ANTHRO 745

Special Topic: Anthropology and the Humanities

Description

Explores the interactions between anthropology and the humanities, especially literature and visual arts. Topics include anthropology's formation in relation to modernism, primitivism; how these movements have influenced nationalisms; contemporary exercises in genre-bending: ethnographic novels, ethnography as literature, televisual ethnography; the borders between empirical ethnographic and imaginative accounts. Students will consider how and why disciplinary boundaries are formed and transgressed. 

Availability 2025

Not taught in 2025

Lecturer(s)

TBA

Points

ANTHRO 745: 15 points