ANT 3645 - Anthropology of Violence (3)

When Offered: On Demand
This course introduces students to anthropological perspectives on violence in human communities, as it manifests in interpersonal, collective, symbolic, economic, and structural relations. We survey anthropological literature on the earliest evidence of human collectivity, the invention of sacrifice as a religious practice, the varied expressions of violence that have accompanied different forms of social organization, and contemporary debates regarding ethics and approaches to ethnographic research on matters of violence, trauma, mourning, sovereignty, justice, and death.