Bodies of Science, Bodies of Knowledge
ANTH 312
Fall 2015 not offered
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| Crosslisting:
SISP 313, FGSS 312 |
| Course Cluster: Animal Studies, Disability Studies, Health Studies |
This seminar explores scientific, medical, and anthropological constructions of the body with the aim of jostling reductive representations of bodies as entities that end at the skin and simply house minds. We will think genealogically, meaning that we will look into the historical conditions of possibility for thinking of bodies as we do in our EuroAmerican culture. Readings will be interdisciplinary, drawing from critical medical and cultural anthropology, feminist science studies, philosophy, and other disciplines interested in the body and cross-cultural perspectives on the body. We will put our minds together to think about how imaginations of embodiment tie to political and knowledge-making projects both of domination and of resistance, and what it means for a range of actors to live in "biological" bodies at the beginning of the third millennium. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS ANTH |
| Course Format: Seminar | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (FGSS) |
Major Readings:
Anne Fadiman, THE SPIRIT CATCHES YOU AND YOU FALL DOWN, ISBN 0374525641
Margaret Lock and Judith Farquhar, BEYOND THE BODY PROPER, selections
Nelly Oudshoorn. BEYOND THE NATURAL BODY: AN ARCHEOLOGY OF SEX HORMONES, ISBN-10: 0415091918
Anne Marie Mol, THE BODY MULTIPLE, ISBN 0822329174
Joe Dumit, PICTURING PERSONHOOD: BRAIN SCANS AND BIOMEDICAL IDENTITIES, ISBN-13: 978- 0691113982
Adriana Petryna, LIFE EXPOSED: BIOLOGICAL CITIZENS AFTER CHERNOBYL, ISBN 9780691090191
Joao Biehl, VITA: LIFE IN A ZONE OF SOCIAL ABANDONMENT, ISBN 9780520272958
Jackie Stacey, TERATOLOGIES: A CULTURAL STUDY OF CANCER, ISBN 9780415149600
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Examinations and Assignments:
Ten weekly and substantive critical reflections on the readings, a midterm analytical paper, and a final research paper. In-class assignments on occasion. |
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