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Campus | Haverford |
Semester | Spring 2024 |
Registration ID | ANTHH335B001 |
Course Title | The Anthropology of Ecstasy: Psyche, Soma, and the Out-of-Body |
Credit | 1.00 |
Department | Anthropology |
Instructor | D'Arcy,Michael |
Times and Days | W 01:30pm-03:55pm
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Room Location | STO102 |
Additional Course Info | Class Number: 1776 How should contemporary anthropology understand trance, possession, and ecstatic experience? Through course readings, we will interrogate normative understandings of the relationship between mind, body, and collective life via a range of classical and contemporary anthropological texts. Drawing upon diverse theoretical paradigms such as symbolic and structural anthropology, psychoanalysis, and phenomenology, we will explore the ways in which individual engagements with collective life act directly upon and constitute this mind/body interface, at times destabilizing it altogether.; Crosslisted: HLTH.; Pre-requisite(s): 200 level course in the social sciences; Lottery Preference: I would prefer students who are majoring in anthropology and/or health studies be given preference.; Enrollment Limit: 15.00 Social Science, B: Analysis of the Social World (; Hav: SO, B) |
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