Anthropology

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MIT OCW
free
What is Capitalism?
Prof. Christine Walley
As we live in the aftermath of the Financial Crisis of 2008, there are renewed questions about the nature of the...
Social Sciences Anthropology
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
The Meaning of Life
Prof. Graham Jones
This course examines how a variety of cultural traditions propose answers to the question of how to live a...
Social Sciences Anthropology
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Magic, Witchcraft, and the Spirit World
Prof. James Howe
Spiritual, magical, and “occult” aspects of human behavior in anthropological and historical perspective: magic,...
Social Sciences Anthropology Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Myth, Ritual, and Symbolism
Prof. James Howe
Human beings are symbol-making as well as tool-making animals. We understand our world and shape our lives in large...
Social Sciences Anthropology Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
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Victorian Literature and Culture
Prof. James Buzard
The course covers British literature and culture during Queen Victoria’s long reign, 1837-1901. This was the...
Social Sciences Anthropology Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
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Ethnography
Prof. Joseph Dumit
This course is a practicum-style seminar in anthropological methods of ethnographic fieldwork and writing. Depending...
Social Sciences Anthropology
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Digital Anthropology
Prof. Alex Pentland
Digital Anthropology is a Spring 2003 applied social science and media arts seminar, surveying the blossoming arena...
Art, Design & Architecture Media Studies Social Sciences
advanced
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free
Introduction to Anthropology
Prof. Graham Jones
Through the comparative study of different cultures, anthropology explores fundamental questions about what it means...
Social Sciences Anthropology
intermediate
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Ethnic Politics
Prof. Volha Charnysh
This course introduces students to the classic works on ethnic politics, familiarizes them with new research and...
Social Sciences Anthropology Political Science
advanced
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free
Japan in the Age of the Samurai: History and Film
Aaron Moore
This course covers medieval Japanese society and culture from the twelfth to the nineteenth centuries, when...
Art, Design & Architecture Visual Arts Social Sciences
intermediate
MIT OCW
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Art Since 1940
Prof. Caroline Jones
This subject focuses on the objects, history, context, and critical discussion surrounding art since World War II....
Art, Design & Architecture Art History Social Sciences
intermediate
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Introduction to Media Studies
Dr. Andrea Walsh
Introduction to Media Studies is designed for students who have grown up in a rapidly changing global multimedia...
Art, Design & Architecture Media Studies Social Sciences
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Teaching and Learning: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Prof. Graham Jones
This course explores the diverse ways that people teach and learn—in different countries, in different disciplines,...
Social Sciences Anthropology Communication
intermediate
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Intro to Japanese Culture
Prof. Ian Condry
This course examines the major aesthetic, social, and political elements which have shaped modern Japanese culture...
Social Sciences Anthropology Sociology
intermediate
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The Human Past: Introduction to Archaeology
Dr. Harry Merrick
This class introduces the multidisciplinary nature of archaeology, both in theory and practice. Lectures provide a...
Social Sciences Anthropology
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
The Anthropology of Sound
Prof. Ian Condry
This course examines the ways humans experience sound and how perceptions and technologies of sound emerge from...
Social Sciences Anthropology
intermediate
MIT OCW
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Topics in the Avant-Garde in Literature and Cinema
Prof. Charity Scribner
21G.031 examines the terms “avant garde” and “Kulturindustrie” in French and German culture of the early twentieth...
Art, Design & Architecture Visual Arts Art History
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Art, Craft, Science
Prof. Heather Paxson
This course examines how people learn, practice, and evaluate traditional and contemporary craft techniques. Social...
Art, Design & Architecture Social Sciences Anthropology
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Japanese Literature and Cinema
Prof. Ian Condry
This course surveys both cinematic and literary representations of diverse eras and aspects of Japanese culture such...
Art, Design & Architecture Visual Arts Social Sciences
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Jewish History from Biblical to Modern Times
Prof. Peter Temin
This course explores how our views of Jewish history have been formed and how this history can explain the survival...
Social Sciences Anthropology Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Introduction to World Music
Prof. George Ruckert
This course explores the ways that music is both shaped by and gives shape to the cultural settings in which it is...
Art, Design & Architecture Social Sciences Anthropology
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Law and Society
Prof. Susan S. Silbey
Law is a common and yet distinct aspect of everyday life in modern societies. This course examines the central...
