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Social Anthropology

SCQF Level 08 (4 courses)

Code Availability Course Name Period Credits
SCAN08005 SV1 Ethnography: Theory and Practice Semester 1 20
SCAN08003 SV1 Social Anthropology 1A: An Introduction Semester 1 20
SCAN08002 SV1 Social Anthropology 1B: The Practice of Social Anthropology Semester 2 20
SCAN08004 SV1 Social Anthropology 2: Into the Field Semester 1 20

SCQF Level 10 (52 courses)

Code Availability Course Name Period Credits
SCAN10022 SV1 Anthropological Theory Semester 1 20
SCAN10012 Anthropology and Ethics Not delivered this year 20
SCAN10040 Anthropology and Photography Not delivered this year 20
SCAN10027 Anthropology of Law Not delivered this year 20
SCAN10053 Anthropology of Shamanism and Spirit Possession Not delivered this year 20
SCAN10032 SV1 Belief, Thought and Language Semester 2 20
SCAN10001 Chinese Society Not delivered this year 20
SCAN10031 SV1 Consumption, Exchange, Technology Semester 2 20
SCAN10025 Contemporary Ethnopolitics in Sub-Saharan Africa Not delivered this year 20
SCAN10042 Contemporary Hunter-Gatherers Not delivered this year 20
SCAN10030 SV1 Culture and Power Semester 1 20
SCAN10039 Current Issues in Social Anthropology Not delivered this year 20
SCAN10007 Dealing with Strangers Not delivered this year 20
SCAN10036 SS1 Dissertation (MA Social Anthropology) Semester 1 40
SCAN10020 SV1 East Central Africa Semester 1 20
SCAN10009 Ethnicity, Sectarianism, Fourth World Not delivered this year 20
SCAN10024 Gender Categories and Representations Not delivered this year 20
SCAN10043 SV1 Happiness: Cross-Cultural Perspectives Semester 1 20
SCAN10049 SV1 Himalayan Ethnography Semester 1 20
SCAN10055 SV1 Human Origins and the Genesis of Symbolic Thought Semester 2 20
SCAN10037 SS1 Imagining Anthropological Research Semester 1 0
SCAN10047 Indigenous Peoples of Lowland South America Not delivered this year 20
SCAN10045 International Indigenous Politics Not delivered this year 20
SCAN10014 Khoisan Southern Africa Not delivered this year 20
SCAN10015 Kinship, Religion and the Self in South Asia Not delivered this year 20
SCAN10021 SV1 Kinship: Structure and Process Semester 2 20
SCAN10008 SV1 Magic, Science and Healing Semester 2 20
SCAN10018 Mediterranean Europe Not delivered this year 20
SCAN10019 Northern North Atlantic Not delivered this year 20
SCAN10003 Objects and Others: Museums and Anthropology Not delivered this year 20
SCAN10005 Race, Racism and the Other Not delivered this year 20
SCAN10038 Refugees Not delivered this year 20
SCAN10023 SV1 Ritual and Religion Semester 1 20
SCAN10006 Selected Anthropological Texts Not delivered this year 20
SCAN10044 SV1 Social Development Semester 2 20
SCAN10054 SV1 South Asian Public Culture: Keywords Semester 2 0
SCAN10028 SV1 Southeast Asia Semester 2 20
SCAN10033 The Anthropology of Childhood Not delivered this year 20
SCAN10034 SV1 The Anthropology of Death Semester 2 20
SCAN10052 SV1 The Anthropology of Food Semester 1 20
SCAN10026 The Anthropology of the Material World Not delivered this year 20
SCAN10029 The Arab World Not delivered this year 20
SCAN10035 The Background of Contemporary Anthropology Not delivered this year 20
SCAN10002 The Cross-Cultural Study of Gender Not delivered this year 20
SCAN10013 The Enlightenment and the Noble Savage Not delivered this year 20
SCAN10010 SV1 The Invention of History Semester 2 20
SCAN10016 The Politics of Identity in South Asia Not delivered this year 20
SCAN10017 The Upper Nile Not delivered this year 20
SCAN10048 SV1 The anthropology of landscape Semester 2 20
SCAN10050 Visual Anthropology Not delivered this year 20
SCAN10011 Vocational Anthropology Not delivered this year 20
SCAN10041 War and Culture Not delivered this year 20

SCQF Level 11 (15 courses)

Code Availability Course Name Period Credits
SCAN11015 Anthropological Approaches to Shamanism and Spirit Possession Not delivered this year 20
SCAN11002 SV1 Colonialism, Nationalism & Post-Colonialsm in South Asia 20
SCAN11005 SV1 Dissertation MSc by Research Social Anthropology (100 credit) 100
SCAN11003 SV1 Dissertation MSc by Research Social Anthropology (60 credit) 60
SCAN11004 SV1 Dissertation MSc by Research Social Anthropology (80 credit) 80
SCAN11009 SV1 East Central Africa Semester 1 20
SCAN11010 SV1 Indigenous Peoples of Lowland South America Semester 1 20
SCAN11014 SV1 Introduction to Medical Anthropology Semester 1 10
SCAN11007 Refugees Not delivered this year 20
SCAN11017 SV1 Supervised Reading in Social Anthropology Semester 2 20
SCAN11016 SV1 Supervised Reading in Social Anthropology (10 credits) Semester 2 10
SCAN11012 SV1 The Anthropology of Food Semester 1 20
SCAN11013 SV1 The Anthropology of Pharmaceuticals Semester 1 10
SCAN11008 SV1 The Invention of History Semester 2 20
SCAN11011 SV1 The anthropology of landscape Semester 2 20
Key
Available to all students - SV
Not available to visiting students - SS
Part-year visiting students only - VV
 
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