Historical and critical in-depth analysis of the contributions and limitations of the notion of 'culture' in anthropology revolving around major issues in the discipline: identity transformations; decolonization; socio-economic upheavals and migration; global dynamics and problems of pluralism; multiculturalism and interculturalism.
Course Component: Lecture Prerequisite: 9 course units in anthropology (ANT) or 54 university course units. The study of personhood, the self, and identity as historically specific concepts, and the emotions as culturally determined. Transcultural psychiatry and ethnopsychology as questioning ideas of pathological and abnormal behaviours.
Critical overview of anthropological engagements with Indigenous Peoples in Canada and elsewhere. Examination of the legacies and current operations of colonialism, and Indigenous Peoples' resistance and survivance, as both central to anthropological inquiries of Indigenous worlds.
Anthropological perspectives on all aspects of museums, including issues relating to their operation, their collections, their expositions, their place in society, and questions of repatriation. The role played by museums in national identities and public memory. Case studies will combine theory and fieldwork.