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3.00 Credits
This seminar explores the balance among research, "show biz," big business, and politics in the careers of Louis, Mary, and Richard Leakey; Alan Walker; Donald Johanson; Jane Goodall; Dian Fossey; and Biruté Galdikas. Information is gathered from films, taped interviews, autobiographies, biographies, pop publication s, instructor 's anecdotes, and samples of scientific writin gs. R. Tuttle. Not offered 2 009-10; will be offered 2010
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PQ: Open to students who are majoring in anthropology with third- or fourth-year standing. This course introduces theory and practice, as well as situates ethnography within social science research more generally. Students are exposed to a wide range of investigative and analytical techniques used in ethnographic research and to multiple forms of interpretation and representation of ethnographic data. Students are required to apply the methods discussed in class through field assignments and through a final ethnographic project that is developed in consultation with the instructor. This course is particularly useful for students who intend to write a senior thesis the following year. Field trips to sites in Chicago required. Spring.
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PQ: Third- or fourth-year standing. There is a substantial portion of the psychological nature of human beings that is neither homogeneous nor fixed across time and space. At the heart of the discipline of cultural psychology is the tenet of psychological pluralism. Research findings in cultural psychology thus raise provocative questions about the integrity and value of alternative forms of subjectivity across cultural groups. This course analyzes the concept of "culture" and examines ethnic and cross-cultural variations in mental functioning, with special attention to the cultural psychology of emotions, self, moral judgment, categorization, and reasoning . R. Shweder. Autumn.
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A look at societies in other parts of the world demonstrates that modernity in the realm of love, intimacy, and family often had a different trajectory from the European one. This course surveys ideas and practices surrounding love, marriage, and capital in the modern world. Using a range of theoretical, historical, and anthropological readings, as well as films, the course explore such topics as the emergence of companionate marriage in Europe and the connections between arranged marriage, dowry, love, and money. Case studies are drawn primarily from Europe, India, and Africa. J. Cole, R. Majumdar. Spring.
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3.00 Credits
This course applies anthropological understanding to development programs in "underdeveloped" and "developing" societies. Topics include the history of development; different perspectives on development within the world system; the role of principal development agencies and their use of anthropological knowledge; the problems of ethnographic field inquiry in the context of development programs; the social organization and politics of underdevelopment; the culture construction of "well-being"; economic, social, and political critiques of development; population, consumption, and the environment; and the future of develop ment. A. Kolata. Not offere d 2009-10; will be offer e d 201
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3.00 Credits
Reading key works in the philosophy of science, as well as ethnographic studies of scientific practices and objects, this course introduces contemporary science studies. We interrogate how technoscientific "facts" are produced, discussing the transformations in social order produced by new scientific knowledge. Possible topics include the human genome project, biodiversity, and the digital revolution . J. Masco. Spring.
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3.00 Credits
This course offers a concise overview of institutions of dependency, servitude, and coerced labor in Europe and Africa, from Roman times to the onset of the Atlantic slave trade, and compares their further development (or decline) in the context of the emergence of New World plantation economies based on racial slavery. We discuss the role of several forms of unfreedom and coerced labor in the making of the "modern world," and reflect on the manner in which ideologies and practices associated with the idea of a free labor market supersede, or merely mask, relations of exploitation and restricted choice . S. Palmié. Not offered 2 0 09-10; will be offered 2 010-
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the mutual creation of big science and the American national security state during the Manhattan Project. It presents the atomic bomb project as the center of a new orchestration of scientific, industrial, military, and political institutions in everyday American life. Exploring the linkages between military technoscience, nation-building, and concepts of security and international order, we interrogate one of the foundation structures of the modern world system. J. Masco. Not offered 2009 C10; will be offered 201 0 -11.
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PQ: Advanced standing and some background in South Asian studies. At a time when economic reforms have produced new social inequalities alongside an efflorescence of middle class consumerist fantasy, South Asian cultural production has witnessed an extraordinary explosion in both creativity and global visibility. But what can we learn today from a close exploration of contemporary South Asian cultural production How do artists, filmmakers, advertisers, and writers envision their work, and how does their work encode dreams of the future and fantasies of the past What are the relevant genealogies by which we might interpret the present This jointly taught class features a range of visiting speakers and a series of engagements with films, exhibitions, quotidian visual materials, and textual fictions. W. T. S. Mazzarella. Not offered 2009 C10; will be offered 201 0 -11.
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3.00 Credits
This seminar considers and pushes beyond such recent instances as the alleged complicity between the televised "Ramayana" and the rise of a violently intolerant Hindu nationalism. We consider the potentials and entailments of various forms of mediation and performance for political action on the subcontinent, from "classical" textual sources, through "folk" traditions and "progressive" dramatic practice, to contemporary skirmishes over "obscenity" in commerci al films. W. T. S. Mazzarella. Not of f ered 2009-10; will be o f fered
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