2011-2012 University Catalog 
  
2011-2012 University Catalog

ANTH 750 - Ethnographic Genres

Credits: 3 (NR)
“Genre” refers to kind, sort, or type. Course surveys the various modes of representation anthropologists use in elaborating participant-observation field work, as well as how these styles refer to and construct ethnographic “others.” Explores a set of central philosophical and methodological issues in social-cultural anthropology such as framing, perspective, authority, reflexivity, and politics of style.

Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing, or permission of instructor.

Hours of Lecture or Seminar per week: 3
Hours of Lab or Studio per week: 0