Course Info: CSI-0276
| Course | CSI-0276 Daily Life in Palestine |
| Long Title | Daily Life in Palestine: ethnography, oral history, and literature |
| Term | 2024F |
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Instructor Permission Required Textbook information |
| Meeting Info | Franklin Patterson Hall 102 on T from 6:00-8:50 |
| Faculty | Nathalie Arnold |
| Capacity | 25 |
| Available | 3 |
| Waitlist | 0 |
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| Additional Info | The content of this course deals with issues of race and power Students should expect to spend 8 hours weekly on work and preparation outside of class time |
| Description | This course asks what "daily life" has meant and means in Palestine today. Centering work by diverse Palestinians, we will engage: accounts of village and urban life in Palestine before 1948, ethnographies and oral histories of the Nakba, and studies of ecology, cuisine, identity, and struggle in the past and today, as well as contemporary literature by Palestinian writers and poets. In addition to submitting weekly responses to our readings, members will collaborate on an ongoing class 'glossary' and resource collection. Major assignments include a group presentation on a work of Palestinian literature and and an independent presentation on the work of Palestinian scholars of students' choice. This course addresses issues of race and power. Keywords: Middle East, Palestine, anthropology, ethnography, literature. |