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3.00 Credits
A critical examination of the development of environmentalism in the late 20th century and the new millennium. Concerns with the politics of ecology under capitalism; also focuses on cultural representations of nature and the current environmental crisis. Discussions address current debates on scarcity, population growth, sustainability, the privatization of nature, global warming, bioreligionalism, biopower, nature/capital, ecological movements, cities and nature, and environmental planning.
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3.00 Credits
A look at how people imbue objects with value ù through the judgments they make, through the meanings and prestige that are accrued as objects circulate within particular economic and symbolic economies, through the institutional processes by which hierarchies of value are produced, through the legal instrument of copyright, and so on. Examine the ways in which people accrue value through their relationships with objects ù as they admire them, own them, produce them, and define their expertise through them. Considers various anthropological approaches to the question of value, not abstractly, but with particular reference to art, to the field that has been so insistent in its claim that its object, the artwork, is the bearer of essential value, and that those who recognize this value are blessed with inherently good taste.
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3.00 Credits
Collections are sites of appropriation and categorization whereby objects are called upon to tell particular stories about the world, and about the collector. We will examine these narratives historically, looking at both institutional and private practices of collecting, and the imperatives that underpin them. We will address questions of cultural stewardship, while also looking at issues of possession and desire.
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3.00 Credits
Language, culture, cognition. Analytic principles of ethnographic semantics. Native systems of classification. Structure of psycho-cultural reality. Folk theory, cultural knowledge systems.
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3.00 Credits
Extensive reading and discussion of selected literatures in linguistic anthropology. C. Language, Power and Identity
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to semiotic theories of meaning in anthropology, linguistics, and other related fields. Focuses on the contextual mediation of cultural meaning through various typologies of signs. Different semiotic methods and techniques contrasted. Analyses developed for broadly cultural and specifically linguistic projects. Problems of interpretation and their relation to science explored throughout.
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3.00 Credits
Examines theoretical and ethnographic perspectives on the role of language ideologies and practices in shaping cultural dynamics of community, gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, class, and nation; linkages between identity formation and everyday speech practices, including code-switching, crossing, register and accent; readings drawn from post-structuralist theory, cultural and linguistic anthropology.
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3.00 Credits
This course frames the anthropology of art in an historical perspective while focusing on contemporary configurations of the field and its relationship to central preoccupations in socio-cultural anthropology. It covers such topics as the analysis of art practices within local ethnographic settings; the politics of art, representation, and display; art, aesthetics and the culture industry; the circulation of art objects, and the production of meaning and value within art-world institutions; patronage; museums and collecting.
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3.00 Credits
Ethnographic interpretation of the "other" informed by post-Marxist, post-structuralist, post-modernist literatures in anthropology. Limits of challenges to enlightenment rationality theorizing about the other and the self. "Decentered self" and the authority to represent (descriptively).
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3.00 Credits
Critical examination of space and time as constructs that are constituted in social actions and that produce and reproduce culture. Focus on material culture, the built environment and cultural landscapes.
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