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Modules in the Department of Anthropology 2012-13 Modules, module content and indicative reading may be subject to variation but at the time of

publication, planned modules are as follows:

Module code

Module leader 2012/3

Module description

Indicative reading

SA5521/ SA5522

Melissa Parker/

Andrew Beatty

Ethnographic Research Methods 1 & 2

Main topics of study: bringing the centrality of fieldwork to anthropological research; theoretical and practical issues of participant observation, open-ended unstructured interviews and semi-structured interviews; the advantages and disadvantages of using questionnaires during fieldwork; different styles of ethnographic writing; gaining access in ethnographic research; ethical clearance and ethical dilemmas arising in the course of fieldwork; constructing a research proposal.

Ellen R 1984 educ

Research: a guide to general conduct. London: Academic press

Gellner D and Hirsch E (editors) 2001. Inside Organizations. Oxford: Berg Press

Hammersley M and Atkinson 1995. Ethnography: Principles in Practice. London: Routledge

Bourgois P 1995. In search of respect: selling crack in El Barrio. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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SA5523 James Staples Anthropology of the body Main topics of study: The social body; embodiment,

‘habitus’ and phenomenological approaches to the

body; cross-cultural perceptions of the body; the

body in parts; sex and gender; childhood and the

body; bodily norms, beauty and ideas of the perfect

body; biomedicine and the body; death and the

dying body.

Shilling, C. 1993. The Body and Social Theory. London: Sage.

Csordas, T (ed). 1994. Embodiment and Experience: the existential ground of culture and self. Cambridge:

Cambridge University Press.

Lock, M. and J. Farquhar, eds. 2007. Beyond the Body Proper: Reading the Anthropology of Material Life. Durham and London: Duke University Press.

Conklin, B. 2001. Consuming Grief: Compassionate Cannibalism in an Amazonian Society. Austin: University of Texas Press

SA5527 Eric Hirsch Anthropology of the person The main topics of study will be: Theories of the person; the notion of ‘normality’; the emergence of memero-politics; classifications, kinds, and kind-

Carrithers, M., et.al. (eds). 1985. The Category of the Person. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Franklin, S. and S. McKinnon (eds.) 2001. Relative Values. Durham: Duke University Press



making; property land and personhood; trauma; new genetics and biosociality

Hacking, I. 1999. The Social Construction of What? Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Young, A. 1995. The Harmony of Illusions. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Clifford, J. 1992. Person and Myth. Durham: Duke University Press

Fassin, D and R. Rechtman 2009. The Empire of Trauma. Princeton:

Princeton University Press.

Palsson, G. 2007. Anthropology and the New Genetics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

SA5564 Peggy Froerer Anthropology of Learning

The main topics of study will be: Education and Learning: Culture and Cognition; Learning and Embodiment; Education, learning and apprenticeship; Learning, language and knowledge; Learning, identity and social difference; Learning and social memory

Bruner, J. (1996) The Culture of Education. Cambridge, MA: Harvard

University Press.

Lancy, David et al (2010) The Anthropology of Learning in Childhood.

Lanham: AltaMira Press

Shore, B. (1996) Culture in mind: cognition, culture and the problem of

meaning. Oxford: OUP

Vygotsky, L.S. (1978) Mind in Society: The development of higher

psychological processes. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

SA5531 Isak Niehaus Medical Anthropology in Clinical and Community

Settings

Theoretical framings: Nature-nurture/culture-

biology debates and the concept of local biologies;

clinically and critically applied medical

anthropology; risk perception and discourse on risk;

narrative, suffering and subjectivity; biomedicine,

Good, B.J., et al., eds. A Reader in Medical Anthropology: Theoretical

Trajectories, Emergent Realities Blackwell Anthologies in Social and

Cultural Anthropology. Wiley-Blackwell: Oxford, 2010.

Helman C. Culture, Health and Illness. 5th Edition ed. Oxford:

Butterworth-Heinemann, 2007.

Lindenbaum, S. and M. Lock. Knowledge, Power and Practice: The

Anthropology of Medicine and Everyday Life. Berkeley, University of



population sciences and medicalisation; political

economy of health and development; governance

and politics of international aid; rights-based

approach to health and bioethics; Thematic

examples: ‘Adolescence’ and the life-cycle; cross-

cultural psychiatry and community-based mental

health; alternative therapies and medical pluralism;

doctor-patient interactions; evidence-based

medicine and policy-making; childbirth and

maternal health; sexuality and reproductive health;

genetics and biotechnology; medicines and

pharmaceutical industry.

