Lecture, three hours. Requisite: course M140. Practice in eliciting linguistic data from informants. Initial focus on phonetic transcription and phonological structures; introduction to skills and strategies pertinent to morphological, syntactic, and textual analysis. Practice with native speakers of non-Indo-European languages is normally important aspect of student participation. P/NP or letter grading.
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Lecture, three hours. Requisite: course 33 or American Indian Studies M10. Introduction and comparative analysis of sociocultural aspects of language use in Native North American Indian speech communities. Specific foci include both micro- and macro-sociolinguistic topics. Micro-sociolinguistic topics are comprised of such issues as multilingualism, cultural differences regarding appropriate communicative behavior and variation within speech communities (e.g., male and female speech, baby talk, ceremonial speech, etc.). Macro-sociolinguistic considerations include language contact and its relationship to language change and language in American Indian education. Concurrently scheduled with course C243P. P/NP or letter grading.
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(Same as Afro-American Studies M166.) Lecture, three hours. Basic information on Black American English, important minority dialect in U.S. Social implications of minority dialects examined from perspectives of their genesis, maintenance, and social functions. General problems and issues in fields of sociolinguistics examined through case-study approach. Letter grading.
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Lecture, three hours. Requisite: course 33. Introduction to Polynesian cultures and languages, with particular emphasis on past and present sociocultural systems, patterns of language structure and language use, verbal art, language socialization strategies, and forms of cultural assimilation and resistance to European contact. Fieldwork on contemporary Polynesian cultures in U.S. urban areas. Letter grading.
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Lecture, three hours. Study of selected topics in linguistic anthropology. Consult "Schedule of Classes" for topics and instructors. May be repeated for credit. P/NP or letter grading.
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(Formerly numbered M148.) (Same as Applied Linguistics M161W and Communication Studies M123W.) Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour. Enforced requisite: English Composition 3 or 3H or English as a Second Language 36. Relationship between language and human body raises host of interesting topics. New approaches to phenomena such as embodiment become possible when body is analyzed, not as isolated entity, but as visible agent whose talk and action are lodged within both processes of human interaction and rich settings where people pursue courses of action that count in their lives. Satisfies Writing II requirement. Letter grading.
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Lecture, three hours. Requisite: course 33. Language as social phenomenon. Introduction to several angles from which language use can be critically examined as integral to interactions between individuals and between social groups. Letter grading.
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Lecture, three hours. Requisite: course 33. Examination of role language plays in social construction of gender identities and ways in which gender impacts language use and ideologies. Letter grading.
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Lecture, three hours. Requisite: course 33. Examination of communicative, political, and poetic aspects of use of two or more languages (multilingualism) by individuals and by groups. Broader themes in social theory, anthropological inquiry, sociolinguistics, and literary studies in lectures to contextualize class readings. Letter grading.
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Lecture, three hours. Requisite: course 33. Examination of various ways in which culture, and language in particular, influence not only educational processes and outcomes, but also very conceptions of what normal development processes and desirable educational outcomes are. Letter grading.
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(Same as Applied Linguistics M125.) Seminar, four hours. Exploration of process of socialization through language, and socialization to use language across lifespan, across communities of practice within single society, and across different ethnic and socioeconomic groups. Examination of ways in which verbal interaction between novices and experts is structured linguistically and culturally. Letter grading.
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Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Enforced requisite: course 9. Introduction to more specialized social anthropology courses. Evaluation of variation in sociocultural systems, with special emphasis on forms of inequality. Basic frameworks of anthropological analysis; historical context and development of social anthropology discipline. Letter grading.
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(Same as Women's Studies M151.) Lecture, three hours. Requisite: course 9. Examination of understandings of kinship in cross-cultural perspective and impact of kinship on interpersonal relationships, gender roles, and sociocultural systems. Readings from popular materials and formal ethnographic accounts. P/NP or letter grading.
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Lecture, three hours. Cross-cultural examination of politics and political organization. Law and maintenance of order; corporate groups; ideology. Relations of political institutions to other institutions of society and to issues of identity and representation. Letter grading.
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Lecture, three hours. Review of economic and ecological approaches to studying organization of production and exchange. Economic life viewed from three perspectives: adaptation, decision making, and social structure. Comparative theories discussed in context of ethnographic evidence from wide variety of cultural systems. P/NP or letter grading.
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Lecture, three hours. Requisite: course 9. Introduction to anthropological perspectives for interpretation of economic life and institutions. Economic facts to be placed in their larger social, political, and cultural contexts; examination of modes of production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services in their relation to social networks, power structures, and institutions of family, kinship, and class. P/NP or letter grading.
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(Same as Women's Studies M154P.) Lecture, three hours. Recommended preparation: prior anthropology or women's studies courses. Designed for junior/senior social sciences majors. Comparative study of women's lives and gender systems in North American cultures from anthropological perspective. Critical review of relevant theoretical and practical issues using ethnography, case study, and presentations. P/NP or letter grading.
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(Same as Women's Studies M154Q.) Lecture, three hours. Recommended preparation: prior anthropology or women's studies courses. Designed for junior/senior social sciences majors. Comparative study of gender systems globally from anthropological perspective. Outline of material conditions of women's lives in world -- gender division of labor, relationship of gender to state, and colonialism and resistance movements. P/NP or letter grading.
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(Same as Women's Studies M155.) Lecture, three hours. Preparation: introductory sociocultural anthropology course. Anthropology of Japan has long viewed Japan as homogeneous whole. Restoration of diversity and contradiction in it by listening to voices of Japanese women in various historical contexts. P/NP or letter grading.
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(Same as Women's Studies M155Q.) Lecture/discussion, three hours. Recommended preparation: prior women's studies or anthropology courses. Comparative studies of social movements (e.g., nationalist, socialist, liberal/reform), beginning with Russia and China and including Cuba, Algeria, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Nicaragua, and Iran. Analysis of women's participation in social transformations and centrality of gender interests. P/NP or letter grading.
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Lecture, three hours. Survey of various methodologies in comparative study of religious ideologies and action systems, including understanding particular religions through descriptive and structural approaches, and identification of social and psychological factors that may account for variation in religious systems cross-culturally. P/NP or letter grading.
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Lecture, three hours. Study of selected topics in social anthropology. Consult "Schedule of Classes" for topics and instructors. May be repeated for credit. P/NP or letter grading.
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Lecture, three hours. Requisite: course 9. Survey of hunting and gathering societies. Examination of their distinctive features from both ecological and cultural viewpoints. Discussion of possibility of developing general framework for synthesizing these two viewpoints. Use of this synthesis as basis for illustrating relevance of hunting and gathering societies as understanding of complex societies. P/NP or letter grading.
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Lecture, three hours. Requisite: course 9 or 150. Survey of pastoral nomad societies. Consideration of environmental and social demands of livestock domestication and production. Focus on ecological features, cultural practices, and social organization, with special attention to historical interactions between pastoral nomads and settled peoples. Letter grading.
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(Same as Geography M153 and Honors Collegium M152.) Lecture, two hours; discussion, two hours. Examination of modern and past tribal and band societies (Amazonian Indians, Kalahari San, New Guineans, and others) that met varying fates, as background to examination of how modern state societies are coping or failing to cope with similar issues. P/NP or letter grading.
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