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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. An introduction to the history, theory, methods, and subject matter of the field of social and cultural anthropology. Students become familiar with the conceptual framework of the discipline and with some of its techniques of research and interpretation. Anthropology is considered in its role as a social science and as a discipline with ties to the humanities and natural sciences. Emphasis is on close integration of analytic abstractions with empirical particulars. Conference. Not open to first-year students.
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3.00 Credits
See Linguistics 212 for description.
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. This course explores the diverse ways in which power is constituted, rationalized and contested. What kinds of practices, languages, institutions, and symbolic formations make up the political How have conceptions and practices of political belonging and political subjectivity varied historically and across different societies What might be the challenges and possibilities of studying power and political subjectivities ethnographically We will begin with a reading of classic texts in social theory and political anthropology. Then we will focus more specifically on how the modern state and citizenship, institutions traditionally the domain of political science, have been studied anthropologically. We will examine central analytic concepts, including hegemony, governmentality, ideology, and resistance and the ways in which they have been mobilized in ethnographies of the political. Finally, we will turn to a set of questions that have more recently arisen in relation to citizenship and the state, including multiculturalism, sovereignty, nationalism, and biopolitics.Prerequisite: Anthropology 211. Conference.
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3.00 Credits
See Linguistics 312 for description. Linguistics 312 Description
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3.00 Credits
See Linguistics 313 for description. Linguistics 313 Description
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. In what way does it make sense to talk about the U.S. as a sociocultural unity Conflicting claims about which underlying forces really constitute and shape America are not merely issues for us as analysts, but rather are a crucial part of the phenomena we seek to study. As part of our work we will explore various historically located U.S. perspectives on what counts as "reality." The aim of the course is to contribute to a sophisticated cultural anthropology of the United States by developing analyses that incorporate, without necessarily confining themselves within, indigenous models of sociocultural process. Prerequisite: Anthropology 211. Conference. Not offered 2009-10.
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. Hunting-gathering peoples--those who live by foraging for "non-domesticated" plant and animal resources--are variously conceived as "living fossils" of proto-hominid and Paleolithic culture, exemplars of a "natural" condition of human sociality, subaltern victims of successive Neolithic, colonial, and postcolonial dominations, and masters of environmental noblility. After examining foraging in hominid evolution, the course focuses on similarities between prehistoric hunting societies and those known historically after Western Europe's 16th Century planetary reconnaissance. Ethnographic studies focus on Australia, India, Borneo, Africa, the Pacific Northwest Coast, and the Canadian Subarctic and attest the variousness of social designs, settlement patterns, foraging strategies, economies, and ontologies. This variousness indexes a certain failure of foraging societies to compose a definable "type" just as ambiguities accruing to the concept of "domesticated resource" problematize forager/farmer dichotomies. The course concludes with consideration of hunters' relations with non-hunters. Non-hunting societies have subjected hunters to displacement, exploitation, and assimilation; the course examines hunters' past and present tactics of accommodation and resistance. Prerequisite: Anthropology 211. Confer
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. Sports are a central aspect of ritual form and everyday life in a large number of societies across the globe. The course approaches sports play as a fundamental practice of social formation and social reproduction. Through case studies of situated sports practices (notably football/soccer, cricket/baseball, and boxing), we will examine key issues in the anthropology of modernity: gender and sexuality, race and ethnicity, class and stratification, violence, urban space, (post-)colonialism, nationalism, and globalization. Prerequisites: Anthropology 211 and one additional anthropology course, or consent of the instructor. Conference. Not offered 2009-10.
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. How do the ways we dress reflect and shape aspects of our identities How are these different identities performed, enacted, and subverted in different sociocultural settings In this course we will look at clothing as more than just what people wear and produce, but rather explore how the fabric of fashion is entangled in broader processes of power and discourse. Looking at fashion and the dressed body provides a lens through which we can understand culture and its materiality. We will analyze the production and circulation of cloth and dress in colonial, postcolonial, and global contexts. Alternating between classical readings in exchange theory and ethnographic case studies, the course follows debates about clothing and fashion from colonial dissemination of the ideas and technologies to local appropriations and self-representations. A final section explores the politics of gender and performance in Muslim fashions and draws on contemporary debates of national identity and secularism. Prerequisite: Anthropology 211. Conference.
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. This course will explore how reality is constructed, particularly through museums, historically related material forms such as world fairs and department stores, and their associated linguistic practices. Two senses of "constructed" are relevant here: firstly, the course will base itself on the social science insight that reality is construed through cultural categories and discursive practices; secondly, the course will explore the specific processes through which exhibits, built environments, and concrete models are constructed (and inhabited with an awareness of their constructed nature). Two senses of "reality" are also at play here: on the one hand, museums and related genres are commonly understood as factual, as representing what actually exists; on the other hand, certain actually existing phenomena are often construed as more "real" or more "authentic" than others: as genuine historic or exotic artifacts, or as instantiating scientific or industrial principles, or in other ways connected to a realm believed to be at once generative of and obscured by our everyday experience. The course will examine how museum exhibit creators, staff, and visitors draw on and underwrite such differential attributions of authenticity. Prerequisite: Anthropology 211. Not offered 2009-10.
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