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3.00 Credits
SO Z.Ngwane Education and schooling in anthropological literature. We will compare the concepts of ""socialization"" in British Social Anthropology with ""cultural transmission"" in American Cultural Anthropology to look for the different ways in which the role of education in social reproduction and transformation has been framed over time. In addition to basic works by thinkers such as Durkheim, Malinowski, Mead, Benedict and Boas, we will read a selection of ethnographies of schooling from the United States, Africa and Japan. Prerequisite: One course in Anthropology or Education. Offered occasionally.
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3.00 Credits
SO (Cross-listed in Gender and Sexuality Studies) M.Gillette This course explores issues of power and its operation through examining women and women's experience. Course readings combine theoretical materials on power and women's empowerment with ethnographic studies that allow us to investigate theoretical questions in specific contexts. We consider the nature of power, the sources of social inequality, and the potential for powerful action on individual and collective levels. (Satisfies the social justice requirement.) Offered occasionally.
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3.00 Credits
SO B.Uygun Exploration of the impact of globalization on everyday life from an anthropological perspective. In this course, we will investigate the relationship between local cultures and global forces in particular settings and in the lives of actors, incuding consumers, workers, migrants, and tourists. In addition to reading selected examples of writing on globalization in other social sciences and the popular press, we will focus upon anthropological approaches to global phenomena such as consumption, labor, and social movements and the challenges they pose to theories of "culture." Prerequisite: ANTH 102 or 103, or consent. Offered occasionally.
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3.00 Credits
SO (Cross-listed in Peace and Conflict Studies) L.Dwyer Prerequisite: One course in Anthropology or Peace and Conflict Studies (Satisfies the social justice requirement.)
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3.00 Credits
SO J.Shipley This course will examine cross-culturally how the mass media print and electronic, old and new have become critical to the constitution of subjectivities, collectivities, and histories in the contemporary world and are the primary means for the circulation of symbolic forms across space and time. Attention is paid to how the production, reception, and circulation of media forms and technologies are integrated into social practice at the local, national, and transnational levels. Offered occasionally.
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3.00 Credits
SO (Cross-listed in Comparative Literature and Latin American and Iberian Studies) L.Hart This course focuses on pluralism and cultural interaction in circum-Mediterranean societies. It includes such topics as: orientalism and the problematics and politics of ethnographic production in and on "peripheral" societies; the use and abuse of concepts of cultural continuity; ethno-religious interaction in rural and urban settings; imperial legacies and nation-state ideologies in 21st century cultural politics; local and transnational economic systems; migration patterns, conflicts, and contemporary social transformations. Prerequisite: One course in Anthropology or Global History. Typically offered in alternate years.
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3.00 Credits
SO (Cross-listed in East Asian Studies and Gender and Sexuality Studies) M.Gillette This course is a basic introduction to the anthropology of China. We investigate family, religion, and politics, paying particular attention to "the problem of women," as anthropologists and the Chinese Communist Party have termed the study of gender relations and gendered representations. The scope of our inquiry is about one century: we begin with traditional China and end with the present. Our primary site is the Chinese mainland (rather than Taiwan, Hong Kong, or the Chinese diaspora). Our goals include learning specific information about China, Chinese society, and Chinese culture; examining a range of diverse anthropological approaches to the study of human beings; and exploring the political dimensions of representation. Prerequisite: One course in Anthropology or East Asian Studies. Typically offered in alternate years.
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3.00 Credits
SO (Cross-listed in African and Africana Studies) Z.Ngwane Through analysis of the development of writing in colonial and apartheid South Africa this course examines the "crisis of representation" of the past two decades in literature and anthropology. We will consider debates about the textual status of ehtnographic monographs and the more general problems of writing and social power. Specifically, we will look at how such writing contributed to the construction and transformation of black subjectivity. Course material will include 19th and 20th century texts by black South Africans including life narratives, particularly collaborated autobiographies by women in the 1980's. Prerequisite: one course in literature or Anthropology. Typically offered in alternate years.
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3.00 Credits
SO Staff This course considers politics as what groups of people do to affect their social conditions, and examines how their ability to affect those conditions is organized and controlled. Through the reading of ethnography and anthropological theory, we will raise questions about how "leaderless" societies organize social action, about the interrelations of gender, bodies, and politics, and about the ways in which power is exercised and contested in different societies. We will discuss how modern states arose and what impact they have had on the peoples they incorporate and on options for political action in contemporary complex global political systems. Prerequisite: One other course in Anthropology or Peace Studies, or consent of the instructor. (Satisfies the social justice requirement.) Offered occasionally.
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3.00 Credits
SO L.Hart The comparative study of ethnic identity and collective violence. Ideological systems of classification and differentiation, such as kinship, race, class, ethnicity and nationality. Case studies of contemporary struggles and conflicts, informed by classic and recent anthropological theory. Prerequisite: One other course in Anthropology or Peace and Conflict Studies or permission of the instructor. (Satisfies the social justice requirement.) Typically offered in alternate years.
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