Minor: Anthropology

This minor is co-organised by the Arctic Centre.

Holistic anthropology

This inter-faculty university minor programme offers students an intensive engagement with the discipline of anthropology in the form of a holistic 'four-field' approach, unique in Europe. It combines the fields of:

• cultural anthropology
• linguistic anthropology
• anthropological archaeology, and
• physical (or biological) anthropology.

Exposure to such varied—though, deeply interrelated—elements of human cultural development provides students with comprehensive insights into the complexities of the human condition at the interface of:

• the socio-cultural grounding of human thought and action;
• the biological and evolutionary factors of human development;
• the material dimensions of human life-worlds, and;
• the crucial, ever-changing impacts of language on cultures and societies

Four newly-designed core modules orienting students to the main concepts, methods and themes within four-field anthropology are taught by specialists in each respective subfield; instructors hail from different UG faculties and maintain active anthropological field research in diverse regions of the world, including South Asia, the North American Arctic and Latin America.

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