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The Problems of Cultural Anthropology [Durham, NC]
**This course is in-person only. There is no virtual component. Participants must be age 21+
Full Tuition: $340 — Sliding-scale tuition options are available in the drop-down enrollment menu for you to self-select. To pay in installments, choose to pay with PayPal or Klarna at check out.
Instructor: Leigh Campoamor | 5-weeks | Wednesdays | January 14-February 11 | 7:00-9:00 PM ET | 719 N Mangum St., Durham, NC
Cultural anthropology studies human societies, elucidating the connections between people’s everyday lives and broader social and cultural systems. It requires that we ask ourselves how we know what we know and offers a way of thinking about the world. But cultural anthropology also has problems: problems as in questions that it grapples with, and also problems that plague it as a discipline. As anthropologists have traveled the world asking questions about culture and shared humanity, they’ve also been guilty of creating stereotypes about “primitives,” ignoring situated histories, and collaborating with Empire.
This course will introduce you to the histories, theories and debates of cultural anthropology through some of its key texts by anthropologists such as Claude Levi-Strauss, Bronislaw Malinowski, Margaret Mead, and Zora Neale Hurston. We will also explore the discipline's engagement with other areas of study, such as Marxism, intersectional feminism, and even biology. What is culture and how does it change? What do socially constructed binaries such as universal/particular, modern/traditional, man/woman, and mind/body tell us about the ways power operates in and through our lives? What assumptions are built into anthropological methods and how do they perpetuate the very power dynamics that anthropologists problematize? And what happens when anthropological knowledge is taken up by the US military or by marketing companies? Together we will learn from anthropologists and from the ways people have pushed back against anthropology.
This course should be of interest to people with or without previous experience in anthropology.
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SLIDING SCALE TUITION
Full tuition is the cost per-student of running the class. If you choose a tier below full tuition, you are receiving a discount. If you choose to make a donation in addition to full tuition, you are helping to cover the cost for students who are not able to pay the full amount.
The mid-level tier is a discounted rate for people whose household income is at or above living wage but who have limited discretionary income.
The low-level tier and the full-scholarship tier are for people whose household income is below living wage or who need extra assistance to meet their needs.
SCHOLARSHIPS
Through our fundraising efforts, we are able to offer three full scholarships per class. The full-scholarship tier is a nonrefundable offering. Each student may only take one full-scholarship class at a time. Because our scholarship funding is limited, if a student selects multiple overlapping classes at the full-scholarship level, they will be disenrolled from all classes.
All sliding-scale and scholarship needs are self-assessed, and we will never request or require proof of need.
Please see our FAQ for more information, including installment plans, refund policy, and sick and inclement weather policy.
**This course is in-person only. There is no virtual component. Participants must be age 21+
Full Tuition: $340 — Sliding-scale tuition options are available in the drop-down enrollment menu for you to self-select. To pay in installments, choose to pay with PayPal or Klarna at check out.
Instructor: Leigh Campoamor | 5-weeks | Wednesdays | January 14-February 11 | 7:00-9:00 PM ET | 719 N Mangum St., Durham, NC
Cultural anthropology studies human societies, elucidating the connections between people’s everyday lives and broader social and cultural systems. It requires that we ask ourselves how we know what we know and offers a way of thinking about the world. But cultural anthropology also has problems: problems as in questions that it grapples with, and also problems that plague it as a discipline. As anthropologists have traveled the world asking questions about culture and shared humanity, they’ve also been guilty of creating stereotypes about “primitives,” ignoring situated histories, and collaborating with Empire.
This course will introduce you to the histories, theories and debates of cultural anthropology through some of its key texts by anthropologists such as Claude Levi-Strauss, Bronislaw Malinowski, Margaret Mead, and Zora Neale Hurston. We will also explore the discipline's engagement with other areas of study, such as Marxism, intersectional feminism, and even biology. What is culture and how does it change? What do socially constructed binaries such as universal/particular, modern/traditional, man/woman, and mind/body tell us about the ways power operates in and through our lives? What assumptions are built into anthropological methods and how do they perpetuate the very power dynamics that anthropologists problematize? And what happens when anthropological knowledge is taken up by the US military or by marketing companies? Together we will learn from anthropologists and from the ways people have pushed back against anthropology.
This course should be of interest to people with or without previous experience in anthropology.
—
SLIDING SCALE TUITION
Full tuition is the cost per-student of running the class. If you choose a tier below full tuition, you are receiving a discount. If you choose to make a donation in addition to full tuition, you are helping to cover the cost for students who are not able to pay the full amount.
The mid-level tier is a discounted rate for people whose household income is at or above living wage but who have limited discretionary income.
The low-level tier and the full-scholarship tier are for people whose household income is below living wage or who need extra assistance to meet their needs.
SCHOLARSHIPS
Through our fundraising efforts, we are able to offer three full scholarships per class. The full-scholarship tier is a nonrefundable offering. Each student may only take one full-scholarship class at a time. Because our scholarship funding is limited, if a student selects multiple overlapping classes at the full-scholarship level, they will be disenrolled from all classes.
All sliding-scale and scholarship needs are self-assessed, and we will never request or require proof of need.
Please see our FAQ for more information, including installment plans, refund policy, and sick and inclement weather policy.