Each student selects a project to be developed individually. 325 and 326. Half to two courses. Readings developed around the interest of individual students. Half to two courses.
Language reflects the culture and society where it is used.
We will explore the relationship between these, with a focus on American and Japanese societies. Crosslisted as EAST 400. Approaches to lending order to culture by insiders and outsiders, e.g., culture as cosmologies and histories, culture as contested meanings, culture as intellectual property, culture in museum display as hegemony and identity. Indigenous beliefs in the modern world, voodoo in New York, witches in urban Africa, bull fights in contemporary Spain, cargo cults in Melanesia, carnivals.