Anthropology
Graduate Seminar
F 2:10-4PM
Relations between AIDS activists and AIDS artists in challenging Western theories of immunology and immune suppression. Critique of linkages between LGBTQ communities and the pharmaceutical industry. Focus on subcultures within China, India, Haiti, Nigeria, and the U.S. where indigenous and folkloric responses to HIV transmission are employed, often alongside Western medicines. Review of research of anthropologists and public health officials who have reconceptualized HIV from the phenomenological vantage of lived experience and somatic awareness. Embodied healing practices: dance and movement structures, shaking and miracle cures, Tai Chi, Qi Gong, Yoga, that is, body practices, rites, and herbal protocols utilized in tandem with Western HIV medications. Response anthropologists to AIDS in its first decade contrasted with 2019. Sensation of illness in relation to artistic expression. Site visits to performances and art exhibits when feasible.
Link to Vergil
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