| 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... |
| 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. |
| 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 | Indigenous dispossession and cultural heritage in Latin America | Indigeneity and cultural heritage are key terms for the anthropological study of social difference and inequality in contemporary Latin America. Since the 20th century, state and international institutions have positioned cultural heritage formation... |
| 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... |
| 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 | No Description Set |
| ANTHRO802 | TGR Dissertation | No Description Set |
| 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... |