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  • SOAN 254: The Social Life Of Money And Exchange

    3.00 Credits
    Lewis & Clark College

    Kosansky Content: An introduction to classical and contemporary perspectives about the relationship between the economy and society. How people act within the social and cultural context around them when negotiating their way through labor markets, exchanging goods, buying and selling, and calculating selfinterest. Key topics include rationality, embeddedness, networks, markets and exchange systems, institutions, and social capital. Prerequisite: Sociology/Anthropology 100 or 110, and sophomore standing; or consent of instructor. Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
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  • SOAN 255: Medicine,Healing,And Culture

    3.00 Credits
    Lewis & Clark College

    Heath Content: Culturally patterned ways of dealing with misfortune, sickness, and death. Ideas of health and personhood, systems of diagnosis and explanation, techniques of healing ranging from treatment of physical symptoms to metaphysical approaches such as shamanism and faith healing. Non-Western and Western traditions. Prerequisite: Sociology/Anthropology 100 or 110, and sophomore standing; or consent of instructor. Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
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  • SOAN 261: Gender And Sexuality In Latin America

    3.00 Credits
    Lewis & Clark College

    Staff Content: Exploration of gender and sexuality in Latin America through an anthropological lens. Ethnographic and theoretical texts--including testimonial and film material--dealing with the different gender experiences of indigenous and nonindigenous peoples, lowland jungle hunter-gatherers, highland peasants, urban dwellers, and transnational migrants. Prerequisite: Sociology/Anthropology 100 or 110, and sophomore standing; or consent of instructor. Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
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  • SOAN 266: Latin America In Cultural Perspective

    3.00 Credits
    Lewis & Clark College

    Podobnik Content: Introduction to the cultures of Latin America, including highland and rain forest indigenous peoples, the African diaspora, and border studies. The role of hybridity in religion and ritual, political expression, class consciousness, cultural identities. Emphasis on gender issues. Use of ethnographic and historical readings, film, music, literature. Prerequisite: Sociology/Anthropology 100 or 110, and sophomore standing; or consent of instructor. Taught: Annually, 4 semester credits.
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  • SOAN 270: Cultural Politics In East Asia

    3.00 Credits
    Lewis & Clark College

    Hubbert Content: Ethnographic analysis of the role of the state and the political economy in cultural and social change in East Asia (China, Japan, South Korea). Comparative examination of shared cultural and historical legacies as well as diverse contemporary experiences. Draws upon classic ethnographic texts, Internet sites, personal memoirs, documentaries. Topics may include nationalism, family, class, religion, globalization. Prerequisite: None. Taught: Annually, 4 semester credits.
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  • SOAN 273: Japanese Culture:Gender And Identity

    3.00 Credits
    Lewis & Clark College

    Angst Content: Historical and ethnographic approaches to the study of Japanese culture and what it means to be Japanese, with a specific focus on gender roles. Various contexts for presentation and negotiation of maleness and femaleness within Japanese culture, and implications of gender definitions for larger social systems such as family, work, nation. Prerequisite: Sociology/Anthropology 100 or 110, and sophomore standing; or consent of instructor. Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
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  • SOAN 274: Chinese Culture Through Film

    3.00 Credits
    Lewis & Clark College

    Hubbert Content: Chinese feature films as a contemporary ethnographic source of political and cultural expression and critique. Exploration of change in late 20th- and early 21st-century China. Particular attention paid to the effects of the political economy on changing family, gender, labor, class, ethnicity, and youth culture formations. Prerequisite: Sociology/Anthropology 100 or 110, or consent of instructor. Taught: Annually, 4 semester credits.
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  • SOAN 275: Africa In Social And Cultural Perspective

    3.00 Credits
    Lewis & Clark College

    Mechlinski Content: The diverse peoples of Africa from precolonial times to the present day. Comparisons of religion and aesthetic expression based on political, economic, and social organization. Historical and ethnographic readings challenging the stereotypical view of a continent of isolated, unchanging tribes. Processes such as migration, trade, conquest, and state formation that have brought African societies into contact with one another and with other continents since prehistoric times. Prerequisite: Sociology/Anthropology 100 or 110, and sophomore standing; or consent of instructor. Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
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  • SOAN 280: Gender In Asia

    3.00 Credits
    Lewis & Clark College

    Angst, DasGupta, Hubbert Content: Exploration of shifting meanings of masculinities and femininities in Asia. Texts incorporating personal memoir, classic ethnography, film, and contemporary media. Topics may include issues of gender and nationalism, body modification, widow sacrifice, foot-binding, sexual violence, hijras, and the politics of pleasure. Various regions of Asia will be discussed individually, comparatively, and within a broader global context. Prerequisite: None. Taught: Annually, 4 semester credits.
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  • SOAN 281: India In Sociological Perspective

    3.00 Credits
    Lewis & Clark College

    DasGupta Content: Nature of social life and sources of meaning for people in India as revealed through writings of social scientists and novelists. Caste and family, religion, language, region, community. Forces for change considered throughout. Prerequisite: Sociology/Anthropology 100 or 110, and sophomore standing; or consent of instructor. Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
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