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Myth, Ritual, and Symbolism, Spring 2004
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How people make sense of their worlds symbolically through myth, ritual, metaphor, and cosmology. The structure of symbols, the natural and social elements they draw on, their social use, and the messages they convey. Students learn to record and analyze myth and ritual.

Subject:
Anthropology
Language, Philosophy, and Culture
Social and Behavioral Sciences
World Cultures
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
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MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Howe, James
Date Added:
01/01/2004
Native Peoples of North America
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Native Peoples of North America is intended to be an introductory text about the Native peoples of North America (primarily the United States and Canada) presented from an anthropological perspective. As such, the text is organized around anthropological concepts such as language, kinship, marriage and family life, political and economic organization, food getting, spiritual and religious practices, and the arts. Prehistoric, historic and contemporary information is presented. Each chapter begins with an example from the oral tradition that reflects the theme of the chapter. The text includes suggested readings, videos, and classroom activities.

Subject:
Anthropology
Social and Behavioral Sciences
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State University of New York
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Milne Open Textbooks
Author:
Susan Stebbins
Date Added:
10/23/2013
Organizations and Environments, Fall 2004
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Examines theory and research on the relationship of organizations to each other and to their economic, political, and social environments. Classic and contemporary approaches to complex social systems, the dynamics of inertia and change, the role of legitimacy, and the production of change as an intended or unintended consequence. Considers the relative roles of voluntarism and determinism in the pursuit of organizational agendas and in the shaping of organizational environments, for example, with respect to changing employment relationships and environmentalism. Primarily for doctoral students. 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 inter-organizational processes, and also addresses the economic, institutional and cultural contexts that organizations must face. This is an introduction to a vast and multifaceted domain of inquiry. Due to time limitations, this course will touch lightly on many important topics, and neglect others entirely; its design resembles more a map than an encyclopedia. Also, given the focus on theoretical matters, methodological issues will move to the background. Empirical material will be used to illustrate how knowledge is produced from a particular standpoint and trying to answer particular questions, leaving the bulk of the discussion on quantitative and qualitative procedures to seminars such as 15.347, 15.348, and the like.

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Anthropology
Business
Economics
Government/Political Science and Law
Psychology
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Sociology
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Full Course
Provider:
MIT
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MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Boczkowski, Pablo
Date Added:
01/01/2004
People and Other Animals, Fall 2013
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This class provides a historical survey of the ways that people have interacted with their closest animal relatives, for example: hunting, domestication of livestock, exploitation of animal labor, scientific study of animals, display of exotic and performing animals, and pet keeping. Themes include changing ideas about animal agency and intelligence, our moral obligations to animals, and the limits imposed on the use of animals.

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Anthropology
Creative and Applied Arts
Social and Behavioral Sciences
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Full Course
Provider:
MIT
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MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Ritvo, Harriet
Date Added:
01/01/2013
Perspectives: An Open Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, 2nd Edition
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The first peer-reviewed open access textbook for cultural anthropology courses. Produced by the Society for Anthropology in Community Colleges and available free of charge for use in any setting.

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Anthropology
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Material Type:
Textbook
Author:
Laura Gonzales
Nina Brown
Thomas McIlwraith
Date Added:
01/01/2017
Philosophical Issues in Brain Science, Spring 2009
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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 head? Is color in the mind or in the world? Is the mind nothing more than the brain? Can there be a science of consciousness? The course includes guest lectures by Philosophers and Cognitive Scientists."

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Anthropology
Creative and Applied Arts
Language, Philosophy, and Culture
Philosophy
Psychology
Social and Behavioral Sciences
World Cultures
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Full Course
Provider:
MIT
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MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Byrne, Alex
Sinha, Pawan
Date Added:
01/01/2009
Photography and Truth, Spring 2008
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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 content and meanings; how they shape and are shaped by politics, economics, and social life."

Subject:
Anthropology
Language, Philosophy, and Culture
Social and Behavioral Sciences
World Cultures
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
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MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Howe, James
Date Added:
01/01/2008
Physical Anthropology (ANTH 205)
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Students in this course will explore evolutionary theory, including the core concepts of basic genetics and the modern synthesis of evolution. Students will examine, critically evaluate and explain scientific claims about the origins of humankind and modern human variation, as well as biocultural evolution. Students will develop critical thinking and communication skills through the application of essential anthropological approaches, theories, and methods.Login: guest_oclPassword: ocl

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Anthropology
Social and Behavioral Sciences
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Full Course
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Washington State Board for Community & Technical Colleges
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Open Course Library
Date Added:
10/31/2011
Popular Musics of the World, Spring 2005
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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, globalization, the impact of recording industries, and the post-colonial era. Case studies will include Afro-pop, reggae, bhangra, rave, and global hip-hop.

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Anthropology
Creative and Applied Arts
Language, Philosophy, and Culture
Social and Behavioral Sciences
World Cultures
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Full Course
Provider:
MIT
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MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Tang, Patricia
Date Added:
01/01/2005
Power: Interpersonal, Organizational and Global Dimensions, Fall 2005
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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 decisions in the family, how people get ahead at work, and whether democracies, in fact, reflect the "will of the people..

