ANTH 5830 - Anthropology and History

The course evaluates the relationship between anthropology and history through reading selected works in each discipline. Theoretical and methodological similarities and differences will be addressed as well as how each discipline writes about the “other”. Special attention will be given to the rhetorical devices employed to make ethnographic and historical accounts convincing and the potential to critical scholarship that the ongoing exchange between the two disciplines offers.

Credits: 3 hours

Notes: Open to Upperclass and Graduate Students.