Semester:
Spring
Offered:
2023
Prof. Ruth Mandel
W 12:45 PM - 2:45 PM
This course applies ethnographic approaches to engage with memorials and monuments. In light of the demonumenting movement, how should we think about alternative monuments and memorials such as artist Gunter Demnig’s Stolpersteine (stumbling stones)? In addition to anthropological literature, the course will draw on work from memory studies, Holocaust studies, conceptual art, etc. Students will carry out their own ethnographic research in the Boston/Cambridge area throughout the semester, producing a research journal at the end of the term.