21A.260 | Fall 2005 | Undergraduate

Culture, Embodiment and the Senses

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Lec # TOPICS KEY DATES
1-2 Course Introduction: Anthropology and the Senses

3-5 Healing the Body in Ancient Greece and China Reflection paper 1 due on Lec #5
6-8 Philosophy, Medicine, and the Senses in Early-Modern Europe

9-10 Uncanny Experience and Sensing the Sacred in the Modern West Reflection paper 2 due on Lec #9
11 Memory, Belief, and the Politics of Mind

12 Intersubjectivity, Phenomenology, Emotion, and Embodiment

13-14 Intersubjectivity and Ruptured Social Senses Mid-term paper due on Lec #13
15-24 Sensory Ethnographies Reflection paper 3 due on Lec #21
25-26 Mind-Body Medicine, Research and the State Final papers due on Lec #26

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