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1.00 Credits
An examination of the art and architecture of sub-Saharan Africa as modes of symbolic communication: the ritual context of art, the concept of the artist, the notion of popular art, and the decorated body. 1.00 units, Lecture
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This course will acquaint students with a range of research methods commonly used by anthropologists, and with the types of questions and designs that justify their use. It will describe a subset of methods (individual and group interviewing, and observation) in more detail, and give students practice in their use, analysis, and presentation. Through accompanying readings, the course will expose students to the controversies surrounding the practice of ethnography and the presentation of ethnographic authority. Students will conduct group field research projects during the course, and will develop and write up research proposals for projects they themselves could carry out in a summer or semester. It is recommended that students have already taken an anthropology course. 1.00 units, Lecture
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This course explores the anthropological tradition as it has changed from the late 19th century until the present. Students will read works of the major figures in the development of the discipline, such as Bronislaw Malinowski, Franz Boas, Margaret Mead, and Claude Levi-Strauss. They will learn not only what these anthropologists had to say about reality, but why they said it when they did. In this sense, the course turns an anthropological eye on anthropology itself. 1.00 units, Lecture
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Crossing national and disciplinary boundaries, this course will examine through the perspectives of anthropology and literature the lives of women in three East Asian countries: China, Japan and Korea. Deeply influenced by Confucianism and Buddhism, these three countries share cultural characteristics yet present striking social differences. Drawing on novels, memoirs, ethnography and film, we will compare women's experiences in family life, religious practice, the workplace and battlefield. As we consider similarities and differences, we will also scrutinize the common practice of grouping these three countries as a cultural entity, thus complicating our understanding of the idea of East Asia. 1.00 units, Seminar
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At a fundamental level we take for granted the ways in which time is organized in our lives. Yet there is nothing "natural" about most temporal divisions. This course investigates concepts and practices of time across cultures, paying particular attention to the roles of power, economy and technology. We will consider the relationship between time and economic organization, looking at the impact of industrialization on the development of clocks, watches, schedules and deadlines. We ALSO will examine the cultural politics of calendars and computers, think about ideas of time travel, the "past," "future," and "progress," and question the ways in which these IDEAS shape our views of societies worldwide. Finally, we will think about the ways in which individuals narrate their life times in relation to larger collective events such as rituals and catastr 1.00 units, Lecture
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This course explores the increasingly complex ways in which people in industrial and non-industrial societies locate themselves with respect to land and landscape. Contrary to some widespread assumptions regarding the fit between identity and place (i.e., ethnicity and nationalism), we study a range of settings in which people actively construct, contest, and reappropriate the spaces of modern life. Through texts, seminar discussions, films, and a field-based research project as the major exercise, students will explore a number of issues, including cultural persistence and the loss of place; the meaning of the frontier and indigenous land rights struggles; gender and public space; the deterritorialization of culture (i.e., McDonald's in Hong Kong); and the cultural costs of an increasingly "fast" and high-tech world. 1.00 units, Seminar
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1.00 Credits
This course introduces the student to the study of human ecology from a global and intercultural perspective. The texts, lectures, films, discussions, and assignments in this course are designed to provide: 1)an overview and understanding of the origins, development, and variation of human ecological knowledge and practices around the world, including foraging, subsistence agriculture, pastoralism, and intensive and industrial agriculture production systems as well as patterns of distribution and consumption; 2) an introduction to the major concepts and theories of human/cultural ecology and environmental anthropology; 3) an understanding of the concept of Traditional Ecological Knowledge and its relationship to modern science, especially in the areas of ecosystem conceptualization and modeling, adaptation, and resource use and management; and 4) a means of evaluating the cultural roots of contemporary environmental problems, the potential for "sustainable development," and the applicability of indigenous ecological knowledge in today's global political economy 1.00 units, Lecture
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This seminar will explore international economic and social development from an anthropological perspective. We will critically examine concepts of development, underdevelopment, and progress. We will compare how multilateral lenders and small nongovernmental organizations employ development rhetoric and methods. We will examine specific case studies of development projects in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, asking what has been attained, and what is attainable. 1.00 units, Seminar
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces Europe as a culturally and ecologically diverse and unevenly developed region. Students will examine the dynamics of communities located in, for example, the Scottish Lowlands, London, southern Italy, Brittany, Spain, Yugoslavia and rural Greece. Topics for reading and discussion will include: ethnicity, class, gender, economic decline, emigration, and religious conflict. 1.00 units, Lecture
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1.00 Credits
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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