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This module explores how Individuality, Community and Morality are configured anthropologically. How best to understand individuality, community and morality as distinct concepts, but also vis-a-vis to each other? We use project work as a means to actively refigure what these terms mean to us. We look at major strands in the history of social philosophy, sociology and social anthropology examining how individuality, community and morality are currently being reconfigured in contemporary patterns of social life. The module gives us an opportunity to rethink the task of anthropology as it currently presents itself; how best to comprehend the personal, social and cultural dimensions of the worlds we live in? How do our concepts of 'local' and 'global' currently fit in? What kinds of moral, rational and practical expectations and imperatives emerge? The course will draw on a wide range of ethnographic and theoretical work.