This course is about discovering and extending connections between social practices. We will learn to discover connections by developing inside understandings of graphic images such as cartoons and film clips. Such images are framed and embedded in larger contexts just like social practices. Our new information tools, especially the worldwide web, are especially apt for use by anthropologists. Let me explain.
Anthropology is thus a margino-centric discipline.
It aims always to raise alternatives from the margins that might supplant those that dominate at the center. In summary, this course will focus our energies on the task of adducing or working out connections and will draw heavily on new information tools to advance this focal objective.