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Staff. Penn-in-India course. A healthcare tradition of India and Southeast Asia which has roots over 3000 years old and continues as an alternative system of medicine today. Ayurveda views a balance between body, mind, and environment as essential to health. It employs vegetal, mineral, and animal products to treat diseases. This Penn-In-India course explores the ancient and modern practices of Ayurvedic medicine as described in texts and as applied in clinical methods and in the preparation of herbs for medical purposes. Visits of clinics, herb gardens, and pharmaceutical facilities are a part of the course.
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Staff. This course begins with a historical survey of South Asian immigration in the United States. It continues with a broad look at cultural, social, and political issues which confront the South Asian American community today, issues such as citizenship and transnationality, minoritization, economic opportunity, cultural and religious maintenance and adaptation, changes in family structure and gender roles, and generational shifts. It concludes with an examination of the emergence of a body of creative writings by South Asians in America as an expatriate Indian literature of exile and as American immigrant and ethnic literature.
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Mitchell. How has India maintained itself as a nation containing 1/6 of the world's population by recognizing 22 official languages and scores of mother tongues Why have other South Asian countries broken into conflict over linguistic differences This course examines the shaping of ethnic, racial, and linguistic categories of identity in modern South Asia, and explores the socio-political movements that have emerged in conjunction with these categories. Topics include colonial administrative practices such as the decennial censuses and the Linguistic Survey of India; the rise of regional linguistic movements; the relationships between language, ethnicity, and the writing of history in the context of ethnic conflicts in Lanka; the Dravidian, Non-Brahmin, Adi-Dravida, and anti-Hindi movements in southern India; the creation of Pakistan and Bangladesh; and recent debates over the origins of the Aryans.
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Staff.This course is required for all senior honors majors, and open to senior majors. Honors majors must, in addition, prepare a research paper.
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Staff. This lecture series aims to provide a broad overview of the major genres and currents of classical (post-Vedic) Sanskrit literature. Topics will include: the development of the drama, the place of the court epic or mahakavya, devotional poetry, and prose poetry (the Sanskrit "novel"). Some attention will also be given to literature in Middle Indic languages (Prakrit and Apabhramsa), as illuminating developments within Sanskrit.
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3.00 Credits
Gambhir, S. Prerequisite(s): A knowledge of standard Hindi. Students read specimens of major rural Hindi dialects which are not comprehensible to one trained solely in standard Hindi. Dialectal vocabulary and structure are emphasized. Discussions focus on historical development and on the relations between dialects and standard Hindi in the total network of communication. The course seeks to enable social scientists, among others, to conduct fieldwork in rural Hindi areas.
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3.00 Credits
Staff. This course is for advanced undergraduates and graduate students. After an overview of the Dravidian family as a whole (languages, speakers, history of research), followed by a general structural description of a particular modern Dravidian language (such as Tamil or Kannada), the course will focus on grammaticalization. After a review of the literature on how grammatical change takes place, the topic will narrow in on recent kinds of grammaticalization in Tamil. Students will write a paper on a topic of their own theoretical interest, using data from a selected Dravidian language. Non-South-Asia Majors may write about grammaticalization in another language oftheir choice.
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Staff. This course is intended for students who have taken SAST 160 (Introduction to Indian Philosophy) and wish to deepen their understanding of the major issues in Indian philosophical thought. Underlying the themes that we will consider -of arguments for and against the existence of God, of the ontological status of external objects, and of the means of valid knowledge and the standards of proof--is a millennia-long conflict between Buddhist and Hindu thinkers, which stimulated remarkable intellectual achievements on both sides.
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3.00 Credits
Ghosh. This course offers a survey of readings in the historical anthropology of South Asia, India in particular. Readings touch on an array of topics, including(post)colonialism, nationalism, violence, village life, family life, media and diaspora. The common theme will be a focus on how social agents are constructed and represented, and how social change is effected. Class sessions will combine lecture and discussion, with an emphasis on the latter. Requirements: three papers, one in-class examination, one in-class oral presentation.
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