ANTH 513 Etnographic Approaches to Law and Conflict |
3 Credits |
The ways in which conflicts are understood and acted upon
show a significant degree of variation from one social
context to another. In this course we will try to
understand the cultural processes that create this
variation. We will use ethnographic material that is often
the result of at least a year of field work, where the
researcher observes and participates in the social and
cultural life of the particular group. The ethnographies we
will read will be about a diverse set of contexts such as
Mexico, Iran, Turkey, New Guinea and urban America.
Some of the questions we will tackle in particular will be;
what are the different notions of justice -including
fairness, equity etc.- that can be found in different
cultural contexts? What is the relation of these
different notions to the particular methods and mechanisms
of resolving conflicts? When and how do these meanings
and practices of justice contribute to the re-making of
existing hierarchies-such as gender, age, status- and when
and how do they come to challenge them?
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ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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ANTH 515 Anthropology of the State |
3 Credits |
This course examines the institutions, spaces, ideas,
practices, and representations that constitute
and question the nation-state. It draws on perspectives
on the state developed within other disciplines.
Simultaneously, a distinctively anthropological
understanding of the state is articulated by
focusing on systems of meaning and belief; personhood
and agency; everyday practices; and persistent
structures and emergent forms. The course also
examines how institutions which are considered
to define the modern state, such as
citizenship, sovereignty, territoriality,
secularism, and violence, are manifested in and
represented by ethnographic research and writing.
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Course Name |
SU Credit |
Summer 2013-2014 |
Anthropology of the State |
3 |
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Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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ANTH 521 Anthropology of Migration and the City |
3 Credits |
Migration stands out as one of the most characteristic
and complex features of the 21st century as more
people than ever, coming from increasingly more
disparate places, are migrating to new destinations for
a greater variety of reasons and under
distinct circumstances. A shared aspect though is that
most of these migrations are urban in nature, being
concentrated in cities attracting human, financial and
other flows from across the globe. This course explores
how anthropological research is engaging with these
new trends in global migration and urbanism, by
focusing on different theoretical and ethnographic
discussions around some of the key concepts emerging
urban encounters, contact zones,
everyday multiculture, everyday cosmopolitanisms and
conviviality
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Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Spring 2022-2023 |
Anthropology of Migration and the City |
3 |
Fall 2019-2020 |
Anthropology of the City and Migration |
3 |
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Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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ANTH 525 Anthropology of Affect |
3 Credits |
This course explores the realm of the intangible and
the unseen to think through `vibes', `energies', and
`sentiments? that are associated with situations in which
cultural formations are blocked, suspended or
mobilized. The task at hand is to attend to the ways
in which non-cathartic states of feeling
create affective spheres that mobilize public opinion.
Building up on a multiplicity of resources ranging
from visual material, Marxism, critical race theory,
queer studies, feminism, psychoanalysis, and ethnographies
of militarism, the course explores a domain of politics
where that which is repressed is denied further by or
returns in spectral forms in cultural memory. The
course aims to stimulate reflection on affective
concepts in the ethnographic contexts where they
seem most at stake to explore the intersections
of gender, race, labor, and militarism and to problematize
the nationalist processes of fact and memory building.
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Course Name |
SU Credit |
Spring 2011-2012 |
Anthropology of Affect |
3 |
Spring 2010-2011 |
Anthropology of Affect |
3 |
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Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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ANTH 526 Anthropology of the Body |
3 Credits |
The biological body has an undeniable physicality,
yet at the same time, our experiences of our
bodies and the ways in which we make sense of
those experiences are inevitably embedded in and
defined by the social. Taking an anthropological
and paying attention to both discursive
and phenomenological approaches, this introductory course
will investigate the ways in which the body has
been observed, classified, experienced and modified
in different cultural contexts and disciplinary regimes.
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Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Spring 2022-2023 |
Anthropology of the Body |
3 |
Fall 2021-2022 |
Anthropology of the Body |
3 |
Fall 2020-2021 |
Anthropology of the Body |
3 |
Fall 2018-2019 |
Anthropology of the Body |
3 |
Fall 2017-2018 |
Anthropology of the Body |
3 |
Spring 2013-2014 |
Anthropology of the Body |
3 |
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Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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ANTH 528 Anthropology of Hope |
3 Credits |
In social theory, popular discourse and everyday
practice, hope is often an assumed or desired sentiment
but albeit one that is rarely seen as being in need
of critical elaboration. This course takes hope as a
key category of social analysis. It first compares
different historical approaches that locate
in hope the utopian spirit of times of revolution and
certain religious doctrines that link hope
to faith in the face of experiential misery. It
then delves into contemporary ethnographies
that engage with theories of affect as they pertain to
hope. How does hope relate to other affective
states such as desire and optimism (hope’s presumed
affines) and melancholy and despair (its presumed opposites
?) Under what conditions does hope become
cruel? Building on a critical tradition in social theory,
it also assesses the potential role of hope in
progressive politics and thought as a method of critique.
