Stanford University Bulletin

Code	Name	Description
ANTHRO1	Introduction to Cultural and Social Anthropology	This course introduces basic anthropological concepts and presents the discipline's distinctive perspective on society and culture. The power of this perspective is illustrated by exploring vividly-written ethnographic cases that show how anthropolo...
ANTHRO100X	"I'm Not a Robot": The Contemporary Politics of Man and Machine	Our lives today are full of 'smart' machines that appear to deliberate, make judgements, and interact socially. Yet unlike humans, they are bound to their programming, unable to improvise, feel, or ethically value what one pioneering computer scienti...
ANTHRO101S	Introduction to Cultural and Social Anthropology	This course introduces basic anthropological concepts and presents the discipline's distinctive perspective on society and culture. The power of this perspective is illustrated by exploring vividly-written ethnographic cases that show how anthropolo...
ANTHRO102	Cults: Mystics and Messiahs in a Modern World	Why do people choose to invest their faith, intellect, and labor in the fate of a single individual, and what consequences follow from such collective investment? This course brings together anthropological and historical perspectives in the study of...
ANTHRO103	The Archaeology of Climate	This course reviews the long-term relationships between human societies and Earth's climatic systems. It provides a critical review of how archaeologists have approached climate change through various case studies and historical paradigms (e.g., soci...
ANTHRO103A	Human Osteoarchaeology	The course will cover the methodological and theoretical backgrounds to human osteoarchaeology, introduce the student to the chemical and physical characteristics of bone, and to the functional morphology of the human skeleton. Classes will consist o...
ANTHRO103B	History of Archaeological Thought	Introduction to the history of archaeology and the forms that the discipline takes today, emphasizing developments and debates over the past five decades. Historical overview of culture, historical, processual and post-processual archaeology, and top...
ANTHRO104	Tools for Meaningful Communities	How can we live together and honor both difference and belonging? How do we create community amidst divisiveness and the existential threats of climate change, oppression of marginalized peoples, and our disconnection from ourselves and each other? W...
ANTHRO104A	Archaeological approaches to Landscapes: How people and things make Places and Spaces	This class introduces students to the archaeological concept of landscape as a heuristic that can be used in critical analysis. Students will learn to articulate the ways that landscapes are constituted in the process of 'living'. They will be equipp...
ANTHRO104B	Landscapes of Inequality: The Southwestern United	Inequality is one of the major social issues of the current moment in the United States. Racial, economic, and gender inequality has been even more pronounced in the fall out of the COVID-19 pandemic around the world. These injustices are identifiabl...
ANTHRO104D	Introduction to Race and Technology	How do ideas about race get encoded in the design of new technology? How have science and technology shaped our understanding of race and identity? Drawing on research in anthropology, history, media studies, STS, and beyond, we will consider how tec...
ANTHRO106	Incas and their Ancestors: Peruvian Archaeology	The development of high civilizations in Andean S. America from hunter-gatherer origins to the powerful, expansive Inca empire. The contrasting ecologies of coast, sierra, and jungle areas of early Peruvian societies from 12,000 to 2,000 B.C.E. The d...
ANTHRO108B	Gender in the Arab and Middle Eastern City	What are the components of gendered experience in the city, and how are these shaped by history and culture? How do meanings attributed to Islam and the Middle East obscure the specificity of women¿s and men¿s lives in Muslim-majority cities? This co...
ANTHRO109A	Archaeology of the Modern World	Historical archaeology, also called the archaeology of the modern world, investigates the material culture and spatial history of the past five centures. As a discipline, historical archaeology has been characterized by (1) a methodological conjuncti...
ANTHRO10SC	Evolution and Conservation in Galápagos	The tiny remote islands of Galápagos have played a central role in the study of evolution. Not surprisingly, they have also been important to theory and practice in biodiversity conservation. The fascinating adaptations of organisms to the unusual, i...
ANTHRO10SI	Reimagining Democracy: Social Mobilization in Indian Elections	When India held its first elections in 1952, it reinvented what was possible for humanity - hitherto, the notion of democracy was restricted to the small, rich, homogeneous nations of the West. India, a democracy of diversities, took the radical step...
ANTHRO110	Environmental Archaeology	This course investigates the field of environmental archaeology. Its goals are twofold: 1) to critically consider the intellectual histories of environmental archaeology, and, 2) to survey the various techniques and methods by which archaeologists as...
ANTHRO110B	Examining Ethnographies	Eight or nine important ethnographies, including their construction, their impact, and their faults and virtues.
ANTHRO111	Archaeology of Gender and Sexuality	How archaeologists study sex, sexuality, and gender through the material remains left behind by past cultures and communities. Theoretical and methodological issues; case studies from prehistoric and historic archaeology.
ANTHRO111B	Muwekma: Landscape Archaeology and the Narratives of California Natives	This course explores the unique history of San Francisco Bay Area tribes with particular attention to Muwekma Ohlone- the descendent community associated with the landscape surrounding and including Stanford University. The story of Muwekma provides...
ANTHRO111C	Muwekma: Landscape Archaeology and the Narratives of California Natives	This course explores the unique history of San Francisco Bay Area tribes with particular attention to Muwekma Ohlone- the descendent community associated with the landscape surrounding and including Stanford University. The story of Muwekma provides...
ANTHRO112A	Archaeology of Human Rights	This introductory seminar provides a critical vantage point about human rights discourse from an archaeological perspective. The seminar is organized around four main questions: (1) Is cultural heritage a human right? (2) What are archaeologists lear...
ANTHRO113	Culture and Epigenetics: Towards A Non-Darwinian Synthesis	The course examines the impact of new research in epigenetics on our understanding of long-term cultural change. The course examines the various attempts that have been made over recent decades to find a synthesis between cultural and biological evol...
ANTHRO114	Rights and Ethics in Heritage	Heritage is a human thing: made by people and mobilized for their own purposes, it has a range of effects on communities. This course focuses on the human dimension of heritage with special attention to questions of rights and ethics. Where can we lo...
ANTHRO115	The Social life of Human Bones	Skeletal remains serve a primary function of support and protection for the human body. However, beyond this, they have played a range of social roles once an individual is deceased. The processes associated with excarnation, interment, exhumation an...
ANTHRO116	Data Analysis for Quantitative Research	An introduction to numeric methods in Anthropology and related fields employing the Data Desk statistics package to test hypotheses and to explore data. Examples chosen from the instructor's research and other relevant projects. No statistical backgr...
ANTHRO116A	Eating Culture: An Introduction to the Anthropology of Food	Everyone eats, it's an essential and universal part of human existence. But food is not just about calories and nutrition - it is rich with meaning and memory. In this course, we take a broad view of the social meanings of food, cooking, and eating t...
ANTHRO116B	Anthropology of the Environment	This seminar interrogates the history of anthropology's approach to the environment, beginning with early functionalist, structuralist, and Marxist accounts of human-environment relationships. It builds towards more recent developments in the field,...
ANTHRO116C	Native Americans in the 21st Century: Encounters, Identity, and Sovereignty in Contemporary America	What does it mean to be a Native American in the 21st century? Beyond traditional portrayals of military conquests, cultural collapse, and assimilation, the relationships between Native Americans and American society. Focus is on three themes leading...
ANTHRO117C	Global Heritage: Conflict, Reconciliation, and Diplomacy	Archaeological studies from the 1990s framed cultural heritage as a resource that created attachments to place and to the past as a means to buttress national and cultural identities. But heritage can no longer be viewed as simply a marker of a singu...
ANTHRO118C	Heritage Development in the Global South	Heritage is a site of both promise and contestation in the Global South. These nations use it for a wide range of purposes: Peru¿s thriving tourism sector rests on a basis of heritage attractions, South Africa negotiates a post-apartheid identity thr...
ANTHRO118W	Asian American and Settler Colonial Entanglements	Today, the subject of decolonization is at the forefront of a wealth of scholarship as scholars, activists, and institutions grapple with the legacies of colonialism that are far from over. For Asian Americans, there are entanglements with colonialis...
ANTHRO119	Zooarchaeology: An Introduction to Faunal Remains	As regularly noted, whether historic or pre-historic, animal bones are often the most commonly occurring artefacts on archaeological sites. As bioarchaeological samples, they offer the archaeologist an insight into food culture, provisioning, trade a...
ANTHRO119B	Tech Ethics and Ethnography: the human in human-computer interaction	Do machines have culture? How do engineers write themselves into their products? Can we better anticipate the unexpected and unwanted consequences of technologies?Taking as its point of departure the discipline of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), wh...
ANTHRO12	Anthropology and Art	Modernity. How the concept of art appears timeless and commonsensical in the West, and with what social consequences. Historicizing the emergence of art. Modernist uses of primitive, child art, asylum, and outsider art.
ANTHRO121B	"The Will to Adorn": An Anthropology of Dress	This seminar explores sartorial practices as a means for examining formations of identities and structural inequalities across space and time. Building off the definition of dress, pulled from Mary Ellen Roach-Higgins and Joanne B. Eicher, this cours...
ANTHRO122A	Decolonizing Archaeology	What does it mean to say that archaeology is a colonial discipline? Anthropology and archaeology are rooted historically in projects of domination and extermination by colonial powers. Today many scholars, practitioners, and colonized peoples are exp...
ANTHRO123	Ethical Life with Strangers: Sociality and Civility	How do we deal with strangers in different parts of the world. What is a stranger? And to whom? Many theorists suggest that dealing with anonymous strangers is central to norms of sociality and civility. For the thinker Georg Simmel, the stranger is...
ANTHRO123B	Government of Water and Crisis: Corporations, States and the Environment	As the Flint, Michigan water situation began to attract attention and condemnation, Michigan State Representative, Sheldon Neeley, describing the 200 troops on the ground and the Red Cross distributing water bottles, said that the Governor had ¿turne...
ANTHRO123C	"Third World Problems?" Environmental Justice Around the World	As the Flint, Michigan water situation began to attract attention and condemnation, Michigan State Representative, Sheldon Neeley, describing the troops on the ground and the Red Cross distributing water bottles, said that the Governor had "turned an...
ANTHRO124A	Law in Social & Historical Perspective	From lawsuits over coffee spills to military action staged in the name of human rights, 'law' is one of the most potent ideas to proliferate the modern world. In this course, students will engage with the philosophical questions that the concept of l...
ANTHRO124B	Environmental Justice and Anthropology	This course builds on the idea that considering environmental and social justice concerns together is possible and necessary. As such, it examines key issues in environmental justice alongside anthropological studies of related social and environment...
ANTHRO124C	Anthropology of the State	This class seeks to familiarize students with a variety of theoretical perspectives and methodological tools for a study of the state. The social sciences have long deconstructed the image of the state as a coherent unit (along with the Weberian idea...
ANTHRO125A	Critical Mapping Methods in Archaeology	Another title for this course could be "mapping and its discontents" because this is a critical methods course. You will learn, through hands-on lab assignments, how to create and use maps in archaeological analysis using open-source Geographic Infor...
ANTHRO125C	The Archaeology of Institutions	Modern life is marked by institutions - schools, hospitals, international conglomerates, even prisons - so how did they develop and become so common? Historical archaeology can help us tell a different history of institutions because it combines docu...
ANTHRO125W	Critical Feminisms in the Americas	This course examines critical feminist theories, practices, and movements in the Americas. Together, we will explore, analyze, and discuss the work of creators and activists in South America, Central America, the Caribbean, and North America, attendi...
ANTHRO126	Urban Culture in Global Perspective	Core course for Urban Studies majors. A majority of the world's population now live in urban areas and most of the rapid urbanization has taken place in mega-cities outside the Western world. This course explores urban cultures, identities, spatial p...
ANTHRO127B	Millennial Pop Culture: The Making of a Millennial	This course investigates American popular culture since the year 2000. Our goals will be to establish a working definition of the term "millennials" and to determine how pop culture influences the formation of that identity the 21st century. Through...
ANTHRO127C	Anthropology of Sport and the Body	What is sport? Fun? Big money? A tool for freedom... or control?This course will use the work of anthropology and critical studies to probe what exactly sport is, and how it shapes the body. We will begin by looking at various ways in which social th...
ANTHRO127D	HERITAGE POLITICS	Heritage is a matter of the heart and not the brain, David Lowenthal once said. It does not seek to explore the past, but to domesticate it and enlist it for present causes. From the drafting of the first royal decrees on ancient monuments in the 17t...
ANTHRO128	Visual Studies	Drawing on anthropology, art history, cultural studies, and other fields, this course explores how and why one might want to think critically about the politics of visuality, social imagination, the politics of making and consuming images and things,...
ANTHRO128B	MAXIMUM CITY: Post-Colonial Mumbai at the Crossroads of Global and South Asian Culture	There are few cities more emblematic of the rapid urbanization of today's global population than Mumbai, India, formerly known as Bombay. With over 20 million residents, Mumbai today stands as the most populous city in one of the world's most populou...
ANTHRO129B	Black Geographies: An Orientation	This introductory course examines racialization and antiblackness as spatial practices as well as the placemaking practices and sensibilities across and within Black communities throughout the Americas. Rather than focusing merely on where Black peop...
ANTHRO129C	A Deep Dive Into the Indian Ocean: From Prehistory to the Modern Day	The Indian Ocean has formed an enduring connection between three continents, countless small islands and a multitude of cultural and ethnic groups and has become the focus of increasing interest in this geographically vast and culturally diverse regi...
ANTHRO12SI	Watching Theory, Reading Television: examining critical themes in contemporary televised media	This student-initiated seminar provides students with a broad overview of critical social and cultural anthropology theory that will serve as a basis for analysis of themes in contemporary televised media content. The application of readings to selec...
ANTHRO130D	Spatial Approaches to Social Science	This multidisciplinary course combines different approaches to how GIS and spatial tools can be applied in social science research. We take a collaborative, project oriented approach to bring together technical expertise and substantive applications...
ANTHRO132	Religion and Politics in the Muslim World	This course provides an ethnographic examination of religion and politics in the Muslim world. What is the role of Islam in the political life of modern Muslim societies? Conversely, how do modern political powers shape and constrain the terms of rel...
ANTHRO132A	Power and Counter-Power: Anti-Elite Politics in Contemporary Times	We live in politically turbulent times, and so much of the confounding social and political movements of our times seem to position themselves against 'the elite': feminist movements against patriarchal states, autonomists against neoliberal capitali...
ANTHRO132C	Technology and Inequality	In this advanced interdisciplinary seminar we will examine the ways that technologies aimed to make human lives better (healthier, freer, more connected, and informed) often also harbor the potential to exacerbate social inequalities. Drawing from re...
ANTHRO132D	Thinking Technology: Anthropological Perspectives	What role does technology play in society, and vice-versa? This course considers the question from an anthropological perspective, pairing different conceptual models of social-technical relations (Social Constructivism, Actor-Network Theory, Cyborg...
ANTHRO133	Masculinity: Technologies and Cultures of Gender	What is masculinity? How are masculinities invested with power and meaning in cultural contexts? How is anthropological attention to them informed by and extending inquiry across the academy in spheres such as culture studies, political theory, gende...
ANTHRO133W	Anthropology of Social Movements	In recent years, we have witnessed a growing number of social and political upheavals around the world. With new organizational principles, diversified ways of participation and mediation, and expanding themes and goals, these cases, in bringing the...
ANTHRO134	Language, Gender and Sexuality	This course explores how identities of gender and sexuality are linked to particular ways of speaking and using language, and how language itself becomes the site of the politics of gender and sexuality. Enrolled students should have completed prior...
ANTHRO134C	Movements and Migrations: Understanding the Movements of People	Mass movements of people across the world is not a new phenomenon. And yet, in the contemporary moment, the pace of migration from global business networks to displacements from violence and climate change as well as the interconnectivity of social n...
ANTHRO135B	Waste Politics: Contesting Toxicity, Value, and Power	Waste is increasingly central as an object and medium of political contestation in the contemporary world, from struggles over garbage, labor, and dignity in Senegal; to explosive remnants of war acting as rogue infrastructure in the Korean demilitar...
ANTHRO135C	Moving Worlds: Anthropology of Mobility and Travel	This course looks at human mobility from an anthropological perspective. We will read texts that ethnographically explore the experiences of refugees, labor migrants, tourists and seafarers, among others. In particular, we will look at the intersecti...
