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3.00 Credits
Exploration of how cultural differences have been represented in ethnic and national narratives and how these narratives have shaped identities and social relations.
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3.00 Credits
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5.00 Credits
Examines relationships between law, culture, and power through post-structuralist theories that consider subjectivity, agency, and identity. Explores connections between modern liberal law and the body, possessive individualisms, and discourses of rights. Topics include rights-talk, globalization, biopoliti8cs, subject-making, modern nation-states, the rule of law, neoliberalism, and legal cultures.
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1.00 - 2.00 Credits
Interdisciplinary seminar on current research issues in demography and population studies. Critical analysis and discussion of readings drawn from anthropological, economic, geographic, and sociological approaches. Credit/ no credit only. Offered: AWSp.
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3.00 Credits
Significance of anthropological cinema and photography placed in historical perspective. Screening of films to determine the role of the anthropologist as filmmaker, as well as the role of the filmmaker as anthropologist.
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3.00 Credits
Seminar on special topics in politics and law and their interrelationships.
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3.00 Credits
Representations of power and the powers of representation. Critical approaches to representation in colonial and postcolonial worlds. Divine kings, exemplary centers, the New World Order, voting subjects, and the possibilities of transgression.
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5.00 Credits
Ramamurthy, Sivaramakrishnan Covers issues of social change, economic development, and identity politics in contemporary India studied through environmental and women’s movements. Includes critiques of development and conflicts over forests, dams, women’s rights, religious community, ethnicity, and citizenship. Offered: jointly with SISSA 539/WOMEN 539.
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3.00 Credits
Sivaramakrishnan Emergence of development as an aspect of late colonialism and the decolonization process. Ways in which development came to visualize social change in sectoral terms like rural land use, cities, and education, while objectifying people in target groups. Relationships between development and modernity, and development and globalization.
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3.00 Credits
Examines the intellectual history of cognitive anthropology; assesses its major findings in kinship, folk biology, color classification, and decision and planning theory. Replicates key studies, using cognitive anthropological methods. Evaluates influences from linguistics, psychology, and artificial intelligence research. Practical applications and future prospects.
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