3 credits
General Course Description: Exemplary fieldwork-based monographs in cultural anthropology, with an emphasis on most recent ones. Ethnography as text; ethnography as cultural description, inscription, interpretation, and criticism; ethnography as theory-laden versus ethnography as data for theorizing. Prerequisite: 01:070:101 or permission of instructor.
Spring 2024 subtitle: The War-Clinic
Description:
This course explores the relationship between war and medicine through focusing on recent ethnographic writings on the context of modern warfare. It centers on the transformation of the role of hospitals in both military and civilian settings, through placing an special emphasis on the “war-clinic” as a focal point for understanding the impact of warfare on healthcare and public health. The course explores the challenges faced by patients and healthcare professionals as they navigate war and its aftermath. Through the examination of case studies and theoretical frameworks, participants will cultivate a nuanced understanding of the historical and socio-cultural dimensions of health and humanitarian crises in conflict zones.

- Explore the historical and anthropological links between modern warfare and healthcare transformation.
- Focus on the role of the clinic as barometers of changing war dynamics, and understand the impact of conflict on healthcare and public health.
- Uncover the challenges faced by patients, healthcare providers, and humanitarian workers during wartime.
- Engage with critical ethnographic works, case studies, and theoretical frameworks to grasp the socio-cultural dimensions of health in conflict zones.
- Gain insights into the critical intersection of the anthropology of war, medicine, and global health.

pdf 318 Dewachi Reading Ethnography flyer (1) (820 KB)

Most Recent Syllabus - spring 2016
document RAU 318 Reading ethno writ Sp2016 (593 KB)