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Course examines language as a social practice, focusing on different aspects of its role in social life. Topics addressed include: language and social identity, such as ethnicity, social class, age, and gender; variation in language, including dialects, accents, and registers; multilingualism and language contact; new languages such as pidgins and creoles; language, culture, and intercultural communication; language and ideology; language in education and in the media. Through the discussion of these topics and homework including reading and small research projects, students are introduced to key concepts, theories, and methods in sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology. Instructor: staff
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A cross-cultural study of how images and stories that are mass produced affect the world view, identities, and desires of their consumers. Independent ethnographic research on a phenomenon in mass culture required. Instructor: Allison
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Study of the representation of non-US cultures in the genre of major motion pictures (as opposed to ethnographic film). Focus will be on films about Kenya, Italy, and the South Pacific. Examination of motives for foreign travel and experiences of living abroad as depicted in films. Consideration of how other cultures are romanticized and orientalized in movies. Films about each of the cases to be screened. Discussions focus on critical film reviews, issues of anthropological theory and the theory of representation, as well as students' own insights. Instructor: O'Barr
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Seminar version of Cultural Anthropology 109. Instructor: O'Barr
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History and development of commercial advertising; advertising as a reflector and/or creator of social and cultural values; advertisements as cultural myths; effects on children, women, and ethnic minorities; advertising and language; relation to political and economic structure; and advertising and world culture. Emphasis on American society complemented by case studies of advertising in Canada, Japan, Mexico, Russia, Western Europe, and selected other countries. Instructor: O'Barr
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Same as Cultural Anthropology 110 except instruction is provided in lecture and discussion group each week. Instructor: O'Barr
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Comparative approach to jurisprudence and legal practice, dispute resolution, law-making institutions and processes, and the relation of law to politics, culture, and values. Instructor: O'Barr
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Advanced study of an area of linguistics or grammar. Instructor: Staff
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Explanation of differing beliefs about gender cross-culturally, by comparison with dominant themes about gender in our own cultural history and contemporary ideological struggles. Instructor: Allison or Silverblatt
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The major languages of the world viewed in the context of the communicative and significate functions of language as parameters that shape and define society. The role of language in defining and structuring culturally-based relationships from a semiotic point of view. The structure, writing systems, phonology, morphology, and lexicon of languages from the following groups: Indo-European, Semitic, Turkic, Finno-Ugric, Caucasian, Afroasiatic, Sino-Tibetan, Niger-Kordofanian, Dravidian, and Native American languages. Instructor: Andrews or Tetel
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