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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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Major art forms, monuments, vernacular structures, and masking traditions in West, Central, and Southern Africa. From ancient times to the present. Instructor: Staff
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The African diapora--a direct result of the transatlantic slave trade and Western colonialism--has generated a wide array of artistic achievements, from the "shotgun" houses of New Orleans to the urban graffiti of NYC. The course surveys several major cultural groups in West and Central Africa and their aesthetic impact on the arts, religions, and philosophies of peoples of African descent in South America, the Caribbean, and the United States. Instructor: Powell
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The South African political system in the twentieth century with particular attention to the transition from apartheid and white minority rule to nonracial democracy. Instructor: Johns
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Modern literature in French from French-speaking Africa and the French Caribbean. Topics include tradition and modernity; colonization, cultural assimilation, and the search for identity; and women in changing contexts. Instructor: Staff
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Examines both scholarly and popular representations of Atlantic slave trade in Africa and the diaspora. Uses first-person narratives, scholarly texts, documentaries, novels and films to debate African agency in slave trade, effects of slave trade on the New World and Europe, nature of slave life, slave resistance, and causes of abolition. Explores role of slavery in collective memory, public history, and contemporary politics. Instructor: Holsey
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How meaning is communicated by a work of art. Interpretive strategies. Visual languages developed and used by different societies. Relationship between visual and verbal languages, texts and images. Study of Semiotics and Iconology. Open only to students in the Focus Program. Instructor: Kachurin
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Examine cultural influences of food, linking class, geography, ethnicity to food practices. Investigates link between overeating and cheap food, under-eating and expensive food; discrepancy between cost and quality; changing diets in US and elsewhere; current debates regarding food production, specifically in the U.S., Americas, Africa and Asia. Discussion of Cargill companies¿ restrictions on spread of their hybrid grains; questionable agricultural practices, e.g. animal cruelty, overuse of pesticides, condition of migrants. Environmental policies examined in relation to pursuit of such industrial agricultural practices. Will include hands-on experiments with food preparation and tasting. Instructor: Crichlow
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Introduction to Taoism, its texts, practices, and ethical implications in history and modern times in mainland China and Taiwan. Instructor: Nickerson
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Special features of the doctrine and practice of Buddhism in Tibet, China, Korea, and Japan, with an account of their origins in the Indian subcontinent. Instructor: Staff
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