The Anthropology of Globalization
ANTH 339
Spring 2007
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01
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This course provides an anthropological and historical look at globalization. We will focus on theoretical and ethnographic analyses of specific circuits of globalization-tracks through which ideas and practices of modernity travel and are contested, through which ideas about the "other" are shaped, and through which power is exercised and resisted. In particular, we will "track" the movements and reconfigurations of capital(ism), commodities, people, media, and sexualities. In analyzing these circuits and their intersections, we will pay careful attention to ideas about culture, modernity, tradition, diasporas, nationalism and transnationalism, local/global, representation, rest/west, race, class, gender, sexuality, and transnational modes of governance and resistance. |
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Essential Capabilities:
None |
| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS ANTH |
| Course Format: Seminar | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Major Requirement for: None |
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Past Enrollment Probability: Not Available |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Salman Rushdie, Liisa Malkki, Inderpal Grewal, Caren Kaplan, Cynthia Enloe, Ella Shohat, James Watson, Aihwa Ong, Lisa Rofel, Paulla Ebron, James Ferguson, Akhil Gupta, Jasbir Puar, Karen Kelsky, Lila Abu-Lughod, Purnima Mankekar, Brian Larkin, Arif Dirlik, David Harvey, Tim Mitchell, J. K. Gibson Graham, and Roger Rouse.
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Examinations and Assignments:
Several short papers and a final project. |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
Previous background in Anthropology, Sociology, or Women's Studies. Attendance to the first class session is required. |
| Instructor(s): Sharma,Aradhana Times: ..T.R.. 02:40PM-04:00PM; Location: FISK312; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 19 | | SR major: 6 | JR major: 6 | | |
| Seats Available: 0 | GRAD: 0 | SR non-major: 4 | JR non-major: 3 | SO: X | FR: X |
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| Total Submitted Requests: 4 | 1st Ranked: 0 | 2nd Ranked: 1 | 3rd Ranked: 0 | 4th Ranked: 1 | Unranked: 2 |
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