ANTH 202
Fall 2025
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| Crosslisting:
RELI 209 |
| Course Cluster and Certificates: Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory Certificate |
This course examines the relationship between the discipline of Anthropology and Islam while also surveying the development of the Anthropology of Islam. Until the middle of the 20th century, Western study of Islam was dominated by Orientalists and colonial social scientists. As the study of Islam and its social worlds entered into the field of modern anthropology alongside decolonizing processes worldwide, the anthropological study of Islam was caught up in, and crucial to, the various critical turns in the discipline that faced as it attempted to decoupled itself from colonialism. With this as the backdrop, "Anthropology and/of Islam" takes on the rich and varied, often complicated, canon of the "Anthropology of Islam" with a particular focus on the Middle East and North Africa primarily between 1975 and 2025 but with an eye to the field globally. It also also attends to the ways in which this field has been responsible for paradigmatic shifts in the Anthropology itself. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS ANTH |
| Course Format: Lecture / Discussion | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (African Studies Minor)(Anthropology)(Middle Eastern Studies Minor)(Muslim Studies Minor)(Religion Minor)(Religion) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: Not Available |
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