ANTH 295G
Spring 2025
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01
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This course inquiries into the process of semiosis and traces the parallel developments of anthropology and the study of signs, symbols, and how we use language--or language uses us--to make sense of the world. As we move through the foundations of North American anthropology and the then-nascent interest in languages of Turtle Island, and the problematic invention of the category of the primitive, we will also begin to understand the development of structural linguistics around the same time and what led to the differential emergence of social and eventually symbolic and structural anthropology across the Atlantic. As anthropology began to take an interest in the language of the unconscious, social and otherwise, we will look toward how a post-structural approach to anthropology offered a radical new turn in the discipline. We will conclude by questioning if semiosis still poses a radical horizon here not there, now not then. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS ANTH |
| Course Format: Lecture / Discussion | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: ANTH101 |
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Fulfills a Major Requirement for: (ANTH) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: Not Available |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
TBD
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Examinations and Assignments:
Two take-home exams and weekly journal entries. |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
Students must attend the first day of class or will be disenrolled. |
| Instructor(s): Bajalia,A. George Times: ....R.. 01:20PM-04:10PM; Location: TBA |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 15 | | SR major: 7 | JR major: 8 | | |
| Seats Available: 15 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: X | JR non-major: X | SO: X | FR: X |
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