Topics may include an examination of health inequities, impact of new technologies on medical practice and illness as experience. The course charts ways in which performative acts enable participants to re-imagine themselves beyond the strictures of limiting circumstance. A theoretical framework to do with redeeming the senses provides a context in which to explore protest theater, dance, ritual and spirit possession. An introduction to contemporary Middle East through monographs, film and literature, dealing with selected topics in politics, religion, gender and language. Readings focus on ethnographic examinations of race, class, gender, urban space and health cross-culturally.
Course work focuses on research methods in practice.
Examines the intricate connections between the theoretical concerns and the methods of inquiry by tracing changes in relation to selected topics and their corresponding ethnographies. Arrighi Graduate students only or instructor s consent Attendance is mandatory at all seminar meetings .