Spring 2020  |  ANTH 4025 Section 001: Studies in Ethnographic Classics (65726)

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
 
01/21/2020 - 05/04/2020
Tue, Thu 11:15AM - 12:45PM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 335
Enrollment Status:
Open (13 of 25 seats filled)
Course Catalog Description:
Five types of explanations employed in ethnographic research: diffusionism and theory of survivals; functionalist response; British structuralists; French structuralism; interpretive turn. Problems in ethnographic practice, analysis, and writing. Focuses on several classic monographic examples and associated theoretical writing. prereq: 1003 or 1005
Class Description:
The modern form of ethnography was inaugurated by Malinowski's Augonauts of the Western Pacific. Augonauts depicts the practices of gift exchange and seafaring in Micronesia. "Argo" is the name of a ship in Greek mythology. Argonauts is principally written from the point of view of one asail. Ethnography at its inception, then, was likened to the ship, and the ethnogapher's act to seafaring. Seafaring involves limitations in bodily movement and the senses; the unseen and the unheard gain a heightened importance. This is to say that ethnography, as bequeathed to us by Argonauts, takes place at the limits of the senses. From this point of view, ethnography as a method of research conscientiously rejects the rhetoric of an all-seeing and all-hearing Science. We will explore the role of the unseen and the unheard in select ethnographic classics and in our own lives.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/65726/1203
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
6 December 2019

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