes treated: Museums, Technology, Art, Photography
0.5
1500 words essay (20%) + 30 page lab book (50%) + 1500 words object
analysis (30%)
None. History of Art students wishing to take an introductory material
culture option should take this course as there will be no Introduction to
Material and Visual Culture II in Term 2.
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Term 1 only
Material Culture
2 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: 2 hour lab session
TBC
Dr Timothy Carroll
t.carroll@ucl.ac.uk
ANTH1005
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Introduction to Social Anthropology
The first part of the course introduces students to the role of culture in
defining humanity and how anthropologists study it, the role of politics in
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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. In Term 2 the course explores
economics and kinship by examining the evolution of economic
organisation, focussing especially on peasant and industrialized societies,
asking how economists' and anthropologists' approaches might be
combined. How people construct their relatedness is explored through
kinship terminology, conceptions of the relations between bodies, family,
household and houses, and by exploring the role of kin-based societies
within the global political order. Readings (2-3 per week) are a mixture of
book chapters and journal articles.
1.0
3 hour unseen written exam (100%) + formative essays
None. Core course for 1st year Anthropology students
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Social Anthropology
2 hour lecture + 1 hour tutorial per week
TBC
Dr Jerome Lewis (T1); TBC (T2)
jerome.lewis@ucl.ac.uk; TBC
ANTH1005A
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Introduction to Social Anthropology I
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
2.5 hour unseen written exam (100%) + formative essays
None
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Term 1 only
Social Anthropology
2 hour lecture + 1 hour tutorial per week
TBC
Dr Jerome Lewis; Prof Michael Stewart
jerome.lewis@ucl.ac.uk; m.stewart@ucl.ac.uk
ANTH1005B
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Introduction to Social Anthropology II
This one term course provides an introduction to anthropological thinking
by examining two fundamental aspects of human social organisation provisioning (economics) and reproduction (kinship). These are two areas
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of human activity where strong universalist claims have been made and
the course explores, through a wide range of case studies, how
anthropological understandings of culture and history can be reconciled
with economistic and biological reasoning. Topics include the evolution of
money, the false contrast of gift and commodity, the reproduction of
poverty in industrial society, kinship terminology, conceptions of the
relations between bodies, family, household and houses, and the role of
kin-based societies within the global political order.
0.5
2.5 hour unseen written exam (100%) + formative essays
Normally ANTH1005A: Introduction to Social Anthropology (0.5 unit)
However, this prerequisite is waived in some circumstances, especially for
Affiliate students arriving at the beginning of Term 2.
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Social Anthropology
2 hour lecture + 1 hour tutorial per week
TBC
TBC; Dr Alison Macdonald
TBC; alison.macdonald@ucl.ac.uk
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ANTH1010
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Researching the Social World
This course provides an introduction to modern social anthropological
research training and specifically in the use of digital media. It provides our
students with a basic introduction to quality documentary filmmaking.
The course combines the basics of ethnographic research with training in
one set of tools for communication of research findings. Students will
explore the use of observational methods, of interview and consider the
role of ethical considerations in research. This training will feed into the
research that underpins the final film. Finally the course will develop the
students’ critical skills in film analysis through the practical application and
experience of creating a short film and manipulating digital media and
equipment to that end. The course responds to the growing wish among
UCL students to use digital media as a tool in research and it forms a
prerequisite for the third year film course, ANTH3058. It also provides an
important introduction to vocationally relevant skills.
0.5
2500 words diary of research & film-making (50%) + short film 3-5 min
(50%)
None. Core course for 1st Year Anthropology students. This course is only
available to students registered in the Anthropology Department.
1
Term 2
Social Anthropology/Material Culture
2 hour lecture + 2 hour lab session per week
TBC
Dr Ruth Mandel;
r.mandel@ucl.ac.uk;
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ANTH1013
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Methods and Techniques in Biological Anthropology
A laboratory-based course designed as a practical introduction to
biological anthropology. The course runs in parallel with ANTH1014:
Introduction to Biological Anthropology. The course introduces methods of
data collection and data handling, descriptive statistics and hypothesis
testing. Subject areas include evolutionary theory, genetics, taxonomy,
behavioural ecology, primate evolution, nutrition, anthropometry,
demography, and resource use.
0.5
Lab book 33.3% + Scientific Report 33.3% + Quizzes 33.3%
Only available to Anthropology students
1
1&2
Biological Anthropology
2 hour lab session per week.
