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May 29, 2026
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ANTH 412 - Ethnographies of Trauma3 Credit Hours
The concept of trauma has played a central role in many public discussions, especially those having to do with violence and suffering. With psychoanalytic roots, various political uses, connections to language and memory, and steeped in narratives of pain and suffering, trauma is something around and about which anthropologists consistently write. In this course, we will investigate trauma ethnographically, studying the ways in which the concept has been approached and written about (sometimes the ways in which as a concept/word it is left out although we might have expected it), and what this tells us about the human condition, politics, power, and life-worlds today. This course is a foray into psychological anthropology, making sense of the space and connections between collective social life and personal/emotional/psychic experience.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): ANTH 130* .
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