What roles do feelings, emotions, and sensations play in our evaluations of the world? Are our emotions reliable sources of moral intuition and guidance? Can we take our feelings to be our own? What kind of knowing is our sense of things, our visceral apprehension of the worlds we inhabit? This course focuses on how humans engage with issues of belonging, morality, faith, justice, place-making, and political critique, and how our feelings, emotions, and sensations mediate such engagements. Through ethnographic and theoretical readings, we will learn how anthropologists discern the affective textures of our moral and political lives.
