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The course will explore the theoretical underpinning of the anthropological research endeavor. Particular emphasis will be placed on three different factors: 1) The historical development of theory in the discipline, from the early schools such as evolutionism, functionalism, structural-functionalism, and structuralism; 2) People Without History, Claude Levi-Strauss' Tristes Tropiques, and Margaret Mead's Sex and Temperament; and, 3) a review of the latest theoretical influences on the discipline from French theorists such as Jacques Lacan, Georges Bataille, Pierre Bordieu, Julia Kristeva, Lucia Irigaray, Marguerite Duras, and Michel Foucault. 4.000 Credit Hours 3.000 Lecture hours 0.000 Lab hours 0.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate, Post Baccalaureate Schedule Types: Lecture Undergraduate Colleges College Sociology and Anthropology Department
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This course will explore the major anthropological approaches to the relationship between objects and social life, with a particular focus on art. We will examine examples from all over the world. Themes covered include: how objects are categorized; the cross-cultural applicability of "art"; how objects are used to define groups of people; and how museums represent cultures through objects. 4.000 Credit Hours 3.000 Lecture hours 0.000 Lab hours 0.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate, Post Baccalaureate Schedule Types: Lecture Undergraduate Colleges College Sociology and Anthropology Department
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In this class, we will explore the century-long dialogue between anthropology and the creative arts. From Picasso and Matisse appropriating African arts, and Zorah Hurston drawing on her anthropological research for her novels, to Michael Taussig's use of fiction as an ethnographical tool, the study of culture and the creation of art have long been closely intertwined. We will read essays, ethnographies, poems, novels, and life histories, tracing the possibilities of anthropology as a creative discipline and a way of understanding creativity. 4.000 Credit Hours 4.000 Lecture hours 0.000 Lab hours 0.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate, Post Baccalaureate Schedule Types: Lecture Undergraduate Colleges College Sociology and Anthropology Department
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4.00 Credits
What was it really like in Biblical times Through an archaeological investigation of the Holy Land, particularly the Canaanite, Israelite and classical cultures of Old and New Testament times, this course provides students with a better understanding of the ancient social and religious background of our modern Judeo-Christian tradition. Extensively slide illustrated. 4.000 Credit Hours 0.000 Lecture hours 0.000 Lab hours 0.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate, Post Baccalaureate Schedule Types: Lecture Undergraduate Colleges College Sociology and Anthropology Department Course Attributes: Globalism
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4.00 Credits
Health and illness will be studied as an interrelationship of biology, ecology, and culture in antiquity and contemporary societies. Among concepts of health and healing explored in Euro-American and non-Western cultures are: What is "normal" What causes disease Who can heal What treatments are provided What impact does modernization have on these cultural patterns 4.000 Credit Hours 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate, Post Baccalaureate Schedule Types: Lecture Undergraduate Colleges College Sociology and Anthropology Department
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4.00 Credits
This course explores the relationship between religious ideologies and media practices in world cultures. We will study how various forms of mediation - including the literary and artistic genres, mass media technology, and the body itself - influence the ways that cultural identity, social solidarity, and religious authority are expressed and legitimated in everyday life. The case studies are varied and there is an emphasis on ethnographic methods and qualitative reasoning. 4.000 Credit Hours 4.000 Lecture hours 0.000 Lab hours 0.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate, Post Baccalaureate Schedule Types: Lecture Undergraduate Colleges College Sociology and Anthropology Department
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4.00 Credits
This course explores the cultural diversity of New York City from an Anthropological perspective. The focus will be on how different groups use urban public spaces, e.g., ethnic and religious communities within the city and urban subcultures. Students will use readings to inform their own ethnographic research on the cultures of New York. 4.000 Credit Hours 4.000 Lecture hours 0.000 Lab hours 0.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate, Post Baccalaureate Schedule Types: Lecture Undergraduate Colleges College Sociology and Anthropology Department
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4.00 Credits
A survey of the social and religious diversity of the Middle East. Among the topics addressed are ethnic and tribal communities; gender relations and the honor code; urban-rural relations; local and national politics. 4.000 Credit Hours 0.000 Lecture hours 0.000 Lab hours 0.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate, Post Baccalaureate Schedule Types: Lecture Undergraduate Colleges College Sociology and Anthropology Department Course Attributes: Globalism
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4.00 Credits
Japan, China and Korea share important cultural features, yet they also differ significantly. This course surveys the major cultural traditions of these three nations and of some of their minorities, from prehistory to the present. We shall consider such topics as ecological and economic patterns, social organization and values, kinship and family life, religious beliefs and practices, and influential philosophies and world views. 4.000 Credit Hours 0.000 Lecture hours 0.000 Lab hours 0.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate, Post Baccalaureate Schedule Types: Lecture Undergraduate Colleges College Sociology and Anthropology Department Course Attributes: Globalism
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4.00 Credits
A cross-cultural, interdisciplinary consideration of the concepts of race and ethnicity, this course examines racial and ethnic categories and explores how they form, how society gives them meaning and the circumstances under which they change. 4.000 Credit Hours 3.000 Lecture hours 0.000 Lab hours 0.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate, Post Baccalaureate Schedule Types: Lecture Undergraduate Colleges College Sociology and Anthropology Department Course Attributes: Pluralism
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