GANT 6062 -

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The New School

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Critical Foundations of Anthropology II Spring 2009. Three credits. Vyjayanthi Rao This course, required for incoming anthropology master's students, focuses on contemporary theoretical and philosophical debates on the nature of the social and assesses the impact of these debates on recent ethnographic writing. We focus on core conceptual domains critical to the practice of anthropology: society, language, the market, historicity, and difference. Questions of ontology and temporality are raised in these conceptual domains through reading of the social philosophical work of authors such as Bataille, Derrida, Deleuze, Bakhtin, and Fanon. By situating the work of these post-metaphysical thinkers in relation to the classical canon of social and moral philosophy and its liberal underpinnings, the course will encourage students to speculate about the direction of anthropological practice. A final assignment, in the form of a research exercise, stresses critical reading of contemporary ethnographies new ways of theoretical framing.

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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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