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Academic Year 2000/2001

Ethnographic Life History and Autobiography
ANTH 275 FA
Crosslistings:
AFAM 273

Ethnographic life histories and autobiographies can enrich our understanding of human experience and social issues, both historically and cross-culturally. This course will expose students to first-person accounts that augment and elaborate the kinds of social analysis associated with ethnographies and other anthropological writings. We will discuss how these personal narratives provide interpretations of the sociocultural processes that anthropologists study. Through careful readings of the texts, we will also examine the extent to which these accounts challenge the dominant cultural formations in which the speakers live. Readings will emphasize, but not be limited to, materials from the U.S. and Caribbean.

MAJOR READINGS

To be announced.

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Participation in class discussion, oral presentation, response papers, final project.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS

Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed Drop/Add form to the Registrar's Office.

COURSE FORMAT: Lecture

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UGRD    Credit: 1    Gen Ed Area Dept: SBS ANTH    Grading Mode: Student Option   

Prerequisites: NONE Links to Web Resources For This Course.

Last Updated on MAR-26-2001

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