Anthropology

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Dr Johan Rasanayagam

Pre-requisites

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Co-requisites

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Notes

Overview

These courses introduce key issues of philosophy, theory and method raised by research in the related fields of social anthropology, ethnology and cultural history,

Structure

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Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Dr Johan Rasanayagam

Pre-requisites

Available to students in level 5 only.

Overview

The course will begin by examining practices and phenomena which tend loosely to be gathered within the study of religion, such as ritual, belief and spirituality, as well as the concepts of morality, witchcraft, magic and myth. It will interrogate the utility of the category of "religion" for understanding these phenomena and whether they might more effectively be understood in alternative terms. The second part of the course will look at the broadest politics of the category of "religion" and how it becomes distinguished from the "secular". How have these categories emerged through the history of ideas and political institutions?

Structure

One 2-hour seminar per week.

Assessment

One 5,000 word essay.

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Dr Johan Rasanayagam

Pre-requisites

To be inserted

Co-requisites

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Notes

Overview

These courses introduce key issues of philosophy, theory and method raised by research in the related fields of social anthropology,ethnology and cultural history.

Structure

To be inserted

Assessment

To be inserted

Credit Points

60

Course Coordinator

Dr Johan Rasanayagam

Pre-requisites

To be inserted

Co-requisites

To be inserted

Notes

Overview

The dissertation is a substantial piece of independent research and writing. In it, students will demonstrate the extent to which they have achieved the critical learning outcomes from their year of research training.

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Assessment

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