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ANTH 3711

Anthropology of Relations: Kinship, Families and Gender

0.5 credits · Undergraduate

Fall 2025

Topics

  • Part I: Ascension of the Affective Self
  • Economies of Affect
  • What Love Is: and what it could be. Carrie Jenkins. Prologue. Pages ix-xvi
  • Royal Anthropological Institute 15
  • Affect and Political Economy
  • The Managed Heart. Commercialization of Human Feeling. Arlie Russell
  • Hochschild. : Exploring the Managed Heart. Pages
  • “The Catholicization of Neoliberalism: On Love and Welfare in Lombardy
  • Italy”
  • Andrea Muehlebach. American Anthropologist 115.3
  • The Romance of Late Capitalism
  • “The Fantasy of Capitalism and Romance: Consuming the Self”. Melinda
  • Vandenbeld Giles. After the Happily Ever After
  • Capitalism. Eva Illouz
  • Introduction to the Sociology of Love. Pages
  • Constructing the Romantic Utopia. Pages
  • Part II: Love and Globalization
  • An Anthropology of Love and Capitalism
  • Companionate Marriage. Eds. Jennifer S. Hirsch and Holly Wardlow
  • Introduction. Pages 1-31. Jennifer S. Hirsch and Holly Wardlow
  • Intimacy among Hijras in Hyderabad, India. Pages
  • All about Love: New Visions. bell hooks
  • Introduction. Pages xiiii-xxix. Grace: Touched by Love
  • Pages 2-14. Clarity: Give Love Words
  • Love, Sex and Transnational Romance

Readings

  • Required: Love and Globalization: Transformations of Intimacy in the Contemporary World. Eds. Mark Padilla, Jennifer Hirsch, Miguel Muñoz-Laboy, Robert Sember, and Richard Parker.
  • Required: Nashville, Tennessee: Vanderbilt University Press.
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