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4.00 Credits
Listed as East Asian Studies 277. Four credit hours. S, I.
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4.00 Credits
Listed as History 273. Four credit hours. H, I.
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2.00 Credits
The planning and installation of an exhibition of Somali Bantu culture and history at the Colby Museum of Art. Also involves work on community outreach, publicity, and events associated with the exhibit. The exhibition is drawn from an online exhibition created by students enrolled in Anthropology 298B during spring 2008. Two credit hours. BESTEMAN
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3.00 Credits
The collapse of socialist governments in 1989 and of the Soviet Union in 1991 were major events of the 20th century. Since then countries of Eastern Europe have undergone economic, political, and cultural transformations commonly viewed as simple, inevitable transitions to democracy and capitalism. Their causes and potential outcomes, though, are far more complicated, diverse, and uncertain. An exploration of historical and cultural backgrounds and present contexts, covering issues from the socialist past and its collapse to post-socialist efforts to build civil society to the complexities of nationalism, gender, and sexuality to changing perceptions of time, space, memory, and popular culture. Prerequisite: Anthropology 112. Four credit hours. RENKIN
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3.00 Credits
Explores the diverse ethnicities, nations, and geographic regions of the Middle East and North Africa. Problematizes both internal and external representations of people, cultures, and communities in the region and explores how artists, writers, social scientists, and other scholars have sought to understand different aspects of life across the region, including ethnographic representation, gender, media, religion, state governance, etc. Course materials to include ethnography, history, films, songs, and fiction. Prerequisite: Anthropology 112. Four credit hours. KARL
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3.00 Credits
Until recently anthropologists often depicted cultural systems as timeless traditions, paying limited attention to how historical experiences produce, as they are shaped by, people's everyday beliefs and actions. Examines the significance of history for anthropological understanding and vice versa. Investigates how different cultures construct the past and how the past shapes everyday lives, our own and others. Exploring sites such as myths, monuments, bodies, and archives, questions what is the past How is it present How do societies remember How do they forget Topics include technology, time, travel, commemoration, landscape, and war. Prerequisite: Anthropology 112. Four credit hours. BHIMULL
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3.00 Credits
War, conflict, and violence are among the most extreme recurring human phenomena, presenting particular challenges for social scientific analyses. How does one begin to portray events that are horrific or traumatic When is violence exceptional and when is it an ongoing and substantial component of daily life Is violence the last recourse when all other modes of interaction have failed, just another form of communication, or a breakdown of communication entirely Is violence a fundamental part of human nature Are there acceptable forms of violence We will pursue such questions, while considering case histories of violence and conflict in locales around the world. Prerequisite: Anthropology 112. Four credit hours. KARL
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3.00 Credits
Anthropologists are renowned for their research with exotic peoples in natural settings. Topics include the development of fieldwork as a means to investigate cultural diversity, both abroad and at home; the goals and ethics of anthropological research; the nature of the fieldwork experience; the interaction with informants and the production of knowledge and how we "write culture." How the search for "other" also helps us to understand self. Students will apply fieldwork concepts and methods to their own study of American culture. Prerequisite: Anthropology 112 and a 200-level anthropology course and sophomore standing. Four credit hours. MILLS, TATE
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3.00 Credits
An analysis of the contemporary state of anthropology as a discipline. Special attention to political economy, symbolic anthropology, poststructuralism, reflexive anthropology, postmodernism, and feminist anthropology. Prerequisite: Anthropology 112 and either 113 or a 200-level anthropology course and junior or higher standing. Four credit hours. BESTEMAN, BHIMULL
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4.00 Credits
Creativity flows continually through all human cultures and languages with spontaneity, novelty, and unfolding meaning. A survey of various anthropological perspectives on the power of individuality, interpretation, resistance, and imagination in the aesthetic process. Considered are music, poetics, literature, and graphic arts in various historical and contemporary cultural contexts. Four credit hours. A.
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