Subject:
Anthropology
Government/Political Science and Law
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Sociology
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Silbey, Susan
Date Added:
01/01/2005
Seminar in Ethnography and Fieldwork, Spring 2008
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This advanced course in anthropology engages closely with discussions and debates about ethnographic research, ethics, and representation.

Subject:
Anthropology
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Helmreich, Stefan
Date Added:
01/01/2008
Social Study of Science and Technology, Spring 2004
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Intensive reading and analysis of key works in the theory and methods of the social study of science and technology. Aims at understanding the different questions and methods social scientists have posed and used in exploring how social context and norms influence the work of scientists and engineers. Students read studies of science labs, science policy, Internet culture, and science in popular culture.

Subject:
Anthropology
Language, Philosophy, and Culture
Philosophy
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Sociology
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Full Course
Provider:
MIT
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MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Helmreich, Stefan
Date Added:
01/01/2004
Social Theory and Analysis, Fall 2011
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This course covers major theorists and theoretical schools since the late 19th century. Marx, Weber, Durkheim, Bourdieu, Levi-Strauss, Geertz, Foucault, Gramsci, and others.

Subject:
Anthropology
Creative and Applied Arts
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Michael M.J. Fischer
Date Added:
01/01/2011
Social Theory and the City, Fall 2005
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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.

Subject:
Anthropology
Architecture and Design
Creative and Applied Arts
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Sociology
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Sennett, Richard
Date Added:
01/01/2005
Speaking of Culture
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The purpose of Speaking of Culture is to define culture and many other concepts associated with it. My hope is that the readings in this book will help you to better understand the breadth of the concept of culture and provide you with a vocabulary for discussing it more articulately.

Culture is one of those broad concepts that is used widely, although somewhat imprecisely, in everyday English. It also cuts across many academic disciplines, and this book draws on many of them. It touches, for instance, on anthropology, biology, history, mythology, political science, psychology, and sociology.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Language, Philosophy, and Culture
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Sociology
World Cultures
Material Type:
Reading
Textbook
Author:
Nolan Weil
Date Added:
08/13/2020
Survey of Anthropology (ANTH 100)
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Anthropologists attempt to answer the question of what it means to be human. In a sense, we all –do” anthropology because it is rooted in a universal human characteristic, curiosity. We are curious about ourselves and other people_ including the living and the dead. This course provides an introduction to the anthropological approach to the study of humans. It is a survey course that introduces anthropology as a four-field discipline, encompassing biological anthropology, archaeology, linguistics, and cultural anthropology. Aspiring to a holistic understanding of what it means to be human, anthropology is at the intersection of the humanities and the sciences, the most scientific of the humanities and the most humanistic of the sciences.The course begins with a basis in evolutionary theory and human variation. With this foundation, we will explore primate behavior and the fossil record to develop a better understanding of human evolution. We will discuss the archaeological record of early civilizations, the origins and use of language, and the concept of culture in the development of human societies, both extinct and extant. This class will also highlight the epistemological development of the field of anthropology and how religion, culture, and the scientific process pertains to the discipline of anthropology.

Subject:
Anthropology
Social and Behavioral Sciences
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Assessment
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Washington State Board for Community & Technical Colleges
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Open Course Library
Date Added:
06/03/2021
Technology and Culture, Spring 2014
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This subject examines relationships among technology, culture, and politics in a range of social and historical settings. The class is organized around two topics: Identity and infrastructure, and will combine interactive lectures, film screenings, readings, and discussion.

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Anthropology
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Heather Paxson
Helmreich, Stefan
Date Added:
01/01/2014
Understanding Television, Spring 2003
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A cultural approach to television's evolution as a technology and system of representation. Considers television as a system of storytelling and mythmaking, and as a cultural practice studied from anthropological, literary, and cinematic perspectives. Focuses on prime-time commercial broadcasting, the medium's technological and economic history, and theoretical perspectives. Considerable television viewing and readings in media theory and cultural interpretation are required. Topic for Spring: American Television: A Cultural History. Meets with CMS.915, but assignments differ.

Subject:
Anthropology
Creative and Applied Arts
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Thorburn, David
Date Added:
01/01/2003
Violence, Human Rights, and Justice, Fall 2014
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This course examines the problem of mass violence and oppression in the contemporary world, and the concept of human rights as a defense against such abuse. It explores questions of cultural relativism, race, gender and ethnicity. It examines case studies from war crimes tribunals, truth commissions, anti-terrorist policies and other judicial attempts to redress state-sponsored wrongs. It also considers whether the human rights framework effectively promotes the rule of law in modern societies. Students debate moral positions and address ideas of moral relativism.

Subject:
Anthropology
Government/Political Science and Law
Language, Philosophy, and Culture
Law
Religious Studies
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
James, Erica
Date Added:
01/01/2014