Courses of Study 2018-2019 
    
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Courses of Study 2018-2019 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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ANTHR 4673 - [Body/Politics/Africa]

(crosslisted) ASRC 4673  
(GB) (CA-AS)      
Fall. Next Offered: 2019-2020. 4 credits. Student option grading.

Co-meets with ANTHR 7673 /ASRC 7673 .

S. Langwick.

This course examines a range of texts that treat the body as the subject and object of social, cultural, and historical processes in Africa. Students investigate the cultivation of physical and social bodies through ethnographic and historical materials concerning healing and medicine, discipline and labor, and governance and religion. The production and reproduction of bodies and embodied practices have long been central to the way that power works in and beyond Africa. Our inquiry into contests over and reflections on African bodies opens up important questions about authority, resistance, agency and autonomy.



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