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4.00 Credits
Study of human belief systems in their varied forms, the nature of religious understanding and the interplay between religious forms of life, and political structures using anthropological concepts. Consideration of the resurgence of religious belief in modern culture. Assumes a basic familiarity with Anthropology. Offered in 2006 and alternate years.
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4.00 Credits
This course examines how systems of power are established through the imposition and contestation of symbolic practices both within and between cultural groups. Beginning with an examination of how the powerless have historically used deception and feigning deference as a political strategy to confront a sovereign state, central emphasis of the course will be on understanding "symbolic violence"; the establishment of a sense of the "natural" to cultural constructions of identity and practice. Utilizing this notion of symbolic violence, the course investigates how the historical formulations of racial, gender and class hierarchies were developed as modern classificatory schemas of identity within the colonial context. The course will end with an ethnographic examination of power within a contemporary ethnographic situation of cultural conflict. Offered in 2005 and alternate years.
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4.00 Credits
Through the intersection of the disciplines of anthropology and theatre, performance research, this course examines the dramatic aesthetic and cultural shifts that have occured with the advent of what Jameson has called "late advanced capitalism". Starting with an examination of the decade of the seventies, this course charts the explosion of particular cultural aesthetics into worlds of entertainment, economics and politics. A significant concern of the course is for students to understand the degree to which everyday life has become a mediated reality with the concerns of marketing, hype and profitability being central to that reality.
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4.00 Credits
We begin by examining the place of ritualization as part of our biological heritage, and then explore the cultural uses of ritual, performance and ceremony in both informal and formal interaction from a cross-cultural vantage point, finally we will examine a number of avenues by which traditions of performance may be integrated into the artistic investigation of self and society.
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4.00 Credits
Designed for the advanced anthropology student or international business and culture major, this course examines the recent reterritorialization of the world known as “globalization.” Using a critical anthropological perspective that addresses the cultural dimensions of globalization, the course examines the organized and disjunctive social processes by which local and transnational identity have emerged. Prerequisite: AN120 or SO261. Majors in International Business and Culture should have over 90 credits.
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3.00 Credits
No course description available.
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4.00 Credits
Individual research or directed in-depth reading at an advanced level devoted to specific topics in anthropology. Prerequsites: approval of the chairperson and instructor concerned.
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3.00 Credits
Survey of the contributions of major classical and contemporary social and feminist theorists, presented within their social and historic context. Considers works of Marx, Weber, Durkheim, Freud, Parsons, Mead and Goffman, as well as Gilman, Mitchell, Eisenstein and other feminist theorists. Reviews critiques and elaborations of the theories and assesses their influence on sociology today. (old #385) Prerequisite: A course in social diversity or contemporary social problems.
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0.00 Credits
Arabic Elective
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3.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to cultures of Tanzania and East Africa through learning about the role of music and the history of musical traditions. Activties include lecture, readings, discussion, audio and video, practical (learning drumming, dancing, and singing), hands-on projects (making instruments), and site visits with local and regional experts. AUC Designation: Cl
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