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4.00 Credits
For sociocultural anthropologists, ethnography is both a way of studying human communities and a way of writing about them. Ethnographic fieldwork raises issues of participation, power, and perspective; cultural relativism; the nature of evidence; and the ethics of engagement. Writing ethnography highlights other issues, such as the politics of representing "others." This course explores these and related issues through close reading and intensive discussion of selected texts.
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4.00 Credits
Most people today live in an environment awash with images in motion. This course explores, from an anthropological point of view, the implications of this media-saturated environment in a range of ethnographic and historical contexts. Issues to be addressed include: technologies and mediation; global and subglobal circuits of transmission; the nature of image-based publics and publicity; media temporalities; visibility, visualization and surveillance.
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4.00 Credits
New work on the anthropology of China will be the focus of this course. Special attention will be given to issues of: nationalism, consumption and globalization, impact of the one-child policy, gender inequality, changing family relations, individualism, and private lives.
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4.00 Credits
This is the centenary year of William James' death (d. 1910), and it is fitting that we should look back on the work of this great Harvard psychologist and philosopher and his many contributions to American thought. A retrospective on some of the ideas and work of his brother, the great novelist Henry James, is included. To capture what William James was after we use the term "sense," in both the empirical and the value-laden meanings for experience. For Henry James, we will speak of "sensibility." We will attempt to understand their varied projects in their own as well as their contemporaries' terms but also offer a modern anthropological interpretation and appreciation of them. Weekly readings will be supplemented with occasional field trips to relevant sites of interest.
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4.00 Credits
Secularism, once understood as a normative political arrangement that promoted social peace and multiple religiosities, has recently been critiqued for circumscribing or denying people's abilities to live according to their religious understandings. However, such arguments have also stimulated strident responses that re-instantiate secular values and the enlightenment critique of religion as divisive and irrational. This course will examine recent controversies in France, India, the US and Turkey that have put secularism into question.
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4.00 Credits
Special study of selected topics in archaeology, given on an individual basis and directly supervised by a member of the department. May be taken for a letter grade or pass/fail. To enroll, a student must submit a petition form (available from the Anthropology Undergraduate Office or downloadable from the department's Anthropology/Archaeology website), signed by the adviser under whom he or she wishes to study, and a proposed plan of study.
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4.00 Credits
Special study of selected topics in Anthropology, given on an individual basis and directly supervised by a member of the Department. May be taken for a letter grade or Pass/Fail. To enroll, a student must submit to the Anthroplogy Undergraduate Office, William James 352, a course form signed by the adviser under whom s/he wishes to study and a proposed plan of study. Anthro 91zr form available from the Undergrad Office, or the department website.
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4.00 Credits
Special (individual) study of Peabody Museum collections directly supervised by a faculty member and a member of the curatorial staff. Requires a project involving a museum collection and developed in consultation with the supervisors.
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4.00 Credits
Special (individual) study of Peabody Museum collections directly supervised by a faculty member and a member of the curatorial staff. Requires a project involving a Harvard Museum collection, developed in consultation with the supervisors.
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4.00 Credits
This course will focus on archaeological thinking, the cognitive skeleton of the discipline of archaeology, the principles and the logic that are the foundation of all archaeological conclusions and research. Central to this is an understanding of research design, archaeological theory and interpretation, culture and material culture; as well as an understanding of how to examine and construct an archaeological argument.
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