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Anthropology 256: Peoples And Cultures of South Asia
4.00 Credits
Macalester College
Introduces students to anthropological knowledge of the peoples and cultures of South Asia and to the ways in which Western knowledge of that region has been constructed. The course examines the historical and social processes that have shaped the culture and lifeways of the people who live on the subcontinent and that link the modern states of South Asia to the world beyond their frontiers. Alternate years. (4 credits)
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Anthropology 257: Peoples And Cultures of Mongolia
4.00 Credits
Macalester College
Through a combination of ethnography and history, the course analyzes the impact that the tribes of Mongolia have had on the surrounding civilizations and the world. The course also examines the contemporary people of Inner Asia as they struggle to deal with their dramatic legacy in the modern world system. Every year. (4 credits)
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Anthropology 258: Peoples And Cultures of Africa
4.00 Credits
Macalester College
This course will present an overview of African cultures and societies as documented in the anthropological literature. Classic and contemporary ethnographies will be used to illustrate the social transformations which are occurring in Africa. Alternate years. (4 credits)
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Anthropology 280: Topics in Linguistic Anthropology
4.00 Credits
Macalester College
Introduces students to linguistic anthropology, one of the four major subfields of the discipline of anthropology. Students will focus on particular topics within linguistic anthropology including: gender, race, sexuality, and identity. May involve fieldwork in the Twin Cities area. Focus will be announced at registration. Alternate years. (4 credits)
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Anthropology 285: Seminar in World Ethnography
4.00 Credits
Macalester College
A hallmark of anthropology is the cross cultural perspective supported by first hand ethnographic accounts of hundreds of different cultures. In this course students will read, discuss, and compare ethnographies representing diverse cultures as well as a wide range of ethnographic theories and methods. Alternate years. (4 credits)
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Anthropology 340: Paleoanthropology
3.00 Credits
Macalester College
An exploration of the interaction between ecology, morphology, and culture in human evolution. Topics include the evolutionary adaptation of non-human primates and hominins to their various ecological and social environments, taxonomic classification systems, and techniques used in the analysis of primate fossils to help determine both their geological age and phylogenetic placement. Prerequisites: Anthropology 112 or 115 or permission of the instructor. Alternate years. (4 credits)
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Anthropology 358: Anthropology of Violence
4.00 Credits
Macalester College
An examination of approaches to the meaning of violence as a social and cultural phenomenon, this course interrogates the slippery concept of violence in the light of theoretical approaches from different disciplines. The course begins with a discussion of how anthropologists have reexamined the concept of violence within the context of complex and large-scale societies. It then addresses the preponderate weight that the concept of the state has played within the social sciences in interpretations of violence, followed by a consideration of how notions of community and cultural difference figure prominently in the ideology of conflict. Alternate years (4 credits)
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Anthropology 360: The Anthropology of Tourism
4.00 Credits
Macalester College
This course examines the impact of different kinds of tourism (mass tourism, ecotourism, sand-sea-sun-sex tourism, ethnic tourism) on local peoples, environments and economies. It looks at the historical development of tourism and its links to both travel as a leisure pursuit in the colonial period and to economic developments in industrializing Europe. The course examines the tourist encounter and the models used to analyze it. Issues discussed include cultural mediation, the politics of cultural representation, and the problems of commoditization of culture. Alternate years. (4 credits)
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Anthropology 362: Culture And Globalization
4.00 Credits
Macalester College
The world is far more interconnected today than ever before, but what does this mean in terms of culture This course looks at the impact of globalization on cultures and at examples of global cultures such as tourists and immigrants, media and popular cultures, world cities, and transnational intellectuals, ethnicities and ideologies. It also looks at the way cultures interact at geographic borders and in the margins of society. Alternate years; not offered in 2008-2009. (4 credits)
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Anthropology 363: Anthropology of Development
4.00 Credits
Macalester College
The goal of this course is to develop an anthropological understanding and critique of development. It aims to examine both the discourse of development and its practice. The course focuses on the construction of the Third World as an "underdeveloped" area, and discusses the dominant theoretical paradigms of developmentand modernization. It assesses the reasons for the general failure of development programs based on these models to bring about meaningful and substantive change in societies in Asia, Africa and Latin America, and discusses possible alternatives to "development" as it is currently practiced. Alternate years. (4 credits)
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