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| 1041-3581-01 | Between Jews and Anthropologists | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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University credit hours: 3.0
Course description
The anthropology of Jews' as a disciplinary sub-field has been historically marginalized to the extent that the question of whether anthropology 'suffers from a Jewish problem' has been explicitly raised. Only in the last three decades we witnessed the emergence of a rich ethnographic engagement with Jewish life and the consolidation of an academic interest in Jews as ethnographic subjects. This course offers an historiographic reading of anthropology and its developments through the angle of 'the Jewish question', as well as a close exploration of the ethnographic perspectives on Jews, through both reading and watching Jewish ethnographies. Class
requirements: active participation in class discussions, reading throughout the semester, referat and a term paper .