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3.00 Credits
This is a graduate-level version of Anthro 3322.
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1.00 - 6.00 Credits
Students conduct research at the St. Louis Zoo. Training in designing of projects and analysis and interpretation of data. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the dynamic relationship between gender and other social, economic, biological, and political processes. The course compares a variety of theoretical frameworks proposed by anthropologists, as well as Foucault, Butler, Carby, Laquer, and Engels. Using ethnographic and historical materials, students explore how shifts in communities' notions of gender, femininity, and masculinity are connected to larger forces, including shifts in the marketplace, global cultural flows, reproductive and sexual technologies, social movements, racial and ethnic hierarchies, international declarations, and HIV/AIDS and STDs. The course also considers ways in which gender studies and feminism have influenced anthropology. Prerequisite: Anthro 160B or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
This seminar explores various ways anthropologists have conceptualized the intersection of sex, gender, and power in their ethnographies. Key questions revolve around the processes through which biological categories of sex become socially significant, and interact with various regimes of power such as the state, family, religion, medicine, the market, and science in everyday life. We examine how the social processes and regulatory mechanisms associated with gender and sexuality create systems of hierarchy, domination, resistance, meaning, identity, and affection. Course materials are primarily ethnographies, supplemented with articles. The aim of the course is to develop students' critical reading, discussion, and writing skills. Prerequisite: upper-level Anthro or Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies courses, or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Capitalism is perhaps the most important historical and social phenomenon in the modern world. In tribal settings and major cities alike, its complex impacts are evident. Through rich case studies of how capitalism touches down in diverse cultures, this course provides an introduction to anthropological perspectives on the economy and economic development. Themes covered include the history of capitalism and globalization, the cultural meanings of class and taste, the relationship between capitalism and popular culture, major artistic responses to capitalism, social movements such as environmentalism, and the field of international development. No background in anthropology or economics is required.
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3.00 Credits
Same as IAS 4581
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3.00 Credits
As a critical examination of the nature of evidence and explanation within anthropology, this course provides an introduction to a broad range of methods essential for collecting ethnographic data in a systematic manner. Interviewing skills are developed as a basis for using methodologies such as life histories, free listing, pile sorting, rank ordering, social mapping, and decision-tree modeling. Issues of qualitative data analysis are discussed in conjunction with software packages designed for organizing ethnographic information. This course is intended for graduate students only. Undergraduates may be enrolled with permission of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Same as AMCS 441
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3.00 Credits
Same as URST 418
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3.00 Credits
This seminar explores questions of theory, method, and ethics in the anthropology of science and technology. How is biomedicine changing what it is to be human? How can technologies and scientific practices be studied ethnographically? How are the politics of difference linked to the production of scientific knowledge? Through close reading of ethnographic texts and fieldwork experience both on-and off-line, we investigate how scientific practice and technologcal innovation reorganize various aspects of human life on both global and local scales. Topics include the social construction of knowledge, the reproduction of racial categories in genomics, the cultures of cyberspace, the commodification of bodies in medical science, and the ways in which various technoscientific projects reshape natural and political orders in diverse locales.
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