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ANTH4102: Anthropology of Mind and Experience

2023 unit information

The unit provides students with a basis for the understanding of anthropology in the context of current Western philosophical and scientific thought. It particularly explores the work of Claude Levi-Strauss in the light of existential phenomenological and psychoanalytic critiques. The aim is to deepen the students' critical knowledge of anthropological theory and the importance of comparative understanding in relation to the practice of ethnography.

Unit details and rules

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Arts and Social Sciences

Study level Undergraduate
Academic unit Anthropology
Credit points 6
Prerequisites:
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None
Corequisites:
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None
Prohibitions:
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None
Assumed knowledge:
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None

At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:

  • LO1. An ability to think critically about anthropological theory and use it constructively while working on their fourth year honours theses with a sense of the relation of that project to a broader understanding of anthropological thought;
  • LO2. An ability to read anthropological writings in terms of an understanding of their disciplinary and broader epistemological-historical context;
  • LO3. An ability to read anthropological writings in relation to the development of a specific research interest;
  • LO4. An ability to deal critically with and assimilate writings from other disciplines and non-academic sources to an anthropological project.

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Session MoA ?  Location Outline ? 
Semester 1 2020
Normal day Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
Semester 1 2021
Normal day Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
Semester 1 2022
Normal day Remote
Semester 1 2023
Normal day Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
Semester 1 2023
Normal day Remote

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