ANTH 325 Anthropology of the Self

3 credits · Anthropology · Faculty of Arts · Not scheduled for 2026–2027

A review of the anthropological problematization of the self. The course examines ethnographically how illness, mental illness, pharmaceuticals, psychoanalysis, possession, death, violence and colonization disrupt our commonsense notions of the self and its relation to the other.

Prerequisite courses: ANTH 202, ANTH 227

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