TBC
Dr Andrea Migliano
a.migliano@ucl.ac.uk
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ANTH1014
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Introduction to Biological Anthropology
Basic evolutionary biology as applied in anthropology, covering
evolutionary theory, socio-biology, primate behaviour, taxonomy and
phylogenetic reconstruction. Introduction to the similarities and
differences between humans and non-human primates from both
biological and behavioural perspectives. Overview of human adaptation to
different environmental and other stresses. General introduction to
human nutritional requirements and problems. Introductory overview of
the fossil and archaeological evidence for human evolution, and of the
interpretation of this evidence. Introductory survey of principles and
findings in the fields of nutrition, environmental physiology, epidemiology
and evolution of infectious diseases relevant to the study of human
ecology.
1.0
3 hour unseen written exam (100%) + 4 x 1500 words non-assessed essays
None. Anthropology 1st year core course
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1&2
Biological Anthropology
2 hour lecture +1 hour tutorial per week
TBC
Prof Volker Sommer; Dr Caroline Garaway
v.sommer@ucl.ac.uk; c.garaway@ucl.ac.uk
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ANTH1014A
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Introduction to Biological Anthropology I
Term 1 of the whole unit ANTH1014. Basic evolutionary biology as applied
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in anthropology, covering evolutionary theory, socio-biology, primate
behaviour, taxonomy and phylogenetic reconstruction. Introduction to
the similarities and differences between humans and non-human primates
from both biological and behavioural perspectives.
0.5
2.5 hour unseen written exam (100%) + 2 x 1500 words non-assessed
essays
None. Term 1 of the core Anthropology 1st year course
1
Term 1 only
Biological Anthropology
2 hour lecture + 1 hour tutorial per week
TBC
Prof Volker Sommer; Dr Andrea Migliano
v.sommer@ucl.ac.uk; a.migliano@ucl.ac.uk
ANTH1014B
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Introduction to Biological Anthropology II
Introductory overview of human adaptation to different environmental
and other stresses; General introduction to human nutritional
requirements and problems, environmental physiology, epidemiology and
evolution of infectious diseases relevant to the study of human ecology.
Introductory overview of human evolution through the introduction to the
fossil and archaeological record and its interpretation. Familiarisation with
the different hominin species through the analysis of the origin, evolution
and consequences of the major physical and behavioural adaptations of
humans.
0.5
2.5 hour unseen written exam (100%) + 2 x 1500 words non-assessed
essays
None. Term 2 of Anthropology first year core course (ANTH1014). This half
unit is a core course for Human Sciences students.
1
Term 2 only
Biological Anthropology
2 hour lecture + 1 hour tutorial per week
TBC
Dr Caroline Garaway; Dr María Martinón-Torres
c.garaway@ucl.ac.uk; maria.martinon-torres@ucl.ac.uk
ANTH2003
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Palaeoanthropology
Although we are the only surviving hominin species, this was not always
the case. This course provides a general knowledge of the fossil evidence
for human evolution within a dynamic palaebiological frame. Students will
become familiar with the anatomy of our ancestors through an analysis of
the origin, evolution and consequences of the major physical and
behavioral adaptations of humans. The course will introduce the different
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hominins by addressing the key evolutionary milestones associated with
human origins such as changes in the type of locomotion, diet, precision
grip, body size/proportions, life history pattern, brain evolution.
0.5
2.5 hour written exam (75%) + Lab Report (25%)
None.
2/3/4
Term 1
Biological Anthropology
2 hour lecture + 2 hour lab session per week
TBC
Dr María Martinón-Torres
maria.martinon-torres@ucl.ac.uk
ANTH2006
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Theoretical Perspectives in Social Anthropology and Material Culture
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.
0.5
2.5 hour unseen written exam (100%) + formative essay
Core course for Anthropology 2nd year students and joint degree BA
Archaeology/Anthropology students. Open to term one affiliate students.
Subsidiary students should have completed ANTH1005: Introduction to
Social Anthropology or ANTH1001: Introduction to Material and Visual
Culture.
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Social Anthropology/Material Culture
2 x 1 hour lectures + 1 x 1 hour tutorial per week
TBC
Dr Allen Abramson; Prof Chris Tilley
a.abramson@ucl.ac.uk; c.tilley@ucl.ac.uk
ANTH2008
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Being Human
The course will investigate different research and sub-disciplinary
approaches to the overarching anthropological questions of what is the
basis of humanity and what makes humans human.
Each student will spend two weeks with 4 different members of staff from
the different subsections in the department. Each staff member will
develop two questions which contribute to the way their research
approaches the fundamental anthropological question of what it means to
be human – and these questions will be accompanied by three readings
which the students must read before the session and discuss during the
tutorial. Students will also identify one reading themselves for each
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tutorial topic. For this reason it is impossible to outline a clear syllabus
because each staff member will address different topics which develop out
of their own research interests. By the end of the course all students will
have had two sessions with staff from each subsection of the department:
biological anthropology, social anthropology, medical anthropology and
material culture.
