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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: three hours of anthropology or consent of department. Holisitic and cross-cultural examination of medical systems as systems knowledge and as theories of reality. Includes ecological, sociopolitical, historical, and comparative analyses of health and disease in human cultures in such areas as ethnomedicine, alternative medicines, shamanism, gender, and the human life cycle.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: three hours of Anthropology or consent of department. Cross-cultural analysis of concepts of race, ethnicity and national identity. Course draws on theoretical debates within anthropology and on ethnography in Africa, Asia, Europe, North and South America in order to identify cultural contexts and process behind deployment of recent ethnic conflicts around the world and on comparative study of ethnicity, race and racism in American society. Students will develop a field project related to ethnicity in the New Orleans metropolitan area.
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3.00 Credits
Inquires into the anthropology of sex and gender in historical, evolutionary, critical, and cross-cultural perspective. The course considers anthropological theories of sex and gender in the context of social, political, economic, and biological systems. Drawing on feminist anthropological theory, the significance and meanings of diversities between cultures and within American society is examined. Topics include: the nature/nurture debate; stereotyping; sex and gender roles, erotica, sexuality; homosexuality; gender origins and social change; status and power relationships.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Anthropology 2051 or 2052 or consent of department. Using anthropological perspectives, this course critically focuses on the "concept of race" and the practice of interpreting "races" as naturand real categories for dividing the human species based on perceivable physical differences. It examines the social construction of race in cross-cultural context, and the social, economic, religious, and political (colonial) contexts that shape it. A critical assessment of the essentialist claim that "race" is a self-evident description ofphysical and sociocultural reality. Race, racism, and cultural racism examined as ideology, worldview, and cultural myth.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: consent of department. This course explores the links between research in cultural anthropology and policy. It will examine areas where ethnographic research has shaped social policy and debates that have defined the relationship between anthropology and government. Particular attention will be paid to research methods and presentation strategies used by anthropologists engaged in policy research. Case studies will be drawn from recent ethnographic research in urban settings including work on health policy and substance abuse housing and homelessness and community development and activism.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Anthropology 2051 or 2052 or consent of department. Explores anthropological and ethnohistorical approaches to issues of contact, culture change, resistance, and cultural survival among traditional indigenous societies. Special focus is on early contacts of the colonial era and the impact of the industrial world's economic, political and social order on indigenous peoples and cultures up the the present postcolonial era. The "global" dimension of the anthropologicalperspective on colonialism is emphasized.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: six hours of anthropology or consent of department. The relevance of anthropology to business, government and local communities. Application of anthropological theories and research methods to urban social policy and human services, international and domestic development, health care, community organization, education, advocacy, tourism, market research, work environments and product design. Discussion of ethics of applied fieldwork and intervention. Students will design and carry out an applied field project in the New Orleans metropolitan area.
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3.00 Credits
Ethnographic approach to life in cities and to the cultures of cities. Popular myths and scholarly theories of urban life will be reviewed in light of recent ethnographic research in African, Asian, European, North and South American cities. Particular attention will be paid to cultural processes in cities, including the making of neighborhoods, the deployment of urban myths and folklore, the linking of cultural ideas about race, ethnicity and class in defining urban space, tourism, urban social policy, travel and images of cities and the making of urban consumers. Students will draw on theories and methods developed in class in order to design and carry out a field project in the New Orleans metropolitan area.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: six hours of anthropology or consent of department. This course explores transnational processes contributing to the reconfiguration of communities in the contemporary world. Recent ethnographies will be used to examine international migrations, borderlands, the impact of transnational corporations and commodities on local communities and the growth of transnational social and religious movements.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: nine hours of anthropology or graduate status or consent of department. Critical and interpretive exploration of how ethnographic film and filmmakers shape images and visions of human beings, cultures, and the human condition. Included are the history of the genre, film and ethnography in other media, and visual representations in the art and science of anthropology.
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