ANTHRO136	The Anthropology of Global Supply Chains	This upper-division undergraduate seminar focuses on recent studies by anthropologists and scholars in related disciplines on global supply chains and consumption practices.The goal of the course is to assess concepts and methods for integrating a cu...
ANTHRO136B	White Identity Politics	Pundits proclaim that the 2016 Presidential election marks the rise of white identity politics in the United States. Drawing from the field of whiteness studies and from contemporary writings that push whiteness studies in new directions, this upper-...
ANTHRO136C	Latin American Pasts: Archaeology and Cultural Heritage	Latin America is vast in pre-colonial and colonial monuments. Past societies defined by archaeologists - Aztecas, Chavin, Chinchorro, Inka, Maya, Moche, Nazca, Tiahuanaco, among others - cohabit with Spanish colonial era structures and contemporary h...
ANTHRO137	The Politics of Humanitarianism	What does it mean to want to help, to organize humanitarian aid, in times of crisis? At first glance, the impulse to help issue generis a good one. Helping is surely preferable to indifference and inaction. This does not mean that humanitarian interv...
ANTHRO137B	Cuba: Youth in Revolution	This course explores how Cuban youth came to play a pivotal role in 1960s Cuba, a decade when youth culture and politics worldwide were reconstituted. We look at the unique circumstances under which the new socialist revolution in Cuba created an eth...
ANTHRO137D	Political Exhumations. Killing Sites Research in Comparative Perspective	The course discusses the politics and practices of exhumation of individual and mass graves. The problem of exhumations will be considered as a distinct socio-political phenomenon characteristic of contemporary times and related to transitional justi...
ANTHRO138	Medical Ethics in a Global World: Examining Race, Difference and Power in the Research Enterprise	This course will explore historical as well as current market transformations of medical ethics in different global contexts. We will examine various aspects of the research enterprise, its knowledge-generating and life-saving goals, as well as the s...
ANTHRO139C	Anthropology of Global Health	Global health has been the contested realm of theoretical debates and praxis in medical anthropology. Rationalities behind global health projects reflected the predominant mode of envisioning health in specific historical moments.· In this course, w...
ANTHRO13SC	Evolution: The Unity and Diversity of Life	The theory of evolution is one of the most important theories in all the natural and social sciences, and it is crucial to understanding the diversity of life on Earth. This course explores the history of evolutionary thinking from Darwin (and his p...
ANTHRO140C	Mobilizing Nature	From Brazil's Landless Worker's Movement (MST) to Water Wars of Cochabamba to Standing Rock, these moments of protest have turned into movements. This seminar will examine how theoretical framings of movements have shifted from claims about political...
ANTHRO144	Art and the Repair of the Self	Engaging the body/mind and its senses in the making of images and things has long been considered to have potentially great therapeutic significance. This course is a close examination of making as a form of therapy, as a form of communication, and,...
ANTHRO145S	Implicit Bias: Stereotyping, Prejudice, and the Psychology of Racism	This class explores the psychology and sociology of prejudice, asking a deceptively simple question: what is race? From here follows a second question: what is racism? We'll explore implicit bias, and equip students to understand it, recognize it, an...
ANTHRO147	Empires and Diasporas	When a society moves, we call it a diaspora. When a state moves, we call it an empire. This course explores how the interaction of these two kinds of mobility gave shape to the world we live in. We will discuss 1) how to trace the movement of states...
ANTHRO147B	World Heritage in Global Conflict	Heritage is always political, it is typically said. Such a statement might refer to the everyday politics of local stakeholder interests on one end of the spectrum, or the volatile politics of destruction and erasure of heritage during conflict, on t...
ANTHRO148	Health, Politics, and Culture of Modern China	One of the most generative regions for medical anthropology inquiry in recent years has been Asia. This seminar is designed to introduce upper division undergraduates and graduate students to the methodological hurdles, representational challenges,...
ANTHRO154C	Animism, Gaia, and Alternative Approaches to the Environment	Indigenous knowledges have been traditionally treated as a field of research for anthropologists and as mistaken epistemologies, i.e., un-scientific and irrational folklore. However, within the framework of environmental humanities, current interest...
ANTHRO156	Japanese Anthropology	This is an advanced reading seminar in the field of Japanses Anthropology. It will explore the historical development of the field and the contemporary issues and topics taken up by scholars of Japanese anthropology. Prior knowledge of Japanese lang...
ANTHRO157	Japanese Anthropology	This seminar focuses on the intersection between politics and popular culture in contemporary Japan. It will survey a range of social and political implications of practices of popular culture. Topics include J-pop, manga, anime, and other popular vi...
ANTHRO158	The Anthropology of Social Class	Course introduces social theory concepts and paradigms for the understanding of class. It then extends and revises those concepts and paradigms by considering anthropological approaches in different cultural and historical settings that consider the...
ANTHRO159C	Ecological Humanities	What sort of topics, research questions, approaches, theories and concepts lead to an integration of various kinds of knowledges? Ecological Humanities provides a conceptual platform for a merger of humanities and social sciences with earth and life...
ANTHRO16	Native Americans in the 21st Century: Encounters, Identity, and Sovereignty in Contemporary America	What does it mean to be a Native American in the 21st century? Beyond traditional portrayals of military conquests, cultural collapse, and assimilation, the relationships between Native Americans and American society. Focus is on three themes leading...
ANTHRO160	Visual Politics and Social Movements	Images, the visual imagination, and visual/graphic skills have always been vitally important in the empowerment of social movements. Organized as an intensive research workshop, this course will examine the political uses of images in anti-racist mov...
ANTHRO166A	Semiotics for Ethnography	This workshop-style seminar introduces students to core theories and concepts in linguistic and semiotic anthropology. Examining current theoretical innovations in this field of study, the course explores the multivalent relationships between languag...
ANTHRO171	The Biology and Evolution of Language	Lecture course surveying the biology, linguistic functions, and evolution of the organs of speech and speech centers in the brain, language in animals and humans, the evolution of language itself, and the roles of innateness vs. culture in language....
ANTHRO176	Cultures, Minds, and Medicine	This workshop aims to bring together scholars from the social sciences, humanities, medicine and bio-science and technology to explore the ways that health and illness are made through complex social forces. We aim for informal, interactive sessions,...
ANTHRO177	Viral Histories: The Anthropology of Epidemics, Pandemics, and Contagion	This course will offer a history of pandemics, virology, vaccines, and epidemics as distinct but inter-related facets of the rise of biomedicine. Beginning with the discovery of small-pox inoculation, which smeared the pus of humans or animals into s...
ANTHRO178B	History of Medicine	This seminar course will examine medical successes and failures to better understand the politics, economics, and sociality of medicine as a practice and a culture. Examples will be drawn from technical developments such as vaccines; methodological i...
ANTHRO179B	Culture of Disease: The Social History of Vaccines	This course will detail the history and develop of vaccines, specifically examining critical issues such as personal choice v. public health, the use of experimental subjects, population-wide medical trials, and the use of animal tissues in vaccine d...
ANTHRO180B	Investigating Ancient Materials	This course examines how concepts and methods from materials science are applied to the analysis of archaeological artifacts, with a focus on artifacts made from inorganic materials (ceramics and metals). Coverage includes chemical analysis, microsco...
ANTHRO182N	Smoke and Mirrors in Global Health	A few years ago, health experts began calling out tobacco as engendering a global health crisis, categorizing the cigarette as the world's greatest weapon of mass destruction. A "global health crisis"? What merits that title if not tobacco use? A hun...
ANTHRO184A	Vital Curse: Oil As Culture	Rapidly-evolving technology draws increasing amounts of petroleum from the ground, while wars and friendly agreements move it around the globe, all to occasionally-disastrous result. Pronounced environmental concerns such as fracking, pipelines, plas...
ANTHRO184W	Anthropology of Work	What is work? What kinds of labor can be registered as work? How is a worker made? This course will provide an anthropological inquiry into the category of work. We will explore how work is conceptualized, what is and isn't considered work, and how w...
ANTHRO186	Culture and Madness: Anthropological and Psychiatric Approaches to Mental Illness	Unusual mental phenomena have existed throughout history and across cultures. Taught by an anthropologist and psychiatrist, this course explores how different societies construct the notions of "madness": What are the boundaries between "normal" and...
ANTHRO188	Matter and Mattering: Transdisciplinary Thinking about Things	Things sit at the nexus of cross-cutting heterogeneous processes; tracing the entanglements of any prominent thing or class of things demands a transdisciplinary approach that recruits expertise from the natural sciences, social sciences and humaniti...
ANTHRO193	Anthropology Capstone: Contemporary Debates in Anthropology	The Capstone in Anthropology builds on courses in theory and method in the major, asking students to employ anthropological perspectives on contemporary social problems. Students revisit foundational questions in the discipline of anthropology in ord...
ANTHRO196	Anthropology of Socialism	This course offers an anthropological perspective on ideas and practices of socialism, past, and present. It is concerned both with the anthropological study of 'actually-existing socialism' and with both classical and contemporary conceptions of wh...
ANTHRO196F	The Worlds of Labor in Modern India	This colloquium will introduce students to the exciting and expanding field of Indian labor history and provide them a comprehensive historiographical foundation in this area of historical research. Seminars will engage with one key monograph in the...
ANTHRO197C	The Structure of Colonial Power: South Asia since the Eighteenth Century	How did the colonial encounter shape the making of modern South Asia? Was colonial rule a radical rupture from the pre-modern past or did it embody historical continuities? Did colonial rule cause the economic underdevelopment of the region or were r...
ANTHRO198A	Archaeological Geographic Information Systems	This advanced undergraduate and graduate seminar will provide students with practical and theoretical training in Geographical Information Systems (GIS) as applied to archaeological research, introducing students to spatial theories and GIS methodolo...
ANTHRO198B	Digital Traces	What stories do data tell? In this course, we will follow digital traces by excavating, interrogating, and pursuing the digital evidence in data. What is the relationship between narratives and digital evidence? How do we address the tension between...
ANTHRO199	Senior and Master's Paper Writing Workshop	Techniques of interpreting data, organizing bibliographic materials, writing, editing and revising. Preparation of papers for conferences and publications in anthropology. Seniors register for 199; master's students register for 299.
ANTHRO1S	Introduction to Cultural and Social Anthropology	This course introduces basic anthropological concepts and presents the discipline's distinctive perspective on society and culture. The power of this perspective is illustrated by exploring vividly-written ethnographic cases that show how anthropolo...
ANTHRO201	Introduction to Cultural and Social Anthropology	This course introduces basic anthropological concepts and presents the discipline's distinctive perspective on society and culture. The power of this perspective is illustrated by exploring vividly-written ethnographic cases that show how anthropolo...
ANTHRO201S	Introduction to Cultural and Social Anthropology	This course introduces basic anthropological concepts and presents the discipline's distinctive perspective on society and culture. The power of this perspective is illustrated by exploring vividly-written ethnographic cases that show how anthropolo...
ANTHRO203	The Archaeology of Climate	This course reviews the long-term relationships between human societies and Earth's climatic systems. It provides a critical review of how archaeologists have approached climate change through various case studies and historical paradigms (e.g., soci...
ANTHRO203A	Human Osteoarchaeology	The course will cover the methodological and theoretical backgrounds to human osteoarchaeology, introduce the student to the chemical and physical characteristics of bone, and to the functional morphology of the human skeleton. Classes will consist o...
ANTHRO206A	Incas and their Ancestors: Peruvian Archaeology	The development of high civilizations in Andean S. America from hunter-gatherer origins to the powerful, expansive Inca empire. The contrasting ecologies of coast, sierra, and jungle areas of early Peruvian societies from 12,000 to 2,000 B.C.E. The d...
ANTHRO209A	Archaeology of the Modern World	Historical archaeology, also called the archaeology of the modern world, investigates the material culture and spatial history of the past five centures. As a discipline, historical archaeology has been characterized by (1) a methodological conjuncti...
ANTHRO20N	Islam and the Idea of Europe	Policy makers often ask whether Muslims can be integrated into Europe. The question itself presumes, often without justification, that Islam as such is foreign to Europe. This course seeks to challenge this presumption. What if the very idea of Europ...
ANTHRO210	Environmental Archaeology	This course investigates the field of environmental archaeology. Its goals are twofold: 1) to critically consider the intellectual histories of environmental archaeology, and, 2) to survey the various techniques and methods by which archaeologists as...
ANTHRO210B	Examining Ethnographies	Eight or nine important ethnographies, including their construction, their impact, and their faults and virtues.
ANTHRO212B	Biology, Culture and Social Justice in Latin America: Perspectives from Forensic Anthropology	This course will only take place in the first 5 weeks of the quarter.As forensic anthropologists, we are routinely asked to make identifications of unknown human remains and provide courtroom testimony. Latin America has become a nexus for social jus...
ANTHRO213	Culture and Epigenetics: Towards A Non-Darwinian Synthesis	The course examines the impact of new research in epigenetics on our understanding of long-term cultural change. The course examines the various attempts that have been made over recent decades to find a synthesis between cultural and biological evol...
ANTHRO214	Rights and Ethics in Heritage	Heritage is a human thing: made by people and mobilized for their own purposes, it has a range of effects on communities. This course focuses on the human dimension of heritage with special attention to questions of rights and ethics. Where can we lo...
ANTHRO215	The Social life of Human Bones	Skeletal remains serve a primary function of support and protection for the human body. However, beyond this, they have played a range of social roles once an individual is deceased. The processes associated with excarnation, interment, exhumation an...
ANTHRO216	Data Analysis for Quantitative Research	An introduction to numeric methods in Anthropology and related fields employing the Data Desk statistics package to test hypotheses and to explore data. Examples chosen from the instructor's research and other relevant projects. No statistical backgr...
ANTHRO216B	Anthropology of the Environment	This seminar interrogates the history of anthropology's approach to the environment, beginning with early functionalist, structuralist, and Marxist accounts of human-environment relationships. It builds towards more recent developments in the field,...
ANTHRO219	Zooarchaeology: An Introduction to Faunal Remains	As regularly noted, whether historic or pre-historic, animal bones are often the most commonly occurring artefacts on archaeological sites. As bioarchaeological samples, they offer the archaeologist an insight into food culture, provisioning, trade a...
ANTHRO221B	"The Will to Adorn": An Anthropology of Dress	This seminar explores sartorial practices as a means for examining formations of identities and structural inequalities across space and time. Building off the definition of dress, pulled from Mary Ellen Roach-Higgins and Joanne B. Eicher, this cours...
ANTHRO222A	Decolonizing Archaeology	What does it mean to say that archaeology is a colonial discipline? Anthropology and archaeology are rooted historically in projects of domination and extermination by colonial powers. Today many scholars, practitioners, and colonized peoples are exp...
ANTHRO223	Ethical Life with Strangers: Sociality and Civility	How do we deal with strangers in different parts of the world. What is a stranger? And to whom? Many theorists suggest that dealing with anonymous strangers is central to norms of sociality and civility. For the thinker Georg Simmel, the stranger is...
ANTHRO224B	Environmental Justice and Anthropology	This course builds on the idea that considering environmental and social justice concerns together is possible and necessary. As such, it examines key issues in environmental justice alongside anthropological studies of related social and environment...
ANTHRO225A	Critical Mapping Methods in Archaeology	Another title for this course could be "mapping and its discontents" because this is a critical methods course. You will learn, through hands-on lab assignments, how to create and use maps in archaeological analysis using open-source Geographic Infor...
ANTHRO229C	A Deep Dive Into the Indian Ocean: From Prehistory to the Modern Day	The Indian Ocean has formed an enduring connection between three continents, countless small islands and a multitude of cultural and ethnic groups and has become the focus of increasing interest in this geographically vast and culturally diverse regi...
ANTHRO230D	Spatial Approaches to Social Science	This multidisciplinary course combines different approaches to how GIS and spatial tools can be applied in social science research. We take a collaborative, project oriented approach to bring together technical expertise and substantive applications...
ANTHRO233	Masculinity: Technologies and Cultures of Gender	What is masculinity? How are masculinities invested with power and meaning in cultural contexts? How is anthropological attention to them informed by and extending inquiry across the academy in spheres such as culture studies, political theory, gende...
ANTHRO234	Language, Gender and Sexuality	This course explores how identities of gender and sexuality are linked to particular ways of speaking and using language, and how language itself becomes the site of the politics of gender and sexuality. Enrolled students should have completed prior...
ANTHRO235B	Waste Politics: Contesting Toxicity, Value, and Power	Waste is increasingly central as an object and medium of political contestation in the contemporary world, from struggles over garbage, labor, and dignity in Senegal; to explosive remnants of war acting as rogue infrastructure in the Korean demilitar...
