This course addresses the place of personhood and subjectivity through debates around themes such as the "Religious Subject," the "Precarious Subject" and "Beyond-the-Subject." The goal of the course is to introduce students to theoretical frameworks that have effectively been employed by anthropologists and critical theorists when studying personhood, subjectification and human nature, and also to think them through themes such as colonialism and post-colonialism. This course will be run as a seminar with evaluation based on participation, one oral presentation, weekly reports, and a final paper.