Fall 2024 Anthropology GR6245 section 002

PERSONHOOD

Call Number 18853
Day & Time
Location
M 2:10pm-4:00pm
302 ALFRED LERNE
Points 3
Grading Mode Standard
Approvals Required None
Instructor Maria Jose de Abreu
Type SEMINAR
Method of Instruction In-Person
Course Description

This seminar seeks to engage with materials that question personhood. Drawing on both fictional and non-fictional accounts, we will be involved with textual and visual documents as well institutional contexts in order to revisit such notion under contemporary capitalism. We will cover topics like rites of passage and life cycle, the role of the nation state and local communities in defining a person, the relation between self and non-self, between the living and the dead. We will likewise address vicarious forms of personhood through the prosthetic, the avatar or the heteronomous. But we will also look into forms of dissipation and/or enhancement of personhood through bodybuilding, guinea-piging and pharmo-toxicities. As a whole, the course will bring to light how the question of personhood cross-culturally relates to language, performativity, religion, technology, law, gender, race, class, care, life and death.

Web Site Vergil
Department Anthropology
Enrollment 13 students (18 max) as of 4:06PM Sunday, December 1, 2024
Subject Anthropology
Number GR6245
Section 002
Division Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Note Enrollment priorities: ANTH MA & PhD students. The permissio
Section key 20243ANTH6245G002