Ethnography of the American Rural
ANTH 206
Fall 2020
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01
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| Crosslisting:
AMST 236 |
The rural stands as a fraught American symbol, positioned in stark contrast to its corollary: the urban and its cosmopolitan subjects. The American rural is variously represented as vulnerable, disappearing, backwards, regressive, slow. In this course, we elucidate the texture of the American Rural by engaging with ethnographic writing from the early 20th century into the contemporary. In exploring the rural as a meeting place of working-class expressive cultures, an atmosphere of slow or strange time, a dramatic history of industry and agriculture, a notoriously tense racial zone, an icon of severity, and a place of exuberant stories and poetics, we uncover the vital ideological function of the rural as the urban's dark twin in American myth throughout history and today. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS ANTH |
| Course Format: Lecture / Discussion | Grading Mode: Student Option |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (ANTH) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: Less than 50% |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Readings will include works by E. Patrick Johnson, James Agee, W.E.B. DuBois, Richard Bauman, Cynthia Duncan, Kathleen Stewart, Nadine Hubbs, J.D. Vance, and Arlene Russell Hochschild.
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Examinations and Assignments:
4 reading responses (approximately 1000 words each)
2 class presentations (individually or in small groups)
Take-home final essay exam |
| Instructor(s): Russo,Joseph Times: .M.W... 11:10AM-12:30PM; Location: ONLINE; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 16 | | SR major: 3 | JR major: 5 | | |
| Seats Available: -2 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 0 | JR non-major: 4 | SO: 4 | FR: X |
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