Type of Credit: Elective
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Number of Students
Anthropology is the integrative study of who we are and where we come from. Through the comparative study of different cultures, anthropology explores fundamental questions about what it means to be human. It seeks to understand how culture both shapes societies, from the smallest island in Oceania to the larger Asian metropolis; it seeks to understand how society effects the way institutions work. This module will provide a framework for analysing diverse facets of the human experience. It is designed to teach humanity non-reductively.
By the end of the module students will understand anthropology as a social science; they will critically engage with the concepts of culture and social stratification; they will reflect critically on studies of human evolution and archaeology, ethnographic field methods, the importance of climate and environment, development and subsistence patterns, global politics, and economy. By using case studies from within the Asia Pacific, this module will critically compare and contrast social structures, such as: family, gender, ethnicity, religion, and the arts.
Finally, the module provides a solid background in analytical and methodological issues. Students will critically read key intellectual contributions to the discipline and will be introduced to ethnographic methods and experiences of living among, and writing about, people from the Asia Pacific region.
能力項目說明
By the end of the module, students will be able:
Reading for each week is split between required and additional. It is imperative that you complete, at least, the weekly required readings and perhaps pick up one or two of the additional ones. In addition to this, it will be expected that you have read the following monographs over the course of the module:
Matthew Engelke (2017), Think like an Anthropologist (Penguin)
Hylland Eriksen (1995), Small Places, Large Issues (Pluto)
Ruth Benedict (1934), Patterns of Culture (Houghton)
From week 2, the seminar sessions explore anthropological practice. Students, working in their groups, will present a paper that they have found on the given theme.
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INTENDED LEARNING OUTCOMES |
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On successful completion of this module a student will be able to: |
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Reflect critically on the major questions, concepts, ethical issues, and methodologies that inform the field of anthropology |
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Critically discuss how cultural systems construct different external realities for various human groups |
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Apply anthropological theory effectively through written, oral and data presentation in varying formats for diverse audiences |
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Synthesise an anthropological way of thinking in order to critically discuss how human experiences are shaped by social structures |
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Course content and required reading |
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An Introduction to Social Anthropology |
Required Readings: Jared Diamond (2000), Taiwan’s Gift to the World, Nature 403 pp. 709-710. Anthony Giddens (1993), Sociology (Polity), 29-58. Adam Kuper (1999), Culture (Harvard University Press),1-23. Peter Bellwood, et al (1995), The Austronesian History: Common Origin and Diverse Transformation, in The Austronesians (ANU Press), 1-17. Kim Martins (2020), Polynesian Navigation & Settlement of the Pacific World History Encyclopedia https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1586/polynesian-navigation--settlement-of-the-pacific/
Additional Readings: Adam Kuper (2015), Anthropology and Anthropologists (London: Routledge), 1-42. George Stocking (1992), Paradigmatic Traditions in the History of Anthropology, The Ethnographer’s Magic and Other Essays in the History of Anthropology (University of Wisconsin Press), 342-361. Clifford Geertz (1974), “From the Native’s Point of View”: On the Nature of Anthropological Understanding, Bulletin of the American Academy, 480-492. A.R. Radcliffe-Brown (1952), Structure and Function in Primitive Society (MacMillan), 1-15. Robert K. Merton (1957), Social Theory and Social Structure (Free Press), 121-161. |
Lecture, readings, discussion, |
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Kinship Seminar: Participant Observation |
Required Readings: Anthony Giddens (1993), Sociology (Polity), 387-424. Claude Levi-Strauss (1969), The Elementary Structures of Kinship (Beacon Press), 478-497. Lewis Morgan (1871), Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Human Family (Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution), 10-16. David Schneider (1968), American Kinship: A Cultural Account (University of Chicago Press), 1-57.
Additional Readings: Adam Kuper (2015), Anthropology and Anthropologists (London: Routledge), 42-64 Joan Bamberger (1974), The Myth of Matriarchy: Why Men Rule in Primitive Society, in Women, Culture, and Society (Stanford University Press), 263-280. David Schneider and K Gough (eds) (1961), Matrilineal Kinship (University of California Press), 1-29. Mary Farmer (1970), The Family (Longman), 1-47. Martine Segalen (1986) Historical Anthropology of the Family (CUP), 1-73. Morgan Clark (2007) Closeness in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Debating Kinship and Biomedicine in Lebanon and the Middle East, Anthropological Quarterly 80:2, p.p. 379-402. B.R. Myers (2011), The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves—And Why It Matters (Melville House), 73-131. |
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Magic Seminar: Accounts of Fieldwork |
Required Readings: Fiona Bowie (2000), The Anthropology of Religion (Blackwell), 118-151. Walraven Boudewijn (2009), National Pantheon, Regional Deities, Personal Spirits? Mushindo, Songsu, and the Nature of Korean Shamanism, Asian Ethnology 68 pp 55-80. Rebecca Stein and Philip Stein (2017), The Anthropology of Religion, Magic, and Witchcraft (Taylor & Francis), 145-170.
