ANTH 401 - Advanced Seminar in Contemporary Anthropology

Institution:

Trinity College

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Description:

Anthropologists are a contentious lot, often challenging the veracity and relevance of each other's interpretations. In this seminar, students will examine recent manifestations of this vexatiousness. The seminar will consider such questions as: Can culture be regarded as collective and shared What is the relationship between cultural ideas and practical action How does one study culture in the postmodern world of "the celluloid, global ethnoscape" Can the practice of anthropology be fully objective, or does it demand a politics-an understanding that ideas, ours and theirs, are historically situated, politicized realities Is domination the same everywhere 1.00 units, Seminar

Credits:

1.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.Trincoll.edu

Phone Number:

(860) 297-2000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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