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Brian Larkin 3 points
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This course is about economy and society, as seen through the lens of two classic works: Marx's Capital (volume 1) and Evans-Pritchard's Nuer (books 1 and 2). It has several overarching goals. First, to give students the opportunity to read, compare, and discuss two classic works in social theory-works that are often read in a piece-meal and rushed fashion, or presupposed as general canon. Second, to introduce students to key categories in British social anthropology, and Marxist and substantivist economics-and to provide a genealogy of these categories. To sketch an alternative metalanguage for examining social relations vis-Ã -vis the economy-one which is grounded in American Pragmatism and Boasian (Linguistic) Anthropology. And finally, in light of this genealogy and metalanguage, to reconsider a key set of disjunctures in the theoretical imaginary: householding to moneymaking, status to contract, community to society, quality to quantity, use-value to exchange-value, concrete domination to abstract domination, private to public, punishment to discipline, and so forth. - Paul Kockelman General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). 3 points
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The anthropological approach to the study of culture and human society. Using case studies from ethnography, the course explores the universality of cultural categories (social organization, economy, law, belief system, art, etc.) and the range of variation among human societies. General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). General Education Requirement: Social Analysis (SOC). 3 points
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Examines the grand sweep of human development from our first bipedal steps some six million years ago, to the earliest evidence of art and symbolism, and on to the emergence of the first agricultural villages. Given the immensity of time under consideration, emphasis is placed on those heightened periods of change commonly described as "revolutions". Participants will become familiar with the fossil and/or archaeological records or those revolutions and the competing theories of why they occurred. General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). General Education Requirement: Social Analysis (SOC).
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Rise of major civilizations in prehistory and protohistory throughout the world, from the initial appearance of sedentism, agriculture, and social stratification through the emergence of the archaic empires. Description and analysis of a range of regions that were centers of significant cultural development: Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Indus River Valley, China, North America, Mesoamerica, and Andean South America. General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). 3 points
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Introduction to the study of the production, interpretation, and reproduction of social meanings as expressed through language. In exploring language in relation to culture and society, the focus is on how communication informs and transforms the sociocultural environment. - P. Kockelman Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 100 students. General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). General Education Requirement: Social Analysis (SOC). 3 points
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Introduces students to theoretical works and ideas that have formed the modern field of anthropology. These include classic 19th century social theories (e.g., those of Durkheim, Weber, Marx), 20th century interpretive approaches (for example, structuralism), and contemporary modes of sociocultural analysis. - J. Pemberton General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). 3 points
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Introduction to the theory and practice of "ethnography"-the intensive study of peoples' lives as shaped by social relations, cultural images, and historical forces. Considers through critical reading of various kinds of texts (classic ethnographies, histories, journalism, novels, films) the ways in which understanding, interpreting, and representing the lived words of people-at home or abroad, in one place or transnationally, in the past or the present-can be accomplished. General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). 3 points
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General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). 3 points
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Examination of religion and society not limited to the Middle East. A series of Muslim societies of various types and locations will be approached historically and contextually to understand their family resemblances and their differences, their distinctive mechanisms of coherence and their patterns of contestation. General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). 3 points
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