ANTH 1747 - WRITING CULTURE

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This class will introduce students to different anthropological and ethnographic writing styles and theoretical approaches while encouraging them to think about what anthropology can contribute to our understanding and appreciation of human diversity in the world today. Students will "try on" different writing styles and theoretical approaches. Throughout the class they will examine the poetics (writing style) and politics (forms of power) associated with different approaches and types of ethnographic writing. Class readings include different types of anthropological writing. This includes empirical writings (e.g., structural-functional ethnographic realist writing) that characterized much anthropological work through the 1960s; interpretive works, influenced by Clifford Geertz; a range of experimental, reflexive, and critical writings of and since the "experimental moment" of the late 1980s; and feminist ethnography and fictional ethnography (or ethnographic fiction). Additional readings provide wider context and writing/study tips.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis

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