Anthropology 261 - Anthropology of Violence and Suffering

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Bard College

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GSS, Human Rights Why do acts of violence continue to grow in the "modern" world? This course considers how actsof violence challenge and support modern ideas of humanity, raising important questions about what it means to be human today. It approaches different forms of violence, including ethnic and communal conflicts, colonial education, torture and its individualizing effects, acts of terror and institutionalized fear, and rituals of bodily pain that mark individuals' inclusion or exclusion from a social group. Violence is examined as a means of producing and consolidating social and political power, and exerting political control. Forms of violence that have generated questions about "universal rights" of humanity versus culturallyspecific practices are reviewed, as are the ways human rights institutions have sought to address the profundity of human suffering and pain. This course fulfills a core class requirement for the Human Rights Program.

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4.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.bard.edu

Phone Number:

(845) 758-6822

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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