0.5
3000 words essay (75%) + article summaries (25%)
None. Core course for Anthropology 2nd year students. Only available to
BSc Anthropology and BSc Anthropology with a year abroad.
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Term 2
Biological Anthropology/Material Culture/Medical Anthropology/Social
Anthropology
1.5-2 hour small group (4-5 student) tutorial per week
Wednesday 9-11 OR Thursday 11-1; all students have an intro lecture 9-11
on the first Wednesday of Term 2
Dr Timothy Carroll
t.carroll@ucl.ac.uk
ANTH2009
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Anthropology of the Body
The human body is a versatile thing. It is composed of organs, bone, and
blood, and these are composed of cells and minerals and molecules.
Organically speaking, the body is often perceived as a biological fact with
strengths and limitations. Anthropologically speaking, bodies are far more
than that, and they can be the most extraordinary things. Bodies are
intimately interwoven into every social place and process, and the body as
a cultural entity is constantly constructed. The body is deeply informed by
the cultural systems in which it is embedded, and, in turn, it can inform the
world around it. This course explores the human body as a cultural
category and explores corporality as an anthropological dilemma. How
does society ‘create’ and assign value to the physical body, its gender,
birth and death? How do people utilise the body, its parts, image and
restrictions, to reflect and explain their world? How is the biological body
reimaged through ritual and possession, and what are the implications for
therapy and medicine? Through critical readings of ethnography, case
studies of the body in society, and select science fiction, we will explore
how bodies make, and are made by, physical movements and historical
moments, and we will think through what the human body is becoming in
a contemporary, more than human world.
0.5
Unseen exam (60%) + weekly blog (40%)
ANTH1005/A/B: Introduction to Social Anthropology
2/3/4
Term 2
Medical Anthropology
2 hours lecture + 1 hour tutorial / week
TBA
Dr Aaron Parkhurst
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ANTH3001
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Advanced Topics in Digital Culture
Digital data is becoming an inevitable part of everyday life, mediating and
instantiating our relationships with other people, the natural world, the
past and the future. What can the study of data tell us about emergent
forms of social life? And what can anthropology bring to the study of
digital data? This course will equip students to engage critically with a
range of social, cultural and political issues that surround the increasingly
pervasive practices of the production and circulation of data in digital
settings.
Each week we will take a different anthropological debate and use it to
unpack the ways in which digital data has become intimately entwined in
discourses and practices around for example, environmental crisis, the
state and surveillance, globalisation, aesthetic representation, kinship,
personhood, and property. The course will simultaneously engage
students in current theoretical debates in anthropology, teach students
how to use these debates to interrogate the claims and promises of digital
data, and ask how these debates might be taken in new directions by
engaging with digital data as an ethnographic subject.
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Guided by different ethnographic studies of data practices drawn from
both anthropology and science and technology studies, we will look at
questions such as: From what historical context can we understand the
rise of digital data in social life? How is digitisation in the natural sciences
affecting humans’ relationships with nature? Can a person become their
data? In what way are notions of the body changing in data-driven
biomedicine? What happens to notions of ownership and property in a
digital knowledge economy? How are data practices such as the Quantified
Self movement re-shaping notions of selfhood and identity? How can we
take the hype around Big Data seriously and critically at the same time?
And what does digital data mean for ethnographic practice and
anthropological commitments to the field?
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3000 words essay (100%)
3/4
Term 1
Material Culture
1 x 2 hour lecture + 1 hour tutorial per week
TBC
Dr Antonia Walford
antonia.walford.11@ucl.ac.uk
ANTH3002
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Anthropology of Crime
This advanced seminar course allows students to explore in detail the
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social and cultural dimensions of crime in relation to specific regimes of
legality. It frames detailed sessions on criminal court cases and extra-legal
litigation and adjudication processes in terms of classic anthropological
debates about the relation between the law and society. The ethnographic
focus will be on the following ‘crimes’: banditry, rustling, theft,
racketeering and mafias, trafficking, rioting and rape.
0.5
1500 words essay (30%) + 2500 words essay (70%)
ANTH2006: Theoretical Perspectives in Social Anthropology and Material
Culture
3/4
Term 2
Social Anthropology
1 x 2 hour seminar per week
TBC
Dr Lucia Michelutti
l.michelutti@ucl.ac.uk
ANTH3007
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Medical Anthropology
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
2 hour unseen written exam (60%) + 2500 words essay (40%)
None.
