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Above class open to Hutton Honor College Students Only Above class meets with another section of ANTH-E300 Drawing on recent attention given to global Muslim networks, this seminar provides an introduction to Muslim thought and practice in West African societies. Students will come to understand the place of Sufi Islam, to which the majority of African Muslims belong, within the wider Muslim world, and in relation to debates over migration and the nation-state in Europe and the United States. Students will consider critically the nature of major debates that have arisen over religion in Africa and its diaspora including: conversion, resistance, gender, transnational religious movements, diaspora, and the changing role of the state and civil society.
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This course will provide an overview of anthropological approaches to shamanism and other religious phenomena involving altered states of consciousness. Special attention will be paid to the analysis of the rituals in which these phenomena occur. This course will be conducted as a seminar. Requirements include a class presentation and paper, a research paper, and a final exam.
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This class approaches the study of women ethnographically and cross culturally. The emphasis will rest on womenÂs experience, the major influences on those experiences, and womenÂs expression of their experience in writing, speaking, organizing, or through film and art. Utiizing the concept of gender as the means of constructing female roles, as well as male, in every society, the course will identify specific influences affecting women in specific cultures and eras. Examples of influences include the 16th c. and 17th c. witch hunts, the U. S. Suffrage movement, colonialism, legal systems, the U.N. Decade of Women, folklore and popular culture. Prominently featured will be women in the U.S. and in specific African societies, but others will be included as well. We will read works by the African-American scholar/writer, Zora Neale Hurston, the British writer, Angela Carter, the Ghanaian writer, Ama Ata Aidoo. Films will focus on specific women who have played a significant role in a historical period or who have a position of prominence in todayÂs world. There will be 2 exams (mid-term and final), and two major papers: one on gender roles in a specific society and one an interview with a specific woman. Other short papers will include a fairy tale and a short paper on an interview.
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Mexico is one of the United States most important trading partners; Mexico has the eleventh largest population in the world and the worldÂs thirteenth largest economy; its capital, Mexico City, has more than 19 million residents. Before the Spanish came to the New World, the territory of Mexico was home to three of the worldÂs great civilizations--the Maya, the Aztec, the Zapotec, and over a hundred other indigenous groups. Pre-Hispanic Mexico had large cities; trade networks that connected the entire country; arts, astronomy and mathematics; a complex calendrical system; religions and a priesthood; and sophisticated laws, courts and judges. Today, indigenous Mexicans still make up over ten percent of the population. The rest of MexicoÂs people came from Europe, Asia, and Africa over the last five centuries. Some came as conquerors, others as slaves, and still others as merchants, war refugees, artists, and pensioners. More recently, hundreds of thousands of Mexicans (mostly younger, mostly poorer) have been migrating north across the border, looking for opportunities and advancement in the United States. In this course we will learn about MexicoÂs people--who they are, what they do, what their dreams are. We will explore the lives of Mexicans living in the second largest city in the world. We will follow the story of the Zapatista rebels in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas as they seek justice and land. The old stories of indigenous belief, art, and survival will teach us about MexicoÂs indigenous peoples. And individual stories of migration will help us understand better the realities of immigration and its effect on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. Stories of ingenuity and imagination, of change and continuity, of family and community, of becoming an active partner in globalization while recognizing ancient roots--these are the paradoxes of contemporary Mexico.
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Indians of Indiana provides an introduction to the histories and cultures of the Native American Nations of Indiana, focusing in particular on the Miami, the Potawatomi, and the Shawnee. The course takes an ethnohistorical approach, seeking to understand the past and present of these communities in their own terms by combining information derived from Native American sources and anthropological research with the results of work with documentary material. Work for the course includes four response papers and midterm and final exams.
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Above class meets 2nd eight weeks only "The Anthropology of Contemporary Japan" frames in anthropological perspective the history, present and future of Japanese society. The course explores anthropological research on Japanese attitudes toward ethnic and national identity; gender and education; and the wide-ranging impact of JapanÂs economic decline on attitudes towards work, play, consumption, and travel overseas. The course is divided into two main sections. The first considers Âtraditional Japanese society as a context for the second, and focal, section of the course on contemporary Japan. Traditional cultural production is examined, for instance, as one context for investigating such contemporary popular cultural forms as comic books, fashion, animation, sports and cuisine. The course considers the social, economic and political terms under which these cultural forms have become globally disseminated, particularly to East Asia and the United States. It finally considers Japan's engagements with foreign culture in both these regions and beyond.