Social Sciences Anthropology Law
intermediate
MIT OCW
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The Ancient City
Prof. William Broadhead
This course focuses on the archaeology of the Greek and Roman city. It investigates the relationship between urban...
Art, Design & Architecture Architecture Social Sciences
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Magic, Science, and Religion
Prof. Graham Jones
This course explores the origins of magic, science, and religion as forms of belief within and across cultures. It...
Social Sciences Anthropology
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Data Storytelling Studio: Climate Change
Rahul Bhargava
This course explores visualization methodologies to conceive and represent systems and data, e.g., financial, media,...
Art, Design & Architecture Game Design Visual Arts
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Food, Culture & Politics
Prof. Heather Paxson
This course explores connections between what we eat and who we are through cross-cultural study of how personal and...
Social Sciences Anthropology
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Anthropology Through Speculative Fiction
Prof. Erica James
This class examines how anthropology and speculative fiction (SF) each explore ideas about culture and society,...
Social Sciences Anthropology Humanities
intermediate
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free
Japanese Politics and Society
Patricia Gercik
This course is designed for students seeking a fundamental understanding of Japanese history, politics, culture, and...
Social Sciences Anthropology Economics
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Hip Hop
Prof. Thomas DeFrantz
This class explores the political and aesthetic foundations of hip hop. Students trace the musical, corporeal,...
Art, Design & Architecture Social Sciences Anthropology
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Memory, Culture, Forgetting
Prof. Manduhai Buyandelger
This course introduces scholarly debates about the sociocultural practices through which individuals and societies...
Social Sciences Anthropology
intermediate
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Anthropological Theory
Prof. Susan S. Silbey
This course introduces students to some of the major social theories and debates that inspire and inform...
Social Sciences Anthropology
intermediate
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free
Social Theory and Analysis
Prof. Stefan Helmreich
This subject presents a survey of social theory from the 17th century to the present. It focuses on the historical...
Social Sciences Anthropology Economics
advanced
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free
Globalization: The Good, the Bad and the In-Between
Prof. Margery Resnick
This subject examines the paradoxes of contemporary globalization. Through lectures, discussions and student...
Social Sciences Anthropology Economics
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
East Asian Culture: From Zen to K-Pop
Prof. Emma Teng
This subject is an introduction to various forms of culture in East Asia (focusing on China, Japan and Korea),...
Social Sciences Anthropology Sociology
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Slavery and Human Trafficking in the 21st Century
Mitali Thakor
This course explores the issue of human trafficking for forced labour and sexual slavery, focusing on its...
Social Sciences Anthropology Economics
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
The Anthropology of Biology
Prof. Stefan Helmreich
This course applies the tools of anthropology to examine biology in the age of genomics, biotechnological...
Social Sciences Anthropology
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Portuguese I
Dr. Nilma Dominique
This course provides an introduction to the language and culture of the Portuguese-speaking world, with special...
Social Sciences Anthropology Sociology
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Power: Interpersonal, Organizational and Global Dimensions
Prof. Susan S. Silbey
Using examples from anthropology and sociology alongside classical and contemporary social theory, this course...
Business & Management Organizations & Leadership Social Sciences
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
For Love and Money: Rethinking the Family
Prof. Heather Paxson
Through investigating cross-cultural case studies, this course introduces students to the anthropological study of...
Social Sciences Anthropology Sociology
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
How Culture Works
Dr. Xenia Cherkaev
This course introduces diverse meanings and uses of the concept of culture with historical and contemporary examples...
Social Sciences Anthropology
intermediate
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free
The Renaissance, 1300-1600
Prof. Jeffrey S. Ravel
The “Renaissance” as a phenomenon in European history is best understood as a series of social, political, and...
Social Sciences Anthropology Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Anthropology of the Middle East
Prof. Susan Slyomovics
This course examines traditional performances of the Arabic-speaking populations of the Middle East and North...
Art, Design & Architecture Performing Arts Social Sciences
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Cultures of Computing
Prof. Stefan Helmreich
This course examines computers anthropologically, as artifacts revealing the social orders and cultural practices...
Social Sciences Anthropology Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Science of Race, Sex, and Gender
Abha Sur Abha Sur
This course examines the role of science and medicine in the origins and evolution of concepts of race, sex, and...