2/3/4
Term 1
Medical Anthropology
1 x 2 hour lecture + 1 hour tutorial per week
TBC
Dr Joseph Calabrese
j.calabrese@ucl.ac.uk
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ANTH3017
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Anthropology and Psychiatry
The course examines: a) popular understandings of psychology, self-hood
and abnormal experience in different societies, and how they may be
organised into a body of knowledge; b) the relationship between popular
and professional notions of 'mental illness' and their roots in the wider
social, economic and ideological aspects of different societies, with
particular respect to women and minority groups; c) the contribution of
academic psychology, psychiatry and psychoanalysis to social
anthropology; d )running through the course is the question of whether we
can reconcile naturalistic and personalistic modes of thought and, if so,
how.
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2.5 hour unseen written exam (75%) + 2000 words essay (25%)
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ANTH2006: Theoretical Perspectives in Social Anthropology and Material
Culture and ANTH3007: Medical Anthropology or permission from tutor.
3/4
Term 2
Medical Anthropology
2 hour lecture + 2 hour seminar per week
TBC
Prof Roland Littlewood
r.littlewood@ucl.ac.uk
ANTH3020
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Social Construction of Landscapes
Landscapes are never inert: people engage with them, re-work them,
appropriate them and contest them. They are part of the way in which
identities are created and disputed. Criss-crossing between history and
politics, social relations and cultural perceptions, landscape is a ‘concept of
high tension’. It is also an area of study that blows apart from conventional
boundaries between disciplines. This course looks at the number of
theoretical approaches to the Western Gaze; colonial, indigenous and
prehistoric landscapes; contested landscapes; and questions of heritage
and ‘wilderness’.
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5000 words project essay (100%)
None.
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Term 2
Material Culture
2 hour lecture and 1 hour tutorial per week
TBC
Prof Chris Tilley
c.tilley@ucl.ac.uk
ANTH3035
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Atapuerca and Human Evolution in Europe
This course will provide
1) a good knowledge of the contribution of the Atapuerca sites to the
understanding of the evolutionary scenario of human populations in
Europe. Students will get familiar with the Atapuerca Early to Middle
Pleistocene hominin fossils and related discussion about their taxonomy,
phylogeny, behavior and general geo-chonological and
paleoenvironmental frame.
2) an introduction to the practical fieldwork aspects of
paleontological/archaeological excavations by participating in the
excavation of the Atapuerca Pleistocene sites (Burgos, Spain). Students will
gain a general understanding of the principles and methods by which the
archaeological and paleontological data is acquired, recorded and used to
reconstruct the past.
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Field notebook min 2000 words (50%) + academic poster (50%)
The module is recommended as advanced 3rd year course building on skills
and knowledge acquired during previous 2 years. In particular, students
should have taken the ANTH2003: Paleoanthropology. Priority will be
given to UCL students with previous experience in archaeological
fieldwork.
3/4
June 2016
Biological Anthropology
12 hours of lectures and tutorials taught at the UCL premises +
approximately 15 days fieldwork at Atapuerca
TBC
Dr María Martinón-Torres
maria.martinon-torres@ucl.ac.uk
ANTH3037
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Anthropology and Photography
The course examines how anthropologist use photography as part as their
research methodology and also study it ethnographically. We will also
consider how anthropologists might engage photography in the future.
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1 x 2500 words essay (50%) + annotated photographic portfolio (50%)
None
2/3/4
Term 1
Material Culture
2 hour lecture + 1 hour tutorial per week
TBC
TBC
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ANTH3049
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Reproduction, Fertility and Sex
In this course students to learn to apply different theoretical and
disciplinary approaches to the study of contemporary issues in
reproduction and fertility. Each week a different topic is examined from a
multi-disciplinary perspective including social anthropology, biological
anthropology, demography, biology and other disciplines The course is a
seminar based discussion with considerable student participation:
students have to identify an article each week on the topic and be
prepared to present their reading to the group. Topics covered are likely
to include love, hormones and bonding; adolescent reproduction;
reproductive loss (abortion, miscarriage and still birth); breastfeeding;
infertility; contraception and contraceptive methods; different roles and
priorities of men and women in reproduction; reproduction and migration.
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2 hour unseen written exam (60%) + 2200 words essay (40%)
NOTE: this course is capped at 25 students.
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Medical Anthropology
2 hour seminar per week
TBC
Prof Sara Randall
s.randall@ucl.ac.uk
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ANTH3052
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Primate Evolution and Environments
The course has two parts. The first part provides required background
knowledge:
- An introduction to modern primates and their habitats
- Knowledge of the tools used to interpret the fossil record (time proxies,
climate proxies, behavioural proxies)
- An introduction to Cenozoic climate history and its causes.
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The second part builds on this knowledge in order to:
- Contextualise primate evolution (phylogenetically, chronologically,
environmentally)
- Generate an understanding of how major changes in environmental
conditions have influenced primate evolution
- Discuss the role of modern humans as environmental factors influencing
species and habitat diversity.
