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feminists, and activists regarding the stigmas of class, ethnicity, race, disability and physical anomaly, gender and sexuality. Students encounter a wide range of ethnographic case material from marginalized subcultures, both in written form and through guest lectures. Prerequisite: Anthropology 2, ID 26, or permission of instructor. Enrollment limited to juniors and seniors. Offered annually in fall. S. Seizer. 136. Humor in Use: Culture, Gender, Deviance. Beginning from the premise that humor is a good site for the anthropological study of culture, this course looks at a variety of cultural contexts for humor, from staged performances to private jokes, in a wide range of societies. Emphasis is on the many uses to which humor is put, with specific focus on the presence of gender as both preferred text and ubiquitous context in humor usage and humor theory. Our springboard will be Freuds Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious.We discuss Freuds gendered paradigm in relation to other theories on humor and update it with our own; our challenge is to create new ways of illuminating the complex role that gender and deviance plays in what we find funny. Enrollment limited to juniors and seniors. Prerequisite: ID 26,Anth 2, or permission of instructor. S. Seizer. 140.The Desert as a Place. (See Environmental Studies 140PI.) An interdisciplinary investigation of the desert environment as a place, with some emphasis on Australia and the American Southwest. Correlations between natural and cultural forms, histories, materials, motives, and adaptation will be studied.Topics to be considered will include structural and behavioral adaptations in the natural and cultural ecologies; climate, geomorphology, and architectural form; taxonomy, desert flora and fauna and their cultural uses; and various ramifications of the interaction between the desert ecology and cultural consciousness in arid zones. Enrollment is limited. Course fee: $40 (for field trips). P. Faulstich. 141. Progress and Oppression: Ecology, Human Rights, and Development. (See Environmental Studies 141PI.) This class is concerned with the state of tribal peoples and ethnic minorities around the world. Particular attention is given to environmental problems and their effects on diverse peoples.We explore case studies of the cultural and environmental consequences of rainforest destruction, tourism, energy development, national parks, and war.We critique programs to assist oppressed peoples and the environments that sustain them. Participants are asked to choose a geographical, cultural, and topical area and make recommendations particular to the problems and the needs of that region. P. Faulstich. 143. Exhibiting Nature. (See Environmental Studies 143PI.) An exploration of how natural history and anthropology museums, botanical gardens, zoos, national parks, and war and the like present a view of nature and human societies. Enrollment is limited. Course fee: $40 (for field trips). P. Faulstich. 144.Visual Ecology. (See Environmental Studies 144PI.) This course explores how ecological insights, issues, and concerns are investigated, illuminated, and manipulated through visual media. Examples include nature photography (both fine art and documentary), documentary films, and photographic essays. P. Faulstich. 148. Ethnoecology. (See Environmental Studies 148PI.) This course investigates the ecological priorities and concepts of various peoples, from so-called fourth world hunters and gatherers to First World scientists.What we isolate and consider as ecological knowledge includes those aspects of culture that relate to environmental phenomena directly (e.g., resource exploitation) and affect subsistence and adaptation. Ethnoecology the study of cultural ecological knowledge begins, like the science of ecology itself, with nomenclatures and proceeds to considerations of processes. In this course we study beliefs about the relationship between humans and the environment as expressed in both Western science and the traditions of Native people, and we explore where these cultural systems of knowing intersect and diverge. P. Faulstich. 149. Ecology and Culture Change. (See Environmental Studies 149PI.) This course studies relationships between changing natural systems and changing sociocultural systems.We will investigate the approaches to ecological and social dynamics (change, degradation, evolution, revolution), with a focus on the factors that link ecological and human processes.Theoretical and applied perspectives on change will be studied at both the micro and macro levels. Emphasis will be placed on evaluating and understanding how peoples create and respond to change. Global issues of ecology and intercultural communication will guide our inquiries. P. Faulstich. 23 ANTHROPOLOGY SCRIPPS COLLEGE

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