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3.00 Credits
Same as AFAS 409
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3.00 Credits
This seminar explores a wide range of readings on "the body" as a site of theoretical analysis in social scientific and humanistic inquiry. Issues include: How do we think about the body as simultaneously material (flesh and bone) and constructed in and through social and political discourse? How do we think about the relationship between these contingent bodies and subjective experiences of "self" in various contexts? The course focuses upon the different ways in which these questions have been posed and engaged, and the implications of these formulations for the theorizing of human experience. Prerequisite: Anthro 3201 or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
This seminar examines the intersection of psychological and anthropological theories and methods and their utility in the study of culture and human experience. This course is an in-depth exploration of some of the key theorists and theoretical domains that have defined the field of psychological anthropology and beyond, including Bakhtin, Bateson, Chodorow, D'Andrade, Ewing, Freud, Goffman, Hallowell, Holland, Irigaray, Kleinman, Kohut, Lacan, Lutz, Rosaldo, Strauss, Sapir, Scheper-Hughes, and Vygotsky, among others. By the end of the course, students have a solid grounding in linguistic, psychoanalytic, cognitive, symbolic, developmental, interactionist, and critical approaches within psychological anthropology. Prerequisites: at least one of the following: Anthro 3201, Anthro 3882, graduate standing, or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines anthropological approaches to the profound problems of human existence that have fascinated major existentialist thinkers. It is about appreciating the richness, the deep emotional tone, and also the dangers of human experience. Case studies illuminate what powerful human experiences such as suffering, mercy, and hope look like across diverse cultures. Themes covered include ordinary life; how we perceive the world around us; the feeling of being at home and senses of place; how we experience pain; powerful and vulnerable bodies; why things really matter; and how communities cope with trauma and violence. This course is especially relevant for students interested in medical anthropology and social dimensions of health and illness. No background in anthropology or philosophy is required.
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3.00 Credits
How language interaction conveys subtle information about social situations and how purposes, motivations, sentiments, and communication networks influence the structure of language and speech. Prerequisite: 3 units of social science.
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3.00 Credits
Ethnography is the traditional mainstay of anthropological academic writing. Through ethnography, anthropologists do more than simply describe a culture or a group of people; rather, they organize and present their field materials in particular ways in order to make intellectual, theoretical, and sometimes even political arguments. This seminar explores the different ways anthropologists have used ethnography to make intellectual claims and frame theoretical or practical arguments. The aim of the course is to help students develop critical reading skills for engaging ethnographic materials as well as to explore the ways in which ethnography, when done well, can be a persuasive and engaging means of academic argumentation. This course is intended as a sequel to Anthro 472. Prerequisite: Anthro 472 or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Language plays a constitutive role in the creation and communication of medical expertise in all cultures, as well as across cultures. The goal of this course is to introduce students to the discourse-centered approach to medicine found in sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology. How is medical authority negotiated in interactions between doctors/healers and patients? How do authoritative narratives and discourses structure cultural understandings of disease, health,well-being, and the body? What role does language and its use play in legitimizing certain forms of medicine while delegitimizing others, especially in "medically plural" societies? Does Western medicinediffer from non-Western medicine with respect to the way it is created and communicated? How do ideologies of language and communication shape the way medical representations circulate in society, including across sociocultural boundaries, as in acts of translation? How are new institutional forms of communication, such as mass media and the internet, reshaping medical expertise around the world? We begin the course with the role of narrative in the construction of medical knowledge and perception, then move to the microanalyses of authoritative language in the patient-doctor "medical encounter," and end the course by turning to the macroanalysis of medical institutions, exploring them in relation to the kinds of expert texts they produce and circulate. The course draws on theoretical readings and ethnographic research conducted in many places in order to develop a cross-cultural understanding of the issues.
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3.00 Credits
In the year 2000, HIV became the world's leading infectious cause of adult death, and in the next 10 years, AIDS was expected to kill more people than all wars of the 20th century combined. As the global epidemic rages on, our greatest enemy in combating HIV/AIDS is not lack of knowledge or resources, but global inequalities and the conceptual frameworks with which we understand health, human interaction, and sexuality. This course emphasizes the ethnographic approach for cultural analysis of responses to HIV/AIDS. Students explore the relationship between local communities and wider historical and economic processes, and theoretical approaches to disease, the body, ethnicity/race, gender, sexuality, risk, addiction, power, and culture. Other topics covered include the cultural construction of AIDS and risk, government responses to HIV/AIDS, origin and transmission debates; ethics and responsibilities; drug testing and marketing; the making of the AIDS industry and "risk" categories; prevention and education strategies; interaction between biomedicine and alternative healing systems; and medical advances and hopes.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines tobacco's important role in shaping the modern world over the course of the past five centuries, from indigenous uses of tobacco in the New World to the politics of smoking in the 20th century. Through in-depth historical and anthropological case studies, tobacco provides a window into broad trends in government, law, economy, and society, including changing social meanings of gender, race, individualism, risk, responsibility, and health in the United States and worldwide. This course also introduces students to public health approaches to noncommunicable disease prevention and healthy lifestyle promotion. No background in anthropology or public health is required.
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3.00 Credits
Intensive study of theoretical concepts and statistical methods in research using comparative methods. Major emphasis on scaling (allometry) and phylogenetically independent comparisons and their application to questions of mammalian variation in life history, metabolism, brain size, and dentition. Prerequisite: one semester of statistics, 6 units of physical anthropology or biology, or permission of instructor.
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