AMST 4416

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AMST 4416
It's the End of the World As We Know It

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2023-2024. Courses of Study 2023-2024 is scheduled to publish mid-June.

Living in the contemporary moment means living with reminders that the end of the world – at least as we know it – is looming. From the global ecological crisis to evangelical apocalyptic visions, and from nuclear threats to the changes wrought by automated work, people are brushing up against the limits of human knowledge and experience. In this course, we will consider how anthropologists have grappled with the end of the world, drawing the discipline's boundaries liberally. Working with ethnography, science fiction, film, and more, we will ask: What does it mean to adopt the uncertain future as an object of study? And might the end of the world as we know it also mean the start of a more speculative anthropology?

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  • 21049 AMST 4416   SEM 101

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  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 21050 AMST 4416   IND 601

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    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023

    • Ahmann, C

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies