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An overview of the cultures of the Caribbean, tracing the impact of slavery and colonialism on contemporary experiences and expressions of Caribbean identity. Using ethnographies, historical accounts, literature, music, and film, the course explores the multiple meanings of 'Caribbean,' as described in historical travel accounts and contemporary tourist brochures, as experienced in daily social, political, and economic life, and as expressed through cultural events such as calypso contests and Festival, and cultural-political movements such as rastafarianism. Although the course deals primarily with the English-speaking Caribbean, it also includes materials on the French and Spanish speaking Caribbean and on diasporic Caribbean communities in the U.S. and U.K. Ms. Cohen.Prerequisite: Previous coursework in Anthropology or by permission of instructor. Alternate years: Not offered in 2008/09.
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Characterized by extreme cold, a dearth of plants, and rich fauna on the land and in the seas, the polar and sub-polar regions called forth unique biological and cultural adaptations from their human inhabitants. This course concentrates on peoples of the far north, looking at the myriad adjustments in technology, material culture, social structure, and ideology necessary to survive and thrive in this extreme environment. It also examines the northern people's interactions with the Europeans who invaded the area over the past millennium. Ms. Johnson. Prerequisite: previous coursework in Anthropology or by permission of instructor. Alternate years: Not offered in 2008/09.
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(Same as Urban Studies 245) This course introduces students to the methods employed in constructing and analyzing ethnographic materials through readings, classroom lectures, and discussions with regular field exercises. Students gain experience in participant-observation, fieldnote-taking, interviewing, survey sampling, symbolic analysis, the use of archival documents, and the use of contemporary media. Attention is also given to current concerns with interpretation and modes of representation. Throughout the semester, students practice skills they learn in the course as they design, carry out, and write up original ethnographic projects. Ms. Varghese.
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(Same as Sociology 247a)
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This course draws on a wide range of theoretical perspectives in exploring a particular problem, emphasizing the contribution of linguistics and linguistic anthropology to issues that bear on research in a number of disciplines. At issue in each selected course topic are the complex ways in which cultures, societies, and individuals are interrelated in the act of using language within and across particular speech communities. May be repeated for credit if the topic has changed. Prerequisite: Anthropology 150 or permission of instructor. Topic for 2008/09a: Ideology and Language. Mr. Mercado. Topic for 2008/09b: Language and Early/Late Globalizations. How have early global (colonial) and late global (post- or neo-colonial) states formulated language policies, and to what degree have their subjects conformed to or resisted these attempts How does language use relate to the notion of belonging to globalized colonial, national, and local domains This course offers a survey of anthropological, historical, and linguistic approaches to these questions through a consideration of language contact in colonial and neo-colonial situations, a comparison of linguistic policies upheld by empires, nation-states and transnational processes, and the conflict between language policy and local linguistic ideologies. The course addresses case studies from the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia that cover the range between institutional language reform and individual strategies of accommodation and resistance as they relate to early and contemporary forms of global expansion from the sixteenth century onwards. Mr. Tavárez. Topic for 2008/09b: Citizenship, Power, and Media. This course investigates how citizenship and power are not simply a matter of top-down relationships, but also involve complex networks of mediation. Drawing from a broad range of literature from the social sciences and the humanities, we ask how citizens, institutions and related organizations employ multi-media in order to influence the everyday life of the constituents they seek to target. Students spend half of the course developing a group multi-media project of their choice. Topics include (but are not limited to): citizenship, governmentality, alternative media, blogging, democracy, counterpublics. Mr. S. Mercado.
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How do gender identities influence language use, language and power, and ideas about language This course presents a systematic survey of anthropological and linguistic approaches to this set of questions. The course is organized as a cross-cultural survey of several approaches-from ground-breaking feminist linguistic anthropology to contemporary debates on gender as performance, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual/transgender identities, and gender, class and hegemony-that investigate the multiple rapports among gender identities, socialization, language use in private and public spheres, social norms, and gendered forms of authority. Students have an opportunity to learn about linguistic anthropology methods and design a research project. Mr. Tavárez
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(Same as Music 259) This course investigates a series of questions about the relationship between music and the individuals and societies that perform and listen to it. In other words, music is examined and appreciated as a form of human expression existing within and across specific cultural contexts. The course takes an interdisciplinary approach to the social life of music, addressing historical themes and debates within multiple academic fields via readings, recordings, and films. Mr. Rios. Prerequisites: prior coursework in Anthropology or Music, or by permission of instructor.
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1.00 Credits
The focus is upon particular cultural sub-systems and their study in cross-cultural perspective. The sub-system selected varies from year to year. Examples include: kinship systems, political organizations, religious beliefs and practices, verbal and nonverbal communication. May be repeated for credit if the topic has changed. Prerequisite: previous coursework in Anthropology or by permission of instructor. Topic for 2008/09b: The Jewish Gothic. ( Same as Jewish Studies 260) This course considers the treatment of the supernatural in Jewish folklore, as well as the representation of Jews as demonic in non-Jewish sources. The course begins with nineteenth and early twentieth century folktale collections, placing the Jewish anthologies in the context of the period's fascination with folklore. It then follows the themes of the supernatural and the use of "folk" material into the present by looking at the contemporary use of golems, ghosts and demons in art, and in ethnographic studies of possession in Europe and the Middle East. Ms. Goldstein
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This course examines the turn to historical questions in current anthropology. What are the implications of cultural difference for an understanding of history, and of history for an understanding of culture Recent works which propose new ways of thinking about western and non-western peoples and the power to make history are read. Theoretical positions include structure and history, world system, hegemony and resistance, globalization theory, and discourse approaches. Historical/ethnographic situations range from New Guinea cargo cults to the English industrial revolution, from the history of sugar as a commodity to the colonizing of Egypt, from debates about the sexuality of women and Hindu gods in Fiji to the role of spirit mediums in the struggle for Zimbabwe. Ms. Kaplan. Prerequisite: previous coursework in Anthropology or by permission of instructor. Alternate years: Not offered in 2008/09.
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What is the place of myth, ritual and symbol in human social life Do symbols reflect reality, or create it This course considers answers to these questions in social theory (Marx, Freud and Durkheim) and in major anthropological approaches (functionalism, structuralism, and symbolic anthropology). It then reviews current debates in interpretive anthropology about order and change, power and resistance, and the role of ritual in the making of history. Ethnographic studies include Fiji, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, sixteenth century Italy, the Seneca, and the U.S. Ms. Kaplan. Prerequisite: previous coursework in Anthropology or by permission of instructor. Alternate years: Not offered in 2008/09.
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