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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. While previously marginalized due to anthropology's traditional interest in alterity and the non-West, recently Christianity has become an object of ethnographic interest. This emerging interest is grounded in the theoretical problems Christianity poses as an anthropological topic, as well as in Christianity's rapid growth as a domestic and global social and political force. Informed by this trend, this course will survey recent ethnographic work in the emerging field of the anthropology of Christianity, covering ethnographic material from Africa, Southeast Asia, Oceania, Europe, and the Americas (including the United States). Among the topics the course will address are Christian language ideologies; the role of gifts, exchange, and global capitalism in Christian practice and imagination; the various modes of forming Christian subjectivities; the creation and regulation of proper and improper sexualities; the role of colonialism and postcolonialism in Christianity; and Christian incorporation, reconfiguration, and redeployment of local folk ontotheological categories. Prerequisite: Anthropology 211 or consent of instructor. Conference. Not offered 2009-10.
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. The notion of globalization, as a descriptive term for the spatial stretching of lines of economic production, has become overloaded with multiple and competing associations in the popular imagination. Academic debates in the social sciences during the 1990s were concerned with whether globalization was new or not, and how to define it. Today, social scientific inquiry has evolved to develop new methods and concepts to critique, analyze, and theorize the various phenomena associated with globalization. Starting with a brief introduction of popular discourses on globalization, we will begin to explore the ways in which sociology, anthropology, and geography conceptualize and characterize globalization. Through these theories we will develop a vocabulary with which to think about capitalism and its interconnections with globalization's cultural dimensions. In the second section of the course we will examine the content and form of gender, racial, and economic inequalities in the context of globalization. Prerequisite: Anthropology 211. Conference. Not offered 2009-10.
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. This course explores the major ways in which social scientists have interpreted migration. Readings are taken from anthropology, political science, sociology, demography, and history. Most readings concern recent migration to the United States. We consider the politico-economic and ideological contexts of migration as well the experience of migration and the relationships that people maintain to the multiple sites in which they have lived. We also particularly consider identity formation and the ways in which migrants are influenced by the racial, ethnic, class, and gender formations of the multiple societies in which they live. Prerequisite: Anthropology 211. Conference. Not offered 2009-10.
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. The course begins by examining Peirce's semiotic and Saussure's structural linguistics, thereafter taking up the theoretical influences of these on the anthropologies and linguistic anthropologies that came after: the French structuralism of Claude Lévi-Strauss, Roman Jakobson's linguistic poetic, the structural histories and agencies of Marshall Sahlins, the pragmatics (and metapragmatics and ethno-metapragmatics) of Michael Silverstein, the ethno-poetics of Dell Hymes, and the (notional) post-structuralism of Michel Foucault. The course addresses the relations that signs and symbols contract with each other, with their meanings, and with their contexts. The course addresses the contemporary status of ideas of cultural and linguistic "structure," both overt and covert, in the light of assorted "anti-structuralist" turns in recent social theory. Prerequisite: Anthropology 211 or Linguistics 311. Confe
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. Anthropologists have long been interested in the complex dynamism of social life. Yet early attempts to account for this dynamism in the construction of cultural and linguistic worlds were obscured in favor of static representations of "cultures" and dualistic understandings of sociocultural structures versus individual actions or intentions. This course considers "performance" and "performativity" to be recent rubrics that group together a wide variety of social theorists who have focused instead on the emergent and contested nature of all meanings as they are communicated in everyday and ritualized speech and practice. The course will develop from key foundational texts in the philosophy of language to more recent theoretical and ethnographic work to explore the implications of this perspective for understanding language as social action, the nature of "context" and interpretive politics, the relationships between formal events or performances and everyday life, and the social construction of selves and others. By directing analytic focus to the indeterminacy, ambiguity, and multiplicity inherent to social life, the course challenges students to reconsider some of the central issues in anthropological theory, such as agency, identity, power, and resistance. Prerequisite: Anthropology 211. Conference. Not offered 20
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. What is the history of the categories of person, self, and subject in the West What shape have analogous classifications taken in other social and cultural milieus, how have these objects been theorized by anthropologists and other social thinkers, and to what degree (if any) can we take these indigenous Western schemes as having a referent apart from that which is created by their use as cultural constructs Prerequisite: Anthropology 211 or consent of instructor. Conference. Not offered 2009-10.
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. The metaphor of translation has been used - in positive and negative senses - to describe anthropology's goals for many years. Even if many anthropologists have given up on a model of culture-as-text that requires translation for outsiders, negotiating problems of difference still remains. How do ethnographers confront spatial, social, linguistic, disciplinary, and temporal dislocations How do social actors negotiate these differences What kinds of social and ideological formations control the flow of discourses across boundaries This course examines theories of translation from a number of different disciplines, including literary studies, linguistics, linguistic anthropology, post-colonial studies and anthropology itself, in which authors have had to grapple with the ethical, methodological, and practical dilemmas of transposition. The goal of the course is to examine translation as a pragmatic process in which indexical formations anchor discourses as they move across boundaries, looking at how those boundaries are made, contested, and reformed through time. Prerequisite: Anthropology 211 or consent of instructor. Conference
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. Contemporary issues and debates in cultural anthropology. Topics include practice theory, poststructuralism, reflexivism, political economy, power and resistance, globalization and late capitalism, gender studies, postcolonial criticism and alternative modernities, cultural objectifications and "invented traditions," strategic essentialism, the "new culturalism," and cultural diacritics of collective identity. Prerequisite: Anthropology 211 and one additional anthropology course or consent of instructor. Conference. Not offered 2009-10.
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one year.
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3.00 Credits
One-half or full course for one semester. Open only to upper-class students with special permission.
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