ANT 395-01 - Advanced Special Topic: Global Ethography and Transnationalism

4 credits (Spring)

Ethnography has historically consisted of in-depth descriptions and examinations of micro-level interactions occurring in very specific localities, hence anthropologist would travel to “the field” to do their work. Many anthropologists have increasingly decoupled the notations of ethnography and locality and have become interested in examining cultural formations that transcend national borders, the formation of new identities and grappled with new forms of representation that these entail. This course examines how anthropologists do global ethnography and how they explore the emergence of transnational identities where attachments, sense of belonging and allegiances are reconfigured and challenged.

Prerequisite: ANT 104 and ANT 280.
Instructor: Escandell