AN 309 - Topics in Anthropology

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Colorado College

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Problems on the frontier of anthropology or on the frontiers between anthropology and other disciplines. Examples may be primitive government or religion, cognition, folklore, cultural ecology. Block 5: Topics in Anthropology: Language and Power. Examines how language, language use, and speech styles create and maintain social identities and relations of inequality as well as how they may challenge, undo, or remake them. Issues may include ways that language is used to enact particular relationships among speakers; how attitudes about languages or ways of speaking are implicated in wider social discourses about power and identity; how languages and ways of speaking express and encapsulate particular ideologies or social realities. Material is drawn from a variety of societies around the world, ranging from small communities and cultural groups to large complex societies. Prerequisite: Anthropology 101 or 102 or consent of instructor. 1 unit - Jacobson.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.coloradocollege.edu

Phone Number:

(719) 389-6000

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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