Anthropology 370 - Anthropology of Time and Space

Institution:

Bard College

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Description:

This course begins by considering the extent to which time and space are cultural constructions that vary within and across social groups. It challenges understandings of these concepts as natural or inevitable, and explores different possibilities for measuring, representing, and creating meaning in relation to them. Time and space are so fundamental that we are often unaware of the ways they are embedded in our lives. Yet on a daily basis they reflect and reinforce interpersonal and institutional relations of power. Hence, this course investigates spatiotemporal dynamics and strategies as elements of social hierarchy, and examines time and space as organizing concepts with which to understand the world. Finally, it considers how political economy structures experiences of time and space. This includes temporal disciplines of commodity production, state seizure of "private" time under socialism,and descriptions of time-space compression in late capitalism.

Credits:

4.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.bard.edu

Phone Number:

(845) 758-6822

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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