This course, an introduction to the study of human culture, exposes students to the basic principles of anthropology. Students will be introduced to the range of cultural diversity that exists in the world, from tribal societies to modern nation-states. Through this encounter, students will learn to view cultures in comparative context, and will critically reflect on what it means to be human

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We live in a stratified society: resources and opportunities are unevenly distributed, and the boundaries between the haves and have-nots are often difficult to cross. Why does social inequality emerge in human societies? Do post-industrial societies tend to be less egalitarian, and why? How does inequality in gender, race and economic well-being perpetuate in the contemporary world? In what ways are expressions and experiences of social inequality similar or different in other human populations? Placing the example of the contemporary United States in a comparative context, this course examines social theories and ethnographic examples that address the many dimensions of inequality.

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This course introduces students to the study of the structure of human language. We will cover the six core areas of linguistic investigation: Phonetics (articulation, acoustics, and perception of speech sounds), Phonology (sound patterns), Morphology (internal structure of words and their organization in the mental lexicon), Syntax (internal structure of phrases and sentences), Semantics (word and sentence meaning), and Pragmatics (language use in context). The course focuses on developing skills in the areas of linguistic data analysis and interpretation of linguistic data in ways that aim to address theoretical and empirical issues in the study of language.

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This course introduces students to the study of the structure of human language. We will cover the six core areas of linguistic investigation: Phonetics (articulation, acoustics, and perception of speech sounds), Phonology (sound patterns), Morphology (internal structure of words and their organization in the mental lexicon), Syntax (internal structure of phrases and sentences), Semantics (word and sentence meaning), and Pragmatics (language use in context). The course focuses on developing skills in the areas of linguistic data analysis and interpretation of linguistic data in ways that aim to address theoretical and empirical issues in the study of language.

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This course has two aims. First, it will enable readers to analyze and evaluate how anthropologists create ethnographic knowledge. How do ethnographers make and interpret data within more or less explicit conceptual frameworks? Second, it will introduce students to the vast cultural diversity of New Guinea and its neighboring islands and to how this region (Melanesia) has played a central role in the history of anthropological theory and method. The course is thus a general inquiry into the practice of ethnography, including fieldwork and writing, carried out through a close reading of materials from one particular area of the world. Readings include 20th century classics by authors such as Bronislaw Malinowski and Margaret Mead as well as recent ethnographic writings about contemporary Papua New Guinea

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PREREQUISITES: ANT 101 or permission of instructor

A survey of anthropological and philosophical debates over how to explain the apparently irrational beliefs of other people in terms of their different cultural perceptions of the same natural world, or in terms of their different experiences of ontologically different worlds. Authors discussed include Kant and Durkheim, Wittgenstein and Evans-Pritchard, Heidegger and Latour, and Levi-Strauss and Descola

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PREREQUISITES: At least two previous anthropology courses or permission of instructo

In this introductory course, students will engage with a variety of musical genres, instruments, and performance techniques from different areas of the world. Through reading assignments, listening examples, film clips, and participatory activities, students will study how people in difference places engage with music as a sonic and social practice. Students will also learn how to write about music as a form of social practice through short reading responses and structured essay assignments.

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Using a critical lens, this course examines how forms of social organization create global health for some groups and poor health for other groups.

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PREREQUISITES: ANT 101 or PH 101

Cultural and social dimensions of health and illness including the political and economic dimensions.

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This course explores anthropological approaches to the study of mass consumption and material culture. Specific topics for investigation will include: possessions and personhood; the history of modern consumerism in the West; and the globalization of markets. The course will address these and other topics through case studies of everyday items of food and drink. Students will be required to develop and present a brief research project; students registered for ANT 226 will be asked to do projects on food-related issues. Projects may make use of ethnographic and/or historical methods and/or primary research materials

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PREREQUISITES: ANT 101 is helpful

In Black Skins, White Masks, Frantz Fanon wrote, “O my body, make of me always a man who questions!” In the United States, popular cultural understandings of race have often located blackness within the body: in DNA, in blood, in skin, in hair texture, in facial features. How does race get mapped onto the body? In this interdisciplinary course on race and embodiment, students will encounter texts and writing assignments prompting them to think critically about how black bodies ‘matter’ in the contemporary U.S. Course materials and assignments will encourage students to explore how blackness intersects with other social categories such as gender and class at the site of the body, while exploring how these categories are socially constructed and can and should be troubled, blurred, and contested in the practice of social life. The dual themes of intersectionality and visuality will act as a frame for our explorations.

