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3.00 Credits
Theories and writings about popular culture questioning what it is, its relation to mass and dominant culture(s), what politics and pleasures it carries, and how it varies over time and across space. Project-based with emphasis on conducting studies of popular culture. Focus on methodology analyzing specific forms of popular culture. Issues include transnationalism, capitalism, postmodernism, production, consumption, ethnography, fantasy, and identity. Instructor: Allison
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A close examination of the work of Foucault and the impact of his work on cultural anthropology. Traces shifts in Foucault's thinking over the course of his career, examines his work in the context of other major French thinkers, and considers selected works in anthropology that have been particularly influenced by his theories. Instructor: Ewing
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3.00 Credits
Focuses on anthropological approaches to the nation-state, nationalist movements, and state formation. Examines the dynamic relationships between nations and states, colonial and post-colonial policies, and anti-colonial strategies within a changing global context. Addresses the ways belonging and participation are defined within particular states, as well as how these definitions are socialized through a variety of institutional contexts. Finally, explores the relationships between popular culture and state formation, examining these as dialectical struggles for hegemony. Instructor: Staff
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to colonial and postcolonial cultures, forms of knowledge, and theoretical traditions. Explore the foundational scholarship on colonialism within the Indian, European, and U.S. academies; investigate the central debates and arguments in the field of postcolonial theory; and consider postcolonial theory's relationship to the theoretical traditions of poststructuralism and psychoanalysis. Examine historical and the tropological relationship between colonialism and globalization. Develop a set of critical theoretical tools with which to approach the study of colonial and postcolonial cultures, institutions, discourses, and communities. This course pays particular attention to questions of subjectivity and subject formation, notions of resistance and struggle, and the ways in which colonial power has articulated with race, gender, and sexuality at particular historical moments. Readings in the works of Asad, Fanon, Derrida, Said, Spivak, Stoller and others. Instructor: Stein
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3.00 Credits
An examination of religious movements through the political, racial, gendered, and globalized contours of the contemporary moment. Among other cases to be explored: Jerry Falwell and the religious right, neo-Pentecostalism in the global south, African derived religions in the Americas, Black Hebrew Israelites, transnational Islamic movements, the occult economies of the neoliberal moment, and popular imaginaries of conspiracy. Instructor: Piot
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3.00 Credits
A continuation of History 210S/Cultural Anthropology 207S. Recent scholarship that combines anthropology and history, including culture history, ethnohistory, the study of mentalite, structural history, and cultural biography. The value of the concept of culture to history and the concepts of duration and event for anthropology. Prerequisite: History 201S or Cultural Anthropology 207S. Instructor: Staff
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3.00 Credits
Graduate seminar studies foundation and contemporary scholarship on space and place. Trace and compare the ways space is conceptualized and articulated differently in varied disciplinary locations, and aim to establish a conversation between disciplinary literatures and methodologies that are infrequently considered in tandem. Course themes include: the production of space; Marxist and feminist geographies; urban anthropology; home and intimacy; the public sphere; landscape and the production of nature; the politics of cartography; and global cities. Instructor: Stein
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3.00 Credits
Course will explore in detail our understandings of "facts" and "life." Using classic anthropology as well as work in critical science and technology, political philosophy, feminism, and radiology, course will examine relation between nature and culture, how individuals reproduce a society, kinship, and human development. Instructor: Nelson
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3.00 Credits
In this course, we approach modern citizenship as a form of political belonging that is lived collectively and culturally. Second, we will understand citizenship, not through the legal/constitutional ideal of formal equality but as one modality for the elaboration of social inequality. Finally, we will seek to ¿provincialize¿ the framework of national citizenship by looking to the elaboration of political belonging and rights in transnational circuits of cultural and political exchange. Instructor: Subramanian
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3.00 Credits
James Ferguson tells us that ¿Africa¿s participation in globalization has certainly not been a matter simply of `joining the world economy.¿¿ Rather, Africa¿s inclusion has been selective, uneven, and partial. This is quite different than arguing, as many social theorists, economists, and journalists have suggested that the Continent is somehow structurally irrelevant to the process of globalization. This course responds to this debate by first retracing the history of ¿globalization,¿ and concludes by thinking about Africa¿s place in relation to a new global order. Instructor: Makhulu
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