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Above class meets 2nd eight weeks only This course links literature and anthropology as means of understanding culture. Ethnographic writing and world fiction  novels, short stories, poems, myths, folktales  are analyzed for what they may differentially reveal about the social, cultural and political lives of peoples around the world. The course includes three sections. The first explores recent anthropological writings that have re-evaluated the relationship between fiction and ethnography. The second considers how aspects of social identity  such as race, ethnicity, gender and religion  have been represented in ethnography, fiction, and other works located ambiguously in between. The third section considers fictional and anthropological writing that explore human experience particularly in relation to the state. Among the regions represented are Africa, Europe, the Middle East, the Caribbean, and the United States. Among the issues discussed are colonialism, war, socialism, and immigration. Several documentaries and brief readings will also be included in the course.
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This class will focus on the Lakota (Sioux) Indians of the North American Plains as a case study in social-cultural anthropology. It will examine the Lakota both historically and culturally, and deal with issues of change and continuity. At the same time it will explore methods of ethnohistory and ethnography, including selection and criticism of source material. The class will be based on the study of texts in the broadest sense, including written, oral, and pictorial representations. Students will read a broad range of literature about the Lakotas as well as relevant anthropological theory and method. They will be expected to attend the class lectures, contribute to class discussions, develop an ethnographic notebook, and write a term paper on some aspect of Lakota culture or history.
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This seminar offers a critical survey of past and recent debates in the study of exchange and value in anthropology, to understand its relevance for research on the politics of sociocultural difference. Readings range from classical theoretical and ethnographic materials to recent reformulations that use exchange, and more recently circulation, to explore the dynamics of history, social reproduction and power. Topics covered may include the visual and material culture, commodification, and the production and circulation of cloth and other objects of value in colonial, post-colonial and global contexts. Through seminar presentations, and a seminar paper, students will participate in addressing the central questions of this course and turn these questions towards their own research.
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Islam came to the Balkans in the fourteen and the fifteenth centuries with the Ottomans and spread across the peninsula of southeastern Europe. In this class we will study the history of Islam in the Balkans, from the gradual conversions of local people, the political and cultural heights of the Ottoman Empire, to the decline of the Ottoman Empire, the growth of ethnic based nation states, and the relegation of most Muslim communities to minority status. We will study the Ottoman cities of Edirne, Salonika, and Sarajevo, and the place of Balkan Muslims in the Ottoman Empire. We will also study the forced migrations and expulsions of Muslims from the Balkans in the 19^th and 20^th centuries, culminating in the wars in Bosnia and Kosova in the 1990Âs. Finally we will draw on anthropological studies of Muslims in the Balkans in recent times for questions relating to gender and the ongoing negotiation of Muslim identities.
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This course explores the contradictory effects of socialism's "fall" through a study of recent ethnographies of postsocialist societies. We will connect our inquiries to broad intellectual questions in anthropology and related disciplines, including globalization, social suffering, commodification and cultural identity, ethnicity and nation building, armed conflict, and gender inequalities. We will grapple with the following question: does Âpostsocialism still make sense, or are we in a period of Âpost- postsocialism?Â
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The creation of protected areas has become a principal tool for attempting to conserve endangered natural resources. Yet biosphere reserves, national parks and nature reserves often have unanticipated impacts on indigenous and local populations. In certain cases, failure to consider sociocultural implications has led to rapid environmental degradation rather than conservation. Environmental conservation also carries implications for cultural survival. A majority of the worldÂs indigenous and aboriginal populations live in the worldÂs least degraded environments, but at times park establishment has involved the forcible expulsion of native peoples from their land. As a result, many doubts have been raised over the effectiveness of protected areas. This seminar-style course explores a broad range of questions and debates surrounding protected areas. It considers major theories and approaches to conservation, from "fortress conservation" to community-based and participatory strategies, as well as the potential of ecotourism. It evaluates outcomes and unintended consequences of protected areas, with a special interest in the conundrums posed by growing human demands for increasingly depleted and threatened natural resources. We will debate a range of crucial questions, such as (1) Are cultural survival and environmental conservation competing or complimentary goals? (2) Are protected areas effective? Given the varying goals of different protected areas, how are we to assess effectiveness? (3) How can conflicting demands of multiple stakeholders be met constructively? (4) Can natural resources be managed sustainably to meet competing demands for conservation and development? If so, how? If not, how to prioritize conservation or immediate human needs? Theoretical perspectives will be juxtaposed with actual case studies of parks and reserves from around the world. The class will meet once a week, and will be run as a graduate seminar. Students are expected to be prepared for discussion for each class. Evaluation: Grades will be based upon participation in discussions, reading responses, a class presentation and a final project. Prerequisites: Undergraduates must have taken a 300-level course or above in the social sciences. Graduate students do not need to fulfill any prerequisites to take this course.
