In this crosscultural course we examine gender as a central category of analysis. In short, we will study how gender matters. We also consider how gender interrelates with race, class, and nationality. We begin by exploring the historical development of anthropological perspectives on gender. We will question how these perspectives have challenged and transformed both anthropology and feminism. We then will read some of the most exciting new ethnographies in which gender is central. This means we will read not only about women and constructions of femininity in various cultures, but also about men and constructions of masculinity.
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Applied or practicing anthropology is the use of anthropological insights, knowledge, and methods to address real-world problems. This course covers current directions, and ethical issues in applied research, examining ways that anthropological perspectives, theories, and methods are put to work in an applied setting to solve regional, national, and global problems. The course is designed for students pursuing careers in a broad array of fields: anthropology, sociology, public health, nursing, migration studies, and public policy. The course includes a combination of lectures, class discussions, conversations with applied anthropologists, and student-led projects.
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Credits: 4
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Credits: 3
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Credits: 3
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Australia is a laboratory for understanding many issues in modern urban life including the dilemmas of the so-called "multicultural society." How may people and groups who share few cultural traditions live together for the well-being of all? How may a nation emerge from diverse language, religious, and cultural traditions? Since the days of the penal colonies, Australian urban institutions (most notably, state and national governments) have actively struggled with these questions, particularly as they affect Australia's equalitarian ethos. Opening with a new study of women prisoners on transport ships and the penal colony of New South Wales, the course traces the impact of the multicultural debate on the lives of Aborigines, "new" and "old" Australians. By studying Anzac Day, the Australian holiday commemorating the battle of Gallipoli, students will critically evaluate the impact of war on forging national identity in multicultural countries. Students will complete the course by examining the usefulness of new theories about the role of culture in modern nation states for understanding Australian urban life. (Not offered 2005-06)
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Credits: 3
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Australia is a laboratory for understanding many issues in modern urban life including the dilemmas of the so-called "multicultural society." How may people and groups who share few cultural traditions live together for the well-being of all? How may a nation emerge from diverse language, religious, and cultural traditions? Since the days of the penal colonies, Australian urban institutions (most notably, state and national governments) have actively struggled with these questions, particularly as they affect Australia's equalitarian ethos. Opening with a new study of women prisoners on transport ships and the penal colony of New South Wales, the course traces the impact of the multicultural debate on the lives of Aborigines, "new" and "old" Australians. By studying Anzac Day, the Australian holiday commemorating the battle of Gallipoli, students will critically evaluate the impact of war on forging national identity in multicultural countries. Students will complete the course by examining the usefulness of new theories about the role of culture in modern nation states for understanding Australian urban life. (Not offered 2005-06)
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Australia has gradually recognized itself as a multicultural nation over the last fifty years. This course will explore dimensions of cultural practice derived from Aboriginal and European cultures as well as their interaction in contemporary Australia. Family life has long constituted a core institution for Australians of European descent. We will examine cultural images and practice of family relations with its associated gender roles through film, autobiography and ethnography. The religious practice of Australian Aborigines historically structured many aspects of indigenous life, including relations to land, other people and individual biography. We will examine these connections through the careful study of Aboriginal painting, body art and material decoration. Over the last fifty years, Australians of European and Aboriginal descent have disputed and negotiated with each other about the significance of race, family, religion and land in the colonial context. We will study the legacy of these conflicts in the everyday lives of contemporary Aborigines. The course will close by examining how these disputes acquired an international character in recent years as indigenous peoples from colonized nations across the globe have become aware of their common experiences and mobilized to improve their lives.
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Australia has gradually recognized itself as a multicultural nation over the last fifty years. This course will explore dimensions of cultural practice derived from Aboriginal and European cultures as well as their interaction in contemporary Australia. Family life has long constituted a core institution for Australians of European descent. We will examine cultural images and practice of family relations with its associated gender roles through film, autobiography and ethnography. The religious practice of Australian Aborigines historically structured many aspects of indigenous life, including relations to land, other people and individual biography. We will examine these connections through the careful study of Aboriginal painting, body art and material decoration. Over the last fifty years, Australians of European and Aboriginal descent have disputed and negotiated with each other about the significance of race, family, religion and land in the colonial context. We will study the legacy of these conflicts in the everyday lives of contemporary Aborigines. The course will close by examining how these disputes acquired an international character in recent years as indigenous peoples from colonized nations across the globe have become aware of their common experiences and mobilized to improve their lives.
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This course is designed to provide the undergraduate student with an understanding of social relations and cultural conceptions of various peoples in sub-Saharan Africa. Historical developments over the last 500 years -- including colonialism -- will be given, including how these historic processes have determined and continue to shape contemporary life in Africa. A sequence of anthropological theories regarding African societies will be presented. These will be compared with current theoretical orientations. The course will also analyze religion and cosmology, politics, economics, the organization of labor, trade and agricultural networks, family, kinship and household production, African art, medicine, and perceptions of personhood in Africa. Consideration will also be given to Africa and Africans in the modern global system.
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This course focuses on the intersection of economic restructuring, labor market change, and the formation of increasing class divisions in contemporary America. It examines class both as a ârealâ structure in American society, and as a cultural system of meaning. Drawing on ethnographic studies, literature, and film, it focuses particular attention to the connection between peopleâs attempts and desires to realize the American Dream and the underlying dynamics of neoliberal capitalism in America.
