Athabasca University: Course Syllabus, Anthropolgy 401

Anthropology (ANTH) 401
Ethnography: Principles in Practice

ANTH 401 closed March 2004, replaced by current version.

Delivery mode:	Individualized study
Credits:	3 - Social Science
Prerequisite:	ANTH 275 and three other credits in anthroplogy
Precluded course:	ANTH 301 (ANTH 401 may not be taken for credit if credit has already been obtained for ANTH 301.)
Centre:	Centre for Work and Community Studies
Challenge for Credit:	ANTH 401 has a Challenge for Credit option
Learn more online:	Course home page

Overview

ANTH 401 is designed to describe and analyse the principles and practice of qualitative research as exemplified by ethnography—the writing of first-hand, systematic accounts of ways of life that are often, but not necessarily, different from our own.

Outline

The course consists of the following units.

Unit 1 Overview: Return to Laughter
Unit 2 Research Design
Unit 3 An Ethnography: The Dobe !Kung
Unit 4 Access
Unit 5 An Ethnography: The Vice Lords
Unit 6 Field Relations
Unit 7 An Ethnography: Dingo Makes us Human, Land and Life
in an Australian Aboriginal Culture
Unit 8-9 Ethnography: Getting Started
Unit 10 Insider Accounts
Unit 11 An Ethnography: The Semai
Unit 12 Documents
Unit 13 An Ethnography: The Hutterites
Unit 14 Recording and Organizing Data
Unit 15-16 Ethnographic Data
Unit 17 The Process of Analysis
Unit 18 Writing Ethnography
Unit 19 What is Ethnography? Conclusion
Unit 20-21 Research Proposal

Evaluation

To receive credit for ANTH 401, students must achieve a grade of at least 50 percent on each of the assignments. The weighting of the composite grade is as follows:

Essay 1	Essay 2	Research Proposal	Final Exam	Total
20%	20%	25%	35%	100%

Course Materials

Textbook

Hammersley, Martyn, and Paul Atkinson. 1995. Ethnography, Principles in Practice. Second Edition. New York and London: Routledge.

Other Material

The course materials include a student manual.

Ethnographies

Bowen, Elenore Smith. 1964. Return to Laughter. New York: Doubleday and Co., Inc.

Dentan, Robert Knox. 1979. The Semai, A Nonviolent People of Malaya. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.

Hostetler, John A., and Gertrude Enders Huntington. 1980. The Hutterites in North America. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.

Keiser, R. Lincoln. 1979. The Vice Lords, Warriors of the Streets: Fieldwork Edition. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.

Lee, Richard B. 1984. The Dobe !Kung. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.

Rose, Deborah Bird. 2000. Dingo Makes us Human, Land and Life in an Australian Aboriginal Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Athabasca University reserves the right to amend course outlines occasionally and without notice.
Courses offered by other delivery methods may vary from their individualized-study counterparts.

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Anthropology (ANTH) 401 Ethnography: Principles in Practice