The Ethnography of Place

[0.50] credits · Undergraduate

This course investigates emplacement - being in place - in a global age. Drawing on diverse scholarship from cultural anthropology and sociology, the course considers places as locations of social, political, and personal expression. It uses symbolic and ethnographic approaches and investigates a wide range of analytical strategies for considering our place(s) in our world(s). It asks about how places are constructed, and thus become meaningful, in a world that is increasingly global in orientation and said to be shrinking.