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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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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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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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Through investigating cross-cultural case studies, this course introduces students to the anthropological study of the social institutions and symbolic meanings of family, household, gender, and sexuality. We will explore the myriad forms that families and households take and evaluate their social, emotional, and economic dynamics.
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Americans have historically preferred to think of the United States in classless terms, as a land of economic opportunity equally open to all. Yet, social class remains a central fault line in the U.S. Subject explores the experiences and understandings of class among Americans positioned at different points along the U.S. social spectrum.
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- anthropology
- class
- inequality
- anthropology
- narrative
- ethnography
- marx
- weber
- bourdieu
- post-structuralism
- habitus
- race
- gender
- upward mobility
- downward mobility
- deindustrialization
- assembly line
- rich
- post war
- underclass
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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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How — and why — do people seek to capture everyday life on film? What can we learn from such films? This course challenges distinctions commonly made between documentary and ethnographic films to consider how human cultural life is portrayed in both. It considers the interests, which motivate such filmmakers ranging from curiosity about "ex
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- anthropology
- documentary
- ethnography
- documenting culture documentary tradition
- anthropological films
- ethics
- film
- anthropology
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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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Still photography, a practice and form of expression that has worked its way into every facet of social life and every culture in the world, is considered here from the perspectives of history and social science. We will discuss the uses and functions of pictures; how they are to be understood and interpreted; whether they have clear-cut co
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- anthropology
- photography
- anthropology
- culture
- subject and treatment of image
- art
- ethnographic documentation
- ethnography
- documentary
- taking pictures
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This course provides an introduction to important philosophical questions about the mind, specifically those that are intimately connected with contemporary psychology and neuroscience. Are our concepts innate, or are they acquired by experience? (And what does it even mean to call a concept 'innate'?) Are 'mental images' pictures in the he
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- linguistics and philosophy
- brain
- philosophy
- science
- holism
- cultural object
- contemporary media
- society
- cultural assumptions
- neuroscience
- anthropology
- history
- semiotics
- cognitive sciences
- historical views
- digital images
- psychopharmacology
- mental illness
- neurotransmitters
- brain science
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This class will investigate the ways in which the formal aspects of Western storytelling in various media have shaped both fantasies and perceptions, making certain understandings of experience possible through the selection, arrangement, and processing of narrative material. Surveying the field chronologically across the major narrative ge
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- literature
- literature
- western
- narrative
- storytelling
- media
- epic
- novel
- performance
- film
- video games
- ideology
- psychology
- technology
- culture
- literary theory
- anthropology
- communication
- homer
- sophocles
- herodotus
- christian evangelists
- marie de france
- cervantes
- la clos
- poe
- lang
- cocteau
- disney
- pixar
- maxis
- electronic arts
- propp
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The subtitle of this course for the spring 2003 term is "American Television: A Cultural History." The class takes a cultural approach to television's evolution as a technology and system of representation, considering television as a system of storytelling and myth-making, and as a cultural practice, studied from anthropological, literary,
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- literature
- systems of representation
- storytelling
- myth
- cultural practice
- anthropology
- literature
- cinematogaphy
- prime-time
- commercial broadcasting
- media theory
- cultural interpretation
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This course explores the ways that music is both shaped by and gives shape to the cultural settings in which it is performed, through studying selected musical traditions from around the world. Specific case studies will be examined closely through listening, analysis, and hands-on instruction. The syllabus centers around weekly listening a
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- music and theater arts
- enthomusicology
- field study
- music analysis
- anthropology
- culture
- globalization
- crossover
- folk music
- ethnic music
- roots music
- international music
- gamelan
- raga
- blues
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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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This course focuses on popular music, i.e. music created for and transmitted by mass media. Various popular music genres from around the world will be studied through listening, reading and written assignments, with an emphasis on class discussion. In particular, we will consider issues of musical change, syncretism, Westernization, globali
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- music and theater arts
- world music
- pop music
- globalization
- recording
- afro-pop
- afropop
- reggae
- bhangra
- rave
- hip-hop
- enthnomusicology
- world beat
- senegal
- felakuti
- african music
- paul simon
- graceland
- rap
- rap music
- dance
- anthropology
- japanese pop
- egypt
- egyptian pop
- techno
- youth culture
- karaoke
- ska
- dancehall
- bob marley
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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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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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The goal of this doctoral course is to familiarize students with major conceptual frameworks, debates, and developments in contemporary organization theory. This is an inter-disciplinary domain of inquiry drawing primarily from sociology, and secondarily from economics, psychology, anthropology, and political science. The course focuses on
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- management
- empirical material
- major conceptual frameworks
- debates
- developments in contemporary organization theory
- inter-disciplinary domain of inquiry
- sociology
- economics
- psychology
- anthropology
- political science
- inter-organizational processes
- cultural contexts that organizations must face
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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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This course explores how social theories of urban life can be related to the city's architecture and spaces. It is grounded in classic or foundational writings about the city addressing such topics as the public realm and public space, impersonality, crowds and density, surveillance and civility, imprinting time on space, spatial justice, and the segregation of difference. The aim of the course is to generate new ideas about the city by connecting the social and the physical, using Boston as a visual laboratory. Students are required to present a term paper mediating what is read with what has been observed.
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- urban studies and planning
- sociology
- urbanism
- identity
- public space
- private space
- social theory
- cities
- regionalism
- immigration
- integration
- craft
- architecture
- universa design
- subways
- gentrification
- infrastructure
- exclusion
- racial politics
- anthropology
- biological determinism
- center
- perifery
- photography
- repression
- protest
- inclusion
- modernism
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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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This class explores the foundations of the environmental justice movement, current and emerging issues, and the application of environmental justice analysis to environmental policy and planning. It examines claims made by diverse groups along with the policy and civil society responses that address perceived inequity and injustice. While focused mainly on the United States, international issues and perspectives are also considered.
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- urban studies and planning
- environmental justice
- environmental justice analysis
- environmental policy and planning
- inequity
- injustice
- politics
- planning
- global environment
- sustainability
- environment
- green design
- anthropology
- ecology
- biological hazards
- environmental protection agency
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