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Study Details: MA 1 year full-time, 2-3 years part-time
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.This programme has a first-rate graduate employability record, with graduates moving on to find employment in food-related government ministries, international organisations, development agencies, or non-governmental associations.
We will consider all applications with 2:ii (or international equivalent) or higher. In addition to degree classification we take into account other elements of the application including supporting statement and references.
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The MA Anthropology of Food programme has a first-rate employability record. SOAS graduates move on to find employment in various fields.
Recent Department of Anthropology and Sociology graduates have been hired by:
Core
60 credits core
799A Dissertation (MA) in Anthropology - 60 credits
Open
Compulsory
75 credits compulsory
702 Ethnographic Research Methods - 15 credits
Open
722 Food, Place and Mobility - 15 credits
Open
723 Diet, Society and Environment - 15 credits
Open
701 Contemporary Anthropological Theory - 15 credits
Open
726 Food Forum Seminar - 15 credits
Open
Guided options
15-45 credits from List A or List B
797A Directed Practical Study: Placements in the Field - 15 credits
Open
750B Ethnographic Locations: East Asia - 15 credits
Open
750A Ethnographic Locations: Sub-Saharan Africa - 15 credits
Open
750D Ethnographic Locations: South Asia - 15 credits
Open
729 Anthropology of Sustainability: Global Challenges and Alternative Futures - 15 credits
Open
724 Migration, Borders and Space: Decolonial Approaches - 15 credits
Open
755 Bodies and Cultures - 15 credits
Open
Agrarian Development, Food Policy and Rural Poverty - 15 credits
Open
Open options
Students can take up to 30 credits of open options from Departments and Schools across the University - including a wide range of language modules.
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