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4.00 Credits
The modern state increasingly governs, regulates and intervenes in what was hitherto considered private domains of life. This course will explore how modern power is produced and exercised. However, from an anthropological perspective it will also examine other non-modern state forms. Themes that will be considered in class include power, domination, resistance, and the shifting relationship between public and private.
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4.00 Credits
Examines the ways forms of speaking can constitute cultural life and vice versa. A comprehensive overview of linguistic theories of structuralism and their criticism will form the basis on which to proceed to an ethnography of speaking in different societies. Topics will include: the structuralism of Ferdinand de Saussure, the Sapir-Whorf Relativity Hypothesis and its modern evocations, pragmatics, performativity, Bakhtinian dialogicality, and poetry and poetics.
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4.00 Credits
This course introduces students to anthropological approaches to the study of law. This includes a survey of the historical development of the anthropology of law, and current research concerns in the field, including disputes and adjudication; legal institutions and practices; transitional justice; legal pluralism; and law and human rights. Using both classic and contemporary texts we explore the salience of the legal across a range of social and cultural contexts.
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4.00 Credits
Once taken as anthropology's givens, "traditions" and "culture" are now viewed as creations of politics of nations/nationalism. The Soviet collapse has spawned tradition-inventing projects from the Baltics and Central Asia to the Russian Far-East, involving redefinition of useable cultural heritage, national ideology, "national character", resistance/opposition, religion, morality, personhood, modernity, patronage/corruption, and "traditionalism". Course examines roles of states, elites, "tradition-bearers", etc., based on post-Soviet anthropological literature and comparisons outside of Eurasia and outside anthropology.
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4.00 Credits
In recent decades, East Asia has witnessed drastic family transformations, such as changes in gender relations and a demographic transition to one of the lowest fertility rates in the world. This course examines these family changes in East Asia, including childbearing, the experience of coming of age, romance and courtship, marriage and family relations, divorce and singlehood, aging and old-age support, and family separation and reunion.
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4.00 Credits
An engagement with an interdisciplinary set of readings that analyze the relationship between memory and social reconciliation, and the role that theories of truth, justice, and redress play in this equation. We analyze truth commissions, forms of justice, and debates regarding reparations, and the points of conjuncture and disjuncture between national discourses and subaltern concepts of truth, justice, and reconciliation. Case studies include Rwanda, South Africa, Guatemala, Peru, and El Salvador.
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4.00 Credits
The celebration of national and local forms of heritage often rides roughshod over the interests of the local citizenry it is intended to serve. In this course we look at how such conflicts play out in several cities - notably Athens, Bangkok, Beijing, Istanbul, Jerusalem and Rome - and address the ethical, practical, and architectural conflicts that arise from an anthropological perspective.
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4.00 Credits
Creole is a term loosely applied to social entities (societies, persons, products) that are the result of racial, cultural and linguistic mixing of two or more distinct peoples. This course considers how creolity is mobilized in popular culture. It showcases ten pop icons from the Caribbean and Latin America, and considers how their iconic status is shaped by questions, assertions and debates that have also defined creolization as a concept in anthropology, literary theory and politics.
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4.00 Credits
This course explores the relation between illicit networks, the informal economy, transnationalism, and the state in Latin America. We question the connections between illicit networks and violence and debate how violence and the law are represented by various actors. We challenge the definitions of what is considered formal and informal, and legal and illegal activity, in order to ethnographically examine what official views obscure in the everyday relations of transnational activities.
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4.00 Credits
Offers introductory survey of Japan from anthropological perspective. Examines ethnographies, classical, contemporary and interdisciplinary. Special emphasis on ethnographies dealing with music; taking sound as a way of knowing, being in the world, and negotiating social differences, we will develop critical skills to "hear" multiple social relations and histories that make music so intertwined with competing interests and sensibilities in contemporary Japan and beyond.
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