Course Schedule - Fall Semester 2023

     

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ANTH 548 001 (CRN: 15237)

ANTHROPOLOGIES OF NATURE

Long Title: ANTHROPOLOGIES OF NATURE
Department: Anthropology
Instructor: Howe, Cymene
Meeting: 4:00PM - 6:30PM W (21-AUG-2023 - 1-DEC-2023) 
Part of Term: Full Term
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Language of Instruction: Taught in English
Method of Instruction: Face to Face
Credit Hours: 3
Course Syllabus:
Course Materials: Rice Campus Store
 
Restrictions:
Must be enrolled in one of the following Level(s):
Graduate
Section Max Enrollment: 10
Section Enrolled: 9
Total Cross-list Max Enrollment: 20
Total Cross-list Enrolled: 17
Enrollment data as of: 8-DEC-2024 3:34AM
 
Additional Fees: None
 
Final Exam: GR Course-Dept Schedules Exam
 
Description: This class examines the uses and makings of nature in accounts of the human and post-human. It introduces students to nature as an object of study, as an analytic and as a heuristic. Some of the topics the course explores include the nature-culture dyad, nature as resource, science and technology and the remaking of nature, economies of nature, materiality, nature and kinship, and natural ontologies. Cross-list: ANTH 348. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 548 if student has credit for ANTH 348.