ANT 257 - Topics: Bodies in a Global Perspective (1)

This course examines the lived experiences and social, cultural, and political conceptions of the body in different historical periods and in different cultures around the globe–including within the emerging spaces and imaginings of a ‘globalized’ world. We will consider symbolic aspects of performance and presentation through the body; social and political regulation of bodies, the negotiation of the self within various social conditions, contexts, and ideologies; and the relationship of bodies to gender, class, race/ethnicity, and nationalism. Special attention will be given to how the body has been constructed (and continues to be constituted) as a spiritual, medical, legal, and political object, and how some bodies and the people inhabiting them are labelled as ‘deviant’ or ‘dangerous’ subjects. This course examines how culture is lived through individual bodies who are part of communities with their own unique histories, embedded in places with their own specific qualities.

This course may count toward the SOC/SAN/ANT majors. Prerequisite: One of the following: ANT 101 , SOC 101 , ANT 312 , or SOC 369  
(Social Science)