| ANTH 214 Anthropology as Cultural Critique |
3 Credits |
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This course provides an introduction to anthropology,
a discipline that has historically produced knowledge of
"other" cultures on the basis of fieldwork. In recent
decades, a critical anthropology has come to question
both the concept of culture and the task of cultural
representation. At the same time, the geographical,
theoretical, methodological, and thematic scope of
anthropological research has expanded. In this course,
various anthropological theories and methods will be
discussed in light of these recent debates with readings
on different parts of the world, including Turkey.
For their final project, the students will have the
option of writing a paper based on anthropological research.
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| Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
| Spring 2023-2024 |
Anthropology as Cultural Critique |
3 |
| Fall 2022-2023 |
Anthropology as Cultural Critique |
3 |
| Spring 2021-2022 |
Anthropology as Cultural Critique |
3 |
| Fall 2020-2021 |
Anthropology as Cultural Critique |
3 |
| Spring 2019-2020 |
Anthropology as Cultural Critique |
3 |
| Spring 2018-2019 |
Anthropology as Cultural Critique |
3 |
| Spring 2017-2018 |
Anthropology as Cultural Critique |
3 |
| Spring 2016-2017 |
Anthropology as Cultural Critique |
3 |
| Spring 2015-2016 |
Anthropology as Cultural Critique |
3 |
| Spring 2014-2015 |
Anthropology as Cultural Critique |
3 |
| Spring 2013-2014 |
Anthropology as Cultural Critique |
3 |
| Spring 2012-2013 |
Anthropology as Cultural Critique |
3 |
| Spring 2011-2012 |
Anthropology as Cultural Critique |
3 |
| Spring 2010-2011 |
Anthropology as Cultural Critique |
3 |
| Spring 2009-2010 |
Anthropology as Cultural Critique |
3 |
| Spring 2008-2009 |
Anthropology as Cultural Critique |
3 |
| Spring 2007-2008 |
Anthropology as Cultural Critique |
3 |
| Spring 2006-2007 |
Anthropology as Cultural Critique |
3 |
| Spring 2005-2006 |
Anthropology as Cultural Critique |
3 |
| Spring 2004-2005 |
Anthropology as Cultural Critique |
3 |
| Spring 2003-2004 |
Anthropology as Cultural Critique |
3 |
| Spring 2002-2003 |
Anthropology as Cultural Critique |
3 |
| Spring 2001-2002 |
Anthropology as Cultural Critique |
3 |
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| Prerequisite: __ |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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| ANTH 251 Anthropology of the Global City |
3 Credits |
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While known for their work in rural settings,
anthropologists have long conducted field
research in cities. This course will introduce
students to urban anthropology and trace the
development of the field, focusing in particular
on current theoretical and methodological
concerns in ethnographic studies of the global city.
While the course will provide a comparative
perspective on global cities, students will have the
opportunity to undertake a fieldwork
project of their own in the city of Istanbul.
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| Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
| Spring 2019-2020 |
Anthropology of the Global City |
3 |
| Spring 2008-2009 |
Anthropology of the Global City |
3 |
| Spring 2007-2008 |
Anthropology of the Global City |
3 |
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| Prerequisite: __ |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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| ANTH 255 Local Cultures, Global Forces |
3 Credits |
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In the new millennium, we are faced with an increasingly
globalized economy and culture. This course will seek to lay
out the global forces that create this new world order/
disorder and address their unequal impact on particular
localities. Institutions that shape the global economy
(e.g. IMF and the World Bank), international
non-governmental organizations that seek to raise global
awareness (e.g. Greenpeace), as well as local organizations
that problematize the effects of globalization
will be discussed together with the theoretical underpinning
of the changing sense of place and time created in these
processes. Students will be asked to do research on local,
national, and global responses to the different ecological,
economic, social, and political aspects of globalization.
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| Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
| Spring 2022-2023 |
Local Cultures, Global Forces |
3 |
| Spring 2021-2022 |
Local Cultures, Global Forces |
3 |
| Spring 2020-2021 |
Local Cultures, Global Forces |
3 |
| Fall 2019-2020 |
Local Cultures, Global Forces |
3 |
| Spring 2018-2019 |
Local Cultures, Global Forces |
3 |
| Spring 2015-2016 |
Local Cultures, Global Forces |
3 |
| Spring 2014-2015 |
Local Cultures, Global Forces |
3 |
| Spring 2013-2014 |
Local Cultures, Global Forces |
3 |
| Spring 2012-2013 |
Local Cultures, Global Forces |
3 |
| Spring 2011-2012 |
Local Cultures, Global Forces |
3 |
| Spring 2008-2009 |
Local Cultures, Global Forces |
3 |
| Spring 2007-2008 |
Local Cultures, Global Forces |
3 |
| Spring 2006-2007 |
Local Cultures, Global Forces |
3 |
| Spring 2005-2006 |
Local Cultures, Global Forces |
3 |
| Spring 2001-2002 |
Local Cultures, Global Forces |
3 |
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| Prerequisite: __ |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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| ANTH 320 Material Culture |
3 Credits |
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This course explores the meanings various
artifacts?from pictures, photographs and exhibits
to food, clothing and money -- acquire in different
social, historical, and political contexts
and the ways in which these meanings are contested
by a variety of social actors. Special emphasis
will be given to the ways in which we relate to the past
through the use of material culture. Questions
that will be addressed include: Do commodities and other
items of material culture merely fulfill
human needs, or are they also symbols that reveal certain
things about their users? What kind of light can items
of material culture shed on matters of social
structure and inequality, values and morality, or
processes of change at particular historical
moments? How is material culture used in the service
of representing, remembering and forgetting the
past? What constitutes ''heritage'' and who owns it? How
should ''heritage'' be preserved, displayed,
remembered? How is cultural heritage packaged
and marketed in the context of tourism and how
does tourism change the meaning of
material culture and cultural practices?
