ANTHR 4152 - [Plantations]

(crosslisted) ARKEO 4152
(CA-AS, SSC-AS)

Fall. Not offered: 2022-2023. Next offered: 2023-2024. 3 credits. Letter grades only.

Co-meets with ANTHR 7152/ARKEO 7152.

J. Haines.

This course takes an interdisciplinary, multi-scalar approach to the study and conceptualization of plantations and the everyday experiences of people who live and work within plantation landscapes. We consider the implications of plantations as a space that encapsulates the legacies of settler colonialism, labor exploitation, migration, systemic racism, monoculture ecologies, industrialism, agrarian lifeways, and capitalism, and the ways in which plantation systems disrupted and displaced local relationalities. We will bring together the works of archaeologists and ethnographers who have been examining plantations at various theoretical and methodological scales, but who often talk past each other within anthropology and adjacent disciplines.