Spring 2020  |  ANTH 8810 Section 001: Topics in Sociocultural Anthropology -- Structuralism - the Unseen in Ethnography (67154)

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Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
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No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
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Topics Course
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Regular Academic Session
 
01/21/2020 - 05/04/2020
Tue 03:30PM - 06:00PM
UMTC, West Bank
Hubert H Humphrey Center 389
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Open (7 of 15 seats filled)
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Course Catalog Description:
Seminar examines particular aspects of method and/or theory. Topics vary according to student and faculty interests.
Class Description:
The modern form of ethnography is said to have been inaugurated by Malinowski's Augonauts of the Western Pacific. Augonauts depicts the practices of gift exchange and seafaring. "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. Ethnography, as bequeathed to us by Argonauts, takes place at the limits of the senses. As a method of research, ethnography arguably aspires to be one for the blind and the aphasiac. It is a method which conscientiously rejects the rhetoric of an all-seeing and all-hearing Science. This seminar has three aims. One is to think the concept of "methodology" in the text of Argonauts. Two is to re-read canonical ethnographies to glean the elements of the unseen and unheard (which condition the seen and heard). Three is to introduce "structuralism" as a school of thought which theoretically enabled anthropology to explore the unseen and the unheard.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/67154/1203
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
6 December 2019

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