Social Anthropological Themes

(2 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

This course explores the anthropological understanding of water challenges across the globe, on the continent, and particularly in South Africa. It engages with concepts linked to scarcity, sociality, marginality, citizenship, inequality, resilience, embodiment, and culture. Through anthropological lenses, the course seeks to understand the many relationships and complexities of water and how humans think about, relate, and respond to water, particularly the lack thereof. Through people's experiences, this course will deliberate how integral and fundamental water is to life in all its manifestations: medical, physical, ecological, spiritual, anthropological, social, philosophical and political.