ANTHR 4553

Anthropology Through Intensive China Ethnography

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2014-2015.

This course develops an integrative approach to anthropological theory by means of an intensive examination of local life in China. Among the linked topics are family and kinship, local identity, ritual, cultural constructions of space and time, gender, ideology, and "modes of production of desire." Its primary objective is to illustrate the advantages of a broadly synthetic approach to socio-cultural anthropology by means of a close analytical examination of elements of local social life. In theoretical terms, the course advocates an accommodation among historical, psychoanalytic, and Marxian perspectives.

When Offered Fall.

Breadth Requirement (GB)
Distribution Category (CA-AS)

Comments Co-meets with ANTHR 7553.

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