Anthropology 697TM - ST-IndigenRsrch:Theories&Mthds

The course will examine the theoretical, methodological and practical aspects of conducting research on indigenous issues. We will consider the range of theoretical approaches that scholars and community members rely on (currently and historically) when framing research - both within academically-based knowledge production contexts and in local/global community spaces of social change through indigenous activist. Our inquiry will be structured through three primary questions: first, in what ways do indigenous theories and methods form a distinct form of inquiry - what makes these approaches different and how/where/in what contexts are they similar or drawing from similar roots? Second, what knowledge do these forms of theory and method produce, uncover, allow for? And, finally, in what ways are the knowledge's produced different (are these results necessarily "better") than when other qualitative and quantitative methods are utilized?

This course is open to Graduate Students in Anthropology only