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2000 words essay (30%) + 3000 words study report (70%)
ANTH1014 Introduction to Biological Anthropology (ANTH1014B for
Human Sciences students) or equivalent biological background.
2/3/4
Term 2
Biological Anthropology
2 hour lecture + 2 hour seminar/practical per week. 1 day palaeontological
field trip.
TBC
Dr Christophe Soligo
c.soligo@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
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9. Ritual Efficacy
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3000 words essay (100%)
ANTH3007: Medical Anthropology
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Term 2
Medical Anthropology
1 hour lecture + 1 hour seminar per week
TBC
Dr Joseph Calabrese
j.calabrese@ucl.ac.uk
ANTH3058
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Ethnographic and Documentary Film Making – a practice-based
introduction
This course will expand students’ competence in the use of digital media
(first acquired in ANTH1010) providing them with more advanced training
in quality documentary filmmaking. The course will extend the students’
critical skills of film analysis through the practical application and
experience of creating a short film based upon an anthropological research
topic (in most instances, a MyStreet film). It will provide them with the
tools to manipulate advanced digital media and equipment to that
end. This course contributes to students’ intellectual formation not only
by expanding ways of reading and understanding visual ethnographies but
also by linking the students own research to the act of filmdocumentation.
Students will have a 1 hour training session a week followed by 2 hours of
supervised practice. Since the course is designed to advance existing
camera and editing skills, it will be delivered in 9 one-hour
demonstrations/lectures and 2-hour seminars and tutorials (i.e. 3 hours
teaching per week) and 2 hours of group supervision of editing work
during the final week of term. Every student must produce a final 3-5
minute video, to be shot at a maximum 25:1 ratio of 200 minutes of
rushes. Students will spend a minimum of three hours in the first 4 weeks
completing advanced practical camera coursework, in their own time
outside of formal instruction periods, for appraisal in tutorials. This will be
followed by 1-4 days project research and filming. They will need to spend
up to 60 hours editing in the department’s Visual Media Laboratory, or on
their own editing equipment. Students will use UCL cameras, and, where
needed UCL workstations.
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3-5 minute film (70%) + 1 x 2000 words diary of filmmaking (30%)
Either ANTH1010: Researching the Social World or evidence of basic
competence in film production.
NOTE: this course is capped at 20 students (because of limitations in
space and equipment). If more than 20 students wish to take the course
preference will be given to students with successful film projects in the
first year ANTH1010 course.
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Anthropology of Ethics and Morality
This course will critically engage with recent medical anthropological work
addressing the role of ethics and morality in anthropological practice and
ethnographic endeavor. In this course we will unpack the problematics of
medical anthropology’s engagement with ethics and morality, examining
the questions surrounding morality and ethics as a result of developing an
academically rigorous and socially engaged discipline, and the effects of
taking concerns for well-being and the good life seriously as the focus of
ethnographic enquiry.
0.5
2 hour unseen written exam (60%) + 2000 words essay (40%)
ANTH2006: Theoretical Perspectives in Social Anthropology and Material
Culture
3/4
Term 2
Medical Anthropology
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1 hour lecture + 2 hour seminar/tutorial per week
TBC
Prof Michael Stewart
m.stewart@ucl.ac.uk
weekly two-hour seminar with a short 20 minute lecture at the beginning
TBC
Dr Edward (Jed) Stevenson
e.stevenson@ucl.ac.uk
ANTH3060
Anthropologies of Islam
This course looks comparatively at how Islam is diversely lived, practiced
and understood around the globe. Providing students with a grounding in
both classic and contemporary analyses of Muslim culture and society, the
course addresses the ethnographic richness, complexity and vitality of
Islam both as a lived experience and as a formal religious tradition.
Drawing on ethnographies of Islam in Africa, Middle East, Asia, and
Europe, the course traces the role Islam plays in contemporary politics,
gender relations, conceptions of time and temporality, migration, art and
literature, love and romance, etc. In doing this, it introduces students to
the main theoretical and methodological debates within the anthropology
of Islam regarding how best to study Muslim lives.
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2500 words essay (70%) + research project report (30%)
None
2/3/4
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Social Anthropology
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2 hour lecture + 1 hour tutorial per week
TBC
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ANTH3801
Palaeontology and Paleoecology
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Study of the appearance, evolution, and causes of extinction of major organisms
through the study of animal and plant fossils. Field excursions include training in
the recovery of fossil remains and laboratory exercises include the methods in the
analysis of skeletal and dental morphology.
