Spring 2019  |  ANTH 3003 Section 001: Cultural Anthropology (54478)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/22/2019 - 05/06/2019
Mon, Wed 09:45AM - 11:00AM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 10
Enrollment Status:
Open (53 of 100 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Topics vary. Field research. Politics of ethnographic knowledge. Marxist/feminist theories of culture. Culture, language, and discourse. Psychological anthropology. Culture/transnational processes.
Class Notes:
colonialism, structuralism, history and memory, feminism and feminist anthropology, gender, modernity, post-modernity, indigeneity, capitalism, neoliberalism, postcolonialism, decolonization
Class Description:
This course introduces Cultural Anthropology by exploring its primary process and product: ethnography. Over the semester we will read three contemporary ethnographies, as well as other articles with which these ethnographies are in conversation, whether implicitly or explicitly. We will also view films (ethnographic, journalistic and dramatic) that relate to the texts. We will pay attention not only to the particular repertoires of cultural practice and histories of collective experience that are represented - but also to the philosophical, political, and aesthetic choices that shape the ethnographic text. We will consider several questions provoked by these ethnographies including: What is the relationship between culture and history? How are cultural knowledge and practice shaped by social conflict and interchange within and across cultural borders? In what ways are cultural processes intertwined with relations of power? What does it mean to speak of non-human or multispecies cultures?

Exam Format:
4 mini take-home exams
Class Format:
Lecture with some discussion
Workload:
50-60 pages of reading per week
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/54478/1193
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
28 November 2015

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