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Grounding the Global:
Anthropological Perspectives
Professor: Ieva Jusionyte
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Office Hrs: Weds 10:30-11:30 &
Thurs 2-3pm in Tozzer 216
TF: Shuang Lu
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Office Hrs: Tues 2-4 in Tozzer 315
9/28 Lecture outline
Module I: Political Anthropology
Case study: Migration and the U.S.-Mexico border
• Q&A with Jason de León
• Continue the topic of migration:
o “Migration-specific capital” (Bourdieu; economic, social, cultural and
symbolic capital)
o Anti-immigrant laws: 287(g), Arizona’s SB 1070, “Secure Communities”,
Operation Streamline)
o Media portrayals of migration (word choice, metaphors)
• Written assignment #1 due Friday, September 30
• "The magazine covers
serve, in this way, as a
finger on the pulse beat of
America's concern with
immigration, a concern that
is often at odds with itself."
(82-83)
https://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2014/08/16/saturday-stat-the-invention-of-the-illegal-immigrant/
http://ideas.time.com/2012/09/21/immigration-debate-the-problem-with-the-word-illegal/
http://www.cc.com/video-clips/82ovjs/the-colbert-report-jose-antonio-vargas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzEUHF1KPY8
Next class 
MODULE II
Medical & Urban Anthropology: Injury and Survival in Inner-City Chicago
10/5Urban poverty, abandonment, development
Required readings:
•Laurence Ralph, 2014. Renegade Dreams: Living Through Injury in Gangland
Chicago. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Part I)
•Paul Farmer, 2004. “An Anthropology of Structural Violence.” Current
Anthropology 45(3): 305–325.
Q&A with Laurence Ralph