Topic: Political Anthropology

Catalog description

Political anthropology is the comparative study of political systems and everyday life in societies, past and present and around the world. This course examines transformations of political visions and social movements in the Western World. Specifically, it examines everyday life in Europe and America during the twentieth century to understand the role of the state in people's lives, as well as differences and similarities between political systems and social orders. Students will read historical and ethnographic text that are based on fieldwork in the region during the period, and critically examine the making of the political and the social in the context of different cultures.