| Course Title: Special Topics in Anthropology: 'Craft and Composition: Experimental Ethnography' |
| Start Date: 09/04/2024 End Date: 12/17/2024 |
| Term: Fall Semester 2024 |
| Description: Above all else, ethnography is a form of writing. Its formal properties range widely, running a gamut that transects art criticism, speculative fiction, travel writing, memoir, science writing, and poetry. But the genre's soul is an imaginative experiment: transporting one world into another. Ethnographers, then, share practices of representation and evocation with the arts. This course introduces the craft of imaginative ethnography, paying central attention to writing that refuses the (social) sciences' stodgy conventions. We will reflect on experiential shapes of reading -- what does ethnography do for or to us? -- as we recompose ourselves as a collective of ethnographic experimentalists. |
| Distribution(s): III - Social Sciences , MP - Multicultural Perspectives , WI - Writing-Intensive , TP - Topics Course |
| Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate | Credits:4.00 |
| Faculty | Phone | Email address |
| Matthew Watson | mcwatson@mtholyoke.edu |
| Meeting Dates | Method | Meeting days | Meeting times | Building name | Room | Frequency |
| 09/04/2024 - 12/17/2024 | Seminar | Thursday | 01:30PM - 04:20PM | PORT - Porter Hall | 108 | Weekly |
| Requisite Courses | ||
| Prereq: 8 credits in Anthropology. | Take previously | Required |
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| Cross-listed Sections |
| None |
| Course Availability | ||||
| Section status: Open | Capacity: 15 | Enrollment: 11 | Available: 4 | Waitlist: 0 |
BOOK INFORMATION
| Book List | Required | Publisher Full Price |
| Title: Ordinary Affects Author: Stewart, Kathleen Copyright: Edition: Volume: ISBN: 0822341077 Publisher: Duke University Press |
Required | 19.95 |
| Title: Alive in the Writing: Crafting Ethnography in the Company of Chekhov Author: Narayan, Kirin Copyright: 2012 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9780226568195 Publisher: University of Chicago Press |
Required | 26.00 |
| Title: Where the North Sea Touches Alabama Author: Shelton, Allen C. Copyright: 2013 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9780226073224 Publisher: University of Chicago Press |
Required | 26.00 |
| Title: The Day of Shelly's Death Author: Rosaldo, Renato Copyright: 2014 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9780822356615 Publisher: Duke University Press |
Required | 24.95 |
| Additional Book Comments |
| This is the complete book list for this class. |