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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course will concern how society, culture, and law affect one another in the context of contemporary Arabic-speaking societies. Using anthropological theories to "read between the lines" of the contemporary and historical record, the course will consider such topics as: the nature of the self, the meaning of time in Arab culture and history, the forms of family and political organization, changes in the legal status of women, and the development of democratic institutions. Minority groups, Muslim-Jewish relations, challenges to orthodoxy, and the roles of art and memory will also be connected to changing patterns of social life.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
In this seminar, we explore connections among scientific, literary and cultural creativities through some of anthropology's classic innovations with the idea of culture. Our cases come from U.S. scholars during two formative periods in the discipline's and the nation's history, at both ends of the 20th century, when anthropologists and the public alike were distinctively aware of the democratic implications of the concept of culture, as well the stakes in its misuse, in relation to race. Thus, anthropologists' literary efforts to persuade and guard against misreading by scholars and the public are inseparable from their theoretical concerns.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
We focus on how humans deal with loss through three major approaches to memory: psychoanalysis (Freud), social organization (Halbwachs), associative temporalities (Sebald). We examine genres in which the memory of loss is retained or displaced. How is the past generally experienced and construed as meaningful in the present? We consider memory from different cultural settings, contexts and theoretical perspectives. A better understanding of the memory of loss, and the social forms in which this memory remains active in the present, will improve our approaches to cultural observation, documentation, analysis, and interpretation.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
Visual Anthropology explores the theories and methods of ethnographic filmmaking. This seminar introduces students to the pioneering works of filmmakers including Robert Flaherty, Jean Rouch, and Fred Wiseman in order to address questions of documentary authenticity, knowledge, methodology, ethics, and audience.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
A half-term seminar-style course covering the elements of the responsible conduct of research (RCR) for sociocultural anthropologists, including: fieldwork; teaching, mentoring, and assessment; publication and peer review, intellectual property; funding. Required of all Anthropology graduate students, beginning with second-years; open to students in other departments seeking RCR certification in a course designed for ethnographers. Completion satisfies the University RCR training requirement.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
First half of a two-semester seminar required for incoming graduate students in social-cultural anthropology. Along with ANT 502, the course is discussion-driven, writing-intensive, and will introduce students to fundamentals of anthropological thought. As the purpose is to develop analytical and summarizing skills, we will begin to understand what our readings are saying "in their own write," before developing attitudes about them or becoming overwhelmed by the larger discourses which generated them or of which they became a part. We will try to understand and debate how anthropological ideas are produced and employed and defended.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
The anthropology of memory will focus on the relation of memory to how humans deal with loss. It takes up three major approaches to memory: psychoanalysis (Freud), social organization (Halbwachs), and associative temporalities (Sebald). It examines various genres in which the memory of loss is retained or displaced (personal memoires, comic books, films, memorials, money, religious stories).
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
A selected topic in anthropology is studied; the particular choice varies from year to year.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
A brief introduction to the anthropology of language, focusing on examples from law and politics. Course begins with basic methods for analyzing language emerging from recent developments in anthropology, focusing particularly on tools for examining how language works in social contexts (e.g., language pragmatics, metapragmatics, linguistic ideology), then considers ethnographies of language in legal contexts which used these tools to give insights into the vital role of language in law. Students who have already done fieldwork may consider applying linguistic anthropological approaches to their own ethnographic materials. A six-week course.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
This 6-week course for graduate students will focus on recent key theoretical and ethnographic texts on gender and sexuality. Recent research in clinical psychoanalytic, linguistics and rhetoric, and anthropology have opened up new ways of understanding attachment, gender identification, and cultural context in the shaping of sexuality. This course will explore this literature, with the primary concern the utility of these frames for ethnographic research.
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