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New Course Offering: Living the Experience: The Circular Nature of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Above is an interesting class that has some seats and could be a good outside elective. Title: Living the Experience: The Circular Nature of the COVID19 Pandemic Course number/sec.: ALS4932, 25299, Hybrid Schedule: F, period 4, G001 This is an innovative and interdisciplinary course about the Coronavirus pandemic. This course has been designed for undergraduate […]

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Documenting Death

More about this book: “Documenting Death is a gripping ethnographic account of the deaths of pregnant women in a hospital in a low-resource setting in Tanzania. Through an exploration of everyday ethics and care practices on a local maternity ward, anthropologist Adrienne E. Strong untangles the reasons Tanzania has achieved so little sustainable success in reducing […]

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Women in Fundamentalism

More about this book: “Women in Fundamentalism examines the striking similarities in three extreme fundamentalist religious communities in their views about and treatment of women. Whether Christian, Jewish or Muslim, the fundamentalist offshoots of these religions subject women to myriad restrictions in their daily lives. All three seek to maintain male control over women’s bodies, women’s […]

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