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Module Content

This module explores anthropological contributions to the landscape of professional practice across a range of social fields. It trains students in how to contribute to a contemporary anthropology that, theoretically endowed and ethnographically driven, is professionally relevant, enhancing the fields of processions practice to which it is applied. Training students in anthropological concepts and methods, it provides them with skills and insights that can have a transformative effect in their chosen area of work. Seminars involving guest speakers from relevant industries focus on selected fields of professional practice, which may include: digital technology, the voluntary sector, education, healthcare, finance, social enterprise and development, human rights and the courts, and design anthropology.听听

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Learning Outcomes

Having completed the module students will: 鈥�鈥�听

• Be able to deploy central theories, concepts and analytical procedures in applied anthropology, design anthropology and other contemporary approaches that operate at the intersection of anthropology and professional practice.听

• Understand the history and consequences of anthropological engagement beyond academia听

• Demonstrate knowledge and critical understanding of the potential applications of anthropological knowledge and methods for addressing challenges arising in particular professional and organizational settings.鈥�听

• Construct and present arguments about anthropological contributions to professional practice in different fields using appropriate theoretical and ethnographic insights.听

Have command of the following transferable skills:鈥�听

• Ability concisely to pitch a project to peers and industry experts听

• Ability to present a case-study research project through use of PowerPoint slides (or equivalent software)听

• Ability to work collaboratively in a team听

• Ability to source and analyse diverse data pertaining to case-studies from a selected professional field or industry听听

• Time, planning and management skills.鈥�听

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Delivery Method

This module is taught through a three-hour weekly seminar and one-hour tutorial:听

• In the three-hour seminar students will receive a one- hour lecture by an industry expert, and then participate in peer project work to develop a research case study that puts in practice and combines the methods training and theoretical focus of teaching in Term One. The project work will involve the critical application of anthropological theory and methods to an industry brief.听听

• The one-hour tutorial offers the opportunity to debrief on project work and reflect in detail on the diverse conceptual, ethical, social and political dynamics that underpin anthropological research in industry.听

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Additional Information

Indicative readings:听

Mosse, David. 2011. In Shore, C, Wright, S. & Pero, D. (Eds.) Policy worlds: anthropology and the analysis of contemporary power. P.50-67. Oxford: Berghahn. (ebook)听听

Lassiter, E.L. 2005. 鈥淐ollaborative Ethnography and Public Anthropology.鈥� Current Anthropology. 46(1). 83-106.听听

Brutti, L. (2001) 鈥淲here Anthropologists Fear to Tread. Notes and Queries on Anthropology and Consultancy, Inspired by A Fieldwork Experience鈥� in Social Analysis. 45(2). Special Issue on Anthropology & Consultancy (eds) A. Strathern & P. Stewart.听

Bell, Joyce M.听 2014. The Black Power Movement and American Social Work. New York: Columbia University Press听

Hale, C. R. (2006). Activist research v. cultural critique: Indigenous land rights and the contradictions of politically engaged anthropology. Cultural Anthropology, 21(1), 96-120.听

Peirano, M.G.S. 1998. 鈥淲hen Anthropology is at Home: The Different Contexts of a Single Discipline鈥� Annual Review of Anthropology 1998, Vol.27, p.105-128听

Pels, P (1999) 鈥楶rofessions of Duplexity: A prehistory of ethical codes in anthropology鈥� Current Anthropology 40 (2): pp 101-136听听

Sillitoe, P. (2007), Anthropologists only need apply: challenges of applied anthropology. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 13:鈥�147鈥�165.听听

Bennett, J. 1996. 鈥淎pplied and Action Anthropology: Ideological and Conceptual Aspects鈥� Current Anthropology 36, Supplement: S23-S53听听

L. Field & R.G. Fox (eds) 2007, Anthropology put to Work. Berg Press: Oxford听

MacClancy, J. (Ed.). (2002). Exotic no more: anthropology on the front lines. Chicago, Ill.; London: University of Chicago Press. (chapters to interest).听