Practice Theory and Beyond

4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)

Seminar, three hours. Requisites: courses 203A, 203B, 203C. Background in classic social theory—Marx, Weber, Durkheim—assumed. Designed for graduate anthropology students. Basic texts in practice theory by Pierre Bourdieu and Anthony Giddents. Series of upgrades on basic practice theory framework, with greater attention to issues of power and need to historicize anthropological work, and new perspectives on concept of culture. S/U or letter grading.