Core Seminar: Linguistic Anthropology

Survey of recent full-length ethnographic works in linguistic anthropology to engage with methods, practices, topics, and central theoretical frameworks being used across subfield. Consideration of texts’ relationship to works in other subfields, related disciplines, and prior approaches to understanding interplay between language, context, and culture. Consideration also of ethnographic writing as genre, and critical engagement with ways that authors present data, marshal theory, and present arguments within book format. This provides means of characterizing very different generic expectations for dissertation writing within anthropology, allowing for additional professionalization component.

Letter grading.