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This course focuses on the role of visual representations in art, photography, and film as they reflect and shape our understanding of other cultures - and our own. We begin with a general discussion of the politics of representation. We then turn to topics such as representations of The Other in ethnographic films, colonial photography, and Hollywood movies. Finally we examine how Euro-Americans are depicted in the visual arts of Africa, Native America and the Pacific-- how do They see Us? This course will be conducted as a seminar. Short papers, class presentations, and a final take-home exam will be required.
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Environmental anthropology is the general designation for the anthropological investigation of human-environment relationships. This field brings together interests in local, state, and global nexuses; environmental values and religion; environmental cognition and perception; resource management, land use, and global climate change; people and parks and conservation initiatives; human rights and environmental justice; gender, race, class, and ethnic dimensions, as well as globalization and consumerism. This rainbow of foci is the product of discussion, debate, and interdisciplinary cross-fertilization over the last 100 years, in the course of which paradigms have risen and fallen and that witnessed a changing social, economic and cultural milieu with respect to both the practice of anthropology and the nature of human-environment relationships. This graduate seminar will discuss environmental approaches in contemporary anthropology by unfolding the storyline of the field. We started by discussing the formative period of the field in the early 20th century and the related theoretical-methodological debates, which led to the evolution of Cultural Ecology and later Ecological Anthropology. At different time periods three important trends developed -- one dominated by an ecosystem-oriented approach, one by a political economy-oriented approach, and the other by a symbolic approach. These approaches developed with different degrees of overlap into six main fields of contemporary inquiry which we will overview during the seminar: Ecological Anthropology, Political Ecology, Institutional Analysis, Historical Ecology, Ethnobiology, and Symbolic Ecology and Environmentalism. This seminar is based on readings, lectures, and class discussions. Students will define the focus of a research paper early in the course. Other activities include class presentation/leading discussion, and preparation of short reports.
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Intensive Study of a Culture: The Lakota (Sioux) Indians This class will focus on the Lakota (Sioux) Indians of the North American Plains as a case study in social-cultural anthropology. It will examine the Lakota both historically and culturally, and deal with issues of change and continuity. At the same time it will explore methods of ethnohistory and ethnography, including selection and criticism of source material. The class will be based on the study of texts in the broadest sense, including written, oral, and pictorial representations. Students will read a broad range of literature about the Lakotas as well as relevant anthropological theory and method. They will be expected to attend the class lectures, contribute to class discussions, develop an ethnographic notebook, and write a term paper on some aspect of Lakota culture or history.
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This seminar offers a critical survey of past and recent debates in the study of exchange and value in anthropology, to understand its relevance for research on the politics of sociocultural difference. Readings range from classical theoretical and ethnographic materials to recent reformulations that use exchange, and more recently circulation, to explore the dynamics of history, social reproduction and power. Topics covered may include the visual and material culture, commodification, and the production and circulation of cloth and other objects of value in colonial, post-colonial and global contexts. Through seminar presentations, and a seminar paper, students will participate in addressing the central questions of this course and turn these questions towards their own research.
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Islam came to the Balkans in the fourteen and the fifteenth centuries with the Ottomans and spread across the peninsula of southeastern Europe. In this class we will study the history of Islam in the Balkans, from the gradual conversions of local people, the political and cultural heights of the Ottoman Empire, to the decline of the Ottoman Empire, the growth of ethnic based nation states, and the relegation of most Muslim communities to minority status. We will study the Ottoman cities of Edirne, Salonika, and Sarajevo, and the place of Balkan Muslims in the Ottoman Empire. We will also study the forced migrations and expulsions of Muslims from the Balkans in the 19^th and 20^th centuries, culminating in the wars in Bosnia and Kosova in the 1990Âs. Finally we will draw on anthropological studies of Muslims in the Balkans in recent times for questions relating to gender and the ongoing negotiation of Muslim identities.
