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4.00 Credits
(Same as Women's Studies M154P.) Lecture, three hours. Recommended preparation: prior anthropology or women's studies courses. Designed for junior/ senior social sciences majors. Comparative study of women's lives and gender systems in North American cultures from anthropological perspective. Critical review of relevant theoretical and practical issues using ethnography, case study, and presentations. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Recommended preparation: prior anthropology or women's studies courses. Designed for junior/senior social sciences majors. Comparative study of gender systems globally from anthropological perspective. Outline of material conditions of women's lives in world -gender division of labor, relationship of gender to state, and colonialism and resistance movements. P/ NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Preparation: introductory sociocultural anthropology course. Anthropology of Japan has long viewed Japan as homogeneous whole. Restoration of diversity and contradiction in it by listening to voices of Japanese women in various historical contexts. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture/discussion, three hours. Recommended preparation: prior women's studies or anthropology courses. Comparative studies of social movements (e.g., nationalist, socialist, liberal/reform), beginning with Russia and China and including Cuba, Algeria, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Nicaragua, and Iran. Analysis of women's participation in social transformations and centrality of gender interests. P/NP or letter grading.
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5.00 Credits
Lecture, two hours; discussion, two hours. Examination of modern and past tribal and band societies (Amazonian Indians, Kalahari bushmen, and others) that met varying fates, as background to examination of how modern state societies are coping or failing to cope with similar issues. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Examination of race, socially constructed category, from anthropological perspective. Consideration of development of racial categories over time and in different regions, racial passing, multiracial identity in U.S., whiteness, race in popular culture, and race and identity. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
(Same as Afro-American Studies M164.) Lecture, three hours. Promotes understanding of contemporary sociocultural forms among Afro-Americans in U.S. by presenting comparative and diachronic perspective on Afro-American experience in New World. Emphasis on utilization of anthropological concepts and methods in understanding origins and maintenance of particular patterns of adaptation among black Americans. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, four hours. Medical anthropology is organized around holistic exploration of ways in which health, illness, and medical practices are socially and culturally mediated. Topics include comparing illness experiences, understandings about health and illness, patterns of care seeking, therapeutic practices, and medical systems in context of different social and cultural settings, including our own. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
(Same as History M108C.) Lecture, three hours. Designed for juniors/seniors. Introduction to North Africa, especially Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya, also known as Maghrib or Tamazgha. Topics include changing notions of personal, tribal, ethnic, linguistic and religious identities; colonialism; gender and legal rights, changing representations of Islam, and religions in region's public spaces. P/NP or letter grading.
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5.00 Credits
Lecture, four hours. Designed for Anthropology, Applied Linguistics, and Communication Studies majors. Evolution, functions, design, and diversity of animal communication systems such as bird song, dolphin calls, whale song, primate social signals, and human language. Concurrently scheduled with course C292. Letter grading.
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