Key Debates in Contemporary Anthropology

Description

On this module, you’ll explore key debates that have featured in contemporary anthropology. You’ll develop your ability to critically engage with significant theoretical frameworks and form your own views and opinions whilst preparing for Advanced Topic options. Your learning is shaped by debates active at Sussex, across the UK and beyond. While these debates draw on broader literature and trends in society, you’ll focus on how they are used within anthropology, and how they influence wider debates across the social sciences, arts and humanities. You’ll be taught by experts in the field in topics that may include: migration, displacement, and mobility infrastructure, technology and cyborg sociality the ‘good’, the ‘bad’ and the ‘ugly’: anthropology and morality society beyond the human: multispecies sociality and the anthropocene affect and emotional labour work and leisure precarity, politics and the popular secularism, religions and intolerance perspectivism, ontology and the new orientalism anthropology beyond ‘ethnography’: fiction, narrative and depicting the social anthropology beyond ‘logocentrism’: physicality and performance.