Ethnography, Evidence and Experience

This course introduces students to ethnographic engagements with some of anthropology's abiding concerns: relationality, solidarity, ethics, the everyday, agency, identity, labor, value, power, coloniality, and more. We will attend to relations -- among social actors, institutions, and orders of value. We will examine identity -- as experience, creativity, ethical becoming, political struggle, and more. Throughout, we will acquire tools to theorize social experience, develop new approaches to power, memory, evidence, and history, and probe the potentials for decolonial and anticolonial scholarship.