ANT 310 - Postmodernism and Beyond

4 credits

This course explores the meanings of postmodernism, including the historical moment in which the concept emerged to describe a crisis in the social sciences. We will read anthropologists’ comments on the impact of postmodernist approaches on methodologies and theories in the discipline and examine texts that interrogate the relationship between power and knowledge, representations and ethnographic authority, the question of subjectivity and objectification, and the consequences of globalization on dominant concepts that ground the discipline of anthropology. This course includes ethnographic films and commercial movies that register the condition of postmodernity.

Prerequisite: ANT 104 and ANT 280.
Note: Plus-2 option available. Not offered every year.
Instructor: Gibel Mevorach