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Anthropology

Dominic Boyer

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3.6

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Difficulty

3.5

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Courses

6

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Public profile

Research areas

Renewable energy and energopolitics; media; knowledge; digital information and epistemology; experts, professionalism, and cultures of expertise; intellectuals and identitarian movements; the politics of affect and belonging; late, post, and neosocialism.

Courses taught

ANTH 317

Revolutions And Utopias

In order to gain a more precise grasp of our contemporary political challenges and possibilities, this course in political anthropology investigates a wide range of historical and contemporary cases of rapid political and social transformation and carefully examines the ideas, desires and utopias that inspired them. Cross-list: ANTH 517. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 317 if student has credit for ANTH 517.

AnthropologyNone3 credits
3.77.3hBoyer, Dominic

ANTH 404

Independent Study

Directed reading and preparation of written papers on anthropological subjects not offered in the curriculum and advanced study of subjects on which courses are offered. Repeatable for Credit.

AnthropologyNone1-9 credits
3.86.5hBoyer, Dominic, Estrella, Amarilys, Fleisher, Jeffrey, Georges, Eugenia, Gershon, Ilana, Gunel, Gokce, Gyal, Huatse, Harris, Khadene, Howe, Cymene, Lu, Vivian, Massie, Victoria, Morgan, Molly, Prendergast, Mary, Visweswaran, Kamala

ANTH 490

Directed Honors Research

A two-semester sequence of independent research culminating in the preparation and defense of an honors thesis. Open only to candidates formally accepted into the honors program.

AnthropologyNone1-3 credits
4.16.9hBoyer, Dominic, Estrella, Amarilys, Fleisher, Jeffrey, Georges, Eugenia, Gershon, Ilana, Gunel, Gokce, Gyal, Huatse, Harris, Khadene, Howe, Cymene, Lu, Vivian, Massie, Victoria, Morgan, Molly, Prendergast, Mary, Visweswaran, Kamala

ANTH 517

Revolutions And Utopias

In order to gain a more precise grasp of our contemporary political challenges and possibilities, this course in political anthropology investigates a wide range of historical and contemporary cases of rapid political and social transformation and carefully examines the ideas, desires and utopias that inspired them. Cross-list: ANTH 317. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 517 if student has credit for ANTH 317.

AnthropologyNone3 credits
3.410.3hBoyer, Dominic

ANTH 600

Independent Study

This course is an independent study course organized between the faculty member and student, on a topic developed by them. Repeatable for Credit.

AnthropologyNone1-9 credits
4.09.4hBoyer, Dominic, Davis-Floyd, Robbie, Dominguez Rodrigo, Manuel, Estrella, Amarilys, Fleisher, Jeffrey, Georges, Eugenia, Gershon, Ilana, Gunel, Gokce, Gyal, Huatse, Harris, Khadene, Howe, Cymene, Lu, Vivian, Massie, Victoria, Prendergast, Mary, Visweswaran, Kamala

ANTH 800

Research And Thesis

Repeatable for Credit.

AnthropologyNone3-9 credits
3.410.5hBoyer, Dominic, Estrella, Amarilys, Fleisher, Jeffrey, Georges, Eugenia, Gershon, Ilana, Gunel, Gokce, Gyal, Huatse, Harris, Khadene, Howe, Cymene, Lu, Vivian, Massie, Victoria, Prendergast, Mary, Visweswaran, Kamala

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