ANTHRO237	The Politics of Humanitarianism	What does it mean to want to help, to organize humanitarian aid, in times of crisis? At first glance, the impulse to help issue generis a good one. Helping is surely preferable to indifference and inaction. This does not mean that humanitarian interv...
ANTHRO238	Medical Ethics in a Global World: Examining Race, Difference and Power in the Research Enterprise	This course will explore historical as well as current market transformations of medical ethics in different global contexts. We will examine various aspects of the research enterprise, its knowledge-generating and life-saving goals, as well as the s...
ANTHRO23B	Race and the War on Drugs: Long Roots and Other Futures	Current discussions of the war on drugs reference Richard Nixon's 1971 declaration as a starting point. This class will encourage students instead to see the war on drugs beyond seemingly self-evident margins and imaginaries. In this course, we will...
ANTHRO244	Art and the Repair of the Self	Engaging the body/mind and its senses in the making of images and things has long been considered to have potentially great therapeutic significance. This course is a close examination of making as a form of therapy, as a form of communication, and,...
ANTHRO247	Empires and Diasporas	When a society moves, we call it a diaspora. When a state moves, we call it an empire. This course explores how the interaction of these two kinds of mobility gave shape to the world we live in. We will discuss 1) how to trace the movement of states...
ANTHRO247B	World Heritage in Global Conflict	Heritage is always political, it is typically said. Such a statement might refer to the everyday politics of local stakeholder interests on one end of the spectrum, or the volatile politics of destruction and erasure of heritage during conflict, on t...
ANTHRO248	Health, Politics, and Culture of Modern China	One of the most generative regions for medical anthropology inquiry in recent years has been Asia. This seminar is designed to introduce upper division undergraduates and graduate students to the methodological hurdles, representational challenges,...
ANTHRO254C	Animism, Gaia, and Alternative Approaches to the Environment	Indigenous knowledges have been traditionally treated as a field of research for anthropologists and as mistaken epistemologies, i.e., un-scientific and irrational folklore. However, within the framework of environmental humanities, current interest...
ANTHRO254W	Environmental Knowledges: Western and Indigenous	The aim of the course is to analyze the relations between Indigenous and Western knowledges, and highlight the most important points of contact between the two systems. It will contribute to building inclusive and holistic knowledge in order to addre...
ANTHRO256	Japanese Anthropology	This is an advanced reading seminar in the field of Japanses Anthropology. It will explore the historical development of the field and the contemporary issues and topics taken up by scholars of Japanese anthropology. Prior knowledge of Japanese lang...
ANTHRO257	Japanese Anthropology	This seminar focuses on the intersection between politics and popular culture in contemporary Japan. It will survey a range of social and political implications of practices of popular culture. Topics include J-pop, manga, anime, and other popular vi...
ANTHRO258	The Anthropology of Social Class	Course introduces social theory concepts and paradigms for the understanding of class. It then extends and revises those concepts and paradigms by considering anthropological approaches in different cultural and historical settings that consider the...
ANTHRO259C	Ecological Humanities	What sort of topics, research questions, approaches, theories and concepts lead to an integration of various kinds of knowledges? Ecological Humanities provides a conceptual platform for a merger of humanities and social sciences with earth and life...
ANTHRO262A	Visual Activism and Social Justice	Anthropology and the academy more generally have long valued text, language, and cognition more highly than the image, visuality, and the imagination. Yet, contemporary political movements and strategies for social justice and transformation vividly...
ANTHRO265G	Writing and Voice: Anthropological Telling through Literature and Practices of Expression	In this graduate seminar we will explore how writers draw from their worlds of experience to create humanistic works of broad 'and often urgent' appeal. We will pay special attention to how creative writers integrate details of history, kinship, com...
ANTHRO266A	Semiotics for Ethnography	This workshop-style seminar introduces students to core theories and concepts in linguistic and semiotic anthropology. Examining current theoretical innovations in this field of study, the course explores the multivalent relationships between languag...
ANTHRO271	The Biology and Evolution of Language	Lecture course surveying the biology, linguistic functions, and evolution of the organs of speech and speech centers in the brain, language in animals and humans, the evolution of language itself, and the roles of innateness vs. culture in language....
ANTHRO276	Cultures, Minds, and Medicine	This workshop aims to bring together scholars from the social sciences, humanities, medicine and bio-science and technology to explore the ways that health and illness are made through complex social forces. We aim for informal, interactive sessions,...
ANTHRO27N	Ethnicity and Violence: Anthropological Perspectives	Ethnicity is one of the most compelling and most modern ways in which people - in the midst of considerable global and local uncertainty - all across the world imagine and narrate themselves. This seminar will take an anthropological look at both the...
ANTHRO280B	Investigating Ancient Materials	This course examines how concepts and methods from materials science are applied to the analysis of archaeological artifacts, with a focus on artifacts made from inorganic materials (ceramics and metals). Coverage includes chemical analysis, microsco...
ANTHRO282	Medical Anthropology	Emphasis is on how health, illness, and healing are understood, experienced, and constructed in social, cultural, and historical contexts. Topics: biopower and body politics, gender and reproductive technologies, illness experiences, medical diversit...
ANTHRO286	Culture and Madness: Anthropological and Psychiatric Approaches to Mental Illness	Unusual mental phenomena have existed throughout history and across cultures. Taught by an anthropologist and psychiatrist, this course explores how different societies construct the notions of "madness": What are the boundaries between "normal" and...
ANTHRO288	Matter and Mattering: Transdisciplinary Thinking about Things	Things sit at the nexus of cross-cutting heterogeneous processes; tracing the entanglements of any prominent thing or class of things demands a transdisciplinary approach that recruits expertise from the natural sciences, social sciences and humaniti...
ANTHRO296F	The Worlds of Labor in Modern India	This colloquium will introduce students to the exciting and expanding field of Indian labor history and provide them a comprehensive historiographical foundation in this area of historical research. Seminars will engage with one key monograph in the...
ANTHRO298A	Archaeological Geographic Information Systems	This advanced undergraduate and graduate seminar will provide students with practical and theoretical training in Geographical Information Systems (GIS) as applied to archaeological research, introducing students to spatial theories and GIS methodolo...
ANTHRO298C	Digital Methods in Anthropology	The course provides an introduction to a broad range of digital tools and techniques for anthropological research. It is geared towards those interested in exploring such methodologies for their research and wanting to add hands-on experience with st...
ANTHRO299	Senior and Master's Paper Writing Workshop	Techniques of interpreting data, organizing bibliographic materials, writing, editing and revising. Preparation of papers for conferences and publications in anthropology. Seniors register for 199; master's students register for 299.
ANTHRO29A	Race, Indigeneity, and Cultural Heritage in Latin America	This course introduces students to the anthropological study of social difference and inequality in contemporary Latin America. It focuses on the intersections of race, Indigeneity, and cultural heritage. Since European contact, race has been a key c...
ANTHRO3	Introduction to Archaeology	Aims, methods, and data in the study of human society's development from early hunters through late prehistoric civilizations. Archaeological sites and remains characteristic of the stages of cultural development for selected geographic areas, emphas...
ANTHRO300	Reading Theory Through Ethnography	Required of and restricted to first-year ANTHRO Ph.D. students. Focus is on contemporary ethnography and related cultural and social theories generated by texts. Topics include agency, resistance, and identity formation, and discourse analysis. Prere...
ANTHRO301	History of Anthropological Theory, Culture and Society	Required of Anthropology Ph.D. students. The history of cultural and social anthropology in relation to historical and national contexts and key theoretical and methodological issues as these inform contemporary theory and practices of the discipline...
ANTHRO301A	Foundations of Social Theory	Modern social theory is based on intellectual horizons emerging in Europe from the 17th to the 19th/20th centuries. This burst of new ideas was intertwined with some of the darkest chapters in Europe's history: the enslavement, subjection and exploit...
ANTHRO302A	Technopolitics: Materiality, Power, Theory	This graduate readings seminar provides a lively introduction to some of the major themes and issues in the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS). How do technologies and material assemblages perform power? How are their designs and uses shap...
ANTHRO302D	Power in the Anthropocene: Pasts, Presents, Futures	The Anthropocene designates the present geological epoch, in which humans have irreversibly changed planet Earth, with impacts discernible in the atmosphere, biosphere, and more. The term has also become a "charismatic mega-category" in the humanitie...
ANTHRO303	Introduction to Archaeological Thought	The history of archaeological thought emphasizes recent debates. Evolutionary theories, behavioral archaeology, processual and cognitive archaeology, and approaches termed feminist and post-processual archaeology in the context of wider debate in adj...
ANTHRO303A	Contemporary Debates in Archaeological Thought	This course provides students an introduction to archaeological theory, ethics, and practice in the early 21st century. We will consider the wide range of moves beyond post-processualist archaeology; These will include but not limited to materiality,...
ANTHRO303E	Infrastructure & Power in the Global South	In the last decade, the field of infrastructure studies has entered into conversation with area studies, post/colonial studies, and other scholarship on the "Global South." These intersections have produced dramatic new understandings of what "infras...
ANTHRO303X	Memory, Materiality, and Archaeology	This seminar will explore several themes related to memory and material culture - broadly conceived to include art, architecture, the built environment, and landscapes, through archaeological, historical, and ethnographic lenses. How can we understa...
ANTHRO304	Becoming Muslim: Practice, Assemblage, Tradition	The growing study of material Islam broadly occupies two distinct fields: first, archaeologies of premodern Islam and material histories and second, ethnographic meditations on the distinctive relation between the materiality of practice and subjecti...
ANTHRO306	Anthropological Research Methods	Required of ANTHRO Ph.D. students. Other graduate students may enroll. Research methods and modes of evidence building in ethnographic research. Prerequisite: By instructor consent. Significant work outside of class time is expected of the student fo...
ANTHRO307	Archaeological Methods	Methodological aspects of field and laboratory practice from traditional archaeological methods to the latest interdisciplinary analytical techniques. The nature of archaeological data and inference; interpretive potential of these techniques. Prereq...
ANTHRO308	Proposal Writing Seminar in Cultural and Social Anthropology	Required of second-year Ph.D. students in the culture and society track. The conceptualization of dissertation research problems, the theories behind them, and the methods for exploring them. Participants draft a research prospectus suitable for a di...
ANTHRO308A	Proposal Writing Seminar in Archaeology	Required of second-year Ph.D. students in the archaeology track. The conceptualization of dissertation research problems, the theories behind them, and the methods for exploring them. Participants draft a research prospectus suitable for a dissertati...
ANTHRO30N	Does Science Have Culture?	In this course students will engage with the anthropology of science and medicine to explore the how cultural norms shape scientific understandings. Through a series of diverse global case studies, seminar participants will assess how historical con...
ANTHRO310C	Intersections	Themes of materiality and visuality, aesthetic and other forms of cultural production, and the meanings of creativity and convention. Ethnographic and archaeological material and case studies from worldwide cultural contexts. Prerequisite: consent of...
ANTHRO310G	Introduction to Graduate Studies	Required graduate seminar. The history of anthropological theory and key theoretical and methodological issues of the discipline. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
ANTHRO311G	Introduction to Culture and Society Graduate Studies in Anthropology	Required graduate seminar for CS track. The history of anthropological theory and key theoretical and methodological issues in cultural anthropology. Prerequistes: this course is open only to Ph.D. students in anthropology or by permission of the ins...
ANTHRO312	Time Travel: Pasts, Places, and Possibilities	Is the past dead or alive? Where do we find it? What possibilities emerge when we discover it? This course explores how people think and live with history in the present, how different places can harbor different times, and how movement between them...
ANTHRO313A	Fine Observation: Ways of Seeing, Forms of Fieldwork	Explores possibilities for reimagining ethnography as a genre of writing and mode of knowledge production through delving into documentary and representational practices in other fields, including literature, journalism, art history, graphic novels,...
ANTHRO316	The Archaeology of the Contemporary Past	Archaeology is not limited to the study of the remote past. What happened a fifty years ago or even this morning can be subjected to archaeological scrutiny as well. In this course, we will see what the discipline has to say about the Second World Wa...
ANTHRO31Q	The Big Shift	Is the middle class shrinking? How do people who live at the extremes of American society- the super rich, the working poor and those who live on the margins, imagine and experience "the good life"? How do we understand phenomena such as gang culture...
ANTHRO32	Theories in Race and Ethnicity: A Comparative Perspective	This undergraduate course employs an anthropological and historical perspective to introduce students to ideas and concepts of race and ethnicity that emerged primarily in Europe and the United States in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and th...
ANTHRO323	Graduate Seminar in Economic Anthropology	Classical and contemporary anthropological perspectives on topics such as money, markets and exchange; capitalist and non-capitalist modes of production; class and socio-economic differentiation; globalization and neoliberalism; and the social and cu...
ANTHRO324	Political Anthropology	An anthropological approach to politics through bringing anthropological ways of thinking and modes of analysis to bear on key presuppositions of modern Western political thought. Ideas of rights, the individual, society, liberty, democracy, equality...
ANTHRO325	Care: A Critical Inquiry	Care: A Critical Inquiry examines ethnographic, philosophical, and social theoretical texts to understand the recent turn to care in anthropology. Topics include care as a relation; care and abandonment; the rationalization of care in law and medicin...
ANTHRO325W	Care and State	Care poses challenges for states around the world, as can be seen in healthcare and public childcare during the pandemic, elder care in ageing societies, and transnational care migration. While both state and care are discussed extensively in the soc...
ANTHRO326	Postcolonial and Indigenous Archaeologies	The role of postcolonial and Indigenous archaeologies as emergeant disciplinary activities within contemporary society. Community based archaeologies; the roles of oral history, landscape, and memory; archaeology as political action; and history in a...
ANTHRO330A	The Archive: Form, Practice, Thought	This seminar offers a wide-ranging exploration of the `archive.' Drawing from ethnography, social theory, philosophy, photography and literature, we will examine the archive's diverse material, narratological and structural dimensions, its epistemolo...
ANTHRO332	Anthropology of Ethics	Recent decades have witnessed what some scholars have termed an ethical turn in anthropology. This course explores the emergence of this field of study, asking the following questions: What has motivated a renewed anthropological interest in the subj...
ANTHRO332B	Tradition	A central concept in modern social theory, the notion of tradition often invokes a picture of life stressing constraint against freedom, continuity against becoming, and transmission instead of novelty. This course asks why the concept of tradition e...
ANTHRO334A	A Family Romance: The Family in Contemporary Society	"The family" is considered one of the most universal structures of human life. The study of kinship has wandered off anthropological syllabi just as it assumes ever greater significance within contemporary (often dystopic) political debates on the so...
ANTHRO337	VOICES	This course takes an anthropological perspective on psychotic voices, voices of resistance (mad and sane), voices of authority, voices of spirit, the sense of communication from another seen or unseen. We end with the writer's voice and how students...
ANTHRO338A	Policing and the Carceral State	Police in the United States have come under greater public scrutiny in recent years, particularly as cell-phone videos make visible abuses by police, prompting nation-wide protests for social justice, police reform, and abolition. Increased scholarl...
ANTHRO338B	History and Memory	How are history and memory important in the making of collective and public memory? This seminar draws together an interdisciplinary collection of readings with an aim to provide a foundation for seminar participants¿ projects, both historical and co...
ANTHRO339	Anthropology of Religion	This course presents classic and contemporary work on the anthropology of religion: Durkheim Elementary Forms of the Religious Life; Levy-Bruhl; Primitive Mentality; Douglas Purity and Danger; Evans Pritchard Nuer Religion; and recent ethnographies/...
ANTHRO34	Animals and Us	The human-animal relationship is dynamic, all encompassing and durable. Without exception, all socio-cultural groups have evidenced complex interactions with the animals around them, both domesticated and wild. However, the individual circumstances o...
ANTHRO342W	Whose Public Art? Monuments and Murals in a Contested Public Sphere	Public art, murals, and monuments have become a flashpoint for debate over civic values, memory, and belonging. The United States has experienced increased contestation over public symbols, particularly historic statues, with responses ranging from d...
