Overview

À×ËÙÌåÓý_À×ËÙÌåÓýÖ±²¥s must take three of the available courses and complete a research report of approximately 20-30 000 words. À×ËÙÌåÓý_À×ËÙÌåÓýÖ±²¥s must take the two core courses ‘The Craft of Anthropology' and 'South African Ethnography' if they have not already done so as Honours students. Attendance at the weekly Wits Anthropology Seminar Series is compulsory.

Curriculum

ANTH4009/7018 - Select Topics 'Anthropology of Art and Method'

The module takes as its starting point a provocation from the panel discussion?1984?and?Beyond?(Playboy?Magazine 1963 June and July issue), which suggests that if we're to discover aliens, it would not fall to engineers and hard scientist, but to anthropologist to define these aliens. It goes further and points out that it would not be long before they recognize the anthropologist's limitations?and bring in the science fiction writers to do the job. The module brings together a series of disparate texts.

ANTH7020 - Anthropology and Ethnographies of South Africa

The course explores the anthropology and ethnographies?of sub-Saharan Africa. It does so by exploring different genres/forms of what might legitimately be considered an "ethnographic" text in an African context. ?

ANTH7026 - Craft of Anthropology

This course is designed to teach Anthropology Honours and Masters students the craft of ethnography. ?The course will give students the opportunity to engage ethnography through:

• Reading some excerpts of its classic iterations
• Practical exercises

The course will also serve as a workshop for students to prepare research proposals for their degrees.?

ANTH7024 - Medical Anthropology in the Global World

Medical Anthropology?helps make sense of suffering and recovery as a social experience. It carries us into refugee camps, birthing centres, factories, boardrooms, rehabilitation centres and schools. ?

ANTH7029 - Sociocultural Theory

Social theory, cultural theory, and critical theory, often just plain ‘theory’: these terms denote a literature that lies between philosophies on the one hand and empirical work conducted in the humanities and social sciences on the other. The thread that runs throughout is a critical attention to the notion of the human: anthropology’s defining object but one that is deeply problematised by ongoing political and intellectual developments.

ANTH7007 - Identity & Culture

This course covers key questions around identity and culture. As the notion of identity proliferates, it troubles anthropology as a discipline which emerged out of the Enlightenment period where classifications of persons became a raison d’etre of the discipline. Seeking to understand, unravel and possibly reverse primordial, essentialist and ethnocentric descriptors in processes of identification, whilst attempting to think through the mobilisation of hard notions of identity in everyday social practice, is a daunting task for contemporary anthropologists. Identity and culture are two of the most ubiquitous terms in anthropology.

ANTH7027 - Ethnographic?Analysis and Writing

ANTH7013 - Research Topic

Entry Requirements

À×ËÙÌåÓý_À×ËÙÌåÓýÖ±²¥s will be considered for admission to Masters in Anthropology if they have a final mark of at least 70% or higher for *their research report in Honours in Anthropology/a cognate discipline. 

University Application Process

University Fees and Funding

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For information about postgraduate funding opportunities, including the postgraduate merit award, click here. Please also check your School website for bursary opportunities. NRF bursaries: The National Research Foundation (NRF) offers a wide range of opportunities in terms of bursaries and fellowships to students pursuing postgraduate studies. External bursaries portal: The Bursaries South Africa website provides a comprehensive list of bursaries in South Africa.