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3.00 Credits
This module introduces the world of the ancient Celts: their history and society, their language, and its relationship to surviving Celtic languages and above all, their religion and mythology. The ancient records will be used to illuminate selected insular tales dealing with the Otherworld, demi gods and heroes, and tales of wonder.
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3.00 Credits
IRFL 30020 Calendar Custom at UCD; This module will deal with customs and traditions relating to significant days and festivals in the Irish traditional calendar, and will examine the ways in which these occasions are marked in popular culture. Calendar custom encompasses many aspects of popular tradition including ritual and belief, performance and narrative. The continuing development of calendar custom in contemporary society will be explored and discussed and, in this context, the course will enable students to draw on their own experience as part of their studies.
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3.00 Credits
IRFL 30020 Calendar Custom at UCD; This module will deal with customs and traditions relating to significant days and festivals in the Irish traditional calendar, and will examine the ways in which these occasions are marked in popular culture. Calendar custom encompasses many aspects of popular tradition including ritual and belief, performance and narrative. The continuing development of calendar custom in contemporary society will be explored and discussed and, in this context, the course will enable students to draw on their own experience as part of their studies.
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3.00 Credits
The course surveys the development of Byzantine art from the Late Antique Period through the Palaeologan periods. Architecture provides the framework from which the other arts, especially mosaic, fresco, panel painting, and manuscript illumination are examined. These works are looked at in terms of their formal characteristics, but the emphasis of the course is placed on exploring the meaning of this art beyond its formal aspects, and on appreciating its function in Byzantine society, particularly as a reflection of both the theological concerns and the political realities that the Byzantine Empire confronted. Readings introduce a range of approaches to this art in current scholarship, and class trips to a number of monasteries and museums, allow personal investigation of some of the most important and beautiful examples of Byzantine Art that have survived.
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3.00 Credits
This course considers: gender roles and complementary oppositions in Mediterranean families and societies; particular ethnographic situations; crosscultural comparisons and feminist debates; theoretical elaborations; ethnographical writing and recording.
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3.00 Credits
The course acquaints students with central facets of Greek society and culture as depicted by ethnographers and other social scientists since the mid-sixties. The emphasis is on institutions, modes of living, options, contests and negotiations of everyday existence in the Greek society of today - the society which the students actually come into contact with during their stay in the country. The traditional" will come into the picture as one among other cultural frames of reference in terms of which people in Greece behave and "cope" in different circumstances and situations. A central aim of the course is to cultivate in the student an ethnographic sensibility which involves among other things the ability and willingness to put oneself in the place of the people one has come to study and become aware of one's own cultural conditioning.
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3.00 Credits
The panoramic and comparative study of the ethnology of the principle indigenous groups during colonization. Special emphasis on its contact with European culture - its encounters, confrontations and accomodations, adn the analysis of the economic, social, and political transformations that occured during the first centure of Spanish rule.
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3.00 Credits
"The cultural life of the principle groups of the indigenous of mesoamerica. We will study characteristics, language, history, and go into specifics on certain groups. We will read articles by Eric Wolf, John Justeson and George Broadwell, Edward Spencer, and Gonzalo Vazquez Rojas."
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3.00 Credits
Seminar: The geographical, social and linguistic situation of the principal cultural areas of South America and the changes in them generated by contact with national societies. We will also focus on the impact of the expansion of occidental society on the life and culture of the indigenous villages. In the second half of the semester the students will choose a region or a topic within a region to make a presentation to the class.
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3.00 Credits
The course Myth, Magic, and Religion applies the anthopological concepts of ethno-ontology and ethno-epistemology to various religious practices and institutions from different cultures around the world. In doing so, the class initially attempts to understand how these cultures understand, justify, and use these practices, which range from chamanism to witchcraft. In the second part of the course, the material is more focused on the world's great religions such as Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, to examine the principles and beliefs of these religious institutions, how they originated and evolved through history, and how they are similar and different.
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