AN344
Writing Cultures
0.5 Credit

Hours per week:
  • Lecture/Discussion: 3

An exploration of issues arising from writing about the experience and interpretation of ethnographic fieldwork. Aspects of representation such as writing and using fieldnotes, style, structure, techniques of persuasion, fictionalization and reflexivity will be examined. Students will also learn about historical experiments with surrealism, poetry and fiction.

Additional Course Information
Prerequisites
One of AN100, AN110 or AN120 (or the former AN101); registration status: Year 3 or Year 4 Anthropology program OR Year 3 or Year 4 honours arts program.
Exclusions
AN225.