UTexas

Search Results

ANT 325E ANT 325E. Ethnographies of Emotion. 3 Hours.

Examine concepts such as place, character, objects, subjects, cultural forms, everyday life, and feeling states or structures such as trauma, love, hope, depression, the even keel, and melodrama through a writing workshop. Explore how to articulate structures of feeling with models of culture and the self. Analyze and experiment with modes of ethnographic attention, the importance of telling detail, and methods of participant observation. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Anthropology 325E and 325L (Topic 18) may not both be counted. Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.