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Course Criteria
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5.00 Credits
How mapmaking, geographical information systems (GIS), and spatial tools can be applied in social research. Qualitative and quantitative approaches in the use of geospatial information. Methodologies and case examples. 5 units, not given this year
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4.00 Credits
(Same as ANTHRO 230B.) How GIS and spatial tools can be applied in social research. Case studies and student projects address questions of social and cultural relevance using real data sets, including the collection of geospatial data and building of spatial evidence. Analytical approaches and how they can shape a social and cultural interpretation of space and place. 4 units, Win (Engel, C)
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3.00 - 5.00 Credits
(Same as ANTHRO 234.) Human-object relations in the processes of world making. Objectification and materiality through ethnography, archaeology, material culture studies, and cultural studies. Interpretive connotations around and beyond the object, the unstable terrain of interrelationships between sociality and materiality, and the cultural constitution of objects. Sources include: works by Marx, Hegel, and Mauss; classic Pacific ethnographies of exchange, circulation, alienability, and fetishism; and material culture studies. 3-5 units, Aut (Meskell, L)
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3.00 - 6.00 Credits
Not open to freshmen. Race, ethnicity, gender, and religion using the tools, analytical skills and concepts developed by anthropologists. 3-6 units, Aut (Wilcox, M)
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5.00 Credits
(Same as ANTHRO 239.) The politics of producing knowledge in and about Africa through the genre of ethnography, from the colonial era to the present. The politics of writing and the ethics of social imagination. Sources include novels juxtaposed to ethnographies. GER:DB-SocSci 5 units, Win (Malkki, L)
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3.00 - 5.00 Credits
(Same as HUMBIO 14.) How genetic methods address anthropological questions. Examples include the evolutionary relationships between humans and the apes, the place of the Neanderthals in human evolution, the peopling of the New World, ancient DNA, the genetics of ethnicity, forensic genetics, genomics, behaviorial genetics, and hereditary diseases. GER:DB-NatSci 3-5 units, not given this year
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3.00 - 5.00 Credits
The lived experiences of Middle Eastern youth. The role of everyday practices in the production of society, culture, and politics. Focus is on public spaces of collectivity and sociality such as shopping areas, checkpoints, border crossings, and streetscapes. The negotiation and exertion of power at different scales. Topics such as militarism, migration, labor, gender, and family. 3-5 units, Aut (Monroe, K)
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5.00 Credits
(Same as CSRE 145A.) Mid 20th-century to the present. How historical, economic, and political conditions in Haiti, Cuba, Jamaica, Antigua, and Guadeloupe affected women. How Francophone, Anglophone, and Hispanophone women novelists, poets, and short story writers respond to similar issues and pose related questions. Caribbean literary identity within a multicultural and diasporic context; the place of the oral in the written feminine text; family and sexuality; translation of European master texts; history, memory, and myth; and responses to slave history, colonialism, neocolonialism, and globalization. GER:DB-SocSci, DB-SocSci, EC-Gender 5 units, Win (Duffey, C)
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5.00 Credits
(Same as AMSTUD 183.) How novelists, filmmakers, and poets perceive racial, ethnic, gender, sexual preference, and class borders in the context of a national discussion about the place of Americans in the world. How Anna Deavere Smith, Sherman Alexie, or Michael Moore consider redrawing such lines so that center and margin, or self and other, do not remain fixed and divided. How linguistic borderlines within multilingual literature by Caribbean, Arab, and Asian Americans function. Can Anzaldúa's conception ofborderlands be constructed through the matrix of language, dreams, music, and cultural memories in these American narratives Course includes examining one's own identity. GER:DB-Hum, ECAmerCul 5 units, Aut (Duffey, C)
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5.00 Credits
(Same as ANTHRO 247.) Seminar. Shared histories of natural and cultural heritage and their subsequent trajectories into the present. How thought about archaeological sites and natural landscapes have undergone transformations due to factors including indigenous rights, green politics, and international tourism. The development of key ideas including conservation, wilderness, sustainability, indigenous knowledge, non-renewability and diversity. Case studies draw on cultural and natural sites from Africa, the Americas and Australia. 5 units, Win (Meskell, L)
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