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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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Human beings are symbol-making as well as tool-making animals. We understand our world and shape our lives in large part by assigning meanings to objects, beings, and persons; by connecting things together in symbolic patterns; and by creating elaborate forms of symbolic action and narrative. In this introductory subject we consider how sym
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- animals
- symbolic system
- meaning
- life cycle
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- figurative language
- human body
- cosmology
- magic
- narrative
- mythology
- patterns
- culture
- sign
- tropes
- classification
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- folktale
- power
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Using examples from anthropology and sociology alongside classical and contemporary social theory, this course explores the nature of dominant and subordinate relationships, types of legitimate authority, and practices of resistance. The course also examines how we are influenced in subtle ways by the people around us, who makes controlling
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- legitimate authority
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- control
- decisions
- family
- work
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After decades of efforts to promote development, why is there so much poverty in the world? What are some of the root causes of inequality world-wide and why do poverty, economic transformations and development policies often have different consequences for women and men? This course explores these issues while also examining the history of
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- anthropology
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- international development
- inequlaity
- poverty
- economics
- political policy
- women's studies
- government
- africa
- latin america
- asia
- melanesia
- social policy
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This course provides an exploration of colonial and postcolonial clashes between theories of healing and embodiment in the African world and those of western bio-medicine. It examines how Afro-Atlantic religious traditions have challenged western conceptions of illness, healing, and the body and have also offered alternative notions of mora
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- politics africa
- african diaspora
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- theories of healing
- embodiment
- western
- bio-medicine
- afro-atlantic
- traditions
- illness
- healing
- body
- alternative
- morality
- rationality
- kinship
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This course explores stereotypes associated with Asian women in colonial, nationalist, state-authoritarian, and global/diasporic narratives about gender and power. Students will read ethnography, cultural studies, and history, and view films to examine the politics and circumstances that create and perpetuate the representation of Asian wom
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File: 21a-245j-fall-2005.zip
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File: 21a-338j-fall-2003.zip
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- latin america
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File: 21a-212-spring-2004.zip
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- animals
- symbolic system
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- life cycle
- metaphor
- figurative language
- human body
- cosmology
- magic
- narrative
- mythology
- patterns
- culture
- sign
- tropes
- classification
- interpretation
- folktale
- power
- passage
- persuasion
File: 21a-460j-spring-2005.zip
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- bio-medicine
- afro-atlantic
- traditions
- illness
- healing
- body
- alternative
- morality
- rationality
- kinship
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File: 21a-470j-spring-2010.zip
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File: 21a_245_paper_1.pdf
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- legitimate authority
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- organizational
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- social theory
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- subordinate
- relationships
- legitimate authority
- resistance
- control
- decisions
- family
- work
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- organizational
- global
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- sociology classical
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- social theory
- dominant
- subordinate
- relationships
- legitimate authority
- resistance
- control
- decisions
- family
- work
- democracies
- will
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This OER is part of OCW: Medicine, Religion and Politics in Africa and the African Diaspora
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- healing
- body
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- sexuality
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File: 21a460srt_pap3_5.pdf
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- postcolonial clashes
- theories of healing
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- western
- bio-medicine
- afro-atlantic
- traditions
- illness
- healing
- body
- alternative
- morality
- rationality
- kinship
- gender
- sexuality
- imperial
- power
- global
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