Course also includes significant emphasis on economic philosophy and language theory.
Students required to assemble one research project. The nations of Zambia and Zimbabwe, though neighbors and relatively contemporary in their founding, differ culturally and politically. This course explores the cultures of these territories, as well as local histories, precolonial, colonial and postcolonial, seeking to understand the role of cultures and local histories in defining national identities and national politics. Readings will be drawn from the anthropological, historical and political science literature, as well as from fiction. In this workshop, we juxtapose reading ethnography and personal accounts of fieldwork with doing ethnography in our immediate community.