ANTHRO343	Culture as Commodity	Cultural anthropologists have made significant contributions to studies that link culture and economy. Drawing together a range of cross-cultural debates, as these emerge in theoretical discussions and ethnographies, this graduate seminar explores th...
ANTHRO345	New Visions in Medical Anthropology	Recent experimental histories of the field. Emphasis is on how, working within anthropology's classic format, the ethnographic monograph, authors have innovatively responded to the challenges of representing amorphous, unspoken, and often violent rel...
ANTHRO345A	Race and Power: The Making of Human Difference in History, Biology and Capital	This course examines how race is made. We will pay close attention to how people engage with material, economic, scientific, and cultural forces to articulate human group difference as a given, and even natural. In this seminar, we will look at the r...
ANTHRO347A	Global Heritage, Religion and Secularism	This course examines the ways in which religion and spirituality have been addressed in heritage preservation history, discourse, and practice. Readings will focus on the convergence of religious and heritage traditions at differenthistorical and cul...
ANTHRO348A	Health, Politics, and Culture of Modern China	One of the most generative regions for medical anthropology inquiry in recent years has been Asia. This seminar is designed to introduce upper division undergraduates and graduate students to the methodological hurdles, representational challenges,...
ANTHRO348B	Bodies, Technologies, and Natures in Africa	This interdisciplinary course explores how modern African histories, bodies, and natures have been entangled with technological activities. Viewing Africans as experts and innovators, we consider how technologies have mediated, represented, or perfor...
ANTHRO348C	Phenomenology	The goal of this seminar is to explore the phenomenological method in ethnographic and historical research. We will discuss work by Merleau-Ponty, Husserl, Levinas, Freud, Stein, Petitmengin, Joelle Proust, James, and others in the context of ethnogr...
ANTHRO348P	ProSeminar: Medical Anthropology	This seminar will focus on recent and seminal texts in Medical Anthropology, broadly construed.Prerequisite: by instructor consent
ANTHRO349	Anthropology of Capitalism	This advanced graduate seminar explores capitalism as an historically-situated and culturally-mediated articulation of practices rather than as an economic system or social structure governed by an internal logic. It draws on poststructural theories...
ANTHRO351D	Ideologies and Practices of Creativity	The still-robust Romantic conception of creativity as the attribute of a specific, 'gifted', individual continues to have extraordinary social and political power as an ideological apparatus that shapes and disciplines conduct, aspirations, and subje...
ANTHRO353	Landscape	This graduate seminar introduces interdisciplinary approaches to landscape study. The broad range of theoretical approaches includes human and non-human interactions and overlapping and divergent, spatial and temporal questions derived from the excha...
ANTHRO354	Cultural Techniques	Building on the concept of 'cultural techniques,' or 'Kulturtechniken,' that has been developing in recent German media studies, this advanced graduate seminar considers a wide range of culturally specific modes of elementary techniques, from cutting...
ANTHRO356A	The Universal and the Vernacular. The Global Life of Concepts and Social Forms	Mapping and understanding vernacular concepts and terminologies has always been central to the anthropological quest to understand societies from `a native point of view'. This has often been accompanied by a critique of universalist and Euro-centric...
ANTHRO360A	Archival Research for Social Science: A Practicuum	Since the 1980s, the necessity of historicizing cultural and social formations has become established as integral to anthropological research. Every ethnography and dissertation has historical sections, derived primarily from secondary sources, comme...
ANTHRO361	Life and Death in Contemporary Latin America: An Anthropological Inquiry	This seminar explores life and death in contemporary Latin America. We will address anthropological understanding of the role of colonialism, migration, violence, urbanization, democratic transition and neoliberalism as they configure the experience...
ANTHRO362A	Visual Anthropology	This course will offer ways of understanding how scholars can attend to, theorize, and use visual documents such as photographs, drawings, prints, forms, charts, etc. in ethnographic work. Prerequisite by Instructor consent.
ANTHRO363	Queer Anthropology	Feminist and queer theory have profoundly rethought epistemologies as well as methodologies. This graduate seminar will explore the relationship between feminist and queer theory and the new directions proposed by queer anthropology in socio-cultural...
ANTHRO365A	Emancipation: Theories and Experiences	Concepts of emancipation have been treated in a wide variety of historical, political, regional and social perspectives. In the US, emancipation and post emancipation societies are primarily understood around histories of enslavement. In the class, w...
ANTHRO366	Material Semiotics	This seminar will focus on the emerging body of literature on the materiality of the production, circulation, and mediation of paperwork as constituitive of modern forms of governance. We will discuss specific genres of paperworks - notes, memos, fi...
ANTHRO366W	Semiotics for Ethnography	This workshop-style seminar will introduce students to a range of semiotic and linguistic anthropological approaches and tools for ethnographic analysis. A group of (linguistic) anthropologists from other universities will be invited to offer worksho...
ANTHRO367	The Anthropology of Science: Global Politics and Laboratory Life	Science and technology are important cultural products that often dramatically reorganize various aspects of human life. In this course we will explore how recent innovations in the life sciences and biomedicine may reconfigure crucial elements of so...
ANTHRO368A	Time and Temporality	This course explores the social and political organization of time. Anthropology has long been critical of the narratives of progress that are embedded in concepts of modern politics, such as development, citizenship, secularism, and sovereignty. How...
ANTHRO371	Living and Dying in the Contemporary World	This seminar explores how biological, political and social conditions transform and conjoin experiences of living and dying in the world today. Engaging contemporary ethnographies and social theory, we will examine how life and death, the natural and...
ANTHRO372	Urban Ecologies	At the intersections of urbanism and environmental studies, political ecology, postcolonial theory and the new materialism, new fields are in formation. This seminar explores scholarship that connects cities with countrysides rough questions of resou...
ANTHRO373	Things: An Archaeology of the Relationships Between Humans and Things	This course examines a variety of approaches that claim to explore the relationships between humans and things. Some of the approaches include Marx and material culture studies; Heidegger; cognitive and phenomenological; Actor Network Theory. But the...
ANTHRO374	Archaeology of Colonialism/Postcolonialisms	Advanced graduate seminar focused on the archaeology of colonial and postcolonial contexts, both prehistoric and historic. Emphasis on intersections between archaeological research and subaltern, postcolonial, and transnational feminist/queer theory....
ANTHRO376	Archaeology: The Emergence of a Discipline	This course explores the key thinkers and practitioners who have founded the discipline of archaeology. Reaching back into the nineteenth century, the course examines in depth the key figures, their preoccupations and projects that shaped the way tha...
ANTHRO378B	Culture, Mind and Emotion : Anthropological and Psychological Approaches	How does culture shape the experience of thinking and feeling, the way humans relate to the world and to others? This graduate level course, taught by a psychologist who studies emotion (Jeanne Tsai) and an anthropologist who studies mind (Tanya Mari...
ANTHRO379	Empathy Lab	This lab-based class examines the ways in which various disciplines and art forms conceive of, and tell stories about, the experiences and stories of others. With permission of instructor.
ANTHRO381	Archaeology of Violence	This advanced graduate seminar reflects on archaeological research on violence in relation to readings in philosophy, political anthropology, cultural studies, and gender and ethnic studies. While some forensic approaches are discussed, the emphasis...
ANTHRO382J	Disasters in Middle Eastern History	(History 282J is an undergraduate course offered for 5 units; History 382J is a graduate course offered for 4-5 units.) This course explores the history of disasters in the Middle East from the early modern period to the mid-20th-century. We will tra...
ANTHRO385	Captivity	The premise for this course is that anthropology, as well as other domains of social inquiry, have unacknowledged and unredeemed debts to captivity as structure, experience, and event, from the penal colony to the slave plantation. This course is an...
ANTHRO387	Strangers and Intimates: Exploring Public Life	How do we encounter and read each other in public and private spaces? How are these very spaces historically constituted around such distinctions and manners of reading? What do these questions look like in dense heterogeneous cities with differentia...
ANTHRO39	Sense of Place	This course examines the life of places as shaped by environmental events and projects aimed towards rural or urban development. Drawing methodological insights from anthropology, cultural geography and environmental studies, we examine the forces th...
ANTHRO391	Subjectivity	This seminar considers subjectivity as a central category of social, cultural, psychological, historical and political analysis. Through a critical and collaborative examination of ethnographic works and psychoanalytic theory, we will identify the pr...
ANTHRO398B	Race, Ethnicity, and Language: Writing Race, Ethnicity, and Language in Ethnography	This methods seminar focuses on developing ethnographic strategies for representing race, ethnicity, and language in writing without reproducing the stereotypes surrounding these categories and practices. In addition to reading various ethnographies,...
ANTHRO400	Cultural and Social Dissertation Writers Seminar	Required of fifth-year Ph.D. students returning from dissertation field research and in the process of writing dissertations and preparing for professional employment. Prerequisite: By consent of instructor.
ANTHRO401A	Qualifying Examination: Topic	Required of second- and third-year Ph.D. students writing the qualifying paper or the qualifying written examination. May be repeated for credit one time.
ANTHRO401B	Qualifying Examination: Area	Required of second- and third-year Ph.D. students writing the qualifying paper or the qualifying written examination. May be repeated for credit one time.
ANTHRO402D	Materialities of Power, Part I	How is power made material? And how do material things--objects, commodities, technologies, and infrastructures --reflect, change, consolidate, or distribute power? This research seminar is aimed at PhD students in history, anthropology, and STS who...
ANTHRO402F	Materialities of Power, Part II	How is power made material? And how do material things --objects, commodities, technologies, and infrastructures--reflect, change, consolidate, or distribute power? This research seminar is aimed at PhD students in history, anthropology, and STS who...
ANTHRO41	Genes and Identity	In recent decades genes have increasingly become endowed with the cultural power to explain many aspects of human life: physical traits, diseases, behaviors, ancestral histories, and identity. In this course we will explore a deepening societal intr...
ANTHRO440	Graduate Teaching	Supervised experience teaching in Anthropology
ANTHRO441	Master's Project	Supervised work for terminal and coterminal master's students writing the master's project in the final quarter of the degree program. Significant work outside of class time is expected of the student for this course.
ANTHRO442	Reading Group	Graduate student reading group on a thematic topic of interest. Intended for first or second-year cohort PhD students.
ANTHRO443	Medical Humanities Workshop	Medical Humanities is a humanistic approach to the topic of medicine. The approach generally emphasizes the subjective experience of health and illness as captured through the expressive arts (painting, music and literature), expressed across histori...
ANTHRO444	Anthropology Colloquium	Department Colloquia Lecture Series. Lectures presented on a variety of anthropological topics. Colloquium is intended for the Department of Anthropology's under graduate majors and graduate students. May be repeated for credit.
ANTHRO445	Anthropology Brown Bag Series	Current topics and trends in cultural/social anthropology, archaeology, and environmental and ecological anthropology. Enrollment in this noon-time series is restricted to the Department of Anthropology Masters students and First and Second-year PhD...
ANTHRO450	Research Apprenticeship	Supervised work on a research project with an individual faculty member. May be repeated for credit.
ANTHRO451	Directed Individual Study	Supervised work for a qualifying paper, examination, or project with an individual faculty member.
ANTHRO452	Graduate Internship	Provides graduate students with the opportunity to pursue their area of specialization in an institutional setting such as a laboratory, clinic, research institute, or government agency. F-1 international students enrolled in this course cannot star...
ANTHRO457A	Theory and Method in Linguistic Anthropology	This course introduces students to central concepts and approaches in linguistic anthropology, with a specific focus on the role of educational institutions, processes, and ideologies in shaping language use and vice versa. Students will learn practi...
ANTHRO60N	Digging for Answers: 5 Big Questions of Our Time	The aim in this course is to explore the archaeological evidence for long-term change with regard to 5 major questions of our time: Where do we come from? Has inequality increased? Have we become more violent? Why do we have so much stuff? What is th...
ANTHRO78A	Disruption and Diffusion: The Archaeology of Innovation	This undergraduate seminar uses engagement with canonical archaeological topics and questions about the emergence of civilization to introduce students to critical perspectives on the nature of novelty, progress, and modernity. The first weeks of the...
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ANTHRO80A	Heritage and Human Rights	What does archaeology have to say about human rights? Is there a right to cultural heritage? How can archaeology and heritage help protect rights¿or encroach upon them? Themes we will address in this course include the archaeological investigation of...
ANTHRO82	Medical Anthropology	Emphasis is on how health, illness, and healing are understood, experienced, and constructed in social, cultural, and historical contexts. Topics: biopower and body politics, gender and reproductive technologies, illness experiences, medical diversit...
ANTHRO82P	The Literature of Psychosis	One of the great gifts of literature is its ability to give us insight into the internal worlds of others. This is particularly true of that state clinicians call "psychosis." But psychosis is a complex concept. It can be terrifying and devastating f...
ANTHRO84B	Incas, Spaniards, and Africans: Archaeology of the Kingdom of Peru	Students are introduced to Andean archaeology from the rise of the Inca empire through the Spanish colonial period. We will explore archaeological evidence for the development of late pre-Hispanic societies in western South America, the Spanish conqu...
ANTHRO89	Undergraduate Reading Group	Undergraduate student reading group on a thematic topic of interest. Sections: All faculty.
ANTHRO90B	Theory of Cultural and Social Anthropology	This undergraduate seminar offers students the foundations of theory in social and cultural anthropology. Each section begins with a close reading of the work of a contemporary anthropologist and then traces the intellectual legacies that have shaped...
ANTHRO91	Method and Evidence in Anthropology	This course provides a broad introduction to various ways of designing anthropological questions and associated methods for collecting evidence and supporting arguments. We review the inherent links between how a question is framed, the types of evid...
ANTHRO91A	Archaeological Methods	Methodological issues related to the investigation of archaeological sites and objects. Aims and techniques of archaeologists including: location and excavation of sites; dating of places and objects; analysis of artifacts and technology and the stud...
ANTHRO91A	Archaeological Methods	Methodological issues related to the investigation of archaeological sites and objects. Aims and techniques of archaeologists including: location and excavation of sites; dating of places and objects; analysis of artifacts and technology and the stud...
ANTHRO92A	Undergraduate Research Proposal Writing Workshop	Practicum. Students develop independent research projects and write research proposals. How to formulate a research question; how to integrate theory and field site; and step-by-step proposal writing.
ANTHRO92B	Undergraduate Research Proposal Writing Workshop	Practicum. Students develop independent research projects and write research proposals. How to formulate a research question; how to integrate theory and field site; and step-by-step proposal writing.
ANTHRO93	Prefield Research Seminar	Preparation for anthropological field research in other societies and the U.S. Data collection techniques include participant observation, interviewing, surveys, sampling procedures, life histories, ethnohistory, and the use of documentary materials....
ANTHRO94	Postfield Research Seminar	Goal is to produce an ethnographic report based on original field research gathered during summer fieldwork, emphasizing writing and revising as steps in analysis and composition. Students critique classmates' work and revise their own writing in lig...
ANTHRO95	Research in Anthropology	Independent research conducted under faculty supervision, normally taken junior or senior year in pursuit of a senior paper or an honors project. May be repeated for credit.
ANTHRO95B	Independent Study for Honors or Senior Paper Writing	Required of Anthropology honors or senior paper candidates. Taken in the final quarter before handing in the final draft of the Honors or Senior Paper and graduating. This independent study supports work on the honors and senior papers for students w...
ANTHRO95C	Monumental Pasts: Cultural Heritage and Politics	What is heritage? Who decides what and how pasts matter? Our pasts loom monumental in multiple senses. At the intersection of archaeology and anthropology, the emerging discipline of heritage is often described as the politics of the past. What peopl...
ANTHRO96	Directed Individual Study	Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
ANTHRO97	Internship in Anthropology	Opportunity for students to pursue their specialization in an institutional setting such as a laboratory, clinic, research institute, or government agency. May be repeated for credit. Service Learning Course (certified by Haas Center). F-1 internatio...
ANTHRO97C	The Structure of Colonial Power: South Asia since the Eighteenth Century	How did the colonial encounter shape the making of modern South Asia? Was colonial rule a radical rupture from the pre-modern past or did it embody historical continuities? Did colonial rule cause the economic underdevelopment of the region or were r...
ANTHRO98C	Digital Methods in Anthropology	The course provides an introduction to a broad range of digital tools and techniques for anthropological research. It is geared towards those interested in exploring such methodologies for their research and wanting to add hands-on experience with st...

