In this area teaching and research focus on the interaction between culture, language and society. We also focus on individual, agency and society, including concepts of identity, and social action, social institutions, urban, rural and global societies. The institute offers students and researchers an innovative environment that also critically looks at academic and professional discourses, including context, structure, organisation, and purpose of academic texts, language and interaction, including critical analysis of language choices in diverse social and cultural contexts, intercultural communication, perspectives on research practice in multiple disciplines.
These are the courses undertaken in this thematic area:
NAF 600 Historical and Philosophical Foundations of Anthropology
NAF 601 Anthropological Theory
NAF 602 Social Science Research Methods
NAF 603 Statistics for Social Sciences
NAF 631 Ethnography of Speaking
NAF 632 Types and Extent of Linguistic Diversity
NAF 633 Code-Switching
NAF 634 The Languages of Africa
NAF 635 Special Forms of Language
NAF 636 The role of Language in Development
NAF 637 Intercultural Communication
NAF 638 The Language Situation in Kenya
NAF 639 Ethnosemantics
NAF 640 Historical and Comparative Linguistics
NAF 641 Folklore