Subject: Spring 2014 - Course Description

LANT Anthropology

LANT 2028 Love and Money: Intimate Transactions

Faculty: Halawa. Mateusz TR 11:55 AM - 01:35 PM Credits: 4 CRN 6981 Sec A

The intimate and the economic are often imagined as two separate, or even hostile. spheres of social life. If mixed, conventional wisdom holds, love and money will corrupt each other sentiments will get in the way of business, and calculation will poison passion. Our very ideals of intimacy and economic activity both rely on constantly drawing boundaries between the two. However, ethnographic evidence gathered by anthropologists and sociologists suggests that in the practice of everyday life, love and money intermingle constantly in the practices of of individuals. couples, and households and often with good results. This course serves as an introduction to social and cultural analysis of money in everyday life by way of exploring a series of messy 'intimate transactions? How does money circulate between spouses, friends, lovers, relatives, parents and children? What pleasures and profits. divisions and attachments do these exchanges produce? The course explores, among other themes: compensated and uncompensated household labor, inheritance, informal loans, remittances from those overseas, college funds. and allowance. We will discuss and debate the relationship between love and money based on anthropologcal, sociological, legal. journalistic, and literary readings. This course satisfies requirements in Writing.

LAIR 2100 Postcolonial Africa

Faculty: Reitman. Janet TR 10:00 AM - 11:40 AM Credits: 4 CRN 4993 Sec A

Postosionial Africa is typically represented as a marginal place in the world: a place of disorder and war. How does anthropology help us to consider Africa's place in our world? Do anthropological accounts of postcolonial Africa confirm that it is a place of chaos and violence? Or does anthropology allow us to better understand how we came to think about Africa as prone to violence and marginality? This seminar will consider these questions. We will examine some of the key concepts and debates that are central to the anthropology of postcolonial Africa with an aim to developing a aitical perspective on representations of this vast continent and the diversity of practices that make Africa more than a continent. The seminar will take a thematic approach. covering topics such as kinship and ethnicity, religion and witchcraft. and economics and globalization. We will use both ethnographies and novels as the basis for discussion and debate. This course satisfies requirements In Reading and Writing.

| LAW | 3013 Mies and Globalization | | | | | |
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| Faculty: | Rao, VyJayanthi | F | 12:10 PM 02:50 PM | Credits: 4 | CRN 7070 | Sec AX |

For the first time in world history, more people live in urban rather than rural settlements. The scale, complexity and dynamism of contemporary urbanization and the tendency toward disorder or entropy in contemporary cites is historically unprecedented. This momentous and global transformation has great social, cultural, economic and political implications and numerous causes. In this seminar course, we will examine the specific relationship between the contemporary urban revolution and globalization or the recent post-cold war integration of economic and political institutions at the global scale and we will explore their implications for our collective future. The seminar is structured around core topics such as infrastructure and urban ecology, urban inequality and uneven development and the question of urban visions and futures. Case studies are drawn from across the world and we will use several channels of analysis, including documentary films and television broadcasts, the internet. reports prepared by multilateral organizations and think tanks and, finally, your own field researches in and around New York City. Ideas will be snared in class through interactive Journals and shared reports. Students must have taken at least one prior anthropology course at the 200 level.