Introduction to Cultural and Social Anthropology

This course introduces basic anthropological concepts and presents the discipline's distinctive perspective on society and culture. The power of this perspective is illustrated by exploring vividly-written ethnographic cases that show how anthropolo...

ANTHRO100X

"I'm Not a Robot": The Contemporary Politics of Man and Machine

Our lives today are full of 'smart' machines that appear to deliberate, make judgements, and interact socially. Yet unlike humans, they are bound to their programming, unable to improvise, feel, or ethically value what one pioneering computer scienti...

ANTHRO101S

Introduction to Cultural and Social Anthropology

This course introduces basic anthropological concepts and presents the discipline's distinctive perspective on society and culture. The power of this perspective is illustrated by exploring vividly-written ethnographic cases that show how anthropolo...

ANTHRO102

Cults: Mystics and Messiahs in a Modern World

Why do people choose to invest their faith, intellect, and labor in the fate of a single individual, and what consequences follow from such collective investment? This course brings together anthropological and historical perspectives in the study of...

ANTHRO103

The Archaeology of Climate

This course reviews the long-term relationships between human societies and Earth's climatic systems. It provides a critical review of how archaeologists have approached climate change through various case studies and historical paradigms (e.g., soci...

ANTHRO103A

Human Osteoarchaeology

The course will cover the methodological and theoretical backgrounds to human osteoarchaeology, introduce the student to the chemical and physical characteristics of bone, and to the functional morphology of the human skeleton. Classes will consist o...

ANTHRO103B

History of Archaeological Thought

Introduction to the history of archaeology and the forms that the discipline takes today, emphasizing developments and debates over the past five decades. Historical overview of culture, historical, processual and post-processual archaeology, and top...

ANTHRO104

Tools for Meaningful Communities

How can we live together and honor both difference and belonging? How do we create community amidst divisiveness and the existential threats of climate change, oppression of marginalized peoples, and our disconnection from ourselves and each other? W...

ANTHRO104A

Archaeological approaches to Landscapes: How people and things make Places and Spaces

This class introduces students to the archaeological concept of landscape as a heuristic that can be used in critical analysis. Students will learn to articulate the ways that landscapes are constituted in the process of 'living'. They will be equipp...

ANTHRO104B

Landscapes of Inequality: The Southwestern United

Inequality is one of the major social issues of the current moment in the United States. Racial, economic, and gender inequality has been even more pronounced in the fall out of the COVID-19 pandemic around the world. These injustices are identifiabl...

ANTHRO104D

Introduction to Race and Technology

How do ideas about race get encoded in the design of new technology? How have science and technology shaped our understanding of race and identity? Drawing on research in anthropology, history, media studies, STS, and beyond, we will consider how tec...

ANTHRO106

Incas and their Ancestors: Peruvian Archaeology

The development of high civilizations in Andean S. America from hunter-gatherer origins to the powerful, expansive Inca empire. The contrasting ecologies of coast, sierra, and jungle areas of early Peruvian societies from 12,000 to 2,000 B.C.E. The d...

ANTHRO108B

Gender in the Arab and Middle Eastern City

What are the components of gendered experience in the city, and how are these shaped by history and culture? How do meanings attributed to Islam and the Middle East obscure the specificity of women¿s and men¿s lives in Muslim-majority cities? This co...

ANTHRO109A

Archaeology of the Modern World

Historical archaeology, also called the archaeology of the modern world, investigates the material culture and spatial history of the past five centures. As a discipline, historical archaeology has been characterized by (1) a methodological conjuncti...

ANTHRO10SC

Evolution and Conservation in Galápagos

The tiny remote islands of Galápagos have played a central role in the study of evolution. Not surprisingly, they have also been important to theory and practice in biodiversity conservation. The fascinating adaptations of organisms to the unusual, i...

ANTHRO10SI

Reimagining Democracy: Social Mobilization in Indian Elections

When India held its first elections in 1952, it reinvented what was possible for humanity - hitherto, the notion of democracy was restricted to the small, rich, homogeneous nations of the West. India, a democracy of diversities, took the radical step...

ANTHRO110

Environmental Archaeology

This course investigates the field of environmental archaeology. Its goals are twofold: 1) to critically consider the intellectual histories of environmental archaeology, and, 2) to survey the various techniques and methods by which archaeologists as...

ANTHRO110B

Examining Ethnographies

Eight or nine important ethnographies, including their construction, their impact, and their faults and virtues.

ANTHRO111

Archaeology of Gender and Sexuality

How archaeologists study sex, sexuality, and gender through the material remains left behind by past cultures and communities. Theoretical and methodological issues; case studies from prehistoric and historic archaeology.

ANTHRO111B

Muwekma: Landscape Archaeology and the Narratives of California Natives

This course explores the unique history of San Francisco Bay Area tribes with particular attention to Muwekma Ohlone- the descendent community associated with the landscape surrounding and including Stanford University. The story of Muwekma provides...

ANTHRO111C

Muwekma: Landscape Archaeology and the Narratives of California Natives

This course explores the unique history of San Francisco Bay Area tribes with particular attention to Muwekma Ohlone- the descendent community associated with the landscape surrounding and including Stanford University. The story of Muwekma provides...

ANTHRO112A

Archaeology of Human Rights

This introductory seminar provides a critical vantage point about human rights discourse from an archaeological perspective. The seminar is organized around four main questions: (1) Is cultural heritage a human right? (2) What are archaeologists lear...

ANTHRO113

Culture and Epigenetics: Towards A Non-Darwinian Synthesis

The course examines the impact of new research in epigenetics on our understanding of long-term cultural change. The course examines the various attempts that have been made over recent decades to find a synthesis between cultural and biological evol...

ANTHRO114

Rights and Ethics in Heritage

Heritage is a human thing: made by people and mobilized for their own purposes, it has a range of effects on communities. This course focuses on the human dimension of heritage with special attention to questions of rights and ethics. Where can we lo...

ANTHRO115

The Social life of Human Bones

Skeletal remains serve a primary function of support and protection for the human body. However, beyond this, they have played a range of social roles once an individual is deceased. The processes associated with excarnation, interment, exhumation an...

ANTHRO116

Data Analysis for Quantitative Research

An introduction to numeric methods in Anthropology and related fields employing the Data Desk statistics package to test hypotheses and to explore data. Examples chosen from the instructor's research and other relevant projects. No statistical backgr...

ANTHRO116A

Eating Culture: An Introduction to the Anthropology of Food

Everyone eats, it's an essential and universal part of human existence. But food is not just about calories and nutrition - it is rich with meaning and memory. In this course, we take a broad view of the social meanings of food, cooking, and eating t...

ANTHRO116B

Anthropology of the Environment

This seminar interrogates the history of anthropology's approach to the environment, beginning with early functionalist, structuralist, and Marxist accounts of human-environment relationships. It builds towards more recent developments in the field,...

ANTHRO116C

Native Americans in the 21st Century: Encounters, Identity, and Sovereignty in Contemporary America

What does it mean to be a Native American in the 21st century? Beyond traditional portrayals of military conquests, cultural collapse, and assimilation, the relationships between Native Americans and American society. Focus is on three themes leading...

ANTHRO117C

Global Heritage: Conflict, Reconciliation, and Diplomacy

Archaeological studies from the 1990s framed cultural heritage as a resource that created attachments to place and to the past as a means to buttress national and cultural identities. But heritage can no longer be viewed as simply a marker of a singu...

ANTHRO118C

Heritage Development in the Global South

Heritage is a site of both promise and contestation in the Global South. These nations use it for a wide range of purposes: Peru¿s thriving tourism sector rests on a basis of heritage attractions, South Africa negotiates a post-apartheid identity thr...

ANTHRO118W

Asian American and Settler Colonial Entanglements

Today, the subject of decolonization is at the forefront of a wealth of scholarship as scholars, activists, and institutions grapple with the legacies of colonialism that are far from over. For Asian Americans, there are entanglements with colonialis...

ANTHRO119

Zooarchaeology: An Introduction to Faunal Remains

As regularly noted, whether historic or pre-historic, animal bones are often the most commonly occurring artefacts on archaeological sites. As bioarchaeological samples, they offer the archaeologist an insight into food culture, provisioning, trade a...

ANTHRO119B

Tech Ethics and Ethnography: the human in human-computer interaction

Do machines have culture? How do engineers write themselves into their products? Can we better anticipate the unexpected and unwanted consequences of technologies?Taking as its point of departure the discipline of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), wh...

ANTHRO12

Anthropology and Art

Modernity. How the concept of art appears timeless and commonsensical in the West, and with what social consequences. Historicizing the emergence of art. Modernist uses of primitive, child art, asylum, and outsider art.

ANTHRO121B

"The Will to Adorn": An Anthropology of Dress

This seminar explores sartorial practices as a means for examining formations of identities and structural inequalities across space and time. Building off the definition of dress, pulled from Mary Ellen Roach-Higgins and Joanne B. Eicher, this cours...

ANTHRO122A

Decolonizing Archaeology

What does it mean to say that archaeology is a colonial discipline? Anthropology and archaeology are rooted historically in projects of domination and extermination by colonial powers. Today many scholars, practitioners, and colonized peoples are exp...

ANTHRO123

Ethical Life with Strangers: Sociality and Civility

How do we deal with strangers in different parts of the world. What is a stranger? And to whom? Many theorists suggest that dealing with anonymous strangers is central to norms of sociality and civility. For the thinker Georg Simmel, the stranger is...

ANTHRO123B

Government of Water and Crisis: Corporations, States and the Environment

As the Flint, Michigan water situation began to attract attention and condemnation, Michigan State Representative, Sheldon Neeley, describing the 200 troops on the ground and the Red Cross distributing water bottles, said that the Governor had ¿turne...

ANTHRO123C

"Third World Problems?" Environmental Justice Around the World

As the Flint, Michigan water situation began to attract attention and condemnation, Michigan State Representative, Sheldon Neeley, describing the troops on the ground and the Red Cross distributing water bottles, said that the Governor had "turned an...

ANTHRO124A

Law in Social & Historical Perspective

From lawsuits over coffee spills to military action staged in the name of human rights, 'law' is one of the most potent ideas to proliferate the modern world. In this course, students will engage with the philosophical questions that the concept of l...

ANTHRO124B

Environmental Justice and Anthropology

This course builds on the idea that considering environmental and social justice concerns together is possible and necessary. As such, it examines key issues in environmental justice alongside anthropological studies of related social and environment...

ANTHRO124C

Anthropology of the State

This class seeks to familiarize students with a variety of theoretical perspectives and methodological tools for a study of the state. The social sciences have long deconstructed the image of the state as a coherent unit (along with the Weberian idea...

ANTHRO125A

Critical Mapping Methods in Archaeology

Another title for this course could be "mapping and its discontents" because this is a critical methods course. You will learn, through hands-on lab assignments, how to create and use maps in archaeological analysis using open-source Geographic Infor...

ANTHRO125C

The Archaeology of Institutions

Modern life is marked by institutions - schools, hospitals, international conglomerates, even prisons - so how did they develop and become so common? Historical archaeology can help us tell a different history of institutions because it combines docu...

ANTHRO125W

Critical Feminisms in the Americas

This course examines critical feminist theories, practices, and movements in the Americas. Together, we will explore, analyze, and discuss the work of creators and activists in South America, Central America, the Caribbean, and North America, attendi...

ANTHRO126

Urban Culture in Global Perspective

Core course for Urban Studies majors. A majority of the world's population now live in urban areas and most of the rapid urbanization has taken place in mega-cities outside the Western world. This course explores urban cultures, identities, spatial p...

ANTHRO127B

Millennial Pop Culture: The Making of a Millennial

This course investigates American popular culture since the year 2000. Our goals will be to establish a working definition of the term "millennials" and to determine how pop culture influences the formation of that identity the 21st century. Through...

ANTHRO127C

Anthropology of Sport and the Body

What is sport? Fun? Big money? A tool for freedom... or control?This course will use the work of anthropology and critical studies to probe what exactly sport is, and how it shapes the body. We will begin by looking at various ways in which social th...

ANTHRO127D

HERITAGE POLITICS

Heritage is a matter of the heart and not the brain, David Lowenthal once said. It does not seek to explore the past, but to domesticate it and enlist it for present causes. From the drafting of the first royal decrees on ancient monuments in the 17t...

ANTHRO128

Visual Studies

Drawing on anthropology, art history, cultural studies, and other fields, this course explores how and why one might want to think critically about the politics of visuality, social imagination, the politics of making and consuming images and things,...

ANTHRO128B

MAXIMUM CITY: Post-Colonial Mumbai at the Crossroads of Global and South Asian Culture

There are few cities more emblematic of the rapid urbanization of today's global population than Mumbai, India, formerly known as Bombay. With over 20 million residents, Mumbai today stands as the most populous city in one of the world's most populou...

ANTHRO129B

Black Geographies: An Orientation

This introductory course examines racialization and antiblackness as spatial practices as well as the placemaking practices and sensibilities across and within Black communities throughout the Americas. Rather than focusing merely on where Black peop...

ANTHRO129C

A Deep Dive Into the Indian Ocean: From Prehistory to the Modern Day

The Indian Ocean has formed an enduring connection between three continents, countless small islands and a multitude of cultural and ethnic groups and has become the focus of increasing interest in this geographically vast and culturally diverse regi...

ANTHRO12SI

Watching Theory, Reading Television: examining critical themes in contemporary televised media

This student-initiated seminar provides students with a broad overview of critical social and cultural anthropology theory that will serve as a basis for analysis of themes in contemporary televised media content. The application of readings to selec...

ANTHRO130D

Spatial Approaches to Social Science

This multidisciplinary course combines different approaches to how GIS and spatial tools can be applied in social science research. We take a collaborative, project oriented approach to bring together technical expertise and substantive applications...

ANTHRO132

Religion and Politics in the Muslim World

This course provides an ethnographic examination of religion and politics in the Muslim world. What is the role of Islam in the political life of modern Muslim societies? Conversely, how do modern political powers shape and constrain the terms of rel...

ANTHRO132A

Power and Counter-Power: Anti-Elite Politics in Contemporary Times

We live in politically turbulent times, and so much of the confounding social and political movements of our times seem to position themselves against 'the elite': feminist movements against patriarchal states, autonomists against neoliberal capitali...

ANTHRO132C

Technology and Inequality

In this advanced interdisciplinary seminar we will examine the ways that technologies aimed to make human lives better (healthier, freer, more connected, and informed) often also harbor the potential to exacerbate social inequalities. Drawing from re...

ANTHRO132D

Thinking Technology: Anthropological Perspectives

What role does technology play in society, and vice-versa? This course considers the question from an anthropological perspective, pairing different conceptual models of social-technical relations (Social Constructivism, Actor-Network Theory, Cyborg...

ANTHRO133

Masculinity: Technologies and Cultures of Gender

What is masculinity? How are masculinities invested with power and meaning in cultural contexts? How is anthropological attention to them informed by and extending inquiry across the academy in spheres such as culture studies, political theory, gende...

ANTHRO133W

Anthropology of Social Movements

In recent years, we have witnessed a growing number of social and political upheavals around the world. With new organizational principles, diversified ways of participation and mediation, and expanding themes and goals, these cases, in bringing the...

ANTHRO134

Language, Gender and Sexuality

This course explores how identities of gender and sexuality are linked to particular ways of speaking and using language, and how language itself becomes the site of the politics of gender and sexuality. Enrolled students should have completed prior...

ANTHRO134C

Movements and Migrations: Understanding the Movements of People

Mass movements of people across the world is not a new phenomenon. And yet, in the contemporary moment, the pace of migration from global business networks to displacements from violence and climate change as well as the interconnectivity of social n...

ANTHRO135B

Waste Politics: Contesting Toxicity, Value, and Power

Waste is increasingly central as an object and medium of political contestation in the contemporary world, from struggles over garbage, labor, and dignity in Senegal; to explosive remnants of war acting as rogue infrastructure in the Korean demilitar...

ANTHRO135C

Moving Worlds: Anthropology of Mobility and Travel

This course looks at human mobility from an anthropological perspective. We will read texts that ethnographically explore the experiences of refugees, labor migrants, tourists and seafarers, among others. In particular, we will look at the intersecti...

ANTHRO136

The Anthropology of Global Supply Chains

This upper-division undergraduate seminar focuses on recent studies by anthropologists and scholars in related disciplines on global supply chains and consumption practices.The goal of the course is to assess concepts and methods for integrating a cu...