Social Sciences Anthropology Sociology
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Introduction to French Culture
Catherine E Clark
This course examines major social and political trends, events, debates and personalities which help place aspects...
Social Sciences Anthropology Sociology
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Metropolis: History of New York City
Prof. Craig Wilder
Hitherto it had gone by the original Indian name Manna-hatta, or as some still have it, ‘The Manhattoes’; but this...
Social Sciences Anthropology Urban Studies
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
European Thought and Culture
Prof. Thomas Nolden
This subject surveys main currents of European cultural and intellectual history in the modern period. Such a...
Social Sciences Anthropology Sociology
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
The Emergence of Europe: 500-1300
Prof. Anne McCants
This course surveys the social, cultural, and political development of western Europe between 500 and 1350. A number...
Social Sciences Anthropology Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
American Classics
Prof. Pauline Maier
This subject is devoted to reading and discussing basic American historical texts that are often cited but often...
Social Sciences Anthropology Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Law and Society in US History
Prof. Christopher Capozzola
As events of the last few years have shown, the Supreme Court has played a crucial role in American political life....
Social Sciences Anthropology Law
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Gender and Japanese Popular Culture
Prof. Ian Condry
This course examines relationships between identity and participation in Japanese popular culture as a way of...
Art, Design & Architecture Media Studies Social Sciences
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Technology and Culture
Prof. Stefan Helmreich
This subject examines relationships among technology, culture, and politics in a range of social and historical...
Social Sciences Anthropology Policy and Administration
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Linguistics and Social Justice: Language, Education, and Human Rights
Prof. Michel DeGraff
Linguists take it for granted that all languages, including languages in the Global South, are worthy of study. Yet...
Social Sciences Anthropology Sociology
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Topics in South Asian Literature and Culture
Arundhati Banerjee
This subject aims to provide an overview of contemporary texts in regional languages in South Asian Literature and...
Art, Design & Architecture Media Studies Social Sciences
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Germany Today: Intensive Study of German Language and Culture
Ellen Crocker
Prepares students for working and living in German-speaking countries. Focus on current political, social, and...
Art, Design & Architecture Media Studies Social Sciences
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Popular Musics of the World
Prof. Patricia Tang
This course focuses on popular music, i.e. music created for and transmitted by mass media. Various popular music...
Art, Design & Architecture Business & Management Marketing
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Human Origins and Evolution
Dr. Harry Merrick
This course examines the dynamic interrelations among physical and behavioral traits of humans, environment, and...
Social Sciences Anthropology
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Organizations and Environments
Prof. Pablo Boczkowski
The goal of this doctoral course is to familiarize students with major conceptual frameworks, debates, and...
Business & Management Organizations & Leadership Social Sciences
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Social Visualization
Prof. Judith Donath
Millions of people are on-line today and the number is rapidly growing - yet this virtual crowd is often invisible....
Media Studies Anthropology Computer Science
advanced
MIT OCW
free
The Anthropology of Politics: Persuasion and Power
Dr. Xenia Cherkaev
This course introduces the ethnographic study of politics, i.e., what anthropologists understand to be “political”...
Anthropology Political Science Social Sciences
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Social Theory and the City
Prof. Richard Sennett
This course explores how social theories of urban life can be related to the city’s architecture and spaces. It is...
Sociology Urban Studies Anthropology
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Technology and the Literary Imagination
Prof. Leo Marx
Our linked subjects are (1) the historical process by which the meaning of technology has been constructed, and (2)...
History Anthropology Humanities
advanced
MIT OCW
free
North America through French Eyes
Prof. Bruno Perreau
The course offers an analysis of the keen interest shown by France and the French in North American cultures since...
Language Literature Anthropology
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Social and Political Implications of Technology
Prof. David Mindell
This course is a graduate reading seminar, in which historical and contemporary studies are used to explore the...
Humanities History Anthropology
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Introduction to Asian American Studies: Literature, Culture, and Historical Experience
Prof. Emma J. Teng
This course provides an overview of Asian American history and its relevance for contemporary issues. It covers the...
History Anthropology Sociology
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
German Culture, Media, and Society
Dr. Kurt Fendt
The topic for Fall 2006 is short film and radio plays. This course investigates current trends and topics in German...
Art, Design & Architecture Humanities Visual Arts
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Workshop II: Qualitative Social Science Methods for Media Studies
Prof. Ian Condry
This course focuses on a number of qualitative social science methods that can be productively used in media studies...
