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 ===== Semester 1, 2025 ===== ===== Semester 1, 2025 =====
  
-{{:kruger.jpg?nolink&400|A photograph of an interior hallway framed by the side of an escalator on the left extending the next floor. The side of the escalator, the walls, ceiling, and floor, are covered with gleaming text-printed vinyl panels that fill the entire space and bearing words and phrases in bold, white block letters on alternating black and red backgrounds, creating an immersive experience in which one is assaulted by provocative questions, like “WHO IS SILENT?” (Kruger, Barbara. 2012. *Belief + Doubt [Photo by jpellgen (@1105_jp)]*. Chromogenic print, in artist’s frame. Hirshhorn Museum, Smithsonian Institute, District of Columbia. [https://www.flickr.com/photos/jpellgen/46955365515/](https://www.flickr.com/photos/jpellgen/46955365515/).)}} 
  
 Anthropology is a wide open conversation in which many people of different voices and perspectives come together to put forward different answers to the field’s important questions. Unlike other social sciences, anthropology wants to learn from the bottom up. This means that anthropologists never assume there’s one right way to learn about human lives, and the field is constantly looking for ways to reinvent itself to incorporate new voices and perspectives. This class will explore how anthropologists challenge themselves to overcome their own biases and blind spots through the study of several different contemporary topics as cases. Anthropology is a wide open conversation in which many people of different voices and perspectives come together to put forward different answers to the field’s important questions. Unlike other social sciences, anthropology wants to learn from the bottom up. This means that anthropologists never assume there’s one right way to learn about human lives, and the field is constantly looking for ways to reinvent itself to incorporate new voices and perspectives. This class will explore how anthropologists challenge themselves to overcome their own biases and blind spots through the study of several different contemporary topics as cases.
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 **Coordinator:** Ryan Schram **Coordinator:** Ryan Schram
  
 +{{ :kruger.jpg?nolink&600 |A photograph of an interior hallway framed by the side of an escalator on the left extending the next floor. The side of the escalator, the walls, ceiling, and floor, are covered with gleaming text-printed vinyl panels that fill the entire space and bearing words and phrases in bold, white block letters on alternating black and red backgrounds, creating an immersive experience in which one is assaulted by provocative questions, like “WHO IS SILENT?” (Kruger, Barbara. 2012. *Belief + Doubt [Photo by jpellgen (@1105_jp)]*. Chromogenic print, in artist’s frame. Hirshhorn Museum, Smithsonian Institute, District of Columbia. [https://www.flickr.com/photos/jpellgen/46955365515/](https://www.flickr.com/photos/jpellgen/46955365515/).)}}
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 +## Assignments 
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 +* [[concept_quiz]]
 +* [[weekly_writing_assignments]]
 +* [[first_essay_improving_ai_reference_material]]
 +* [[possible_sources_for_the_second_essay]]
 +* [[second_essay_who_represents_the_future_of_anthropology_and_why]]
 +* [[what_i_learned_about_the_future_of_anthropology_an_interactive_presentation]]
  
  
 ===== Weekly plan of lectures and topics ===== ===== Weekly plan of lectures and topics =====
  
