ANTH 25225 /35225 - What Is a Human The New Sciences,the Nature/Culture Divide,and Human Rights

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University of Chicago

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In what ways and to what extent have new scientific technologies, such as assistant fertilization, surrogacy, and cloning, refashioned our basic social and biological categories How has the Internet changed the way we understand ourselves as humans How does this new knowledge, and its elaborate technological apparatus, inform and complicate our understanding of human rights These questions are at the core of our explorations in this course. By reading (mostly) ethnographic accounts of new scientific technologies and of knowledge production processes we challenge essentialist ideas about nature, culture, and the human. Using this critical lens, we then explore how these new ways of understanding the world and ourselves challenge current human rights discourse and practice. N. Vaisman. Spring.

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3.00

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Instructional Type:

Multiple

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Institution Website:

WWW.UCHICAGO.EDU

Phone Number:

(773) 702-1234

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Quarter

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