Introduction to Social Anthropology: Exploring Cultural Diversity
Module ANT1005 for 2019/0

Undergraduate Module Descriptor

ANT1005: Introduction to Social Anthropology: Exploring Cultural Diversity

This module descriptor refers to the 2019/0 academic year.

Lecture topics for this module may include:

- Kinship and the construction of relatedness

- Gendered difference

- Of witches and fallen gods: thinking in different modes

- Senses of place, qualities of time: questioning ontologies

- Anthropology in the Anthroposcene

Typical questions for formative assignments and tutorial presentations are:

1. Why study kinship? How would social anthropologists answer this question?

2. Why did Captain Cook have to die? And why have anthropologists argued about it?

3. People across the world perceive different qualities of time. Without clocks, would we be living unstructured lives?

4. What does it mean to say that the belief in witchcraft is rational?

This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:

Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities	Guided independent study	Placement / study abroad
27	123	0

...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:

Category	Hours of study time	Description
Scheduled Learning & Teaching	22	Eleven 2-hour lectures, involving group discussion and film screenings
Scheduled Learning & Teaching	5	Five 1-hour tutorials
Guided independent study	33	Weekly reading for lectures and tutorials
Guided independent study	18	Preparing tutorial presentation individually or in pairs
Guided independent study	27	Research and writing of formative essay
Guided independent study	40	Exam preparation (reading, library-based research)
Guided independent study	5	Web-based activities

This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).

ARD - Anthropology Review Database

Internet Anthropologist

Anthrobase

SOSIG: Social Science Information Gateway

Anthropology Resources on the Internet

ethnographic film