http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/33973 Anthropology (21A) 2013-05-22T07:05:30Z http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/77983 21A.215 Medical Anthropology: Culture, Society, and Ethics in Disease and Health, Fall 2008 Jackson, Jean This course looks at medicine from a cross-cultural perspective, focusing on the human, as opposed to biological, side of things. Students learn how to analyze various kinds of medical practice as cultural systems. Particular emphasis is placed on Western (bio-) medicine; students examine how biomedicine constructs disease, health, body, and mind, and how it articulates with other institutions, national and international. 2008-12-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/75823 21A.226 Ethnic and National Identity, Fall 2009 Jackson, Jean An introduction to the cross-cultural study of ethnic and national identity. We examine the concept of social identity, and consider the ways in which gendered, linguistic, religious, and ethno-racial identity components interact. We explore the history of nationalism, including the emergence of the idea of the nation-state, as well as ethnic conflict, globalization, identity politics, and human rights. 2009-12-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/75797 21A.750J / STS.250J Social Theory and Analysis, Fall 2004 Fischer, Michael M.J. This course presents a survey of social theory from the 19th century to the present. The focus is on (a) the social grounds from which the theory arises; (b) the utility and limitations of older theories for current conditions; (c) the creation of new theory out of contemporary conditions; (d) sciences and technologies as the infrastructures upon which social institutions depend, are shaped, and shape. 2004-12-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/75796 21A.350J / SP.484J / STS.086J / WGS.484J The Anthropology of Computing, Fall 2004 Helmreich, Stefan This course examines computers anthropologically, as meaningful tools revealing the social and cultural orders that produce them. We read classic texts in computer science along with works analyzing links between machines and culture. We explore early computation theory and capitalist manufacturing; cybernetics and WWII operations research; artificial intelligence and gendered subjectivity; the creation and commodification of the personal computer; the hacking aesthetic; non-Western histories of computing; the growth of the Internet as a military, academic, and commercial project; the politics of identity in cyberspace; and the emergence of "evolutionary" computation. 2004-12-01T00:00:00Z