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4.00 Credits
Africana Studies 262 Colonialism, Law, and Human Rights in Africa GIS, Human Rights See Africana Studies 262 for description.
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Twentieth-century politics and culture were intimately linked to the rapid development of radio, television, and film. These electronic media have creatively engaged with local cultural practices around the world in reshaping the nature of artistic expression, national and racial difference, and political power. This course uses anthropological notions of language to explore radio, video/film, television, the Internet, and mobile phone technologies as forms of social mediation. A particular focus is on how actorcentered performance approaches to language, reference, and authority give insight into the making of contemporary, electronically mediated ways of understanding the world. Among the topics included are radio and state power in Africa, mobile phones and political change in East Asia, South African television and Internet, and mass media and the Rwandan genocide.
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4.00 Credits
Africana Studies, Environmental Studies, GIS, Human Rights Western fantasies have historically represented Africa as the embodiment of a mythical, primordial wilderness. Within this evocative imagery, nature is racialized, and Africans are constructed as existing in a state closer to nature. Conrad's Heart of Darkness perhaps best exemplifies this process, through its exploration of the "savage"dimensions of colonialism in the African interior. Imperial discourses often relied on these tropes of savagery and barbarism to link understandings of natural history with ideas about racial difference. This course investigates the racialization of nature under imperial regimes, and considers the continuing legacies in postcolonial situations. How have certain ethnic identities, for example, been linked to nature? How do these associations reproduce social hierarchies and inequalities? How is race invoked in struggles for land and resource rights? Through an exploration of ethnographic accounts, historical analyses, and works of fiction based in Africa, this course offers a new way of deciphering cultural representations of nature, and the fundamentally political agendas that lie within them.
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4.00 Credits
This course examines children and young people- not only as they are "made" in culture, butalso as resourceful and inventive "makers" whoboth inherit and re-create ways of thinking, acting, and feeling. It also investigates how young people have not only been the targets of government policies, but have also actively contributed to social and political change. Readings include recent work from Alex Kotlowitz, Lesley Sharp, and Sharon Stephens as well as "classics of the field" from Victor Turner, Margaret Mead, and others. A key theme is the contrast between contemporary young people's actual experiences and a romantic understanding of youth as a time of innocence and happiness distinct from adulthood.
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4.00 Credits
GIS, Human Rights, Middle Eastern Studies, SRE This course examines the past and present experiences of Arabs, Iranians, Turks, and Kurds who reside in Europe and North America, as well as Jews of diverse backgrounds who live in Israel and abroad. It also explores how and why these groups are commonly regarded as "diasporas," aterm that is itself closely connected with the displacement and dispersion of Jews from their homeland in the sixth century B.C.E. The course critically investigates not only the history of "diaspora" as a concept, but also the contemporarycircumstances that have encouraged its recent prominence in public and scholarly discussions. Students work comparatively across national contexts and historical eras, relying on readings and films from cultural anthropologists, sociologists, and "diasporans" themselves.
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4.00 Credits
This course examines the current political and humanitarian crisis in Sudan from the perspective of history, social anthropology, geography, and political analysis. It considers the harsh natural environment of the region, the wealth of indigenous cultures, and the predatory nature of the Sudanese state. How did Africa's largest country come to be? What does it mean to be Sudanese today? What has been the effect of outside intervention byWestern powers and the recent rise of political Islam? What about Sudan's civil wars: are they resource conflicts, the consequence of unequal economic development, or the result of cultural and religious difference? Will oil exploitation be a help or hindrance? And do Sudan's endless conflicts mean that it is destined to break up into more than one political entity, like Somalia or Ethiopia?
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4.00 Credits
GIS, ICS Ireland has long captured the anthropological imagination, and the field has provided classic depictions of kinship and community, controversial accounts of rural decline and disorder, and current work on the country's shifting position in European and world politics. This course includes a range of ethnographic exploration in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. It considers the multiple and contested meanings of Irish identity in contexts as varied as the increasingly diverse city of Dublin, nomadic or seminomadic Traveller communities, politically divided Northern Ireland towns, and Irishlanguage regions. Ethnographic texts are assigned, and films with material on current events in Ireland and Northern Ireland are screened.
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4.00 Credits
Human Rights GSS This course examines the emergence and transformation of gender studies within anthropology since the 1970s. It reviews early texts that challenged anthropologists to recognize women's lives as valid subjects of study, as well as more recent work that encompasses constructions of both femininities and masculinities, exploring the division between and interrelation of biological and social factors in determining sex and gender. How are perceived biological differences accorded social meaning in various contexts? How are bodies interpreted within gender discourses? The politics of gender, including its relation to ideologies of colonialism, nationalism, and capitalism, is studied, along with crosscultural constructions of gender structures and practices. Critical interpretation of gender and sexuality in contemporary American popular culture is reviewed. Prior experience with anthropology is preferable but not necessary.
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4.00 Credits
Asian Studies, GIS, STS Japanese animation, also known as "Japanimation"or anime, is one of the most dynamic forms of cultural production in contemporary Japan. This course traces the history of anime and its relationships to the nation's social, political, and economic transformations over the past century. It explores the origins of Japanese animation, which emerged in the 1930s as a form of government propaganda to educate children about the imperialist project in Asia, and the animated films of the postwar decades, which depicted the national trauma of the atomic bombs while also offering a new, utopian vision of a modern Japan that centered around industry and technology. The different subgenres that began emerging in the 1960s (e.g., "Tokyo cyberpunk," "cute youngirl" anime) are also investigated. The final section of the course considers the globalization of the genre in recent decades, which has heightened the prestige and cachet of Japanese artistic production, even as the nation's political and economic influence wanes.
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4.00 Credits
This course introduces a region that has constituted one of theWest's primary "Others." It payspecial attention to the Middle East's contemporary complexity and heterogeneity. The focus is on four interrelated themes: practices of kinship, gender, and sexuality; nationalism and statebuilding; the social consequences of compulsory education, mass literacy, and mass media; and recent efforts to link, negotiate, and/or reconcile religion with "modern," secular, and liberal life.The Middle East is examined not as a selfcontained entity, but as a region that has been formed by centuries of relations with social actors in other parts of the world, including (and especially) Euro-American imperial powers. Course readings include works from Dale Eickelman, Amitav Ghosh, and Rhoda Ann Kanaaneh, among others.
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