Anthropology 348 - Discipline,Punishment,and the Embodied Self in China

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Bard College

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Asian Studies, Human Rights This cultural-historical course provides an extended exploration of the Chinese construction of such basic categories as gender, body, family, and belief. Using Michel Foucault's Discipline and Punishment as its point of departure, the course examines historical and ethnographical work from China on discipline, punishment, and systems for the creation of justice; it contrasts Foucault's important but historically specific Eurocentric proposals about human subject formation with some comparative insights generated out of engagement with China. How have Chinese notions of ritual, selfcultivation, institutions of family, and practices of gender distinction formed a sense of personhood, and how has that shifted over time? How have these shifts affected the Chinese sense of discipline and punishment?

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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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