This information effective for Fall 2001. Check with instructor the first day of class for any changes. We examine the history and politics of relations between humans and other animals, thinking about animals themselves as well as how humans have used them to develop ideas of race, class, gender, and nation.
Topics covered include classification, pets, zoos, and cloning.
In this senior seminar we will explore current debates on what we have only recently learned to call globalization. Rather than taking this phenomenon as an established fact, we will ask what aspects of contemporary life the term describes and what are some of the implications of using it. In order to examine the accelerated movement of people and objects that is often claimed to characterize contemporary life, we will read a series of innovative recent ethnographies that focus on the moving target of spatial scale.