Course Language:
English
Course Objectives:
The aim of this course is to survey the literature on culture and gender in anthropology and to consider the shifts in thinking about gender. It asks the question, for example, how anthropology approached to sex and gender, what “women’s anthropology” means and differs from mainstream anthropology, and in what dimensions and capacity the feminist anthropology is different from conventional anthropology and so on.
Course Content:
As an analytical category, the term “gender” became a key concept in social sciences starting in the 1960s, replacing the term “woman.” This shift aimed at discerning the realm of the biological and that of cultural. Throughout the course, we consider examples based fieldwork elucidating epistemology, praxis, and textual representation in/of sex and gender and power in different cultures. Throughout the course, students will be asked to be prepared for the discussion of weekly readings and to deliver short weekly papers.
Course Methodology:
1: Lecture, 2: Question-Answer, 3: Discussion
Course Evaluation Methods:
A: Testing, C: Homework