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Addresses the vexed issue of economic development in Africa ¿ its many failures, its occasional successes ¿ from the early colonial period to the present. Focuses especially on the transition from the 1960s ¿modernizing¿ moment to the millennium projects and humanitarian aid of the present. Will read the works of development experts, World Bank executives, anthropologists and historians, asking why this massively financed project has experienced such failure and exploring what can be done. Instructor: Piot
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Critically examine current scholarship on the anthropology of Europe, and social and political theories concerning perplexities of identities, citizenship, nationalism, and national identity formation, with focus on related ethical questions and dilemmas. Instructor: McIntosh
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Past and contemporary conditions of American Indian life, with an emphasis on North America. Social and political organization, gender relations, changing economic patterns, cultural themes and variations, spirituality, the effects of anti-Indian wars, policies, and prejudice, and the emergence of movements for self-determination. Instructor: Starn
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Comparative and connective research and analysis in the social sciences and the humanities: strengths and weaknesses of cross-cultural comparison as developed by sociologists, historians, political scientists, anthropologists, and specialists in comparative literature and religion. Not open to students who have taken Religion 121. Instructor: Litle
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The diversity of social practices within the community of Islam. Particular emphasis on gender relations, religious movements, diaspora communities, and social change. Instructor: Ewing
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Key themes in Latin American societies, including art, literature, history, violence and human rights, economic development, and rebellion and revolution. Instructor: Nelson or Starn
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The idea of Latin America, as invented and created by European imperial powers and maintained by United States emerging imperialism at the turn of the twentieth century, in complicity with local Creole and Mestizo elites. Perspective on the geo- and body- politics of knowledge being enacted by radical intellectuals, indigenous and Afro-social movements, and the Social Forum of the Americas, to open up a new understanding of the global order and global power relations today. Taught in English. Instructor: Mignolo
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Lecture and dance laboratory exploring three West African traditional dance forms and their relationship to religious and social life in Africa and the Diaspora. Continuity and transformation of physical texts as cultural heritage, examined historically and aesthetically. Guest lecturers, videos, research project. Two lab sections, one for students with prior training in African Dance, and one for students with no experience. Instructor: Vinesett
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The politics and aesthetics of realism. History of styles from Griersonian "propaganda" to cinema verite and "reality TV." Practical exercises in location sound, camera to subject relationship, and camera movement. Prerequisite: English 101A, Literature 110, Literature 111S, or Theater Studies 171. Not open to students who have taken this course as FVD 104S. Instructor consent required. Instructor: Staff
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Diverse representations of the Middle East by communities inside and outside the region. Travelogues, films, photography, literature, newspapers/media and memoir from the late nineteenth-century Ottoman context to the modern Middle East. Readings on identity, orientalism, violence, gender, and (post) colonialism. Instructors: Goknar and Stein
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