Combined Honours in Sociology or Social Anthropology and another field - Thinking Through Anthropology SOSA 2012   Thinking Through Anthropology
CREDIT HOURS: 3
Social anthropology explores how people and groups shape and are shaped by broad forces of culture, history, and social and political structures. Anthropology uses ethnography to describe and understand how people conduct their lives in a particular time and place. This course examines the challenges, complexity, strengths, and limitations of ethnographic knowledge and writing in Social Anthropology. Students will learn about a number of different ethnographic settings which may vary from year to year. A selection of ethnographies, films, autobiographical writing, and critical commentaries will be used to reveal how social anthropologists generate ethnographic knowledge about past and present societies, and why research priorities shift.
NOTES: SOSA 2012 and SOSA 2013 must be taken in the same academic year. The combination of SOSA 2012 and SOSA 2013 is equivalent to SOSA 2001. Students who have already completed SOSA 2001 are excluded from SOSA 2012.
FORMAT: Lecture
PREREQUISITES: One SOSA course at the 1000 level or FYP.
EXCLUSIONS: Students who have already completed SOSA 2001 are excluded from SOSA 2012.