Fall 2025 Anthropology GR6245 section 001

PERSONHOOD

Call Number 10147
Day & Time
Location
M 2:10pm-4:00pm
To be announced
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 0 students (18 max) as of 10:05AM Friday, April 4, 2025
Subject Anthropology
Number GR6245
Section 001
Division Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Open To GSAS
Note Graduate students only. Instructor permission required
Section key 20253ANTH6245G001