Additional Readings: Clifford Geertz (1973), Interpretations of the Culture (Basic), 87-126. Adam Kuper (2015), Anthropology and Anthropologists (London: Routledge), 64- Fiona Bowie (2000), The Anthropology of Religion (Blackwell), 190-259. Mark Mosko (2014), Cards on Kiriwina: Magic, Cosmology, and the ‘Divine Dividual’ in Trobriand Gambling, Oceania 84:3, pp239-255. Rebecca Stein and Philip Stein (2017), The Anthropology of Religion, Magic, and Witchcraft (Taylor & Francis), 1-32. Wei-ya Lin (2013), The Relationship between Music and Taboos in the Society of the Tao (An Indigenous Ethnic Group in Taiwan, Journal of Creative Communication 8:1p.p. 45-64. |
Lecture, readings, discussion, presentation |
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Reflection week |
Discussion, presentation |
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Gifts Seminar: Ethical Ethnography |
Required Readings: Marcell Mauss, The Gift (Hau Books), 65-85. M. Sahlins (1974) Stone Age Economics (Routledge), 149-183. Caroline Humphrey and Stephan Hugh-Jones (Eds) (1994), Barter, Exchange and Value (CUP), 1-21. Bronislaw Malinowski (1922), Argonauts of the Western Pacific (E.P Dutton & Co.), 81-105.
Additional Readings: Claude Levi-Strauss (1969), The Elementary Structures of Kinship (Beacon Press), 52-68. Alfred Gell (1994), Inter-tribal Commodity Barter and Reproductive Gift-Exchange in Old Melanesia, in Caroline Humphrey and Stephan Hugh-Jones, eds. Barter, Exchange and Value (CUP), 142-169. Nicholas Thomas (1995), Exchange Systems, Political Dynamics, and Colonial Transformations in Nineteenth Century Oceania, in The Austronesians (ANU Press), 287-309. |
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Rituals Seminar: The Fieldworker’s Identity and Position |
Required Readings: Fiona Bowie (2000), The Anthropology of Religion (Blackwell), 151-185. Catherine Bell (1997), Ritual Theory, Ritual Practice (OUP). 19-55. Arnold Van Gennep (1960[2019]), Rites of Passage (University of Chicago Press), 1-26; 166-189.
Additional Readings: Adam Kuper (2015), Anthropology and Anthropologists (London: Routledge), 108-129. J.S. La Fontaine (1985), Initiation (Penguin), 38-58. Rebecca Stein & Philip Stein (2017), The Anthropology of Religion, Magic, and Witchcraft (Routledge), 82-110 Margaret Mead (1930 [2001]), Coming of Age in Samoa (Harper), 61-86. Harriet, Whitehead (1993), The Bow and the Burden Strap: A New Look at Institutionalized Homosexuality in Native North America, in Eds., Henry Abelove et al, The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader (Routledge), 498-528. Sam Gill (1987), Disenchantment: A Religious Abduction, in Native American Religious Action, Sam Gill and Frederick Denny (University of South Carolina Press), 59-75. Lila Abu-Lughod (2013), Do Muslim Women Need Saving? (Harvard), 27-54. Matthew Spriggs (1995), The Lapita Culture and Austronesian Prehistory in Oceania, in The Austronesians (ANU Press), 119-143. Yuko Ogasawara (1998), Office Ladies and Salaried Men: Power, Gender and Work in Japanese Companies (UCP), 1-17 |
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Nature Seminar: Off Setting a Carbon Footprint |
Required readings: Jenny Bryant-Tokalau, Indigenous Pacific Approaches to Climate Change (Palgrave): 1-95. Graeme Hugo (2010), Climate Change-Induced Mobility and the Existing Migration Regime in Asia and the Pacific, in Jane McAdam (ed), Climate Change and Displacement (OUP): 9-37. Tim Ingold (2000), The Perception of the Environment (Routledge),13-26. A Reid et al (2021), “Two-Eyed Seeing”: An Indigenous Framework to Transform Fisheries Research and Management, Fish and Fisheries 22:2 p.p. 243-261.
Additional readings: Pamela Asquith et al (eds) (1997), Japanese Images of Nature (Curzon), 1-36. Paul D’Arcy (2006), The People of the Sea (Hawaii UP): 98-144 Eveline Durt and Arno Pascht (2017), Environmental Transformations and Cultural Responses (Palgrave): 49-75. Michael Sesit (1997), Monetary Union: A way to help small nations, Wall Street Journal Colin Shaw (1988), Pacific: The Divided Territory, Far Eastern Economic Review p.32. Jared Diamond (2019), Upheaval (Allen Lane): 383-423. Arno Pascht and Eveline Durr (2017), Engaging with Environmental Transformation in Oceania, in Durr and Pascht (eds). Environmental Transformations and Cultural Responses (Palgrave): 1-19. Andrea Reid et al (2020) “Two-Eyed Seeing”: An Indigenous Framework to Transform Fisheries Research and Management, Fish and Fisheries 22 p.p. 243-261. Sarah Pink (2021), Doing Visual Anthropology (Sage), 123-151.. |
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Midterm Examination |
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Symbols Seminar: Reflecting Traditional Knowledge (TK) |
Required Readings: Rebecca Stein & Philip Stein (2017), The Anthropology of Religion, Magic, and Witchcraft (Routledge), 58-82. Clifford Geertz (1973), The Interpretation of Culture (Basic), 3-30.
