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3.00 Credits
The anthropology of Tourism is an anthropology of peoples on the move, an in encounter with the alien, the unfamiliar, the forgotten and the other. These journeys are anchored in an educational ethos and serve to make identity and opinion. Tourism today includes the pursuit of imagined and historic pasts, of transformational places of alterity, of the sensual and the experiential where knowing and part taking are constitutional and integral to learning about one’s place in the world, one’s community place as a unit of one among many, and where notions of a shared humanity often come face to face with an alien and sometimes forbidding other.
Students will study the anthropological understanding of place, of travel, of history, of performance, of cuisine, of pilgrimage, of adventure, of ecology, of philanthropy, of alternate medicine, all expressions of the present day offerings of Tourism. They will engage with anthropological films that have examined the phenomenon of tourism in different parts of the world, in a discourse that recognizes the porosity of boundaries and the inherent hybridity of cultures. Mode: Seminar.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the critical anthropology of social policy, an emerging new field. First, we will compare this kind of anthropology to closely related “applied anthropology” and “activist anthropology.” The critical approach examines the disjunctures between the cultural constructions of policy targets created by experts (and the public) and the actual lived experiences of the targets themselves. Along with other critiques of the bureaucratic structures of national and international “helping” institutions and their assumptions of technocratic professionalization, we will explore the hidden aspects of power and control which lurk within the massive structures of policymaking and implementation in the past six decades. Mode: Seminar.
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3.00 Credits
A cross-cultural survey of the ways in which gender is used to define roles and statuses, with particular attention to the changing nature of sex roles in many contemporary cultures. Mode: Seminar.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines anthropological approaches to war, violence and peace. We will start by studying ethnographic approaches to violence, conflict and conflict resolution and related topics in traditional indigenous cultures, as well as recent critiques of the consequences of anthropological representations of indigenous peoples as fierce or gentle. We then turn to examine warfare and other kinds of collective violencein the contemporary world. Among the topics we will be examining will be state terror, terrorism, genocide, “small wars,” military culture in the United States, and peacemaking. Mode: Seminar.
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3.00 Credits
Gender is arguably universally the primary category of social difference into which we (as humans) are socialized. This course takes an historically and ethnographically situated approach to understanding how sociocultural anthropologists have theorized gender, with a particular focus on feminist anthropology approaches to culture, power, and history. Throughout the course we will additionally explore the intersection of gender with such other statuses of social difference as sexuality, class, race, ethnicity, generation, education, and rural versus urban residence in a variety of global contexts. Mode: Seminar.
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3.00 Credits
Why do we live in such a violent world? This seminar explores violence through an anthropological perspective historically and in modern times. We begin with American experiences of violence recorded by men and women in the past, focusing first on slavery and then on war and terrorism. In subsequent weeks, we consider how words, pictures, and physical harm make violence, how violence silences people, and how it creates unsafe spaces. Finally, we consider how violence is structured and expressed at home, in courts, in prisons, and in “business.” As an advanced seminar, the class covers a substantial body of work on the nature and meaning of violence and is designed to encourage students to develop their reading, research, and writing skills.
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3.00 Credits
Fieldwork and ethnography are recognized as landmarks of anthropology. In this course students will have the opportunity to reflect upon, explore, and experiment first hand with the complex craft of anthropologists. Conducted in a workshop style, this course will enable students to experiment with conducting short fieldwork exercises and research projects, to discuss their findings, and work towards the production of a mini ethnography. Another part of the course will provide a forum for the critical assessment of various fieldwork methods and ethnographic writing. Guest speakers will also contribute to this assessment by sharing their fieldwork experiences with the class. Videos shown in class and mini field trips will provide ethnographic materials for group analysis. Mode: Workshop style with a combination of short lectures, class discussions, screenings, and student presentations.
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3.00 Credits
This course critically reviews the relationships between ethnographic film and indigenous forms of self-representation in diverse media. Visual texts from several societies will be compared with each other and with examples of visual representation in contemporary Western societies. In the course we will examine pictorial forms by viewing and analyzing films and video programs made by indigenous individuals and associations. Examples will come from North and South America, Australia, and New Zealand. Through these examples issues of authorship and authority, the politics of representation and autonomy, and the values and limits of indigenous self-representation will be analyzed. Mode: Seminar.
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3.00 Credits
A review of major film styles useful for anthropological film and video in conjunction with an analysis of the role of film/video in anthropology. Topics will include relationships of anthropological and ethnographic films, the significance of historical and ideological contexts, comparisons to indigenous video and feature films, and problems in the communication of anthropological theory and insight through the film/video medium. A broad range of ethnographic films will be screened to illustrate a progression of work and variety in relationships of theory, subject matter, cultural context, production techniques and style, and expected audiences. Mode: Seminar.
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3.00 Credits
Students will critically review a series of feature films that include topics, themes, and subject matter often treated within anthropology. It is clear that American feature films usually thought of as “Hollywood films” can be very influential in establishing or reinforcing social and cultural stereotypes of “states of knowledge” about peoples living in various parts of the world. The potential for influence and false senses of familiarity is enormous. In today’s globalized community that is influenced by feature films from all regions of the world, this course attempts to incorporate many expressions of the feature film genre to form a composite whole. Japanese, Indian, Indonesian and other national cinemas will be shared, as will the emergent films made by the Naliput peoples of the 4th world. Peoples who are frequently known as natives, aborigine, local, indigenous, primitive, underdeveloped and tribal, are now makers of feature films and bring new dynamism to the genre to foster new perspectives of culture and communication. Mode: Seminar.
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