Social Anthropology

MA in Social Anthropology

Mode: part-time

This MA provides a theoretical and empirical understanding of issues and debates in Social Anthropology and offers the chance to carry out a piece of original or library-based research. It allows for the opportunity to explore the relationship between anthropology and cognate disciplines.

The programme develops your interest in and knowledge of human societies, and fosters your appreciation of the interconnections between different aspects of social and cultural life (eg religion, politics, kinship, material culture). There are case studies as well as theoretical and methodological analyses.

The options allow you to focus on sociological or cultural aspects and open up the possibility of specialisation within a number of areas.

All tutors have carried out their own field research, particuarly concentrating on south-east Europe, Central America and Africa, and draw on these experiences in their teaching.

Programme Structure

Compulsory Units

• Contemporary Issues in Social Anthropology
• History and Theory in Anthropological Theory
• Research Methods in Social Anthropology
• Dissertation

Optional Units
These include:

• Culture and Global Violence
• Culture, Postmodernity and Religion
• Diasporas and Transnational Communities
• Diversity and Citizenship in Europe
• Ethnicity and Nationalism in South East Europe
• Global Ethnicities
• Globalisation and Culture
• Material Culture
• Narrating the Self
• Proseminar in Religion
• Quantitative Social Research
• Roma in the New Europe
• Theory and Politics of Multiculturalism