Course Objectives:
Anthropology 3913 is designed to introduce students to the basic principles of ethnographic research. This course has one main focus: to introduce, to discuss, evaluate and apply the practical aspects of conducting research in the field. This course is taught in accordance with student-oriented learning requiring in-depth student involvement in individual projects (the details of which are outlined below).
Required Texts: 3 Sources
Bernard, H. Russell. 2011. Research Methods in Anthropology: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches 6th Ed. Walnut Creek, California: Alta Mira Press. Purchased at the bookstore.You can buy this by going towww.unbshop.ca there are used and new copies. I would suggest getting these sooner rather than later.
Crane, Julia G. and Michael V. Angrosino. 1992. Field Projects in Anthropology: A Student Handbook. 3rd ed. Long Grove Illinois: Waveland Press, Inc.
Fairclough, N. (2003). Analyzing Discourse. London: Routledge, https://doi-org.proxy.hil.unb.ca/10.4324/9780203697078 E-book You can download the whole book for free.
- Teacher: Craig Proulx
Course Objectives:
. Students will understand how anthropology analyzes sport and why and how it is conceptualized into a topic for anthropological inquiry. Students will comprehend the interpretive processes that produce distinctions between sports, games and play. “Rituals, bodies and embodiment, aesthetics, the creation of meaning-these are some of the classical anthropological concerns, and these provide a crucial orientation that allows a deeper understanding of what sport ‘is.’” (Lithman 2004)
2. Students will understand the influence of culture on sport and how sport influences culture. We will survey how the body, health, fitness, and disability are socially constructed and idealized across cultures. Additionally, the gendered nature of sports and sports’ role in societal understandings of ethnicity and race will be explored. For example, how major sports franchises continue to use Aboriginal mascots despite protests by Aboriginal peoples about their cultural inappropriateness. Issues of cultural appropriation, racism, power, and resistance all inhere within this particular example.
3. Students will delve into the consumer/entertainment/power element of sport. We will also explore how violence in sport is directly related to ideas of power and politics found in our society. Soccer hooliganism will be one area examined in this regard.
4. Overall: By considering how sports operate to organize space, meaning, power and ethnicity, to define and modify bodies, to establish moralities, and to shape cultural perceptions, students will understand the intimate connection between culture and sport.
Required Texts: 3 Sources
1. Crane, Julia G. and Michael V. Angrosino. 1992. Field Projects in Anthropology: A Student Handbook 3rd ed. Long Grove Illinois: Waveland Press, Inc.
2. E-Journals at UNB library website: Where indicated you will download articles directly from the journal where the article is located.
3. Readings On 2-hour Reserve in Harriet Irving Library: call number PB A32's.
Anth3683 books on reserve:
GN454. B56 The anthropology of sport
GV706.5. G36 Games, sports and cultures
GV706.5. S73256 Sport, identity and ethnicity
- Teacher: Craig Proulx
Course Objectives:
* To introduce you to the subject matter of sociocultural anthropology. As you will see practical use can be made of knowledge in all of the four sub-fields of sociocultural anthropology. Job opportunities within the four subfields will be referred to throughout the course. This course is designed to allow you to discover your own areas of interest within the broad sub-fields of the discipline.
* To foster understanding of the ways of thought and lifestyles different from our own. By learning about other societies, we learn about ourselves. You will be exposed to a frame of reference that can lead to greater insight into your own way of life and a deeper appreciation of ways of life in other societies.
* Our core text Guest, Kenneth J. 2014. Cultural Anthropology: A Toolkit for a Global Age. 2nd edition. W. W. Norton and Company Ltd. together with lectures will show how anthropologists isolate and interpretthe patterns and structures humans reproduce in their daily lives as members of communities, societies and cultures. Readings in the on reserve in the Harriet Irving Library will illustrate the use of anthropological methods and concepts in the analysis of human life.
4 Through lectures, case studies, reading materials and assignments you will learn to critically apply what you have learned.
- Teacher: Craig Proulx