Unit information: Archaeology and Anthropology Field School in 2014/15

Unit name	Archaeology and Anthropology Field School
Unit code	ARCH20017
Credit points	20
Level of study	I/5
Teaching block(s)	Teaching Block 2 (weeks 13 - 24)
Unit director	Dr. Winkler Reid
Open unit status	Not open
Pre-requisites	None
Co-requisites	None
School/department	Department of Anthropology and Archaeology
Faculty	Faculty of Arts

Description including Unit Aims

This unit aims to acquaint students with archaeological and anthropological fieldwork techniques, and to provide an opportunity to experience first-hand how knowledge is produced through engagement with the field.

Aims:

• To give students experience in preparing and managing a research project.

• To give students practical experience in conducting archaeological and anthropological fieldwork.

• To explore the varieties of possible approaches to research, including a comprehensive understanding of the ethical issues involved.

• To give students experience in presenting, discussing, writing-up and where appropriate disseminating their fieldwork results.

• To give students experience in working as part of a team.

Intended Learning Outcomes

At the end of the unit, a successful student will be able to:

• become able to employ archaeological and anthropological techniques, such as interviewing, recording, map regression, archival research and standing building recording, and will have gained first hand experience in their applications.
• appraise the process of conducting research, including a first-hand knowledge of the ethical implications of being a researcher with human subjects.
• appraise how to work as part of a team, in planning, executing and presenting their research.
• appraise the writing up ethnographic and archaeological material, and with the production of a final report.

Teaching Information

3 x 2-hour lectures, 3 x 2-hour drop-in feed-back sessions, 4 x 2-hour presentations and feedback

Assessment Information

One field-work diary (50%). Assesses ILOs 1-4 One 2250-2750 word final report (50%). Assesses ILOs 3-4

Reading and References

Buchli, V. & G. Lucas (ed). 2001. Archaeologies of the Contemporary Past. London: Routledge.

Coleman, S. and Collins, P. (eds) 2006 Locating the Field: space, place and context in anthropology, Oxford; Berg.

Gosden, C. 1999. Anthropology & Archaeology: a changing relationship. London: Routledge

Graves-Brown, P. (ed.) 2000. Matter, materiality, and modern culture. London: Routledge

Hicks, D. & M. Beaudry (eds). 2006. The Cambridge Companion to Historical Archaeology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Inda, J and Rosaldo, R. 2008 The Anthropology of Globalization: a Reader, Oxford: Blackwell.

Kuklick, H. (ed.) 2008 A New History of Anthropology Oxford: Blackwell.

Lucas, G. 2001. Critical Approaches to Fieldwork: contemporary and historical archaeological practice. London: Routledge.

Stocking, G. 1983 Observers observed: essays on ethnographic fieldwork, London: University of Wisconsin Press.

Tarlow, S. & West, S. 1998. The Familiar Past? Archaeologies of Britain 1550-1950. London: Routledge.

Watson, C. (ed.) 1999 Being there: fieldwork in anthropology, London: Pluto Press.