Historical anthropology' as a distinct, appealing, and influential mode of enquiry seeking to combine historical and anthropological approaches to analyze social and cultural processes through time, emerged from important dialogues and engagements between historians and anthropologists over the past three decades. Through a critical examination of the propositions of 'historical anthropology,' the course will probe how its practitioners have grappled with the constitutive, if problematic relationships between 'culture,' power, and history and ethnography and the 'archive.' Equally, it will assess the extent to which historical anthropology has elaborated new research methodologies, shaped historiography, and facilitated conversations and encounters between disciplines. In this regard, course readings will draw attention to recent strategies proffered by scholars grappling with the possibilities and dilemmas of historical anthropology in spaces deeply marked by colonialism, nationalism, and globalization like South Asia. Course materials will draw upon, but will not be limited to readings from South Asia.