M. Phil/ Ph. D Courses

An outline of the relevant historical context is crucial to understand the origin and development of theories. Main concept used in a theory and their various semantic shades need to be clarified with reference to other theories, sociopolitical conditions, and disciplinary boundaries. This course will take up contemporary theoretical issues for in depth discussion.

Aim of this course will be to acquaint students with the major issues in research methodology and research techniques. Methodological and epistemological questions will be taken up. Tension between quantitative and qualitative approaches and their bearing on ethnographic knowledge will be debated.

Symbolic constructions and their cognitive bases will be the focus of this course. Forms of fold classifications; ritual expressions and other representations will be studies. Cognition, its nature and conceptualization by anthropologists are the main topics.

The course will comprise a survey of the traditional cultural and social institutions of the peoples of Pakistan. Analysis of kinship system, family structure, religious and ethnic identities, indigenous social and political institutions will be made. The course would also cover 3 critical study of the existing anthropological litterateur on Pakistan