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21A.226 Ethnic and National Identity, Fall 2009
(2009-12)
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 ...
STS.330J / 21A.830J History and Anthropology of Medicine and Biology, Spring 2009
(2009-06)
This course explores recent historical and anthropological approaches to the study of life, in both medicine and biology. After grounding our conversation in accounts of natural history and medicine that predate the rise ...
21M.013J / 21A.113J The Supernatural in Music, Literature and Culture, Spring 2009
(2009-06)
This class explores the relationship between music and the supernatural, focusing on the social history and context of supernatural beliefs as reflected in key literary and musical works from 1600 to the present. Provides ...
21A.355J / STS.060J The Anthropology of Biology, Spring 2009
(2009-06)
If the twentieth century was the century of physics, the twenty-first promises to be the century of biology. This subject examines the cultural, political, and economic dimensions of biology in the age of genomics, ...