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| Anthropology is vast. Anything people do, anthropologists study. So you could potentially study any number of things about people’s lives and learn to see them as anthropologists do. In this class, we only cover a few of the things that anthropologists talk about. Each topic complements the others, and together they help us to demonstrate the perspectives anthropologists apply to the qualitative study of people’s everyday lives. | Anthropology is vast. Anything people do, anthropologists study. So you could potentially study any number of things about people’s lives and learn to see them as anthropologists do. In this class, we only cover a few of the things that anthropologists talk about. Each topic complements the others, and together they help us to demonstrate the perspectives anthropologists apply to the qualitative study of people’s everyday lives. | ||
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| Anthropologists approach each of these topics by placing it in a comparative, | Anthropologists approach each of these topics by placing it in a comparative, | ||
| - | < | + | * In the first week of each module, we cover basic ideas anthropologists have developed to understand the topic. Usually there is a chapter from a textbook assigned. In this class, we use //Small Places, Large Issues// |
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| - | < | + | * In the second week we discuss these ideas in the context of a single ethnographic case study, a qualitative description and analysis of a single community. The assigned readings present these ethnographic descriptions, |
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| - | < | + | * In the third week, we examine the topic in a comparative framework, usually by examining a second ethnographic case or another example of anthropological research on the topic. These are also available via ereserve and the library catalogue |
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| + | * At the end of the third week of each module, there’s also a writing assignment related to the topic that asks you to make an argument for your own point of view on these ideas. Most of these ask you to reflect critically on your own experiences from the point of view of another way of life. | ||
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| For all these pieces to come together, **you have to do something for this class every week for the whole semester**. Each week, you will have a series of tasks to carry out in order. You start each week on the Modules page, and go to the first item in that week’s checklist, the weekly reading. After you’ve read and reflected on the week’s assigned readings, you move on to the next item in the checklist, and through a series of videos, recordings, notes. Along the way, we have thrown in two simple multiple-choice questions each week. These are chances to consolidate what you have learned from the week’s material. (And you get a point for each one. See the Assignments page.) Each week’s checklist has a surprise too. Technically, | For all these pieces to come together, **you have to do something for this class every week for the whole semester**. Each week, you will have a series of tasks to carry out in order. You start each week on the Modules page, and go to the first item in that week’s checklist, the weekly reading. After you’ve read and reflected on the week’s assigned readings, you move on to the next item in the checklist, and through a series of videos, recordings, notes. Along the way, we have thrown in two simple multiple-choice questions each week. These are chances to consolidate what you have learned from the week’s material. (And you get a point for each one. See the Assignments page.) Each week’s checklist has a surprise too. Technically, | ||
| - | During the week, you will also have an opportunity to talk to the lecturers more about the topic in a live videoconference during our office hours at 10 a.m. on Monday. Also, during the week, you will have an opportunity to work with your tutor in a tutorial section on campus (or online if you have registered for one of the online tuts). If you work through each week’s checklist of tasks, then by the end of the semester you will have constructed an edifice of knowledge rather than collected bits and pieces of information. | + | During the week, you will also have an opportunity to talk to the lecturers more about the topic in a live videoconference during our office hours. Also, during the week, you will have an opportunity to work with your tutor in a tutorial section on campus (or online if you have registered for one of the online tuts). If you work through each week’s checklist of tasks, then by the end of the semester you will have constructed an edifice of knowledge rather than collected bits and pieces of information. |
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| - | ===== References ===== | + | |
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| - | Neel, Alice. 1935. //9th Avenue El//. http:// | + | |
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| - | //Premabhai Hall, Ahmedabad, Gujarat//. 1956. https:// | + | |
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| + | Eriksen, Thomas Hylland. 2015. Small Places, Large Issues: An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology. 4th ed. London: Pluto Press. http:// | ||
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