Anthro 3254 - Vote for Pedro: A Critical Look at Youth and Popular Cultures

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Washington University in St Louis

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Over the past decade, anthropologists have become increasingly wary of the importance of youth and popular cultures as a powerful field where people not only express themselves but also influence some of the basic tenets of society. While "pop life" is not exclusive to youth groups in terms of production and distribution, young people are the majority of consumers. In this course, we examine popular Christianity in Brazil, Mexican street art, Japanese manga comics, American teenage fascination with the extraterrestrial, U.S. college sports fandom, various "white" hip-hop movements, alternative "girl" rock, and drug "cultures." These vibrant forms and practices are not homogenous, they vary across time and space. This course considers "the popular" in its broadest sense, giving us an opportunity to turn an anthropological lens onto the everyday life of teenagers and the seemingly flavor-of-the-month styles of the popular, while simultaneously opening up the discipline of cultural anthropology to appreciate the fast-paced montages and purposefully distorted sounds of consumerism and youth energy.

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3.00

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www.wustl.edu

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(314) 935-5000

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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