ANTH 635: Regional Ethnography

ANTH 635-001: Regional Ethnography: Latin Am
(Fall 2016)

04:30 PM to 07:10 PM R

Section Information for Fall 2016

This course is designed to offer you a broad knowledge and appreciation of the diverse cultures of Latin America.  We will examine the ways that different groups in Latin America have participated in and responded to a wide range of processes, such as discovery, conquest, colonialism, systems of production and exchange, extractive economies, migration, modernization, aesthetic currents, constructions of  identity, development, political organization and mobilization, resistance, popular movements, nationalism, neoliberalism, transnationalism, and globalization. The readings, lectures and class discussions are also intended to encourage you to consider and interrogate the theoretical and methodological models and units of analysis that have been used in ethnographic research on and accounts of Latin America.  A final goal of the course is to reflect on how we are connected to and affected by what happens in Latin America.  We will be paying special attention throughout the course to indigenous practices and views as integral to dynamics taking placing within Latin America, as well as between Latin America and other parts of the world.

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Course Information from the University Catalog

Credits: 3

In-depth study of peoples and cultures of a specific world region (e.g., East Asia, Latin America, South Asia) and critical scholarship on the region. Content may include cultures defined by diaspora, migration, and other global forces and processes. Notes: May be repeated when topic is different. May be repeated within the degree for a maximum 6 credits.
Specialized Designation: Topic Varies
Registration Restrictions:

Enrollment limited to students with a class of Advanced to Candidacy, Graduate, Junior Plus, Non-Degree or Senior Plus.

Enrollment is limited to Graduate, Non-Degree or Undergraduate level students.

Students in a Non-Degree Undergraduate degree may not enroll.

Schedule Type: Seminar
Grading:
This course is graded on the Graduate Regular scale.

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