Course Catalog - 2006-2007

     

ANTH 321 - TEXT AS PROPERTY

Long Title: TEXT AS PROPERTY, PROPERTY AS TEXT: ACROSS THE AGES
Department: Anthropology
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: Examines forms and norms of authorship and ownership from antiquity to the present. What is an author? Is a text public or private property? What are the licit/illicit forms of rewriting and appropriating a text, and how are those forms defined? This class investigates historically these and other issues. Cross-list: CLAS 311.
Course URL: http://www.smatter.rice.edu/321/