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ANTHR 4423 - [Inter-war Anthropologies]


(CA-AS)
Fall. 4 credits.

Next offered 2015-2016. Co-meets with ANTHR 7423 .

C. Garces.

Anthropologists and continental theorists have looked in recent years to turn-of-the-century American ethnology and comparative sociology for unconventional insight into political sovereignty or non-state modalities of traditional body politics. However, the wartime and inter-war era’s multiple dislocations and forms of exile also produced a variety of anthropological work speaking directly to the anxieties of today’s “global state” of perpetual armed conflict, economic insecurity, and rising xenophobic nationalism. This seminar will gather together and interrogate several key French, British, and U.S. anthropological texts, either researched or written during 1914-45, and consider them from the vantage point of their enduring critical stance towards modern political and economic belligerence.



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