Changes in the sexual division of labor within the household and the emergence of women s new cultural patterns, especially in Europe and the U.S. are explored. Emphasis is placed on the importance of class, ethnicity, and race in the formation of ethnic cultures as they respond to continuously changing and culturally diverse settings. Offered alternate years CIGP 275 Culture, Consumption, and Class In Local and Global Contexts Focuses on political, cultural and ethnic aspects of consumption. Emphasizes how people and groups define themselves through symbols in consumer products. Examines the interplay between the world market and cultural identities, local and global processes, and consumption and cultural strategies to discover the consumer subcultures.
Students conduct a small ethnographic project on consumer pattern, product, or culture.
At a time of rapid global changes and globalization, nationalisms and nationalists cultures have grown dramatically. This course explores how nationalist identities and resistance are determined by culture and the cultural symbols, such as key consumer commodities, cultural symbols, gender, and language and dress codes. This course focuses on emergent ethnographic concerns which attempt to capture fluid cultural processes and connections as they unfold in today s global arenas. It deals with multiple-sited ethnography of movement, displacement, replacement, and the global traffic in culture. It also analyzes traditional ethnographies and ethnographic methods of the founding pioneers - including the work of the famous Clark University ethnographer Franz Boas.