California Press. 1993.

SA5536 Peggy Froerer

Anthropology of International Development Main topics of study: introduction to international development; modernisation and the idea of ‘progress’; development and poverty: meaning and measurement; NGOs, charitable actors and the culture of consultancy; people, participation and social movements; education and development; gender and development; development, debt and microfinance; migration, urbanisation and development; violence, state building and development

Gardner K and Lewis D 1996. Anthropology, Development and the Post-Modern Challenge. London: Pluto

Grillo R D and R L Stirrat 1997. Discourses of Development: anthropological perspectives. Oxford: Berg

Kothari U ed. (2005) A Radical History of Development Studies. London: Zed Books

Rahnema M and Bawtree V, editors (1997). The Post-Development Reader. London: Zed Press.



SA5538 Will Rollason Compulsory Reading Module: Political and

Economic Issues in Anthropology

The course introduces students to some of the key research topics in modern social anthropology, including aspects of political economy, social organisation, cultural systems, historical change, and theoretical frames through which to view them.

M Sahlins, Stone Age Economics (1974)

Carrier, James G. (ed), A handbook of Economic Anthropology (2005)

Lewellen, Ted Political Anthropology: An Introduction (2003)

Gledhill, John Power and its Disguises: Anthropological Perspectives on Politics(2000)

SA5558 Melissa Parker Anthropological Perspectives of Humanitarian

Assistance

The indicative content of this module will be:

Humanitarian responses to contemporary warfare;

origins of humanitarianism: from the founding of

the Red Cross to Medecins Sans Frontier; medical

humanitarianism; international human rights,

criminal justice and humanitarian assistance; re-

building war-torn societies. Ethnographic case

studies from East Africa, West Africa, South

America, Eastern Europe and the Middle East will

be used to engage with the above topics.

Bornstein E (editor) 2011. Forces of Compassion: Humanitarianism Between Ethics and Politics (School of American Research Advanced Seminar Series) SAR Press.

Rieff D 2002. A bed for the night: humanitarianism in crisis. London:

Vintage

Allen T 2006. Trial Justice: The International Criminal Court and the Lord's Resistance Army. London: Zed Press

SA5559 Melissa Parker Anthropological Perspectives of War

Indicative content: Contemporary warfare and

complex emergencies; war and ethnic violence; war

and famine; war and scarce resources; refugees

and mass forced displacement; re-building war-torn

Keen D 2007. Complex Emergencies. Polity Press.

Richards P (editor) 2004. No Peace, No War: An Anthropology of Contemporary Armed Conflicts. Ohio University Monographs in International Studies.

Scheper-Hughes N and Bourgois P (editors) 2003. Violence in War and Peace: An Anthology (Blackwell Readers in Anthropology) Wiley-



societies.

Ethnographic case studies from East Africa, West

Africa, South America, Eastern Europe and the

Middle East will be used to engage with the above

topics.

Blackwell

Waterston A (editor) 2008. An Anthropology of War: Views from the Frontline. Berghahn Press

SA5539 Andrew Beatty Reading Module: Contemporary Anthropological

Theory

The indicative content of the module will be: The

variety of anthropological traditions; Levi-Strauss

and structuralism; British structuralism (Leach and

Douglas); neo-evolutionism and ecological

approaches; psychological anthropology; Geertz

and interpretivisim; historical perspectives; post-

colonialism; materialist and Marxist perspectives;

postmodernism.

Robert Borofsky, ed. 1994. Assessing Anthropology, McGraw Hill.

Barnard, A and J Spencer, 2010. Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology. Routledge.

Alan Barnard. 1999. History and Theory of Anthropology, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Robert Layton. 1998. Introduction to Theory in Anthropology, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

SA5540 Sarah Winkler-Reid

Kinship, Sex and Gender Main topics of study: Descent and alliance, the household, the incest taboo, new reproductive technologies, kinship and the state, gay kinship, the abortion debate, conceptions of social reproduction, kinship and migration, the social and cultural construction of paternity.

Ginsburg, Faye and Rayna Rapp. (eds). Conceiving the New World Order: The Global Politics of Reproduction. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Holy, Ladislav. 1996. Anthropological Perspectives on Kinship. London: Pluto.

Michaela di Leonardo (ed.) Gender at the Crossroads of Knowledge.

University of California Press.

