Ethnography, Evidence and Experience

This course introduces students to anthropological ways of knowing and explores how ethnography shapes social theorizing and storytelling. We will attend to relations -- among social actors, institutions, and regimes of value. We will examine identity -- as optic, object, creativity, ethical becoming, political struggle, and more. Throughout, we will acquire tools to theorize social experience, develop new approaches to power, memory, and history, and probe the potentials for decolonial and anticolonial scholarship.