A candidate who has completed the course should be able to:
Knowledge
- provide an overview of key debates in anthropological studies of power and the field of political anthropology.
- discuss different ways power manifests itself in various societies and types of social relations.
Skills
- apply key concepts and perspectives in the anthropological study of power in an individual essay.
- discuss in what ways relations of power permeate social life and influence the distribution of social, cultural and economic resources.
General competence
- apply anthropological concepts and perspectives in order to understand power in the context of local, national and global processes.
- discuss the main features of qualitative research methods.
- read and write academic texts within the specific academic genre.