Anthropology 218 - ANTHROPOLOGY OF HUMAN RIGHTS

Anthropology has a long and complicated relationship with the study of human rights and civic engagement, juggling our orientation of cultural relativism with social and political demands for universal rights including rights of minorities, women, children, labor and victims of conflict. This course examines the origins and development of human rights and their impact on anthropological studies of ethnicity, gender, development, and mobilization in local struggles. Students explore definitions, both anthropological and legal, of human rights focusing on issues of self-identification, representation and political participation, particularly of vulnerable populations to land, cultural heritage, and civil rights, as well as political participation of vulnerable populations, including national, ethnic or religious minorities; indigenous peoples; women; children; and LGBT communities. Prerequisite: ANT 130 or permission of instructor; not open to first-year students. Enrollment limit of 30 students. (E)

Not open to first-years