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Anthropology: Understanding Societies and Cultures 

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Anthropology: Understanding Societies and Cultures
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FutureLearn 
Overview

Duration

3 weeks

Total fee

7,249

Mode of learning

Online

Credential

Certificate

Anthropology: Understanding Societies and Cultures
 at 
FutureLearn 
Highlights

  • Duration 3 weeks
  • Weekly study 3 hours
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Anthropology: Understanding Societies and Cultures
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FutureLearn 
Course details

More about this course
  • You are invited on a journey to different places and different times. On this course, you will learn about diverse ways of living and explore cultural differences and similarities.
  • You will be introduced to a number of anthropological theories and gain insights into how the study of other cultures and societies can help us deal with urgent problems confronting our own societies and the modern world.
  • Through your new knowledge about other cultures, you will reflect on your own cultural home, society and world views.

Anthropology: Understanding Societies and Cultures
 at 
FutureLearn 
Curriculum

Studying Culture

Introducing Anthropology

Anthropos and Logos

Culture: Stuff, Knowledge, Meaning

The Problem of Ethnocentrism

Intellectual Ancestry

Historical Foundations of the Discipline

Anthropological Beginnings

Modern Anthropology

Anthropology as a Field of Knowledge

Fieldwork and Ethnography

Knowledge in Anthropology

Ethnography

Fieldwork

Fieldnotes

Culture Writing

Looking Back

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