Week No. Dates Topics, Readings, Class Assignments
1 Introductions. Discussion on the Course Outline, plan of semester, setting of the deadlines and a small home assignment, Documentary: Secrets of the Tribe. One central e- mail of the class would be set up to disseminate/submit material and assignments. All the readings mentioned in the outline would be provided by instructor this day. 2nd Lecture Topic: Colonialism and Anthropology: A prelude to Applied Anthropology. The lecture would be primarily (but not limited to) based on Talal Asad’s introduction in Anthropology and Colonial Encounter (Asad 1975). Reading this chapter is optional but it is encouraged to read optional material. 40 minutes lecture and 20 minutes Qs and As. Last twenty minutes of the class would be, most of the times, reserved for preparing for next class, a small relevant video/audio/pictorial/poster presentation or covering of a sub-topic from instructor or students. The list of documentaries and short films would also be shared.
2 Lecture: What is Applied/Practicing/Engaged/Action
Anthropology? Definitions, boundaries, Confusions, Evolution and history, Its scope and roles of anthropologists. A short exercise and lecture about ‘How to read an academic text’. First written assignment to be given this day 2nd Class. Debate on Orientalism and Applied Anthropology, ethical issues surrounding Applied Anthropology. Discussion on the ethical issues encountered during fieldwork and writing of an ethnography. 3 This whole week is dedicated to Theories and concepts in Applied Anthropology. There would a general introduction to main theoretical currents in anthropology in general and specific references to theories in applied Anthropology, and the relation between theory and its praxis would be analyzed in class discussion. There would be a short quiz at the end of second lecture in this week. Reading: Theories of Practice in Anthropology: A critical appraisal (Baba 2000) 4 Methods in Applied Anthropology: How ethnography, participant observation and other applied methods have and are making difference in production of case studies, policies and outcomes. Lecture and Discussion continues in next class. Reading: A Dispute in Donggo: Fieldwork and Ethnography (Monghan and Just 2000) 5 First Sessional. Screening of a film ‘An Idiot Abroad-China’ This depends upon the possibility of the availability of media and required sounds in class, If this could not be materialized, alternative ways to watch can be negotiated. 2nd Class would be a guest lecture by a practicing anthropology under the title of “Putting Anthropology in Practice: Advantages, challenges and Possibilities” 6 Lecture: Culture and Globalization. What is culture and Globalization? How it is relevant in today’s globalized world, Anthropology in 21st century. 2nd class of this week would focus on to discover how fields of Anthropology i.e. Archeology, Linguistics, and Physical Anthropologists have applied anthropology. (Readings for this week are under consideration) 7 Domains of Application: Development Anthropology in the times of Globalization. 2nd lecture topics, Anthropology of Development, how not to be a development Anthropologist. Compulsory reading, Development, Devolution and Discourse in The Applied Anthropology of Globalization (Lewellen 2002). Optional Reading: Identity, Power, and Development: The Kondhs in Orissa, India. (Xaxa 2012) In, The Politics of Resource Extraction pp 180-203. Ed. (Sawyer and Gomez 2012). Anti-Politics Machine: Development and Political Power in Lesotho (Ferguson 1994) Case Studies: 1. Trees in Haiti. 2. Economic Development in Honduras
8 Presentations Week. Group Presentations based on Handbook
of Practicing Anthropology (Nolan 2013). Each group would be assigned chapters of the book for presentation, the book will be provided timely. It is up to groups to select the format of presentation like, Whiteboard/Oral/Poster/Multimedia 9 Domains of Application: pedagogy and education. Reading: Article by Brian McKenna, Paulo Freire’s Blunt challenge to Anthropology: Create a Pedagogy of the Oppressed for Your Times. (McKenna 2013). Education And Development in The Karakorum: Educational Expansion And its Impacts in Gilgit Baltistan (Benz 2012) Case Study: 1. Education in Northern Pakistan 2. Schools in Hawaii
10 Applied Anthropology and health, Nutrition, medicine and
changing dietary patterns of homo sapiens. Reading: Book Chapter, Salt, Sugar, Fat and Sloth in The World Until Yesterday (Diamond 2012) Medicine at the Margins: Conflict Sectarianism and Health Management in Gilgit Baltistan. (Varley 2014) Case Study. Diabetes in Mexico. 2. AIDS and Anthropology research in South Africa. Results of First Written Assignment and topics/readings for second written assignment 11 Second Sessional. Short lecture and discussion on New Dimensions in Applied Anthropology, (Reading to be decided). 2nd class Applied Anthropology and the question of gender in south Asia. A Quiz 12 Applied Anthropology and Visual Anthropology Compulsory Reading: Applied Visual Anthropology: Social Intervention, Visual Methodologies and Anthropology (Pink 2001) Handing over of 2nd writing Assignment 13 . How Anthropology is applied in the field of Politics, Gender and economy. The reading for this class will be decided before the start of first lecture. Case Studies. The gender question in Pakistan. 2. Mediation with Trukese Villagers. 14 Anthropology and Environment/ecology in Globalized world. How Anthropology is being used to address the global warming and environment issues. Reading. The New Ecological Anthropology (Kottak) in, The Environment in Anthropology: A Reader in Ecology, Culture, and Sustainable Living (Haenn and Wilk 2006) 15 Proposal Writing workshop. The last class is dedicated to proposal writing, where with certain exercises students would learn and make a short research proposal. 16 Academic activities would be planned for the first class after consultation with the class throughout the semester, for example this could include how to find a job/work using Anthropology, Or another guest lecturer/ film or covering of less discussed topics etc. Last class of semester would be declaring of results, discussion on grades, Discussion on the syllabus for Terminal exam. End of semester.
Grading
Two Sessional Each consisting of 15 Marks (total 30 Marks)
Attendance and discussion in class 5 Marks Two Individual Writing Assignments Each having 10 Marks (20 Marks) Presentation 10 Marks Surprise and announced quizzes 10 Marks. The breakup of these marks is situational Total 75 Marks