This course examines urban China from the "bottom up," with an emphasis on the structure of everyday life. We will be reading ethnographic case studies as our entry into understanding Chinese social, cultural, political, and economic processes. We will explore several major themes focusing on the contradictions and dialectics of urbanprocesses: the reconfiguration of urban spaces and place-making; the continuing divisions of people created by political power and the global flow capital knowledge, and ideas of modernity; the collective experiences of the everyday life in various urban communities; the centrality of individual voices and expression and the use of urban tools to resist, control, and manipulate; the impact of unruly places on the perceptions of illegality in relation to social order and official ideology. Topics to be covered include: community redevelopment and neighborhood gentrification; "Mao nostalgia" and the politics of historical memory; unemployment, aging, and welfare transition; the Shanghai Stock Market and social re-stratification; the SARS crisis and public policy reform; the challenge of Falungong and religious practices; "drifting population" and rural-urban migration; globalization and consumer revolution; family planning; and youth culture.
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This course centers on the ways the new economy is transforming the material and symbolic landscapes of everyday work life. Specifically it examines the ways global capitalism and technologies are reshaping corporate work, marketing, and consumption practices in the new millennium. Ethnographic accounts of the contemporary moment will be framed within a range of critical perspectives, including theories of late capitalism, corporate culture, and gender. We will pay attention to theories of representation and their relationship to the lives of social actors participating in the new economy in London, Shanghai, Jerusalem, Johannesburg and other areas of the world. We will also focus on the recent growth of anthropological employment in global firms.
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This course turns the ethnographic gaze on the societies in the Euro-American core which gave rise to anthropology as an academic discipline. In the seminar we will use paired sets of ethnographic case studies from the same national context in order to investigate changing notions of fieldwork sites, subject communities, research questions, and the notion of culture itself. These case studies will be compared and contrasted in light of the different theoretical models and larger historical circumstances informing them. For example, Scheper-Hughes's Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics (1979), a path breaking study of mental illness in rural Ireland using Durkheimiam theory and psychological models, will be followed by Aretxaga's Shattering Silence (1997). This is an ethnography of the violence and political conflict in the urban West Belfast neighborhoods of Northern Ireland, informed by interpretive anthropology and poststructuralist feminist theory. The course also considers the contemporary fieldwork enterprise and involves consideration of the politics of anthropological research and writing. Through the close study of texts that reflect postcolonial and postmodern critiques of earlier anthropology. Fall.
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This course focuses on social-cultural issues concerning the multiple peoples of the Federation of Russia (Rossiia) and other post-Soviet states. Lectures and discussions cover diverse historical legacies and recent changes in the period since the implosion of the Soviet Union. Debates about communism, crime, nationalism, youth, gender, religion, ecology, land reform, "transition," and political culture are analyzed.
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This course explores critically important theories of ethnicity and nationalism development, with focus on their relevance for cases within the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Comparative discussions will enable analysis of data from South Asia and North America--using cases famous in the political anthropology literature. Stress is on viewing ethnicity and nationalism as diverse, situational, and in flux. Debates concerning empires, multiethnic state formation, nation state models, federalism, civic society, and interethnic conflict will be covered.
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Credits: 3
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Credits: 3
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This anthropology course is designed to introduce students to the processes and forms of cultural retention, acculturation, syncretism, reinterpretation, transformation, and innovation that are evident in African derived cultural diaspoas of the Americas. While the ownership of black cultural forms in the âNew Worldâ has has been a perennial and complex issue during the 20th century, things become clearer as we unravel the strands of culture, power, and history. Using anthropological concepts, we explore the processes that brought African social and cultural institutions as well as Islam to the Diasporas of the Caribbean, Latin America, and the United States. We build upon Wallerstein and Rodneyâs notions of a world economic system to show how the use of slave labor fueled the development of the Americas, and look at the cultural byproduct of that labor. Examining African social and cultural adaptations to the plantation economies, to gender and spiritual challenges, and to urban life helps us trace the cultural forms and commodities produced, and the commonalities and variations that emerged within black populations of these areas. We examine the cultural forms of resistance to domination and the creation of different creole cultures in the Americas, as Africans dealt with Indigenous peoples, Anglos, Spanish, French, and Portuguese. Some of the cultural areas we examine include Brazil, Haiti, Jamaica, Ecuador/Colombia, Cuba, New Orleans, South Carolina, and other historical and recent black cultures of the United States.
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This course will survey the major debates in sociocultural anthropology that have taken place over the past 75 years. Instead of reviewing the major texts in chronological order, the course will be organized around four anchor texts that are relatively recent, but will allow us to project both backward and forward in time to related debates and issues. The course will take a seminar format, requiring intensive reading and discussion by students. Grades based on class participation and two take-home essays.