Richard Parker. Bodies, Passions and Pleasures. Beacon Press.



SA5561 Melissa Parker The Anthropology of Global Health

Main topics of study: Changing conceptions of global health, global health and inequality: perspectives from critical medical anthropology, biosocial anthropology and epidemiology; constructing global health problems: the case of female circumcision; the social construction of epidemics; constructions of health and sickness in war zones; the changing relationship between anthropology and epidemiology.

Pool R and Geissler W 2005. Medical anthropology: understanding

public health. Open University Press.

Nichter M 2008. Global Health: Why Cultural Perceptions, Social Representations, and Biopolitics Matter. Tucson: University of Arizona Press

Parker M and Harper I (guest editors) 2006. The Anthropology of Public

Health. Special Issue of the Journal of Biosocial Science. Cambridge

University Press.

SA5562 Melissa Parker Applied Medical Anthropology in the arena of

Global Health

Main Topics Of Study: Strategies for reducing health inequalities: epidemiological and anthropological approaches; promoting child health and survival: anthropological contributions; HIV prevention strategies in sub-Saharan Africa; rhetorics and realities of controlling neglected tropical diseases; questioning ethics in global health; conflicts and compromises at the interface of global health policy and practice: anthropological perspectives

Brown P and Barrett R 2009. Understanding and applying medical

anthropology. McGraw-Hill.

Hahn R (editor) 2009. Anthropology in public health: bridging

differences in culture and society. New York: Oxford University Press

Inhorn M and Brown P (editors) 1997. The Anthropology of Infectious

Disease: International Health Perspectives. Amsterdam: Gordon and

Breach Publishers

Geissler PW and Molyneux S (eds) 2012. Evidence, Ethos and

Experiment: The Anthropology and History of Medical Research in

Africa. Berghahn



SA5554 Andrew Beatty Themes in Psychiatric Anthropology

The indicative content of this module will be the

development of psychiatric anthropology; problems

in the cross-cultural understanding and treatment

of psychiatric disorders; psychoanalytic

approaches; altered states of consciousness in

comparative perspective; mental health and ethnic

minorities; cultural perspectives on madness and

depression; narrative and illness; the anthropology

of psychiatry.

Lutz, C. and G. White. 1992. New directions in psychological anthropology. Cambridge.*

Kleinman, A. and B. Good (eds) 1985. Culture and depression.

Young, A. 1995. The Harmony of Illusions: inventing post-traumatic stress disorder. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Good, B., M J Fischer, S. Willen, M-J Good (eds.) 2010. A reader in medical anthropology. Blackwell

SA5555 Andrew Beatty Themes in Psychological Anthropology

The indicative content of this module will be he

development of psychological anthropology;

theories of emotion (approaches to, and critiques

of, the ‘social construction of emotion’); selfhood

and subjectivity in cross-cultural perspective;

person-centered anthropology; cognitive and

ethnopsychological approaches; ritual and healing;

culture and personality.

Lutz, C. and G. White. 1992. New directions in psychological

anthropology. Cambridge.

LeVine, R.A. 2010. Psychological anthropology: a reader on self in

culture. Blackwell.*

Lindholm, C. 2007. Culture and identity. One world.

Briggs, Jean. 197O. Never in anger: portrait of an Eskimo family.

Harvard.



SA5557 Will Rollason The Anthropology of Childhood

Throughout its history, anthropology has paid little

dedicated attention to children. In recent years,

however, there has been a growing theoretical

interest in how notions of the ‘child’ and

‘childhood’ are understood cross-culturally, and in

children’s own perspectives and engagement in

their social worlds. This module introduces

students to the study of childhood as it is

constructed and practiced in different social,

cultural and economic settings; it aims to introduce

students to the emerging ethnographic work on

childhood and to explore the theoretical

antecedents and methodological challenges that

inform this work.

James, A. Jenks, C. & Prout, A. (1998). Theorizing Childhood. London: Blackwell

Montgomery, Heather. 2009. An Introduction to Childhood:

Anthropological Perspectives on Children’s Lives. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.

Levine, Robert A (2007) Ethnographic Studies of Childhood. In American

Anthropologist Vol. 109(2): 247-260

Schwartzman, Helen B. (ed.) (2001) Children and Anthropology:

Perspectives for the21st Century. London: Bergin and Garvey.

