Agrarian Studies Graduate Seminar

1. Faculty
2. Description
3. Enrollment, Eligibility
4. Meetings
5. Syllabus

Faculty for fall 2011:

Michael McGovern, Anthropology

James C. Scott, Political Science

K. Sivaramakrishnan, Anthropology

An interdisciplinary examination of agrarian societies, contemporary and historical, Western and non-Western. Major analytical perspectives from anthropology, economics, history, political science, and environmental studies are used to develop a meaning-centered and historically grounded account of the transformations of rural society.

Team taught.

Any graduate student at Yale is eligible to enroll. Undergraduates may also take the course, with the permission of the instructors.

The course meets from 1:30 pm to 5:20 pm, Thursday afternoons, during the fall term, at 10 Sachem Street, room 105. The first two hours of each meeting are lecture; the second half is discussion.