Spring 2024 Anthropology UN3947 section 001

TEXT, MAGIC, PERFORMANCE

TEXT MAGIC PERFORMANCE

Call Number 10672
Day & Time
Location
M 2:10pm-4:00pm
963 EXT Schermerhorn Hall [SCH]
Points 4
Grading Mode Standard
Approvals Required Instructor
Instructor John Pemberton
Type COLLOQUIA
Method of Instruction In-Person
Course Description Prerequisites: the instructors permission. This course pursues interconnections linking text and performance in light of magic, ritual, possession, narration, and related articulations of power. Readings are drawn from classic theoretical writings, colonial fiction, and ethnographic accounts. Domains of inquiry include: spirit possession, trance states, séance, ritual performance, and related realms of cinematic projection, musical form, shadow theater, performative objects, and (other) things that move on their own, compellingly. Key theoretical concerns are subjectivity - particularly, the conjuring up and displacement of self in the form of the first-person singular I - and the haunting power of repetition. Retraced throughout the course are the uncanny shadows of a fully possessed subject --within ritual contexts and within everyday life.
Web Site Vergil
Department Anthropology
Enrollment 17 students (15 max) as of 5:06PM Wednesday, December 11, 2024
Status Full
Subject Anthropology
Number UN3947
Section 001
Division Interschool
Note Counts towards the Global Core requirement. Permission req
Section key 20241ANTH3947V001