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This course is a seminar on the roles played by media in culture and society, focusing on ethnographic studies of mass media production and consumption. We will examine media interactions with real people and take an anthropological approach that sees mass media as grounded in broader social contexts. From that perspective, we will look at how mass media may have a homogenizing effect on world culture, or how it can alternately exacerbate differences among groups. Topics include indigenous media, cultural globalization, reception theory, Islamic media, and online communities. Prerequisite: ANT 110 or permission of the instructor.
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This course asks how Muslim cultures and Islamic practice are represented on evening news broadcasts, talk radio and in popular film, and also how the Islamic world has itself been transformed by the advent of new media technologies. In its first half, the course explores how news and entertainment media in the U.S. and Europe have represented the Islamic world as well as Muslims at home and abroad, including the changing awareness of Islam in Western nations that followed the September 11 th attacks, and the subsequent U.S. 'war on terror. In its second half, the course explores the rise of mass media in the Islamic world, focusing on the powerful role that Arabic-language satellite TV channels have played in the ongoing Iraq war and in shaping perceptions of the West's confrontation with militant Islam. Attention is paid to the prominence of Islamic websites and Internet communication in subverting global media hierarchies. This course includes a three-day trip to Washington D.C. where students will tour the studios of U.S.-funded Al Hurra satellite television and speak with journalists from Arab-language news media.
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This course focuses on visual anthropology in its primary and original form: as a research practice. Specifically, we will investigate and practically explore the use of visual media as a tool for anthropological research and presentation. We will discuss visual anthropology both as a supplement to textually-focused ethnography, and as an end in itself, in the creation of a visual product that explicates cultural realities. The class will explore the three modes through which visual anthropologists have attempted to do this: still photography, motion film and video, and computer-based media. The class will combine the discussion of theoretical and ethical issues, film and video screenings, and practical assignments in visual ethnography, using a variety of available media. Prerequisite: ANT 110. Requires evening film screenings every other week.
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3.00 Credits
This course deals with the construction and respresentation of colonial and post-colonial identities. First, it focuses on colonial perceptions and imaginations of the "natives" of the colonies through the elaboration of (anthropological) discourses about race and gender. Secondly, it deals with the production of specific forms of domination and of "rational" and "scientific" modes of exploitation based on racialized hierarchies. Finally, moving toward critical analyses of and from the position of racialized subjects, the course considers the emergence of post-colonial subjectivities. Focus is on the former British Empire, and the course uses London as an ethnographic field within which to learn about contemporary post-colonial diasporas and their integration into mainstream British culture. Conducted in Lon
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3.00 Credits
(See soc 320).
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3.00 Credits
A cross-cultural survey of the major forms of folklore and a consideration of the methodological and theoretical approaches used by anthropologists and folklorists in the study of folklore. Major genres of folklore are identified, methods for collecting folklore are discussed and analyzed, and folklore theory of the 19th and 20th centuries is identified and assessed. The place of folklore in the study of anthropology is explored. Prerequisite: ANT 110 or SOC 110 or permission of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to the history and cultural diversity of Southeast Asia , from prehistoric to contemporary times. It examines the distinctive character of the region, its broad range of ethnic and linguistic groups, and how these have changed over time. Lectures and discussions focus on the broad themes of unity and diversity in examining key indigenous cultural groups, and their ongoing struggles with religious, economic, and political influences from China, India, the Arabian Peninsula, and the West. Prerequisite: ANT 110 or SOC 110 or permission of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
A study of interrelationships between populations, organization, environment, technology, and symbols. Established materialist paradigms in anthropology are critiqued and evaluated. New approaches to understanding issues of environmental degradation, world hunger, and Third World development and change are addressed, including historical ecology, political ecology, the ecology of practice, and remote sensing analysis. Prerequisite: ANT 110 or ANT 120.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to the basic concepts and applications of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) as used in environmental studies. Students in the course receive hands-on training in the use of ArcView, the industry-standard GIS software, and the use of Global Positioning System (GPS) devices. Students also learn how to integrate data into GIS from sources such as maps, aerial photographs, and Landsat satellite images.
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3.00 Credits
This course integrates the concepts of both research and cultural resource management, and prehistoric and historic archaeology. Utilizing classroom and field experience, new technologies and traditional methods of archaeological site excavation and interpretation are presented. Prerequisite: ANT 120.
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