Anthro 2856 - Ethnography, Biography, The Novel, and Film: Anthropology of Emotional and Moral Experience

Prof. Arthur Kleinman

T 12-2:45pm

In this course we explore work from a variety of genres- ethnography, biography, film, and the novel- that tell us about the person and personhood more generally in historical and cultural context. The idea is to compare different modes for the understanding of selves and to interrogate those modes from the perspectives of social theory and theories of subjective life. This course is open to graduate students and advanced undergraduates, however because of the extent of the readings and the intensity of the analysis, the course will be limited to fifteen students. The requirements are weekly participation in the seminar meetings and a research paper. Each student will be responsible for leading a class discussion and writing a précis for that week, as well as doing rapporteur’s notes for one week.

Open to graduate students and advanced undergraduates.