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Oct 31, 2024
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ANTH 5510 - Political Anthropology This course examines political life from a broad global and cross-cultural perspective using approaches developed in political anthropology. The course draws on examples from various societies and organizational forms in order to develop comparative frameworks and examine the relationships among political thought, political structuration and political action.
Requisites: Credit Hours: 4 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken. Lecture/Lab Hours: 4.0 lecture Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: - Students will be able to explain how social order and constellations of power are created without coercion, formal government institutions or the use of a codified legal system.
- Students will be able to critically assess how leaders and political groups build and maintain forms of power and how cultural orders and ideas are manipulated for political purposes.
- Students will be able to explain and compare how small-scale groups, societies, and states are shaped by more powerful groups, societies, and states.
- Students will be able to articulate and critique prevailing theories of political power, political violence, and political resistance.
- Students will be able to empathetically describe how cultural, political and economic processes lead to inequalities and injustices.
- Students will be able to describe their own preconceived notions about structural violence and systemic inequality and compare their own experiences with those of marginalized peoples.
- Students will be able to demonstrate, through verbal and non-verbal communications, curiosity and openness for peoples whose lives are shaped by political violence.
- Students will be able to describe how individuals and groups can advance group goals, forms of democratic governance and human rights through creative thought and action.
- Students will be able to produce a significant academic paper written in accordance with disciplinary expectations for argumentation, analysis, and scholarly citational practice.
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