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3.00 Credits
PQ: Consent of instructor and program adviser. Students are required to submit the College Reading and Research Course Form. Autumn, Winter, Spring.
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3.00 Credits
PQ: AFAM 29700. Consent of instructor and program adviser. Students are required to submit the College Reading and Research Course Form. Must be taken for a quality grade. Autumn, Winter, Spring.
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3.00 Credits
This course is an intensive examination of the origins, structure, and meaning of two native states of the ancient Americas: the Inka and the Aztec. Lectures are framed around an examination of theories of state genesis, function, and transformation, with special reference to the economic, institutional, and symbolic bases of indigenous state development. This course is broadly comparative in perspective and considers the structural significance of institutional features that are either common to or unique expressions of these two Native American states. A. Kolata. Not offered 2009 C10; will be offered 201 0 -11.
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3.00 Credits
PQ: Third- or fourth-year standing. This seminar undertakes to explore "disability" from an anthropological perspective that recognizes it as a socially constructed concept with implications for our understanding of fundamental issues about culture, society, and individual differences. We explore a wide range of theoretical, legal, ethical, and policy issues as they relate to the experiences of persons with disabilities, their families, and advocates. The final project is a presentation on the fieldwork . M. Fred. Autumn.
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3.00 Credits
PQ: Third- or fourth-year standing. This seminar focuses primarily, but not exclusively, on American legal culture. Topics include the socialization of lawyers in law schools and firms, judicial decision making, and media representations of the law. Students conduct fieldwork in various legal settings as a foundation for class discussions about the contributions ethnographic research can make in understanding legal culture and how such research can be useful in practicing law and shaping social policy. M. Fred. Winter.
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3.00 Credits
Completion of the general education requirement in social sciences recommended. Taking these courses in sequence is recommended but not required. This sequence meets the general education requirement in civilization studies. This year the African Civilization Sequence focuses primarily on the colonial encounter, with some attention, in the second quarter, to everyday life in the contemporary period. The first quarter focuses on West, North, and Central Africa. The second quarter focuses on Eastern and Southern Africa, including Madagascar. We explore various aspects of how the colonial encounter transformed local societies, even as indigenous African social structures profoundly molded and shaped these diverse processes. Topics include the institution of colonial rule, independence movements, ethnicity and interethnic violence, ritual and the body, love, marriage, money, and popular culture. R. Jean-Baptiste, Autumn; J. Cole, Winter.
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3.00 Credits
This course is a theoretical and ethnographic overview of past, current, and future directions of anthropological research on the mass media. We study issues as diverse as projects of media representation and cultural conservation among indigenous peoples, the relationship of mass media to nationalism across the world, the social life of journalism and news making in an era of new technologies and ownership consolidation, and current debates over the role of mass media. D. Boyer. Summer. Various courses under the numbers ANTH 211xx, 212xx, 213xx, 214xx, and 216xx are offered that are not included on the list that follows. Current information is available in the departmental office and at timeschedules.uchicago.edu.
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3.00 Credits
Class limited to twenty students. The agenda and conceptual apparatus of contemporary archaeological thought rest squarely upon the discipline's early intellectual foundations. This seminar examines the roots of archaeological thought and practice in classic writings from the early systematic explorations of the past through its material culture through Walter W. Taylor' s watershed study of the discipline in 1948. We examine works of seminal researchers (e.g., Layard, Schliemann, Morgan, Petrie, Boas, Kidder, Lubbock, Kossina, Childe, Morley) . A. T. Smith. Not offered 20 0 9-10; will be offered 2 0 10-1
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3.00 Credits
This course is a seminar on racial, sexual, and class bias in the classic theoretic writings, autobiographies, and biographies of Darwin, Huxley, Haeckel, Keith, Osborn, Jones, Gregory, Morton, Broom, Black, Dart, Weidenreich, Robinson, Leakey, LeGros-Clark, Schultz, Straus, Hooton, Washburn, Coon, Dobzhansky, Simpson, and Gould. R. Tuttle. Winter.
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3.00 Credits
This course is an anthropological and historical exploration of one of the most original and influential American musical genres in its social and cultural context. We examine transformations in the cultural meaning of the blues and its place within broader American cultural currents, the social and economic situation of blues musicians, and the political economy of blues within the wider music industry. M. Dietler. Not offered 2009 C10; will be offered 201 0 -11.
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