Courses of Study 2015-2016 
    
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Courses of Study 2015-2016 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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ANTHR 6438 - [Jewish Ethnography]

(crosslisted) JWST 6938 , NES 6938  
     
Fall. Next offered 2016-2017. 4 credits. Letter grades only.

Co-meets with ANTHR 3438 /JWST 3938 /NES 6938 .

J. Boyarin.

The anthropology of Jews, Jewishness and Judaism is a wonderful laboratory for studying vital issues in the study of culture and society: textuality and orality; gender, reproduction and the cycle of generations; tradition, modernity and postmodernity; diaspora and the state; genetics and the politics of identity; forms of difference in the metropole and in colonialism. Until recent decades, there were almost no serious ethnographies of Jewish communities. Today there is a rich new literature in this field. We will read widely to become familiar with this new literature, exploring the politics of ethnography; memoir as an ethnographic source; reflexive and auto-Jewish ethnographies; traditionalist and modernist communities; and communities spread widely through Europe, North America, North Africa and the Middle East.



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