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This course views the body as a site on which social and cultural processes are imprinted. We will examine homeless, diseased, addicted, hungry, and drugged bodies to show how the body is a center of power relations emerging from a particular political economy. We will also investigate the processes through which some kinds of bodies are constructed as abnormal and are subject to attack, ridicule, or freak-show display. Finally, we will explore the ways in which bodies are used in the accumulation of wealth and power, and what happens to bodies when they are commoditized for the market, are dissected, bought, sold, and rented. Students will have considerable freedom to design and undertake their own research projects. 1.00 units, Lecture
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The City was the foundation of the Classical World. This course examines the city from its beginnings to the collapse of the Mediterranean empires in the seventh century A.D. It includes Athens and Rome, but other Greek and Roman cities are covered, as are cities of other cultures: Egypt, Carthage and the various Persian kingdoms. Topics include urban life, city government and democratic methods, women and the city-country relationship. 1.00 units, Lecture
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As a region, the Far North holds many lessons about the processes and consequences of globalization. Traditionally marginalized, arctic and sub-arctic peoples of the circumpolar world are now in the vanguard of major global changes, including unprecedented climactic, demographic, ecological, economic, political, and socio-cultural shifts. This course examines key themes in the historical development and contemporary status of indigenous peoples of northern North America, Europe, and Asia, from a transnational perspective. Key themes include: subsistence adaptations, local and regional economies, colonization, military and industrial development, environmental and social change, and contemporary sovereignty and social justice movements. 1.00 units, Lecture
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How much of culture is in our heads To what extent does culture affect how we think and act How do we get beyond the old nature (biology) versus nurture (culture) debate to understand the dynamic interplay of biological and cultural forces in human psychology and development, including perception, cognition, emotion, personality, identity, and behavior This course addresses these and other key questions through the concepts, methods, and theories of cognitive and psychological anthropology and related disciplines. This is your brain on culture! 1.00 units, Lecture
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This course covers social science approaches to issues concerning ecology, the environment, and nature. It looks at how social identities and cultural meaning are symbolically tied to the physical environment. Ecology and the environment are affected by larger political, social, and economic forces, so we will also broaden the analysis to include wider spatial and temporal scales. The course will also examine how sociology and geography relate to political ecology. Regional foci will include South and Southeast Asia, Africa, and Latin America. 1.00 units, Lecture
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This course will examine how the northwestern and northern mountainous regions of South Asia have been constructed in the Western popular imagination, both in literary texts and in academic debates. Starting with the era of the Great Game in the late 19th century and ending with the current "war on terror," the course will explore the transformation and continuation of past social and political conditions, and their representations within the region. This will help illuminate some of the enduring themes in anthropological debates, such as culture contact; empires, territories, and resources; and human agency. 1.00 units, Lecture
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This course will explore and evaluate various visual genres, including photography, ethnographic film, and museum presentation, as modes of anthropological analysis-as media of communication facilitating cross-cultural understanding. Among the topics to be explored are the ethics of observation, the politics of artifact collection and display, the dilemma of representing non-Western "others" through Western media, and the challenge of interpreting indigenously produced visual depictions of "self" and "oth 1.00 units, Lecture
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