ANTHROPOLOGY 238b - d.Culture and Power in the Andes

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Bowdoin College

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Spring 2008. KRISTA VAN VLEET. Explores the anthropology and history of the Andes, focusing on questions of cultural transformation and continuity in a region that has been integrated into western markets and imaginations since 1532, when Francisco Pizarro and a band of fewer than two hundred conquistadors swiftly defeated the Inca empire. Focuses on the ethnography, historical analysis, popular culture, and current events of Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru. Topics include Inca concepts of history; Spanish colonization; Native Andean cultural identity; household and community organization; subsistence economies and ecology; gender, class, and ethnic relations; domestic and state violence; indigenous religion; contemporary political economy; coca and cocaine production; and migration. (Same as Latin American Studies 238.) Prerequisite: Anthropology 101 or permission of the instructor.

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3.00

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Institution Website:

www.bowdoin.edu/

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(207) 725-3000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

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Semester

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