Course Details
Country:
South Africa
Institution:
University of the Witwatersrand
Course Title:
Anthropology of Material Culture
Course Number:
ANTH3008A (S1)
Course Description:
The course explores the varied cultural means by which people attribute significance (or “value”) to the world of objects. Anchored in antropology, but drawing upon an interdisciplinary body of theory, including semiotics, psychoanalysis, art criticism, cultural studies, feminist theory and science studies, the course pursues a set of closly interlinked problems concerned with the culturally situated desire that people feel to create, possess, classify, collect, exchange, consume, display or venerate ‘things’ of various kinds. The course also examines ways in which circulation of objects serve to establish, sustain, and transform social and political relationships in diverse historical and ethnographic contexts.
Language:
English
Approved Equivalent:
ANTH 396
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