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SOA-3007: Indigenous resource management Work Load
10 credits (ECTS) | Type of course
Theoretical subject. | Level of course/Year of study
First or second year at master''s level. | Language of instruction
English | Examination semester
Spring | Objectives
The course is obligatory for students at the Master Program in Indigenous Studies. SOA-3007 can be elected as a course at the Bachelor Program in Social Anthropology and can also be worked in as a course in several others disciplinary master programs. | Contents
The course aims at demonstrating the intimate relations between ecology, indigenous knowledge, local social organization and customary law concerning indigenous resource management. Further, impacts of market integration, relations to governmental politics and administrative regimes, and problems created by external encroachments on indigenous resource areas will be explored. Concepts like ''sustainable development'' and ''the tragedy of the commons'' will be commented, and so will various issues concerning the legal acknowledgement of rights to resources. As examples and illustrations a diverse collection of empirical examples, mainly from northern regions, but also from other parts of the Fourth World will be presented. | Compulsory prerequisites
SOA-1001 Understanding cultures. Introduction to Social Anthropology | Form of teaching
The teaching will be given as lectures and seminars through all semester. Seminars will be arranged as support to the lectures. Films will also be used as part of the teaching. There will be no teaching while the students is writing their essay. | Exam and assessment
Studentene skriver et essay med gitt oppgavetekst og skrivetid på en uke. Essayet vil bli bedømt som bestått/ikke bestått.
På slutten av semesteret skriver studentene et essay (hjemmeeksamen) med gitt oppgavetekst og skrivetid på en uke. Lengde: 10 sider (3500 ord).
Muntlig eksamen.
Karakterskala A-E for bestått, F er ikke bestått. Det tilbys kontinueringseksamen ved karakteren F påfølgende semester. | Contact person/lecturer
Mayvi Johansen | Recommended reading/syllabus
See homepage. | Homepage
http://uit.no/antropologi/2111/24
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Teaching spring 2006
Course coordinator: Ass. professor Ivar Bjørklund
Lecturers is: Ass. professor Ivar Bjørklund and Professor Trond Thuen | | Lectures | First lecture: Monday January 16th 2006, hour 14:15 pm - 16.00 pm, room 5.402 (forth floor, house no. 5 in Teorifagbygget). | | Lecturers | Foreleser Prof. Trond Thuen
Ansv. leder F.aman. Ivar Bjørklund
Foreleser Prof. Per Mathiesen
Foreleser aman. Johan A Kalstad
| | Film seminar | A film related to the course subject will be shown January 23 and February 14, 14.15 pm to 16.00 pm. Title will be published later.
Ansv. leder F.aman. Ivar Bjørklund
| | Examination | One home written essay/paper over one week with a given title:
February 20th- 27th. To be handed in at February 27th at 14:00 pm
Obligatory oral evaluation with the subject teacher will be given in the period: March 7th-10th.
NB! Change in the dates for final examination: A home written essay/paper with a given title. The text is handed out April 18 at 10:00 am, and must be handed in April 25 at 14:00 pm.
Oral examination: May 15 and 16.
Both the exercise essay and the final examination essay is handed in/out in the general office in house 5, floor 6 in Teorifagbygget. |
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