Spring 2026 Anthropology BC3234 section 001

Indigenous Place-Thought

INDIGENOUS PLACE-THOUGHT

Call Number 00720
Day & Time
Location
MW 8:40am-9:55am
To be announced
Points 4
Grading Mode Standard
Approvals Required None
Instructor Severin Fowles
Type SEMINAR
Course Description

This seminar considers what it means to be of a place and to think with and be committed to that place—environmentally, politically, and spiritually. After locating ourselves in our own particular places and place-based commitments, our attention turns to the Indigenous traditions of North America, to accounts of tribal emergence and pre-colonial being, to colonial histories of land dispossession, to ongoing struggles to protect ecological health and land-based sovereignty, to the epistemological and moral systems that have developed over the course of many millennia of living with and for the land, and to the contributions such systems might make to our collective future. The seminar’s title is borrowed from an essay on “Indigenous place-thought” by Mohawk/Anishinaabe scholar Vanessa Watts.

Web Site Vergil
Department Anthropology @Barnard
Enrollment 0 students (30 max) as of 9:05AM Wednesday, October 8, 2025
Subject Anthropology
Number BC3234
Section 001
Division Barnard College
Section key 20261ANTH3234X001