College Bulletin 2015-2016 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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ANTH 041B. Visions of Latin America
This course is premised on the idea that the forms of a population’s political domination depend upon how that population is envisioned-i.e., upon the visual techniques of knowledge/power that make possible the orderly administration of society, as well as upon the cultural imaginaries that shape social desires and fears. Beginning with historical accounts of the cataclysmic encounter between the Spanish Empire and the peoples of the New World, this course will survey the visual technologies through which the Holy Roman Empire and the later Latin American republics attended to their subjects, as well as the colonial and post-colonial fantasies that have haunted Latin America over the past five hundred years.
Social sciences.
1 credit.
Eligible for LALS
Catalog chapter: Sociology and Anthropology
Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/sociology-anthropology
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