Queer/Anthropology: Ethnographic Approaches to Queer Studies
ANTH 398
Spring 2015 not offered
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| Crosslisting:
FGSS 398, AMST 398 |
| Certificates: Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory |
| Course Cluster: Queer Studies |
This advanced seminar brings together queer theory with cultural anthropology to ask, Can there be a queer anthropology? Cultural anthropology and queer theory are sometimes opposed--some anthropologists find queer studies excessively theoretical, narrowly interested in Western forms of knowledge and power, and given to abstracted critique rather than social explication. Yet even as anthropologists problematize queer theory's assumptions, methods, and boundaries, queer theoretical insights and frameworks have generated new questions and approaches in the anthropology of sexuality--just as anthropology's interest in the global, the comparative, and the ethnographic have enriched new work in transnational queer studies. This course explores the possibilities of productively juxtaposing, combining, and even opposing anthropology and queer theory. |
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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: (AMST)(ANTH)(CSCT)(FGSS) |
Major Readings:
Potential Texts:
Tom Boellstorff, A Coincidence of Desires: Anthropology, Queer Studies, Indonesia
David Valentine, Imagining Transgender: An Ethnography of a Category
Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject
Don Kulick, Travesti: Sex, Gender, and Culture among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes
Gloria Wekker, The Politics of Passion: Women's Sexual Culture in the Afro- Surinamese Diaspora
Martin Manalansan, Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora
Jasbir Puar, Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times
Judith Halberstam, In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives
Gayatri Gopinath, Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures
Jose Munoz, Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics
Miranda Joseph, Against the Romance of Community
Erica Rand, The Ellis Island Snow Globe
Sara Ahmed, Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others
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Examinations and Assignments:
class participation; reading reflection papers; long final paper |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
This is an advanced, reading-heavy seminar. We will read and discuss one ethnography a week. The last weeks of the course are TBD so that we can read work in which you are particularly interested. Because of the advanced nature of this course, prior preparation in queer studies (AMST or FGSS) and/or cultural anthropology is required. E-mail me if you are unsure about your previous coursework/preparation. |
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