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Module Syllabus (downloadable) and Learning Outcomes

CAT - full syllabus - 2022/23

Assessment & Coursework

AS1 Guidance - short reflection piece

AS2 Essay Titles

Writing Anthropology Essays - Workshop Slides

AS1 - inspiring sample - fantasy diary

AS1 - inspiring sample - anthropoetry

AS1 - Inspiring sample - blog post

AS1 - inspiring sample - unscholarly confessions

AS1 - inspiring sample - photo-essay by Samuli Schielke

AS1 - inspiring sample - surrealist reflections by Michael Taussig

Topic 1 - Introduction: Post-1960s Anthropological Theory

Abu-Lughod (2016) The Cross-Publics of Ethnography: The Case of “the Muslimwoman”

Fassin (2017) The Endurance of Critique

Goodale (2020) God, Fatherhood, Home: Revealing the Dark Side of Our Anthropological Virtue

Harrison (2016) Theorising in Ex-Centric Sites

MacClancy (2002) Introduction: Taking People Seriously

Nyamnjoh (2012) Blinded by Sight: Divining the Future of Anthropology in Africa

Pandian (2019) Introduction: An Ethnographer among the Anthropologists

Strathern (2006) A Community of Critics?

Lecture 1 - Introduction - Slides

Topic 2 - Theorising Ritual: Process, Purity, Power

Gold (2019) Liminality and the Asylum Process in Switzerland

Mahmood (2001) Rehearsed Spontaneity and the Conventionality of Ritual: Disciplines of Salat

Turner (1977) Variations on a Theme of Liminality

Wirtz (2009) Hazard Waste: The Semiotics of Ritual Hygiene in Cuban Popular Religion

Yang (2020) Podcast on her book Re-Enchanting Modernity: Ritual Economy and Society in Wenzhou, China

Lecture Slides - Ritual

Topic 3 - Dealing with the Dead: Funerals, Cemeteries, and Emerging Death Practices

Bernstein (2015) Freeze, Die, Come to Life: The Many Paths to Immortality in Post-Soviet Russia

Lipton (2017) ‘Black’ and ‘White’ Death: Burials in a Time of Ebola in Freetown, Sierra Leone

Makley (2015) The Sociopolitical Lives of Dead Bodies: Tibetan Self-Immolation Protest as Mass Media

O’Neill (2012) There is no More Room: Cemeteries, Personhood, and Bare Death

Zengin (2019) Afterlife of Gender: Sovereignty, Intimacy, and Muslim Funerals of Transgender People in Turkey

Lecture 3 slides

Topic 4 - Shifting States: The Anthropology of Statecraft

Bonilla (2017) Unsettling Sovereignty

Bryant (2021) Sovereignty in Drag: On Fakes, Foreclosure, and Unbecoming States

Kalir &amp; van Schendel (2017) Introduction: Nonrecording States between Legibility and Looking Away

Kivland (2020) The Spiral of Sovereignty: Enacting and Entangling the State from Haiti’s Streets

Stein (2012) StateTube: Anthropological Reflections on Social Media and the Israeli State

Lecture 4 Slides

Topic 5 - Present Pasts: The Afterlife of Ruins and Debris

Dawney (2020) Decommissioned Places: Ruins, Endurance, and Care at the End of the First Nuclear Age.

Henig (2012) Iron in the Soil: Living with Military Waste in Bosnia-Herzegovina

Middleton (2021) Becoming-After: The Lives and Politics o Quinine’s Remains

Schwenkel (2013) Post/Socialist Affect: Ruination and Reconstruction of the Nation in Urban Vietnam

Lecture 5 Slides

Topic 7 - Writing Culture: Anthropology's Reflexive Turn

Abu-Lughod (1991) Writing Against Culture

Gable (2014) The Anthropology of Guilt and Rapport: Moral Mutuality in Ethnographic Fieldwork

Nyamnjoh (2011) Cameroonian Bushfalling: Negotiation of Identity and Belonging in Fiction and Ethnography

Starn (2022) Anthropology and the Misery of Writing

Tsing &amp; Ebron (2015) Writers on Writing

Lecture 7 Slides

Topic 8 - More Than Human: Multispecies Anthropology

Archambault (2016) Taking Love Seriously in Human-Plant Relations in Mozambique

Barua (2022) Feral Ecologies: The Making of Postcolonial Nature in London

Chao (2021) Children of the Palms: Growing Plants and Growing People in a Papuan Plantationocene

Lemon (2015) Metrodogs: The Heart in the Machine

TallBear (2011) Why Interspecies Thinking Needs Indigenous Standpoints

Myers (2018) Seeding Plant/People Conspiracies

Lecture 8 slides

Topic 9 - Emerging Relations: New Kinship Studies in Anthropology

Heron (2018) When ‘Blood Speaks’: Naming the Father and the Mystics of Kinship in Dominica

Heslop (2022) From Haunted Houses to Housed Hauntings

Miller &amp; Garvey (2022) Grandparenting as the Resolution of Kinship as Experience

Wei (2020) Stretched Kinship [from their book Queer Chinese Cultures &amp; Mobilities]

Zharkevich (2019) Money and Blood: Remittances as a Substance of Relatedness in Transnational Families in Nepal

Lecture 9 slides

Topic 10 - Rethinking Work: Beyond Wage Labour

Frayne (2016) The Case against Work - an audio podcast

Lukacs (2020) Work without Sweating: Amateur Traders and the Financialization of Daily Life

Millar (2014) The Precarious Present: Wageless Labour and Disrupted Life in Rio de Janeiro

Kalir & van Schendel (2017) Introduction: Nonrecording States between Legibility and Looking Away

Tsing & Ebron (2015) Writers on Writing

Miller & Garvey (2022) Grandparenting as the Resolution of Kinship as Experience

Wei (2020) Stretched Kinship [from their book Queer Chinese Cultures & Mobilities]