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4.00 Credits
This course explores the modernization of the Muslim, Buddhist and Hindu traditions of the Indian Ocean in response to the introduction colonial rule in the eighteenth century and of mass schooling in the late nineteenth century. Readings include: Peter van der Veer, Imperial Encounters: Religion and Modernity in India and Britain; Engseng Ho, The Graves of Tarim: Genealogy and Mobility across the Indian Ocean; Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah, Buddhism Betrayed?: Religion, Politics, and Violence in Sri Lanka; Thomas Blom Hansen The Saffron Wave: Democracy and Hindu Nationalism in Modern India.
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4.00 Credits
This course serves as an introduction to the transformation of religious belief and political authority in the Islamic world during the colonial period; to the role of popular culture in creating support for American military intervention in the Islamic world during the Cold War; and to the rise of Islamic militancy after the Cold War. Readings include Michael Adas (ed), Islamic and European Expansion; Gilles Kepel, Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam; Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth; and Melani McAlister, Epic Encounters: Culture, Media and U.S. Interests in the Middle East since 1945.
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4.00 Credits
This course examines socialism (and its aftermath) as a cultural, political, and economic system. Using a holistic, anthropological approach, we will analyze the ways in which socialism and its demise affected the everyday lives of people in China, Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, and elsewhere. We will then consider the ways in which the legacy of socialist era institutions, ideologies, and practices continues to shape the post-socialist “transformation” of these societies, complicating many scholars’ predictions of their inevitable evolution towards liberal democracy and capitalism. Topics will include socialist and post-socialist forms of inequality, gender relations, education and work, informal networks, privatization, and the creation of market economies.
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4.00 Credits
This course examines programs carried out by governments, multilateral organizations, and non governmental organizations to deal with "public problems" connected to population: communicable diseases such as TB, malaria and HIV/AIDS; famine prevention and relief; child survival, especially malnutrition and infant diarrheal disease; safe motherhood; teen pregnancy; contraception, and abortion.
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6.00 Credits
From either May 15 through June 3, 2011 (A) or June 5 through June 23, 2011 (B) students will participate in an in-depth study experience in Malawi, Africa. The seminar is a three week study abroad/experiential learning program focusing on the health, social, political and cultural issues in Malawi, Africa. The program will provide the necessary language and cultural training for meaningful and productive learning and service work abroad. Students will spend 10-12 days living in a rural village with Malawian host families. Additional time will focus on language lessons, cultural training, as well as lectures in the areas of anthropology, history, public health, forestry and wildlife.
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4.00 Credits
Tensions between church and state, between religion and secularism and between faith and reason will be explored in this course. We will examine how heated debates on the role of religion inflame politics, and how political ideas flood places of worship (churches, temples, mosques and synagogues) as people try to make sense of their lives in the 21st century. While the Middle East and the United States will offer a frame of reference, our readings and discussions will include the impact of missionaries on traditional societies as they experience major religious shifts as well as pressures to accommodate local politics to western modernity.
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6.00 Credits
Network theory is at the forefront of an emerging collaboration among academics, with many new and interesting interdisciplinary implications, especially those for entrepreneurship. In this course, students will analyze cutting-edge research and network modeling techniques. They will then apply that knowledge by analogy in the context of a semester-long role-played entrepreneurial exercise. Students will engage in ongoing synthesis to help foster a deep understanding of not only the importance of network concepts, but also their real-world applications. Designed for students with entrepreneurial zeal, this course will constitute a real-world how-to guide.
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6.00 Credits
This course is designed for students who have already taken SOC/ANT 310K. It aims to deepen and extend skills in the same areas for which 310K was an introduction to social network theory and the new sociology of business and entrepreneurial activity. Students will read further in this new literature, and also learn to use the advanced features of network software to analyze network data. Significantly, 311K will coincide with 310K, allowing enrollees to serve as second-generation entrepreneurs, engineers, managers, and marketers in ongoing classroom simulations, while also playing an instructional role in the network laboratory accompanying the class.
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4.00 Credits
This course explores the complex inter-relation of race, class and gender in contemporary America, both in people's subjective identities and in their objective life chances. The materials assigned include first-person narratives of particular life experiences; quantitative analyses of general statistical patterns; and long-term historical explanations of these experiences and patterns.
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4.00 Credits
Cultural critic Stuart Hall has observed that “Heritage is a discursive practice. It is one of the ways in which the nation slowly constructs for itself a sort of collective social memory.” In this upper level seminar, we will look at case studies of how people (through the collectivities of gender, ethnicity, race, or nation) construct visual narratives about the past. Among the topics for consideration are Holocaust memorials, Native American and Polynesian museums and cultural centers, African American quilt histories, and even individual artists’ projects of the last few decades (Judy Chicago, Fred Wilson, Silvia Gruner, José Bedia, and Jolene Rickard, among others).
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