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| Campus | Bryn Mawr |
| Semester | Spring 2023 |
| Registration ID | INSTB315001 |
| Course Title | Humans & Non-Humans |
| Credit | 1.00 |
| Department | Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies |
| Instructor | Carby Denning,Nicholas |
| Times and Days | Th 01:10pm-03:30pm
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| Room Location | TAYD |
| Additional Course Info | Class Number: 2648 Anthropology is the study of humans, but the idea of the “human” always implies the category of the “non-human.” Humanity is defined in its relation to “non-humans”: ranging from tools and technology, to domesticated (and undomesticated) animals, to agricultural crops, our local ecologies, and the global environment. What does it mean to be human? What is the agency of non-humans in human worlds? Do forests think? Do dogs dream? What is the agency of a mountain? What are the rights of a river? What is the cultural significance of DNA? This course will trace Anthropological debates over the “human” and “non-human” in contexts ranging from Amerindian cosmology, to political ecology, and science and technology studies. |
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