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This course is an introduction to the field of medical anthropology, a fascinating and fast-developing branch of anthropology with great potential for careers in anthropology, medicine, public health, international aid and development, and environmental studies. We will examine medical systems from a cross-cultural perspective, learning about traditional theories of health and illness while keeping in mind international politics and the effects of globalization. Topics include: the cultural history of clinical medicine and medical anthropology, traditional medical practices from around the world, folk and alternative health care systems, race, class, and gender in health care in the U.S., and the relationship of human health with environmental health. Case studies will be drawn from around the world, including an in-depth look at the healing systems of Muslim communities in various contexts, and at minority and immigrant health concerns in the United States. The course will be conducted in seminar format. Active participation in class and on-line discussion is expected of all students. Grades will be based upon a group project and presentation, essays combining key concepts with specific cultural data, and a final exam. Students with a background in health studies are not required to have any background in anthropology, and students with a basic knowledge of anthropology are not required to have any background in health studies. If you have any questions about this introductory course in medical anthropology, please feel free to contact Dr. Ãnder (onders@georgetown.edu).
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The course explores the city as a site for the negotiation of cultural diversity and the re-conceptualization of community. Drawing on a variety of historical and ethnographic studies, we will examine how urban life conditions the production and reproduction of culture and the relation of such processes to larger structures of capitalism, technology, and globalization, as well as social and artistic movements. Specific topics explored will include telecommunications and city culture, museums and metropolitan culture, and global cities and financial culture. Throughout the course, methodological questions regarding the city as an object of historical and ethnographic study will be highlighted.
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Anthropologists have long studied the Middle East much as they studied other cultures--through "participant observation" that often cloaked unexamined assumptions of the primitiveness of their subjects. Such assumptions have, however, fallen by the wayside throughout the discipline. History, literature, and mass media are now just as much "ethnographic material" as the anthropologist's traditional ahistorically conceived relationship with "informants." Consequently this course will examine Arab societies through a broad range of material, including films and literature. Topics covered in the course will include family structure, gender, language and identity, nationalism, Arab-American migrant communities, modernity, Islam, and fundamentalism in comparative perspective.
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This course focuses on the intersection of economic restructuring, labor market change, and the formation of increasing class divisions in contemporary America. It examines class both as a ârealâ structure in American society, and as a cultural system of meaning. It also explores the relationship between class, gender, and race/ethnicity in the United States. Lastly, drawing on ethnographic studies, literature, and film, the course focuses particular attention to the connection between peopleâs attempts and desires to realize the American Dream and the underlying dynamics of neoliberal capitalism in America.
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This is an independent reading tutorial. Student must obtain permission from the department before enrolling.
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This is an independent research tutorial. Student must obtain permission from the department before enrolling.
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In this course we will not only read anthropology, but also do anthropology. Students will learn about field research design and methodology, as well as conduct their own semester-long field-research projects. In order to acquire the skills necessary for participant observation, we will learn how cultural anthropologists select a research topic, survey a field site, design the study, pose theoretical questions, carry out the research, keep field notes, analyze ethnographic data, and then finally, write an ethnography. We will also read examples of ethnography and other forms of anthropological writing such as testimonials and life histories.
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This course seeks a historical understanding of the development and appropriation of major theoretical framings that have shaped anthropological field research and ethnography. On the one hand, we will explore the ways in which cultural anthropologists pose questions, provide answers, and relate claims and evidence. On the other hand, we will examine "schools of thought" or "research paradigms" and the distinctive framings and languages of interpretation and analysis they offer of social life, culture, and politics. At issue in the course will the interplay of fieldwork, theory, and ethnographic narratives as different aspects of anthropological inquiry, We will be especially interested in the kinds of theory that cultural anthropologists have brought to bear on their different research interests and the reshaping of theory as it is appropriated from other fields.
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This course focuses on class, culture, and power in America. Specifically we examine the formation of a new âglobal-classâ in relation to a shift from the modern, industrialized world of mid-century, nation bound, classic capitalism, to the contemporary, postmodern, postindustrial world of global late capitalism. Ethnographic, historical, and cinematic accounts of various moments in capitalism will be framed within a range of critical perspectives, including theories of neoliberalism. Issues explored include the intersections of gender, class, race/ethnicity, and class and power in the United States. We will pay particular attention to theories of representation and their relationship to the lives of American elites living in New York, Chicago, London, and Shanghai.
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In this course we will not only read anthropology, but also do anthropology. Students will learn about field research design and methodology, as well as conduct their own semester-long field-research projects. In order to acquire the skills necessary for participant observation, we will learn how cultural anthropologists select a research topic, survey a field site, design the study, pose theoretical questions, carry out the research, keep field notes, analyze ethnographic data, and then finally, write an ethnography. We will also read examples of ethnography and other forms of anthropological writing such as testimonials and life histories.
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This seminar combines theory, history, fiction, and ethnography. We begin with historical and theoretical approaches to understanding why people move. We read ethnography to spotlight the lived human experience of migration. We will learn about migrants' border crossings, building of new communities, experiences in the workplace, and how migration reconfigures and reconfirms power dynamics in the household. The course will examine issues of race, ethnicity, gender, generation, class, sexuality, and religion through the process of migration.
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An overview of the ways in which anthropologists have studied and written about cultural systems in a number of world regions. Using ethnographic case studies, the course explores the nature of anthropological research, concentrating on various schools of thought and approaches to ethnography, including early functionalism and more contemporary ethnography that focuses on experimental writing, collaborative ethnography, and historical approaches to studying culture. The anthropologists we will be reading examine such issues as ârace,â political organization, gender roles, identity politics, the city, and violence.
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