Welcome to Anthropology 408: Method and Theory in Anthropology. This course provides you with an opportunity to extend your general knowledge of anthropology to solutions for more challenging scholarly problems. For example, you might wish to investigate in more depth the precepts of a particular theorist or group of theorists, or to pursue advanced readings in a specific aspect of anthropological methods and approaches.

This is a very flexible course. In conjunction with the course professor, you in effect design your own course content objectives, and carry out tasks that enable you to accomplish those objectives, guided and supported by the text that is provided with the course package, the course professor, and the staff in the Athabasca University Library and other libraries to which you have access. By the time you have completed this course, you will have designed and carried out a program of research on one of the world’s culture areas, resulting in a major paper of approximately 10,000 words (50 pages, typed and double-spaced).