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SOAS University of London

MA Anthropology of Food and Intensive Language (Arabic)

Name: MA Anthropology of Food and Intensive Language (Arabic)
Price: £12965 GBP

SOAS UNIVERSITY OF LONDON

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Full time | SOAS, University of London | 2 years | SEP-26

Study mode

Full time

Duration

2 years

Start date

SEP-26

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Qualification type

Professional Masters

Subject areas

Languages Anthropology

Course Summary

The MA Anthropology of Food with a 2-year intensive language pathway is directed at students who wish to combine knowledge of the anthropology of food with expertise in a regional language.It prepares students to apply their anthropological knowledge in a specific region by achieving proficiency in a language. Our MA programme in the Anthropology of Food offers you the opportunity to explore historically and culturally variable foodways, from foraging to industrial agriculture, from Europe and North America to Africa, Asia and South America.You will study the passage of food from plant to palate, and examine who benefits, and who suffers, from contemporary modes of food production, exchange, preparation, and consumption. You will also explore the role of food in human migrations, the formation of regional and national cuisines, and food fears and food safety and concerns over ‘nutrition transition’.Debates over the impact of agricultural biotechnology on agrarian livelihoods and knowledge systems, as well as on the natural environment, are assessed. Movements toward organic agriculture, veganism and vegetarianism, fair trade, and slow food are also analysed.An anthropological approach to the study of food draws upon and challenges the perspectives of other disciplines, whether agronomy or nutritional science, economics or law, history or literature.

Modules

Anthropology of Food: Politics, Place and Mobility (15 Credits) - Core

Contemporary food economies and food cultures are often characterised as being marked by growing mobilities of peoples, tastes and goods. Food systems, we are told, have become increasingly delocalised as processes of food consumption are divorced from processes of food production. Food preparation and eating, the story goes, are increasingly happening beyond the home; cooking skills and the close connection between cuisines and local agroecosystems are being lost in the process. Rather than building connections between people, it is argued, more and more food is implicated in processes of labour alienation and 'gastro-anomie'. At the same time, however, food has become the locus for ethical actions aimed at (re)connecting producers and consumers. It has become an intense site for the politics of belonging, cultural ownership and place. Far from being marked by some boundless mobility, foods and tastes are restricted by pandemics, border controls and migration laws and are implicated in social practices of exclusion on the basis of race, class and gender. In this module we explore the complex and often paradoxical relationship between place, mobilities and food. We critically interrogate claims made about food system 'delocalisation', 'deskilling' and 'gastro-anomie'. We examine food markets, street foods and restaurants as sites of both cultural production and labour exploitation, of social interaction, cosmopolitanism and open debate, and of social control, surveillance and spatial cleansing. We explore contemporary forms of ethical food activism, including in the digital realm, and consider the complex role of food in migration.

Theoretical Approaches to Social Anthropology (30 Credits) - Core

Arabic 1 (PG) (30 Credits)

Higher Intermediate Arabic/English/Arabic Translation Project (PG) (30 Credits)

Intensive Advanced Summer Arabic (PG) (45 Credits)

Intensive Higher Advanced Summer Arabic (PG) (45 Credits)

Intensive Intermediate Summer Arabic (45 Credits)

Introduction to Arabic Dialects (PG) (30 Credits)

Introduction to Classical Arabic Grammar and Classical Texts (30 Credits)

Ethnographic Research Methods (15 Credits) - Core

Advanced Arabic/English/Arabic Translation Project (30 Credits)

Dissertation (60 Credits)

Tuition fees

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Course fees for UK students

For this course (per year)

£12,965

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Course fees for EU and international students

For this course (per year)

£25,320

Entry requirements

We will consider all applications with a 2:2 (or international equivalent) or higher in a social science or humanities subject. In addition to degree classification we take into account other elements of the application such as supporting statement. References are optional, but can help build a stronger application if you fall below the 2:2 requirement or have non-traditional qualifications.

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At SOAS University of London, postgraduate students are encouraged to challenge the status quo and think globally. SOAS is the leading higher education institution in Europe specialising in the study of Africa, Asia and the Near and Middle East. Postgraduate courses are taught by respected academics engaged in ground-breaking fieldwork and research. The work of researchers at SOAS influences both government policy and the lives of individuals...more

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