AN376

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Culture and Power: Political Anthropology

Anthropology Colorado College

Course Subject Code

AN

Course Number

376

Course Long Title

Culture and Power: Political Anthropology

Status

Active

Division

Social Sciences

Department

Unit(s)

1

Schedule Type

Block Seminar

Instruction Mode

Traditional

Grade Modes

Letter Grades, S/CR/NC, Audit

Course Attributes

CPGS

Course Description

A comparative, holistic study of formal and informal politics in diverse societies. The course focuses on three major themes: examining diverse political systems with emphasis on the emergence of the state; the relationship between power, ideology, and symbolic systems; power and controlling processes, with special attention to dominance, hegemony and resistance. Emphasis on full-length ethnographies.

Courses

AN376 is a prerequisite for:

Required Requisites

One previous cultural anthropology course or consent of instructor.