This course is available on the BA in Anthropology and Law, BA in Social Anthropology, BSc in Social Anthropology, Exchange Programme for Students in Anthropology (Cape Town), Exchange Programme for Students in Anthropology (Fudan), Exchange Programme for Students in Anthropology (Melbourne) and Exchange Programme for Students in Anthropology (Tokyo). This course is available as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students. This course is most suitable for second and third year students but interested first year external students may seek an exemption. Also available to General Course students.
This course is available on the BA in Anthropology and Law, BA in Social Anthropology, BSc in Social Anthropology, Exchange Programme for Students in Anthropology (Cape Town), Exchange Programme for Students in Anthropology (Fudan), Exchange Programme for Students in Anthropology (Melbourne) and Exchange Programme for Students in Anthropology (Tokyo). This course is available as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students. This course is most suitable for second and third year students but interested first year external students may seek an exemption. Also available to General Course students.
10 hours of lectures and 10 hours of classes in the LT. There will be a reading week in Week 6 of the LT.
Students are expected to prepare discussion material for classes/seminars. Students taking this course will be expected to produce one essay in the LT.
Selected/ indicative? texts: Renato Rosaldo Ilongot Headhunters; Vicente Rafael Contracting Christianity; Fenella Cannell Power and Intimacy in the Christian?Philippines; Sally-Ann Ness Where Asia Smiles; Heather L. Claussen, Unconventual?Sisterhood; J.Neil C. Garcia Philippine Gay Culture: the Last Thirty?Years; M. F. Manalansan Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora;?Vicente Rafael White Love and Other Events in Filipino History; Evelyn?Tan Cullemar Babaylanism in Negros; Benito M Vergera Displaying?Filipinos: Photography and Colonialism in Early 20th Century Philippines; Renaldo?Clemena Ileto Pasyon and Revolution; K.F. Wiegele, Investing in?Miracles: El Shaddai and the Transformation of Popular Catholicism in the?Philippines; Nicole Constable Maid to Order in Hong Kong; Albert?Alejo Generating Energies in Mount Apo: Cultural Politics in a Contested?Environment; Catherine Ceniza Choy Empire of Care: Nursing and Migration?in Filipino American History; Esther C.M. Yau and Kyung Hyun Kim Asia/Pacific?Cinema; Caroline S. Hau, Necessary Fictions; Philippine Literature and?the Nation. Detailed reading lists are provided at the beginning of the?course.
Essay (100%, 3000 words) in the LT. Students will complete written work on one or more topics from the course, with a total word count of 3,000 words. Specific guidance and advice will be given during the course but for example, students may choose to pursue one topic in depth and with the use of additonal and external materials, or to write on two topics more closely related to the course work and course outline. Further guidance and a range of suggested topics and questions will be provided during the course.