ANTH 5510 - Political Anthropology

• Students will be able to explain how social order and constellations of power are created without coercion, formal government institutions or the use of a codified legal system.
• Students will be able to critically assess how leaders and political groups build and maintain forms of power and how cultural orders and ideas are manipulated for political purposes.
• Students will be able to explain and compare how small-scale groups, societies, and states are shaped by more powerful groups, societies, and states.
• Students will be able to articulate and critique prevailing theories of political power, political violence, and political resistance.
• Students will be able to empathetically describe how cultural, political and economic processes lead to inequalities and injustices.
• Students will be able to describe their own preconceived notions about structural violence and systemic inequality and compare their own experiences with those of marginalized peoples.
• Students will be able to demonstrate, through verbal and non-verbal communications, curiosity and openness for peoples whose lives are shaped by political violence.
• Students will be able to describe how individuals and groups can advance group goals, forms of democratic governance and human rights through creative thought and action.
• Students will be able to produce a significant academic paper written in accordance with disciplinary expectations for argumentation, analysis, and scholarly citational practice.