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This course will examine gender as a key component of social, economic, and political life. How are economic processes, political discussions, and intimate practices constrained by cultural ideas about gender and sex? How does gender intersect with race, class, and ethnicity? How is gender related to sexuality, bodies, and selves? While many of our discussions will be focused on the U.S., we will also examine several ethnographic examples from outside the contemporary western world that challenge the universality of our conceptions of gender and sexuality

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An interdisciplinary survey of the radically different understandings of global history prevalent in the formerly colonizing nations of the North Atlantic, and the formerly colonized nations of the global South. It includes a discussion of the way these understandings have distorted U.S. foreign policy since the occupation of the Philippines in 1898. Authors discussed include classical liberal theorists such as Locke, Mill and Tocqueville; postcolonial theorists such as Fanon and Said; and decolonial theorists such as Quijano and Mignolo.

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This course uses social theories to frame current issues in global health. Readings include critiques of development and ethnographic methods.

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PREREQUISITES: ANT 101 or PH 101

This course will review the prehistory of ancient societies in the Andes, which will begin from the peopling of the continent to the conquest of the Inca Empire by the Spanish. Students will become familiar with Andean chronologies as well as the prehispanic cultures of Chinchorro, Caral, Chavin, Pukara, Paracas, Moche, Nasca, Wari, Tiwanaku, Chimú, and the Inca, among others. Special attention will be paid to how these societies adapted to the diverse ecology of the Andes. Topics include the history of Peruvian archaeology; plant and animal domestication; the development of social complexity, the emergence of religion; prehispanic art and symbolism; ancient technology, economies and trade; and urbanism. The course includes material from archaeological investigations and interpretations as well as ethnohistoric and ethnographic sources.

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The course will examine the nature and culture of the African Diaspora as found on the African continent, Europe, the Americas and elsewhere. Among key issues on which the course will focus are variability, continuity and change in the cultures of different groups of Diasporan Africans, and relationships that are found between major environmental challenges as well as historical events such as the Islamic Jihads, Trans-Saharan Trade, the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, colonialism, and Plantation Slavery in West Africa and the relocation and redistribution of African populations in Africa. A critical component of this class examines the historical, ethnographic, and archaeological research done in Africa, Europe, and the Americas to inform the student about theories and interpretations concerning the African Diaspora.

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Ethnoarchaeology is the ethnographic study of peoples for archaeological reasons, usually through the study of the material remains of a society. Ethnoarchaeology aids archaeologists in reconstructing ancient lifeways by studying the material and non-material traditions of modern societies. This course will examine ethnoarchaeological work in Africa that is sensitive to the daily realities of peoples’ lives while it simultaneously builds the types of knowledge necessary for ethnoarchaeology to meet its important cognitive role within archaeological research. Examples will be drawn from research with potters and consumers, iron smelters, pastoralists, artists, and ethno-pharmacologists in West Africa, Southern Africa, and Eastern Africa. The course will guide the student to understand what ethnoarchaeology is, and to acquire skills, which would enable her or him to practice it. Lectures will be combined with class discussions of specific case studies.

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This course introduces students to a range of beliefs and practices in Africa frequently referred to as “Witchcraft” or “The Occult.” We will approach these phenomena not as cultural exotica, but rather as quintessentially modern forms of theory and practice. Through a series of case studies from across the continent in the colonial and postcolonial eras, the course poses a number related questions: Is witchcraft rational? Is it a matter of belief? How is “the occult” related to other aspects of politics, economy, and society? How do we explain observable patterns in who gets accused of witchcraft? What are the responsibilities of Government to accused witches and their alleged victims? Is practicing witchcraft a crime?

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What is the relationship between social location & physical location? How do cities produce both race and space? In this course for ANT majors, students will read & discuss ethnographic accounts of the racialization of space and the spatialization of race in various global urban contexts, incl. Chicago, Rochester, Syracuse, Sydney, Rio de Janeiro, & Cape Town, illustrating space is not simply a politically neutral container for subjects & behaviors. We will explore how ethnography itself is a placemaking activity. Theoretical frames will include the social production & construction of space, embodied space, translocal space, and the relationship between discourse & space. In attending to social & legal landscapes, the built environment, movement, & placemaking, students will propose, develop, and present individual research projects to be shared in a symposium. Open to declared ANT majors/minors who have taken ANT 101 and a 200-level core course; graduate students by permission of instructor

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PREREQUISITES: Declared ANT major or minor and ANT 101 and a 200-level core course

For ANT 101, Cultural Anthropology. By application only. The TA program requires students to work in teams and to lead group discussion.

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Internships will be graded on a pass/fail basis only.

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