Ritual Healing and Therapeutic Emplotment (ANTH0045)

Key information

Faculty: Faculty of Social and Historical Sciences
Teaching department: Anthropology
Credit value: 15

Restrictions: For undergraduates (level 6), this module is open to students from all departments, including affiliates. Important note: BSc Anthropology and BSc Anthropology with a Year Abroad may only take this module in Year 3/4 of their programme and must have taken ANTH0182 as a prerequisite.
Timetable

Alternative credit options

There are no alternative credit options available for this module.

Description

In this seminar, we will explore semiotic/communicative aspects of health and healing, focusing on ritual healing practices and ""emplotment"" in therapeutic narratives, both in small scale societies and in modern biomedical settings. The seminar will include discussions of ritual, symbolism, narrative, clinical care, postcolonial revitalization movements, spirit possession, and the social production and ethnographic description of healing experiences in sociopolitical context. The course will combine the perspectives of medical anthropology, psychological anthropology and the social anthropology of religion and ritual. The aim is to illuminate a particular mode of human social communication and semiotic intervention, studied by anthropologists, that is very ancient and widespread and is implicated in socialization, healing and religious or psychological/political manipulation.

Module deliveries for 2024/25 academic year

Intended teaching term: Term 2 听听听 Undergraduate (FHEQ Level 6)

Teaching and assessment

Mode of study: In person
Methods of assessment: 100% Coursework
Mark scheme: Numeric Marks

Other information

Number of students on module in previous year: 0
Module leader: Dr Joseph Calabrese
Who to contact for more information: j.calabrese@ucl.ac.uk

Last updated

This module description was last updated on 8th April 2024.

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