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ANTH V3942x: Anthropological Study of Ritual
4.00 Credits
Barnard College
General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). Not offered in 2009-2010. 4 points
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ANTH V3943y: Youth and Identity Politics in Africa
4.00 Credits
Barnard College
Examines ways in which African youth inevitably occupy two extremes in academic writings and the mass media: as victims of violence, or as instigators of social chaos. Considers youth as generating new cultural forms, as historically relevant actors, and informed social and/or political critics. At the core of such critiques lie possibilities for the agentive power of youth in Africa. Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor is required. Enrollment limited to 15 students. General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). General Education Requirement: Social Analysis (SOC). Not offered in 2009-2010. 4 points
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ANTH V3946y: African Popular Culture
4.00 Credits
Barnard College
Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor required. Enrollment limited to 15 students. General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). General Education Requirement: Social Analysis (SOC). Not offered in 2009-2010. 4 points
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ANTH V3947x: Text,Magic,and Performance
4.00 Credits
Barnard College
Examination of text and performance, as informed by magic and related articulations of power. Topics explored include: prophetic writing, historical inscription; divine kingship, cosmology, divination; colonial fiction, nationalist figuration; spirit possession, ritual sacrifice; mask performance, music, shadow theatre. Draws principally on Southeast Asian sources. Key concerns are subjectivity and repetition. Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor required. Enrollment limited to 20 students. General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). Not offered in 2009-2010. 4 points
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ANTH V3949y: Sorcery and Magic
4.00 Credits
Barnard College
Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 20 students. General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). Not offered in 2009-2010. 4 points
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ANTH V3950y: Anthropology of Consumption
4.00 Credits
Barnard College
Examines theories and ethnographies of consumption as well as the political economy of production and consumption. Compares historic and current consumptive practices, compares exchange based economies with post-Fordist economies. Engages the work of Mauss, Marx, Godelier, Baudrillard, Appadurai, and Douglas among others. Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor required. Enrollment limited to 20 students. General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). General Education Requirement: Social Analysis (SOC). 4 points
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ANTH V3951y: Pirates,Boys,and Capitalism
4.00 Credits
Barnard College
Detailed analysis of the history and figure of the pirate in the Western imagination. Asks why the pirate exerts such appeal through the ages and aims at introducing key problems in anthropological and cultural theory concerning colonialism, violence, homosexuality, rebellion, and the importance of the child's imagination of the above. Prerequisites: Enrollment limited. General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). Not offered in 2009-2010. 4 points
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ANTH V3952y: Taboo and Transgression
4.00 Credits
Barnard College
Transgression of taboos is the basis of crime, sex, and religion in any society. As "the labor of the negative", transgression is also a critical element in thought itself. Working through anthropology of sacrifice and obscenity, as well as relevant work by Bataille, Foucault, and Freud, this course aims at understanding why taboos exist and why they must be broken. Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor required. Enrollment limited to 20 students. General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). Not offered in 2009-2010. 4 points
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ANTH V3954x: Bodies and Machines
4.00 Credits
Barnard College
Examines how bodies become mechanized and machines embodied. Studies shifts in the status of the human under conditions of capitalist commodification and mass mediation. Readings consist of works on the fetish, repetition and automaticity, reification, and late modern techno prosthesis. - M. Ivy Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 20 students. General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). 4 points
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ANTH V3960y: The Culture of Public Art and Display in NYC
4.00 Credits
Barnard College
A field course and seminar considering the aesthetic, political, and sociocultural aspects of selected city museums, public spaces, and window displays. General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). 4 points
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