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Drawing on recent attention given to global Muslim networks, this seminar provides an introduction to Muslim thought and practice in West African societies. Students will come to understand the place of Sufi Islam, to which the majority of African Muslims belong, within the wider Muslim world, and in relation to debates over migration and the nation-state in Europe and the United States. Students will consider critically the nature of major debates that have arisen over religion in Africa and its diaspora including: conversion, resistance, gender, transnational religious movements, diaspora, and the changing role of the state and civil society.
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This course explores the contradictory effects of socialism's "fall" through a study of recent ethnographies of postsocialist societies. We will connect our inquiries to broad intellectual questions in anthropology and related disciplines, including globalization, social suffering, commodification and cultural identity, ethnicity and nation building, armed conflict, and gender inequalities. We will grapple with the following question: does Âpostsocialism still make sense, or are we in a period of Âpost- postsocialism?Â
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Goals of the course: This is a Research Design course, thus the focus is on: 1) Preparing a competitive research proposal that can be submitted to an agency or foundation that supports research on the human dimensions of global change; 2) Understanding how social scientists and environmental scientists reconcile their traditional methods of site-specific research with the demands of regional and global questions being asked; and 3. Covering major statements by expert panels, critique this agenda and explore how to link questions of local and regional interest within this agenda. Four drafts of a proposal are prepared during the course, and each is critiqued in detail before the next draft is prepared. Fulfillment of all requirements of a funding agency such as NSF are required so that students are prepared in short order to submit their work to an agency. The course is ideal for students beginning their third year and preparing proposals. Second year students who have picked their dissertation topic can also fully benefit from the way the course is structured.
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Both popular and scientific concern over deforestation is at a historically high level. Yet standard macro-level explanations for deforestation such as population growth, poverty, conversion of forest to agriculture, and the penetration of global markets do not account for much of the variation found in forest condition and forest use at the micro (local) level. This course explores theoretical and methodological approaches for exploring human-environment interactions, especially deforestation. It provides training in data collection methods, including participatory techniques, individual and group interviews, and forest measurement. Students apply their training in field research in a forest community in Southern Indiana. The course specifically exposes students to the International Forestry Resources and Institutions Research Program (IFRI). The program is an interdisciplinary, cross-national effort to explore the factors affecting forest conditions at the local level, especially those that influence a community's relationship to its forest. The methods used are drawn from the social, natural, and physical sciences in order to achieve a comprehensive understanding of local-level processes. Researchers are currently using the IFRI approach in over 100 forests in the Americas, Africa and Asia. This course is designed for graduate students who seek to learn theories and methods relevant for social-environmental research, and particularly the approaches of an active, ongoing research program applicable to the human dimensions of environmental change. It requires several evenings and weekends of fieldwork during the first half of the course. Grades are based in part upon completion of a case study report.
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The creation of protected areas has become a principal tool for attempting to conserve endangered natural resources. Yet biosphere reserves, national parks and nature reserves often have unanticipated impacts on indigenous and local populations. In certain cases, failure to consider sociocultural implications has led to rapid environmental degradation rather than conservation. Environmental conservation also carries implications for cultural survival. A majority of the worldÂs indigenous and aboriginal populations live in the worldÂs least degraded environments, but at times park establishment has involved the forcible expulsion of native peoples from their land. As a result, many doubts have been raised over the effectiveness of protected areas. This seminar-style course explores a broad range of questions and debates surrounding protected areas. It considers major theories and approaches to conservation, from "fortress conservation" to community-based and participatory strategies, as well as the potential of ecotourism. It evaluates outcomes and unintended consequences of protected areas, with a special interest in the conundrums posed by growing human demands for increasingly depleted and threatened natural resources. We will debate a range of crucial questions, such as (1) Are cultural survival and environmental conservation competing or complimentary goals? (2) Are protected areas effective? Given the varying goals of different protected areas, how are we to assess effectiveness? (3) How can conflicting demands of multiple stakeholders be met constructively? (4) Can natural resources be managed sustainably to meet competing demands for conservation and development? If so, how? If not, how to prioritize conservation or immediate human needs? Theoretical perspectives will be juxtaposed with actual case studies of parks and reserves from around the world. The class will meet once a week, and will be run as a graduate seminar. Students are expected to be prepared for discussion for each class. Evaluation: Grades will be based upon participation in discussions, reading responses, a class presentation and a final project. Prerequisites: Undergraduates must have taken a 300-level course or above in the social sciences. Graduate students do not need to fulfill any prerequisites to take this course.
