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Instructor

  • Prof. Erica James

Departments

  • Anthropology
  • Women's and Gender Studies

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Spring 2005

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Undergraduate

Course Info

Instructor

  • Prof. Erica James

Departments

  • Anthropology
  • Women's and Gender Studies

As Taught In

Spring 2005

Level

Undergraduate

Topics

  • Health and Medicine
    • Public Health
  • Humanities
    • History
      • African History
    • Religion
  • Social Science
    • Anthropology
      • Cultural Anthropology
  • Society
    • The Developing World

Topics

  • Health & Medicine
    • Public Health
  • Humanities
    • History
    • Religion
  • Social Sciences
    • Anthropology
    • International Development

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21A.460J | Spring 2005 | Undergraduate

Medicine, Religion and Politics in Africa and the African Diaspora

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Medicine, Religion, and Politics in Africa and the African Diaspora
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Section Eight: Sensory Ethnography in Niger
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Section Eleven: Fictions of Race, Gender, and Illness
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Section Five: Race, Gender, Colonial Medicine, and the Construction of Disease
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Section Five: Race, Gender, Colonial Medicine, and the Construction of Disease
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Section Five: Race, Gender, Colonial Medicine, and the Construction of Disease
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Section Four: Colonial Medicine in South Africa
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Section Four: Colonial Medicine in South Africa
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Section Nine: Religion, Medicine, and the Medical Pluralism in Haiti
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Section Nine: Religion, Medicine, and the Medical Pluralism in Haiti
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Course Info

Instructor

  • Prof. Erica James

Departments

  • Anthropology
  • Women's and Gender Studies

As Taught In

Spring 2005

Level

Undergraduate

Course Info

Instructor

  • Prof. Erica James

Departments

  • Anthropology
  • Women's and Gender Studies

As Taught In

Spring 2005

Level

Undergraduate

Topics

  • Health and Medicine
    • Public Health
  • Humanities
    • History
      • African History
    • Religion
  • Social Science
    • Anthropology
      • Cultural Anthropology
  • Society
    • The Developing World

Topics

  • Health & Medicine
    • Public Health
  • Humanities
    • History
    • Religion
  • Social Sciences
    • Anthropology
    • International Development

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assignment Written Assignments

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