ANTH 520 - Political Ethnography

Credits: Variable

Explores the historical development and contemporary practice of political anthropology within the British and American traditions of cultural and social anthropology since 1940. Examines the origins and evolution of the theoretical and methodological concerns that gave rise to modern political anthropology, and the relations between an anthropology of politics and the politics of anthropology. Among the theoretical, methodological and professional issues to be considered are: process and action theory, transactionalism, political economy, regional studies, local-state-nation analyses, neo-evolutionism, Marxist/Marxian approaches, political fields and networks, subaltern studies, colonialism and post-colonialism, globalization, nationalism, and borders and boundaries.