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Mar 12, 2025
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HC 890 - Anthropological Perspectives on History and Culture3 credits
This seminar introduces participants to some of the major social theories and debates that inform anthropological analysis. Over the course of the semester, we will examine a range of theoretical perspectives concerning such topics as agency, structure, subjectivity, history, social change, power, culture, and the politics of representation. Ultimately, the seminar is intended to provide a thoroughgoing examination on the history and uses of social theory in anthropology and its relevance to the fields of History and Cultural Studies. Beginning with early approaches to the culture concept and the origin of society through the development of anthropology as a discipline in Europe and America to contemporary debates, this seminar will require students to critically engage both theory and ethnography. In so doing, we shall be concerned with the historical and philosophical origins of particular critical perspectives and their importance for an understanding of society and culture.
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