SA**** Will Rollason The Anthropology of Youth

Most people alive today are young. In this module

we will explore what anthropologists can say about

this enormous, but often neglected, population. In

recent years, anthropology has rediscovered young

people. Previous generations of scholars treated

youth as an issue for adults, focussing on

socialisation, initiation and the life-cycle. Since the

1990s, anthropologists have begun to attend to

youth as people in their own right. In this module

we shall explore the roots and contemporary

Bennett A. & Kahn-Harris K. (Eds.) (2004) After subculture: critical studies

in contemporary youth culture. Palgrave Macmillan

Alex de Waal and Nicolas Argenti (eds.), Young Africa: Realising the

Rights of Children and Youth, Trenton, N.J. and Asmara: Africa World

Press

Alcindia Honwana and Filip DeBoeck (eds) 2005. Makers and breakers:

children and youth in postcolonial Africa. London: James Currey

Jeffrey, C. 2008. Telling Young Lives: Portraits of Global Youth. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.



dimensions of this work, making a critical

theoretical and thematic survey of anthropological

work on youth across the globe to assess the

contribution that the discipline can make to

understanding contemporary issues of youth.

SA5563 Dr Peggy

Froerer

Anthropology of Education

The main topics of study will be Anthropology of Education: History and Theory; Education, Schooling and Literacy; Education and Categories of Distinction: Class and Social Inequality; Education and Categories of Distinction: Race and gender; Education, nation-building and development.

Bruner, J. (1996) The Culture of Education. Cambridge, MA: Harvard

University Press.

Wulf C. (2002) Anthropology of Education. Lit Verlag. (History & Theory

of Anthropology)

Bourdieu, P. (1991) Reproduction in education, society and culture.

London: Sage Publications.

Camilleri C. (1986) Cultural Anthropology and Education. Jessica

Kingsley. (Educational Science)

SA5565 Liana Chua Ethnicity, Culture and Identity

Indicative content: Ethnicity and ‘race’; the politics

of culture and multiculturalism; nationalism and

national identity; religious communities and

identities; gendered identities; representation and

performance; the commodification of ‘culture’ and

‘ethnicity’; immigration and indigeneity; borders,

spaces and absences.

Baumann, Gerd. 1996. Contesting Culture: Discourses of Identity in Multi-Ethnic London. Cambridge:Cambridge University Press.

Anderson, Benedict. 1991. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. London: Verso.

Comaroff, John and Jean Comaroff. 2009. Ethnicity, Inc. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Malkki, Liisa. 1995. Purity and Exile: Violence, Memory and National Cosmology Among Hutu Refugees in Tanzania. Chicago: University of Chicago Press



SA5596/ SA5597/ SA5598/ SA5599

Guided Study module This module is designed so that students may work independently, with guidance on a chosen area of anthropology-related study, with supervisory support. The module enables the student to plan, implement and evaluate their own independent research, under the guidance of a supervisor. The subject matter of the module will be negotiated with the supervisor and will be relevant to one or more of the major areas of anthropology-related research.

For MSc Anthropology of International Development and Humanitarian Assistance only the following optional modules may be available

PP5570 School of Social Sciences

Gareth Dale Department of Politics & History

Globalisation This module looks at various dimensions of global change, and they affect and are affected by national and international politics. Its topics include ‘timescales of globalisation’; the contemporary world economy (including the recent global crisis, and the ‘Global South’); climate change; international migration; and the inter-state system. Its disciplinary focus lies in the field of international relations and politics (especially political economy), but it also draws upon social theory, history and sociology.

Frank Lechner & John Boli (eds) (2008) The Globalization Reader, 3rd edn., Blackwell.

Herman Schwartz (2000) States versus Markets; The Emergence of a Global Economy, 2nd ed, Macmillan, Houndmills.

Matthew Sparke (2013) Introducing Globalization: Ties, tensions, and Uneven Integration, Wiley-Blackwell.

Robert O’Brien and Marc Williams (2007) Global Political Economy, 2nd edn., Palgrave



YC5537 School of Health Sciences & Social Care

Nicola Ansell Global Agendas on Young People’s Rights and Participation

Many recent initiatives intended to improve the lives of young people (such as the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child) are inspired by a notion of children’s rights. However, there are conflicting perspectives on children’s and young people’s rights. One area of rights enshrined in the Convention, and in UN declarations on youth, is participation. The idea that young people should participate in decisions about their lives has been widely embraced by NGOs working in poor countries. This module encourages students to engage with the debates on rights and participation, and to develop a critical understanding of the implementation and impacts of rights-based practices.

