Anthropology, Art and Perception (MRes)

University of St Andrews

The course benefits from small class sizes and an interdisciplinary approach. The course includes a project-based module that allows you to experiment with audio-visual and other creative anthropological research methods. Students have the option to write a library-based dissertation or a dissertation with a practical component. The programme takes art as its starting point and draws on themes extending across the subject boundaries between art and anthropology. These themes include: the senses and perception in anthropology the role of community and cooperation in practice-based research experimental methodologies, audio and audio-visual practices representation a practical sensory project commonalities between anthropological fieldwork and contemporary arts practice