Nov 21, 2024  
2024-2025 Academic Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Academic Catalog

ANT 285 - Anthropology, Violence, and Human Rights

4 credits
This course is designed to address anthropological engagement with enduring forms of violence and efforts to intervene in them in a variety of cross-cultural contexts.  The class begins by considering relationships among scholarly knowledge, history, and inequality to establish a foundation for thinking about research in post-Enlightenment sociopolitical contexts.  It moves to examine tensions between cultural relativism and universal rights advocacy within Western intellectual thought.  Next, it examines the concept of “legitimate” violence relative to state formation and power.

Prerequisite: One 200-level Anthropology, Political Science, or Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies course with grade S, C, or better.
Note: Plus-2 option available. Not offered every year.
Instructor: French