Postgraduate Course: Contemporary Hunter-Gatherers (PGSP11026)

Course Outline
School	School of Social and Political Science	College	College of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)	SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate)	Availability	Available to all students
SCQF Credits	20	ECTS Credits	10
Summary	This course explores ethnography of the world's hunting-and-gathering societies and the contributions made through this ethnography to anthropological theory and contemporary debate. Regions covered include Southern and Central Africa; Aboriginal Australia; the Arctic, Subarctic and Northwest Coast of North America; Indigenous South America; and Foraging Populations of South and Southeast Asia. Theoretical ideas and debates include notions of immediate and delayed-return economic systems, the 'original affluent society', the revisionist debate (on the extent and meaning of culture contact in historic periods), and the indigenous debate (on whether special rights should be accorded to hunter-gatherers by virtue of legally-defined indigeneity).
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Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisites	None
High Demand Course?	Yes

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Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to: describe the lifestyles of a variety of hunter-gatherer peoples make meaningful comparisons within and between regions on aspects of hunter-gatherer culture formulate ethnographically-informed opinions on issues such as social development in hunter-gatherer communities engage in debate, at postgraduate level, on theoretical issues in hunter-gatherer studies understand the relation of hunter-gatherers to wider issues in anthropological and social theory