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Undergraduate Module Descriptor
ANT1004: Introduction to Social Anthropology-Theorising the Everyday World
This module descriptor refers to the 2021/2 academic year.
Module Content
Syllabus Plan
Lecture topics for this module include:
- Studying the ‘other’: the emergence of the anthropological perspective
- Anthropology and its colonial legacies
- People and things: houses, objects, materials
- Worlds in and out of control: order, disorder and dirt
- Power and resistance
- Embodied culture
Learning and Teaching
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 |
Online Resources
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
Other Learning Resources
ethnographic film