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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course provides an introduction to "doing" anthropology through the study and practice of fieldwork, and is meant to complement other Anthropology Department courses and independent work projects. Emphasizing seminar-style discussions and a "workshop" format, the course considers a variety of anthropological research methods and types of writing. Throughout, it aims to develop an understanding of key ideas like objectivism, interpretation, reflexivity, participant-observation, translation, and comparison.
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This course explores the social and cultural contexts of economic experience in the US and around the world. It considers how the consumption, production, and circulation of goods--today and in times past--become invested with personal and collective meanings. It pays special attention to symbolic and political dimensions of work, property (material, intellectual, and cultural), wealth, and "taste" (i.e., needs and wants). Additionally, course participants do a bit of anthropological fieldwork by learning to draw everyday experiences systematically into conversation with more familiar academic sources.
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This course explores performance as event, activity, object of study, and analytical framework. Students will explore the genealogy of performance in the study of culture, while also reading texts in theater and philosophy that assert particular understandings of what performance is, or should be. If humans are, as Victor Turner says, performing creatures, what do we mean by "performing"? What kinds of actions qualify as performances and how do different definitions of performance shift our insights? How does our own culturally situated understanding of performance influence how we perceive the actions and representations of others?
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An introduction to the techniques of analysis that biological anthropologists apply to forensic (legal) cases. Topics include: the ethical and moral considerations of international forensic efforts, recovery of bodies, analysis of life history, reconstruction of causes of death, and case studies where anthropologists have contributed significantly to solving forensic cases. Discussions will include the limitations of the application of DNA recovery to skeletal/mummified materials; various case studies including recovery of body parts from the World Trade Towers site; and uncovering gravesites in Bosnia and Iraq.
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Why do development projects fail? This course examines why well-meaning development experts get it wrong. It looks closely at what anthropologists mean by culture and why most development experts fail to attend to the cultural forces that hold communities together. By examining development projects from South Asia to the United States, students learn the relevance of exchange relations, genealogies, power, religion, and indigenous law. This semester the class will be designing a marketplace.
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Study of the relation between formal legal institutions and the social and cultural factors influencing their development. Western and non-Western systems compared in terms of their forms of judicial reasoning, implementation through law of moral precepts, fact-finding procedures, and dispute settlement mechanisms. Issues covered include judicial application of moral precepts, the relation of law to social relations, the development of the jury, Japanese conciliation, American family life and the law, and social science and Supreme Court decisions.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
At this polarizing moment of global war and migration, understanding tolerance is vital. This course explores the social, political, and religious facets of tolerance as it has developed in the Mediterranean world, from Ottoman pluralism to modern European multiculturalism. How is tolerance promoted in state policies, legal principles, moral virtues, cultural traditions, and economic practices? How is "culture clash" mediated in conflicts over minority rights, immigration, labor, citizenship, marriage, and education? This course traces the complex boundaries of identity, community, and polity at the historical crossroads of east and west.
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Foodways is a biocultural exploration of human food consumption. Readings and discussions will focus on both the biological and socio-cultural aspects of what humans eat and the ways human cultures conceptualize food and its consumption. Topics include the nutritional needs of humans, the differences between diet and cuisine, which foods taste good and why some foods taste disgusting, the evolution of human diet, how cultures define what is and what is not food, the symbolism associated with various kinds of food, and how cultures distinguish foods that are suitable for some members of the society and not others.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to fundamental theories and debates in social/cultural anthropology. We will examine the national and colonial origins of anthropology, considering how western encounters with non-western peoples in the 19th-20th centuries opened questions about human kinship, history, economy, religion, language, sexuality, and personhood that continue to shape the horizons of our thought today. We will study this inheritance critically, exploring the changing concepts, methods, and ethics of anthropological research and writing, and evaluate their bearing on questions of power, justice, and identity in the present.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course focuses on how labor shapes identity and citizenship; gender and sexuality; global networks of power, inequality and displacement; and bodily commodification. We will examine various kinds of work--agricultural, industrial and post-industrial, immigrant and migrant, sex and service--in numerous sites. Our readings will move from historical debates about unpaid and unrecognized work to the question of labor as transnational, flexible and affective. As we scrutinize work in a comparative and cross-cultural context, we'll seek to interrogate how the question of what we "do" is intricately intertwined with who we are.
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