Domains associated with Maximilian Forte

Welcome to all new seminar participants, for what is the fifth in a series of consecutive annual offerings for "New Directions in Anthropological Research" by Maximilian Forte. The focus this year will be squarely on issues of "academic imperialism" and the development of Canadian Anthropology. Incoming students should prepare for the first session (Wednesday, September…

Fall semester, 2016 03 credits Classes: September 7 – November 30, 2016 Meeting days and times: Wednesdays: 1:15pm—4:00pm Campus: SGW, MB 2.255 (please reconfirm before coming to the first class) PDF copy of the Course Syllabus 1. A Brief Introduction Up until the 1950s, political anthropology was preoccupied with politics in non-Western societies, typically focusing…

Turning and turning in the widening gyre | The falcon cannot hear the falconer | Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold | Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world | The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere | The ceremony of innocence is drowned | The best lack all conviction, while the worst | Are full of passionate intensity. -- W.B. Yeats, The Second Coming