ANTH 6600 - Anthropological Research Methods

Institution:

California Institute of Integral Studies

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Description:

How can we challenge the motivation and efficacy of knowledge production and raise issues of privilege, representation, intervention, action, and outcome Immersed in postcolonial and feminist frames, students will negotiate diverse anthropological research principles, methods, and tools. Using deconstructive frameworks, how might we decolonize and decenter the "field" within anthropology, mapping the interrelationshipsand complexities in and between spatial and political sites of inquiry We will focus on research as it influences social transformation, advocating that inquiry affecting the lives of people and their ecology be made equitable through partnership. Students will engage in brief research processes over the semester.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.ciis.edu

Phone Number:

(415) 575-6100

Regional Accreditation:

Western Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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