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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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This advanced course in anthropology engages closely with discussions and debates about ethnographic research, ethics, and representation.
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- anthropology
- fieldwork
- anthropology
- ethnography
- culture
- theory
- data analysis
- research design
- interviewing
- method
- student work
- military anthropology
- controversies
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This course examines one of the most enduring and influential forms of identity and experience in the Americas and Europe, and in particular the ways race and racism have been created, justified, or contested in scientific practice and discourse. Drawing on classical and contemporary readings from Du Bois to Gould to Gilroy, we ask whether
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- anthropology
- race
- eugenics
- scientific racism
- racial hygiene
- racial economy
- human biodiversity
- apartheid
- race and gender
- monogenist
- polygenist
- alchemy of race
- nazi medicine
- nazi racism
- sociology of science
- race and culture
- genetic engineering
- raciology.
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This course examines relationships among technology, culture, and politics in a variety of social and historical settings ranging from 19th century factories to 21st century techno dance floors, from colonial Melanesia to capitalist Massachusetts. We will be interested in whether technology has produced a better world, and for whom.
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This course examines computers anthropologically, as meaningful tools revealing the social and cultural orders that produce them. We read classic texts in computer science along with works analyzing links between machines and culture. We explore early computation theory and capitalist manufacturing; cybernetics and WWII operations research;
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- anthropology
- computing
- machines and culture
- computation theory
- cybernetics
- operations research
- artifical intelligence
- personal computer
- commodification
- hacking
- hacker
- internet
- cyberspace
- indentity in cyberspace
- cosmology
- clockwork
- charles babbage
- ada lovelace
- industrial revolution
- calculating machine
- coding
- cold war
- alan turing
- afr
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If the twentieth century was the century of physics, the twenty-first promises to be the century of biology. This subject examines the cultural, political, and economic dimensions of biology in the age of genomics, biotechnological enterprise, biodiversity conservation, pharmaceutical bioprospecting, and synthetic biology. Although we exami
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- anthropology
- synthetic biology
- genetics
- charles darwin
- evolution
- eugenics
- bioprospecting
- ethics
- biodiversity
- race
- molecular biology
- sociology of science
- construction of identity
- intersex
- biotechnology
- narratives and metaphors
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This class examines the ways humans experience the realm of sound and how perceptions and technologies of sound emerge from cultural, economic, and historical worlds. In addition to learning about how environmental, linguistic, and musical sounds are construed cross-culturally, students learn about the rise of telephony, architectural acous
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- anthropology
- sound art
- jacques attali
- music
- musicology
- post-modern
- recording
- ethnomusicology
- ethnography
- soundscape
- voice
- audio
- sonic space
- science sound
- cultural studies
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This course surveys canonical and recent theories and methods in science studies. We will organize our discussions around the concept of "reproduction," referring variously to:
Scientific reproduction (how results are replicated in lab, field, disciplinary contexts)
Social reproduction (how social knowledge and relations are regene
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- science technology and society
- social
- study
- science
- technology
- interdisciplinary field
- social practice
- history
- philosophy
- sociology
- scientific institutions
- knowledge
- anthropology
- feminism
- critical race theory
- post-colonial studies
- queer theory
- human culture
- politics
- theories
- methods
- reproduction
- social reproduction
- biological reproduction
- electroni
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