Visual, Material and Museum Anthropology

Bachelor's degree

In Oxford

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Oxford

  • Start date

    Different dates available

The first year of the MPhil is structured around teaching for four papers. Papers one and two are assessed by a 5,000-word essay. Paper three is assessed by a portfolio of methods exercises and a research proposal. Paper four is examined by conventional three-hour unseen examination papers in June.1. Contemporary themes in visual, material and museum anthropology

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Oxford (Oxfordshire)
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Wellington Square, OX1 2JD

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Subjects

  • IT

Course programme

This paper focuses on topics such as visual culture (including photography, the internet, art and aesthetics); music and performance; museum ethics and relationships with 'source communities'; landscape and the built environment; dress and body modification; religion and ritual; mass production and trade; debates concerning tradition, modernity and authenticity; transnational cultural flows and the wider issues of cross-cultural investigation.


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2. Option paper


You must select one option paper from those taught each year for MSc candidates at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology. Titles of options will be made known at the beginning of each academic year and candidates may select their option from any of Lists A, B or C.


3. Research methods in visual, material anthropology and museum ethnography

Visual, Material and Museum Anthropology

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