Brazilian Culture: Modernity and National Identity
ANTHRO 2782
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Course Information
Description
This seminar explores how culture has shaped Brazilian national identity. Drawing on ethnography, historical sources, song lyrics, film, and mass media, the course examines how cultural forms negotiate race, class, gender, regionalism, tradition, religion, and consumption. Emphasizing popular culture as a key arena of social conflict and creativity, we analyze how music, carnival, cinema, sport, and television have mediated tensions between modernity and tradition, nation and region, hierarchy and democracy. The seminar situates Brazilian cultural production within broader theoretical debates on nationalism, modernity, and mass culture.
The course is open to upper-division undergraduate and graduate students, as well as others with the instructor's permission.
The course is open to upper-division undergraduate and graduate students, as well as others with the instructor's permission.
Class Notes
The instructor for this course will be Professor Ruben Oliven.
Available for Harvard Cross Registration
