Anthropology Linguistics

3 Credits · Level: Graduate

This course explores methodological and theoretical insights from the disciplines of Anthropology and Linguistics with an eye toward assessing their value for historians' research. We will read work in those two disciplines as well as examples of scholarship by historians that draws heavily from them. The course syllabus will be amended to include readings in the regions, time periods, and general themes of interest to students who enroll in the class, but possible thematic categories and methods include belief systems; medicine and health; inequality and capitalism; kinship, friendship, and belonging; conceptual analysis; cognitive metaphor; contextualizing meaning-making, and so on. The course is intended to check the box for PhD students for Methods and/or for Theory.