ANTH 4344 is also offered in Fall 2024
ANTH 4344 is also offered in Spring 2023
Spring 2021 | ANTH 4344 Section 001: Europe and its Margins (66997)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option No Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
Online Course
- Meets With:
GLOS 4344 Section 001
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
Off Campus
Virtual Rooms ONLINEONLY
- Enrollment Status:
Open (11 of 13 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- This course explores some of the forms of human imagining (literary, artistic, political, social scientific) engendered by the notoriously hard to define entity known as "Europe." It does so by focusing on regions and populations that have been thought of at various times as marking Europe's inner and outer cultural and/or geographical limits. Topics addressed include: the relationship between physical geography, cultural memory, and the formation (or subversion) of identity claims; the reconfigured political landscapes of post-socialism and European integration; immigration, refugee flows, and the rise of far-right ethno-nationalisms; and the effects of pandemics past and present. prereq: One course in [ANTH or GLOS]
- Class Description:
- This course seeks to shed light upon the constitution of the mythical, yet world-historically significant entity called "Europe" by focusing, less on present-day political boundaries than on regions and landscapes--forests, mountains, marshes, islands--that have been thought of at various times as marking Europe's inner and outer cultural and geographical limits. In charting the shifting imaginaries of such marginal spaces, it aims to engage too with the production of cultural and historical knowledge and the formation (and occasionally the subversion) of identity-claims. Readings draw upon a variety of historical, literary and ethnographic sources, with a view to exploring the interplay between physical geography, imagination and cultural memory, along with the forms of literary and scholarly writing developed in and in relation to marginal lands. The course concludes by relating these themes to the reconfigured political geography of post-socialism and European integration.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/66997/1213
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 27 April 2012
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