ANTH 270
Object and Place/Memory and Nation Spring 2014
Division II Exploring Diversity Initiative
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This course explores the role of object and place in the creation and perpetuation of national identity. In particular, we will consider the role of monuments, battlefields, museums, and various ‘sacred’ sites in inculcating a sense of shared origins, values, commitments, and ultimate ends. Using a variety of key theoretical texts (including Benedict Anderson’s Imagined Communities and Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger’s The Invention of Tradition) and maintaining a focus on two countries — Afghanistan and the Czech Republic — with long and painful histories of foreign invasion and occupation, the EDI course focuses on the ways in which people orient themselves within the symbolic worlds they inherit and how they negotiate tragedies of circumstance.
The Class: Format: seminar
Limit: 24
Expected: 24
Class#: 3200
Grading: yes pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: two essays, an in-class presentation, and a take-home exam
Prerequisites: none
Enrollment Preferences: 1) ANSO majors; 2) students who have taken one or more ANSO courses
Distributions: Division II Exploring Diversity Initiative

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