Spring 2008

ANT 391 • Theory, Politics and Methods of Fieldwork

Course Description

This seminar is a combination of conventional research methods and activist research, with exercises in proposal writing, as well as critical writing on fieldwork methods, ethics, etc. We would also like to use the seminar as a forum for introducing students to a wide range of approaches to activist anthropology (sometimes associated with different names, such as "public" or "applied") within the five sub-fields of the department. It is designed to be an anchor course for the activist anthropology track.

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