| Lec # | TOPICS | KEY dATES |
|---|---|---|
| Part One: The Colonial Imaginary and Disciplinary Practices | ||
| 1-4 | Section One: Biopolitics, the Fetish, and the Colonial Imaginary Lecture 1: Course Overview and Introduction | |
| 5-6 | Section Two: Ecstasis and the Shock of Culture Contact | |
| 7-8 | Section Three: Historical Ideologies of Sexuality, Race, and Madness | |
| Part Two: Colonial Contexts of Medicine, Religion, and Politics | ||
| 9-10 | Section Four: Colonial Medicine in South Africa | |
| 11-13 | Section Five: Race, Gender, Colonial Medicine, and the Construction of Disease | Paper 1 due (Lecture 13) |
| Part Three: Anthropological (Re)Constructions of "African" Religion, Healing, and Embodiment | ||
| 14-16 | Section Six: Medical Pluralism in the Former Zaire | |
| 17-19 | Section Seven: Culture, Morality, and the Senses in Ghana | |
| 20 | Section Eight: Sensory Ethnography in Niger | |
| Part Four: Cosmopolitan Medicine, Race, Gender, and Inequalities | ||
| 21-22 | Section Nine: Religion, Medicine, and the Medical Pluralism in Haiti | |
| 23-24 | Section Ten: Contemporary Psychiatry: Race, Gender, and the Mind | |
| 25-26 | Section Eleven: Fictions of Race, Gender, and Illness | Final papers due (Lecture 26) |