ANTHR
604
Historical Anthropology
Hours
3.0 Credit, 3 Lecture, 0 Lab
This course will develop students' understanding of the fundamentally historical dimensions of anthropology, both in terms of subject matter and execution. Students will be exposed to the central topics, debates, theories, and approaches of the specifically historical branches of anthropological research including expository and critical treatment of: ethnohistory; historical archaeology; primary and secondary historical research; time and temporality; myth and history; synchrony and diachrony; structure and agency; historiography; oral history; anthropology of history; and past making in different cultures and social groups.