ANTH 6520 - Anthropology of Public Culture

4 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: Anth 2020 or consent of instructor.
Description
The circulation of commodities, ideas, and practices that produce the condition of being public (and in public) as well as the notion and experience of privacy. Analyzes the production and usage of public and private space (e.g. plazas, malls, homes), museum displays, the social life of commodities (e.g. fashion, antiquities, collectibles), and the role of theatricality in everyday life.