Art/Entertainment/Consumerism

3 Credits · Level: Graduate, Undergraduate

Popular culture is an arena in which Latin Americans make cultural offerings their own through both creativity and reappropriation. Pop culture forms can be key sites for the formation of identities, for the ways in which people make sense of the world, and understanding their location within it. This course looks at pop culture forms throughout Latin America, including music, dance, sport, media, art, beauty, and consumer products. Taking an anthropological approach, we will explore the ways that pop culture draws from, comments upon, and at times resists political issues, notions of authenticity, social problems, and inequalities.