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Spring 2024 | ANTH 3003 Section 001: Cultural Anthropology (53195)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
Mon,
Wed 11:15AM - 12:30PM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 415
- Enrollment Status:
Open (41 of 49 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Topics vary. Field research. Politics of ethnographic knowledge. Marxist/feminist theories of culture. Culture, language, and discourse. Psychological anthropology. Culture/transnational processes.
- Class Notes:
- colonialism, structuralism, history and memory, feminism and feminist anthropology, gender, modernity, post-modernity, indigeneity, capitalism, neoliberalism, postcolonialism, decolonization
- Class Description:
- This course introduces the subfield of Sociocultural Anthropology through the sampling of what cultural anthropologists mainly do: fieldwork, whose product is ethnography. Throughout the term, we closely read only four ethnographies. There will not be any additional reading. The goal is thereby to pay attention not only to the subject-matter narrated in each ethnography ? i.e., the culture described ? but also to the contexts in which the narrative as a constructed text is made possible. Such `contexts' include the author/anthropologist's own culture, the biographical person of the author, the particular genre of writing called ethnography, and the imperatives of literary form itself. This class places much emphasis on the importance of reading ethnographies as text. Lectures will often refer to the actual physical text concerned. Having actual texts in front of you in class will help your comprehension. As such, the class is intended, even if indirectly, to teach students skills to engage in reading-centered works in humanities and social science disciplines: how to read not-so-easy scholarly texts; how to extract main points from them; how to summarize them in your own language; how to entertain multiple possibilities of interpretation, etc.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/53195/1243
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 18 June 2012
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