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    Network Cultures

    Network Cultures

    This course focuses on the social and cultural aspects of networked life through internet-related technologies (including computers, mobile devices, entertainment technologies, and emerging media forms).

    Subjects:
    Anthropology and Sociology
    Keywords:
    Internet -- Social aspects
    Resource Type:
    Courseware
     
  • Courseware 
    The Anthropology of Politics: U.S. Presidential Election Edition

    The Anthropology of Politics: U.S. Presidential Election Edition

    This course examines the birth and international expansion of an American industry of political marketing. It focuses attention on the cultural processes, sociopolitical contexts and moral utopias that shape the practice of political marketing in the U.S. and in different countries. By looking at the debates and expert practices at the core of the business of politics, the course explores how the "universal" concept of democracy is interpreted and reworked through space and time, while examining how different cultural groups experimenting with political marketing understand the role of citizens in a democracy.

    Subjects:
    Anthropology and Political Science
    Keywords:
    Presidents -- Election United States Marketing
    Resource Type:
    Courseware
     
  • Courseware 
    Memory, Culture, Forgetting

    Memory, Culture, Forgetting

    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.

    Subjects:
    Anthropology
    Keywords:
    Memory Memory -- social aspects
    Resource Type:
    Courseware
     
  • Courseware 
    For Love and Money: Rethinking the Family

    For Love and Money: Rethinking the Family

    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.

    Subjects:
    Anthropology and Sociology
    Keywords:
    Sex Families Gender identity
    Resource Type:
    Courseware