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1.00 Credits
Major schools and theories of cultural anthropology. Open to seniors and juniors. Sophomores by permission only. Instructor: Staff
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Popular culture in the Middle East and images of the Middle East in United States' popular culture, covering a variety of cultural forms, including film, music, and comic books. How cultural forms relate to political and historical processes. Wars and political conflicts; gender, race, sexuality, and ethnicity. Instructor: Stein
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1.00 Credits
Explores relationship between space and culture; ways in which communities make and negotiate space; space both a locus of control and a tool of resistance, as well as other issues. Interdisciplinary readings include scholarship from anthropology, geography, critical theory, history, and literary studies. Topics include identity formation, globalization, migration, popular culture, race and racism, gender and sexuality with attention to the ways that space and place intersect with these issues. Instructor: Stein
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Americans' cultural understandings of marriage and its central place in American life and relation to American ideas about fulfillment, commitment, autonomy, love, and gender roles. Interdisciplinary readings; individually designed research project involving conduct and analysis of interviews about marriage. Instructor: Quinn
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1.00 Credits
Exploration of several themes: how local, national, and transnational organizations manage the environment, discuss it, study it, protect and defend it; who speaks for nature and to what ends; the differences between capitalist and socialist approaches to the environment; how relations among natures, nations, social movements, individuals, and institutions have changed over time. Case studies from Africa, East and Southeast Asia, India, Latin America, and the United States; study of new theoretical writing on the relationship between humans, technology, capital, and nature. Instructor: Litzinger
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Focus on the history of the Inca empire, its complex economic organization, ecologically sensitive use of environmental resources, sophisticated political and religious structures, and magnificent architecture and material culture. How the empire's descendents accommodated and challenged the forces of Spanish colonialism. Instructor: Silverblatt
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1.00 Credits
An exploration, ranging from Africa to the Americas and Europe, of histories of slavery and colonialism in the Black Atlantic and genealogies of diasporic identification. Multidisciplinary readings from anthropology, history, literature, and art history. Instructor: Piot or Thomas
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1.00 Credits
Gender and sexuality as strands within complex fabrics of identification. Anthropological case studies, including ethnography, film, and theoretical analyses, drawn from Latin America; the possibility of specific gender formations in that geographical region. Relations among men, women, "cochones," "machos," "virgenes," Malinches, "mestizos," "mujeres Mayas," "travestis," revolutionaries, gringos and gringas, throughout the whole continent of the Americas. How gender and sexuality affect and are affected by other forms of identification such as race and ethnicity, class, colonialism, nationalism, and globalization. The role of stereotypes. Instructor: Nelson
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1.00 Credits
Cross cultural examination of roles of myths, rituals, and symbols in meaning-making, creation of identity, reproduction of cultural forms and challenges to the construction of "normal." Draws on ethnography, classical anthropological theory, film and participant-observation. Explores functionalist, psychoanalytic, structuralist, and feminist modes of analysis. Culture areas include Ndembu of Zambia, Maya of Guatemala, Turkish village life, Nazi Germany, and present-day United States. Instructor: Nelson
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1.00 Credits
Sexual practices that involve transactions of money in different cultural and historical settings, including "regular" marriage practices that involve exchanges of money and goods as well as extramarital practices where one party is selling bodily acts. Examination of the ethics and politics of these exchanges questioning who benefits from them (and who not) and how to also assess other bodily transactions including prostitution and surrogacy. Reading materials on sexual practices in different cultural contexts (including Tonga, Thailand, Brazil, India, Ghana, China, Japan, Russia, Turkey, Indonesia). Comparisons made in terms of culture, religion, ethical systems, politics, and economy. Instructor: Allison
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