Course Description

Anthropology 411F Language and Politics.

Using techniques of discourse analysis, the course focuses on the performance of persons, communities and structures as they express their positions. In so doing, it re-examines traditional analytic concepts such as law, power and hegemonic decision-making on the one side, and agency, identity, community, and representation on the other.

Antirequisite: Political Science 411F

Prerequisite: Fourth year Honours standing in Anthropology, or permission of the department.

2 lecture hours, 1 laboratory hour. Half course.

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