ANTH 45837 - Anthropology for the 21st Century

Institution:

University of Notre Dame

Subject:

Anthropology

Description:

Anthropology enters a 21st century filled with far-reaching possibilities and dangerous new problems. To meet these challenges, to stay relevant, and to offer new understandings and solutions, anthropology needs to both assess its classic approaches and develop new innovative ones. Globalization. New forms of political and economic power and poverty. Changing patterns and crises of health, environment, and development. Violence, and novel ways of belonging. Transformations in our very sense of identity (from gender through belief to ethnicity), and perhaps our thinking, our epistemes. Sheer complexity. Theoretical breakthroughs. Scheper-Hughes calls for an engaged anthropology, Paul Farmer for a meaningful one. Bourgois delves into the raw realities of life with dignity, and Mbembe into emerging values of self and society. Das calls for vibrant theory - one that senses as well as has sense, and Rabinow and Marcus for an anthropology of the contemporary - how do we as anthropologists best meet the changing terrains of self and world unfolding today?

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.nd.edu

Phone Number:

(574) 631-5000

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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