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ANTH UN2004 INTRO TO SOC & CULTURAL THEORY. 3.00 points.
This course presents students with crucial theories of society, paying particular attention at the outset to classic social theory of the early 20th century. It traces a trajectory of writings essential for an understanding of the social: from Saussure, Durkheim, Mauss, Weber, and Marx, on to the structuralist ethnographic elaboration of Claude Levi-Strauss and the historiographic reflections on modernity of Michel Foucault. We revisit periodically, writings from Franz Boas, founder of anthropology in the United States (and of Anthropology at Columbia), for a sense of origins, an early anthropological critique of racism and cultural chauvinism, and a prescient denunciation of fascism. We turn as well, also with ever-renewed interest in these times, to the expansive critical thought of W. E. B. Du Bois. We conclude with Kathleen Stewart’s A Space on the Side of the Road--an ethnography of late-twentieth-century Appalachia and the haunted remains of coal-mining country--with its depictions of an uncanny otherness within dominant American narratives
Fall 2022: ANTH UN2004
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Course Number | Section/Call Number | Times/Location | Instructor | Points | Enrollment |
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ANTH 2004 | 001/10262 | M W 1:10pm - 2:25pm Room TBA |
John Pemberton | 3.00 | 39/70 |
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