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SOA U307: Social Movements in the Third World
4.00 Credits
Northeastern University
Retired August 31, 2008. Surveys cultures that are undergoing (or have undergone) social movements in the face of Western influences such as colonialism and globalization. Uses an array of case studies from Latin America, Africa, and North America.
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SOA U310: Individual and Culture:Tourism in Contemporary Society
4.00 Credits
Northeastern University
Retired August 31, 2008. Explores the role of the movement in cultural settings by looking at life history material in a range of cultural settings. A second major theme looks at the interplay between culture and travelers.
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SOA U312: The Anthropology of Masculinity
4.00 Credits
Northeastern University
Provides a cross-cultural examination of the ways in which social and cultural institutions shape men, and how men respond to those institutions. After studying the ways in which gender is constructed, the ways in which women are distinguished from men, and a history of masculinity, the course explores the range of masculinities that compete with one another for expression. Uses case studies from Latin America, Melanesia, North America, and Africa.
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SOA U315: Religion and Modernity
4.00 Credits
Northeastern University
Focuses upon the ways in which religion impacts other cultural institutions in select societies. Theories of religion in non-Western societies are surveyed through select case studies.
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SOA U316: Religion Against Modernity
4.00 Credits
Northeastern University
Retired August 31, 2008. Examines the rise of Protestantism and the Reformation, Confucianism and the Asian Tigers, and Islam and capitalism. Covers the rise of so-called fundamentalism in a number of formal religions. Examines the economic, political, and cultural contexts of this emergence and the debates and discourses that critique modernity.
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SOA U325: War and Aggression
4.00 Credits
Northeastern University
Retired August 31, 2008. Evaluates, by using anthropological investigations, the assumption that aggression is part of human nature and linked to sex differences. Discusses cross-cultural variation in violent behavior and warfare in the context of wider political and economic processes. Analyzes the widespread belief in innate masculine aggression as it relates to contemporary societal violence and militarism.
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SOA U330: Environmental Anthropology
4.00 Credits
Northeastern University
Introduces the study of human-environment interactions over time and across cultures. Drawing on a range of scholarship from ecological anthropology, environmental history, political-economy, and environmental justice, this class examines transitions in subsistence systems and cultural factors from early hunting-gathering societies through to industrial giants in a globalizing world.
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SOA U350: Urban Anthropology
4.00 Credits
Northeastern University
Explores the cultural, economic, and political role of the city in its dynamic relationship to the environs around it as well as to larger contexts. Examines the nation and transnational factors in greater detail as we examine urban centers throughout the world.
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SOA U365: Sport,Culture,and Society
4.00 Credits
Northeastern University
Looks at the ways in which sport reflects and obscures social and cultural institutions. Half of the course focuses upon American sport, and the rest upon the global character that modern sport has taken on. Case studies are used from the United States, Dominican Republic, Japan, Brazil, and elsewhere.
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SOA U400: Muslims,Jews,and Christians in the Middle East
4.00 Credits
Northeastern University
Retired August 31, 2008. Examines the social and cultural dimensions of the ways in which Islam has related to Christianity and Judaism. Explores the human relationships, mutual consensus, and divisive conflict that have existed among these regional neighbors, both now and historically. Focuses principally on Islam and sees the other two in juxtaposition to it. Examines the social and cultural interactions of these Middle East religions from an historical point of view, stressing the extensive and intertwined relationships all three have experienced through the premodern period. Examines the twentieth-century phenomenon of fundamentalism, itself a product of American modernization, but today a term associated primarily with the Muslim world.
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