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ANTHRO 385: Captivity

The premise for this course is that anthropology, as well as other domains of social inquiry, have unacknowledged and unredeemed debts to captivity as structure, experience, and event, from the penal colony to the slave plantation. This course is an attempt to begin to think about those debts through readings in anthropology, history, and philosophy. By instructor consent.
Last offered: Autumn 2018

ANTHRO 387: Strangers and Intimates: Exploring Public Life

How do we encounter and read each other in public and private spaces? How are these very spaces historically constituted around such distinctions and manners of reading? What do these questions look like in dense heterogeneous cities with differentiated class, caste and ethnic communities? How might we consider the differentiation between private and public in different ethnographic contexts? What kinds of sociality might emerge from these kinds of encounters? This course will explore these questions through social theory and ethnographies. There are two major sets of concepts that will be explored and interrogated. The first is that deriving from the essays of the Georg Simmel such as 'The Face' and 'The Stranger' which explore the new forms of sociality enabled by seemingly anonymous city life, which in turn have been interpreted very differently by Zygmunt Bauman and James Siegel to understand the place of continually excluded outsiders and the high stakes of reading each other. The other is the strand of work on the emergence of the public sphere such as the work of Jurgen Habermas, Richard Sennet, Michael Warner, Nancy Fraser etc. While much of the social theory on the public, the stranger and civility emerge from studies of Euro-American mas politics and city spaces, in this course we will move some of these discussion into considering these questions in the global south and the kinds of sociality (including their historicity) that make up the dense fabric of ordinary life. How does this work out in contexts where we take into account intense social differentiation by class, race, and communitarian divisions? This could be asked of the historical and social context addressed in these theories as well as from the postcolonial world. The course will attempt to understand whether such theorizations can indeed be re-rooted and re-imagined or whether ethnographic and historical difference re-route them instead. In doing so we will also bring theories of the private and the intimate to bear on questions of the public and the stranger. Pre-Requisite by Instructor Consent. Significant work outside of class time is expected of the student.
Last offered: Spring 2023

ANTHRO 391: Subjectivity

This seminar considers subjectivity as a central category of social, cultural, psychological, historical and political analysis. Through a critical and collaborative examination of ethnographic works and psychoanalytic theory, we will identify the processes by which subjectivities are produced, explore subjectivity as a locus of social change, and examine how emerging subjectivities remake social worlds. Some of the questions this seminar will pose include: what is the relation between subjectivity and subjection? How to account for the effects of the social in terms of subject formation without succumbing to social determinism? What else is the subject other than the outcome of a complex constellation of discursive, material, institutional, and historical factors?
Last offered: Autumn 2017

ANTHRO 391A: Agency

Agency is commonplace and commonsensical in the humanities and social sciences. We use it to highlight the intention behind particular actions, and especially to mark the efficacy of actions of resistance to power and the overcoming of structure; actions we understand as those of self-making and historical change. Yet, for more than twenty years we have known that agency is not what it seems. Its key aspects presume what it ostensibly negates: autonomy presumes dependence, choice presumes necessity. Agency obscures questions of suffering and passion, and it often pictures the world from a standpoint appearing adjacent to that of the (liberal) individual. Most recently, there has been extensive discussion of distributed agency and that of non-humans. What are we to make of this widespread agency-talk? This course invites students to an experimental exploration of the genealogies of agency, what it arose in response to, what effects it has had and how the concept is today transformed. We more »
Agency is commonplace and commonsensical in the humanities and social sciences. We use it to highlight the intention behind particular actions, and especially to mark the efficacy of actions of resistance to power and the overcoming of structure; actions we understand as those of self-making and historical change. Yet, for more than twenty years we have known that agency is not what it seems. Its key aspects presume what it ostensibly negates: autonomy presumes dependence, choice presumes necessity. Agency obscures questions of suffering and passion, and it often pictures the world from a standpoint appearing adjacent to that of the (liberal) individual. Most recently, there has been extensive discussion of distributed agency and that of non-humans. What are we to make of this widespread agency-talk? This course invites students to an experimental exploration of the genealogies of agency, what it arose in response to, what effects it has had and how the concept is today transformed. We will read archaeological, ethnographic and philosophical texts to ask: what does agency have to do with action and intention, with reason and emotion, with will and drive, with need and desire, with self-knowledge and discipline. What kinds of agents are we prepared to recognize; what (patients) does this blind us to? We will consider the tragic, ludic and comedic aspects of action. We will come to ask: Across the contests of the twentieth century what was agency good for? What is it good for now? This class will involve significant preparation and in-class writing exercises.
Terms: Spr | Units: 5
Instructors: Trivedi, M. (PI)

ANTHRO 397H: Graduate Colloquium in Modern South Asian History (FEMGEN 397, HISTORY 397)

This graduate colloquium is a foundational and intensive course in the field of modern South Asian history. It is a course in historiography and weekly discussions will be structured around a key monograph in a specific thematic sub-field. The colloquium will begin with discussions on the impact of the Subaltern Studies collective in shaping the field; and through the quarter we will engage with monographs from various sub-fields such as studies of the transition to colonial rule; the relationship between labor and capital; agrarian history; caste society under colonial rule and Dalit resistance; studies of bureaucratic objects such as the official document; new research in feminist history and the emerging field of trans history.
Terms: Aut | Units: 4-5
Instructors: Shil, P. (PI)

ANTHRO 398B: Race, Ethnicity, and Language: Writing Race, Ethnicity, and Language in Ethnography (CSRE 389B, EDUC 389B, LINGUIST 254)

This methods seminar focuses on developing ethnographic strategies for representing race, ethnicity, and language in writing without reproducing the stereotypes surrounding these categories and practices. In addition to reading various ethnographies, students conduct their own ethnographic research to test out the authors' contrasting approaches to data collection, analysis, and representation. The goal is for students to develop a rich ethnographic toolkit that will allow them to effectively represent the (re)production and (trans)formation of racial, ethnic, and linguistic phenomena.
Last offered: Autumn 2021

ANTHRO 400: Dissertation Writers Workshop

For fifth-year Ph.D. students returning from dissertation field research and in the process of writing dissertations and preparing for professional employment. Prerequisite: By consent of instructor. This course will take place Jan 10th and 24th, Feb 7th and 21st and March 6th from 10am - 12pm.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr | Units: 1-3 | Repeatable for credit

ANTHRO 401A: Qualifying Examination: Topic

Required of second- and third-year Ph.D. students writing the qualifying paper or the qualifying written examination. May be repeated for credit one time.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum | Units: 1-5 | Repeatable 2 times (up to 10 units total)

ANTHRO 401B: Qualifying Examination: Area

Required of second- and third-year Ph.D. students writing the qualifying paper or the qualifying written examination. May be repeated for credit one time.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum | Units: 1-5 | Repeatable 2 times (up to 10 units total)

ANTHRO 402D: Materialities of Power, Part I (HISTORY 403A)

How is power made material? And how do material things--objects, commodities, technologies, and infrastructures --reflect, change, consolidate, or distribute power? This research seminar is aimed at PhD students in history, anthropology, and STS who are working on such questions. All geographic specialties welcome. A small amount of common reading will launch the course, whose main goal is to guide students towards producing a research paper draft that's close to submission-ready for a journal. Along the way, we'll also address practical topics, including how to pick and submit to a journal, how to present a paper, and more.
Last offered: Autumn 2020
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