Ethnography, Evidence and Experience

This course wonders over ethnography as a mode of anthropological attunement, asking, and dreaming. Across a range of ethnographic approaches, it tracks the specific commitments and experiments through which anthropological thinkers pose questions. It considers the affordances, limitations, and possibilities of anthropological work as fundamentally open-ended political, conceptual, and ethical project. We will continuously return to the human of anthropology, its anthropos, as a set of horizons and projects. Topics include universalism and particularity, experience and epistemology, anti-racism, and more-than-human ethnography.