ANTH V2300 - Anthropology of Estrangement

Institution:

Columbia University in the City of New York

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Description:

To examine anthropological explanation as a passage from the known to the unknown that problematizes the known as well as leaving some kernel of the strange, the exotic, and the unfamiliar a mystery and does not reduce everything to an explanation. How might we master the need for mastery? What happens after we have problematized the known? Readings: accounts of fieldwork, select ethnography, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Brecht, Benjamin, Bataille.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.columbia.edu

Phone Number:

(212) 854-1754

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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