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3.00 - 5.00 Credits
Why is engineering often seen as a masculine profession What have women's experiences been in entering fields of science and technology How has gender been defined by scientists Issues: the struggles of women in science to negotiate misogyny and cultural expectation (marriage, children), reproductive issues (surrogate motherhood, visual representations of the fetus, fetal surgery, breast feeding, childbirth practices), how the household became a site of consumerism and technology, and the cultural issues at stake as women join the ranks of scientists. GER:DB-SocSci, EC-Gender 3-5 units, Aut (Jain, S)
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4.00 Credits
(Same as ANTHRO 280A.) Human sexuality, gender, and reproductive behavior using evolutionary and crosscultural framework. Themes such as the potential biases scientists bring to the study of sexuality, how findings are portrayed by the popular media, and the implications biological findings should or should not have on how contemporary society approaches gender issues. 4 units, Win (Glover, S)
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3.00 Credits
(Same as HUMBIO 146.) Interdisciplinary. Culture and social context on the identification, course, and outcome of psychiatric illness. What is known from psychiatry about the nature of illness as a biomedical process and from anthropology about the life course of illness within particular settings. Prerequisite: Human Biology core or equivalent or consent of instructor. 3 units, Spr (Luhrmann, T)
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3.00 - 5.00 Credits
The cigarette as the world's greatest weapon of mass destruction: 100 million dead worldwide from cigarettes during the 20th century, one billion expected to die in the 21st century. How to understand this toll, its production, management, politicization, and depoliticization What can anthropological and allied perspectives disclose How does the catastrophe challenge key precepts within anthropology and other branches of the academy 3-5 units, Spr (Kohrman, M)
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3.00 - 5.00 Credits
How do people know of and about the pain of others How do liberal traditions of what it means to be human inform ideas of pain and suffering What are the ethical, political, medical and legal potentialities and limitations of the relationships among language, narrative, distress, and pain Sources include anthropologicallyinformed modalities such as phenomenology, critical theories in medical anthropology, philosophical approaches to skepticism, and ethnographic engagements with suffering in everyday life. 3-5 units, Spr (Chua, J)
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5.00 Credits
Kinship structure. The history of kinship studies. Recent interventions in the study of family. New forms of family making in America such as transnational adoption and assisted reproduction. Readings primarily anthropological, but include science studies, gender theory, queer theory, and critical race studies. 5 units, Win (Romain, T)
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3.00 - 5.00 Credits
(Same as ASNAMST 185A.) Race, identity, culture, biology, and political power in biomedicine. Biological theories of racial ordering, sexuality and the medicalization of group difference. Sources include ethnography, film, and biomedical literature. Topics include colonial history and medicine, the politics of racial categorization in biomedical research, the protection of human subjects and research ethics, immigration health and citizenship, race-based models in health disparities research and policy, and recent developments in human genetic variation research. 3-5 units, Win (Lee, S)
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3.00 Credits
(Same as ANTHRO 286.) Focus is on current research of guest lecturers. Topics this year include prehistoric impacts of El Ni o, human sacrifice in prehispanic Peru, and mortuary archaeology on the north coast of Peru. Prerequisite: 142/242 or equivalent or consent of instructor. 1-3 units, not given this year
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3.00 Credits
(F,Sem) Stanford Introductory Seminar. Preference to freshmen. How human beings search for and identify the presence of the divine in everyday human life.Sources include spiritual classics in the Christian, Jewish and Hindu traditions including works by Augustine, Teresa of Avila, Jonathan Edwards, the Bhagvad Gita, the Zohar, and some ethnographies of non-literate traditions. 3 units, Win (Luhrmann, T)
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
See 291 for description. Required of undergraduate majors who are not in the honors program. Must be taken in the senior year, or by petition in the junior year. 1-3 units, Aut (Staff)
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