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| Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
| Spring 2010-2011 |
Material Culture |
3 |
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| Prerequisite: __ |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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| ANTH 321 Anthropology of Migration and the City |
3 Credits |
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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
in the literature, including: global
cities, super-diversity, 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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| Prerequisite: __ |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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| ANTH 326 Anthropology of the Body |
3 Credits |
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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 perspective
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 |
| Fall 2007-2008 |
Anthropology of the Body |
3 |
| Fall 2004-2005 |
Anthropology of the Body, Health and Illness |
3 |
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| Prerequisite: __ |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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| ANTH 340 Anthropology of Gender and Sexuality |
3 Credits |
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Throughout the 20th Century, anthropologists have
studied the diverse constructions of gender and
sexuality in human societies around the world. Researching
the ways in which understandings of gender
and sexuality are constitutive of people’s self
understandings, religious beliefs and practices,
constructions of kinship and family, the state, economic
life, cultural practices, as well as political
discourses and practices has been central to
contemporary anthropology. This course covers
anthropological studies and debates on gender and sexuality
through a diverse selection of readings, visuals and
ethnographic films.
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Course Name |
SU Credit |
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| Prerequisite: __ |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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| ANTH 350 Anthropology of Development Social Change and Social Justice |
3 Credits |
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The global expansion of the sphere of
neoliberal market economy put the debates on development
and social justice at the center of studies
in social sciences. With the rise of
global capitalism, developing countries
such as China, India, Brazil and Turkey have
experienced a remarkable economic growth in
the last 20 years. However, this fast economic
growth comes along with its downsides such as the
dramatic rise in income inequality, violation
of human rights, suppression of unionized workers,
worsening conditions at work,
and unemployment. In this social and political context,
through a close examination of various
ethnographic cases, this course aims to introduce
major theoretical and critical approaches
to global capitalism, development,
social change, and social justice.
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| Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
| Spring 2017-2018 |
Anthropology of Development Social Change and Social Justice |
3 |
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| Prerequisite: __ |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
| General Requirements: |
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| ANTH 354 Migration and Citizenship |
3 Credits |
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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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| Last Offered Terms |
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 |
| Spring 2004-2005 |
Migration, Diaspora and Transnationalism (CULT354) |
3 |
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| Prerequisite: __ |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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| ANTH 413 Etnographic Approaches to Law and Conflict |
3 Credits |
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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 explore the
cultural processes that create this variation. We 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. We will read ethnographies about a
diverse set of contexts such as Mexico, Iran, Turkey,
New Guinea and urban America. Main questions that inform
class discussions are; what are the different notions of
justice -including fairness, equity etc.- deployed in
different cultural contexts? What is the relation of these
different notions to the particular methods and mechanisms
of resolving conflicts? How are these meanings and
practices of justice related to the re-making of structural
hierarchies-such as gender, age, status- in the given
collectivity?
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| Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
| Spring 2004-2005 |
Etnographic Approaches to Law and Conflict |
3 |
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| Prerequisite: SOC 201 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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| ANTH 415 Anthropology of the State |
3 Credits |
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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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| Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
| Summer 2013-2014 |
Anthropology of the State |
3 |
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| Prerequisite: __ |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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| ANTH 425 Anthropology of Affect |
3 Credits |
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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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| Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
| Spring 2011-2012 |
Anthropology of Affect |
3 |
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| Prerequisite: __ |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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| ANTH 428 Anthropology of Hope |
3 Credits |
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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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| Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
| Fall 2014-2015 |
Anthropology of Hope |
3 |
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| Prerequisite: __ |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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| ANTH 450 Anthropology of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) |
3 Credits |
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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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| Last Offered Terms |
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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| Prerequisite: CULT 201 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| or SOC 201 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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| ANTH 465 Social Mobilization, Resistance and Protest |
3 Credits |
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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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| Last Offered Terms |
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: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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| ANTH 468 Ethnography: Fieldwork and Writing in Antropology |
3 Credits |
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Ethnography has been the main method of
research and writing in anthropology. This
course provides an in-depth reading of classical
and contemporary ethnographies addressing a
wide range of theoretical and political questions regarding
the ethnographic experience and text.
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| Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
| Fall 2018-2019 |
Ethnography: Fieldwork and Writing in Antropology |
3 |
| Spring 2015-2016 |
Ethnography |
3 |
| Fall 2013-2014 |
Ethnography |
3 |
| Fall 2003-2004 |
Ethnography |
3 |
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| Prerequisite: __ |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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| ANTH 469 Anthropology and History |
3 Credits |
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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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| Last Offered Terms |
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 |
3 |
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| Prerequisite: __ |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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| ANTH 471 Anthropology of Europe |
3 Credits |
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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 2013-2014 |
Anthropology of Europe |
3 |
| 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: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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