DA4832 Anthropology, Media, and War

This class explores the ways in which culture forms the various foundations and narratives of war, how the media reflects, but also shapes narrative, and also how individual perspectives act on the story. To help focus our readings, regionally we will focus on material, mainly from 1991 onwards--but we need not be limited to any one side's narrative.

Prerequisite

DA3750 and DA4780

Lecture Hours

4

Lab Hours

0

Course Learning Outcomes

• Students are asked to reflect upon implicit forms of ideology in artifacts, language, cinema, music, and art but also explore core aspects of crafting stories and narratives, including framing and priming effects.
• We examine the role of media in narratives of war, the role of war in shaping our media, as well as the role of the state in shaping our narratives of citizenship.