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ANT101
E
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CREDIT:3
AUTUMN
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Comparative Study of Cultures
This course is designed to offer perspectives for understanding other cultures. Major theories and methodologies will be discussed.
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ANT102
J
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CREDIT:3
SPRING
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Critical Issues in Anthropology
This course will provide an introduction to critical issues in anthropology such as the study of culture, power, gender, class, race, and the state. The course aims to illustrate the usefulness of basic anthropological concepts and approaches for the study of contemporary cultural issues.
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ANT103
J,E
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CREDIT:3
AUTUMN
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Principles of Anthropology
Some topics in the history of anthropological theory and an introduction to the basic concepts of anthropology, with special attention to the material aspects of culture, social structure and organization, symbolic aspects of culture and culture change.
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ANT104
E
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CREDIT:3
WINTER
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Approaches to Human Culture
Cultural anthropology is the study of how people across the globe create, understand, adapt to, and transform their worlds. Located at the juncture between humanities and science, this course merges the study of societies (social structures, institutions and political systems) with the study of culture (belief and value systems, language, ritual and art.)
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ANT201
J
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CREDIT:3
AUTUMN
Offered Alternate Year
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Anthropology and Gender Studies
This course will provide an introduction to anthropological approaches to gender studies.
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ANT202
J,E
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CREDIT:3
SPRING
Offered Alternate Year
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Anthropology of Religion
Theories of religion in anthropology, as well as special problems in the relation of religion to society. Includes Asian, African and American Indian societies. Prerequisite: either PRINCIPLES OF SOCIOLOGY or PRINCIPLES OF ANTHROPOLOGY.
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ANT203
E
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CREDIT:3
SPRING
Offered Alternate Year
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Culture and Economy
This course examines how cultural values, such as religious attitudes or ideas about the prestige or Stigma of commerce, have influenced the development of capitalism in the west and in east and southeast Asia.
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ANT204
E
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CREDIT:2
WINTER
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Culture in Contemporary Japan
This course will critically examine anthropological studies of culture in contemporary Japan.
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ANT205
E
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CREDIT:3
SPRING
Offered Alternate Year
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Environment and Human Life
This course comprehensively analyzes the mutually-influencing relationship between humans and their environment.
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ANT206
E
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CREDIT:3
AUTUMN
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Medical Anthropology
This course provides a general introduction to medical anthropology. It first focuses on how humans have biologically adapted to diseases in their environment. It then examines the multiple ways in which medicine, illness, healing, and mental illness are conceived in different societies.
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ANT207
J
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CREDIT:3
WINTER
Offered Alternate Year
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Psychological Anthropology
This course explores the relationship between anthropology, psychology and psychiatry. It examines anthropological debates regarding the socio-cultural construction of mental health and mental illness; the interplay between psychology and culture; and the implications of an interdisciplinary approach in analyzing empirical cases in cross-cultural settings.
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ANT208
J
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CREDIT:2
WINTER
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Readings in Anthropological Texts
Readings of works selected in advance, seminar reports by each student, followed by group discussion.
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ANT210
J
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CREDIT:3
SPRING
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Society and Culture in Asia
Analysis of historical development, the characteristics of change, and the present state of Asian society and culture.
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ANT212
J
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CREDIT:3
WINTER
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Demographic anthropology
This course focuses on demographic issues from anthropological perspectives.Students will learn basic concepts and indicators in demography as well as the cultural meanings of the demographic phenomena in particular societies.
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ANT213
J,E
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CREDIT:3
WINTER
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Qualitative Research Methods in Anthropology
This course will provide the basic knowledge of and the practical opportunity to learn anthropological methods: participant observation and interviewing. Language of instruction differs by year.
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ANT214
E
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CREDIT:3
AUTUMN
Offered Alternate Year
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Global Religious Movements in Asia
The course examines how different religions adapt to a world of consumer capitalism, mass migrations and new technologies. Religious participation has gained new speed in recent years, but not in ways we associate with traditional institutions like temples, pilgrimages and rituals. In today's world, religious spread through transnational migration, social media and consumer practices. Focusing on ethnographies conducted mainly (but not exclusively) in Asia, the course will explore how these emerging practices shape contemporary religion.
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ANT302
E
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CREDIT:3
AUTUMN
Offered Alternate Year
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Anthropological Studies of Inequality
This course will examine the different ways in which inequality is constructed in different societies, ranging from gender differences, differencies in knowledge and literacy, and differential access to the means of production.
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ANT303
J
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CREDIT:3
AUTUMN
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Anthropological Theories
Development and comparison of major European and American anthropological theories such as evolution, diffusion, functionalism, symbolism and structuralism.
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ANT304
J
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CREDIT:3
SPRING
Offered Alternate Year
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Area Studies in Ethnology
This course provides students with an in-depth examination of anthropological studies of specific areas of the world.
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ANT308
J,E
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CREDIT:2
WINTER
Offered Alternate Year
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Special Topics in Anthropology
This course will provide an in-depth examination of topics of extensive theoretical research and debate contemporary anthropology. Language of instruction differs by year.
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ANT310
J,E
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CREDIT:3
SPRING
Offered Alternate Year
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Key Figures and Critical Texts in Anthropology
This course will involve the in-depth examination of a small number of classic anthropological texts from different periods in the history of anthropology. The approach taken will include detailed studies of the authors'' biographies, the intellectual context in which the authors wrote, and the construction of their texts. Through it, students will gain a deeper understanding of anthropology''s history as well as the challenges involved in the writing of compelling ethnographies.
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ANT311
J,E
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CREDIT:2
SPRING
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Field Training in Anthropology I
Field research methods of cultural anthropology involving participation in field studies. Students have to take another course to spend a few weeks in research localities. Students are required to take ANT311, ANT312, ANT313 in this order.
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ANT312
J,E
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CREDIT:3
AUTUMN
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Anthropological Fieldwork
Practice of anthropological theories and methods in communities of different cultures from ours. Students are to engage in an intensive live-in survey for a few weeks during summer vacation. Prerequisite: Field Training in Anthropology I. (Field work during summer vacation; official registration by the instructor.)
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ANT313
J,E
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CREDIT:2
AUTUMN
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Field Training in Anthropology II
Field research methods of cultural anthropology involving participation in field studies. Students have to take another course to spend a few weeks in research localities. Students are required to take ANT311, ANT312, ANT313 in this order.
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ANT381
J
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CREDIT:2
Offered Alternate Year
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Advanced Studies in Anthropology I
Advanced study in selected topics in anthropology.
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ANT382
J
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CREDIT:2
Offered Alternate Year
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Advanced Studies in Anthropology II
Advanced study in selected topics in anthropology.
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HST211
J,E
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CREDIT:3
SPRING
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Methods for Historical Research
An introduction to basic principles of historiography; deals with methodology, documentation, and use of concepts, etc. Language of instruction differs by year.
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HST241
J
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CREDIT:3
WINTER
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Cultural History of Europe
An examination of various themes in cultural history of Europe, from medieval to modern times. Coursework includes research exercises.
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STH391
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CREDIT:3/(9)
EVERY TERM
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Senior Thesis
Senior students, under the guidance of an advisor, will select a subject related to their major and prepare a senior thesis. The final product should represent the efforts of one year of sustained and rigorous thinking, research, and writing. Required of all students in their senior year.
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