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Fall 2013 Anthropology V3947 section 001 TEXT, MAGIC, PERFORMANCE | |
| Call Number | 28978 |
| Day & Time Location |
W 2:10pm-4:00pm To be announced |
| Points | 4 |
| Approvals Required | Instructor |
| Instructor | John Pemberton |
| Type | COLLOQUIA |
| Course Description | Prerequisites: the instructor's permission. This course pursues interconnections linking text and performance in light of magic, ritual, possession, narration, and related articulations of power. Readings are drawn from classic theoretical writings, colonial fiction, and ethnographic accounts. Domains of inquiry include: spirit possession, trance states, séance, witchcraft, ritual performance, and related realms of cinematic projection, musical form, shadow theater, performative objects, and (other) things that move on their own, compellingly. Key theoretical concerns are subjectivity--particularly, the conjuring up and displacement of self in the form of the first-person singular "I"--and the haunting power of repetition. Retraced throughout the course are the uncanny shadows of a fully possessed subject. |
| Web Site | CourseWorks |
| Department | Anthropology |
| Enrollment | 57 students as of 11:25PM Tuesday, June 18, 2013 |
| Subject | Anthropology |
| Number | V3947 |
| Section | 001 |
| Division | Interschool |
| Open To | Columbia College, Engineering and Applied Science, General Studies, School of Continuing Education, Barnard |
| Campus | Morningside |
| Section key | 20133ANTH3947V001 |
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