Cultural Localities
S07
Miroslava Prazak
This advanced research seminar offers the opportunity for detailed study of the culture of the world, including their society, politics, economy, worldview, religion, expressive practices, and historical transformations. In the initial segment of the course, we will cover shared materials; the second segment is devoted to individual pursuit of a topic, as relevant to a specific peoples or culture. The aim is to explore detailed histories of colonialism, civilization, dictatorships, markets, nationalism, neocolonialism, and gender relations, as they apply to a specific, contemporary society and the issues that shape it at the beginning of the third millennium. Through readings of literature, colonial theory, anthropology, history, political economy, video documentary, and fieldwork footage, the course provides critical perspectives that form bridges among texts produced by indigenous and exogenous observers.