ANTH 4202-4209 Special Areas in Anthropology
is a series of individual or small group tutorials and reading courses on topics of special or current interest.
PR: Departmental permission

ANTH 4280 Advanced Newfoundland and Labrador Ethnography
surveys the ethnographic literature on Newfoundland and Labrador, past and present, with special emphasis on ecological adaptation, interpersonal relations, class formation, patronage, brokerage, clientship, state formation, and modernization.

ANTH 4301 The Intensive Study of One Culture
- inactive course.

ANTH 4302 Ethnographic Life Histories
- inactive course.

ANTH 4412 Contemporary Theory in Anthropology
is an evaluation of current approaches to culture and power through a focus on critical issues and major schools of contemporary thought influencing Anthropology in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Emphasis is placed on major works, paradigms and individual theorists.

ANTH 4415 Labour and Global Capitalism
examines core issues and problems entailed in the anthropological analysis of work and labour in the context of the global economy. All sections of this course follow International Studies guidelines available at www.mun.ca/hss/IS.

ANTH 4416 Anthropology of Slums
examines social class forces producing a planet of slums, and details ways that everyday forms of violence, social injustice, and poverty take social shape in the everyday lives of slum dwellers. Among the topics covered are: social class formations, including ghettos, favelas, and shanty towns; surplus populations and disposable peoples resulting from late capitalist globalization; and forms of resistance and struggle that arise within dispossessed populations. All sections of this course follow International Studies guidelines available at www.mun.ca/hss/IS.

ANTH 4417 Anthropology of Sound
examines how ethnographers do comparative research on the everyday sounds found in people’s daily environments, including music and new media products.

ANTH 4418 Marx and Social Inquiry
examines the uses of Marx’s later writings, especially Capital, in current American Anthropology. The primary focus is on the agenda-setting works of Eric Wolf and David Harvey. Topics include: capital accumulation and the making of localities; primitive accumulation and class formation; uneven global development; crises of capitalism and crises of social reproduction; capitalist globalization and disposable surplus populations.

ANTH 4422 Writing Anthropology
asks what it means to write compelling anthropology. Open to senior students in any program, the seminar proceeds through attentive reading of sample ethnographic books and articles, anthropological essays, and experimental anthropological writing. In addition to interpretation and analysis, students will be given opportunities to try their own hands at writing anthropology.

ANTH 4450 Anthropology of Space and Place
offers an overview of anthropological approaches to space and place with an emphasis on the representations of physical and cultural landscapes and their meanings for humans. It also explores the spatial dimensions of culture and the cultural meanings of space and place.

ANTH 4994 Honours Essay I