* 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. 3rd edition. W. W. Norton and Company Ltd. together with lectures will show how anthropologists isolate and interpret the 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
Course Objectives:
This course critically investigates selected issues facing Indigenous peoples living in what is now called Canada. We will focus on these using, for example, a collection of anthropological concepts (e.g., identity, class, racialism, structure and agency, colonialism, and neo-colonialism etc.). Some of the areas we may study are, the role of the state and law in Indigenous lives, national imaginaries, the constitution of individual and community identities, cultural production and appropriation, pan-Aboriginality, justice, law, whiteness and white privilege, surveillance/criminalization and the effects of public policy on all these domains. If you know nothing of Indigenous peoples or Indigenous and non-indigenous relations, then this course will provide you with a base to learn more. If you already have a basic understanding of this set of relations, then this course will take you deeper into them. In the end you will have a critical idea of Indigenous life, its diversity, and an appreciation of the challenges facing Indigenous peoples.
- Teacher: Craig Proulx
Course Objectives:
Introduction to Qualitative Research Methods 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).
- Teacher: Craig Proulx