Spring 2019  |  ANTH 4003W Section 001: Contemporary Perspectives in Cultural Anthropology (55698)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
A-F or Audit
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/22/2019 - 05/06/2019
Tue, Thu 02:30PM - 03:45PM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 430
Enrollment Status:
Open (8 of 25 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
This course considers issues of race, class, gender, "culture," and globality across multiple genres of writing (ethnography, history, fiction, poetry, memoir). We do this by reading the work of writers who, with an ethnographic sensibility, focus on a particular person whose life is lived in obscurity, at the margins. We ask how such an approach that aims to evoke a world through a life might allow the reader to understand how people move across space and time and through their social worlds, in ways that other kinds of ethnographic or historical writing might not. prereq: [1003 or 1005], or instr consent
Class Notes:
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Class Description:
What are the possibilities and problems of considering issues or race, class, gender, and globality through lenses provided by "close ethnography" or what Natalie Zemon Davis calls "microhistory," with a focus on a particular person whose life is lived in obscurity, at the margins? How can such an approach that aims to evoke a world through a life, across various genres of writing (ethnography, history, fiction, poetry, memoir), allow the reader to understand how people inhabit and move across space and time and through their social words, in ways that other kinds of ethnographic or historical writing might not?
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/55698/1193
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
6 November 2015

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