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4.00 Credits
not offered 2008-09 In this seminar we will examine various East Asian popular religious practices in their religious, political, economic and historical contexts. We will begin with some theoretical works on pilgrimage, sacred space, ritual and introductions to various traditions, including Confucianism, Daoism, Buddhism and Shinto. For most of this course we will discuss both primary and secondary materials about specific East Asian pilgrimages, sacred sites, rituals and myths. We will compare and contrast popular practices both across time and across East Asian space. This course will primarily be discussion based, but will be supplemented with documentary films and occasional lectures. Assignments include a variety of short writing exercises, presentations and a longer research paper. Offered in alternate years. Distribution area: alternative voices.
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3.00 Credits
Staff The late medieval and early modern centuries saw profound developments in the cultural experience of nonelites in Europe. The development of vernacular literatures, new technologies and new mediums of communication created new possibilities for cultural expression. This course will consider a diverse range of sources such as letters, diaries, socio-economic data, art, and satires to explore how urban and rural Europeans experienced societal change. Among the topics included will be the distinction between peasantry, bourgeoisie and nobility, the impact of printing, the history of manners, the invention of privacy, the social cohesion provided by community ritual and the impact of elite culture on popular culture. Because this area of history has been the subject of a great deal of historiographical scrutiny in the last 50 years, special attention will be paid to secondary literature in this course.
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4.00 Credits
A course which examines special topics in African history. Distribution area: social science or alternative voices.
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4.00 Credits
A course which examines special topics in the history of the ancient Mediterranean world. Distribution area: social science. Some topics may also fulfill alternative voices
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4.00 Credits
This course examines how certain ancient Mediterranean societies defined themselves in opposition to their own ancestors and to other groups. Ancient authors combined history and ethnography, using "depravity" in the chronologically remote past (back then) and the geographically remote present (over there) to define themselves as "civilized" (here and now). We look at how the authors of the Hebrew Bible used depictions of stereotypical depravity in order to define themselves as Israelites, and at how Greeks and Romans defined themselves by depicting depravity arrayed around the edges of their world, at the extreme North, South, East and West. This course focuses less upon the reality of depravity among marginal societies, and more upon how the depiction of "depravity" created a mirror image, an ideal of "civilization," that set one's own Israelite, Greek or Roman culture as the norm. Finally, we show how the mechanisms create such norms of civilization persist in the historical and ethnographic imagination.
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4.00 Credits
not offered 2008-09 By the age of 33, Alexander had conquered an empire that extended over most of the eastern Mediterranean world, but he would not live to rule it. At his death, his empire fractured, re-emerging more than 20 years later as the four great kingdoms of the Hellenistic Age. From the meteoric career of Alexander, through the bitter power struggles of his successors, culminating in the dramatic last stand of Cleopatra, this course will examine the way in which this Graeco-Macedonian expansion reshaped the Mediterranean world even as the conquerors themselves were altered by the very peoples they had subjugated. Particular attention will be paid to the relationship between foreign conqueror and subject culture, the creation of royal dynasties, the development of ruler-worship, and the question of "Hellenization."
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3.00 Credits
What are the origins of the conflict between the Palestinians and the Israelis This course will present several perspectives on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. It will examine the origins of the conflict in 19th century Zionism, the conditions of the late Ottoman Palestine, and World War I diplomacy. The creation of the state of Israel in 1948 resulted in the first Arab-Israeli War and several other wars followed such as the Suez War (1956), the Six-Day War (1967), and the Yom Kippur War (1973). In addition to these wars, the course will examine the peace process, rising Palestinian resistance to Israeli occupation during the Intifada, and Israeli peace movements. The course will finish with the current status of the conflict. Student assignments will include media analysis of the conflict, document analysis, a final research paper and participation in a peace conference to be held during the final examination period of the course. It is recommended that students take at least one course in Middle Eastern history prior to taking this course. Distribution area: alternative voices.
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4.00 Credits
A course which examines special topics in Middle East history. Distribution area: alternative voices.
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4.00 Credits
This course will explore the origins of Arab and Turkish Nationalism in the Middle East. Students will learn about the ideological impact of imperialism, the nineteenth-century Arab literary renaissance and the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire that helped shaped nationalism in the region. Students will read primary sources in the form of speeches and writings by the founders of Pan-Arabism, Baathism, and Turkish Nationalism as well as the political writings of their opponents who advocated Islamic unity or in some cases Islamic nationalism. The course will finish with the critique nationalism found in groups ranging from transnational Islamic movements like al-Qaeda to Turkey's moderate Islamist AK party who has challenged Kemalist Nationalism in Turkey. Students will be required to write a research paper in the course and participate in class discussion as part of their final grade.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
What rights do women have in Islam Is there such a thing as gender equality in Islam This course will examine women's lives in Islamic societies from the seventh century to the present in the Middle East. Topics will include lives of powerful and notable women; women's position in Islamic law; Western images of Muslim women; Muslim women's movements in relation to radical Islam, secularism, nationalism and socialism; recent controversies over veiling. The course contains overarching discussions of sexuality and gender as they related to prescribed gender roles, the role of transgender and same sex couples, and illicit sexuality. The course also will look at the impact of imperialism and Orientalism on our understanding of gender in the Islamic World. The format will be lecture and discussion. Materials for the course will include novels, primary source documents, articles, and films. Distribution area: alternative voices
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