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4.00 Credits
Basic concepts and theory of medical anthropology are introduced and applied to comparison of medical systems including indigenous and biomedical, taking into account cross-cultural variation in causal explanation, diagnosis, perception, management, and treatment of illness and disease. Prerequisites: upper-division standing. (Formerly known as ANGN 128.) Credit not allowed for both ANGN 128 and ANSC 164.
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4.00 Credits
This course explores contemporary cultural life in South Asia by examining selected works of literature, film, and ethnography. Prerequisites: upper-division standing.
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4.00 Credits
Explores films from China, India, Japan and other Asian countries. Popular, documentary, and ethnographic films are examined for what they reveal about family life, gender, politics, religion, social change and everyday experience in South Asia. Prerequisites: upper-division standing.
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4.00 Credits
Explores the nature and significance of ritual. The course will examine religious rituals, civic festivals, and popular celebrations. Topics include ritual symbolism, social and psychological aspects of ritual, life cycle rites, urban festivals, ritual theory. Prerequisites: upper-division standing. (Formerly known as ANGN 167.) Credit not allowed for both ANGN 167 and ANSC 167.
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4.00 Credits
This course explores experiences of the human life cycle—birth, death, love, family relations, coming of age, suffering, the quest for identity, the need for meaning—from diverse cultural perspectives. Examines anthropological thought concerning what it means to be human. Prerequisites: upper-division standing.
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4.00 Credits
Examines the role of culture in the way people perceive and interact with the natural environment. Combines reading of select anthropological studies with training in ethnographic research methods. Students develop a research project and analyze data. Limit: fifteen students. Prerequisites: upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
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4.00 Credits
What is modernity? How does it shape human experience? Using selected works of art, film, literature, anthropology, philosophy and social theory, the course explores conceptions of self, identity and culture that characterize modernity. Prerequisites: upper-division standing.
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4.00 Credits
Examines life-history research as a method for understanding the cultural and psychological experience of people. Combines reading of life-histories with training in life-history research methods. Students develop a life-history project, conduct interviews, and analyze data. (Formerly known as ANGN 172.) Credit not allowed for both ANGN 172 and ANSC 172. Prerequisites: upper-division standing. ANSC121 or concurrent enrollment in ANSC121 and consent of instructor.
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4.00 Credits
Course focuses on historical and contemporary millenarian movements in the Western and non-Western world. Topics addressed include origins, role of prophets, conceptions of time, relation to politics, and influence on social change. Examples include Christian and non-Christian movements. Prerequisites: upper-division standing. (Formerly known as ANGN 189.) Credit not allowed for both ANGN 189 and ANSC 189.
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4.00 Credits
An introduction to the anthropological approach to understanding human behavior, with an examination of data from a selection of societies and cultures. (Formerly known as ANLD 1.) Credit not allowed for both ANLD 1 and ANTH 1.
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