Sociology Communication Media Studies
advanced
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free
Cross-Cultural Leadership
Pat Bentley
Cross Cultural Leadership is a collaborative research seminar that examines what constitutes “effective” leadership...
Anthropology Organizations & Leadership Social Sciences
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Issues of Representation: Women, Representation, and Music in Selected Folk Traditions of the British Isles and North America
Prof. Judith Tick
This subject investigates the special relation of women to several musical folk traditions in the British Isles and...
Art, Design & Architecture Sociology Social Sciences
advanced
MIT OCW
free
A Passage to India: Introduction to Modern Indian Culture and Society
Prof. Sunil H. Sharma
This course is an introduction to modern Indian culture and society through films, documentaries, short stories,...
Media Studies Sociology Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Anthropology of Biology
Prof. Stefan Helmreich
This course applies the tools of anthropology to examine biology in the age of genomics, biotechnological...
History Anthropology Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Culture, Embodiment and the Senses
Prof. Erica James
Culture, Embodiment, and the Senses will provide an historical and cross-cultural analysis of the politics of...
Anthropology Philosophy Psychology
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Techno-identity: Who we are and how we perceive ourselves and others
Prof. Judith Donath
The nature of human identity - how we think of ourselves, how we perceive others - is a mutable concept, changing...
Media Studies Philosophy Anthropology
advanced
MIT OCW
free
The Anthropology of Cybercultures
Prof. Lucy Suchman
This course explores a range of contemporary scholarship oriented to the study of ‘cybercultures,’ with a focus on...
Anthropology Media Studies Art, Design & Architecture
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Foundations of World Culture I: World Civilizations and Texts
Dr. Ghenwa Hayek
This course aims to introduce students to the rich diversity of human culture from antiquity to the early 17th...
Humanities Anthropology Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Gender, Sexuality, and Society
Prof. Heather Paxson
This course seeks to examine how people experience gender - what it means to be a man or a woman - and sexuality in...
Anthropology Gender Studies Sociology
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Communicating Across Cultures
Prof. Bernd Widdig
It has become commonplace knowledge that globalization is one of the major forces shaping our world. If we look at...
Anthropology Communication Social Sciences
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Israel: History, Politics, Culture, Identity
Dr. Nahum Karlinsky
This course examines Israeli identity using a broad array of materials, including popular music, film,...
History Anthropology Political Science
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Culture Tech
James Rising
This class is divided into a series of sections or “modules”, each of which concentrates on a particular large...
History Anthropology Media Studies
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
New Culture of Gender: Queer France
Prof. Bruno Perreau
This course addresses the place of contemporary queer identities in French discourse and discusses the new...
Media Studies Anthropology Gender Studies
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Contemporary French Society
Sabine Levet
This course is an intermediate subject designed to help students gradually build an in-depth understanding of...
Language Literature Anthropology
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Politics and Religion
Prof. Lily Tsai
This graduate reading seminar explores the role of religious groups, institutions, and ideas in politics using...
Sociology Anthropology Political Science
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Literature, Ethics and Authority
Prof. Alvin Kibel
Our subject is the ethics of leadership, an examination of the principles appealed to by executive authority when...
Anthropology Literature Philosophy
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Childhood and Youth in French and Francophone Cultures
Prof. Bruno Perreau
This course studies the transformation of childhood and youth since the 18th century in France and the development...
Language Literature Anthropology
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Music of Africa
Prof. Patricia Tang
This course is an introduction to selected musical traditions of West Africa. A variety of musical practices and...
History Anthropology Music
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Nazi Germany and the Holocaust
Prof. David Ciarlo
The rise and fall of National Socialism is one of the most intensively-studied topics in European history....
History Anthropology Political Science
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Out of Ground Zero: Catastrophe and Memory
Prof. Charity Scribner
Within twenty-four hours of the attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 politicians, artists, and...
Sociology Literature Anthropology
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
The Conquest of America
Prof. James Howe
In this course the conquest and colonization of the Americas is considered, with special attention to the struggles...
History Anthropology Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Global Africa: Creative Cultures
Prof. M. Amah Edoh
This course examines contemporary and historical cultural production on and from Africa across a range of registers,...
