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3.00 Credits
In this seminar students learn how to develop a testable hypothesis, conduct a review of research literature, define an appropriate sample and employ a range of ethnographic methodologies in one or more research sites. The course culminates in the design of a pilot project and proposal. (Donna O. Kerner)
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3.00 Credits
The island cultures of the Pacific respresent a dazzling array of social, political and economic styles, as well as a set of puzzling questions as they undergo rapid social changes in the 21st century. Some of the classic debates in anthropological scholarship will be considered, including: the origins of the inhabitants, the reasons for local warfare, ritual cannibalism, institutionalized homosexuality and exchange without money. We will also examine current debates about economic development, migration, environmental threats, political movements for integration and independence, the impact of tourism and the Western media, new religious movements, and language revivalism. (Donna O. Kerner)
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3.00 Credits
Religious and ethnic diversity and conflict, ritual performance and festivity, caste, colonialism, cultural heritage, nationalism and modern struggles over sovereignty and development schemes are all features of South Asia that anthropologists find particularly interesting. This course explores the extraordinary cultural diversity of this region that extends from the Himalayas to Sri Lanka and Pakistan to Bhutan in order to better understand the differences and commonalities that divide and unite its peoples. (Bruce Owens) Connections: Conx 20032 Cultural Flows in South Asia
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3.00 Credits
The Himalayan region provides extraordinary opportunities for pursuing fascinating issues that interest anthropologists everywhere, including the relationship between ecology and culture, the politics of gender, negotiating ethnic identity, religious diversity and interaction, and globalization. This region is also home to some of the most widely known fantasies about the ideal society, usually called Shangrila. This course uses intimate, detailed portraits of cultures and societies that the best of anthropology provides in order to examine these issues (and fantasies) in Himalayan contexts, while at the same time providing a broad overview of the enormous diversity to be found in the region and the challenges that its inhabitants share. (Bruce Owens)
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3.00 Credits
This seminar provides a selective survey of the past one hundred years of anthropological theory, with a particular focus on the contributions of American, British and French theorists in the development of anthropological paradigms that are now most important in the discipline. These include evolutionary, functionalist, historical particularist, culture and personality, structuralist, symbolic/interpretive, ecological materialist, Marxist world systems, feminist, poststructuralist, practice, and postmodernist theory receive major attention. Readings may include primary theoretical texts, classic and contemporary ethnographies and biographical materials on a number of influential anthropologists. (Donna O. Kerner, Bruce Owens)
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3.00 Credits
(See Psy 306).
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3.00 Credits
The seminar explores capitalism and alternative forms of economic organization, challenging students to reconceptualize "economy" as acultural system. Students compare nonmonetized economic relations in different societies and interactions between economic cores and peripheries. This reconceptualization informs a critical understanding of the implications for participation in the global economic system and its impact on the rest of the world. (Department)
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3.00 Credits
In various places throughout the world, people are killing themselves and others in the name of "religion"or "religious beliefs." Attempts to make senseof these and other phenomena (such as trance, fundamentalism and ecstatic worship) that we call religious often reveal deep-seated prejudices and unfounded assumptions. This seminar examines how anthropologists have sought to understand such phenomena from the perspectives of practitioners in order to develop conceptual frameworks that facilitate cross-cultural understanding. (Bruce Owens)
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3.00 Credits
A unified analysis of gender and kinship is considered essential to an understanding of social organization. This course starts from the premise that cultural conceptions of gender are not "natural"categories. In this course we will consider how marriage, family and household organization both reflect and structure cultural definitions of gender and sex-role behavior and the dynamic interaction of public and private domains in the production of culture. We will be comparing small-scale societies to more complex forms (peasant and industrial economies) and we will also consider the differences among those societies that organize descent bilaterally, matrilineally and patrilineally. Seminar participants are responsible for preparing and presenting the readings and conducting two small field-work projects. (Donna O. Kerner) Connections: Conx 23006 Sexuality
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3.00 Credits
(See Rel 357).
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