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3.00 Credits
This course takes clothing as a starting point for examining broad themes in anthropology, including gender and sexuality, race and the body, history and colonialism. We look at the ritual significance of clothing and other practices of bodily adornment in traditional societies and the role of style in constituting contemporary social movements and identity categories. We investigate the globalization of the fashion industry, from design and production to branding and marketing, in order to understand the relationships among citizenship, consumption, labor, and power in the global economy. The course encourages students to reflect on their relationship to the wider society and economy as producers and consumers of material culture through the lens of clothing.
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3.00 Credits
Examines contemporary challenges and debates from anthropological perspectives and applying anthropological ways of thinking. Focus on current world problems: topics include migration and refugees; environmental sustainability and food security; climate change; war, imperialism, and ethnic violence; religious strife; nationalism, transnationalism, and postnationalism; economic and social inequity; race and racism; and gender identities and relations. Students will explore these problems and debates using diverse methods.
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3.00 Credits
Explores the multiple, complex and historically changing meanings of race and ethnicity in Latin America, and the consequences of discrimination towards specific groups. Regions covered are the Caribbean, Mexico and Central America, and the Andean, Atlantic and Southern Cone regions of South America.
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3.00 Credits
Focus on the social, cultural, political, and development dimensions of historical and contemporary refugee crises and forced migration. Major topics covered may include: historical and contemporary refugee crises; the distinctiveness of forced migration in terms of globalization and migration more broadly; the definition of a refugee and what situations are covered by that definition; humanitarianism and global responses to refugees; the management of refugees in camps and urban areas; sovereignty and citizenship; and new directions in refugee policy worldwide.
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3.00 Credits
Interdisciplinary introduction to alternative/complementary disciplinary approaches to the study of human movement between states. Offered on a rotational basis by faculty involved in the University of Delaware migration group.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the politics, ethics, and dimensions of cultural diversity that are embedded in situations of global humanitarianism-but often ignored, through claims of the supposed 'neutrality' of humanitarian intervention. Humanitarianism claims that all humans have the same right to care and protection, yet in reality human life continues to be unfairly stratified according to race, sexuality, gender, and ability: something that humanitarianism does not automatically solve. In this class, we dig deep into the ways that politics and social position frames humanitarian encounters, and we will particularly focus on the ways that people within groups who receive these interventions-particularly in continental Africa, or in situations of forced migration-themselves perceive and experience them. We go beyond the spectacle of celebrity humanitarianism, and consider instead the historical and cultural specificity of humanitarianism, and the politics of life and death.
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3.00 Credits
Examines cultural dimensions of law and human rights. We approach law as a set of procedures, a cultural practice, and a moral regime. Consider law's changing relationship to state power, the global economy, and social movements. Combines readings from legal anthropology with journalism and human rights reports from around the world. Especially suited for students concerned with law, policy, government, social justice, and cultural diversity.
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3.00 Credits
Many aspects of childhood that seem inevitable or natural are, in fact, shaped by culture and not rooted in our biology. Examine childhood from biological and cultural perspectives, examining how humans compare to nonhuman primates and how humans vary today and through time.
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3.00 Credits
Examines the origins, development, and current status of Amish, Mennonite and Brethren communities in the United States. Special emphasis placed on the varied methods these groups have used to establish and maintain a visible and distinctive identity separate from mainstream American culture. The merchandizing and consumption of their separate identity through tourism is also discussed.
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3.00 Credits
Social realities and roles of women within diverse cultures. How institutions such as motherhood, the family, sexuality and work structure women's lives within the dominant social ideologies.
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