Archard D 2004 Children: rights and childhood Routledge, London

Percy-Smith B and Thomas N 2009 A handbook of children and young people’s participation Routledge, London


Nicola Ansell Young Lives in the Global South This module is designed to enable you to develop understanding of the conceptual development of social studies of childhood and enhance your knowledge and understanding of the contexts of poorer children’s lives. The module will explore concepts of social reproduction, youth transitions, resilience and vulnerability and will examine a range of themes including children’s work, education, health, sexuality and migration. It will also investigate issues facing children living in especially difficult circumstances such as child soldiers and street children.

Ansell N 2005 Children, youth and development Routledge, London

James A, Jenks C and Prout A 1998 Theorizing childhood Polity, Cambridge

Wells K 2009 Childhood in a global perspective Polity, Cambridge




Nicola Ansell International Development, Children and Youth This module is designed to enable you to develop conceptual understanding of development studies and to critique research and interventions in the field of children, youth and international development. We explore theories of development, their influence on the way development has been practised over the past 60 years, and the ways in which they take account of and impact on young people’s lives. We also examine the moral arguments relating to international intervention, and concepts of social justice, poverty and wellbeing. The latter part of the module focuses on the role of globalisation, international agencies, the state and non-governmental organisations, and the design and implementation of development programmes and projects.

Ansell N 2005 Children, youth and development Routledge, London

Potter R, Binns T, Elliott J and Smith D 2008 Geographies of Development Longman, Harlow

Wells K 2009 Childhood in a global perspective Polity, Cambridge

LX5551 Brunel Law School

Andreas Dimopoulos

Fundamentals of International Human Rights Law

Main topics of study: theory of international human rights law; origins, development and sources of international human rights law; the United Nations human rights regime; civil and political rights – ICCPR; equality and non-discrimination within the UN regime; social, economic and cultural rights – ICESCR; rights of women – UN Convention on the Elimination of All forms of Discrimination against Women; rights of children – UN Convention on the Rights of the Child; torture – UN Convention on Torture; rights of the disabled – UN Convention on Disability; group rights – an overview of the UN

De Schutter, International Human Rights Law (Cambridge, 2010)

Alston-Steiner-Goodman (eds.), International Human Rights in Context, Law, Politics, Morals, OUP, (3rd edition 2007)

Xanthaki A., Indigenous Rights and United Nations Standards (CUP, 2007)



protection for groups, minorities, indigenous peoples, refugees and migrant workers.

LX5553 Brunel Law School

Tony Cole The Migrant, the State and the Law

Main topics of study: multi-disciplinary, theoretical and historical understandings of ‘the migrant’, ‘the refugee’ and ‘the state’; critical legal understandings of refugee and migration law; international refugee law in context – the formulation, implementation and current status of the Geneva Convention on the Status of Refugees and the 1967 New York Protocol; international approaches to the regulation of labour migration; the European Union’s Common European Asylum system in the context of its wider migration policy; the role of refugee and migrant ‘others’ in nation-building processes; postcolonial theory, exile and migration; feminist legal theoretical approaches to human trafficking.

Skran, C. M. (1995) Refugees in Inter-War Europe: The Emergence of a Regime (Oxford; Clarendon Press).

F. Nicholson, P. and Twomey, (eds.), Refugee Rights and Realities: Evolving International Concepts and Regimes (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999).

Zolberg, A. Suhrke, and S. Aguayo, Escape from Violence (Oxford; Oxford University Press, 1989).

M. Anderson, M. Den Boer, (eds.), Policing across National Boundaries, Pinter Publications, 1994).

MG5593 Brunel Business School

Angela Ayios International Business Ethics and Corporate Governance

Main topics of study: business ethics, stakeholder theory and corporate social responsibility; ethical theory; making decisions in business ethics; ethics and employees in international business; consumers, supply chains and fair trade in international business; corporate governance. In addition, there will be two un-assessed compulsory reading modules.

Crane, A., Matten, D. and Spence, L. J. (eds) (2007) Corporate Social

Responsibility: Readings and Cases in a Global Context, Routledge,

London.

Worthington, I. (2012) Greening Business: Research, Theory, and

Practice, Oxford University Press, ISBN-13:9780199535217.

Tricker, B. (2009) Corporate Governance: Principles, Policies and

Practices, Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Ayios, A.. (2004). Trust and Western-Russian business relationships, Ashgate

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