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21A.215 Medical Anthropology, Fall 2004
(2004-12)
Examination of how medicine is practiced cross-culturally, with particular emphasis on Western biomedicine. Analysis of medical practice as a cultural system, focusing on the human, as opposed to the biological, side of ...
21A.100 Introduction to Anthropology, Fall 2004
(2004-12)
This class introduces students to the methods and perspectives of cultural anthropology. Readings emphasize case studies in very different settings (a nuclear weapons laboratory, a cattle-herding society of the Sudan, and ...
21A.112 Seminar in Ethnography and Fieldwork, Fall 2003
(2003-12)
Introduction to ethnographic practices: the study of and communicating about culture. Reading and discussion of classics of anthropological field work, contemporary critiques, and innovative practices. From the course home ...
21A.348 Photography and Truth, Spring 2005
(2005-06)
Photographs in anthropology serve many purposes: as primary data, illustrations of words in a book, documentation for disappearing cultures, evidence of fieldwork, material objects for museum exhibitions, and even works ...
21A.225J / SP.621J / WGS.621J Violence, Human Rights, and Justice, Fall 2004
(2004-12)
This course examines the contemporary problem of political violence and the way that human rights have been conceived as a means to protect and promote freedom, peace and justice for citizens against the abuses of the state.
21A.01 How Culture Works, Fall 2012
(2012-12)
This course introduces diverse meanings and uses of the concept of culture with historical and contemporary examples from scholarship and popular media around the globe. It includes first-hand observations, synthesized ...