The module will be conducted at the Turkana Basin Institute in Northern Kenya
and has to be taken together with ANTH3802, ANTH3803, ANTH3804 in Term 2. In
addition to return airfare to Nairobi there is an additional field school fee to
participate (approx £4000 for all four modules + airfare).
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Biological Anthropology
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Dr Andrea Migliano
a.migliano@ucl.ac.uk
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ANTH3802
Geology of the Turkana Basin
The course is run as a 2-week module with 12 class days and within the context of
the TBI Field School. Each class day consists of lectures, labs and/or field
excursions. The students are also required to participate in seminars and
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A survey of the sedimentation, stratigraphy, volcanism, and tectonics of the
Turkana Basin region. Numerous field excursions include training in geological
field methods.
The module will be conducted at the Turkana Basin Institute in Northern Kenya
and has to be taken together with ANTH3801, ANTH3803, ANTH3804 in Term 2. In
addition to return airfare to Nairobi there is an additional field school fee to
participate (approx £4000 for all four modules + airfare).
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0.5
TBC
None
2
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Biological Anthropology
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TBC
The course is run as a 2-week module with 12 class days and within the context of
the TBI Field School. Each class day consists of lectures, labs and/or field
excursions. The students are also required to participate in seminars and
presentations.
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Dr Andrea Migliano
a.migliano@ucl.ac.uk
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ANTH3803
Ecology of the Turkana Basin
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In this course students will study the habitats of our early ancestors by examining
analogous modern ecosystems in the Turkana Basin. Field excursions will include
study of numerous types of ecosystems and include training in methods of
ecological analysis.
The module will be conducted at the Turkana Basin Institute in Northern Kenya
and has to be taken together with ANTH3801, ANTH3802, ANTH3804 in Term 2. In
addition to return airfare to Nairobi there is an additional field school fee to
participate (approx £4000 for all four modules + airfare).
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0.5
TBC
None
2
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Biological Anthropology
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Dr Andrea Migliano
a.migliano@ucl.ac.uk
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ANTH3804
Archaeology of the Turkana Basin
The course is run as a 2-week module with 12 class days and within the context of
the TBI Field School. Each class day consists of lectures, labs and/or field
excursions. The students are also required to participate in seminars and
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In this course students will examine evidence for two million+ years of hominin
technological adaptations around Lake Turkana, home to some of the world´s
oldest stone tools. Field excursions will included site excavation techniques and
labs will include stone tool manufacture and analysis.
The module will be conducted at the Turkana Basin Institute in Northern Kenya
and has to be taken together with ANTH3801, ANTH3802, ANTH3803 in Term 2. In
addition to return airfare to Nairobi there is an additional field school fee to
participate (approx £4000 for all four modules + airfare).
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0.5
TBC
None
2
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Biological Anthropology
The course is run as a 2-week module with 12 class days and within the
context of the TBI Field School. Each class day consists of lectures, labs
and/or field excursions. The students are also required to participate in
seminars and presentations.
TBC
Dr Andrea Migliano
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Political Anthropology
The course examines anthropological approaches to understanding
political and economic organisation in different cultural settings. For
centuries in our part of the world the pursuit of happiness has been linked
to particular types of economic activity and forms of political freedom.
What does anthropology have to say about these models of behaviour?
And what can anthropology contribute to understanding the lives of others
that have been subjected to our models of 'the good life'.
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3000 words essay (50%) + written coursework, powerpoint and election
campaign material (50%)
ANTH1005/A/B: Introduction to Social Anthropology
2/3/4
Term 1
Social Anthropology
2 x 2 hour seminar per week
TBC
Prof Michael Stewart; Dr Lucia Michelutti
m.stewart@ucl.ac.uk; l.michelutti@ucl.ac.uk
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ANTH7006
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Anthropologies of Religion
This course addresses the topic of religion from multiple perspectives
(hence the plural 'anthropologies'). The course draws on evolutionary,
archaeological and theological perspectives to examine how and why
human populations acquired religious practices, and then consider the
socio-political and institutional aspects of religion. The later half of the
course focuses on religious practices examining the role of visual and
material registers within the religious imagination, the creation of divine
worlds and altered states, and asks questions concerning the relationship
between materiality, mind and spirit. A solid background knowledge of
anthropology will be assumed.
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2000 words essay (50%) + take home exam (40%) + 1000 words journal
(10%)
ANTH1001 required, ANTH2006 encouraged.
