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This course explores the issue of human trafficking for forced labour and sexual slavery, focusing on its representation in recent scholarly accounts and advocacy as well as in other media. Ethnographic and fictional readings along with media analysis help to develop a contextualized and comparative understanding of the phenomena in both past and present contexts. It examines the wide range of factors and agents that enable these practices, such as technology, cultural practices, social and economic conditions, and the role of governments and international organizations. The course also discusses the analytical, moral and methodological questions of researching, writing, and representing trafficking and slavery.
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- Anthropology and Sociology
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- Slavery Human trafficking
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This course introduces scholarly debates about the sociocultural practices through which individuals and societies create, sustain, recall, and erase memories. Emphasis is given to the history of knowledge, construction of memory, the role of authorities in shaping memory, and how societies decide on whose versions of memory are more "truthful" and "real." Other topics include how memory works in the human brain, memory and trauma, amnesia, memory practices in the sciences, false memory, sites of memory, and the commodification of memory. Students taking the graduate version complete additional assignments.
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- Anthropology
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- Memory Memory -- social aspects
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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, gender, and sexuality. We will explores the myriad forms that families and households take and considers their social, emotional, and economic dynamics.
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- Anthropology and Sociology
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- Sex Families Gender identity
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Image
Open Access Biomedical Image Search Engine
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- Digital images Medical photography Diagnostic imaging
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- Image
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Created by a Working Group at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the PHIL offers an organized, universal electronic gateway to CDC's pictures. Public health professionals, the media, laboratory scientists, educators, students, and the worldwide public can use this material for reference, teaching, presentation, and public health messages. Most images are for free use.
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- Digital images Public health Medical photography
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- Image
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Image
A free open-access online database of medical images, teaching cases, and clinical topics, integrating images and textual metadata including over 12,000 patient case scenarios, 9,000 topics, and nearly 59,000 images.
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- Digital images Medical photography
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- Image
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e-journal
OMICS International is an interactive open access journal for the communication of all scientific and medical research.
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- Medical sciences Physiology Pharmacy Drugs Anatomy Pharmacoepidemiology
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- e-journal
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e-journal
OMICS International is an interactive open access journal for the communication of all scientific and medical research.
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- Medical care Nursing
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- e-journal
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e-journal
OMICS International is an interactive open access journal for the communication of all scientific and medical research.
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- Pharmaceutical chemistry Drugs
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- e-journal
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e-journal
OMICS International is an interactive open access journal for the communication of all scientific and medical research.
- Keywords:
- Medical sciences
- Resource Type:
- e-journal