AN 272 - Cultures, Conflict and Power

Institution:

Arcadia University

Subject:

Anthropology

Description:

This course examines how systems of power are established through the imposition and contestation of symbolic practices both within and between cultural groups. Beginning with an examination of how the powerless have historically used deception and feigning deference as a political strategy to confront a sovereign state, central emphasis of the course will be on understanding "symbolic violence"; the establishment of a sense of the "natural" to cultural constructions of identity and practice. Utilizing this notion of symbolic violence, the course investigates how the historical formulations of racial, gender and class hierarchies were developed as modern classificatory schemas of identity within the colonial context. The course will end with an ethnographic examination of power within a contemporary ethnographic situation of cultural conflict. Offered in 2005 and alternate years.

Credits:

4.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.arcadia.edu

Phone Number:

(215) 572-2900

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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