2/3/4
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Material Culture
2 hour lecture and 1 hour tutorial per week
TBC
Dr Timothy Carroll
t.carroll@ucl.ac.uk
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ANTH7009
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Primate Behaviour and Ecology
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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2.5 hour unseen written exam (75%) + 1500 words essay (25%)
None
2/3/4
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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ANTH7015
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Fishers and Fisheries; Anthropology, Aquatic Resources and
Development
This course touches on themes in political ecology, environmental
anthropology, the anthropology of food and the anthropology of
development through a detailed exploration of the world’s fisheries; from
the fisherfolk that harvest them to those that consume them. Along the
way, the course critically examines: The global fish ‘crisis’ and prospects
for global food security and supply; conservation v’s development
discourse in resource management; scientific & traditional management of
natural resources; certification/eco-labelling and the ‘green’ consumer;
commodity chains; ecology of small scale fishers groups; poverty,
development and livelihoods;
Course description
Each student on the course also become a member of CARP-London (Cities
Aquatic Resource Project – London) an initiative which both trains
undergraduates in research and builds our understanding of the
production, supply and consumption of aquatic resources in our urban
centres- past, present and future. This is a chance for students to get
involved in real research and build their research skills portfolio.
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0.5
Research portfolio (Research report (1500 words) (50%) + Blog (1500
words) (35%))
Role play assignment 1500 words (15%)
None. Optional course for Anthropology, Human Sciences, Geography and
Biology students.
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2/3/4
Term 2
Biological Anthropology
2 hour lecture + 1 hour tutorial per week
TBC
Dr Caroline Garaway
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ANTH7018
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Human Behavioural Ecology
This is an evolutionary anthropology course, open to all second and third
years. It is about how human behaviour evolves as a response to different
ecological circumstances. Topics will include basic behavioural ecology (as
applied to both animal and human behaviour) and also some evolutionary
psychology and cultural evolution. Topics will include mate choice, life
history evolution, kinship and marriage systems in humans.
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This course is a pre-requisite for the third year options ANTH3050:
Evolution and Human Behaviour, and ANTH3005: Hunter Gatherers, Past,
Present and Future.
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None
2/3/4
Term 2
Biological Anthropology
2 hour lecture per week + 1 hour tutorial every two weeks (4 in total)
TBC
Dr Andrea Migliano
a.migliano@ucl.ac.uk
ANTH7020
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Anthropologies of Science, Society and Biomedicine
This course will critically engage with recent anthropological research and
theory addressing the social and cultural context of novel developments in
the field of genetics, biotechnology and the life/medical sciences. These
shape shifting arenas of science and technology and their actual or
predicted implications for questions of disease risk, collective/individual
identity and the politics and ethics of health care has been the focus of
much recent research within medical anthropology, STS (Science and
Technology Studies) and the anthropology of science. The course
incorporates emerging research in different national contexts that include
the ‘global south’ drawing on ethnographic work in Asia and South
America to provide a critical comparative perspective on these
transnational developments.
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2000 words essay (60%) + blog (30%) + group presentation (10%)
ANTH3007: Medical Anthropology or permission from tutor.
2/3/4
Term 2
Medical Anthropology
1 x 2 hour seminar per week
TBC
Dr Sahra Gibbon
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s.gibbon@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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3000 words essay (80%) + 1000 words project (20%)
None
2/3/4
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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ANTH7022
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Human Brain, Cognition and Language
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
sociolonguistic studies of language differentiation, in order to categorise
the origin, uniqueness and diversity of human language.
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Unseen 2 hour written exam (60%) + 2000 words essay (40%)
None
2/3/4
Term 1
Biological Anthropology / Medical Anthropology
1 x 2 hour lecture per week + 4 X 1 hour tutorials
TBC
Dr Lucio Vinicius
l.vinicius@ucl.ac.uk
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Anthropology of India
This course addresses classical and contemporary anthropological
perspectives on India from the post-independence era onwards. The
course introduces students to key ethnographically driven debates
concerning the major processes of social change and political development
in India, and the way this has transformed the everyday lives of Indian
people across a range of themes including social stratification, religious
and caste politics, biotechnological intervention, consumption, asceticism
and morality, marriage, love and personhood. In particular, the course
analyses the novel socio-cultural forms that arise from India’s economic
reform and modernisation by paying close attention to ethnographic
knowledge and everyday vernacular practice.
0.5
2000 words essay (50%) + 2000 words research project (50%)
ANTH1005/A/B: Introduction to Social Anthropology.
2/3/4
Term 1
Social Anthropology
2 hour lecture + 1 hour tutorial per week
TBC
Dr Alison Macdonald
alison.macdonald@ucl.ac.uk
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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1500 words essay (60%) + 1000 words field report (40%)
Subsidiary students will require permission from the tutor.
