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4.00 Credits
An anthropological exploration of religious belief and practices in diverse social and historical contexts. Emphasis placed on selected non-western traditions of the sacred, and on issues of power, ritual, moral order, and social transformation. ( VIII)
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4.00 Credits
Introduction to South Asian civilization looking not only at Hinduism and Islam but at the socioeconomic and political systems which have supported religions traditions. ( VIII)
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4.00 Credits
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century developments in Hinduism, Islam, and Sikhism are covered, with emphasis on changing forms as well as contents of religious movements. ( VIII)
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4.00 Credits
An exploration of the concepts of identity, culture, ethnicity, race, and nation through ethnographic cases, with a view to asking larger questions: How do people create nativeness and foreignness How does "culture" get workedinto contemporary racisms and nationalisms ( VIII)
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4.00 Credits
A review of competing approaches in anthropological theory from the nineteenth century to the present, covering social evolutionism, functionalism, structuralism, and cultural relativism, as well as more recent intellectual movements and issues such as feminism, cultural studies, poststructuralism, and postmodernism.
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4.00 Credits
Examines theories of conflict management. Analyzes how conflict is mitigated in diverse cultures: at the interpersonal level, between groups, and on the international scale. Students discuss readings, hear from conflict management practitioners, and simulate negotiations. Same as Political Science 154G. (VIII)
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4.00 Credits
Probes culture and politics of the female body in contemporary American life. Focusing on "feminine beauty,"examines diverse notions of beauty, bodily practices, and body politics embraced by American women of different classes, ethnicities, and sexualities. (VII)
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4.00 Credits
Students are provided with the analytical tools necessary to undertake research on visual representations. Images, as cultural productions, are steeped in the values, ideologies, and taken-for-granted beliefs of the culture which produced them. Of concern are representations of race, identity, gender, and the "Other." Same as Chicano/Latino Studies 116. ( VII)
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4.00 Credits
Fundamental requirements for development of a musical tradition. Guiding structural principles which must be agreed upon for new forms of expression to be understood and accepted. How members of society develop their own individual musical cultures and how these permit them to interact with the personal cultures of others.
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4.00 Credits
A guided introduction survey through some of the written research in the field of ethnomusicology. Assigned readings and class discussion. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
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