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3.00 Credits
Traverses early and more recent anthropological approaches to rural village social structure, including dimensions of hierarchy, gender, religion, communication, and economy, and explores the disposition of recent ethnographic work in South Asia to work on the village. Prerequisite, One course in Anthropology or consent of instructor.
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Traces historical shifts in oral performance-based approaches to the study of verbal art. Probes connections between verbal art and notions of tradition, authenticity, and heritage, the local, and the national. Introduces emerging work in feminist, critical, and reflexive stances in scholarship on verbal art. Prerequisite, One course in Anthropology or consent of instructor.
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Performance emerges in forms ranging from spectacle (film, theatre, carnival, theme park, concert) to daily routine (roles of child, student, friend) to more secretive performance of e.g. racial passing and closeted sexual orientation. Forms of performance thus challenge assumed spatial boundary between front stage and back stage. Analyses of various performance patterns, with implications both explicit and subtle, and with attention to the intersection of ethnicity, gender, class, and citizenship. Prerequisite, One course in anthropology, or consent of instructor. Maximum enrollment, 12.
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Examines the cultural and geographical consequences of the rise of free markets since the 1970s, focusing on immigration and the place of women, ethnic and religious minorities in contemporary Europe. Uses case studies, films, novels and theoretical reflections to explore how global restructuring processes affect movements of populations, gender relations, and national, ethnic, gendered and racialized identities. Emphasizes the African Diaspora, popular ideas of blackness and racial identity, racelessness and the intensification of intolerance and racism in Europe. Prerequisite, one course in women's studies or consent of instructor. (Same as Women's Studies 328 and Africana Studies 328.) Maximum enrollment, 12.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of the historical development of modern methodological and theoretical approaches and problems in American archaeology. Space-time frameworks, typology, form and function, research design, evolutionary, ecological and behavioral theory. Prerequisite, 106.
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3.00 Credits
Explores anthropological approaches to interconnection on a planetary scale. Specific focus on nationalism, trans-nationalism and globalization in contemporary Asia, broadly construed. Brings into critical focus the pros and cons of focusing on "Asia" in terms of an area studies paradigm. While this course will be Asia-centric, "Asia"-specific sources will be supplemented by materials that discuss similar processes at work in different territorial locations. Prerequisite, one course in cultural anthropology. Maximum enrollment, 12.
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Religious specialists' expertise rests as much in performance as in the recall and exegesis of esoteric sacred rituals, texts and doctrines. Yet what does successful performance entail, not only in terms of the scientific or supernatural efficacy of a ritual, but in terms of its artistry? Explores the role of ritual specialists as textual, verbal, visual, dramatic and technological artists by considering the work of indigenous shamans in Native traditions of the Americas, especially contemporary Maya "Daykeepers." Prerequisite, one course in religious studies, anthropology, Latin American studies or related fields, or consent of instructor. (Same as Religious Studies 356.)
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3.00 Credits
An analysis of legal, scientific, commemorative and media public discourses that connect ideas about U.S. identity and citizenship with race, ethnicity and class. Prerequisite, 113, 114, 115, 126, 127 or consent of instructor.
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An analysis of public representations of technology and science as these relate ideas about gender to ideas about being American. Prerequisite, 113, 114, 115, 126, 127 or consent of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Reviews the biological and material culture records of humankind before the advent of complex societies. Assesses fossil evidence for evolutionary relationships among human ancestors, evaluates the development of technologies and adaptations, and explores cultural achievements of modern humans during and following the last ice age. T Jones.
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