ANTHR-313 Gender, Language, and Piety in the Arab World
This is an upper-level linguistic anthropology course of the Arab World, and, hence, focuses on language as the modality through which inhabitants of Arabic speaking countries constitute themselves as gendered, pious or secular subjects. The course explores diverse Arabic language varieties and registers as they coexist and reveal ideologies of power, religion, and gender. Readings include a selection of seminal theoretical work and a series of long and short ethnographies across the Arabic speaking world. In addition to the readings and other course material, students will have multiple individual and collaborative opportunities to engage with and analyze linguistic data, especially as they are deployed to signal intimacy, autonomy, piety, and gendered subjectivities in the region.
Seminar (12)
Credits
1
Cross Listed Courses
LING-313
Prerequisite
LING-113 or consent of instructor