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Anthropology 258: Politics of Culture and Identity
3.00 Credits
Haverford College
SO (Cross-listed in Peace and Conflict Studies) L.Dwyer This course will examine how "culture" and "identity" have become increasingly important frameworks through which claims to resources, rights, and power are articulted. Drawing on a diverse set of case studies, we will ask how we can approach politics of culture and identity ethnographically, and what role anthropology might have to play in such struggles. Offered occasionally.
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Anthropology 259: Ethnography of Islam
3.00 Credits
Haverford College
SO M.Gillette Comparative ethnographies of Muslim societies. Islam as a field of anthropological inquiry and theorizing. Ethnographic representation and the construction of ethnographic authority. Islam in the western imagination. Prerequisite: One course in Anthropology or consent of the instructor. Offered occasionally.
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Anthropology 261: Memory,History,Anthropology
3.00 Credits
Haverford College
SO M.Gillette The social aspects of memory. Collective representations and memorial genres. Institutional memory and the effects of institutions on individual memory. Memory in oral and literate societies. Memory as a political act and a tool of political legitimacy. Mourning and trauma. Role of narrative in memory and the relationship between non-narrative forms and memory. How memory relates to the present and to the past. The course will examine a number of influential theoretical texts on memory and look at selected case studies. Prerequisite: One course in Anthropology or consent. Offered occasionally.
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Anthropology 263: Anthropology of Space and Architecture
3.00 Credits
Haverford College
SO L.Hart Space, place and architecture in anthropological theory; the contributions of anthropology to our understanding of the built and imagined environment in diverse cultures. Topics include: the body and its orientation in space; the house, kinship and cosmology; architecture as a communicative/semiotic system; space and sociopolitical segregation and integration; space and commodity culture. May be taken for Bryn Mawr Cities credit. Prerequisite: One course in Anthropology or Growth and Structure of Cities. Offered occasionally.
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Anthropology 270: Psychoanalysis and Anthropology
3.00 Credits
Haverford College
SO L.Hart This course will trace areas of convergence of anthropology and psychoanalysis from the beginnings of the discipline of anthropology to the present through selected topics, including: kinship, society and the self: sexual difference; the interpretation of dreams; anthropological hermeneutics, ethnographic fieldwork and clinical practice (listening, transference, countertransference), magic and fetishism, individual and collective violence. Prerequisite: Anthropology 102 or 103. (Satisfies the social justice requirement.) Offered occasionally.
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Anthropology 303: History and Theory of Anthropology
3.00 Credits
Haverford College
SO Staff The development of anthropological thought in the West. Enlightenment theories of society and the human subject, the study of social organization in 19th and early 20th centuries (including Marx and Durkheim), social anthropology and cultural anthropology . Structuralism, Marxist anthropology, postmodernism and the crisis of representation in the 1980s and 1990s. Prerequisite: One course in Anthropology, excluding BMC ANTH 303. Typically offered every Spring.
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Anthropology 322: Ethnographic Methods
3.00 Credits
Haverford College
SO M.Gillette Qualitative research methods, with a focus on participant-observation. Theoretical debates, ethical questions, and practical issues concerning the craft of ethnographic field work will both be addressed. Students will conduct several small-scale field exercises and design and implement a larger ethnographic project. Prerequisite: ANTH 102 or 103. Preference to ANTH majors/minors and PEAC concentrators. Typically offered every Fall.
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Anthropology 327: Ritual,Performance and Symbolic Practice
3.00 Credits
Haverford College
SO (Cross-listed in African and Africana Studies) J.Shipley This course examines theories of performance and practice as a way for understanding how specific events and actions relate to social structure, history, and memory. We will explore how bodies become produced and contested in the performance of political and personal productive and sensuous activity. The course's central thematic explores the tension between theories of performance and theories of practice which highlight key philosophical issues within anthropology and social thought more generally: power and its enactment, the relationship between personal experience and macro-sociological processes, the nature of consciousness, structure versus agency, and stasis versus change. Prerequisite: One course in Anthropology or consent.
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Anthropology 350: Social and Cultural Theory:Contemporary Ethnography
3.00 Credits
Haverford College
SO L.Hart This class is an intensive, advanced reading seminar on contemporary ethnography with an emphasis on how the craft of anthropology draws on its disciplinary resources to address the predicaments of social marginalization in the contemporary 'globalizing' world. We will test the fate of key 20th century theoretical movements in anthropology (structural functionalism, culture and personality, structuralism, neo-Marxism, literary post-modernism, etc.) through their application in ethnography. Seminars will be organized through student presentations and responses.
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Anthropology 355: Anthropology and the New Faces of Modernity
3.00 Credits
Haverford College
SO Z.Ngwane An examination of recent trends in reflection on modernity in the human and social sciences. This course addresses questions about social subjectivity, globalization and the endurance of modernity through a number of ethnographic snapshots from different parts of the world. Prerequisite: One 200-level course in Anthropology or by consent of the instructor. Typically offered in alternate years.
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