Core courses

Anthropology and Cultural Politics
This course focuses on the anthropological concern with representation in both the artistic and political senses of the term. It will cover such concerns as consumption, fetishism, and material culture, use of art and artistic representations and imagination in social movements, as well as in the art world, theories of narrative and their relation to political action, the nature of hierarchy, magic, labour, and the imagination.

Anthropological Theory
This course introduces students to the major subfields of modern anthropology in a historical and comparative framework, providing an historical grounding in the interplay between various overlapping theoretical orientations within modern anthropology.