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Crosslistings: ANTH 339 |
This course provides anthropological and historical look at the intersections of globalization, modernity and (capitalist) development. We will focus on theoretical and ethnographic analyses of specific modalities of globalization--including development discourse, environment/ecology discourse, capitalist production and trade, and migrations (labor/immigrant/refugee). These are particular circuits through which certain ideas and practices of modernity travel and are contested; they are thus also webs of power. In analyzing these circuits, we will pay careful attention to ideas of modernity (anti- or nonmodern, versus Alternative or other modernities), culture, tradition, nationalism and transnationalism, local/global, power, resistance, etc. We will also look at issues of identity, and the various modes of belonging (including class, race, gender, and nation/citizenship) within the context of globalization.
Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed Drop/Add form to the Registrar's Office.
COURSE FORMAT: Seminar
Level: UGRD Credit: 1 Gen Ed Area Dept: SBS ANTH Grading Mode: Graded
Prerequisites: NONE
Last Updated on MAR-18-2003
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