Social Anthropology

AFRAMER 209B - Africa Rising? New African Economies/Cultures and Their Global Implications

Semester: 

Spring

Offered: 

2022

Prof. Jean Comaroff
Mon. 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
TBD

This course is taught in conjunction with, and as part of, the African Studies Workshop at Harvard (ASW). It consists of two components: (i) an under/graduate student seminar component, to be held every Monday at 9.45-11.30, at which the class will discuss an original research paper, and (ii) a public session, held every Monday afternoon at 2.00-4.00, at which the author of that paper will present it in person to an audience composed of faculty, students, and Africanists...

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AFRAMER 189X - Medicine, Science, and Empire

Semester: 

Spring

Offered: 

2022

Prof. Jean Comaroff
Weds. 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
TBD

This class examines the changing place of medicine in the long history of modernity. Focusing on key moments   the birth of the clinic, the colonial encounter, the consolidation of medicine as profession, the age of genomics and biocapital, and the empire of global health it explores the distinctive role of medical knowledge and practice in the making of modernist persons, identities, economies, and political vocabularies. Readings are drawn from anthropology and the wider social sciences, with cases from Africa,...

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ANTHRO 1991 - Anthropology of the Future

Semester: 

Spring

Offered: 

2022

Prof. Michelle Choi
Thurs. 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM 
Peabody 12

Humans have long been fascinated with anticipating, speculating, preparing, and waiting for the unknown future. ‘The future’ has a pervasive presence in our lives, when we forecast the local weather, plan the national economy, promise in legal contracts, imagine in science fictions, aspire in political movements, trade in futures markets, and much more. More than ever, the future is both an excitement and anxiety-inducing topic of interest to scholars and experts in domains ranging from public health, national security, urban design, to environmental science.... Read more about ANTHRO 1991 - Anthropology of the Future

ANTHRO 1898 - Digital Ethnographic Methods

Semester: 

Spring

Offered: 

2023

Prof. Joyhanna Garza
M 9:00am - 11:45am

The abrupt physical closures of 2020 continuing into the present moment have brought into sharp relief the urgency of taking the digital seriously as a mode by which sociality – however constrained – is created and maintained. Rather than posit a singular method of digital ethnography, this course is designed to expose students to different methods and theoretical entry points into ethnography in order to enable students to identify the methods which work best for their present and future research purposes.

Hence, the...

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ANTHRO 1718 - Activist, Collaborative, and Engaged Interventions in Anthropology

Semester: 

Spring

Offered: 

2022

Prof. Andrea Wright
Thurs. 12:00 PM - 2:45 PM
Tozzer 416

What approaches and methodologies do anthropologists use to examine and strengthen theories and practices oriented towards community? What responsibilities do anthropologists have to the people and places with which they work? Can and should anthropologists engage in research that is community driven, politically conscious, and centrally concerned with the transformation of our social conditions?... Read more about ANTHRO 1718 - Activist, Collaborative, and Engaged Interventions in Anthropology

ANTHRO 1836BR - Sensory Ethnography 2

Semester: 

Spring

Offered: 

2024

Profs. Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Verena Paravel
Th 12:00 PM - 4:15 PM

Students are introduced to current issues in art, aesthetics, and anthropology, and produce collaborative experimental works of sensory ethnography.

This is also offered as AFVS 158BR. Students are strongly encouraged to enroll in ANTRO 1836AR, Sensory Ethnography 1. No previous studio experience necessary.

To take this limited-enrollment course, you must first consult the Canvas course site for information about the enrollment process and procedures.

There is a mandatory...

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ANTHRO 1475 - Religious Dimensions in Human Experience: Apocalypse, Home, Medicine, Music, Sports, Sacrifice

Semester: 

Spring

Offered: 

2024

Prof. David Carrasco
Mon. and Weds. 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM
 

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What is Religion? Why does it show up everywhere? Using archaeology, religious studies and social thought, this course will study the major themes in the history of religions including 'encountering the...

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ANTHRO 2695 - Landscape Fieldwork: People, Politics, Practices

Semester: 

Spring

Offered: 

2022

Prof. Gareth Doherty
Fridays 3:00 PM - 5:45 PM
Tozzer 203 

Landscape fieldwork offers the means to understand the complexities of landscapes. Through a people-centered approach, this lecture course explores landscape architecture’s ethical and political power to shape the world. A central premise of the course is that experiential knowledge—gained from the embodied engagement of landscape fieldwork—can help to revise how we understand and use western canons of landscape knowledge and offer new possibilities for the design imagination.... Read more about ANTHRO 2695 - Landscape Fieldwork: People, Politics, Practices

ANTHRO 2653 - Feminism and Anthropology

Semester: 

Spring

Offered: 

2023

Prof. Anna Jabloner
Thurs. 12:45 PM - 2:45 PM
 

This course considers the relationship between feminism (as activist realm, as theoretical field, in its institutionalized form as gender studies) and anthropology. We will begin with early ethnographic writing by women and about women, and analyze some of the interventions feminists hope to make in anthropology. We will then examine the relationship between feminism and anthropology through two topics: kinship and politics. Our course will consider how feminist anthropologists have connected the study of kinship,...

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