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3.00 Credits
Intermediate Independent Study
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3.00 Credits
Race and Representation
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3.00 Credits
Fall 2006. DAVID HECHT. Examines theories of innate "difference" - in race, class, ethnicity, gender, and sexualit- as they have developed in scientific investigation and American politics over the twentieth century. Explores why such notions were created, to what political and social ends they have been used, and what the role of science has been in alternately validating and challenging them. Topics discussed include evolution, eugenics, the emergence of cultural anthropology, the growth of genetics under the shadow of Nazism, and the "Bell-Curve wars" of the 1980s.(Same as Gender and Women's Studies 333 and History 333.)
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3.00 Credits
Fall 2006. ST ¦PHANIE B éRARD. Analysis of modern and contemporary theater written by Caribbean playwrights (Guadeloupe, Martinique, and Haiti) as well as by Francophone African writers (Benin and Ivory Coast). Examines issues of colonialism and postcolonialism; reappropriation of history; exile and immigration; and tensions between race, gender, and social classes through subversive theatrical works that challenge Western literary canons. Readings include Aimé and Ina Césaire, Maryse Condé, Gerty Dambury, Koffi Kwahulé, José Pliya. The playoriginally written in French, are read and analyzed in English. (Same as Latin American Studies 334.) Prerequisite: At least one 200-level course in Africana Studies or Latin American Studies, or permission of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Spring 2007. MARK FOSTER. Violence and interracial sex have long been conjoined in U.S. literary, televisual, and filmic work. The enduring nature of this conjoining suggests there is some symbolic logic at work in these narratives, such that black/white intimacy functions as a figural stand-in for negative (and sometimes positive) commentary on black/white social conflict. When this happens, what becomes of "sex" as a historically changing phenomenon when it is yoked tothe historically unchanging phenomenon of the "interracial" Although counter-narrativeshave recently emerged to compete with such symbolic portrayals, i.e. romance novels, popular films, and television shows, not all of these works have displaced this earlier figural logic; in some cases, this logic has merely been updated. Explores the broader cultural implications of both types of narratives. Possible authors/texts include Richard Wright, Chester Himes, Ann Petry, Lillian Smith, Jack Kerouac, Frantz Fanon, Kara Walker, Amiri Baraka, Alice Walker, Octavia Butler, John R. Gordon, Kim McLarin, Monster's Ball, Far From Heaven, and Sex and the City. (Same as English 339 and Gender and Women's Studies 339.) Prerequisite: One first-year seminar or 100-level course in the English Department. Note: This course fulfills the literature of the Americas requirement for English majors.
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3.00 Credits
Spring 2007. DAVID GORDON. Religion in African history since the colonial period, with a focus on Islam in Saharan Africa and Christian movements in south and central Africa. Examines popular anti-colonial religious movements and the relationship between religious movements and post-colonial political parties and states. Includes missionary influences and independent African Christianity in south and central Africa; Sufi Brotherhoods in Senegal; and Islamic rebellion and fundamentalism in Nigeria, Algeria, and Sudan. (Same as History 360 and Religion 360.)
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3.00 Credits
Advanced Independent Study and Honors
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3.00 Credits
Spring 2007. KRISTA VAN VLEET. Food generates meanings and feelings beyond a full stomach. This is well known by anthropologists who have studied the symbolic significance of food in a variety of cultures. Course uses case studies from Latin America to explore how food produces social relationships. From the daily practices of eating and feeding that create familial bonds and bodies in the Andes, to the diagnosis of hunger as "nerves" in Brazil, to the global circulation of sugarthrough networks of power and deprivation in the Caribbean, food in Latin America is implicated in political as well as cultural and social relations. Class discussion and writing based on readings of ethnographies, scholarly articles, and novels and the viewing of documentary and feature films. Focusing on the local practices and transnational relationships of producing, exchanging, and consuming food, examines how food reinforces and transforms political, economic, and social hierarchies. (Same as Latin American Studies 25.)
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3.00 Credits
Fall 2006. SARA DICKEY. Spring 2007. PAMELA BALLINGER. Cultural anthropology explores the diversities and commonalities of cultures and societies in an increasingly interconnected world. This course introduces students to the significant issues, concepts, theories, and methods in cultural anthropology. Topics may include: cultural relativism and ethnocentrism, fieldwork and ethics, symbolism, language, religion and ritual, political and economic systems, family and kinship, gender, class, ethnicity and race, nationalism and transnationalism, and ethnographic representation and validity.
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3.00 Credits
Fall 2006. LESLIE SHAW. Spring 2007. SUSAN KAPLAN. An introduction to the discipline of archaeology and the studies of human biological and cultural evolution. Among the subjects covered are conflicting theories of human biological evolution, debates over the genetic and cultural bases of human behavior, the expansion of human populations into various ecosystems throughout the world, the domestication of plants and animals, the shift from nomadic to settled village life, and the rise of complex societies and the state.
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