Anthropology of Estrangement

To examine anthropological explanation as a passage from the known to the unknown that problematizes the known as well as leaving some kernel of the strange, the exotic, and the unfamiliar a mystery and does not reduce everything to an explanation. How might we master the need for mastery? What happens after we have problematized the known? Readings: accounts of fieldwork, select ethnography, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Brecht, Benjamin, Bataille. General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL).