Winter 2019

Dr. Susan Vincent

Course Outline

NOTE THAT SOME COURSE MATERIALS ARE AVAILABLE ON MOODLE

Section outlines

• What is ethnography? 
• Writing 1: Classical work
• Writing 2: Contemporary ethnography
• Writing 3: Fiction or ethnography?
• Writing 4: News reporting?
• Museums 1: The Spirit Sings and its aftermath
• Museums 2: Problematic monuments
• Reading ethnographic photographs
• First Contact and ethnographic film
• Digital anthropology
• Digital anthropology 2: use and non-use
• Autoethnography
  

Assignment resources

• Additional readings
• Midterm test template
  
• Chocolate: an example of essay structure
• Development: a model for essay structure
  
• Essay checklist
• University Academic Integrity Policy
  
• Plagiarism video
• Final exam template: Note that it is subject to change if mistakes are found or greater clarity is needed.
  

Links

• Writing resources for Anthropology Students
• University of Toronto writing resources