Additional Readings: Mircea Eliade (1964[1992]). Shamanism (Princeton UP), 145-181. Joy Hendry (2016), An Introduction to Social Anthropology (Palgrave), 102-123. Rossi, I. 1973. The Unconscious in the Anthropology of Levi-Strauss, American Anthropologist 75 (1): 20-48. |
Lecture, readings, discussion, |
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Belonging Seminar: Can an Anthropologist also be an Activist? |
Required Readings: Joy Hendry (2016), An Introduction to Social Anthropology (Palgrave), 192-212. Setha Low and Denise Lawrence-Zuniga (2003), the Anthropology of Space and Place (Blackwell), 129-185; 245-351.
Additional Readings: Angela Cheater (1999) Power in the Postmodern Era, in Angela Cheater, The Anthropology of Power (Routledge), 1-13. Toon van Meijl (1993) Maori Meeting-Houses in and Over Time, in James Fox Inside Austronesian Houses: Perspective on Domestic Designs for Living (ANU), 201-223. Franz Boas (1928), Anthropology and Modern Life (Dover Publications), 18-81. Lila Abu-Lughod (2013), Do Muslim Women Need Saving? (Harvard), 1-27. Mircea Eliade (1957), The Sacred and the Profane (Harvest), 20-68. Anthony Giddens (1993), Sociology (Polity), 251-283. |
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Dying Seminar: Communicating Ethnography |
Required Readings: Sue Black (2018), All That Remains (Penguin), 1-13; 95-117. Rebecca Stein & Philip Stein (2017), The Anthropology of Religion, Magic, and Witchcraft (Routledge), 172-205. Michael Pettid and Charlotte Horlyck (2014) Char Death, Mourning, and the Afterlife in Korea (University of Hawaii Press), 1-18.
Additional Readings: Leberecht Funk (2014), Entanglements between Tao People and Anito on Lanyu Island, Taiwan, in Yasmine Musharbash and Geir Henning Presterudstuen, Monster Anthropology in Australasia and Beyond (New York: Palgrave): 143-161. Marc L. Moskowitz (2001), The Haunted Fetus (University of Hawaii Press), 42-77. Roger Janelli et al (1982), Ancestor Worship and Korean Society (Stanford University Press), 58-86. Mircea Eliade (1964[1992]). Shamanism (Princeton UP), 181-215. Michael J. Pettid (2014), Ghostly Encounters: Perceptions of Death and Afterlife in Koryǒ and Early Chosǒn, in Charlotte Horlyck and Michael J. Pettid, Death, Mourning, and the Afterlife in Korea (University of Hawaii Press), 171-190. Michael J. Pettid (2014), Shamanic Rites for the Dead in Chosǒn Korea, in Charlotte Horlyck and Michael J. Daniel Drezner (2015), Theories of International Politics and Zombies (Princeton University Press), 1-11. |
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Reflection week. |
Reflection week. |
Discussion, presentation |
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Futures Seminar: The Future for Ethnographic Research (All Students) |
Required Readings: Jean Baudrillard (1994), Simulacra and Simulation (University of Michigan Press), 1-43. Eleanor Hancock (2020), Should Society Accept Sex Robots? Paladyn 11. 428-442. Bahk Enu-ji (2022), Local Municipalities use AI Robots to Improve Care for Elderly, The Korea Times, https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2022/02/281_323917.html?fa&fbclid=IwAR3DRJcg-_SkwqKSig0P66OjlTc6LYZfDNI8-HV1X3qJWRoZ-Q24CJfNPI8
Additional Readings: Tom Boellstorff (2015), Coming of Age in Second Life (Princeton), 3-32; 237-251. Stephen Dyson (2015), Otherworldly Politics (John Hopkins University Press), 115-132. Sarah Pink & Juan Francisco Salazar (2017), Anthropologies and Futures: Setting the Agenda, in Juan Francisco Salazar et al, Anthropologies and Futures (Bloomsbury), 3-23. Christian Madsbjerg (2017), Sensemaking (Abacus), 63-93. Tessa Leach (2020), Machine Sensation: Anthropomorphism and ‘Natural’ Interaction with Nonhumans (Open Humanities Press), 9-67; and 186-225. Shoshana Zuboff (2019), The Age of Surveillance Capitalism (Profile): 3-27. |
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Wrap Up |
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Wrap Up |
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To pass this module students must achieve a mark of 50% or above, aggregated across all the assessments.
ASSESSMENT METHODS
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Size of Assessment/Duration/ Wordcount |
Category of assessment |
Conducted within central examination period (Y/N) |
Learning Outcomes being assessed |
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Case Study Video |
30% |
15 minutes |
Practical Assessment |
No |
1, 2 & 3 |
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Essay |
70% |
3,000 words |
Coursework |
No |
1, 3 & 4 |
Link to full reading list will be provided
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