ANTHRO 147P

Main Course

Anthropology of Violence

Description

Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Preparation: introductory sociocultural anthropology course. Exploration of violence as both an embodied and felt experience and a socioculturally and politically mediated event. Examination of violence as a classed, racialized, gendered, and sexualized phenomenon, and analysis of how local, national, transnational, and global processes interact in the production, experience, representation, and contestation of violent conflicts. Topics include colonialism and genocide, political violence, racialization, torture, structural and symbolic violence, gendered violence, and ecologies of war. P/NP or letter grading.