This Anthropology weekend workshop will introduce students to what anthropologists ‘do’ in the field and explore various ways to research the rich diversity of societies and human behaviour. Learners will critically address how ethnographic research methods have changed from 19thc classical to 21st contemporary data and digital research collection today and apply this to their own cultural fieldwork projects.
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This Anthropology weekend workshop will introduce students to what anthropologists ‘do’ in the field and explore various ways to research the rich diversity of societies and human behaviour. Learners will critically address how ethnographic research methods have changed from 19thc classical to 21st contemporary data and digital research collection today and apply this to their own cultural fieldwork projects.
What will we cover?
Defining Anthropology
What Anthropologists do in the field.
Historical foundations 19th- early 20thc evolutionary research
Ethnographic fieldwork, ethnocentricity and unconscious bias.
Anthropology research methods
Qualitative and quantitative data collection
Contemporary digital anthropology research today
Is it easier to do fieldwork overseas or at home?
What will I achieve? By the end of this course you should be able to...
By the end of this weekend workshop, you will have developed your cultural, analytical and critical thinking skills and be able to apply your anthropological knowledge and research methods to your own cultural fieldwork research, CPD or work project.
What level is the course and do I need any particular skills?
Level 4. To benefit from the content of this course, ideally you should have completed the City Lit ‘Intro to Anthropology’ or another Anthropology course.
How will I be taught, and will there be any work outside the class?
This course will be delivered on site over two weekends. You should aim to bring a cultural research project or topic you wish to develop further that maybe personal, academic or professional
Are there any other costs? Is there anything I need to bring?
None, other than a class visit (tbc).
When I've finished, what course can I do next?
Check the City Lit website for up-to-date listings of forthcoming anthropology courses.
Read more about social anthropology in Yasmin's blog, here:
Please check the anthropology section of the City Lit website via the Culture, history and humanities category, for up-to-date information about forthcoming anthropology courses.
Yasmin holds a BA (Hons) in Social Anthropology and an MA History of South Asian Art and Architecture from SOAS, University of London. She has worked as an educator and assistant curator at the V&A museum. Her interest in the social use of space, indigenous art and vernacular architecture was consolidated through fieldwork awards in Tamil Nadu, and latterly she commenced a research degree in the Anthropology of Architecture at Oxford Brookes and UCL. Yasmin has taught at Birkbeck, Goldsmiths, UAL, Pondicherry University and CEPT, Ahmedabad, India. At City Lit, she teaches Introductory and contemporary anthropology, anthropology of space, visual and material culture, ethnographic methods, and decolonisation of museum collections. She contributes to City Lit’s South Asian Heritage Month and Mental Wealth Festival, was a voluntary ethnographic researcher at UCL (MAL) and an educator at the ‘Another India’ exhibition, Cambridge Anthropology Museum. Yasmin is a research consultant and educator who delivers lectures and creative workshops on request. Read more on the City Lit blog: What is Anthropology and what does it entail? | City Lit
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