Anthropology 316GB - Culture/Politics/Materiality

This seminar course in anthropology takes the body, understood as a social and cultural construction, as its central object of analysis. The course will draw on the literature on the anthropology of the body and on embodiment to provide a set of theoretical tools to apply in our exploration of relevant topics, issues, and ethnographic case studies. Over the course of the semester we will examine the body's entanglement in matters of reproduction and the population, sex, gender and sexuality, citizenship, life, death, and personhood, subjectivity and identity, and commodification and capitalism. Students will complete a body-related research project.

Prereq: 8 credits in Anthropology department.