, cognition, and motivations are shaped by culture.Topics will include ideas of ... and current cultural assumptions have shaped policies in the United States and other ...
these struggles, especially in cultures shaped by colonialization. G. Greene. 175. ... , and articulated with other theories (structuralism, poststructuralism) in the 20th century ...
105 THE HUMANITIES SCRIPPS COLLEGE Greeks and others /Greeks and us.This course asks two interrelated questions: how did the Greeks represent cultures, which they called barbaroi (non-Greek), and how do we construct the Greeks in relation to our own changing definitions of ourselves? We will examine Greek representations of the other in literature, history, myth, and the visual arts, as well as our representations of Greeks in scholarship, in the media, and especially on the stage. Readings include Herodotus,Aeschylus, and Bernals Black Athena.The final project, in addition to written work, will ...