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Academic Year	2025Year	School/Graduate School	Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences (Master's Course) Division of Humanities and Social Sciences International Peace and Co-existence Program
Lecture Code	WMG02401	Subject Classification	Specialized Education
Subject Name	Contemporary Anthropology I
Subject Name （Katakana）
Subject Name in English	Contemporary Anthropology I
Instructor	TAGUCHI YOKO
Instructor (Katakana)	タグチ　ヨウコ
Campus	Higashi-Hiroshima	Semester/Term	1st-Year,  Second Semester,  3Term
Days, Periods, and Classrooms	(3T) Tues5-8：IDEC 203
Lesson Style	Lecture	Lesson Style (More Details)	Face-to-face
			This course will be conducted in a seminar style with close reading and discussion of assigned texts. The instructor facilitates and guides the class discussion.
Credits	2.0	Class Hours/Week	4	Language of Instruction	E : English
Course Level	5 : Graduate Basic
Course Area（Area）	23 : Arts and Humanities
Course Area（Discipline）	11 : Cultural Anthropology
Eligible Students	master course students
Keywords	Anthropology, philosophy, language, eating, practice, body, care
Special Subject for Teacher Education		Special Subject
Class Status within Educational Program (Applicable only to targeted subjects for undergraduate students)
Criterion referenced Evaluation (Applicable only to targeted subjects for undergraduate students)
Class Objectives /Class Outline	This course engages with contemporary anthropological theories and ethnographies by reading critical scholarly works in English. This year, we will read “Eating Is an English Word” by Annemarie Mol. As the title indicates, this book claims “eating” is not universal for human beings but is an English expression or a way of framing/doing things in English. By reading the text together, we will explore the possibilities of (auto)ethnographies and material-semiotic equivocations mediating different languages, bodies, and ontologies.
Class Schedule	lesson1 Guidance and Introduction lesson2 Chap 1. Language Trails lesson3 Chap 1. Language Trails lesson4 Chap 2. Mixing Methods, Tasting Fingers lesson5 Chap 2. Mixing Methods, Tasting Fingers lesson6 Chap 3. Chupar Frutas in Salvador da Bahia lesson7 Chap 3. Chupar Frutas in Salvador da Bahia lesson8 Chap 4. Talking Pleasures, Writing Dialects lesson9 Chap 4. Talking Pleasures, Writing Dialects lesson10 Chap 5. Joaquín Les Gusta: On Gut-Level Love for a Lamb of the House lesson11 Chap 5. Joaquín Les Gusta: On Gut-Level Love for a Lamb of the House lesson12 Chap 6. Settling on an Okay Meal lesson13 Chap 6. Settling on an Okay Meal lesson14 Conclusion, final paper preparation and peer review lesson15 Conclusion, final paper preparation and peer review
Text/Reference Books,etc.	Mol, Annemarie. 2024. Eating Is an English Word. Duke University Press.
PC or AV used in Class,etc.
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Learning techniques to be incorporated
Suggestions on Preparation and Review	Students are expected to read the assigned texts, keep reading journals, prepare questions or comments before each class, and engage in discussions. One or more presentations will be assigned to students during the course.
Requirements
Grading Method	Class contribution, presentations, and the final paper
Practical Experience
Summary of Practical Experience and Class Contents based on it
Message	This course uses English, an increasingly dominant medium of education in international academia. As the course reading suggests, rather than simply accepting English as a neutral lingua franca or dismissing it as a new form of colonialism, let’s explore the situation anthropologically and try to make our academic languages and conversations richer by working with differences.
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