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Vampire stories have been around for at least a century, during which time they have been used transculturally to express different ideas about life and death, mortality and divinity. In recent decades, there seems to have been a new resurgence of vampire stories both in film and literature, i.e., Blade, Interview with the Vampire, Cronos, The Historian, etc. The course will explore these modern blood narratives as they express contrasting ideas about how kinship, community, and ultimately modern ideas about the global self are being articulated and reworked. 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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4.00 Credits
This course surveys the diversity of Latin America as a continent and as a complex mixture of peoples and cultures with an increasing presence in the United States. It will place particular emphasis on the discussion of ethnicity, race, gender, religion, artistic production, and economic and political inequality. The aim of the course is to understand the cultural and social particularities of contemporary Latin America and to place them in a global context. 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: Globalism
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This course combines an overview of current social movements of Latin America with individual research projects into specific social movements. We will spend the first part of the term reading about several important movements (including Bolivian indigenous movements, the Mexican Zapatistas, the Brazilian landless peasants movement, and the Argentine piqueteros and factory takeovers), then spend several weeks covering the underlying social problems these movements seek to address. In the final weeks of the term, we will read theoretical work on social movements, as students conduct their own research on a social movement. 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 rich history of popular struggles over resources and identity that have re-shaped Latin America over the last century. Particular attention will be placed upon classic texts by theorists such as Paolo Freire, Juan Carlos Mariategui, Jose Maria Arguedas and Ernesto "Che" Guevara. Issues of gender and sexuality will also be explored using the cultural texts of such writers as Alfonsina Storni, Juana de Ibarborou, Isabelle Allende, and Clarice Lispector. Students will assess these forms of cultural production within the larger historical contexts of social movements, revolutionary fervor, and neo-liberal agendas which have defined the daily landscape of the different American nation-states throughout the twentieth century. 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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Political violence happens everyday, whether we endure it personally or hear about it through the media. But seldom do we ask ourselves what it is. This course investigates the nature of political violence and articulate its many forms from the anthropological perspectives of gender, class, ethnicity, economics, and of course, politics. Specific areas of study include Northern Ireland, Germany, Sudan, Palestine, Mexico, Argentina, China, Australia, and the U.S.. The course will discusss the motivations for action (or inaction) by governments, elites, and insurgents, and students will get to know some of the organizations working against political violence. Field trips will include visits tothe United Nations, The United Holocust Museum, and Ground Zero. Podcasts, news broadcasts, movies and audio documention of events will provide further access to examples of global politcial violence. 4.000 Credit Hours Levels: Undergraduate, Post Baccalaureate Schedule Types: Lecture Undergraduate Colleges College Sociology and Anthropology Department
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4.00 Credits
To understand how the human skeleton is utilized to identify the deceased and sometimes solve crimes, knowledge of skeletal biology and anatomy is paramount. This course has two primary objectives: first to provide basic but solid knowledge of the human skeleton, and second to explain the application of that knowledge to forensic anthropology. Students can expect to obtain a critical understanding of human skeletal anatomy and forensic osteology, as well as the ability to think critically about the recent media glamorization of forensic practice. 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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4.00 Credits
IN THIS COURSE WE WILL EXPLORE THE SOCIAL LEGACIES OF WAR IN THEAMERICAS THROUGH THE LENS OF RECENT ANTHROPOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO HISTORY, MEMORY AND NARRATIVE. WE WILL EXAMINE HOW ARMED CONFLICTS LEAVE THEIR HISTORICAL IMPRINT ON HUMAN BODIES WHILE PROLIFERATING REPRESENTATIIONS OF THE DEAD. WE WILL ALSO CONSIDER THE SURPRISINGLY QUIET WAYS IN WHICH OLD AND OFTEN FORGOTTEN CONFLICTS CONNTINUE TO BEAR UPON CONTEMPORARY POLITICS. 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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4.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to primates. Through lectures, readings, discussions, and observation projects, students will investigate the emergence of the order and explore the diversity of primates around the world. The course will address issues of ecological adaptation, social organization, and conservation, especially of the species most threatened by extinction, and it will illustrate how habituation projects make it possible to conduct effective field studies. The evolutionary basis of the special characteristics of primates will be discussed, as well as the question of what nonhuman primate behavior can tell us about ourselves. 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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4.00 Credits
Selected issues in the relationship of human behavior and culture. Issues dealt with in this course include the concept of culture, culture and the individual, culture contact, and culture change. (Every other year) 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 Course Attributes: Globalism
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4.00 Credits
An examination of how everyday language use is constituted by cultural ideas about gender, power, and identity. Various theoretical frameworks are analyzed through ethnographic case studies which include Mexico, Malagasy, Senegal, Hungary, Nepal and the United States. We focus on issues such as prestige, politeness, inequality and hierarchy, language shift, multilingualism, code-switching, and literacy. 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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