Anthropology 277 - Culture and Power in the Middle East

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Bard College

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This course introduces a region that has constituted one of theWest's primary "Others." It payspecial attention to the Middle East's contemporary complexity and heterogeneity. The focus is on four interrelated themes: practices of kinship, gender, and sexuality; nationalism and statebuilding; the social consequences of compulsory education, mass literacy, and mass media; and recent efforts to link, negotiate, and/or reconcile religion with "modern," secular, and liberal life.The Middle East is examined not as a selfcontained entity, but as a region that has been formed by centuries of relations with social actors in other parts of the world, including (and especially) Euro-American imperial powers. Course readings include works from Dale Eickelman, Amitav Ghosh, and Rhoda Ann Kanaaneh, among others.

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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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