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2.00 - 3.00 Credits
Through a variety of group processes, including videotaping and individual projects, students will engage the critical factors in effective presenting and teaching. Drawing from principles of instructional design, theories of adult learning, and practical experience, students will identify and work with the special challenges of cultural communicators.
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3.00 Credits
This course engages the study and practice of classical and experimental anthropological writing, focusing on the relation between language, writing style, and the presentation of cultural "others," as dealt with historically, theoretically, and in anthropological literature. How is authorityestablished in texts What forms of expression are possible in contemporary anthropology How can we be sensitive to power relations in knowledge production and in writing in ways that produce knowledge with emancipatory effects, and bring our voice(s) into dialogue with spaces and communities of research
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
In colonial societies, what determined "normal" and "deviant" According to Michel Foucault, the medieval torture chamber was replaced the 18th century by the modern penitentiary and its various cousins: the reformatory, mental asylum, hospital. In the 19th century, these new institutions proliferated not only in Europe, but also in Europe's overseas colonies. They became essential tools of political domination, central to the lives of colonial subjects, who encountered them as inmates, as employees, and as observers. In this seminar, we shall examine the definitions of crime, sickness, insanity, and childhood in Europe and in India, and look closely at the connections between incarceration and colonial rule. We shall ask whether Foucault's analysis of control is applicable to colonized societies, where race was a constant factor in the relationships between the rulers and the ruled.
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2.00 - 3.00 Credits
This course examines the inescapably gendered ideologies and discursive practices of nationhoods and mediates the inadequacies between global capital and national particularisms. It focuses on gendered and subaltern encounters with "nation," delineated by class, ethnicity,caste, religion, sexuality, and region. How is the "local" imbricated with the "global" as it operates through the construction, reification, amanipulation of gendered identities How does the gendering of violence shift the spaces in which cultural citizenship is shaped How does violence as political action reshape social structures In tracing subaltern agency and resistance, and the literal and figurative mechanisms that link states to everyday and episodic violence, this course examines histories of the postcolonial present-their cartography in wars, nationalisms, militarisms, "fundamentalisms," ethnic violence, right-wing movements-in conditions named "peace
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
This course will provide an overview of international financial institutions and their policies and projects, with an emphasis on the World Bank. We will examine emerging citizen-driven accountability frameworks and the efforts by affected communities and their civil society allies to demand that the World Bank move toward a rights-respecting framework and to demand meaningful systems of accountability and redress. Current debates and tensions, such as the push to expand lending for large dams and power plants, attempts to revise and weaken policy standards, and implications for private-sector projects, will also be covered. The students will emerge with an enhanced understanding of the history, policies, projects, and controversies surrounding international development finance.
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3.00 Credits
Within the space of emancipatory anthropology, how might we engage critical multicultural inquiry for social transformation Using postcolonial and feminist frameworks, this course examines the ethical dimensions of knowledge production in ethnographic and participatory action research. Challenging assumptions, representations, and constructions of self and other, at home and globally, as mediated by context, history, culture, race, class, and gender, what questions of research and intervention emerge How might we address issues of power and privilege in relation to the production, construction, and use of knowledge Students will engage in brief advocacy and applied research processes over the semester.
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3.00 Credits
Though postcolonial theory (with postmodernism and poststructuralism) is an important critical perspective, many lack a clear understanding of its content and meaning. This is in part due to the diversity of contexts to which the term is applied, from literary criticism to political theory and global culture. This course examines postcolonial theory in historical context. We explore texts and authors that define this way of thinking, engaging major issues that preoccupy postcolonial thinkers, including identity and alterity, nationalism, cultural imperialism, hybridity, and origin. The relationship between postcolonial theory, Marxism, and postmodernism is explored, as well as complexities and contradictions within postcolonial theory.
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3.00 Credits
This course will look at some of the ways in which cultural others have been represented by varying academic interests, specifically ethnography and anthropology, literature, and popular media, including films and photography. We will examine how images and techniques of representation of the other function in a context of ideology and power. Postmodernism and poststructuralism will be among the frameworks used to discuss the different issues associated with representation, be they class, gender, or race.
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2.00 - 3.00 Credits
Through close supervision and experimental techniques, students practice academic writing in English in a supportive and rigorous workshop environment. Students complete a substantial writing project related to their own scholarly work and receive feedback on their drafts over the course of the semester from the professor and fellow students. The course builds academic writing skills on four tracks: the writer (journals, strategies for creative expression, getting organized), the community (peer review and response), the language (words, sentences, paragraphs, style, voice), and the discipline (anthropology, gender studies, philosophy).
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
This course examines the relation between music and healing in diverse traditions of Africa and the African Diaspora. How is music at once a social ritual, medium for community building, source of resistance to oppression, and spiritual force We will utilize multiple learning modalities to explore these issues, including analyses of case studies and the experience of music making and dance. Through affirmative relations to intellect, body, soul, earth, and world, creativity will be expressed and shared among participants, including students, teachers, and local musicians and artists.
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