ANTHR 6020

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ANTHR 6020
History of Anthropological Thought

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2024-2025. Courses of Study 2024-2025 is scheduled to publish mid-June.

This course examines the history and development of anthropology as a discipline with emphasis on British social anthropology and American cultural anthropology. The course will trace major schools of thought -- Evolutionism, Functionalism, and Structuralism -- leading to the post-structural critique of culture. The latter part of the course will examine a range of  debates around anthropology's method and claims to theory beginning with the reflexive turn. Specifically, this part of the course will address how the recognition by anthropologists of the operations of power both in the world out there and within anthropology has led to diverse methodologies and theories that define contemporary anthropology.

When Offered Fall.

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  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  5313 ANTHR 6020   SEM 101

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    • T
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Tamarkin, N