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d.Contemporary Argentina
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d.Modern Latin America
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d-IP.Environment and Society in Latin America
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Spring 2007. O'NEILL BLACKER-HANSON. Examines efforts toward revolutionary change in twentieth-century Latin America, placing such efforts in both their national and international historic context. Analyzes significant (complementary or competing) revolutionary theories, and then assesses their applicability to particular revolutionary movements. Students will be encouraged to explore both "successful" and "failed" revolutionary movements, including but not limited to Mexi(1910), Bolivia (1952), Cuba (1959), Chile (1971), Peru (1980s) and Nicaragua (1979). In the process, orthodox definitions of key terms, including "revolutionary" and "successful" wibe challenged. Class, gender, power relations, foreign intervention, violence and popular media are among the components discussed. (Same as Latin American Studies 258.)
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Spring 2007. RACHEL STURMAN. Seminar. Explores changing conceptions of the body, sexuality and gender in South Asia, with a focus on modern formations since the late eighteenth century. Topics include: practices of female seclusion; ideas of purity, pollution, and the care of the self; religious renunciation and asceticism; the erotics of religious devotion; theories of desire; modern conjugality; and the emergence of a contemporary lesbian/gay/queer movement. (Same as Asian Studies 237 and Gender and Women's Studies 259.) Note: This course is offered as part of the curriculum in Gay and Lesbian Studies.
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3.00 Credits
Spring 2007. PATRICK RAEL. (Same as Africana Studies 25.)
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3.00 Credits
Fall 2006. RACHEL STURMAN. Seminar. Explores the history of the idea of the self in India, focusing on the era from the eighteenth century to the present. Briefly considers ancient philosophical and religious perspectives on the self, before turning to a range of modern texts, including the autobiographies of major public figures, such as Gandhi and Nehru, as well as those of women and dalits (former "Untouchables") whose very ability to write reflected a history of personal struggle.Examines the relationship between individual and broader social or national histories, and the nature of modern selfhood or subjectivity in colonial and post-colonial India. (Same as Asian Studies 255.)
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3.00 Credits
d-ESD,IP.Modern South Asia
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3.00 Credits
Fall 2007. DAVID GORDON. A survey of historical developments before conquest by European powers, with a focus on west and central Africa. Explores the political, social and cultural changes that accompanied the intensification of Atlantic Ocean trade and revolves around a controversy in the study of Africa and the Atlantic World: What influence did Africans have on the making of the Atlantic World, and in what ways did Africans participate in the slave trade How were African identities shaped by the Atlantic World and by the slave plantations of the Americas The course ends by considering the effects of Abolition on Africa. (Same as Africana Studies 262.)
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d.Politics and Popular Culture in Twentieth-Century India
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