The Making of Modern Brazil: a Transnational Perspective
ANTHRO 1782
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Description
Through transnational, comparative, and theoretical lenses, this seminar analyzes the crucial historical and cultural processes that shaped Brazil's emergence as a modern nation. It examines how global circulations of people, capital, ideas, and cultural forms have influenced Brazilian modernity from the nineteenth century to the present. Key dimensions will be analyzed, including images and self-representations, race and diaspora, regionalism and the revival of tradition, urbanization and violence, popular culture, money and consumption, and international circulation of cultural forms. Readings draw from anthropology, sociology, history, and cultural studies, emphasizing ethnographic and theoretical debates relevant to Latin America and beyond.
Class Notes
The instructor for this course will be Professor Ruben Oliven.
Available for Harvard Cross Registration
