Belonging: Kin, Family, Friends (L6069)
15 credits, Level 4
Spring teaching
What makes us related? Human relatedness and kinship are key topics within the history of social anthropology.
On this module, you’ll explore how societies imagine, organise and experience human relationships in different cultures.
You’ll analyse:
- how anthropologists’ ideas about kinship have changed over time
- how these changing ideas demonstrate broader shifts in the field
- how structures of power, technologies and economic exchange characterise human relationships
- the experiential ways humans connect to place and each other through bodily experience and emotion.
We regularly review our modules to incorporate student feedback, staff expertise, as well as the latest research and teaching methodology. We鈥檙e planning to run these modules in the academic year 2026/27. However, there may be changes to these modules in response to feedback, staff availability, student demand or updates to our curriculum.
We鈥檒l make sure to let you know of any material changes to modules at the earliest opportunity.
Courses
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