Call Number | 10726 |
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Day & Time Location |
MW 10:10am-11:25am 633 Seeley W. Mudd Building |
Points | 3 |
Grading Mode | Standard |
Approvals Required | None |
Instructor | John Pemberton |
Type | LECTURE |
Method of Instruction | In-Person |
Course Description | This course presents students with crucial theories of society, paying particular attention at the outset to classic social theory of the early 20th century. It traces a trajectory of writings essential for an understanding of the social: from Saussure, Durkheim, Mauss, Weber, and Marx, on to the structuralist ethnographic elaboration of Claude Levi-Strauss and the historiographic reflections on modernity of Michel Foucault. We revisit periodically, reflections by Franz Boas, founder of anthropology in the United States (and of Anthropology at Columbia), for a sense of origins, an early anthropological critique of racism and cultural chauvinism, and a prescient denunciation of fascism. We turn as well, also with ever-renewed interest in these times, to the expansive critical thought of W. E. B. Du Bois. We conclude with Kathleen Stewart’s A Space on the Side of the Road--an ethnography of late-twentieth-century Appalachia and the haunted remains of coal-mining country--with its depictions of an uncanny otherness within dominant American narratives. |
Web Site | Vergil |
Department | Anthropology |
Enrollment | 36 students (60 max) as of 9:05PM Wednesday, December 11, 2024 |
Subject | Anthropology |
Number | UN2004 |
Section | 001 |
Division | Interschool |
Note | ANTH UN2104 INTRO-SOC/CULTURAL THEORY-DISC required |
Section key | 20243ANTH2004V001 |