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Johns Hopkins University - Junior/Senior Seminar

Anthropology of the Self. This course examines various cultures, histories, and philosophies of selfhood, focusing especially on questions of desire, pleasure, emotion, embodiment, morality, sensuality, and the emergence of the modern self. Cross-listed with Humanities Center
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Johns Hopkins University - Anthropology of Prayer

What kind of activity is prayer? Are we talking to God(s), to our ancestors, to ourselves? What are the differences between choosing our own words and repeating the words of an established prayer? The course will explore these and similar questions with particular attention to the language of prayers across a number of religious traditions.
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Johns Hopkins University - The Image in South Asia

This course will follow the life of the image in both religious and secular contexts in South Asia and ask how the image functions at the level of the domestic and the political.
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Johns Hopkins University - Family and Household

Reviews debates on theory and method, and examines the intersection of household studies with kinship, gender, labor force/dependency and political economy. Final emphasis on methods relative to research problems.
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