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3.00 Credits
Taking these courses in sequence is not required. This sequence meets the general education requirement in civilization studies. This course introduces the history and cultures of Latin America (e.g., Mexico, Central America, South America, Caribbean Islands). Autumn Quarter examines the origins of civilizations in Latin America with a focus on the political, social, and cultural features of the major pre-Columbian civilizations of the Maya, Inca, and Aztec. The quarter concludes with consideration of the Spanish and Portuguese conquest and the construction of colonial societies in Latin America. Winter Quarter addresses the evolution of colonial societies, the wars of independence, and the emergence of Latin American nation-states in the changing international context of the nineteenth century. Spring Quarter focuses on the twentieth century, with special emphasis on the challenges of economic, political, and social development in the region. This course is offered every year. Autumn, Winter, Spring.
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3.00 Credits
This course considers how the recognition of "difference" is coordinated through transnational networks of state monitored travel. Focusing on the movements of colonials and colonial subjects from the eighteenth century to decolonization (in addition to contemporary issues around immigrant, exile, and leisure travel), this course details how travel regulation s locall y tailor social life . K. Fikes. Winter.
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3.00 Credits
This course is a survey of historical and anthropological approaches to medical knowledge and practice in twentieth-century China. Materials cover early modernizing debates, medicine and the state, Maoist public health, traditional Chinese medicine, and health and medicine in popular culture. J. Farquhar. Not offered 2009 C10; will be offered 201 0 -11.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on Pax Americana and what it has meant for decolonization and the economic, cultural, and political life of ex-colonies. We read works of leading anticolonial and postcolonial theorists (e.g., Gandhi, Fanon, Said, Subaltern Studies) in connection with U.S. contemporary and contrapuntal figures (e.g., Gandhi with Truman, Fanon with Wendell Willkie). Theorists of empire from Gibbon, Macaulay, and Maine to Niall Ferguson and Hart and Negri are contrasted with and connected to actual theorists and wielders of American power from Mahan and Upton, to Rostow and Kissinger, to Fukuyama, Powell, Haass, and Rumsfeld. J. D. Kelly. Not offered 2009 C10; will be offered 201 0 -11.
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3.00 Credits
Exploring the critical intersection between science studies and political ecology, this course interrogates the contemporary politics of "nature." Focusing on recent ethnographies that complicated our understandings of the environment, the seminar examines how conceptual boundaries (e.g., nature, science, culture, global/local) are established or transgressed within specific ecological orders) . J. Masco. Winter.
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3.00 Credits
PQ: These courses must be taken in sequence. This sequence meets the general education requirement in civilization studies. This three-quarter sequence approaches the concept of civilization from an emphasis on cross-cultural/societal connection and exchange. We explore the dynamics of conquest, slavery, colonialism, and their reciprocal relationships with concepts such as resistance, freedom, and independence, with an eye toward understanding their interlocking role in the making of the modern world. Themes of slavery, colonization, and the making of the Atlantic world are covered in the first quarter. Modern European and Japanese colonialism in Asia and the Pacific is the theme of the second quarter. The third quarter considers the processes and consequences of decolonization, both in the newly independent nations and the former colonial powers. J. Saville, R. Gutiérrez, Autumn; F. Richard, K. Fikes, S. Palmié, J. Kelly, Winter; H. Agrama, Spring.
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3.00 Credits
PQ: These courses must be taken in sequence. This sequence meets the general education requirement in civilization studies. This sequence introduces core themes in the formation of culture and society in South Asia from the early modern period until the present. The Winter Quarter focuses on Islam in South Asia, Hindu-Muslim interaction, Mughal political and literary traditions, and South Asia's early encounters with Europe. The Spring Quarter analyzes the colonial period (i.e., reform movements, the rise of nationalism, communalism, caste, and other identity movements) up to the independence and partition of India. M. Alam, Winter; R. Majumdar, Spring.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines diverse systems of thought and practice concerning health, illness, and the management of the body and person in everyday and ritual contexts. We seek to develop a framework for studying the cultural and historical constitution of healing practices, especially the evolution of Western biomedicine. J. Comaroff. Spring.
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3.00 Credits
PQ: Advanced standing and consent of instructor. This sequence examines museums from a variety of perspectives. We consider the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, the image and imagination of African American culture as presented in local museums, and museums as memorials as exemplified by Holocaust exhibitions. Several visits to area museums required. R. Fogelson, M. Fred. Winter, Spring.
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3.00 Credits
This seminar examines the concept of the "uncanny" as an ethnographic topic. Pursuing the linkages between perception, trauma, and historical memory, this course asks if the modern state form necessarily produces the uncanny as a social effect. We explore this theme through works of Freud, Lacan, Derrida, Benjamin, and Foucault, as well as recent ethnographies that privilege the uncanny in their social analysis . J. Masco. Not offered 20 0 9-10; will be offered 2 0 10-1
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