ANTHRO136B

White Identity Politics

Pundits proclaim that the 2016 Presidential election marks the rise of white identity politics in the United States. Drawing from the field of whiteness studies and from contemporary writings that push whiteness studies in new directions, this upper-...

ANTHRO136C

Latin American Pasts: Archaeology and Cultural Heritage

Latin America is vast in pre-colonial and colonial monuments. Past societies defined by archaeologists - Aztecas, Chavin, Chinchorro, Inka, Maya, Moche, Nazca, Tiahuanaco, among others - cohabit with Spanish colonial era structures and contemporary h...

ANTHRO137

The Politics of Humanitarianism

What does it mean to want to help, to organize humanitarian aid, in times of crisis? At first glance, the impulse to help issue generis a good one. Helping is surely preferable to indifference and inaction. This does not mean that humanitarian interv...

ANTHRO137B

Cuba: Youth in Revolution

This course explores how Cuban youth came to play a pivotal role in 1960s Cuba, a decade when youth culture and politics worldwide were reconstituted. We look at the unique circumstances under which the new socialist revolution in Cuba created an eth...

ANTHRO137D

Political Exhumations. Killing Sites Research in Comparative Perspective

The course discusses the politics and practices of exhumation of individual and mass graves. The problem of exhumations will be considered as a distinct socio-political phenomenon characteristic of contemporary times and related to transitional justi...

ANTHRO138

Medical Ethics in a Global World: Examining Race, Difference and Power in the Research Enterprise

This course will explore historical as well as current market transformations of medical ethics in different global contexts. We will examine various aspects of the research enterprise, its knowledge-generating and life-saving goals, as well as the s...

ANTHRO139C

Anthropology of Global Health

Global health has been the contested realm of theoretical debates and praxis in medical anthropology. Rationalities behind global health projects reflected the predominant mode of envisioning health in specific historical moments.· In this course, w...

ANTHRO13SC

Evolution: The Unity and Diversity of Life

The theory of evolution is one of the most important theories in all the natural and social sciences, and it is crucial to understanding the diversity of life on Earth. This course explores the history of evolutionary thinking from Darwin (and his p...

ANTHRO140C

Mobilizing Nature

From Brazil's Landless Worker's Movement (MST) to Water Wars of Cochabamba to Standing Rock, these moments of protest have turned into movements. This seminar will examine how theoretical framings of movements have shifted from claims about political...

ANTHRO144

Art and the Repair of the Self

Engaging the body/mind and its senses in the making of images and things has long been considered to have potentially great therapeutic significance. This course is a close examination of making as a form of therapy, as a form of communication, and,...

ANTHRO145S

Implicit Bias: Stereotyping, Prejudice, and the Psychology of Racism

This class explores the psychology and sociology of prejudice, asking a deceptively simple question: what is race? From here follows a second question: what is racism? We'll explore implicit bias, and equip students to understand it, recognize it, an...

ANTHRO147

Empires and Diasporas

When a society moves, we call it a diaspora. When a state moves, we call it an empire. This course explores how the interaction of these two kinds of mobility gave shape to the world we live in. We will discuss 1) how to trace the movement of states...

ANTHRO147B

World Heritage in Global Conflict

Heritage is always political, it is typically said. Such a statement might refer to the everyday politics of local stakeholder interests on one end of the spectrum, or the volatile politics of destruction and erasure of heritage during conflict, on t...

ANTHRO148

Health, Politics, and Culture of Modern China

One of the most generative regions for medical anthropology inquiry in recent years has been Asia. This seminar is designed to introduce upper division undergraduates and graduate students to the methodological hurdles, representational challenges,...

ANTHRO154C

Animism, Gaia, and Alternative Approaches to the Environment

Indigenous knowledges have been traditionally treated as a field of research for anthropologists and as mistaken epistemologies, i.e., un-scientific and irrational folklore. However, within the framework of environmental humanities, current interest...

ANTHRO156

Japanese Anthropology

This is an advanced reading seminar in the field of Japanses Anthropology. It will explore the historical development of the field and the contemporary issues and topics taken up by scholars of Japanese anthropology. Prior knowledge of Japanese lang...

ANTHRO157

Japanese Anthropology

This seminar focuses on the intersection between politics and popular culture in contemporary Japan. It will survey a range of social and political implications of practices of popular culture. Topics include J-pop, manga, anime, and other popular vi...

ANTHRO158

The Anthropology of Social Class

Course introduces social theory concepts and paradigms for the understanding of class. It then extends and revises those concepts and paradigms by considering anthropological approaches in different cultural and historical settings that consider the...

ANTHRO159C

Ecological Humanities

What sort of topics, research questions, approaches, theories and concepts lead to an integration of various kinds of knowledges? Ecological Humanities provides a conceptual platform for a merger of humanities and social sciences with earth and life...

ANTHRO16

Native Americans in the 21st Century: Encounters, Identity, and Sovereignty in Contemporary America

What does it mean to be a Native American in the 21st century? Beyond traditional portrayals of military conquests, cultural collapse, and assimilation, the relationships between Native Americans and American society. Focus is on three themes leading...

ANTHRO160

Visual Politics and Social Movements

Images, the visual imagination, and visual/graphic skills have always been vitally important in the empowerment of social movements. Organized as an intensive research workshop, this course will examine the political uses of images in anti-racist mov...

ANTHRO166A

Semiotics for Ethnography

This workshop-style seminar introduces students to core theories and concepts in linguistic and semiotic anthropology. Examining current theoretical innovations in this field of study, the course explores the multivalent relationships between languag...

ANTHRO171

The Biology and Evolution of Language

Lecture course surveying the biology, linguistic functions, and evolution of the organs of speech and speech centers in the brain, language in animals and humans, the evolution of language itself, and the roles of innateness vs. culture in language....

ANTHRO176

Cultures, Minds, and Medicine

This workshop aims to bring together scholars from the social sciences, humanities, medicine and bio-science and technology to explore the ways that health and illness are made through complex social forces. We aim for informal, interactive sessions,...

ANTHRO177

Viral Histories: The Anthropology of Epidemics, Pandemics, and Contagion

This course will offer a history of pandemics, virology, vaccines, and epidemics as distinct but inter-related facets of the rise of biomedicine. Beginning with the discovery of small-pox inoculation, which smeared the pus of humans or animals into s...

ANTHRO178B

History of Medicine

This seminar course will examine medical successes and failures to better understand the politics, economics, and sociality of medicine as a practice and a culture. Examples will be drawn from technical developments such as vaccines; methodological i...

ANTHRO179B

Culture of Disease: The Social History of Vaccines

This course will detail the history and develop of vaccines, specifically examining critical issues such as personal choice v. public health, the use of experimental subjects, population-wide medical trials, and the use of animal tissues in vaccine d...

ANTHRO180B

Investigating Ancient Materials

This course examines how concepts and methods from materials science are applied to the analysis of archaeological artifacts, with a focus on artifacts made from inorganic materials (ceramics and metals). Coverage includes chemical analysis, microsco...

ANTHRO182N

Smoke and Mirrors in Global Health

A few years ago, health experts began calling out tobacco as engendering a global health crisis, categorizing the cigarette as the world's greatest weapon of mass destruction. A "global health crisis"? What merits that title if not tobacco use? A hun...

ANTHRO184A

Vital Curse: Oil As Culture

Rapidly-evolving technology draws increasing amounts of petroleum from the ground, while wars and friendly agreements move it around the globe, all to occasionally-disastrous result. Pronounced environmental concerns such as fracking, pipelines, plas...

ANTHRO184W

Anthropology of Work

What is work? What kinds of labor can be registered as work? How is a worker made? This course will provide an anthropological inquiry into the category of work. We will explore how work is conceptualized, what is and isn't considered work, and how w...

ANTHRO186

Culture and Madness: Anthropological and Psychiatric Approaches to Mental Illness

Unusual mental phenomena have existed throughout history and across cultures. Taught by an anthropologist and psychiatrist, this course explores how different societies construct the notions of "madness": What are the boundaries between "normal" and...

ANTHRO188

Matter and Mattering: Transdisciplinary Thinking about Things

Things sit at the nexus of cross-cutting heterogeneous processes; tracing the entanglements of any prominent thing or class of things demands a transdisciplinary approach that recruits expertise from the natural sciences, social sciences and humaniti...

ANTHRO193

Anthropology Capstone: Contemporary Debates in Anthropology

The Capstone in Anthropology builds on courses in theory and method in the major, asking students to employ anthropological perspectives on contemporary social problems. Students revisit foundational questions in the discipline of anthropology in ord...

ANTHRO196

Anthropology of Socialism

This course offers an anthropological perspective on ideas and practices of socialism, past, and present. It is concerned both with the anthropological study of 'actually-existing socialism' and with both classical and contemporary conceptions of wh...

ANTHRO196F

The Worlds of Labor in Modern India

This colloquium will introduce students to the exciting and expanding field of Indian labor history and provide them a comprehensive historiographical foundation in this area of historical research. Seminars will engage with one key monograph in the...

ANTHRO197C

The Structure of Colonial Power: South Asia since the Eighteenth Century

How did the colonial encounter shape the making of modern South Asia? Was colonial rule a radical rupture from the pre-modern past or did it embody historical continuities? Did colonial rule cause the economic underdevelopment of the region or were r...

ANTHRO198A

Archaeological Geographic Information Systems

This advanced undergraduate and graduate seminar will provide students with practical and theoretical training in Geographical Information Systems (GIS) as applied to archaeological research, introducing students to spatial theories and GIS methodolo...

ANTHRO198B

Digital Traces

What stories do data tell? In this course, we will follow digital traces by excavating, interrogating, and pursuing the digital evidence in data. What is the relationship between narratives and digital evidence? How do we address the tension between...

ANTHRO199

Senior and Master's Paper Writing Workshop

Techniques of interpreting data, organizing bibliographic materials, writing, editing and revising. Preparation of papers for conferences and publications in anthropology. Seniors register for 199; master's students register for 299.

ANTHRO1S

Introduction to Cultural and Social Anthropology

This course introduces basic anthropological concepts and presents the discipline's distinctive perspective on society and culture. The power of this perspective is illustrated by exploring vividly-written ethnographic cases that show how anthropolo...

ANTHRO201

Introduction to Cultural and Social Anthropology

This course introduces basic anthropological concepts and presents the discipline's distinctive perspective on society and culture. The power of this perspective is illustrated by exploring vividly-written ethnographic cases that show how anthropolo...

ANTHRO201S

Introduction to Cultural and Social Anthropology

This course introduces basic anthropological concepts and presents the discipline's distinctive perspective on society and culture. The power of this perspective is illustrated by exploring vividly-written ethnographic cases that show how anthropolo...

ANTHRO203

The Archaeology of Climate

This course reviews the long-term relationships between human societies and Earth's climatic systems. It provides a critical review of how archaeologists have approached climate change through various case studies and historical paradigms (e.g., soci...

ANTHRO203A

Human Osteoarchaeology

The course will cover the methodological and theoretical backgrounds to human osteoarchaeology, introduce the student to the chemical and physical characteristics of bone, and to the functional morphology of the human skeleton. Classes will consist o...

ANTHRO206A

Incas and their Ancestors: Peruvian Archaeology

The development of high civilizations in Andean S. America from hunter-gatherer origins to the powerful, expansive Inca empire. The contrasting ecologies of coast, sierra, and jungle areas of early Peruvian societies from 12,000 to 2,000 B.C.E. The d...

ANTHRO209A

Archaeology of the Modern World

Historical archaeology, also called the archaeology of the modern world, investigates the material culture and spatial history of the past five centures. As a discipline, historical archaeology has been characterized by (1) a methodological conjuncti...

ANTHRO20N

Islam and the Idea of Europe

Policy makers often ask whether Muslims can be integrated into Europe. The question itself presumes, often without justification, that Islam as such is foreign to Europe. This course seeks to challenge this presumption. What if the very idea of Europ...

ANTHRO210

Environmental Archaeology

This course investigates the field of environmental archaeology. Its goals are twofold: 1) to critically consider the intellectual histories of environmental archaeology, and, 2) to survey the various techniques and methods by which archaeologists as...

ANTHRO210B

Examining Ethnographies

Eight or nine important ethnographies, including their construction, their impact, and their faults and virtues.

ANTHRO212B

Biology, Culture and Social Justice in Latin America: Perspectives from Forensic Anthropology

This course will only take place in the first 5 weeks of the quarter.As forensic anthropologists, we are routinely asked to make identifications of unknown human remains and provide courtroom testimony. Latin America has become a nexus for social jus...

ANTHRO213

Culture and Epigenetics: Towards A Non-Darwinian Synthesis

The course examines the impact of new research in epigenetics on our understanding of long-term cultural change. The course examines the various attempts that have been made over recent decades to find a synthesis between cultural and biological evol...

ANTHRO214

Rights and Ethics in Heritage

Heritage is a human thing: made by people and mobilized for their own purposes, it has a range of effects on communities. This course focuses on the human dimension of heritage with special attention to questions of rights and ethics. Where can we lo...

ANTHRO215

The Social life of Human Bones

Skeletal remains serve a primary function of support and protection for the human body. However, beyond this, they have played a range of social roles once an individual is deceased. The processes associated with excarnation, interment, exhumation an...

ANTHRO216

Data Analysis for Quantitative Research

An introduction to numeric methods in Anthropology and related fields employing the Data Desk statistics package to test hypotheses and to explore data. Examples chosen from the instructor's research and other relevant projects. No statistical backgr...

ANTHRO216B

Anthropology of the Environment

This seminar interrogates the history of anthropology's approach to the environment, beginning with early functionalist, structuralist, and Marxist accounts of human-environment relationships. It builds towards more recent developments in the field,...

ANTHRO219

Zooarchaeology: An Introduction to Faunal Remains

As regularly noted, whether historic or pre-historic, animal bones are often the most commonly occurring artefacts on archaeological sites. As bioarchaeological samples, they offer the archaeologist an insight into food culture, provisioning, trade a...

ANTHRO221B

"The Will to Adorn": An Anthropology of Dress

This seminar explores sartorial practices as a means for examining formations of identities and structural inequalities across space and time. Building off the definition of dress, pulled from Mary Ellen Roach-Higgins and Joanne B. Eicher, this cours...

ANTHRO222A

Decolonizing Archaeology

What does it mean to say that archaeology is a colonial discipline? Anthropology and archaeology are rooted historically in projects of domination and extermination by colonial powers. Today many scholars, practitioners, and colonized peoples are exp...

ANTHRO223

Ethical Life with Strangers: Sociality and Civility

How do we deal with strangers in different parts of the world. What is a stranger? And to whom? Many theorists suggest that dealing with anonymous strangers is central to norms of sociality and civility. For the thinker Georg Simmel, the stranger is...

ANTHRO224B

Environmental Justice and Anthropology

This course builds on the idea that considering environmental and social justice concerns together is possible and necessary. As such, it examines key issues in environmental justice alongside anthropological studies of related social and environment...

ANTHRO225A

Critical Mapping Methods in Archaeology

Another title for this course could be "mapping and its discontents" because this is a critical methods course. You will learn, through hands-on lab assignments, how to create and use maps in archaeological analysis using open-source Geographic Infor...

ANTHRO229C

A Deep Dive Into the Indian Ocean: From Prehistory to the Modern Day

The Indian Ocean has formed an enduring connection between three continents, countless small islands and a multitude of cultural and ethnic groups and has become the focus of increasing interest in this geographically vast and culturally diverse regi...

ANTHRO230D

Spatial Approaches to Social Science

This multidisciplinary course combines different approaches to how GIS and spatial tools can be applied in social science research. We take a collaborative, project oriented approach to bring together technical expertise and substantive applications...

ANTHRO233

Masculinity: Technologies and Cultures of Gender

What is masculinity? How are masculinities invested with power and meaning in cultural contexts? How is anthropological attention to them informed by and extending inquiry across the academy in spheres such as culture studies, political theory, gende...

ANTHRO234

Language, Gender and Sexuality

This course explores how identities of gender and sexuality are linked to particular ways of speaking and using language, and how language itself becomes the site of the politics of gender and sexuality. Enrolled students should have completed prior...

