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3.00 Credits
The changing dynamics of contemporary social life in the Asian Pacific with particular emphasis on East and Southeast Asia. Ethnographic case studies of a range of cultural and social phenomena, including commodity consumption, mass media, expanding middle-class identities, religious movements, and popular art forms, examining both lived experiences in the region and the theoretical analysis of processes associated with modernity and globalization. Prerequisite: Sophomore or higher standing and Anthropology 112. Four credit hours. S, I.
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From the forced migration of the enslaved to the current refugee crisis, diasporan movements have influenced the world profoundly. Explores the formation and transformation of diasporas in Europe and the Americas with special attention to how black people made and experienced the Atlantic world. Close attention to the constructions of race and identity, popular cultural expressions, and the complex relationship between Africa and its descendants. Course materials include ethnography, history, fiction, film, and music. Prerequisite: American Studies 276 or Anthropology 112. Four credit hours. S, I. BHIMULL
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4.00 Credits
Listed as English 348. Four credit hours. L, I.
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4.00 Credits
Texts that attempt to reclaim or recreate histories of marginalized peoples through the use of (auto)biography, fiction, film, poetry, visual art, and music will be analyzed for the strategies employed by oppressed and exploited peoples to tell the "truth" of their own lives. Also addressed will be questions of objectivity and verifiability and the consequences of historically specific definitions of "fact" and "fiction." Four credit hours.
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4.00 Credits
Listed as East Asian Studies 353. Four credit hours. S.
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3.00 Credits
Native American sacred ways of speaking, acting, knowing, and creating in diverse historical and contemporary cultural contexts. Indigenous views and practices are studied as a groundwork for interpretive and theoretical formulations about the role of religion in Native American history, culture, and language. Native American religious traditions considered as dynamic modes of survival, empowerment, and renewal in the face of Euro-American domination. Indigenous, anthropological, and Euro-American perspectives on religion are brought into balanced dialogue and exchange. Prerequisite: Anthropology 112 or 211. Four credit hours. U.
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An examination of the emergence and uses of concepts such as development, growth, and globalization. Through the study of transformations in work, community, and health, focuses on the impact that processes associated with globalization have on the lives of poor people and on their responses to these transformations. Prerequisite: Sophomore or higher standing and Anthropology 112. Four credit hours. S, I.
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3.00 Credits
Gender and sexuality represent fundamental categories of human social and cultural experience; in every human society, understandings about gender and sexuality constitute powerful aspects of individual identity that shape and are shaped by key aspects of social relations and cultural belief. Yet specific beliefs and social structures vary tremendously across cultures. An investigation of the varied ethnography of gender and sexuality as well as important theoretical concerns: how meanings are attached to the human body, production and reproduction of gender hierarchies, and processes by which gender and sexual meanings (and associated social forms) may be transformed or contested in societies. Prerequisite: Anthropology 112 and one other anthropology course. Four credit hours. U. MILLS
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The current era of globalization is often understood as a unique period of worldwide interconnection. The term is widely used to describe transformations in daily life and in various realms, from economic and political to social and cultural. But what is globalization and how is it different from what has gone before Has it shifted fundamental notions of individual identity, social relationships, and (trans)national belonging If so, how Exploring globalization through the lens of popular culture enables investigation of new modes of human connection and disconnection in the contemporary world. Examines diverse forms of popular cultural production, including film, music, and literature. Prerequisite: Anthropology 112 and sophomore or higher standing. Four credit hours. KARL
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Hearing is one of the invisible senses, a crucial way humans experience and understand the world, but one often neglected by the social sciences. Recent renewed emphases on sound as a crucial mode of perception and cognition are linked to shifts in technology and their associated social and cultural changes. A cross-disciplinary approach to understanding sound and the auditory in human social and cultural life, drawing from ethnography, aesthetics, media studies, philosophy, and psychoacoustics. Examines sound as part of religious or ritual ceremonies, as intertextual cultural processes and products, as digitally encoded information, and as resource for social interaction and understanding. Prerequisite: Anthropology 112. Four credit hours. KARL
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