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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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This course looks at medicine from a cross-cultural perspective, focusing on the human, as opposed to biological, side of things. Students learn how to analyze various kinds of medical practice as cultural systems. Particular emphasis is placed on Western (bio-) medicine; students examine how biomedicine constructs disease, health, body, an
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- anthropology
- ethics
- biomedicine
- cultural systems
- medical practice
- health
- disease
- mental illness
- leprosy
- placebo
- pharmaceuticals
- racism
- sexism
- medical institutions
- chronic illness
- reproductive technologies
- isolation
- international health
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This course explores how identities, whether of individuals or groups, are produced, maintained, and transformed. Students will be introduced to various theoretical perspectives that deal with identity formation, including constructions of "the normal." We will explore the utility of these perspectives for understanding identity components
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- anthropology
- class
- social interaction
- discourse
- performance
- bodies
- conformity
- deviance
- gender
- biology
- culture
- race
- constructivism
- essentialism
- structuralism
- incarceration
- religion
- food
- group membership
- sexuality
- ethnicity
- institution
- identity formation
- stigma
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An introduction to the cross-cultural study of ethnic and national identity. We examine the concept of social identity, and consider the ways in which gendered, linguistic, religious, and ethno-racial identity components interact. We explore the history of nationalism, including the emergence of the idea of the nation-state, as well as ethn
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- anthropology
- anthropology
- ethnicity
- national identity
- nationalism
- history
- nation-state
- conflict
- social movement
- indigenous rights
- politics
- globalization
- migration
- transnational institution
- gender
- religion
- race
- ideology
- language
- sexuality
- feminist analysis
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We begin by considering briefly the evolution of the family, its cross-cultural variability, and its history in the West. We next examine how the family is currently defined in the U.S., discussing different views about what families should look like. Class and ethnic variability and the effects of changing gender roles are discussed in thi
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- anthropology
- ameican family
- anthropology
- contemporary culture
- cross-cultural
- united states
- class
- ethnicity
- gender
- sexuality
- marriage
- parenting
- divorce
- violence
- economics
- poverty
- policy
- values
- welfare
- day care
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