SC388-6-SP-CO:
Dangerous Places: Intercultural Meetings In Film, Exploration and Anthropology
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2023/24
Sociology and Criminology
Colchester Campus
Spring
Undergraduate: Level 6
Inactive
Monday 15 January 2024
Friday 22 March 2024
15
26 April 2022
Requisites for this module
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BA QP10 English Language with Media Communication,
BA QP11 English Language with Media Communication (Including Year Abroad),
BA QP12 English Language with Media Communication (Including Placement Year),
BA QP13 English Language with Media Communication (Including Foundation Year)
Given the frequency of travel today and histories of colonization, immigration and displacement, the experience of entering another culture is one of the abiding themes of the human experience.
It is the stuff of literature, film, biography and the social sciences. What does it mean to enter another culture in another social and natural landscape?
The module will explore one of the dominant themes of anthropology – the intercultural encounter. It will expose students to some iconic essays, diaries and reports produced by those who venture out of their own societies to discover, explore or study other peoples and places. In particular, it will analyse how these writings illuminate perceptions of peoples, cultures and places, and how these become assembled into various orders of knowledge. We will examine a range of intercultural understandings and perceptions put forward in travelers’ reports, missionaries diaries, and the accounts of indigenous peoples themselves. These often occur in very tense or ‘dangerous’ circumstances. This module hopes to shows how the depictions of other societies can take many different forms; pejorative, judgmental, uncomprehending, but also empathic and even ‘romantic.’ These, however,Such depictions can be used to justify particular policies and courses of action towards peoples and their natural environments.
One of the most important objectives of the module is to examine how the self and the other are constituted in intercultural encounters, mostly in the Americas in a range of different places at different times in hostory. We will focus on primary source materials with additional film screenings.
Please click on the link below to view the Introduction video to SC388 Dangerous Places: Intercultural Meetings In Film, Exploration and Anthropology
https://moodle.essex.ac.uk/mod/page/view.php?id=820670
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This module does not appear to have a published bibliography for this year.
Assessment items, weightings and deadlines
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Exam format definitions
- Remote, open book: Your exam will take place remotely via an online learning platform. You may refer to any physical or electronic materials during the exam.
- In-person, open book: Your exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer to any physical materials such as paper study notes or a textbook during the exam. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, open book (restricted): The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer only to specific physical materials such as a named textbook during the exam. Permitted materials will be specified by your department. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, closed book: The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may not refer to any physical materials or electronic devices during the exam. There may be times when a paper dictionary,
for example, may be permitted in an otherwise closed book exam. Any exceptions will be specified by your department.
Your department will provide further guidance before your exams.
Overall assessment
Reassessment
Module supervisor and teaching staff
Prof Colin Samson, email: samsc@essex.ac.uk.
Professor Colin Samson
Jane Harper, Undergraduate Administrator, Telephone: 01206 873052
E-mail: socugrad@essex.ac.uk
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Dr Umut Erel
Open University
Senior Lecturer
Dr Aneira Edmunds
School of Law, Politics & Sociology
Senior Lecturer
Available via Moodle
No lecture recording information available for this module.
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