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4.00 Credits
The anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss said that animals featured so prominently in myth and ritual "not because they are 'good to eat' but because they are 'good to think.'" The history of art and literature suggests that they are also good to paint, to sculpt, to photograph, to film, and to write about. This course uses methodologies and perspectives offered by the emerging field of animal studies to explore how artists use the figure of the animal and the subject of animality in their work. Studies a range of contemporary representations of animals-in fiction, poetry, film, and the visual arts-with a view to understanding how the contemporary cultural imagination configures the ethics, politics, and aesthetics of the relationship between humans and other animals.
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4.00 Credits
Examines the morality of our treatment of nonhuman animals, beginning with the nature of moral rights and duties. What are rights, and where do they come from? How do we resolve conflicts among rights? Do animals have rights? Next, what are obligations, and where do they come from? What makes right actions right? Do we have special obligations to members of our own family, nation, or species? Is there a moral difference between killing and letting die? Do we have group obligations as well as individual obligations? We ask how these issues apply to our treatment of nonhuman animals. Are we justified in treating animals as property under the law? Are we justified in using animals for food, clothing, entertainment, research, or companionship? Finally, what are the ethics of animal advocacy? Here we consider abolition vs. regulation, incrementalism vs. absolutism, and legal reform vs. direct action.
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4.00 Credits
Examines the philosophy of cognitive ethology and comparative psychology, beginning by discussing the nature of animal minds. Are animals conscious? Do they experience pain? Do they have beliefs? Do they use language? Are they self-conscious? How can we know? This involves applying concepts from metaphysics and epistemology to research in cognitive ethology and comparative psychology. We discuss more general questions like: Are animals agents? Do they have free will? Do they live meaningful lives? Do they have moral rights? This involves applying concepts from ethics, existentialism, and other areas of philosophy to our conclusions about animal minds. Along the way, we ask how research on animal minds can affect our philosophical theories. For example, should we revise our theories of consciousness, language, agency, morality, and so on if they seem to have implausible implications about animals?
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4.00 Credits
Students study human interaction with both food and animals and the environmental impacts and ethical issues that arise from such interaction. Focuses on the moral standing of animals, animals as food, and the environmental impacts of agriculture, transportation, and consumption. Surveys major thinkers in the field, including Michael Pollan, Peter Singer, Jim Mason, Wendell Berry, David Foster Wallace, Jonathan Safran Foer, and Martha Nussbaum. Students engage in collaborative research projects, with possible field trips to local agricultural sites.
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4.00 Credits
Provides an overview of public policy with respect to the somewhat contradictory treatment of animals by humans, with a focus on how public policy is created and how social change occurs. We consider what public policy consists of and what actors and factors play a role in the creation of public policy; how society views animals; the capacities of animals; how ethics relates to animal treatment; how animals are currently utilized by our society; and political and other efforts to improve or alter the current treatment of animals, including the influence of science, government, business and non-governmental organizations in defining and influencing animalrelated policies. We focus on legislation, litigation, regulation, and ballot initiative and consumer campaigns and their effectiveness, as well as other strategies that relate to improving animal welfare. We also discuss the meaning of "animal rights" and the success and impact of the modern animal protection movement.
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4.00 Credits
An introductory or intermediate course that examines topics in animal studies from social science and humanistic perspectives. It considers a range of topics, including the sociology of human/animal relations and the cultural meanings of animals. The aim of the course is to advance understanding of a specific topic concerning animals' interaction with humans, their environment, and one another. For the intermediate version, a relevant prerequisite is required.
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4.00 Credits
Surveys the general aims, methods, and findings of modern cultural anthropology and its ties with the humanities and social sciences. Economic, political, and family organizations and systems of thought, including religion, are covered with equal attention to "primitive," traditional, and modern complex societies, particularly non-Western societies.
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4.00 Credits
Surveys the societies and cultures of Africa. Divided between accounts of traditional ways of life, the history of colonial contact with Europe, and consideration of life in contemporary African states. Involves anthropological studies as well as historical works, novels, and autobiographies, many by African authors. African material is related to broader issues of social theory, ethnicity, social change, and the ties between culture, society, and values.
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4.00 Credits
Provides a unifying anthropological perspective for comparing Hispanic and Afro-Creole Caribbean societies, reviewing how Caribbean colonial experiences have structured differences in the race, class, and ethnic/national identities of the peoples living in these two Caribbean traditions. Examines how this resulted in different cultural forms and ideological orientations as the cultural legacies of the various peoples of the Caribbean underwent processes of creolization. Addresses issues of identity and empowerment in relation to Caribbean diaspora, tourism, and efforts to develop Pan-Caribbean institutions and a Pan-Caribbean consciousness.
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4.00 Credits
No course description available.
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Prerequisite: Human Society and Culture (ANTH-UA 1) or permission of the instructor. Abercrombie, Dávila, Rosaldo, Stout.
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