Mål og innhald

This course focuses on the end stage of the research process, notably the crafting of the ethnographic product in its many guises; mostly as texts, but also as film, or as soundtracks.

All students are to read and critically work through a selection of anthropological monographs that covers different continents, different theoretical perspectives, and different stages in the history of anthropology.

The course explores the history of ethnographic representation and its reception, and engages students in the theories and experiences that informed different templates of writing and the analytical controversy engendered. The course looks into the ways in which new technologies have influenced and multiplied ethnographic modes of representation from the print media only to the inclusion of film, sound and lately, the web.

Through studies of selected anthropological monographs - classical as well as more resent - the students are to develop insights in the comparative analytical use of anthropological theory on complex empirical cases. For the final exam the students are to demonstrate abilities for comparative analytical reasoning over different ethnographic cases and different media of ethnographic representation.

Through studies of selected anthropological monographs - classical as well as more resent - the students are to develop insights in the comparative analytical use of anthropological theory on complex empirical cases. For the final exam the students are to demonstrate abilities for comparative analytical reasoning over different ethnographic cases and different media of ethnographic representation.

Læringsutbyte/resultat

Upon completion of the course the student should be able to:

- discuss the history and techniques of ethnographic representation and theory.

- outline how technological and societal developments have influenced and helped multiply ethnographic modes of representation.

- apply central concepts associated with ethnographic representation in an independently written work.

- identify the biases and assumptions that underlie representation - including their own - of social phenomena and societies.

Undervisningssemester

Spring 2015, thereafter every 4th semester

Eksamenssemester

Spring (every 4th semester)

Studienivå

Master

Institutt

Department of Social Anthropology

Krav til studierett

The course is available to students at the master's programme in anthropology of development.

Krav til forkunnskapar

SANT304 and SANT307

Undervisning og omfang

Lectures and seminars

4-6 hours each week

6-8 weeks

Approx. 26 hours in total (Depending on students requirements, special seminars may be given)

Obligatoriske arbeidskrav

Mandatory presence in class, well prepared in terms of syllabus, active participation in discussions, oral presentations

Vurderingsformer

School exam, 6 hours

Karakterskala

Grading A-F

Emneevaluering

A third of the courses offered each semester will be evaluated through My Space