Anthropology 116 - Anthro and Life Stories

Fall
2019
01
4.00
Vanessa Fong
TTH 10:00AM-11:20AM
Amherst College
ANTH-116-01-1920F
MORG 110
vfong@amherst.edu

How can anthropology help us understand life stories? How can life stories illustrate, challenge, or extend theoretical claims? How can the life stories of anthropologists help us understand their perspectives and research methods? This course will teach students how to answer such questions. We will look at how and why anthropologists have chosen to write about particular experiences, life histories, and narratives of their research participants; how and why they wrote about their own life histories and experiences; and how such choices affected their research methods, approaches, and findings.

Limited to 19 students. Admission with consent of the instructor. Fall semester. Professor Fong.

Permission is required for interchange registration during all registration periods.