-^ Week & Date ^ Topic ^ Main reading ^ Other reading ^\\ +^ Week ^ Topic ^ Main reading ^ Other reading ^\\ 
-| **1** | **Two minds** | | |\\ +| **[[1|1]]** | **Two minds** | | |\\ 
-| **2** | **Society as mind** | Bashkow (2006) | Hanks (1996) |\\ +| **[[2|2]]** | **Society as mind** | Bashkow (2006) | Hanks (1996) |\\ 
-| **3** | **The myth of the “static, primitive isolate” and the need for historical ethnography** | J. L. Comaroff and Comaroff (2009); Gilberthorpe (2007) | J. Comaroff and Comaroff (1989); J. L. Comaroff and Comaroff (1990); J. L. Comaroff (1987); Wolf (1984); Trouillot ([2003a] 2016); Trouillot ([2003b] 2016) |\\ +| **[[3|3]]** | **The myth of the “static, primitive isolate” and the need for historical ethnography** | J. L. Comaroff and Comaroff (2009); Gilberthorpe (2007) | J. Comaroff and Comaroff (1989); J. L. Comaroff and Comaroff (1990); J. L. Comaroff (1987); Wolf (1984); Trouillot ([2003a] 2016); Trouillot ([2003b] 2016) |\\ 
-| **4** | **Imperialism as close encounter** | Sahlins (1988) | Sahlins (1992); Sahlins (1996); Bashkow (2004); Englund and Leach (2000) |\\ +| **[[4|4]]** | **Imperialism as close encounter** | Sahlins (1988) | Sahlins (1992); Sahlins (1996); Bashkow (2004); Englund and Leach (2000) |\\ 
-| **5** | **Doing being, embodying structure, and the practice of social norms** | Prentice (2015) | Ortner (2006); Ortner (1984); Bourdieu (1990) |\\ +| **[[5|5]]** | **Doing being, embodying structure, and the practice of social norms** | Prentice (2015) | Ortner (2006); Ortner (1984); Bourdieu (1990) |\\ 
-| **6** | **Social subjects beyond norm and action** | Miller (2010) | Hendriks (2023); Shange (2019) |\\ +| **[[6|6]]** | **Social subjects beyond norm and action** | Miller (2010) | Hendriks (2023); Shange (2019) |\\ 
-| **7** | **Anthropology, imperialism, and epistemic domination** | Simpson (2014) | Shah (2007); Cohn (1987); Chatterjee (1998); Chatterjee (2011) |\\ +| **[[7|7]]** | **Anthropology, imperialism, and epistemic domination** | Simpson (2014) | Shah (2007); Cohn (1987); Chatterjee (1998); Chatterjee (2011) |\\ 
-| **8** | **Knowing is governing** | Gupta (2012a); Gupta (2012b) | Foucault (1991); Foucault (1982); Li (1999); Li (2007) |\\+| **[[8|8]]** | **Knowing is governing** | Gupta (2012a); Gupta (2012b) | Foucault (1991); Foucault (1982); Li (1999); Li (2007) |\\
 | **B** | **Mandatory school closure in honor of Judeo-Christian festivals** | | |\\ | **B** | **Mandatory school closure in honor of Judeo-Christian festivals** | | |\\
-| **9** | **Making an ethical self** | Mahmood (2001); Mahmood (2003) | Rudnyckyj (2011); Zigon (2013) |\\ +| **[[9|9]]** | **Making an ethical self** | Mahmood (2001); Mahmood (2003) | Rudnyckyj (2011); Zigon (2013) |\\ 
-| **10** | **Nature as the recursion of culture** | Lien and Law (2011) | Strathern (1996); Carsten (2014); Latour (2005); Latour (2004) |\\ +| **[[10|10]]** | **Nature as the recursion of culture** | Lien and Law (2011) | Strathern (1996); Carsten (2014); Latour (2005); Latour (2004) |\\ 
-| **11** | **Seeing is doing, or how social forms know themselves** | Street (2014); Reed (1999) | Rio (2005); Viveiros de Castro (1998); Viveiros de Castro (2004) |\\ +| **[[11|11]]** | **Seeing is doing, or how social forms know themselves** | Street (2014); Reed (1999) | Rio (2005); Viveiros de Castro (1998); Viveiros de Castro (2004) |\\ 
-| **12** | **Objects that have agency** | Schnitzler (2016b) | Schnitzler (2016a) |\\ +| **[[12|12]]** | **Objects that have agency** | Schnitzler (2016b) | Schnitzler (2016a) |\\ 
-| **13** | **No universals, no particulars: Anthropology after humanism** | | |\\+| **[[13|13]]** | **No universals, no particulars: Anthropology after humanism** | | |\\
 | **14** | **Reading week** | | |\\ | **14** | **Reading week** | | |\\
 | **15** | **Final exams period** | | | | **15** | **Final exams period** | | |
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