Sociology & Anthropology
228 Language, Culture, and Emotion
| Course Description | |
|---|---|
| Explores emotion as shaped by culture and language and as produced in interactions in a variety of social and cultural contexts. Focuses primarily on oral expression. Topics may include language acquisition and childhood; concepts of the self and subjectivity; emotional performances; cross-cultural concepts of emotion; class, gender, and emotional conventions; language and embodiment; bilingualism, solidarity, and cross-cultural communication; affect, literacy, and social transformation; aesthetics. Genres such as gossip, story-telling, sermon and prayer, ceremonial wailing, and love letters are included. Attention is given to the methods of linguistic anthropology. (Same as Women's Studies 228.) | |
| Distribution | |
| B | |
| Prerequisites | |
| Anthropology 101 and one additional course in anthropology or sociology, or permission of the instructor | |
| Day/Time: | M,W — 11:30 - 12:55 |
| Location: | Sills-207 |
| Instructor: | Van Vleet, Krista E. (kvanvlee@bowdoin.edu) |
| Class Email: | anth228@bowdoin.edu |
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