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ANTH 1231: Kings, Courts, and Aristocracy
1.00 Credits
Brown University
Explores the nature and variety of kingship, royal courts, and aristocracy through comparative evidence, with strong emphasis on historical data, architecture, and archaeology. Test cases will be examined in Mesoamerica, Europe, Africa, and Asia.
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ANTH 1232: War and Society
1.00 Credits
Brown University
Cross-cultural and historical perspectives on war and its larger social context. Course readings and lectures use political economic, cultural, and feminist approaches to understanding war and its effects on social life. Case studies will be drawn from several eras and areas of the globe, including the Rwandan genocide, Central American counterinsurgency wars of the 1980s, and the war in Iraq.
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ANTH 1233: Ethnographies of Global Connection: Politics, Culture and International Relations
1.00 Credits
Brown University
Historically, IR and Anthropology examined interactions within and among bounded objects, whether sovereign states or small-scale societies. Increasingly, through, they explore flows, circulations and exchanges across borders, and their impact on different societies. Through case-studies, the course will analyze evolving understandings of "globalization" and "culture," and explore how effectively different genres of research and representation capture their complex interactions.
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ANTH 1234: Anthropology and Utopia
1.00 Credits
Brown University
Utopia: designs for good societies and efforts to create them; and Anthropology: observation and description of societies. A wide-ranging reading and discussion class that will address such questions as: Does Anthropological description contribute to the design of good societies? Have Anthropologists been looking for Utopia? What does Anthropology suggest is wrong with existing societies? Whose job is it to judge societies? How would Utopias be like to live in? How have people tried to build Utopias? Have they failed completely? Is failure inevitable? Is a better world possible? What would it look like? How would we get there?
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ANTH 1235: Culture, Activism and Gender Politics
1.00 Credits
Brown University
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ANTH 1240: Religion and Culture
1.00 Credits
Brown University
Looking at religion as a mode of thought, we examine theories that attempt to explain the origins, world-wide manifestation, and vitality of myths, rituals, magic, witchcraft, and other ways of thinking and acting that are typically associated with (or against) the concept of religion. Collaterally, we examine the methodologies by which we hope to understand the meaning of these concepts.
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ANTH 1241: Science and Culture
1.00 Credits
Brown University
This course is an introduction to methods and topics in the anthropology of science and technology, including: social inequalities in science, race, gender, post-coloniality, and the globalization of bio-technologies. The course will focus on ethnographies and films about science and culture, covering topics such as the social implications of genetic testing, bio-prospecting and the environment, the development of pharmaceuticals, and repercussions of nuclear technologies.
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ANTH 1242: Bioethics and Culture
1.00 Credits
Brown University
This course is an introduction to the work of medical anthropologists who have engaged with social and ethical implications of medical practice and biotechnologies. In this class we look at bioethical problems as ways to understand larger social questions and look at the ways in which society as a whole influences bioethical questions and decisions. Particular emphasis will be on questions about the beginnings and ends of life, genetic testing, pharmaceuticals, psychiatry, health inequalities, and organ transplantation. Prerequisites for the course are: a previous course in medical anthropology (e.g. Culture and Health) or a previous course in science studies.
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ANTH 1250: Film and Anthropology: Identity and Images of Indian Societies
0.00 - 1.00 Credits
Brown University
The course examines representation of Indian society in film and anthropological literature. We compare how gender, national identity, religious practices, and historical events are portrayed in films and anthropological literature. We will explore the relationship between visual and textual, showing how film reflect and make comprehensible anthropological concepts of Indian culture, and creates different images of the society.
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ANTH 1251: Violence and the Media
0.00 - 1.00 Credits
Brown University
The role of media in shaping perceptions of violent conflict. Analysis of constructions of the "violent other", "victims", and "suffering", the use of culture, ethnicity, and psychopathology as tropes for articulating the motivations of violent perpetrators. Multiple subject positions and political interests will be considered. Case studies include the Cold War, conflicts, insurgencies urban riots, the genocide, and terrorism. Pre-requisite: a previous course in Anthropology, or permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 60.
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