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4.00 Credits
A lecture and discussion course which investigates basic anthropological propositions about human biological similarities and differences, varied physical environments and human subsistence modes in relation to division of labor, symbolic systems, socio-culturally constructed narratives of gender, and the articulation of gender roles. We will focus on gender issues in traditional economies (foragers, horticulturalists, pastoralists, and agriculturalists) with attention to enculturation and socialization processes, kinship, marriage, residence patterns, along with issues of power and authority and male-female relations. The main method of study will be case materials drawn from different societies and culture areas.
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4.00 Credits
Host University number ANT 470; This course will begin with the question of the relationships between modernity and the development of cities. We will situate the study of Tokyo within the growing interdisciplinary literature on urban studies. Topics for the second half of the course will be determined on the basis of student background, but have included in the past the social use of public and private space, civil society, social order and control, relevance of social divisions (class culture and ethnic minorities), patterns of consumption, and the nostalgic search for a coherent "Japanese" identity. A seminar that will require short fieldwork projects.
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4.00 Credits
Taught as ANT 363 What is modern society? This reading course explores anthropological perspectives on modernity, paying attention to issues of language, exchange, and power. In particular we will think about the status of reason in a world dominated by industrial capitalism. We will also pay attention to the history of anthropology, a discipline once devoted to the study of non-modern culture, to think about what it means for us to be modern.
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3.00 Credits
Taught as 31040 in Nagoya. As the last ice age came to an end, the Japanese archipelago pulled away from the Eurasian continent into isolation. The arch formed by these islands can be seen to resemble the cross section of a concave mirror or a huge parabolic antenna, symbolically reflecting the vast continent while at the same time receiving information from it. Looking back on the history of Japanese culture, which developed by accepting diverse cultural influences from the Asian continent, it is an interesting notion to conceive this particular shape of the Japanese islands as a symbol that characterizes Japan's cultural history. However, the major cultural influences during Japan's more recent history have, especially during the modern period, come via the direct contact with Western civilization, which Japan has been eager to accommodate. In a short space of time, Japan has adopted and adapted Western models of civilization and culture to form its own brand of culture. This course seeks to account for the development of Japanese culture through its history of exchange with the Asian continent and Western civilization, involving an examination of various aspects of the arts and religious and philosophical thought.
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3.00 Credits
Japanese cultural history is often characterized by its accommodation of influences from diverse cultures on the Asian continent. However, the major cultural influences during Japan's more recent history have, especially during the modern period, come via direct contact with Western civilization, which Japan has been eager to accommodate. In a short space of time, Japan has adopted and adapted Western models of civilization and culture to form its own brand of culture. This course seeks to account for the development of Japanese culture through its history of exchange with the Asian continent and Western civilization, involving an examination of various aspects of the arts and religious and philosophical thought. Topics of this course focus mainly on modernized Japan.
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1.00 Credits
A short 10-day fieldwork course that provides a substantive introduction to anthropological issues in the Pilbara region of NW Australia. The course explores development ideology in Western Australia, and examines contested visions of 'the land' as manifested between competing groups including: Aboriginal groups, mining and resource extraction interests, environmental groups, pastoralists, and political representatives espousing Australian versions of Manifest Destiny. The course is organized to sample all of these perspectives, but the emphasis has been on Aboriginal culture and rights. Students visit the most hotly contested areas of the Pilbara -- Dampier/Karratha. They visit various plants, talk with public relation representatives, and get the 'development' side of things from several resource extraction industries that are literally crating off the landscape. At the same time students meet with Aboriginal groups based in the nearby city of Roebourne, and spend a couple of days with leaders and elders discussing their history and their present situation vis-a-vis the development activities surrounding them.
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3.00 Credits
This unit aims to provide U.S. Study Abroad students with a substantial overview of Australian history and an analysis of the evolution of contemporary Australian society. It covers major themes in Australian history and offers a context for comparison with aspects of American history and society. A principal theme of the unit is of the small and isolated early Australian settler population coming to terms with an unfamiliar and often hostile environment in one of the most remote parts of the British Empire. The unit emphasises the changing pattern of Aboriginal/white relations: from armed friction on the frontier during colonial times, to the beginnings of a search for reconciliation. The brutal nature of the convict system, the desperate expansion of the gold period, and the sacrifices of Australians in far off fields during the 'Great War' are all examined in some detail. Australia's changing relationships with its powerful allies - Britain and the United States - are also examined. Through it all, Australia has had a bloody, determined and vibrant history as the 'Great Southern Land' and has, through the struggles of its migrants and indigenous people, been transformed into a modern society.
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3.00 Credits
This unit explores the dynamic cultures of the Asia-Pacific region including those of South, East and Southeast Asia. Knowledge of the history of settlement, trade and utilisation of environments is considered an essential part of the study of development and political structures in the region. Contemporary problems and the future of the peoples of Asia are closely related to both human and environmental potential; it is in this context that the prospects for future sustainable development are considered.
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3.00 Credits
Host University number SOCS 2220; Resource politics has emerged as one of the fundamental foci of debate in Asia today. This unit seeks to contextualise contemporary issues and conflicts over land, water and other environmental resources. Students examine enduring Asian discourses concerning the environment and the discursive and practical aspects of contemporary debates concerning particular environments in Asia. Topics covered may include religious approaches to nature (e.g.in Theravada Buddhism), state ideologies about the environment, current controversies surrounding dam constructions, forest conservation, mining, industrial pollution, and other issues of contemporary environmental impact including the rise of various forms of Asian environmentalism. In treating such topics the unit aims not only to develop an awareness of the dimensions and processes involved in specifically Asian contexts, but also to foster a critical evaluation of larger theoretical perspectives such as cultural and political ecology and sustainable development.
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3.00 Credits
This unit considers the ways in which media produces and reproduces culture. The advent of mass media and new forms of communication have generated novel ways of interpreting self and other. Through an examination of contemporary approaches to the analysis of media, contemporary social life, power, subjectivity and representation are explored. Throughout this unit students consider two key issues: (1) whether media is a liberating or controlling element in contemporary life; and (2) the ethnography of media across world cultures. The first half of the unit covers contemporary debates about television, film, photography and electronic media, while the second half investigates non-Western uses and forms of media.
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