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3.00 Credits
Expressions and functions of festive behavior throughout Latin America. The course will penetrate an apparently homogeneous Roman Catholic ideology and demonstrate how widely differing ethnic and political groups use public performance in a non-Western context to express their varied interests. Examples will include Carnival, Corpus Christi, San Juan, Qollur Rit'i, and Yawar Fiesta. Prerequisites Junior standing and one sociocultural anthropology course, or permission of instructor. This course meets the following distribution requirements: Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course can be used to satisfy ONE area only. Social Sciences This course meets the World Civilization Requirement This course meets the following culture options: Hispanic Culture This course is offered during the following semesters: Fall Semester
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Detailed analysis of a selected issue in contemporary sociocultural anthropology, linguistics, physical anthropology, or archaeology. Open to advanced undergraduate majors and qualified graduate students. Prerequisites Permission of instructor. This course meets the following distribution requirements: Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course can be used to satisfy ONE area only. Social Sciences This course meets the following culture options: African and African-American Culture - SPRING 2005 ONLY - West Medford African American Community* Diasporic This course is offered during the following semesters: Spring Semester
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3.00 Credits
Project-oriented seminar exploring relation between cultural institutions and creation of a sense of place and community. Examples of built environment such as college campuses, theatres, parks, and monuments explored for their symbolic meanings as well as the charged activities and performances that occur within them. Ethnographic training will enable students to carry out fieldwork to be used in final project presentations. Prerequisites Junior standing or permission of instructor. This course meets the following distribution requirements: Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course can be used to satisfy ONE area only. Humanities Social Sciences
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Upper-level seminar exploring social memory and memorials through partnership with an African American community initiative in West Medford, the home of one of the oldest African American communities in the U.S. Students document lives and legacies of African American pioneers, entrepreneurs, artists, and community leaders through oral-historical research and through places and objects of memory. Drawing on anthropological perspectives, students examine how broader historical processes structured by race were experienced in specific people's lives, and the "work" that memories of these people and processes perform todayPrerequisites Junior standing or permission of instructor. This course meets the following distribution requirements: Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course can be used to satisfy ONE area only. Social Sciences This course meets the following culture options: African and African-American Culture - * Diasporic This course is offered during the following semesters: Spring Semester
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3.00 Credits
Intersections of culture, power, and mental illness by examining experiences of suffering and its management, the history of psychiatry, and the relationship of culture to concepts of mental and emotional disorder. Cross-cultural approach examining non-Western as well as Western settings, and varied forms and histories of psychiatry. Models for medical structure of care, and affliction and healing beyond the clinic, in contexts of religion, ritual, and everyday life. Topics include diagnostic processes and the creation of categories, stigma and models of clinical care, hysteria, spirit possession, pharmaceuticals, and the relationship of trauma to political structures. Source material includes ethnographic and historical writing, clinical studies, fiction, film, and art. We will engage anthropological and historical theories that emerge from the study of mental illness and critical readings of "madness," including considerations of social suffering, biosociality, political subjectivity, and postcolonial disorder. Prerequisites One Anthropology course or consent. This course meets the following distribution requirements: Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course can be used to satisfy ONE area only. Social Sciences
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: consent and at least one anthropology course. Members of the department This course meets the following distribution requirements: Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course can be used to satisfy ONE area only. Social Sciences
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3.00 Credits
Directed Reading. Please see departmental website for specific details. Prerequisites Permission of instructor. Credit to be arranged. This course meets the following distribution requirements: Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course can be used to satisfy ONE area only. Social Sciences This course is offered during the following semesters: Fall Semester Spring Semester
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3.00 Credits
Please see departmental website for detailed information. This course meets the following distribution requirements: Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course can be used to satisfy ONE area only. Social Sciences This course is offered during the following semesters: Fall Semester Spring Semester
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3.00 Credits
Please see departmental website for detailed information. This course meets the following distribution requirements: Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course can be used to satisfy ONE area only. Social Sciences This course is offered during the following semesters: Fall Semester Spring Semester
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3.00 Credits
Areas for directed research may include physical anthropology, social anthropology, and archaeology. Please see departmental website for specific details. Prerequisites Permission of instructor. Credit to be arranged. This course meets the following distribution requirements: Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course can be used to satisfy ONE area only. Social Sciences This course is offered during the following semesters: Fall Semester Spring Semester
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