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This seminar will explore the relationships among culture, power, subjectivity, and state formation through close readings of theoretical and ethnographic texts. We will examine how distinct theoretical approaches (Marxism, structuralism, post-structuralism, and feminism) have defined and analyzed these contested terms. Instead of assuming that culture, power, the subject, and the state are given concepts, we will study how their meanings have changed over time. How do cultural beliefs and outlooks organize the production, distribution, and even definition of power? How are power and subjectivity mutually constitutive? How do states structure power relations, define subjectivity, or shape cultural attitudes and expectations? Developing insights from Marx and Engels, Weber, Gramsci, Althusser, Bourdieu, and Foucault, we will compare ethnographic works and their efforts to integrate various theoretical approaches with anthropological data. Students will be asked to evaluate and use these theoretical frameworks in relation to their own research.
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This course focuses on the role of visual representations in art, photography, and film as they reflect and shape our understanding of other cultures - and our own. We begin with a general discussion of the politics of representation. We then turn to topics such as representations of The Other in ethnographic films, colonial photography, and Hollywood movies. Finally we examine how Euro-Americans are depicted in the visual arts of Africa, Native America and the Pacific-- how do They see Us? This course will be conducted as a seminar. Short papers, class presentations, and a final take-home exam will be required.
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This seminar will be an opportunity to examine the ways in which the arts have been embodied and embedded in the practice of social and cultural anthropology. Practice includes both the doing of it and the reflecting on it, or, ethnography and theory, if you wish. Some arts, visual and literary, for example, were embraced early by anthropologists because they were thought to be more readily and easily observable. Performing arts that were part of ritual behavior were attended to in that context; their examination in their own right and forms came later. The place of the arts within the larger field has shifted throughout its history both as a source of ethnographic data and as an aspect of human behavior that can illuminate our more general understanding. Some of the topical areas to which examinations of the arts have contributed include identity, debates about authenticity, genre, creativity, diaspora, presentation and representation, aesthetics, embodiment, communication and meaning, interpretation, improvisation, performance, cultural tourism, visual vs. literary vs. performing arts, and ritual. Our readings and discussions will reflect these and others that you may select. We will explore the importance of the arts as people practice them and think about them through readings, films, observation, and experience. And we will examine the points at which the arts have commented on, directed, and contributed to theory and ethnographic practice. Some of the readings will be done by everyone; others will be read by two people and presented to the class orally and in a written summary. This will give us the opportunity to cover more material and for each participant to choose some material of special interest. We will also take advantage of guest speakers, scholars of the arts who are on campus. The seminar will allow you to develop a research proposal in some area of the arts, an annotated bibliography in a topical area of your choice, or a 7000 word encyclopedia article. You may also choose to use a medium other than text (or in combination with text) through which to explore a topic. Readings will include: Books: Barber, Karin. 2008. The Anthropology of Texts, Persons, and Publics. Cambridge. Bauman, Richard and C. Briggs. 2007. Language Ideologies and the Politics of Inequality. Cambridge Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language. Selections from the book. Cohen, Abner. Masquerade Politics: Explorations in the Structure of Urban Cultural Movements. Jackson, Jason. 2005. Yuchi Ceremonial Life: Performance, Meaning and Tradition in a Contemporary Native American Community. Nebraska. Stone, Ruth. 1982. Let the Inside be Sweet: The Interpretation of Music Events among the Kpelle of Liberia. Indiana University Press. Taylor, Julie. 1995. Paper Tangos. Duke. Taymor, Julie and Eileen Blumenthal. 1999. Julie Taymor: Playing with Fire. Harry Abrams. Vogel, Shane. 2009. The Scene of Harlem Cabaret: Race. Sexuality, Performance. Chicago. Wulff, Helena. 2007. Dancing at the Crossroads: Memory and Mobility in Ireland. Berghahn. Other readings include works by: Mary Jo Arnoldi, Pierre Bourdieu, Marcel Mauss, Franz Boas, Barbara Kirschenblatt-Gimblett, Anya Peterson Royce, Paula Girshick, Robert Desjarlais, Paul Stoller, Victor Turner, Beverly Stoeltje, Susan Seizer, Claude Levi-Strauss.
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