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Study of musical styles and practices in relation to issues of creativity, forms of power, and cultural survival; focus on the music and experiences of indigenous peoples, refugees, migrants, and immigrants. Instructor: Meintjes or staff
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Study of musical styles and performance practices in relation to issues of identity and other aspects of social life; focus on the diverse local musical scenes and traditions and on learning through doing original fieldwork. Instructor: Meintjes
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First part of two-course sequence providing an extensive survey of Muslim peoples and institutions. The Middle Eastern origins and cultural attainments of medieval Islam. Instructor: Lawrence, Moosa or staff
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Continuation of Religion 146. Instructor: Lawrence, or staff
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Asian dance and dance theater performance genres and the cultural aesthetics that inform them. Cultural traditions of China, Korean, Japan, India, Indonesia, Thailand and Cambodia. Religious, ritual, folk and royal court forms of artistic performance. The mythology, legends and symbolic interpretations that underlie the thematic core of these performance traditions; spiritual importance of disciplined training; the intercultural translation and adaptation of Asian performance disciplines to the West. Instructor: Shah
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Ways in which gender and sexuality are conceptualized in selected performance cultures. Interprets these historically constituted social formations through an examination of the diverse cultural constructions of gender meanings, representations and ideologies as interpreted and expressed in dance and theatre. Symbolic meanings of gender in relation to forms of social life and theatrical experience. The Devadasi in India, the concept of the male embodied Onnagata, and the notion of the female embodied Otokoyaku in the dance-theatre of Japan. Instructor: Shah
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National and regional forms of dance and dance-theatre of India. Ancient treatises on Indian dramaturgy, and the expressive interpretation of the poetics in the traditional forms of performance. Rasa theory of aesthetic rapture and audience reception. Social forms of entertainment in their cultural context. Colonialism and nationalism in relation to classical dance; dance as an integral component of the national and regional identity of the people; dance as an emerging public culture in post-independence India; Indian dance in Diaspora. Guest artists, videos, and dance demonstrations. Instructor: Shah
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Dance and dance-theatre forms in relation to religious beliefs, concepts, and mystic practices within Asian and African cultures. How religion shapes the way the body is perceived, and how spiritual power and energy is symbolically transmitted to the dancer through religious practices. Impact of colonialism and globalization on traditional religious performances. Instructors: Shah and Vinesett
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Diasporic religious expression and practice, from Africa to the Americas. Special attention to the relationship between religion and history, both during slavery and beyond, as well as to the social, gendered, aesthetic, and more strictly religious forces that lie at the heart of Black diasporic religious expression. Instructor: Staff
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Explores the politics, history, cultures, art, and literature of societies and nation-states across the South Asian continent. Focus on issues such as urbanization; internal/external migration; linguistic, religious, and ethnic identities and conflicts; the impact of colonialism, development, and globalization. Instructor: Ewing
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