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Instead of the notion of spatially bounded cultures, this course takes as a given that cultural difference is historically produced in shared and connected spaces, and within given fields of power relations.
Until week 8, the course will take up for discussion, a theoretical concept or building block from the anthropological repertoire that illuminates the understanding of Cultural Production. Readings will include ethnographic research and breakthroughs in the study of emotion, speech, sound, language, poetics, metaphor and memory, sexuality and gender. In subjecting such concepts to close scrutiny, we not only assess their relationship to culture per se, but also evaluate their usefulness in facilitating understandings about the production of culture. In weeks 7 and 8, theoretical insights from the field of Performance Studies will be analyzed.
Equipped with this vocabulary, the second part of the course interrogates the impact of historical developments in processes of cultural production to investigate how narratives about "common" or "shared" cultures acquire salience at particular points in time. The last four sessions of weeks 11-14, will examine specific and concrete forms of cultural production from the Indian subcontinent- myths, epics, oral and folksong genres etc. This historically contextualized evidence will seek to illuminate processes by which culture is continually reproduced as well as its logic and mechanisms. This section is designed to draw lessons for anthropological knowledge about reproduction and transmission of cultures. By activating the "cross-cultural" imagination, students learn to "read" anthropological texts to better understand the production of their own, and other cultures.