Anthropological perspectives on contemporary issues of public policy, law, and political activity, as they affect Indigenous Peoples in Canada and globally. Prerequisite: ANTH 220 is recommended.
Topics in political anthropology; ethnographic and theoretical approaches to nationalism, globalization, political systems, international movements and organizations; anthropology of the state.
Japanese culture and society: patterns of organization, value systems, family, education, work, minorities and diversity, harmony and conflict, urban/rural differences, gender, sexuality, youth, tradition, continuity, change, and future prospects.
Cultural background to contemporary events; problems of nationalism and regional conflicts, economic and social development, gender, religion and social change. Course may stress a different region of the world in different years.
Reception, use, and appropriation of biblical texts to support European settler colonialism on Turtle Island (North America), with a focus on British Columbia. Impacts of Christianity on Indigenous communities, including the Indian Act and Residential School system.