Course Description
This is a survey course that undertakes an ethnographic journey through Asia: through Japan, China and Tibet; through different parts of South East Asia; through the Indian subcontinent, and finally back "home" to Asian immigrant communities within the United States. Within this broad frame, the course examines a range of social and cultural formations, including religion, family/kinship, gender, economy and nationalism. Further, the course explores the impact of the media and globalization, diasporas, the plays of 'modernity' and 'tradition,' the impacts of revolutions and other social movements that each help define and redefine what it means to be "Asian" in the modern world.
Note please that in Fall 2006, this course will be taught with a special emphasis on the Anthropology of India. See the syllabus for details.
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