ANTH 289 - Monsoon Worlds: Afro-Asian Embodiments, Memories, and Relations

Semester Offered: Spring
1 unit(s)

(Same as AFRS 289 and POLI 289) In this intensive, we examine encounters between African and Asian worlds that precede and exceed contemporary geopolitical, disciplinary, and Eurocentric frames of history and analysis. Thinking with and through monsoon worlds, we explore transregional connections and encounters in the Swahili Seas and Indian Ocean worlds that defy easy categorization of Africa and Asia, making meaning of their encounters, cosmopolitan entanglements, and cultural relations in ways that reveal other ways of knowing, relating, and belonging.

This co-taught interdisciplinary intensive includes guest lectures and workshops by Indian Ocean scholars, artists, and writers. Samson Opondo, Candice Lowe Swift.

Two 75-minute periods.

Course Format: INT