ANTHRO235B

Waste Politics: Contesting Toxicity, Value, and Power

Waste is increasingly central as an object and medium of political contestation in the contemporary world, from struggles over garbage, labor, and dignity in Senegal; to explosive remnants of war acting as rogue infrastructure in the Korean demilitar...

ANTHRO237

The Politics of Humanitarianism

What does it mean to want to help, to organize humanitarian aid, in times of crisis? At first glance, the impulse to help issue generis a good one. Helping is surely preferable to indifference and inaction. This does not mean that humanitarian interv...

ANTHRO238

Medical Ethics in a Global World: Examining Race, Difference and Power in the Research Enterprise

This course will explore historical as well as current market transformations of medical ethics in different global contexts. We will examine various aspects of the research enterprise, its knowledge-generating and life-saving goals, as well as the s...

ANTHRO23B

Race and the War on Drugs: Long Roots and Other Futures

Current discussions of the war on drugs reference Richard Nixon's 1971 declaration as a starting point. This class will encourage students instead to see the war on drugs beyond seemingly self-evident margins and imaginaries. In this course, we will...

ANTHRO244

Art and the Repair of the Self

Engaging the body/mind and its senses in the making of images and things has long been considered to have potentially great therapeutic significance. This course is a close examination of making as a form of therapy, as a form of communication, and,...

ANTHRO247

Empires and Diasporas

When a society moves, we call it a diaspora. When a state moves, we call it an empire. This course explores how the interaction of these two kinds of mobility gave shape to the world we live in. We will discuss 1) how to trace the movement of states...

ANTHRO247B

World Heritage in Global Conflict

Heritage is always political, it is typically said. Such a statement might refer to the everyday politics of local stakeholder interests on one end of the spectrum, or the volatile politics of destruction and erasure of heritage during conflict, on t...

ANTHRO248

Health, Politics, and Culture of Modern China

One of the most generative regions for medical anthropology inquiry in recent years has been Asia. This seminar is designed to introduce upper division undergraduates and graduate students to the methodological hurdles, representational challenges,...

ANTHRO254C

Animism, Gaia, and Alternative Approaches to the Environment

Indigenous knowledges have been traditionally treated as a field of research for anthropologists and as mistaken epistemologies, i.e., un-scientific and irrational folklore. However, within the framework of environmental humanities, current interest...

ANTHRO254W

Environmental Knowledges: Western and Indigenous

The aim of the course is to analyze the relations between Indigenous and Western knowledges, and highlight the most important points of contact between the two systems. It will contribute to building inclusive and holistic knowledge in order to addre...

ANTHRO256

Japanese Anthropology

This is an advanced reading seminar in the field of Japanses Anthropology. It will explore the historical development of the field and the contemporary issues and topics taken up by scholars of Japanese anthropology. Prior knowledge of Japanese lang...

ANTHRO257

Japanese Anthropology

This seminar focuses on the intersection between politics and popular culture in contemporary Japan. It will survey a range of social and political implications of practices of popular culture. Topics include J-pop, manga, anime, and other popular vi...

ANTHRO258

The Anthropology of Social Class

Course introduces social theory concepts and paradigms for the understanding of class. It then extends and revises those concepts and paradigms by considering anthropological approaches in different cultural and historical settings that consider the...

ANTHRO259C

Ecological Humanities

What sort of topics, research questions, approaches, theories and concepts lead to an integration of various kinds of knowledges? Ecological Humanities provides a conceptual platform for a merger of humanities and social sciences with earth and life...

ANTHRO262A

Visual Activism and Social Justice

Anthropology and the academy more generally have long valued text, language, and cognition more highly than the image, visuality, and the imagination. Yet, contemporary political movements and strategies for social justice and transformation vividly...

ANTHRO265G

Writing and Voice: Anthropological Telling through Literature and Practices of Expression

In this graduate seminar we will explore how writers draw from their worlds of experience to create humanistic works of broad 'and often urgent' appeal. We will pay special attention to how creative writers integrate details of history, kinship, com...

ANTHRO266A

Semiotics for Ethnography

This workshop-style seminar introduces students to core theories and concepts in linguistic and semiotic anthropology. Examining current theoretical innovations in this field of study, the course explores the multivalent relationships between languag...

ANTHRO271

The Biology and Evolution of Language

Lecture course surveying the biology, linguistic functions, and evolution of the organs of speech and speech centers in the brain, language in animals and humans, the evolution of language itself, and the roles of innateness vs. culture in language....

ANTHRO276

Cultures, Minds, and Medicine

This workshop aims to bring together scholars from the social sciences, humanities, medicine and bio-science and technology to explore the ways that health and illness are made through complex social forces. We aim for informal, interactive sessions,...

ANTHRO27N

Ethnicity and Violence: Anthropological Perspectives

Ethnicity is one of the most compelling and most modern ways in which people - in the midst of considerable global and local uncertainty - all across the world imagine and narrate themselves. This seminar will take an anthropological look at both the...

ANTHRO280B

Investigating Ancient Materials

This course examines how concepts and methods from materials science are applied to the analysis of archaeological artifacts, with a focus on artifacts made from inorganic materials (ceramics and metals). Coverage includes chemical analysis, microsco...

ANTHRO282

Medical Anthropology

Emphasis is on how health, illness, and healing are understood, experienced, and constructed in social, cultural, and historical contexts. Topics: biopower and body politics, gender and reproductive technologies, illness experiences, medical diversit...

ANTHRO286

Culture and Madness: Anthropological and Psychiatric Approaches to Mental Illness

Unusual mental phenomena have existed throughout history and across cultures. Taught by an anthropologist and psychiatrist, this course explores how different societies construct the notions of "madness": What are the boundaries between "normal" and...

ANTHRO288

Matter and Mattering: Transdisciplinary Thinking about Things

Things sit at the nexus of cross-cutting heterogeneous processes; tracing the entanglements of any prominent thing or class of things demands a transdisciplinary approach that recruits expertise from the natural sciences, social sciences and humaniti...

ANTHRO296F

The Worlds of Labor in Modern India

This colloquium will introduce students to the exciting and expanding field of Indian labor history and provide them a comprehensive historiographical foundation in this area of historical research. Seminars will engage with one key monograph in the...

ANTHRO298A

Archaeological Geographic Information Systems

This advanced undergraduate and graduate seminar will provide students with practical and theoretical training in Geographical Information Systems (GIS) as applied to archaeological research, introducing students to spatial theories and GIS methodolo...

ANTHRO298C

Digital Methods in Anthropology

The course provides an introduction to a broad range of digital tools and techniques for anthropological research. It is geared towards those interested in exploring such methodologies for their research and wanting to add hands-on experience with st...

ANTHRO299

Senior and Master's Paper Writing Workshop

Techniques of interpreting data, organizing bibliographic materials, writing, editing and revising. Preparation of papers for conferences and publications in anthropology. Seniors register for 199; master's students register for 299.

ANTHRO29A

Race, Indigeneity, and Cultural Heritage in Latin America

This course introduces students to the anthropological study of social difference and inequality in contemporary Latin America. It focuses on the intersections of race, Indigeneity, and cultural heritage. Since European contact, race has been a key c...

ANTHRO3

Introduction to Archaeology

Aims, methods, and data in the study of human society's development from early hunters through late prehistoric civilizations. Archaeological sites and remains characteristic of the stages of cultural development for selected geographic areas, emphas...

ANTHRO300

Reading Theory Through Ethnography

Required of and restricted to first-year ANTHRO Ph.D. students. Focus is on contemporary ethnography and related cultural and social theories generated by texts. Topics include agency, resistance, and identity formation, and discourse analysis. Prere...

ANTHRO301

History of Anthropological Theory, Culture and Society

Required of Anthropology Ph.D. students. The history of cultural and social anthropology in relation to historical and national contexts and key theoretical and methodological issues as these inform contemporary theory and practices of the discipline...

ANTHRO301A

Foundations of Social Theory

Modern social theory is based on intellectual horizons emerging in Europe from the 17th to the 19th/20th centuries. This burst of new ideas was intertwined with some of the darkest chapters in Europe's history: the enslavement, subjection and exploit...

ANTHRO302A

Technopolitics: Materiality, Power, Theory

This graduate readings seminar provides a lively introduction to some of the major themes and issues in the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS). How do technologies and material assemblages perform power? How are their designs and uses shap...

ANTHRO302D

Power in the Anthropocene: Pasts, Presents, Futures

The Anthropocene designates the present geological epoch, in which humans have irreversibly changed planet Earth, with impacts discernible in the atmosphere, biosphere, and more. The term has also become a "charismatic mega-category" in the humanitie...

ANTHRO303

Introduction to Archaeological Thought

The history of archaeological thought emphasizes recent debates. Evolutionary theories, behavioral archaeology, processual and cognitive archaeology, and approaches termed feminist and post-processual archaeology in the context of wider debate in adj...

ANTHRO303A

Contemporary Debates in Archaeological Thought

This course provides students an introduction to archaeological theory, ethics, and practice in the early 21st century. We will consider the wide range of moves beyond post-processualist archaeology; These will include but not limited to materiality,...

ANTHRO303E

Infrastructure & Power in the Global South

In the last decade, the field of infrastructure studies has entered into conversation with area studies, post/colonial studies, and other scholarship on the "Global South." These intersections have produced dramatic new understandings of what "infras...

ANTHRO303X

Memory, Materiality, and Archaeology

This seminar will explore several themes related to memory and material culture - broadly conceived to include art, architecture, the built environment, and landscapes, through archaeological, historical, and ethnographic lenses. How can we understa...

ANTHRO304

Becoming Muslim: Practice, Assemblage, Tradition

The growing study of material Islam broadly occupies two distinct fields: first, archaeologies of premodern Islam and material histories and second, ethnographic meditations on the distinctive relation between the materiality of practice and subjecti...

ANTHRO306

Anthropological Research Methods

Required of ANTHRO Ph.D. students. Other graduate students may enroll. Research methods and modes of evidence building in ethnographic research. Prerequisite: By instructor consent. Significant work outside of class time is expected of the student fo...

ANTHRO307

Archaeological Methods

Methodological aspects of field and laboratory practice from traditional archaeological methods to the latest interdisciplinary analytical techniques. The nature of archaeological data and inference; interpretive potential of these techniques. Prereq...

ANTHRO308

Proposal Writing Seminar in Cultural and Social Anthropology

Required of second-year Ph.D. students in the culture and society track. The conceptualization of dissertation research problems, the theories behind them, and the methods for exploring them. Participants draft a research prospectus suitable for a di...

ANTHRO308A

Proposal Writing Seminar in Archaeology

Required of second-year Ph.D. students in the archaeology track. The conceptualization of dissertation research problems, the theories behind them, and the methods for exploring them. Participants draft a research prospectus suitable for a dissertati...

ANTHRO30N

Does Science Have Culture?

In this course students will engage with the anthropology of science and medicine to explore the how cultural norms shape scientific understandings. Through a series of diverse global case studies, seminar participants will assess how historical con...

ANTHRO310C

Intersections

Themes of materiality and visuality, aesthetic and other forms of cultural production, and the meanings of creativity and convention. Ethnographic and archaeological material and case studies from worldwide cultural contexts. Prerequisite: consent of...

ANTHRO310G

Introduction to Graduate Studies

Required graduate seminar. The history of anthropological theory and key theoretical and methodological issues of the discipline. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.

ANTHRO311G

Introduction to Culture and Society Graduate Studies in Anthropology

Required graduate seminar for CS track. The history of anthropological theory and key theoretical and methodological issues in cultural anthropology. Prerequistes: this course is open only to Ph.D. students in anthropology or by permission of the ins...

ANTHRO312

Time Travel: Pasts, Places, and Possibilities

Is the past dead or alive? Where do we find it? What possibilities emerge when we discover it? This course explores how people think and live with history in the present, how different places can harbor different times, and how movement between them...

ANTHRO313A

Fine Observation: Ways of Seeing, Forms of Fieldwork

Explores possibilities for reimagining ethnography as a genre of writing and mode of knowledge production through delving into documentary and representational practices in other fields, including literature, journalism, art history, graphic novels,...

ANTHRO316

The Archaeology of the Contemporary Past

Archaeology is not limited to the study of the remote past. What happened a fifty years ago or even this morning can be subjected to archaeological scrutiny as well. In this course, we will see what the discipline has to say about the Second World Wa...

ANTHRO31Q

The Big Shift

Is the middle class shrinking? How do people who live at the extremes of American society- the super rich, the working poor and those who live on the margins, imagine and experience "the good life"? How do we understand phenomena such as gang culture...

ANTHRO32

Theories in Race and Ethnicity: A Comparative Perspective

This undergraduate course employs an anthropological and historical perspective to introduce students to ideas and concepts of race and ethnicity that emerged primarily in Europe and the United States in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and th...

ANTHRO323

Graduate Seminar in Economic Anthropology

Classical and contemporary anthropological perspectives on topics such as money, markets and exchange; capitalist and non-capitalist modes of production; class and socio-economic differentiation; globalization and neoliberalism; and the social and cu...

ANTHRO324

Political Anthropology

An anthropological approach to politics through bringing anthropological ways of thinking and modes of analysis to bear on key presuppositions of modern Western political thought. Ideas of rights, the individual, society, liberty, democracy, equality...

ANTHRO325

Care: A Critical Inquiry

Care: A Critical Inquiry examines ethnographic, philosophical, and social theoretical texts to understand the recent turn to care in anthropology. Topics include care as a relation; care and abandonment; the rationalization of care in law and medicin...

ANTHRO325W

Care and State

Care poses challenges for states around the world, as can be seen in healthcare and public childcare during the pandemic, elder care in ageing societies, and transnational care migration. While both state and care are discussed extensively in the soc...

ANTHRO326

Postcolonial and Indigenous Archaeologies

The role of postcolonial and Indigenous archaeologies as emergeant disciplinary activities within contemporary society. Community based archaeologies; the roles of oral history, landscape, and memory; archaeology as political action; and history in a...

ANTHRO330A

The Archive: Form, Practice, Thought

This seminar offers a wide-ranging exploration of the `archive.' Drawing from ethnography, social theory, philosophy, photography and literature, we will examine the archive's diverse material, narratological and structural dimensions, its epistemolo...

ANTHRO332

Anthropology of Ethics

Recent decades have witnessed what some scholars have termed an ethical turn in anthropology. This course explores the emergence of this field of study, asking the following questions: What has motivated a renewed anthropological interest in the subj...

ANTHRO332B

Tradition

A central concept in modern social theory, the notion of tradition often invokes a picture of life stressing constraint against freedom, continuity against becoming, and transmission instead of novelty. This course asks why the concept of tradition e...

ANTHRO334A

A Family Romance: The Family in Contemporary Society

"The family" is considered one of the most universal structures of human life. The study of kinship has wandered off anthropological syllabi just as it assumes ever greater significance within contemporary (often dystopic) political debates on the so...

ANTHRO337

VOICES

This course takes an anthropological perspective on psychotic voices, voices of resistance (mad and sane), voices of authority, voices of spirit, the sense of communication from another seen or unseen. We end with the writer's voice and how students...

ANTHRO338A

Policing and the Carceral State

Police in the United States have come under greater public scrutiny in recent years, particularly as cell-phone videos make visible abuses by police, prompting nation-wide protests for social justice, police reform, and abolition. Increased scholarl...

ANTHRO338B

History and Memory

How are history and memory important in the making of collective and public memory? This seminar draws together an interdisciplinary collection of readings with an aim to provide a foundation for seminar participants¿ projects, both historical and co...

ANTHRO339

Anthropology of Religion

This course presents classic and contemporary work on the anthropology of religion: Durkheim Elementary Forms of the Religious Life; Levy-Bruhl; Primitive Mentality; Douglas Purity and Danger; Evans Pritchard Nuer Religion; and recent ethnographies/...

ANTHRO34

Animals and Us

The human-animal relationship is dynamic, all encompassing and durable. Without exception, all socio-cultural groups have evidenced complex interactions with the animals around them, both domesticated and wild. However, the individual circumstances o...

ANTHRO342W

Whose Public Art? Monuments and Murals in a Contested Public Sphere

Public art, murals, and monuments have become a flashpoint for debate over civic values, memory, and belonging. The United States has experienced increased contestation over public symbols, particularly historic statues, with responses ranging from d...

ANTHRO343

Culture as Commodity

Cultural anthropologists have made significant contributions to studies that link culture and economy. Drawing together a range of cross-cultural debates, as these emerge in theoretical discussions and ethnographies, this graduate seminar explores th...

