This course uses the lens of anthropology to examine how socio-political concepts (development, infrastructures, Caste systems, and Indigenous communities, etc.) create and maintain systems of inequality. The objectives of this course are to familiarize students, through ethnographies and case studies, with the ways anthropologists and other social scientists use data, methods, concepts, and theories to gain a critical understanding of inequality, and the ways social scientific categories contribute to the creation and maintenance of social boundaries. Students can expect to gain theoretical and empirical understandings of contemporary and historical forms of inequality, and an appreciation for how global forces shape inequality differently across time and space.
Course Attributes: EN S; AS SSC; AS SC
