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3.00 Credits
Exploration of the manner in which various anthropologists have constructed "culture" as being constituted of a set of conventional signs called "symbols" and the consequences of such a construal. Among the authors read are the anthropologists Valentine Daniel, Mary Douglas, Clifford Geertz, Claude Levi-Strauss, Sherry Ortner, David Schneider, Margaret Trawick, and Victor Turner; the social theorists Emile Durkheim, Karl Marx and Max Weber; the semioticians Ferdinand de Saussure and Charles Peirce; and the psychoanalysts Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan. General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). Not offered in 2009-2010. 3 points
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General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). Not offered in 2009-2010. 3 points
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Introduction to medical anthropology, whose purpose is to explore health, affliction, and healing cross-culturally. Theory and methods from other fields will be drawn on to address critiques of biomedical, epidemiological, and other models of disease; the roles of healers in different societies; and different conceptions of the body and health. Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor is required. Enrollment limited to 40. General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). General Education Requirement: Social Analysis (SOC). General Education Requirement: Reason and Value (REA). 3 points
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Explores 10,000 years of the North American archaeological record, bringing to light the unwritten histories of Native Americans prior to European contact. Detailed consideration of major pre-Columbian sites is interwoven with the insight of contemporary native peoples to provide both a scientific and humanist reconstruction of the past. - S. Fowles Corequisites: Enrollment limited to 40 students. General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). Not offered in 2009-2010. 3 points
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General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). Not offered in 2009-2010. 3 points
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Practices like veiling that are central to Western images of women and Islam are also contested issues throughout the Muslim world. Examines debates about Islam and gender and explores the interplay of cultural, political, and economic factors in shaping women's lives in the Muslim world, from the Middle East to Southeast Asia. - L. Abu-Lughod General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). Not offered in 2009-2010. 3 points
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Looks at four major aspects of contemporary South Asian societies: nationalism, religious reform, gender, and caste. The object is to provide a critical survey of the history as well as the continuing debates over these crucial themes of society, politics, and culture in South Asia. Readings include primary texts that were part of the original debates as well as secondary sources that represent the current scholarly assessment on these subjects. General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). General Education Requirement: Historical Studies (HIS). General Education Requirement: Social Analysis (SOC). Not offered in 2009-2010. 3 points
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General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). 3 points
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4.00 Credits
General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). Not offered in 2009-2010. 4 points
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4.00 Credits
Critiques the many ways the great Red Island has been described and imagined by explorers, colonists, social scientists, and historians-as and Asian-African amalgamation, and ecological paradise, and a microcosm of the Indian Ocean. Religious diasporas, mercantilism, colonization, enslavement, and race and nation define key categories of comparative analysis. - L. Sharp Prerequisites: Sophomore standing. Enrollment limited to 20 students. Instructor's permission required. Anthropology, African Studies, and Francophone Studies students encouraged to enroll. General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). General Education Requirement: Social Analysis (SOC). 4 points
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