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Spring 2020 | ANTH 8810 Section 001: Topics in Sociocultural Anthropology -- Structuralism - the Unseen in Ethnography (67154)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
Topics Course
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
UMTC, West Bank
Hubert H Humphrey Center 389
- Enrollment Status:
Open (7 of 15 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- 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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