ANTH-E 612 ANTHROPOLOGY OF RUSSIA AND EAST EUROPE (3 CR.)
Explores the contradictory effects of socialism's "fall" through a study of new ethnographies of post-socialist societies. We will connect our inquiries to broad intellectual questions in anthropology and related disciplines, including globalization, social suffering, commodification and cultural identity, ethnicity and nation building, armed conflict, and gender inequalities
1 classes found
Spring 2024
Component | Credits | Class | Status | Time | Day | Facility | Instructor |
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LEC | 3 | 30329 | Closed | 11:30 a.m.–2:00 p.m. | M | WY 111 | Phillips S |
Regular Academic Session / In Person
LEC 30329: Total Seats: 18 / Available: 15 / Waitlisted: 0
Lecture (LEC)
- Above class meets with another section of ANTH-E
This course explores the contradictory effects of socialism and its ¿fall¿ in the former Soviet Union (especially Russia and Ukraine) and Eastern and Central Europe. Our focus will be on the lives of ¿regular people¿ and their diverse experiences and interpretations of the social, political, economic, and cultural changes over the last three decades. Furthermore, we will take very serious calls to decolonize the syllabus, the curriculum, and the university, by decentering the voices and frameworks of the power holders, and focusing instead on the marginalized, the subaltern, and the oppressed. Our inquiries will connect to broad intellectual questions in anthropology and related disciplines, including globalization, social suffering, racialization, and other axes of inequality such as language, class, dis/ability, gender, and sexuality, among others. Russia¿s war on Ukraine will be front and center as we explore all these questions.