ANT 427 - Democracy and Ethnography in the United States

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Princeton University

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In this seminar, we explore connections among scientific, literary and cultural creativities through some of anthropology's classic innovations with the idea of culture. Our cases come from U.S. scholars during two formative periods in the discipline's and the nation's history, at both ends of the 20th century, when anthropologists and the public alike were distinctively aware of the democratic implications of the concept of culture, as well the stakes in its misuse, in relation to race. Thus, anthropologists' literary efforts to persuade and guard against misreading by scholars and the public are inseparable from their theoretical concerns.

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0.00 - 4.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.princeton.edu

Phone Number:

(609) 258-3000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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