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JD/MA Program fully describe these and additional requirements and the detailed steps in the student’s graduate
career.
Applications for admission to both the PhD and JD/MA programs are accepted every year. Please review the
departmental Web site at http://culturalanthropology.duke.edu.
Cultural Anthropology (CULANTH)
200. Duke-Administered Study Abroad: Advanced Special Topics in Cultural Anthropology. Topics differ by section.
Instructor: Staff. 3 units.
203S. African Modernities. 3 units. C-L: see African and African American Studies 213S
207S. Anthropology and History. Recent scholarship that combines anthropology and history, including culture history,
ethnohistory, the study of mentalité, structural history, and cultural biography. The value of the concept of culture to
history and the concepts of duration and event for anthropology. Prerequisite: major in history, one of the social sciences,
or comparative area studies; or graduate standing. Instructor: Reddy. 3 units. C-L: History 210S
208S. Language Evolution and Acquisition. 3 units. C-L: see Linguistics 203S
236S. Experimental Communities. 3 units. C-L: see Visual Arts 236S; also C-L: Sociology 236S
249S. Anthropology and Psychology (C, P). Cross-cultural approaches to the psyche, including applications of social
psychology, psychoanalysis, and trans-cultural psychiatry to anthropological questions such as culturally expressed
psychic conflicts and pathologies, gender and sexuality, communication, rationality, affect, and motivations. Instructor:
Staff. 3 units. C-L: Psychology 249S
262S. Culture, Power, History. Debates in cultural theory and anthropology: identity and nationalism, memory and
tradition, globalization, and poststructuralist, feminist and postcolonial theory. Some previous coursework in anthropology
and or cultural theory recommended. Instructor: Starn. 3 units.
264S. Millennial Capitalisms: Global Perspectives. Critical examination of the problematic of capital from the late
nineteenth century until the present moment. Anthropological frameworks and related disciplinary approaches to the
multiple cultural productions and lived experiences under divergent forms of capitalism in the new millennium. Focus
on East Asia. Theories of capitalism, globalization and anti-globalization movements, "imaginaries" and fantasies,
nature and the virtual, consumption, and disciplinary practices of the body. Instructors: Allison and Litzinger. 3 units.
C-L: International Comparative Studies 221BS
279S. Race, Racism, and Democracy. The paradox of racial inequality in societies that articulate principles of equality,
democratic freedom, and justice for all. Instructor: Baker. 3 units. C-L: African and African American Studies 279S
280. Selected Topics. Special topics in methodology, theory, or area. Instructor: Staff. 3 units.
280S. Seminar in Selected Topics. Same as Cultural Anthropology 280 except instruction provided in seminar format.
Instructor: Staff. 3 units.
281S. Masculinities. How masculinities are constructed, performed and inhabited. Theorization of the masculine subject
in sociocultural, political and psychodynamic terms within colonial and modernizing contexts. Issues of gendered
citizenship. Role of scholarship and the media in constituting hegemonic, subaltern, ethnic, female, and stigmatized
masculinities. Instructor: Ewing. 3 units. C-L: Women's Studies 281S
284S. Transnationalism and Public Culture. Critical examination of issues in transnational studies in anthropology and
beyond. Tracking the theories of contemporary scholars of the global, and examining new multisited strategies of
method, we explore the emerging ethnographic landscape of the global and the role transnational studies is playing in
a revitalized anthropology of the twenty-first century. Instructor: Piot. 3 units.
285S. Space, Place, and Power. Examines relationship between space and power by studying how communities make
and negotiate spaces, how identities are forged out of space, and the relationship between cultural and spatial practices.
Spatial components of globalization, sexuality and sexual identity, race and gender, and the geographic and cartographic
histories of imperialism. Interdisciplinary readings from disciplines of geography, anthropology, cultural studies,
women's studies, urban studies and others. Readings in the work of Lefebvre, Foucault, Harvey, Stoler, Pratt, and others.
Aims to develop a critical, theoretical approach to space and spatiality. Instructor: Stein. 3 units. C-L: Asian & Middle
Eastern Studies 230S, Women's Studies 225S, Literature 287S
286S. Development. Modernity, and Social Movements. Modernization and ideologies of progress and nationalism;
social movements, revolution, and political protest in the United States and around the world. Some prior background
in cultural anthropology or social theory preferred. Consent of instructor required for undergraduate students. Instructor:
Starn. 3 units.
287S. Ethnohistory of Latin America. Analysis of what can be known about nonwestern cultures described in texts
written by European colonizers. Focus on native peoples whose lives were transformed by Spanish colonialism, with
particular attention to post-Inca Andean Societies. Instructor: Silverblatt. 3 units. C-L: History 287BS, Literature 287BS
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