| Call Number | 10187 |
|---|---|
| Day & Time Location |
T 2:10pm-4:00pm 467 EXT Schermerhorn Hall [SCH] |
| Points | 3 |
| Grading Mode | Standard |
| Approvals Required | None |
| Instructor | Rosalind Morris |
| Type | LECTURE |
| Method of Instruction | In-Person |
| Course Description | Presents students with critical theories of society, paying particular attention to classic continental social theory of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. We will trace a trajectory through important French and German writings essential for any understanding of the modern discipline of anthropology: from Saussure through Durkheim and Mauss, Marx, Weber, and on to the structuralist elaboration of these theoretical perspectives in Claude Lévi-Strauss, always bearing in mind the relationship of these theories to contemporary anthropology. We come last to Foucault and affiliated theorists as successors both to French structuralism and to German social theory and its concerns with modernity, rationality, and power. Throughout the readings, we will give special care to questions of signification as they inform anthropological inquiry, and we will be alert to the historical contexts that situate the discipline of anthropology today. |
| Web Site | Vergil |
| Department | Anthropology |
| Enrollment | 7 students (8 max) as of 9:14PM Wednesday, November 20, 2024 |
| Subject | Anthropology |
| Number | GR6601 |
| Section | 001 |
| Division | Graduate School of Arts and Sciences |
| Note | First-year PhDs in ANTH ONLY |
| Section key | 20243ANTH6601G001 |