printer friendly pageCSRE 140: Decolonizing Anthropology (ANTHRO 143W)
The U.S. disciplinary formation of anthropology has had a long and complicated relationship with the conquest and colonization of Indigenous peoples and territories across the globe. This course explores the relationship between anthropology and colonialism, with a focus on the Americas. Students will first examine the discipline's historical entanglements with imperial powers and colonial regimes. Students will then consider how anthropologists have engaged other fields--particularly Native American and Indigenous studies and Latin American studies--to develop decolonial approaches to anthropological knowledge production. The course will conclude with an analysis of recent ethnographies of colonialism and decolonization by anthropologists and other scholars. Students will learn how and why colonialism has become an important concept for the investigation of society and culture from anthropological and interdisciplinary perspectives.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Callejas, H. (PI)
CSRE 140S: Casablanca - Algiers - Tunis : Cities on the Edge (COMPLIT 236A, FRENCH 236, FRENCH 336, HISTORY 245C, JEWISHST 236A, URBANST 140F)
Casablanca, Algiers and Tunis embody three territories, real and imaginary, which never cease to challenge the preconceptions of travelers setting sight on their shores. In this class, we will explore the myriad ways in which these cities of North Africa, on the edge of Europe and of Africa, have been narrated in literature, cinema, and popular culture. Home to Muslims, Christians, and Jews, they are an ebullient laboratory of social, political, religious, and cultural issues, global and local, between the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries. We will look at mass images of these cities, from films to maps, novels to photographs, sketching a new vision of these magnets as places where power, social rituals, legacies of the Ottoman and French colonial pasts, and the influence of the global economy collude and collide. Special focus on class, gender, and race.
Last offered: Spring 2021
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-EDP
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