Area Studies II Spring 2001. This course is a continuation of ANTH360. Students continue to work on their research projects through a reading of pertinent theoretical literatures. Methodological concerns also have to be addressed pertinent to their projects. Building on the paper produced in ANTH360, students produce a final version of their research project, a paper of no more than 50 pages.
Enrollment is limited to students in the Ph.D. program.
This is a required course for Ph.D. students. ANTH229 Discourse and Cultural Theory Spring 2001. This course explores different notions of discourse as they inform discussions within anthropology on such topics as subjectivity, disciplinary practice, gender, performance, ideology, and power. Readings will be drawn from key texts in anthropological linguistics, sociolinguistics, speech act theory, ordinary language philosophy, classical rhetoric, as well as from the works of Volosinov, Bakhtin, Foucault, and Derrida. The import of different theories of discourse for political thought, including notions of the public sphere, will be examined.