Anthropology
ANTH 196X Medicines for the Soul
Examines the soul as an act of being, as motion, and as a figure that comes to stand between immaterial and material, psyche and body, memory and imagination, life and death, madness and prophecy—all in order to consider larger anthropological questions of cultural and historical transmission. Course explores descriptions of the soul as found in early 20th century anthropological and ethnographic texts and its reappearance in psychology and psychological anthropology and, too, its haunting absence in contemporary anthropological texts.