ANTH266-25SU2 (D) Summer Nov 2025 start (Distance)

The Place of Witches: An Anthropology of Witchcraft, Healing, and Magic in the Atlantic World

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 10 November 2025
End Date: Sunday, 14 December 2025
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 16 November 2025
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 30 November 2025

Description

This course explores witchcraft, healing, and magic in the Atlantic World from an anthropological perspective. It covers a series of sub-topics such as witch-hunting, the regulation of witchcraft and sorcery beliefs and practices, divination, magical landscapes, and revitalization movements.

Prerequisites

Any 15 points at 100 level from ANTH or SOCI; or any 60 points at 100 level from the Schedule V of the BA.

Restrictions

ANTH366

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Learning Journal 35%
On-line Test (Healing) 25%
The Regulation of Witchcraft and Sorcery 30%
Witchcraft, Healing, and Magic Quizzes 10%

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $894.00

International fee $4,100.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Language, Social and Political Sciences .

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