Course Details
Country:
Hong Kong
Institution:
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Course Title:
The Anthropology of the Body, Love and Emotions
Course Number:
ANTH 3360
Course Description:
his course explores the relations between the body, love, and emotions from an anthropological perspective. People acquire a special sense of presence, knowledge, and power from the brute fact of their bodies as sentient, sensuous, instinctual, habitual, feeling, and erotic organisms. At the same time, this special presence has made the materiality of the body a contested site for representational practices and politics in which love and emotions have figured centrally. Through an ethnographic focus on cross-cultural studies of love and emotions, this course seeks to juxtapose and reconcile the body's manifold facets as materiality and representation, subject and object.
Language:
English
Approved Equivalent:
ANTH 399
Attachment Files:
The Anthropology of the Body, Love and Emotions.pdf
