Spring 2024 Anthropology GR6602 section 001

QUESTIONS IN ANTHROPOLOGICAL THEORY II:

QUESTIONS-ANTHROP THRY II:HIST

Call Number 10885
Day & Time
Location
T 4:10pm-6:00pm
467 EXT Schermerhorn Hall [SCH]
Points 3
Grading Mode Standard
Approvals Required None
Instructor Nadia Abu El-Haj
Type LECTURE
Method of Instruction In-Person
Course Description This course surveys the historical relationships between anthropological thought and its generic inscription in the form of ethnography. Readings of key ethnographic texts will be used to chart the evolving paradigms and problematics through which the disciplines practitioners have conceptualized their objects and the discipline itself. The course focuses on several key questions, including: the modernity of anthropology and the value of primitivism; the relationship between history and eventfulness in the representation of social order, and related to this, the question of anti-sociality (in crime, witchcraft, warfare, and other kinds of violence); the idea of a cultural world view; voice, language, and translation; and the relationship between the form and content of a text. Assignments include weekly readings and reviews of texts, and a substantial piece of ethnographic writing. Limited to PhD students in Anthropology only.
Web Site Vergil
Department Anthropology
Enrollment 6 students (10 max) as of 9:06PM Thursday, December 12, 2024
Subject Anthropology
Number GR6602
Section 001
Division Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Note Course is exclusively limited to 1st year doctoral students
Section key 20241ANTH6602G001