Anthropology of Place

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Place is at the core of anthropology’s study of people and their cultures and serves as a unifying theme that bridges its social, archaeological, and linguistic subfields. Through reading the works of anthropologists, geographers, and historians and discussion, students will learn how place is theorized, studied, perceived, lived, imagined, and contested. Among the topics examined are the relationship of place to power and surveillance, identity, memory, utopia, diaspora, and mobility. One prior course in Anthropology or related to the topic is strongly advised. Enrollment limited to 20.