Europe in the Ethnographic Imagination.

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Far more than a geocultural space or "continent," Europe is an historically-potent social and ideological construction that has been instrumental in exerting global colonial power - a 'Europeanization' process that has turned increasingly inward with the goal of circumscribing diverse linguistic and cultural communities in a postcolonial world. The course focuses on major themes in contemporary Europeanist anthropology, such as relations between local communities/regions and states, immigration, subaltern groups, neo-nationalist extremism, and the changing character of religious institutions.