ANTHRO345

New Visions in Medical Anthropology

Recent experimental histories of the field. Emphasis is on how, working within anthropology's classic format, the ethnographic monograph, authors have innovatively responded to the challenges of representing amorphous, unspoken, and often violent rel...

ANTHRO345A

Race and Power: The Making of Human Difference in History, Biology and Capital

This course examines how race is made. We will pay close attention to how people engage with material, economic, scientific, and cultural forces to articulate human group difference as a given, and even natural. In this seminar, we will look at the r...

ANTHRO347A

Global Heritage, Religion and Secularism

This course examines the ways in which religion and spirituality have been addressed in heritage preservation history, discourse, and practice. Readings will focus on the convergence of religious and heritage traditions at differenthistorical and cul...

ANTHRO348A

Health, Politics, and Culture of Modern China

One of the most generative regions for medical anthropology inquiry in recent years has been Asia. This seminar is designed to introduce upper division undergraduates and graduate students to the methodological hurdles, representational challenges,...

ANTHRO348B

Bodies, Technologies, and Natures in Africa

This interdisciplinary course explores how modern African histories, bodies, and natures have been entangled with technological activities. Viewing Africans as experts and innovators, we consider how technologies have mediated, represented, or perfor...

ANTHRO348C

Phenomenology

The goal of this seminar is to explore the phenomenological method in ethnographic and historical research. We will discuss work by Merleau-Ponty, Husserl, Levinas, Freud, Stein, Petitmengin, Joelle Proust, James, and others in the context of ethnogr...

ANTHRO348P

ProSeminar: Medical Anthropology

This seminar will focus on recent and seminal texts in Medical Anthropology, broadly construed.Prerequisite: by instructor consent

ANTHRO349

Anthropology of Capitalism

This advanced graduate seminar explores capitalism as an historically-situated and culturally-mediated articulation of practices rather than as an economic system or social structure governed by an internal logic. It draws on poststructural theories...

ANTHRO351D

Ideologies and Practices of Creativity

The still-robust Romantic conception of creativity as the attribute of a specific, 'gifted', individual continues to have extraordinary social and political power as an ideological apparatus that shapes and disciplines conduct, aspirations, and subje...

ANTHRO353

Landscape

This graduate seminar introduces interdisciplinary approaches to landscape study. The broad range of theoretical approaches includes human and non-human interactions and overlapping and divergent, spatial and temporal questions derived from the excha...

ANTHRO354

Cultural Techniques

Building on the concept of 'cultural techniques,' or 'Kulturtechniken,' that has been developing in recent German media studies, this advanced graduate seminar considers a wide range of culturally specific modes of elementary techniques, from cutting...

ANTHRO356A

The Universal and the Vernacular. The Global Life of Concepts and Social Forms

Mapping and understanding vernacular concepts and terminologies has always been central to the anthropological quest to understand societies from `a native point of view'. This has often been accompanied by a critique of universalist and Euro-centric...

ANTHRO360A

Archival Research for Social Science: A Practicuum

Since the 1980s, the necessity of historicizing cultural and social formations has become established as integral to anthropological research. Every ethnography and dissertation has historical sections, derived primarily from secondary sources, comme...

ANTHRO361

Life and Death in Contemporary Latin America: An Anthropological Inquiry

This seminar explores life and death in contemporary Latin America. We will address anthropological understanding of the role of colonialism, migration, violence, urbanization, democratic transition and neoliberalism as they configure the experience...

ANTHRO362A

Visual Anthropology

This course will offer ways of understanding how scholars can attend to, theorize, and use visual documents such as photographs, drawings, prints, forms, charts, etc. in ethnographic work. Prerequisite by Instructor consent.

ANTHRO363

Queer Anthropology

Feminist and queer theory have profoundly rethought epistemologies as well as methodologies. This graduate seminar will explore the relationship between feminist and queer theory and the new directions proposed by queer anthropology in socio-cultural...

ANTHRO365A

Emancipation: Theories and Experiences

Concepts of emancipation have been treated in a wide variety of historical, political, regional and social perspectives. In the US, emancipation and post emancipation societies are primarily understood around histories of enslavement. In the class, w...

ANTHRO366

Material Semiotics

This seminar will focus on the emerging body of literature on the materiality of the production, circulation, and mediation of paperwork as constituitive of modern forms of governance. We will discuss specific genres of paperworks - notes, memos, fi...

ANTHRO366W

Semiotics for Ethnography

This workshop-style seminar will introduce students to a range of semiotic and linguistic anthropological approaches and tools for ethnographic analysis. A group of (linguistic) anthropologists from other universities will be invited to offer worksho...

ANTHRO367

The Anthropology of Science: Global Politics and Laboratory Life

Science and technology are important cultural products that often dramatically reorganize various aspects of human life. In this course we will explore how recent innovations in the life sciences and biomedicine may reconfigure crucial elements of so...

ANTHRO368A

Time and Temporality

This course explores the social and political organization of time. Anthropology has long been critical of the narratives of progress that are embedded in concepts of modern politics, such as development, citizenship, secularism, and sovereignty. How...

ANTHRO371

Living and Dying in the Contemporary World

This seminar explores how biological, political and social conditions transform and conjoin experiences of living and dying in the world today. Engaging contemporary ethnographies and social theory, we will examine how life and death, the natural and...

ANTHRO372

Urban Ecologies

At the intersections of urbanism and environmental studies, political ecology, postcolonial theory and the new materialism, new fields are in formation. This seminar explores scholarship that connects cities with countrysides rough questions of resou...

ANTHRO373

Things: An Archaeology of the Relationships Between Humans and Things

This course examines a variety of approaches that claim to explore the relationships between humans and things. Some of the approaches include Marx and material culture studies; Heidegger; cognitive and phenomenological; Actor Network Theory. But the...

ANTHRO374

Archaeology of Colonialism/Postcolonialisms

Advanced graduate seminar focused on the archaeology of colonial and postcolonial contexts, both prehistoric and historic. Emphasis on intersections between archaeological research and subaltern, postcolonial, and transnational feminist/queer theory....

ANTHRO376

Archaeology: The Emergence of a Discipline

This course explores the key thinkers and practitioners who have founded the discipline of archaeology. Reaching back into the nineteenth century, the course examines in depth the key figures, their preoccupations and projects that shaped the way tha...

ANTHRO378B

Culture, Mind and Emotion : Anthropological and Psychological Approaches

How does culture shape the experience of thinking and feeling, the way humans relate to the world and to others? This graduate level course, taught by a psychologist who studies emotion (Jeanne Tsai) and an anthropologist who studies mind (Tanya Mari...

ANTHRO379

Empathy Lab

This lab-based class examines the ways in which various disciplines and art forms conceive of, and tell stories about, the experiences and stories of others. With permission of instructor.

ANTHRO381

Archaeology of Violence

This advanced graduate seminar reflects on archaeological research on violence in relation to readings in philosophy, political anthropology, cultural studies, and gender and ethnic studies. While some forensic approaches are discussed, the emphasis...

ANTHRO382J

Disasters in Middle Eastern History

(History 282J is an undergraduate course offered for 5 units; History 382J is a graduate course offered for 4-5 units.) This course explores the history of disasters in the Middle East from the early modern period to the mid-20th-century. We will tra...

ANTHRO385

Captivity

The premise for this course is that anthropology, as well as other domains of social inquiry, have unacknowledged and unredeemed debts to captivity as structure, experience, and event, from the penal colony to the slave plantation. This course is an...

ANTHRO387

Strangers and Intimates: Exploring Public Life

How do we encounter and read each other in public and private spaces? How are these very spaces historically constituted around such distinctions and manners of reading? What do these questions look like in dense heterogeneous cities with differentia...

ANTHRO39

Sense of Place

This course examines the life of places as shaped by environmental events and projects aimed towards rural or urban development. Drawing methodological insights from anthropology, cultural geography and environmental studies, we examine the forces th...

ANTHRO391

Subjectivity

This seminar considers subjectivity as a central category of social, cultural, psychological, historical and political analysis. Through a critical and collaborative examination of ethnographic works and psychoanalytic theory, we will identify the pr...

ANTHRO398B

Race, Ethnicity, and Language: Writing Race, Ethnicity, and Language in Ethnography

This methods seminar focuses on developing ethnographic strategies for representing race, ethnicity, and language in writing without reproducing the stereotypes surrounding these categories and practices. In addition to reading various ethnographies,...

ANTHRO400

Cultural and Social Dissertation Writers Seminar

Required of fifth-year Ph.D. students returning from dissertation field research and in the process of writing dissertations and preparing for professional employment. Prerequisite: By consent of instructor.

ANTHRO401A

Qualifying Examination: Topic

Required of second- and third-year Ph.D. students writing the qualifying paper or the qualifying written examination. May be repeated for credit one time.

ANTHRO401B

Qualifying Examination: Area

Required of second- and third-year Ph.D. students writing the qualifying paper or the qualifying written examination. May be repeated for credit one time.

ANTHRO402D

Materialities of Power, Part I

How is power made material? And how do material things--objects, commodities, technologies, and infrastructures --reflect, change, consolidate, or distribute power? This research seminar is aimed at PhD students in history, anthropology, and STS who...

ANTHRO402F

Materialities of Power, Part II

How is power made material? And how do material things --objects, commodities, technologies, and infrastructures--reflect, change, consolidate, or distribute power? This research seminar is aimed at PhD students in history, anthropology, and STS who...

ANTHRO41

Genes and Identity

In recent decades genes have increasingly become endowed with the cultural power to explain many aspects of human life: physical traits, diseases, behaviors, ancestral histories, and identity. In this course we will explore a deepening societal intr...

ANTHRO440

Graduate Teaching

Supervised experience teaching in Anthropology

ANTHRO441

Master's Project

Supervised work for terminal and coterminal master's students writing the master's project in the final quarter of the degree program. Significant work outside of class time is expected of the student for this course.

ANTHRO442

Reading Group

Graduate student reading group on a thematic topic of interest. Intended for first or second-year cohort PhD students.

ANTHRO443

Medical Humanities Workshop

Medical Humanities is a humanistic approach to the topic of medicine. The approach generally emphasizes the subjective experience of health and illness as captured through the expressive arts (painting, music and literature), expressed across histori...

ANTHRO444

Anthropology Colloquium

Department Colloquia Lecture Series. Lectures presented on a variety of anthropological topics. Colloquium is intended for the Department of Anthropology's under graduate majors and graduate students. May be repeated for credit.

ANTHRO445

Anthropology Brown Bag Series

Current topics and trends in cultural/social anthropology, archaeology, and environmental and ecological anthropology. Enrollment in this noon-time series is restricted to the Department of Anthropology Masters students and First and Second-year PhD...

ANTHRO450

Research Apprenticeship

Supervised work on a research project with an individual faculty member. May be repeated for credit.

ANTHRO451

Directed Individual Study

Supervised work for a qualifying paper, examination, or project with an individual faculty member.

ANTHRO452

Graduate Internship

Provides graduate students with the opportunity to pursue their area of specialization in an institutional setting such as a laboratory, clinic, research institute, or government agency. F-1 international students enrolled in this course cannot star...

ANTHRO457A

Theory and Method in Linguistic Anthropology

This course introduces students to central concepts and approaches in linguistic anthropology, with a specific focus on the role of educational institutions, processes, and ideologies in shaping language use and vice versa. Students will learn practi...

ANTHRO60N

Digging for Answers: 5 Big Questions of Our Time

The aim in this course is to explore the archaeological evidence for long-term change with regard to 5 major questions of our time: Where do we come from? Has inequality increased? Have we become more violent? Why do we have so much stuff? What is th...

ANTHRO78A

Disruption and Diffusion: The Archaeology of Innovation

This undergraduate seminar uses engagement with canonical archaeological topics and questions about the emergence of civilization to introduce students to critical perspectives on the nature of novelty, progress, and modernity. The first weeks of the...

ANTHRO801

TGR Project

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ANTHRO802

TGR Dissertation

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ANTHRO80A

Heritage and Human Rights

What does archaeology have to say about human rights? Is there a right to cultural heritage? How can archaeology and heritage help protect rights¿or encroach upon them? Themes we will address in this course include the archaeological investigation of...

ANTHRO82

Medical Anthropology

Emphasis is on how health, illness, and healing are understood, experienced, and constructed in social, cultural, and historical contexts. Topics: biopower and body politics, gender and reproductive technologies, illness experiences, medical diversit...

ANTHRO82P

The Literature of Psychosis

One of the great gifts of literature is its ability to give us insight into the internal worlds of others. This is particularly true of that state clinicians call "psychosis." But psychosis is a complex concept. It can be terrifying and devastating f...

ANTHRO84B

Incas, Spaniards, and Africans: Archaeology of the Kingdom of Peru

Students are introduced to Andean archaeology from the rise of the Inca empire through the Spanish colonial period. We will explore archaeological evidence for the development of late pre-Hispanic societies in western South America, the Spanish conqu...

ANTHRO89

Undergraduate Reading Group

Undergraduate student reading group on a thematic topic of interest. Sections: All faculty.

ANTHRO90B

Theory of Cultural and Social Anthropology

This undergraduate seminar offers students the foundations of theory in social and cultural anthropology. Each section begins with a close reading of the work of a contemporary anthropologist and then traces the intellectual legacies that have shaped...

ANTHRO91

Method and Evidence in Anthropology

This course provides a broad introduction to various ways of designing anthropological questions and associated methods for collecting evidence and supporting arguments. We review the inherent links between how a question is framed, the types of evid...

ANTHRO91A

Archaeological Methods

Methodological issues related to the investigation of archaeological sites and objects. Aims and techniques of archaeologists including: location and excavation of sites; dating of places and objects; analysis of artifacts and technology and the stud...

ANTHRO91A

Archaeological Methods

Methodological issues related to the investigation of archaeological sites and objects. Aims and techniques of archaeologists including: location and excavation of sites; dating of places and objects; analysis of artifacts and technology and the stud...

ANTHRO92A

Undergraduate Research Proposal Writing Workshop

Practicum. Students develop independent research projects and write research proposals. How to formulate a research question; how to integrate theory and field site; and step-by-step proposal writing.

ANTHRO92B

Undergraduate Research Proposal Writing Workshop

Practicum. Students develop independent research projects and write research proposals. How to formulate a research question; how to integrate theory and field site; and step-by-step proposal writing.

ANTHRO93

Prefield Research Seminar

Preparation for anthropological field research in other societies and the U.S. Data collection techniques include participant observation, interviewing, surveys, sampling procedures, life histories, ethnohistory, and the use of documentary materials....

ANTHRO94

Postfield Research Seminar

Goal is to produce an ethnographic report based on original field research gathered during summer fieldwork, emphasizing writing and revising as steps in analysis and composition. Students critique classmates' work and revise their own writing in lig...

ANTHRO95

Research in Anthropology

Independent research conducted under faculty supervision, normally taken junior or senior year in pursuit of a senior paper or an honors project. May be repeated for credit.

ANTHRO95B

Independent Study for Honors or Senior Paper Writing

Required of Anthropology honors or senior paper candidates. Taken in the final quarter before handing in the final draft of the Honors or Senior Paper and graduating. This independent study supports work on the honors and senior papers for students w...

ANTHRO95C

Monumental Pasts: Cultural Heritage and Politics

What is heritage? Who decides what and how pasts matter? Our pasts loom monumental in multiple senses. At the intersection of archaeology and anthropology, the emerging discipline of heritage is often described as the politics of the past. What peopl...

ANTHRO96

Directed Individual Study

Prerequisite: consent of instructor.

ANTHRO97

Internship in Anthropology

Opportunity for students to pursue their specialization in an institutional setting such as a laboratory, clinic, research institute, or government agency. May be repeated for credit. Service Learning Course (certified by Haas Center). F-1 internatio...

ANTHRO97C

The Structure of Colonial Power: South Asia since the Eighteenth Century

How did the colonial encounter shape the making of modern South Asia? Was colonial rule a radical rupture from the pre-modern past or did it embody historical continuities? Did colonial rule cause the economic underdevelopment of the region or were r...

ANTHRO98C

Digital Methods in Anthropology

The course provides an introduction to a broad range of digital tools and techniques for anthropological research. It is geared towards those interested in exploring such methodologies for their research and wanting to add hands-on experience with st...

Department: Anthropology