ANTH 515

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Seminar in Anthropology

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Credit: 2 OR 4 hours.

Analysis of selected topics of special interest in anthropology.

May be repeated to a maximum of 8 hours in the same or subsequent semesters.

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CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
67047	Lecture-Discussion	EK	11:00AM -12:20PM	MW	209A Davenport Hall	Kramer, E	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/16/24-05/01/24 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Narrative Section Info: Narratives serve a central function in human life: at the most fundamental level, they enable us to make sense of a complex and chaotic world, but we also use narratives strategically to persuade, manipulate, create social bonds and social divisions, establish authority and disclaim responsibility. Narratives may be a human universal, but the rules of narrativity are intensely culturally specific. This course explores what narratives are and how they work, and considers a range of analytical techniques for studying them. Students are encouraged to use their own fieldwork data (if applicable) as objects of analysis.
70514	Lecture-Discussion	JD	1:00PM -3:50PM	W	209A Davenport Hall	Delfino, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/16/24-05/01/24 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Semiotics Section Info: Semiotics, the study of how signs are formed and their use and social meaning, is central to the core theories and methods of linguistic anthropology. This graduate-level course first covers the foundations of semiotic theory, drawing from fields such as anthropology, linguistics, literary theory, and media studies. It then explores how theories of the sign developed in linguistic anthropology to frame theory, analytical methods, and topics. The course culminates in the study of specialized issues such as language ideology, raciolinguistics, embodiment theory, and others.
51080	Online	MK2	12:30PM -1:50PM	TR	n.a.	Koven, M	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/16/24-05/01/24 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Language, Culture & Identity
50204	Lecture-Discussion	SC2	6:00PM -8:50PM	W	133 1207 W Oregon	Rosas, G	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/16/24-05/01/24 Special Approval: Instructor Approval Required Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Anth Social Theory II Section Info: This seminar invites its participants to wrestle with enduring tensions and emerging concepts in contemporary anthropological theory. These include practice and power, culture and agency; self and other; unsettling, decolonizing, and abolition; repair and refusal; affect and embodiment; precarity and entanglements; scale and capital; ethics and sites of knowledge production; norms and forms. All while keeping sustained critical attention to the intelligentsia in and beyond the discipline. We will explore the relationships between anthropological theory and methods, pedagogy and form, including how institutions and infrastructures shape them. Our overarching course goal is to contextualize and historicize contemporary anthropological theory and theorists, appreciate their discontent and critiques, and to actively and creatively imagine possible future trajectories and possibilities of the discipline.
58678	Conference	VD	12:30PM -3:20PM	R	209A Davenport Hall	Dominguez, V	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/16/24-05/01/24 Section Title: Politics, Knowledge & Evidence Section Info: In this course we will explore Political ideas and ideologies of evidence; Evidence and the politics of knowledge; Claims as evidence and evidence as knowledge; Knowledge and privilege; and Jurisprudential debates.