ANTH40V15: Power and Inequality (Advanced)

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• To develop students knowledge and ability to think critically about themes in the anthropology of politics, power, and inequality at an advanced level.
• To explore the role of anthropology in theorising the diverse forms of political organisation, power, and inequality across cultures and societies.
• To equip students with advanced competencies to apply and extend their knowledge of political anthropology to other fields of anthropological inquiry.

• Topics may vary but will include, inter alia: state and quasi-state formations in the contemporary world; varieties of nationalism; sovereignty and governance; human rights, torture, and violence; counterinsurgency and surveillance; resistance and indigenous politics.

Subject-specific Knowledge:

• Understand the nature and role of power and inequality in human social and cultural life.
• Understand the diverse forms of political organisation, structure, and agency and how they manifest in social and cultural practice.
• Understand the interconnections between political anthropology and other fields of social anthropological inquiry.

Subject-specific Skills:

• High level knowledge of the concepts and methods of socio-cultural anthropological analysis as applied to politics, power, and inequality.
• Familiarity with, and ability to access, sources of anthropological knowledge on politics, power, and inequality at an advanced level.
• Ability to analyse critically and evaluate literature and arguments in political anthropology.
• Discern and establish connections between ethnographic data and theoretical arguments in economic anthropology.

Key Skills:

• Library research
• Debating skills
• Note taking
• Essay writing
• Critical reading and analysis

• Lectures and seminars introduce students to the material and enable discussion of it, informed by wider reading.
• Seminars allow students to explore and discuss material from the lectures and readings in depth with their tutors and peers.
• Formative assessment is by one 500 word essay outline.
• Summative assessment is by one 3000 word essay.

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