Sociology and Anthropology 374 - Anthropology of Media

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Colgate University

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E. Spadola This course examines media and popular culture in a variety of cultural and national contexts and situations. The course draws on specific ethnographic case studies to explore the centrality of mass media to life in the late 20th and the early 21st century and the need for anthropology to explore its analytic and practical significance. Topics include globalization of western media and "Americanization" in the non-west; the relationship between media and gender, culture, national past and "imagined communities"; ethnic media and the immigrant experience in the United States; media enterprises and state/government projects of nationhood and modernity; international development agencies, mass media, and nation-building; and self-representation through documentaries, print advertisements, and other mass media. Prerequisit es: SOAN 101 or 1 02, or permission of instructor. No first-year students admitted

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3.00

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Institution Website:

www.colgate.edu

Phone Number:

(315) 228-1000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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