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4.00 Credits
Offers elective credit for courses taken at consortium institutions.
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Explores the processes of social, economic, and cultural change in Latin America. While concentrating on the present, traces class formation, agrarian structures, ethnic identity, ceremonial organization, gender roles, and political conflict since the colonial era in a range of countries. Emphasizes the relationship of communities and national political and economic systems. May emphasize Central America and Mexico or countries in South America through case studies.
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Explores North American Indian tribes including the Dakota (Sioux), Navajo, Pueblo, Mohawk, and Penobscot, and examines the historical changes that led to their contemporary situation. Focuses on the reservation and its many problems from various viewpoints.
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4.00 Credits
Conveys a sense of the cultural diversity of Africa through a reading of ethnographies and key texts. Examines aspects of the social life of some African peoples, and places those examples in specific social and historical contexts. Explores both precolonial and colonial social systems, concentrating on the adaptations that African peoples have made to life in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Begins with an introduction to the geography and history of the continent and develops an appreciation of Africa's major regional differences. Considers several topics of contemporary relevance drawn from West Africa, East Africa, and Southern Africa, such as issues of religion, commoditization, gender, tribe and ethnicity, and violence and displacement. In the process, students pay particular attention to the ways in which the idea of "Africa" has come to be understood through Western perceptions and influenced the historical and contemporary treatment of Africa
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4.00 Credits
Focuses on learning more about the peoples, history, and culture of South Asia as a world region and particularly on the ways that this area has influenced and been influenced by the rest of the globe. Seeks to help students understand the pathways along which knowledge about South Asia has been created and the ways that the cultures of those who live in the region have been shaped by their engagement with the world, including issues such as tradition vs. modernity, Sanskritization, colonialism, and village life. Places particular focus on themes such as Orientalism, caste, making history under colonialism, religion and conflict, gender, and modernity.
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4.00 Credits
Retired August 31, 2008. Examines the problems faced by today's non-Western peoples through various theories of cultural change. Using cross-cultural case studies, analyzes the relationship of governmental policies and economic development priorities to the survival of the self-identified tribal cultures and minorities throughout the world.
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4.00 Credits
Designed as a specialized themes course for students with prior experience in anthropology and/or sociology. Offers unique opportunities-visiting guests, special thematic interests-which are not part of the regular curriculum.
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4.00 Credits
Offers elective credit for courses taken at consortium institutions.
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4.00 Credits
Offers elective credit for courses taken at consortium institutions.
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4.00 Credits
Offers elective credit for courses taken at consortium institutions.
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