Course Catalogue - Social Anthropology

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Social Anthropology

SCQF Level 08 (4 courses)

Code	Availability	Course Name	Period	Credits
SCAN08005	SV1	Ethnography: Theory and Practice	Semester 1	20
SCAN08003	SV1	Social Anthropology 1A: An Introduction	Semester 1	20
SCAN08002	SV1	Social Anthropology 1B: The Practice of Social Anthropology	Semester 2	20
SCAN08004	SV1	Social Anthropology 2: Into the Field	Semester 1	20

SCQF Level 10 (34 courses)

Code	Availability	Course Name	Period	Credits
SCAN10022	SV1	Anthropological Theory	Semester 1	20
SCAN10040		Anthropology and Photography	Not delivered this year	20
SCAN10027		Anthropology of Law	Not delivered this year	20
SCAN10053		Anthropology of Shamanism and Spirit Possession	Not delivered this year	20
SCAN10032	SV1	Belief, Thought and Language	Semester 2	20
SCAN10031	SV1	Consumption, Exchange, Technology	Semester 2	20
SCAN10042		Contemporary Hunter-Gatherers	Not delivered this year	20
SCAN10030	SV1	Culture and Power	Semester 1	20
SCAN10007		Dealing with Strangers	Not delivered this year	20
SCAN10036	SS1	Dissertation (MA Social Anthropology)	Semester 1	40
SCAN10020	SV1	East Central Africa	Semester 1	20
SCAN10043	SV1	Happiness: Cross-Cultural Perspectives	Semester 1	20
SCAN10049	SV1	Himalayan Ethnography	Semester 1	20
SCAN10055	SV1	Human Origins and the Genesis of Symbolic Thought	Semester 2	20
SCAN10037	SS1	Imagining Anthropological Research	Semester 1	0
SCAN10047		Indigenous Peoples of Lowland South America	Not delivered this year	20
SCAN10045		International Indigenous Politics	Not delivered this year	20
SCAN10014		Khoisan Southern Africa	Not delivered this year	20
SCAN10015		Kinship, Religion and the Self in South Asia	Not delivered this year	20
SCAN10021	SV1	Kinship: Structure and Process	Semester 2	20
SCAN10008	SV1	Magic, Science and Healing	Semester 2	20
SCAN10023	SV1	Ritual and Religion	Semester 1	20
SCAN10006		Selected Anthropological Texts	Not delivered this year	20
SCAN10044	SV1	Social Development	Semester 2	20
SCAN10054	SV1	South Asian Public Culture: Keywords	Semester 2	0
SCAN10028	SV1	Southeast Asia	Semester 2	20
SCAN10034	SV1	The Anthropology of Death	Semester 2	20
SCAN10052	SV1	The Anthropology of Food	Semester 1	20
SCAN10029		The Arab World	Not delivered this year	20
SCAN10013		The Enlightenment and the Noble Savage	Not delivered this year	20
SCAN10010	SV1	The Invention of History	Semester 2	20
SCAN10016		The Politics of Identity in South Asia	Not delivered this year	20
SCAN10048	SV1	The anthropology of landscape	Semester 2	20
SCAN10050		Visual Anthropology	Not delivered this year	20

SCQF Level 11 (13 courses)

Code	Availability	Course Name	Period	Credits
SCAN11015		Anthropological Approaches to Shamanism and Spirit Possession	Not delivered this year	20
SCAN11005	SV1	Dissertation MSc by Research Social Anthropology (100 credit)	Full Year	100
SCAN11003	SV1	Dissertation MSc by Research Social Anthropology (60 credit)	Full Year	60
SCAN11004	SV1	Dissertation MSc by Research Social Anthropology (80 credit)	Full Year	80
SCAN11009	SV1	East Central Africa	Semester 1	20
SCAN11010	SV1	Indigenous Peoples of Lowland South America	Semester 1	20
SCAN11014	SV1	Introduction to Medical Anthropology	Semester 1	10
SCAN11017	SV1	Supervised Reading in Social Anthropology	Semester 2	20
SCAN11016	SV1	Supervised Reading in Social Anthropology (10 credits)	Semester 2	10
SCAN11012	SV1	The Anthropology of Food	Semester 1	20
SCAN11013	SV1	The Anthropology of Pharmaceuticals	Semester 1	10
SCAN11008	SV1	The Invention of History	Semester 2	20
SCAN11011	SV1	The anthropology of landscape	Semester 2	20