Anthropology 327 - Performance,Ritual,and Symbolic Practice

Institution:

Bard College

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Description:

Africana Studies This course examines public performance and various types of theatricality with the aim to analyze how lived experience relates to politics, change, and social power. It considers key philosophical issues within anthropology and social thought more generally: power and its illusory enactment; the relationship between personal experience and broader social processes; the nature of consciousness; structure versus agency; stasis and change. Different ways to think about space and the social body are studied. The second half of the course draws on particular ethnographic, theatrical, philosophic, and literary examples fromWest Africa that address the relationships between historical memory, specific kinds of performance, and the local experience of power. Students are encouraged to consider the tension between "performance" as a theoreticalframe and as an "object" of analysis.

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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

Calendar System:

Semester

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