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NOT OFFERED IN 2009-10. This course explores the development of social, economic, political and cultural systems in ancient China, from the Neolithic period through the Han dynasty. Drawing on archaeological data and historical texts, we will examine the emergence of state-level polities and their subsequent unification under imperial authority. Special attention will be devoted to political economy, social organization, ritual exchange, and notions of power and rulership expressed in philosophical thought. Prerequisite: None Distribution: Social and Behavioral Analysis Semester: N/O Unit: 1.0
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NOT OFFERED IN 2009-10. This course introduces students to key analytic frameworks through which media and the mediation of culture have been examined. Using an anthropological approach, students will explore how media as representation and as cultural practice have been fundamental to the (trans)formation of modern sensibilities and social relations. We will examine various technologies of mediation-from the Maussian body as ?Man's first technical instrument? to print capitalism, radio and cassette cultures, cinematic and televisual pub-lics, war journalism, the digital revolution and the political milieu of spin and public relations. Themes in this course include: media in the transformation of the senses; media in the production of cultural subjectivities and publics; and the social worlds and cultural logics of me-dia institutions and sites of producti on. Prerequisite: None Distribution: Social and Behavioral Analysis Semester: N/O Unit: 1
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NOT OFFERED IN 2009-10. An introduction to linguistic anthropology. We will explore the interaction of language and culture, learning how anthropology adds to our understandings of language, and how linguistic tools and concepts likewise help us understand culture. Top-ics to be examined include: the nature, origin, and history of language; folk understandings of language; orality versus literacy; how culture mediates communication, cognition, and meaning; the ethnography of speaking; language's mediation of gender and ethnic/racial/national identity; the politics of bilingualism; and the power of language. Case studies will deal with languages from around the world, with empha-sis on the Americas. Assignments (including basic fieldwork) will offer training in linguistic-anthropological methodologies. Prerequisite: None Distribution: Social and Behavioral Analysis Semester: N/O Unit: 1.0
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NOT OFFERED IN 2009-10. This course explores theoretical and methodological issues in the study of human culture and social activity in relation to ecological systems and the environment. Readings include both classic studies as well as contemporary research, with par-ticular emphasis placed on the various dimensions and scales of social organization and activity, and on the role of cultural, religious, and political institutions in shaping ecological relationships as well as economic behavior. Students may register for either ES 234 or ANTH 234 and credit will be granted accordingly. Prerequisite: None Distribution: Social and Behavioral Analysis Semester: N/O Unit: 1.0
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NOT OFFERED IN 2009-10. This course begins with the assumption that the human body is a unit upon which collective categories are engraved. These categories can vary from social values, to religious beliefs, to feelings of national belonging, to standards of sexuality and beauty. Readings in this course will concentrate around the classic and recent attempts in the social and historical sciences to develop ways of understanding this phenomenon of ?embodiment.? We will begin with an overview of what is considered to be the ?construction? of the human body in various societies and investigate how the body has been observed, experienced, classified, modified, and sacralized in different social formatio ns. Prerequisite: None Distribution: Social and Behavioral Analysis Semester: N/O Unit: 1.
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C.E. Kohl A review of the earliest emergence of state-stratified societies in the Old World (Pharaonic Egypt, Mesopotamia, the Indus Valley, and Shang China) and their integration through trade, conflict, migrations, and diffusions of technologies, particularly metalworking, with neigh-boring illiterate societies on their peripheries. The course concludes with a comparison with core-periphery relations in pre-Columbian Me-soamerica and P eru. Prerequisite: None Distribution: Historical Studies or Social and Behavioral Analysis Semester: Spring Unit:
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3.00 Credits
Kohl A survey of the non-Russian, largely non-European peoples of the former Soviet Union (particularly ethnic groups in Transcaucasia, Cen-tral Asia, and Siberia). The course will review how traditional cultures in these areas changed during the years of Soviet rule and will ex-amine the problems they face today with newly gained independence or greatly increased autonomy. Nationality policies of the former Soviet Union will be discussed with a particular emphasis on how they affect the current territorial disputes and conflicts among different ethnic groups (e.g., the undeclared war between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the enclave of Nagorno-Karabagh). Prerequisite: One unit in anthropology, economics, history, political science, or sociology. Distribution: Historical Studies or Social and Behavioral Analysis Semester: Spring Unit: 1.0
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Prerequisite: 104 and permission of the instructor. Distribution: None Semester: Fall, Spring Unit: 1.0
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Prerequisite: 104 and permission of the instructor. Distribution: None Semester: Fall, Spring Unit: 0.5
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3.00 Credits
NOT OFFERED IN 2009-10. This course critically examines cancer as a pervasive disease and a metaphor of global modern cultures. Students will be exposed to the ways cancer is perceived as a somatic and social standard within locally constructed cognitive frame-works. They will investigate the scientific and emotional responses to the disease and the ways cancer challenges our faith and spirituality, our ways of life, notions of pollution and cleanliness and our healing strategies. This approach to cancer is comparative and interdiscipli-nary and focuses on how specialists in different societies have described the disease, how its victims in different cultures have narrated their experiences, how causality has been perceived, and what interventions (sacred or secular) have been undertaken as therapy and prevention. Prerequisites: None Distribution: Social and Behavioral Analysis Semester: N/O Unit: 1.0
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