Visual Arts Anthropology History
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Disease and Health: Culture, Society, and Ethics
Prof. Jean Jackson
This course examines how medicine is practiced cross-culturally, with particular emphasis on Western biomedicine....
History Anthropology Philosophy
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Cross-Cultural Investigations: Technology and Development
Prof. Heather Paxson
This course enhances cross-cultural understanding through the discussion of practical, ethical, and epistemological...
Anthropology Social Sciences
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Texts, Topics, and Times in German Literature
Dagmar Jaeger
In diesem Kurs erhalten Sie einen Überblick über einige wichtige literarische Texte, Tendenzen und Themen aus der...
Language Literature Sociology
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Medicine, Religion and Politics in Africa and the African Diaspora
Prof. Erica James
This course provides an exploration of colonial and postcolonial clashes between theories of healing and embodiment...
Anthropology Public Health International Development
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
The Making of Russia in the Worlds of Byzantium, Mongolia, and Europe
Prof. Elizabeth A. Wood
Medieval and early modern Russia stood at the crossroads of Europe and Asia. In this course we will examine some of...
History Sociology Philosophy
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
France, 1660-1815: Enlightenment, Revolution, Napoleon
Prof. Jeffrey S. Ravel
This course covers French politics, culture, and society from Louis XIV to Napoleon Bonaparte. Attention is given to...
History Anthropology Philosophy
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Dilemmas in Bio-Medical Ethics: Playing God or Doing Good?
Prof. Erica James
This course is an introduction to the cross-cultural study of biomedical ethics, examining moral foundations of the...
Humanities Anthropology Gender Studies
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Basic Themes in French Literature and Culture
Prof. Bruno Perreau
Childhood is a source of fascination in most Western cultures. It is both a major inspiration for artistic creation...
Language Literature Anthropology
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Seminar in Ethnography and Fieldwork
Prof. Stefan Helmreich
This advanced course in anthropology engages closely with discussions and debates about ethnographic research,...
Anthropology Philosophy Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Topics in Indian Popular Culture: Spectacle, Masala, and Genre
Arundhati Banerjee
This course aims to provide an overview of Indian popular culture over the last two decades, through a variety of...
Visual Arts Media Studies Anthropology
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Gender: Historical Perspectives
Prof. Lerna Ekmekcioglu
This course examines the definition of gender in scientific, societal, and historical contexts. It explores how...
History Anthropology Gender Studies
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Introduction to Spanish Culture
Prof. Margery Resnick
This course has several purposes. The major concern will be the examination of Spanish culture including Spain’s...
Anthropology Sociology Social Sciences
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Gender
Prof. Lerna Ekmekcioglu
This course examines the definition of gender in scientific, societal, and historical contexts. It explores how...
Sociology History Anthropology
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Chinese Popular Musics in Dialogue
Dr. Meredith Schweig
This course provides an introduction to the major popular music cultures of the Chinese-speaking world. We will...
Anthropology Sociology Music
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
People and Other Animals
Prof. Harriet Ritvo
This course is a historical exploration of the ways that people have interacted with their closest animal relatives,...
History Anthropology Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Communicating in American Culture(s)
Jane Dunphy
In Communicating in American Culture(s), bilingual students examine how various aspects of American culture—history,...
Language Communication Anthropology
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
American Consumer Culture
Prof. Meg Jacobs
This class examines how and why twentieth-century Americans came to define the “good life” through consumption,...
History Anthropology Philosophy
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Technology and Gender in American History
Prof. Deborah Fitzgerald
This course centers on the changing relationships between men, women, and technology in American history. Topics...
Sociology Humanities History
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Science, Technology, & World
Prof. Rosalind Williams
This class is an introduction to studies in science, technology, and society (STS), through examining a series of...
Art, Design & Architecture Visual Arts Anthropology
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Violence, Human Rights, and Justice
Prof. Erica James
This course examines the problem of mass violence and oppression in the contemporary world, and the concept of human...
Anthropology Philosophy Sociology
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Smashing the Iron Rice Bowl: Chinese East Asia
Prof. Peter C. Perdue
This subject examines the experiences of ordinary Chinese people as they lived through the tumultuous changes of the...
Humanities History Sociology
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Photography and Truth
Prof. James Howe
Still photography, a practice and form of expression that has worked its way into every facet of social life and...
