ANT 344 Mobilities and Migration
How do the ways we move and experience the physical world shape our societies and worldviews? In this course we tackle this question by bringing perspectives from physical and cultural anthropologies, archaeology, gender studies, environmental studies, and disability studies to ground ourselves in an exploration of our migratory lifeways and mobility-based prejudices as consequences of the evolution of development of bipedal locomotion. We explore how mobility has shaped human migrations and nomadic lifestyles. We will also examine how dominant mobility-related narratives that are reproduced through cultural attitudes, language, policies, and built environments shape the biases that underlie our thinking about the lived experiences of traveling and itinerant communities and those with visible and invisible disabilities.