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4.00 Credits
The word "democracy" literally means "the power of the people." But who are the people? And what is their power? Reading authors including Aristotle, James Madison, and several contemporary political theorists, this course examines the development of the idea of democracy from ancient Greece to the present-day United States. Our analysis will focus on one of the oldest and most powerful criticisms of democracy: that the power of the people turns inevitably into the tyranny of the majority.
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4.00 Credits
The word "democracy" literally means "the power of the people." But who are the people? And what is their power? Reading authors including Aristotle, James Madison, and several contemporary political theorists, this course examines the development of the idea of democracy from ancient Greece to the present-day United States. Our analysis will focus on one of the oldest and most powerful criticisms of democracy: that the power of the people turns inevitably into the tyranny of the majority.
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4.00 Credits
The word "democracy" literally means "the power of the people." But who are the people? And what is their power? Reading authors including Aristotle, James Madison, and several contemporary political theorists, this course examines the development of the idea of democracy from ancient Greece to the present-day United States. Our analysis will focus on one of the oldest and most powerful criticisms of democracy: that the power of the people turns inevitably into the tyranny of the majority.
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4.00 Credits
The word "democracy" literally means "the power of the people." But who are the people? And what is their power? Reading authors including Aristotle, James Madison, and several contemporary political theorists, this course examines the development of the idea of democracy from ancient Greece to the present-day United States. Our analysis will focus on one of the oldest and most powerful criticisms of democracy: that the power of the people turns inevitably into the tyranny of the majority.
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4.00 Credits
This course explores the challenges and contradictions of urban life. We examine fictional and non-fictional accounts of ghettos and slums to investigate relationships between class, race, violence, the family, and politics. Our texts include the HBO series The Wire; an ethnography of the drug trade in NYC; and a journalistic account of the Mumbai slums. We explore the arguments these texts make about the problems plaguing cities, and discuss possible solutions.
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4.00 Credits
Our desires and perceptions take shape not just individually but through shared systems of meaning: culture. How can we see culture, though, when our own often seems transparently natural (like water to a fish, one anthropologist observed), and others' intrinsically alien? Short answer: through encounter. With the aim of writing original cultural analysis of Harvard and other subjects, we'll study anthropologists (Geertz, Rosaldo), social theorists (Williams, James), and other writers (McCarthy, Didion, Alexie).
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4.00 Credits
Our desires and perceptions take shape not just individually but through shared systems of meaning: culture. How can we see culture, though, when our own often seems transparently natural (like water to a fish, one anthropologist observed), and others' intrinsically alien? Short answer: through encounter. With the aim of writing original cultural analysis of Harvard and other subjects, we'll study anthropologists (Geertz, Rosaldo), social theorists (Williams, James), and other writers (McCarthy, Didion, Alexie).
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4.00 Credits
Our desires and perceptions take shape not just individually but through shared systems of meaning: culture. How can we see culture, though, when our own often seems transparently natural (like water to a fish, one anthropologist observed), and others' intrinsically alien? Short answer: through encounter. With the aim of writing original cultural analysis of Harvard and other subjects, we'll study anthropologists (Geertz, Rosaldo), social theorists (Williams, James), and other writers (McCarthy, Didion, Alexie).
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4.00 Credits
This course offers a comparative examination of the racial ideologies in North and Latin America. Major themes include contemporary anthropological and historical theories of the development of racial ideologies in the U.S.; recent scholarly controversies about the significance of race in Brazil; and the nature of whiteness as a racial identity.
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4.00 Credits
This course explores white people as a social group and whiteness as a cultural category. We will examine from an anthropological perspective issues of white privilege, white racism, the relationships of whites to non-white groups, historical changes in the definition of who counts as white, and the self-conceptions of various white groups in different times and places.
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