Topic: Political Violence and Social Change in Latin America

Catalog description

This course seeks to introduce students to the study of political violence and social change in Latin America, with an emphasis on the contribution of anthropologists and other social scientists working in the region. This course asks: How do individuals and communities rebuild and make sense of their worlds in the aftermath of violence? How do they renegotiate their relationship to the state and to each other? What resources do people use to rebuild their societies?