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Focus on Bronislaw Malinowski and his role in the invention of the ethnographic method through his fieldwork in the Trobriand Islands in the early decades of the 20th century. Malinowski's publications examined in the light of the tradition of ethnography they spawned. Malinowski's biography, field notes, and diaries will be considered as will more recent criticisms of Malinowski and the ethnographic method itself. Instructor: O'Barr
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The politics and process of globalization in light of the responses, ideologies, and practices of the anti-globalization movement. Focus on the interrelationship between the analysis of globalization and policy formulation on such topics as social justice, labor, migration, poverty, natural resource management, and citizenship. Case studies from the United States, Latin America, South and East Asia, Africa, and Europe. Instructor: Litzinger
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Nineteenth-century travel and imperialism; contemporary tourism; the relationship between leisure and power, globalization and consumption, the role of gender, sex and exploitation. Instructor: Stein
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The global spread of forms of consumer culture and their local appropriations, particularly the phenomenon of a globalizing middle-class culture and its local variations world wide. The historic emergence of a middle class in the United States and elsewhere in the world. The way local requirements for social respectability and "normalcy" are increasingly defined by the imagined lifestyles of average citizens in so-called first world countries. Instructor: Fehervary
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Cross cultural experiences and understanding of health and illness, the body and non-biological aspects of medicine. Culture-specific sickness (like envidia, running amok, attention deficit disorder). Class, race, and gender inflected experiences of health. Various societies' organization of health care specialists, including biomedical doctors, voudon priestesses, and shamans. Instructor: Davis
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Same as Cultural Anthropology 191T except taught in writing intensive manner. Instructor: Nelson
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Course will move through the evaluation of the impact of development projects to consider the role of development as a global phenomenon that affects both what it means to be American and how the `other' is constructed. Instructor: Mathers
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Explores political contexts, and often competing visions, surrounding construction and reproduction of public memory. Asks how sites of memory, presenting an image of the past, express understandings, desires, and conflicts of the present. Particular focus on how times of crisis and trauma are commemorated, challenged, or hidden. Open only to juniors and seniors. Instructor: Silverblatt
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Exploration of contours of Asian migration to the U.S. against the backdrop of the social and political transformations in American society from the mid-19th century to the present. Considers how Asian Americans have been constituted by world-historical processes and have constituted themselves as social and political actors. Instructor: Subramanian
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Considers the making of religious identity in colonial and postcolonial South Asia and contemporary debates over secularism, conversion, and citizenship. Some key issues: the relationship between religious identity and state formation; the role of religion in the modern public sphere; the relationship between religious community and democratic participation. Instructor: Subramanian
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