Visual Arts Anthropology Art, Design & Architecture
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
The Economic History of Work and Family
Prof. Anne McCants
This course will explore the relation of women and men in both pre-industrial and modern societies to the changing...
History Anthropology Gender Studies
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Gender, Power, and International Development
Prof. Christine Walley
After decades of efforts to promote development, why is there so much poverty in the world? What are some of the...
Sociology Anthropology Economics
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Environmental Conflict
Prof. Christine Walley
This course explores the complex interrelationships among humans and natural environments, focusing on non-western...
Sociology Biology Anthropology
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Theater and Cultural Diversity in the U.S.
Prof. Thomas DeFrantz
This course explores contemporary American theatrical expression as it may be organized around issues of gender and...
Art, Design & Architecture Humanities Anthropology
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Advanced Topics: Plotting Terror in European Culture
Prof. Charity Scribner
This interdisciplinary course surveys modern European culture to disclose the alignment of literature, opposition,...
Media Studies Anthropology Sociology
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
The Places of Migration in United States History
Prof. Christopher Capozzola
This course examines the history of the United States as a “nation of immigrants” within a broader global context....
History Anthropology Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Media in Cultural Context
Dr. Joshua Green
This course explores the international trade in television text, considering the ways in which ‘foreign’ programs...
Media Studies Literature Anthropology
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Anthropology of War and Peace
Prof. Hugh Gusterson
This class has been reorganized to focus primarily on the War in Iraq. As in previous years, the class still...
Policy and Administration Anthropology History
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Architecture Design, Level II: Cuba Studio
Prof. Jan Wampler
This architectural studio will have one main project for the semester: to explore the issues surrounding the...
Environmental Design Anthropology Architecture
advanced
MIT OCW
free
The Royal Family
Prof. Harriet Ritvo
This course is an an exploration of British culture and politics, focusing on the changing role of the monarchy from...
History Sociology Anthropology
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Technology and Innovation in Africa
Prof. Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga
What do technology and innovation mean from Africa? This is the central question of this course, which tackles a...
History Anthropology International Development
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Traditions in American Concert Dance: Gender and Autobiography
Melissa Blanco
This course explores the forms, contents, and context of world traditions in dance that played a crucial role in...
Art, Design & Architecture Anthropology Gender Studies
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Cultural Performances of Asia
Prof. Ian Condry
This course examines cultural performances of Asia, including both traditional and contemporary forms, in a variety...
Anthropology Media Studies Sociology
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
America in Depression and War
Prof. Meg Jacobs
This course focuses on the Great Depression and World War II and how they led to a major reordering of American...
Humanities History Anthropology
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Research Seminar in Deep Sea Archaeology
Prof. David Mindell
STS.467 examines the intellectual foundations of archaeology in the deep sea. The course explores the current...
Anthropology Ocean Engineering Earth Science
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Modern Latin America, 1808-Present: Revolution, Dictatorship, Democracy
Prof. Jeffrey S. Ravel
This class is a selective survey of Latin American history from the beginning of the twentieth century to the...
Humanities History Sociology
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Reparations for Slavery and Colonization: Contemporary Movements for Justice
Prof. M. Amah Edoh
This class brings anthropological concepts to bear on contemporary movements for justice for harms committed during...
Anthropology Social Sciences
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Identity and Difference
Prof. Jean Jackson
This course explores how identities, whether of individuals or groups, are produced, maintained, and transformed....
Anthropology Gender Studies Sociology
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
DV Lab: Documenting Science Through Video and New Media
Prof. Christine Walley
This course is an introductory exploration of documentary film theory and production, focusing on documentaries...
Art, Design & Architecture Visual Arts Media Studies
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Understanding Television
Prof. David Thorburn
The subtitle of this course for the spring 2003 term is “American Television: A Cultural History.” The class takes a...
Visual Arts Anthropology Media Studies
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Cultural Pluralism in Modern Middle East
Prof. Lerna Ekmekcioglu
This seminar considers “difference” and “sameness” as they have been conceived, experienced, and regulated by...
History Sociology Anthropology
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Africa and the Politics of Knowledge
Prof. M. Amah Edoh
This course considers how, despite its immense diversity, Africa continues to hold purchase as both a geographical...
History Anthropology Political Science
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Technology and Change in Rural America
Prof. Deborah Fitzgerald
This course considers the historical dimensions of rural production from subsistence to industrialization, both in...
