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Past Courses
ANTH 180B — Playing Human: Persons, Objects, Imagination, (Spring 2012)
Examines how people interact with material artifacts that are decidedly not human and yet which, paradoxically, deepen and extend experiences of being human. Theories of fetishism; masking and ritual objects across cultures; play and childhood experience; and objects of imagination, memory and trauma. Special one-time offering, Spring 2012. Mr. Roosevelt (ED) and Ms. Schattschneider (ANTH)
ENG 183B - Gods and Humans in the Renaissance, (Fall 2011)
Examines the relationship between gods and humans in literature and art from the Renaissance, exploring how classical gods and goddesses, as well as biblical figures of the divine, are represented by major European artists and authors. Special one-time offering, fall 2011. Dr. Targoff (ENG) and Dr. Unglaub (FINE ARTS)