ANT 229 Global Asian Popular Culture
3 hours
This course explores Asian popular cultures from a global and cross-cultural perspective, especially their role in the production of meaning and construction of different forms of identity. The course will focus on various types of cultural media in specific ethnographic settings to probe the intricate interrelations of power and politics, gender and sexuality, race and ethnicity, class and social hierarchy, and language and discourse. Students will use critical conceptual and analytical tools to examine the ways in which Asian popular cultures are produced, circulated, marketed, altered, and consumed by different audiences in the contexts of cultural diffusion and imperialism, technological convergence, globalization and indigenization, and other transnational processes and transformations.
Notes
This course satisfies the Flexible Core: World Cultures and Global Issues area of the Gen Ed Program.