Political Anthropology 3102-MAPO

1) Outline of the course.
2) The roots of political anthropology in early-modern and Enlightenment philosophy.
3) Marxism and evolutionism.
4) British structural-functionalism and political anthropology.
5) The Manchester school, actionism and processualism in the 1940s-1960s.
6) Colonialism and post-colonialism.
7) The 'political turn' in anthropology after 1968. Michel Foucault's influence on political anthropology.
8) Modernization theory, the world-systems paradigm, and political anthropology.
9) Domination and resistance in political anthropology in the 1980s-1990s.
10) The anthropology of socialism and post-socialism.
11) The anthropology of the state, part 1: from evolutionism to the Marxism on the 1970s.
12) The anthropology of the state, part 2: from Michel Foucault to current developments.
13) "Fragments of an anarchist anthropology."
14) Summary of the course.