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Course Name |
SU Credit |
Fall 2014-2015 |
Anthropology of Hope |
3 |
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Prerequisite: __ |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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ANTH 550 Anthropology of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) |
3 Credits |
Geographic regions such as the MENA (Middle East and North
Africa) are human constructions based on ideas about space
and difference, rather than naturally existing categories.
This course starts with a critical analysis of the making
of the MENA region, which covers about 25 countries from
Morocco to Iran, as a historical and political process.
In an effort to move beyond the predominantly Orientalist
constructions of this region in mainstream discourses, we
will read critical ethnographic studies of the historical,
political and cultural processes that have shaped human
lives in this diverse cultural space.
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Course Name |
SU Credit |
Fall 2013-2014 |
Anthropology of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) |
3 |
Spring 2005-2006 |
Anthropology of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) |
3 |
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Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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ANTH 554 Migration and Citizenship |
3 Credits |
This seminar will inquire into the global
movement of people in relation to the increasingly
variegated definitions and practices of citizenship.
Through ethnographic accounts of border-crossings
around the world, we will pay particular attention
to the everyday experiences of migrants on
the one hand, and to the political, cultural and legal
discourses of citizenship that shape and constrain those
experiences on the other. We will assess the significance
of the spread of global capitalism and of
transnational legal norms in relation to the changing
relationship between state sovereignty, immigrants, and
citizenship. We will also pay attention to the ways in
which hierarchies of class, ethnicity and nation find
expression in the politics of international migration
and citizenship.
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Course Name |
SU Credit |
Spring 2015-2016 |
Migration and Citizenship |
3 |
Fall 2014-2015 |
Migration and Citizenship |
3 |
Fall 2013-2014 |
Migration and Citizenship |
3 |
Fall 2012-2013 |
Migration and Citizenship |
3 |
Fall 2010-2011 |
Migration and Citizenship |
3 |
Spring 2009-2010 |
Migration and Citizenship |
3 |
Spring 2008-2009 |
Migration and Citizenship |
3 |
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Prerequisite: __ |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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ANTH 565 Social Mobilization, Resistance and Protest |
3 Credits |
This course will expore the nature of social protest in
various parts of the world. It will examine the dynamics
of massive revolutionary movements, and yet also the
challenges of understanding diverse and less-publicized
forms of protest and mobilization. We will examine forms
of protest related to human rights, labor conditions,
indigenous mobilization, ethnicity and nationalism,
religion and gender in the context of increasing
globalization. The course will both explore particular
case studies of mobilization as well as introduce
students to key questions about the role of culture,
memory, mass media, and other forces in the
making of social mobilization.
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Course Name |
SU Credit |
Fall 2012-2013 |
Social Mobilization, Resistance and Protest |
3 |
Fall 2008-2009 |
Social Mobilization, Resistance and Protest |
3 |
Fall 2006-2007 |
Social Mobilization, Resistance and Protest |
3 |
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Prerequisite: __ |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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ANTH 568 Ethnography: Fieldwork and Writing in Anthropology |
3 Credits |
Ethnography refers both to the main qualitative research
methods and the written product of anthropological
research. This course aims to familiarize students with the
tools of conducting ethnographic research, while
also giving them an opportunity to put these tools into
practice. Throughout the course, various aspects
of and approaches to doing and writing ethnography will
be critically examined.
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Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Fall 2023-2024 |
Etnography: Fieldwork and Writing in Anthropology |
3 |
Fall 2021-2022 |
Etnography: Fieldwork and Writing in Anthropology |
3 |
Fall 2018-2019 |
Etnography: Fieldwork and Writing in Anthropology |
3 |
Spring 2015-2016 |
Etnography |
3 |
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Prerequisite: __ |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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ANTH 569 Anthropology and History |
3 Credits |
What happens when anthropologists take up history?
The recent interest of anthropology in history will be
examined in this course through the close reading of a
selection of contemporary ethnographies (books
produced by anthropologists on the basis of field research).
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Course Name |
SU Credit |
Spring 2010-2011 |
Anthropology and History |
3 |
Fall 2007-2008 |
Anthropology and History |
3 |
Fall 2006-2007 |
Anthropology and History |
3 |
Spring 2004-2005 |
Writing Culture (ANTH669) |
3 |
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Prerequisite: __ |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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ANTH 571 Anthropology of Europe |
3 Credits |
Anthropology is conventionally perceived as the study
of non-European societies, however, recent
critical approaches have stressed the importance of turning
the anthropological gaze to western societies,
and in particular, of ''provincializing Europe.''
Through recent ethnographies of different
nation-states and social spaces in Europe, the course
will examine historical and contemporary
constructions of ''Europeanness,"; debates over
multiculturalism, cultural citizenship
and ''Islamaphobia''; migration and ethnicity; and the
uneasy relation of Eastern Europe
and postsocialism to Western Europe an the EU.
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Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Spring 2012-2013 |
Anthropology of Europe |
3 |
Fall 2009-2010 |
Anthropology of Europe |
3 |
Fall 2008-2009 |
Anthropology of Europe |
3 |
Fall 2007-2008 |
Anthropology of Europe |
3 |
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Prerequisite: __ |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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