2/3/4
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Social Anthropology
2 hour seminar + 1 hour tutorial per week
TBC
Dr Alex Pillen
a.pillen@ucl.ac.uk
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ANTH7029
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Digital Infrastructure: Materiality, Information and Politics
This course will explore how digital technologies are affecting people’s
everyday lives, by approaching digital technologies as infrastructures. In
the face of globalisation and the challenge that this has posed to
community-based studies of cultural processes anthropologists have
become increasingly interested in how large scale technical systems such
communications networks, energy infrastructures, roads, water and waste
systems might act as fruitful sites for conducting an ethnographies of
contemporary relations. Building on this recent work within the
anthropology of infrastructure and applying it to digital technologies, the
course will covers issues such as the role of digital technologies in
mediating relationships between citizens, corporations and the state, the
place that digital media are playing in constructing social and political
imaginaries, the material basis of digital communication and the
emergence of the Internet of Things as a new realm of social relationality.
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3000 words essay (85%) + 500 words blog post (15%)
The course is limited to students taking the BSc Anthropology /
Anthropology with a year abroad and the BA in Archaeology and
Anthropology.
2/3/4
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Material Culture
2 hour lecture + 1 hour tutorial per week
TBC
Dr Hannah Knox
h.knox@ucl.ac.uk
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ANTH7030
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Art in the Public Sphere
Exploring the public sphere as a place of communication and contestation,
transmission and transformation, engagement and estrangement, this
course will provide an anthropological approach to art in public space.
Examining independent and institutional art practices, from the apparent
“vandalism” of graffiti to the authorized projects of contemporary Public
Art, it will explore the social, political and economic debates which these
practises both implicitly intersect with and overtly investigate. The course
will focus in particular on the concept of public and publicity, community
and the commons. It will also include guest lectures and workshops by
artists as well as explorations of particular exhibitions and events in a local
context.
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1500 words essay (50%) + 2000 words mini project report (50%)
None.
2/3/4
Term 2
Material Culture
2 hour lecture + 1 hour tutorial per week
TBC
Dr Rafael Schacter
r.schacter@ucl.ac.uk
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ANTH7031
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Current Themes in Social Anthropology
This course will explore a selected topic in social anthropological research.
Potential topics are religion, kinship and economics. Special attention will
be paid to current research on the topic. Students will get a good sense of
the direction in which future research is headed.
0.5
Unseen 2 hour written exam (60%) + 2500 words essay (40%)
ANTH1005/A/B: Introductory Social Anthropology
2/3/4
Term 2
Social Anthropology
2 hour lecture + 1 hour tutorial per week
TBC
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ANTH7033
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The Social Forms of Revolution
Drawing on research conducted as part of a 5-year comparative research
project on the anthropology of revolutions, this course introduces
students to the social dimensions of revolutionary politics. Grounded in
ethnographic accounts of revolutionary situations in different parts of the
world, and adopting a comparative perspective on them, the course will
address such themes as revolutionary personhood and the social
corollaries of the politics of the (so-called) New Man, revolutionary
asceticism, ethnographies of political textualities, social utopias and
heterotopias, charisma, leadership and political mediation, social
engineering and its pitfalls, technologies of political planning, and more.
0.5
2000 words essay (50%) + 1500 word mini-project report (40%) + 5 to 10
minutes mini-project presentation (10%)
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2/3/4
Term 1
Social Anthropology
2 hour lecture + 1 hour tutorial per week
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Anthropology Undergraduate Courses 2016-17
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Prof Martin Holbraad
m.holbraad@ucl.ac.uk
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ANTH7035
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Aspects of Applied Medical Anthropology
How can what we know as anthropologists be applied to saving lives,
alleviating suffering, and promoting vitality? This class surveys some
answers to this question from the perspectives of medical anthropology
and sister disciplines such as social medicine and global health. We will
read and interrogate classic and contemporary studies from the
anthropology and medical literatures, and policy documents from the
World Health Organisation and philanthropic foundations. Along the way,
we will engage with key theoretical approaches including Critical Medical
Anthropology, political ecology, and the social determinants of health. The
goal of the class is to equip students to critically evaluate and apply
anthropological ideas to current problems in medicine and global health.
0.5
2000 words essay (50%) + 1500 words essay (40%) + group presentation
(10%)
ANTH3007: Medical Anthropology
3/4
Term 1
Social Anthropology
2 hour lecture + 1 hour tutorial per week
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Dr Edward (Jed) Stevenson
e.stevenson@ucl.ac.uk
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ANTH7038
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Ethnography of a Selected Area
This course will explore themes in the ethnography of a region referring to
topics identified by previous anthropological research. Special attention
will be paid to current themes of interest. Students will get a good sense of
the direction in which future research is headed.
0.5
Unseen 2 hour written exam (60%) + 2500 words essay (40%)
ANTH1005/A/B: Introductory Social Anthropology
2/3/4
Term 1
Social Anthropology
2 hour lecture + 1 hour tutorial per week
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