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The Anthropology of Politics: Persuasion and Power

Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States21A.506
Free, no sign-up neededSpring 2019English
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This course introduces the ethnographic study of politics, i.e., what anthropologists understand to be “political” in various social and economic systems, from small-scale societies to liberal democratic states. It examines politics across three contemporary contexts: electoral politics, public spheres, bureaucracies and humanitarian governance.

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