ANTH 425 Power and Change
Fall 2011
Nov. 10: Is terrorism overdone? Read: Mahmood, Cynthia (2001) "Terrorism, myth and the power of ethnographic praxis." Journal of Contemporary Ethnography. 30(5): 520-545.
- what is her argument?
- what is "terrorism" and why is it so important to understand how it is defined by a state?
- how do the practices by state institutions to deal with "terrorist" suspects relate to what we discussed last class about dehumanizing a group of people?
- what is the role of the anthropologist?