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Course Info for ANTH - 401 - 01, Spring 2024
Class number: 1089 Title: Adv Sem in Contemp Anth Department: Anthropology
Career: Undergraduate Component: Seminar Session: Regular
Instructor's Permission Required: No Grading Basis: Regular Units: 1.00
Enrollment limited to 19 Current enrollment: 14 Available seats: 5
Start date: Monday, January 22, 2024 End date: Friday, May 10, 2024 Mode of Instruction: In Person
Schedule: W: 1:30PM-4:10PM, CT - 210 Instructor(s): Hussain, Shafqat
Prerequisite(s): Seats Reserved for Anthropology majors.
Distribution Requirement: Meets Writing Emphasis Part2 Requirements
Course Description:
Anthropologists are a contentious lot, often challenging the veracity and relevance of each other’s interpretations. In this seminar, students will examine recent manifestations of this vexatiousness. The seminar will consider such questions as: Can culture be regarded as collective and shared? What is the relationship between cultural ideas and practical action? How does one study culture in the postmodern world of "the celluloid, global ethnoscape"? Can the practice of anthropology be fully objective, or does it demand a politics—an understanding that ideas, ours and theirs, are historically situated, politicized realities? Is domination the same everywhere?