TuTh 2:30-3:45pm
meets with another section of ANTH-E 300

This course will provide an introduction to the history and
ethnography of colonial and post-colonial African societies. Recent
media and scholarly attention has focused on the African continent
as a locus of humanitarian and political emergency. But in what ways
does undue attention to crisis limit our analytical perspective? In
this course, we will come to understand the historical and cultural
conditions underpinning current predicaments facing African
societies. Students will be asked to think both critically and
comparatively about the analysis of human institutions such as
kinship and politics, markets and migration, religious practices,
race, gender and diaspora.