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Gender representations in advertising, focusing on masculinity. Consideration also given to representations of femininity in advertising, to the nature and complexity of gender, and to the history and place of advertising in society and culture. Case materials drawn primarily from contemporary American advertising, with examples from other time periods and other national advertising traditions. Consent of instructor required. Instructor: O'Barr
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Globalization examined through some of its dominant cultural forms<197>the marketing of pop music, the globalization of TV culture, the spread of markets and commodities, the export of political ideologies. Special focus given to the way in which these forms both affect and are transformed by local cultures in Africa, South Asia, East Asia, and Latin America. Instructor: Allison, Litzinger, Piot, or Starn
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Considers how nature is historically produced, socially constructed and politically mobilized. Focuses on centrality of resource control to projects of rule, dynamics of conservation, indigenous rights and environmental justice movements. Instructor: Subramanian
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Review of recent theories of mind in cognitive science as they pertain to the nature of belief in God, religious practices, and moral attitudes. Arguments in ethics and philosophy of religion as they apply to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Offered only in the Duke in Istanbul semester study abroad programs. Consent of instructor required. Instructor: Guzeldere
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Analytical examination of bases for belief in God and possibility of afterlife, relation between faith and reason, and interrelated issues concerning justification for/content of religious belief. Considers similarities and differences on these issues among Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Open only to students in the Duke in Turkey summer program. Instructor: Guzeldere
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Introduction to the study of contemporary China, including Taiwan and the Chinese Diaspora. Key themes include family and kinship, sex and gender, regional diversity, ethnic minority relations, the politics of modernity, revolution, and reform, and the representation of Chinese identity through popular media, film, and travel. Instructor: Litzinger
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Explores the politics, history and culture of societies and nation-states across the continent while also critiquing Euroamerican discourses, images, and theories about Africa and Africans. Readings consist of not only anthropological texts- some classic, and some experimental and off-beat- but also media accounts, novels and historical texts. Instructor: Piot
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Constructions of gender and sexuality in different African societies. Related issues of power and inequality. Instructor: Holsey
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History of the Atlantic slave trade in Africa, various responses to it, debates regarding its impact, ways it is remembered today. Instructor: Holsey
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Examines both scholarly and popular representations of Atlantic slave trade in Africa and the diaspora. Uses first-person narratives, scholarly texts, documentaries, novels and films to debate African agency in slave trade, effects of slave trade on the New World and Europe, nature of slave life, slave resistance, and causes of abolition. Explores role of slavery in collective memory, public history, and contemporary politics. Instructor: Holsey
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