Anthropology | Intro to Cultures of Africa E310 | 25368 |
Buggenhagen This course will provide an introduction to the
history and ethnography of colonial and post-colonial African
societies. Recent media and scholarly attention has focused on
the African continent as a locus of humanitarian and political
emergency. But in what ways does undue attention to crisis limit
our analytical perspective? In this course, we will come to
understand the historical and cultural conditions underpinning
current predicaments facing African societies. Students will be
asked to think both critically and comparatively about the
analysis of human institutions such as kinship and politics,
markets and migration, religious practices, race, gender and
diaspora.