Medicine, Religion and Politics in Africa and the African Diaspora

Calendar

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)