ANTH189L PO - Production and Reception of Icons

When Offered: Last offered fall 2013.
Instructor(s): S. Martin
Credit: 1

This course will examine how icons are constructed and commodified by markets, myths, memories and media. What do icons reveal about identity formation, community belonging and strategies of resistance? How do icons become appropriated? The course will address concepts such as global capitalism, public space, transnationalism, modernity, nationalism and ethnicity.