History of Sociocultural Anthropology

Harvard FAS

This course is designed for students beginning graduate study in social and cultural anthropology and is required for all first-year Social Anthropology graduate students. It is intended to provide critical skills for reading in and contributing to social and cultural theory. It offers a selective overview of theoretical and empirical trends in the discipline of anthropology, focusing on theoretical genealogies within the discipline at large. The course asks what has counted for…