GANT 6053 -

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The New School

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Sites of Contention in Contemporary Ethnography Fall 2008. Three credits. Janet Roitman This course is dedicated to the discussion of thematic, theoretical, methodological, and formal innovation in contemporary ethnography. The course will proceed by placing in dialogue alternative theoretical and ethnographic strategies on similar questions, and by introducing a range of potentially interlocutive "quasi-ethnographic" texts. Some examplesof foci that may be explored are ethnographic approaches to the cultural construction of difference; ethnographies of globalization; and contemporary approaches to anthropological intervention in the public sphere. Seminar participants will make close readings of at least one text per week, and students will be asked to write brief reaction papers at regular intervals.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.newschool.edu

Phone Number:

(212) 229-5600

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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