Fall 2024 Anthropology GR6601 section 001

QUESTIONS-ANTHROP THRY I:TEXTS

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 4:06PM Sunday, December 1, 2024
Subject Anthropology
Number GR6601
Section 001
Division Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Note First-year PhDs in ANTH ONLY
Section key 20243ANTH6601G001