KEY CONCEPTS:
Change Culture Identity Power Social Relations Symbolism |
Inquiry Specific Topics:
Boundaries Exclusion Globalization Inclusion Liminality Movement Time Space |
Suggested Topics:
Local and global movements: migration- internal, transnational, tourism, cosmopolitanism Social Construction of Space and Boundaries- space and place, ethnic/religious/gendered identitied, politics of difference, politics of identity and cultural heritage. Disjuncture: "immagined communities", diasporas, virtual communities, compression of space/time Exploration of TIME: memory, cultural heritage, places of memory, memory and history, revitalization movements, reinvention of culture and place The FUTURE: utopias, millennial movement, science, virtual communitites |
THE BIG QUESTIONS:
What is culture? What does it mean to be a person? What does it mean to live in society? |
Doing ANTHRO:
How does the ethnographer learn to experience time and space differently in the new culture? Is there any methodological differences between doing fieldwork in a traditional context and a virtual world? How does the inclusion of gender, ethnicity, or power contribute how we understand social space today? How can one study time and space in ritual? |
THEORIES: Conflict Theory Globalization Theories Feminist Theories: Feminist Political Theory (private/public spheres) Neo-Marxism Phenomenology Post-colonial Theories |