Social variation in the phonology, morphology, syntax, lexicon of languages and dialects. Nonstandard language, diglossia, pidgins and creoles, gender differences, bi- and multilingualism, ethnography of speaking, pragmatics, and language attitudes. Prerequisite: either LING 200 or LING 400; recommended: prior or concurrent registration in ANTH 451 or LING 450. Offered: jointly with LING 432.
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Chief features of nonmonetary and simple monetary economics. Impact of central or metropolitan market economy and industrial technology as peripheral systems, especially of small-scale and limited monetary circulation. Development and application in anthropology of economic concepts, including Marxian. Prerequisite: either one 200-level ANTH course or LING 203.
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Function and structure of family developmental processes in band, tribal, peasant, and modern societies. Illustrates inter- and intrasocietal variation and provides data for construction of formal models of process and variation in family systems. Prerequisite: either one 200-level ANTH course, LING 203, or SOC 352.
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Data, theories, and analytical technique used in the study of kinship systems, including our own, from around the world. Prerequisite: either one 200-level ANTH course or LING 203.
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Cross-cultural study of the child-rearing practices, cultural norms, and health behavior of children and adolescents in different societies. Comparative approaches, diverse theoretical postures, and empirical research findings are used. Offered: jointly with NURS 495.
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Assessment of mutual relevance of cultural and psychological variables in anthropology. Historical development of principal topics, e.g., cognition, national character, enculturation, personality and social change, cross-cultural psychiatry, sex and temperament, deviance, and psychoanalytic studies of culture. Prerequisite: either PSYCH 101 or PSYCH 205.
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Focuses on issues of representation and power in twentieth century China. Combines substantive information on modern Chinese society and culture with recent debates in social theory and the politics of representation. Major themes include Chinese nationalism, body politics, popular culture, and everyday practice. Offered: jointly with SISEA 444.
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Focus on either Vietnam or Thailand. Provides students with opportunity to explore how those living in Southeast Asia have reflected on the radical social changes their societies have undergone through novels, short stories, and poetry. Prerequisite: either one 200-level ANTH course or LING 203. Offered: jointly with SISSE 445.
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Examines the nexus between culture and systems of social stratification/class in East Asia, with an emphasis on Taiwan, Korea, Japan, and China. Topics include class formation, mechanisms of social mobility and reproduction, markers of status and hierarchy, resistance, and the formation of class identity. Offered: jointly with SISEA 443.
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Chinese religions, including folk, popular, and new religions, viewed from an anthropological perspective. Prerequisite: either ANTH 202, 204, 208, 321, 421, 370, or RELIG 202, or SISEA 370, 454.
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Social organization and values of twentieth-century Korea. Changes in family and kinship, gender relations, rural society, urban life, education, and industrial organization since 1900. Differences between North and South Korea since 1945. Recommended: HSTAS/SISEA 212. Offered: jointly with SISEA 448.
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Comparative study of social change in China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam since 1945. Concentration on small-scale social units in rural and urban areas under both communist and capitalist political systems. Recommended: two history or anthropology of East Asia courses. Offered: jointly with SIS 449.
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Comparative analysis of use of myths, tales, music, and other forms of expressive culture to account for, reinforce, and change women's status and roles. Recommended: WOMEN 353. Offered: jointly with WOMEN 454.
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Issues involved in classification of languages. Systems of classification based on structure, word order, areal features. Ways in which languages may be classified for different purposes. Borrowing vocabulary specialization, lexical change, and language death and revival. Prerequisite: either LING 200, LING 201, ANTH/LING 203, or LING 400. Offered: jointly with LING 455.
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Techniques and theories of ethnographic description for the anthropological analysis of contemporary life. Materials drawn from the contemporary United States, with a focus on issues and events in the Seattle area. Includes fieldwork projects. Prerequisite: either one 200-level ANTH course or LING 203.
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Survey of anthropological research on interaction between human societies and their environments. Logic of different subsistence systems; intensification and transformation of subsistence strategies; population regulation; ecological aspects of human nutrition, disease, spatial organization, ethnicity, social stratification, conflict, and cooperation; historical roots of current ecological crisis.
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Sources and development of leading concepts, issues, and approaches in anthropology. Findings of anthropology in relation to scientific and humanistic implications and to practical application. Main contributors to field; their work and influence. Past, present, and future perspectives, including anthropology of modern life.
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Critical overview of theories of mass culture and their relationship to current anthropological practice. Analyses of the historical interconnnections among capitalism and commodity fetishism, modernity and representation, and media and consumption.
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Individual research under the direction of a thesis advisor, culminating in a senior honors thesis. Open only to upper-class students in departmental honors program.
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Uses a wide range of social theory and philosophy to investigate mechanisms which reproduce inequality and asymmetry in American education.
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Delineation and analysis of a specific problem or related problems in anthropology. Offered occasionally by visitors or resident faculty.
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Interaction between China and the peoples of its periphery, including inner Asia, Tibet, northern mainland Southeast Asia, and aboriginal peoples of Taiwan. Emphasis on ethnicity, ethnic group consciousness, and role of the Chinese state. Prerequisite: one 200-level ANTH course; LING 203; either ANTH/SISEA 370 or HSTAS 454. Offered: jointly with SISEA 470.
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Explores the cultural, political, and historical implications of the power to colonize. Readings include ethnographic, historical, and literary works on colonialism, nationalist responses, and postcolonial positions.
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Uses multidisciplinary case studies to analyze quantitative parameters of diseases; contrast the description and analytic approaches of health sciences, anthropology, and other social sciences; integrate divers disciplinary perspectives into cohesive information; organize class presentations; and apply critical thinking in approaches complex health issues. Offered: Sp.
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Introduction to medical anthropology. Explores the relationships among culture, society, and medicine. Examples from Western medicine as well as from other medical systems, incorporating both interpretive and critical approaches. Offered: jointly with HSERV 475.
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