ANTH 511 - MASCULINITIES Credits: 3 This course deals with masculinities in the West, concentrating on concepts of masculine protagonism and personhood. Readings explore identities constructed in realms such as law, politics, finances, art, the home and war. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 311. College: School of Social Sciences Department: Anthropology
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ANTH 512 - AFRICAN PREHISTORY Credits: 3 Thematic coverage of developments throughout the continent from the Lower Paleolithic to medieval times, with emphasis on food production, metallurgy and the rise of cities and complex societies. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 312. College: School of Social Sciences Department: Anthropology
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ANTH 513 - LANGUAGE AND CULTURE Credits: 3 Course URL: http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~anth313 Investigates the relation between language and thought, language and world view, language and logic. Cross-list: LING 513, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 313. College: School of Social Sciences Department: Anthropology
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ANTH 515 - INTRODUCTION TO THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF INFORMATION AND NETWORKS Credits: 3 History and social study of information in network technologies. Thematic focus on communication, exchange, information/knowledge production and institutions of property and contract law. Empirical topics include networking technologies, money and financial institutions, free software and open source, cryptography, standards bodies, history of the internet, patents, copyright, trademark, and contract law. Includes North America, Europe, and South Asia. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 315. College: School of Social Sciences Department: Anthropology
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ANTH 519 - SYMBOLISM AND POWER Credits: 3 This course considers anthropological theories of the state and examines ethnographic accounts of states in some unexpected places- that is, outside the official realm of government bureaucracies and institutionalized politics. Topics include so-called "stateless societies," planning and bureaucratic rationality, violence and power, and ethnographic methods for studying the state. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 319. College: School of Social Sciences Department: Anthropology
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ANTH 520 - PUBLIC SPHERES AND PUBLIC CULTURES Credits: 3 This course will discuss some of the basic issues surrounding civil society and the public sphere. It will look at specific contemporary debates in public culture, such as multiculturalism, identity politics, and the crisis of contemporary liberalism. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 320. College: School of Social Sciences Department: Anthropology
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ANTH 522 - CULTURES AND IDENTITIES: RACE, ETHNICITY, AND NATIONALISM Credits: 3 How do cultural conceptions of race, ethnicity, and nationalism shape who we think we are? How are these ideas related to Western views of the relations between nature and society, and how do these differ from those in other cultures? Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 322. College: School of Social Sciences Department: Anthropology
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ANTH 523 - INTRODUCTION TO PHONOLOGY Credits: 3 Introduction to analysis techniques and theory concerning patternings of sounds in the world's languages. The course will involve extensive work with non-English data sets, and development of analytical techniques such as identification of sound alternations or restrictions, and formalization of abstract representations and rules to account for them. Cross-list: LING 511. College: School of Social Sciences Department: Anthropology
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ANTH 525 - SEX, SELF, AND SOCIETY IN ANCIENT GREECE Credits: 3 An introductory venture into conducting fieldwork in the past. The course treats a wide range of artifacts, from philosophical essays to vase paintings. It derives its focus from a rich corpus of recent research into the ancient problematization of desire and self-control. Cross-list: SWGS 525, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 325. College: School of Social Sciences Department: Anthropology
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ANTH 527 - GENDER AND SYMBOLISM Credits: 3 Examinations of beliefs concerning men, women, and gender in different cultures, including the West, relating to issues of symbolism, power, and the distribution of cultural models. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 327. College: School of Social Sciences Department: Anthropology
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ANTH 528 - VIOLENCE, TERROR, AND SOCIAL TRAUMA Credits: 3 This course addresses the central place of violence in our society and its relations with social and political terror in other cultures. Readings, film, and theater probe everyday violence as well as spectacular events of our times. Aftermath, including cross-generational trauma, will be explored. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 328. College: School of Social Sciences Department: Anthropology
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ANTH 529 - BODIES, SENSUALITIES, AND ART Credits: 3 Cross-cultural approaches to art and the senses. Students may engage any medium. Emphasis to be placed on issues generated from performance in the arts rather than from academia. Contrasts art and academic knowledge to explore alternative epistemologies and aesthetics. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 329. College: School of Social Sciences Department: Anthropology
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ANTH 533 - THE MATERIAL WORLD Credits: 3 This course explores the mutually constructive relationship between humans and objects; it asks how objects are made meaningful and active by humans, and how, in turn, people acquire meaning, relations, and agency through material culture. Topics include: commoditization, consumption, gift exchange, subjects and objects, identity, fashion, collecting, art, and authenticity. College: School of Social Sciences Department: Anthropology
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ANTH 535 - ANTHROPOLOGY AS CULTURAL CRITIQUE Credits: 3 The critical assessment and interpretation of Euro American social institutions and cultural forms have always been an integral part of anthropology's intellectual project. This course will explain the techniques, history, and achievements of such critique. It will also view the purpose in the context of a more generational tradition of critical social thought in the West, especially the U.S. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 335. College: School of Social Sciences Department: Anthropology
