ANTH 3614 - Representing the Middle East

1 Course Unit(s)
A critical examination of the historical, cultural and social complexity of the Middle East, organized around introductory articles on knowledge production followed by full-length\ ethnographic texts. Emphasis will be placed on the politics of representation and the anthropological challenges to area studies. Topics studied will include secularism, democracy, violence, gender, neoliberalism and globalization.

General Education Requirement(s): Cultural Traditions: Non-Western or Upper-level Liberal Arts
Prerequisite(s): None
Corequisite(s): None
Pre/Corequisite(s): None