Service Learning

Modern medicine in its colonial and postcolonial history has long imagined itself in opposition to ritual and religious healing and as progress over “traditional” medicine.
http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2012/05/09/anthropology/?quad=…

Modern medicine in its colonial and postcolonial history has long imagined itself in opposition to ritual and religious healing and as progress over “traditional” medicine.
http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2012/05/09/anthropology/?quad=…

Modern medicine in its colonial and postcolonial history has long imagined itself in opposition to ritual and religious healing and as progress over “traditional” medicine.
http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2012/05/09/anthropology/?quad=…

The goal of the course is to give students an understanding of the range of ceremonial art used in the practice of Judaism, and how individual works were fashioned out of a creative tension between the minimal demands of Jewish law and models in the art of surrounding cultures. Another aim is to enable a […]

Jewish Ceremonial Art in Context covers the history of Judaica from its beginnings in the classical period of Antiquity until the present. The halakhic or legal requirements in Jewish law for Judaica are one context for understanding the objects; the second is their relationship to the forms and style of similar pieces of the “decorative … Read more

In this course, we will problematize this narrative historically, ethnographically, and methodologically. We will explore on the one hand the moral and material worlds of ritual and religious healing in a variety of settings and, on the other, the phenomenologies and politics of encounter between local systems of healing and state-sponsored medicines increasingly intent in … Read more

Buried beneath you as you walk the streets of Middletown is the residue of former residents. Mostly consisting of fragments of ceramics, glass, and other objects, these hold the potential to begin to unlock the day-to-day history of their past owners a…

Buried beneath you as you walk the streets of Middletown is the residue of former residents. Mostly consisting of fragments of ceramics, glass, and other objects, these hold the potential to begin to unlock the day-to-day history of their past owners a…

On the triangle of land between Vine Street, Cross Street, and Knowles Avenue (known as the Beman Triangle), a community of African Americans began to build houses from the mid-19th century on land owned by one of their community, Leveret Beman. Although few above-ground traces now suggest the presence of this community, material about their […]

Particular focus will be given this semester to theater programs that have been developed for prison populations, and students will have the opportunity to create collaborative performance projects in local prisons. Pedagogical principles will be based on the theater techniques of Augusto Boal. Collaboratively devised performance scripts will be adapted from classical literature (Shakespeare, Dante, … Read more