Master’s specialisation in
Global Ethnography
The Global Ethnography specialisation provides you with methodological and analytical skills to conduct ethnographic research into questions of development, inequality, injustice and globalization. You learn to theorise, position, connect and explore these questions in relation to the latest anthropological theory. You will create a research project that is tailored to your own interests. You acquire thematic and regional knowledge relevant to the three-month research project that you will conduct. In connecting global discourses to localised practices, both in faraway places as well as closer to home, you obtain crucial skills to critically produce and assess social scientific knowledge.
Tarini Shipurkar, alumna
Why this specialisation at Leiden University?
“The strong focus on practical knowledge and the opportunity to conduct individual fieldwork attracted me. Besides gaining relevant practical experience, the course broadened my perspective and helped me read texts more critically.”
u Learn how to set up and conduct a
personalised ethnographic fieldwork project, and how to present your research outcomes; u Benefit from the research networks
of our faculty and develop your own research, while profiting from our staff ’s experience in an area of your own choice.
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English 1 year MSc September or February 1 April non-EU/ 15 June EU (start fall) 15 October non-EU/ 1 December EU (start winter)
Course information
SEMESTER I
Large Issues, Small Places (10 EC)
Research Design Global Ethnography (5 EC)
Write your Research Proposal (5EC)
SEMESTER II
Ethnographic Fieldwork (20EC)
Thesis Seminar (5 EC)
Write your Master’s Thesis (15 EC)
Courses
Fieldwork
Research Proposal
Career possibilities Our graduates combine in-depth knowledge of the themes, regions and societies they have specialised on in their Master, with thorough methodological skills. These are important 21st century skills required to creatively engage with the complex societies of today.
Thesis
More information masters.universiteitleiden.nl/ anthropology-ge Study Coordinator, Sissy Hofmeester s.hofmeester@fsw.leidenuniv.nl
u Project officer at (non)governmental
institutions. u (Scientific) researcher at ministries or
private institutions. u Curator or education officer at museums. u Communication consultant at commercial
companies. u PhD researcher at an university.
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Global Ethnography alumna Sophie Anggawi (third left) conducted ethnographic research on imagining and representing social mobility in pre-wedding and wedding photography.