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This course focuses on the social-cultural anthropology of the peoples living in the European part of the XSSR and their nation-building efforts as they struggle with legacies of the Soviet dis-Union. This semester covers the Slavic peoples (Russians, Belarusians and Ukrainians), as well as non-Slavic peoples of the Baltic, Moldova, the Volga area and the Caucasus. Background lectures will cover histories of European nationalism and Sovietization, and the significance of religious variation. Europe is defined broadly to stimulate debate, to encourage discussion of interethnic relations, and to improve understanding of changing national identities.
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This is the first semester of a two-course set focusing on the social-cultural anthropology of post-Soviet peoples struggling through nation building and the legacies of the Soviet dis-Union. Students may take either or both courses. The current semester covers Central Asian and Siberian peoples living east of the Ural Mountains. Histories of Central Asia, Siberia and the Far East are reviewed for perspective on the concepts of Eurasia and "Asiaopa" (combining values of Asia and Europe). Indigenous views of interethnic relations, conflict, federalism, civic society and regional economic transitions are discussed. The politics of Islam and other spiritual traditions provide insights into global questions of cultural revitalization and ethnonational identity. (Not offered 2005-06)
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This seminar course examines anthropology's attempt to explore the interaction between culture, power, and history over the past few decades. It is focused on how a few anthropological themes in the study of culture--ethnic and religious identity, gender and development, and governance--have undergone transformation as control over human lives expands past the local and national communities, to include global influences as well. Using theoretical essays by anthropologists and those from other disciplines, along with contemporary ethnographies on different parts of the world, we examine how anthropology's discourse and product have been influenced by the expanding markets, technology, and policies of the late 20th century.
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Credits: 3
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With a record 200 million people living outside their country of birth, immigration is a global phenomenon with profound demographic, economic, social, and political implications for both sending and receiving countries. The debate over immigration policy has become increasingly volatile and, in some instances, characterized by misinformation, hate, and xenophobia. Beyond the politics of immigration, genuine challenges to immigrant integration abound. Successful integration of immigrants is critical to the long-term prosperity of host countries that rely on immigrants as workers, consumers, taxpayers, innovators, and entrepreneurs in light of their aging native-born populations and lower birth rates. In this course we will explore integration policies and practices in both traditional immigrant-receiving countries--such as the United States and Canadaâand new countries of permanent immigrationâsuch as France, Germany, the United Kingdom. We will raise questions about traditional understandings of nationality, loyalty, place and identity; discuss models of multiculturalism citizenship, as well as transnationalism and postnationalism, paradigms that challenge an integrationist reading of migration. This course is an upper-level seminar and will be structured around active student participation and discussion.
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This course introduces students to important theories on class structures, social reproduction, colonialism and post-colonialism in contemporary France. Course themese include the interplay between language, culture and nation; the reproduction of class relations; immigration, ethnicity and race; human rights and the law. Examples to be studied in depth include: 1) the rise of diaporic youth vernaculars and cultural forms; 2) the passage of the controversial 2004 law banning religious symbols in state institutions 3) illegal immigration and the humanitarian exception; 4) youth crime, the juvenile justice system, and the 2005 riots.
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Using ethnographies from Spanish America, Brazil, the U.S. southwest, and the Afro-Caribbean diaspora, the course will focus on a variety of ethnographic approaches to issues of modernity, modernization, and modernism in greater Latin America: ethnography of the nation, historical anthropology, reflexive approaches to ethnography, ethnography and cultural studies, and political economy. We will also examine the different characteristics of ethnographies written by foreign anthropologists working in Latin America, those based there, and those who study their own groups. The course will begin with a consideration of the differences between modernity in Latin America and in Europe/The United States, followed by a close and comparative reading of ethnographic writing.
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An introduction to the issues surrounding the study of culture through time, through the marriage of anthropology and history. Using a series of monographs by anthropologists and historians from Latin America and Oceania, we will examine issues arising out of the differences between studying Otherness in space (anthropology) and in time (history). The course is meant to teach students to read, think, and write from an interdisciplinary, cross-cultural, and historical perspective, integrating anthropological and historical modes of analysis. As anthropology in the past was generally synchronic and ahistorical, the course questions the assumptions of traditional ethnography and presses for a reconsideration of anthropology as the examination of cultural and social processes within their temporal contexts.
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When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, many ethnonational groups remained within the Russian Federation, some with their own âautonomousâ republics and growing activism. This course examines the political and cultural ramifications of Russiaâs [Rossiiaâs] multiethnic state, encompassing Slavic, Turkic, Finno-Ugrian, North Caucasian, Siberian and Far Eastern peoples. The wide range of language, economic, social and religious orientations of Russiaâs diverse peoples makes generalizations about stability or instability of the âfederationâ unwise. Recent de-centralization and re-centralization policies and dynamics are reviewed. Histories of cross-cutting identities, bilateral federation treaties, the Chechnya, Ossetia, and Dagestani wars, ethno-religious based terrorism, migration, and indigenous minority politics are covered in order to understand the hot debates surrounding Russiaâs fledgling and controversial federation. Theories of federalism, nationalism, civil society, ecology and ethnicity interrelations, as well as religious and national movement interconnections, are explored.
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