ANTH.F23

How are politics and culture related? How are our everyday social lives infused with politics and power in ways that we might take for granted? This course explores politics anthropologically. Drawing on both classic and contemporary ethnographic studies from the U.S. and around the world, we will examine how social and cultural frameworks help us understand politics in new ways. We will investigate how people perceive the meanings and effects of the state; how nationalism and citizenship shape belonging on the one hand, and exclusion on the other; how understandings of gender, race, and difference converge with political action, ideology, and power; and how we can learn to recognize some of the ways that power shapes our everyday lives.