What can anthropology teach us about disability? Is there such a thing as “crip” anthropology? If so, what does it entail? Can disability become an ethnographic method? In this seminar, we will collectively strive to find answers to these questions. To begin with, we will take an anthropological lens to critically examine what the category of “disability” is and what it produces. We will explore whether disability is an identity, a condition, or a position; the kinds of impairments that count as disabilities and according to what social, medical and political forces; the structural relations between race, gender, class, and disability; disability justice; as well as the politics of injury and illness. Through this concept work, we will consider different models of disability and the possibilities that evaluating them through an anthropological perspective may afford. In the second part of this course, we will discuss how disability might allow us to conceptualize differently our ethnographic projects. We will ask and experiment with questions such as: what are “normal” research practices? Why, and what expectations about the field inform them? Can disability disrupt “normal” fieldwork methods? How, and in what ways? This course will include practice-based exercises and students will be encouraged to develop their own work via a mix of writing and other multimedia projects.