ANTH 4003W is also offered in Fall 2024
ANTH 4003W is also offered in Spring 2022
Spring 2022 | ANTH 4003W Section 001: Contemporary Perspectives in Cultural Anthropology (68113)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Enrollment Requirements:
- jr or sr or grad student
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
Mon,
Wed 01:00PM - 02:15PM
Off Campus
UMN REMOTE
- Enrollment Status:
Open (15 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 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/68113/1223
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 6 November 2015
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