ANTH 453Ethnographic Analysis

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Ethnography is an intellectual method by which our subjects and we experiment with the nature of thought and action in our time, the practical and ethical contingencies that mediate our communicative action, our sentiments, our expectations, and our lives together. In this seminar we will read a series of texts that pursue these possibilities. The primary requirement of the course will be the design of a real or a notional ethnographic project. In each of our class meetings we will devote considerable time to the discussion and the refinement of our respective projects.