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ANTH 538 - READING POPULAR CULTURE Credits: 3 The course examines a number of cases from popular genres-romance novels, television sit-coms, tourist sites, movies, rock music and submits them to a variety of theoretical approaches from disciplines such as anthropology, sociology, literary studies, and philosophy. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 338. College: School of Social Sciences Department: Anthropology
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ANTH 544 - CITY/CULTURE Credits: 3 The course treats both the theorization and the ethnographic exploration of the urban imaginary; urban spaces and practices; urban, suburban, and post-urban planning; city-states, colonial cities, and capital cities; and the late 20th century metropolis. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 344. College: School of Social Sciences Department: Anthropology
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ANTH 545 - THE POLITICS OF THE PAST: ARCHAEOLOGY IN SOCIAL CONTEXT Credits: 3 An examination of the way that archaeological evidence of the past has been used and viewed by particular groups at different times. Using case studies, the course considers issues of gender, race, Eurocentrism, political domination and legitimacy that emerge from critical analysis of representations of the past by archaeologists, museums, and collectors. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 345. College: School of Social Sciences Department: Anthropology
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ANTH 547 - THE U.S. AS A FOREIGN COUNTRY Credits: 3 The course looks at selected aspects of American culture and society from an anthropological point of view. Readings derive from the works of both foreign and native observers, past and present. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 347. College: School of Social Sciences Department: Anthropology
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ANTH 549 - THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF ETHICS Credits: 3 Philosophical ethics argues over the proper criteria of the definition and the assessment of ethical action. This course focuses on an emerging and increasingly salient anthropological project: empirical inquiry into the themes and variations of ethical systems and the sociocultural rationale for their existence and reproduction. College: School of Social Sciences Department: Anthropology
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ANTH 551 - CULTURES OF NATIONALISM Credits: 3 This course will examine the cultural dimensions of nationalism, particularly around the creation of forms of "peoplehood" that seem to be presupposed by almost all nation-building projects. Texts to be analyzed will include the Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution, and the Declaration of the Rights of Man. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 351. College: School of Social Sciences Department: Anthropology
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ANTH 552 - INTERSCIENTIFIC COLLABORATION: A RESEARCH PRACTICUM Credits: 3 In anticipation of the opening of the Rice Collaborative Research Center (CRC) in 2009, this course explores the conditions that facilitate and those that inhibit collaborative research across the disciplines. Readings will address the production of scientific knowledge, disciplinarity and interdisciplinarity, styles of scientific reasoning and investigation, the social organization of scientific research and the interaction of sciences with their publics as well as qualitative field methods. Upon qualification, students will also engage in supervised on-site investigations of the agencies and the human subjects at Rice and at the Texas Medical Center, which the CRC is most likely to engage. Undergraduates will demonstrate their understanding of the themes of the investigative project and produce regular field reports. Graduate students will additionally serve as investigative team supervisors and acquire competency in contemporary methodologies of the qualitative assessment of longitudinal trends. Investigators will receive explicit credit for the data they contribute to any future publications that the project generates. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 352. College: School of Social Sciences Department: Anthropology
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ANTH 553 - CULTURES OF INDIA Credits: 3 Summary of the prehistory, ethnography, and ethnology of the Indian subcontinent. Special emphasis on Hinduism, Buddhism, and Indian philosophy. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 353. College: School of Social Sciences Department: Anthropology
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ANTH 555 - LANDSCAPE ARCHAEOLOGY Credits: 3 This course provides an overview of the way archaeologists study landscapes including studies that emphasize their ecological, symbolic, political economic and religious aspects. Recent theoretical work on landscape will be emphasized, as well as archaeological methods of investigation and interpretation, including remote sensing, surveying, and GIS. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 355. College: School of Social Sciences Department: Anthropology
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ANTH 558 - THE FOURTH WORLD: ISSUES OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES Credits: 3 In contrast with people self-identified within political structures of the First, Second and Third Worlds, Fourth World peoples are, generally speaking, "stateless peoples." In this course we will examine both how this "unofficial" status affects their struggle for self-determination and how native peoples engage traditional beliefs and practices for self-empowerment. Through readings, films and speakers we will examine current conflicts facing indigenous people in North and South America, the Soviet Union, Europe, Asia, and Australia. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 358. College: School of Social Sciences Department: Anthropology
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ANTH 561 - LATIN AMERICAN TOPICS Credits: 3 This course examines contemporary cultural and political dynamics in Latin America. Topics include: race, ethnicity and indigenousness; borders, migrations and diaspora; genocide and state violence; neo-colonialisms and neo-liberalisms; sexuality, gender and class dynamics; social movements and activism; the politics and practices of medicine and religion; popular culture, media and technology. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 361. College: School of Social Sciences Department: Anthropology
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