Cultural Anthropology 2023/2024
Course List
List of courses.
Cultural Anthropology
List of courses in Cultural Anthropology.
Bachelor's level, basic courses
- Africa in the 2000s, 7.5 credits
- African Cultural Expressions and Artistic Creativity, 7.5 credits
- African History, Culture and Society, 7.5 credits
- African Studies A, 30 credits
- Afro-Swedish Relations Past and Present, 7.5 credits
- Anthropological Perspectives of Economy: On Bargaining and Capitalism, 7.5 credits
- Cultural Anthropology A, 30 credits
- Culture and War, 7.5 credits
- Environmental Ethnography, 7.5 credits
- Gender and Sexuality, 7.5 credits
- Think Like an Anthropologist! An Introduction, 7.5 credits
Bachelor's level, continuing courses
- Anthropology, as Time Goes by: An Intellectual History of Theories and Ideas, 7.5 credits
- Cultural Anthropology B, 30 credits
- Cultural Anthropology C, 30 credits
- Ethnographic Methods in a Digitalised World, 7.5 credits
- Faith and Thought: Anthropological Perspectives on Local and Global Life Worlds, 7.5 credits
- Homo politicus: Ethnographic Perspectives, 7.5 credits
Master's level courses
About the Subject
Cultural anthropology is a field like psychology, philosophy, sociology, history and other humanities and social science disciplines that work to understand people - why they are who they are and do what they do, how they think, how they talk, eat, fight, love, and how they organise themselves socially, politically, and in relation to things like gender, religion, sexuality, ethnicity and inequality.
What distinguishes an anthropological perspective from other kinds of perspectives is that anthropologists usually conduct what we call "fieldwork". This means that we base our knowledge of people on the experience of living with them for long periods of time - usually at least a year, sometimes much longer.
Anthropological research deepens and complicates understandings of culture, religion, political systems, power, work, emotions, relationships, gender, and many other things. Faculty in the department have conducted long-term fieldwork in Latin America, Africa, Asia, Melanesia and Europe. Their research spans many different topics, such as child soldiers, indigenous peoples, language death, disability, human rights, political upheaval, local political culture, sex work, relationships between people and animals, sickness and medicine, urban life, and pentecostal movements.