Humanities History Anthropology
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Race and Science
Prof. Stefan Helmreich
This course examines one of the most enduring and influential forms of identity and experience in the Americas and...
Anthropology Sociology Social Sciences
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Ethnic Politics I
Prof. Roger Petersen
This course is designed to provide students with a broad overview of the major theories on the relationship between...
Humanities Anthropology Philosophy
advanced
MIT OCW
free
War & American Society
Prof. Christopher Capozzola
Writing in the wake of the Civil War, poet Walt Whitman insisted that “the real war will never get in the books.”...
History Anthropology Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Marketing, Microchips and McDonalds: Debating Globalization
Prof. Christine Walley
Everyday we are bombarded with the word “global” and encouraged to see globalization as the quintessential...
Humanities History Anthropology
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Environmental Struggles
Prof. Christine Walley
This class explores the interrelationship between humans and natural environments. It does so by focusing on...
Policy and Administration Anthropology Philosophy
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Conversations You Can't Have on Campus: Race, Ethnicity, Gender and Identity
Tobie Weiner
What is race? What is ethnicity? How can communication and relationships between men and women be improved? What...
Sociology Anthropology Gender Studies
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Warlords, Terrorists, and Militias: Theorizing on Violent Non-State Actors
Prof. Fotini Christia
This course is a general overview of the recent political science literature on violent non-state actors. Its aim is...
Policy and Administration Anthropology Political Science
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Forms of Political Participation: Old and New
Prof. Lily L. Tsai
How and why do we participate in public life? How do we get drawn into community and political affairs? In this...
Sociology Anthropology Political Science
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Writing About Race: Narratives of Multiraciality
Dr. Kym L. Ragusa
In this course we will read essays, novels, memoirs, and graphic texts, and view documentary and experimental films...
Media Studies Literature Anthropology
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Ethnic and National Identity
Prof. Jean Jackson
An introduction to the cross-cultural study of ethnic and national identity. We examine the concept of social...
Anthropology Social Sciences
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Topics in Culture and Globalization
Prof. Ian Condry
The concept of globalization fosters the understanding of the interconnectedness of cultures and societies...
Anthropology Media Studies Art, Design & Architecture
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Gender and Representation of Asian Women
Prof. Manduhai Buyandelger
This course explores stereotypes associated with Asian women in colonial, nationalist, state-authoritarian, and...
Sociology Gender Studies Anthropology
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
American Dream: Using Storytelling to Explore Social Class in the United States
Prof. Christine Walley
This course explores the experiences and understandings of class among Americans positioned at different points...
Anthropology Sociology Social Sciences
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Women in South Asia from 1800 to Present
Prof. Haimanti Roy
This course is designed to introduce and help students understand the changes and continuities in the lives of women...
History Sociology Gender Studies
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Race and Gender in Asian America
Prof. Emma J. Teng
In this seminar we will examine various issues related to the intersection of race and gender in Asian America,...
History Sociology Gender Studies
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Race, Immigration, and Planning
Prof. J. Phillip Thompson
This course provides an introduction to the issues of immigrants, planning, and race. It identifies the complexities...
Humanities Sociology Urban Studies
advanced
MIT OCW
free
The Anthropology of Politics: U.S. Presidential Election Edition
Maria Vidart-Delgado
This course examines the birth and international expansion of an American industry of political marketing. It...
Anthropology Political Science Social Sciences
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Writing About Race
Dr. Sarah King
Does race still matter, as Cornel West proclaimed in his 1994 book of that title, or do we now live, as others...
History Anthropology Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Ethnicity and Race in World Politics
Prof. Melissa Nobles
Discerning the ethnic and racial dimensions of politics is considered by some indispensable to understanding...
Anthropology Political Science Social Sciences
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
The Business of Politics: A View of Latin America
Maria Vidart-Delgado
This class looks at the birth and international expansion of an American industry of political marketing, with a...
Anthropology Sociology Political Science
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Ethnic Politics II
Prof. Roger Petersen
This course is designed mainly for political science graduate students conducting or considering conducting research...
Anthropology Political Science Social Sciences
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Oceans and Us
Prof. Stefan Helmreich
This course explores how people have understood and encountered the ocean, cross-culturally, as a site of danger,...
Anthropology Climate Science Earth Science
intermediate
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