Spring Term Schedule
Spring 2024
Number | Title | Instructor | Time |
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ANTH 101-1
John Osburg
MWF 10:25AM - 11:15AM
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How do people live, love, work, pray, parent, and play around the world? This course introduces students to the ways in which cultural anthropologists research human diversity. Students will learn about the different ways people understand racial categories and national identities; how they organize gender dynamics, sexualities, and families; how they generate belief systems and heal sickness; how they structure law, politics, and markets; and how they cope with transitions and upheaval. This course therefore raises questions about cultural diversity, social inequality, justice, and power, in a world shaped by global flows of people, money, media, and technology, and asks students to challenge their assumptions and consider alternative views. Open only to first-year and sophomore students.
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ANTH 204-1
Kristin Doughty
MW 11:50AM - 1:05PM
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This course is a general inquiry into the practice of ethnography, including fieldwork and writing, carried out through a close reading of materials that investigate the role of the built environment in the production of power and inequality. This course has two aims. First, it will enable students to analyze and evaluate how anthropologists create ethnographic knowledge. Second, it will introduce students to urban anthropology and in particular, to scholarship which examines the politics of urban restructuring (including urban renewal, gentrification, urban violence, deindustrialization, and other topics). Reading ethnographies that document struggles over space in the US and abroad, we will investigate different constellations of power, inequality, and resistance - - and how anthropologists study them. Prerequisite: ANT 101 or permission of instructor.
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ANTH 207-1
Thomas Gibson
MW 4:50PM - 6:05PM
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This course examines the arguments and the rhetoric of radical thinkers who have tried to change the world rather than just interpret it since the revolutions of 1848
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ANTH 215-1
Nancy Chin
TR 11:05AM - 12:20PM
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Using a critical lens, this course examines how forms of social organization create good health for some groups and poor health for other groups. Pre-requisite: ANTH 101 or PHLT 101.
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ANTH 216-1
Lois Metcalf
MW 6:15PM - 7:30PM
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Cultural and social dimensions of health and illness including the political and economic dimensions.
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ANTH 224-1
Daniel Reichman
TR 9:40AM - 10:55AM
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What is progress? Are universal theories of development possible? This course introduces students to major trends in the anthropological study of international development through case studies from around the world. Topics include: indigenous people and development, debates over cultural property and cultural loss, sustainability, and the role of cultural values in economic life.
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ANTH 232-1
Thomas Gibson
MW 2:00PM - 3:15PM
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This course explores the legal, political, and philosophical dimensions of the concept of indigenous people; how it differs from overlapping concepts such as peasantry, race, ethnicity, language, culture, and religion; how its definition varies according to the history of colonialism in different parts of the world; and why this movement gained momentum after the end of the Cold War.
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ANTH 239-1
Fethi Keles
TR 12:30PM - 1:45PM
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This course explores the multi-layered experiences of different types (e.g. refugees, asylum seekers) and groups of immigrant populations in a number of contexts including the United States through anthropological and other scholarship, journalistic and reflective pieces, reports, films, and other sources. Topics covered span immigrants’ coping strategies, transnational engagements, adaptation trajectories, and their socioeconomic and other contributions.
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ANTH 243-1
Kristin Doughty
MW 9:00AM - 10:15AM
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Does it matter where our power comes from? Why or how and to whom? This course uses anthropological case studies of different kinds of energy sources (fossil fuels, nuclear, water, solar, wind) and different kinds of electrification (centralized grids versus micro-grids) around the world to think about the relationship between energy, environments, power, and culture with a specific focus on intersectional gender and sexuality. How do energy practices and cultural norms of racialized gender shape each other in various places around the world, and to what effects? What might empirical attention to how people talk about and use energy help us to understand about the energy transitions and climate crises of the 21st century?
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ANTH 247-1
Fethi Keles
TR 11:05AM - 12:20PM
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This course explores various aspects of Muslim life globally. Relying on primary anthropological scholarship, documentary films, reports, articles, and journalistic pieces, the course provides an ethnographic lens to discuss such issues as gender, religion, politics, culture and tradition as they are manifest in the everyday practices of Muslims in different places around the world, including the United States.
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ANTH 262-1
Kathryn Mariner
F 10:25AM - 11:15AMF 11:50AM - 12:40PM
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Spring Leaf seminar by instructor permission only. Day/time TBD
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ANTH 265-1
Nancy Chin
MW 10:25AM - 11:40AM
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This course uses social theories to frame current issues in global health. Readings include critiques of development and ethnographic methods. Pre-requisite: PHLT 101 or ANTH 101.
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ANTH 283-1
Stefanie Bautista San Miguel
MW 10:25AM - 11:40AM
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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, Chim, 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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ANTH 304-1
Kathryn Mariner
W 2:00PM - 4:40PM
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What is the relationship between social location and physical location? How do cities and their inhabitants simultaneously produce social identity categories, power relations, and space/place? In this advanced course for anthropology majors, students will read and discuss ethnographic accounts of the spatialization of culture within various global urban contexts, illustrating that space is not simply a politically neutral container for subjects and behaviors. Together, we will explore how ethnography itself is a placemaking activity. Theoretical frames will include the social production and social construction of space, embodied space, translocal space, and the relationship between discourse and space. In attending to social and legal landscapes, the built environment, movement, and placemaking, students will propose, develop, and present their own individual research projects to be shared in a research symposium at the culmination of the course. NOTE: Open to declared anthropology majors and minors who have taken ANT 101 and one 200-level core course; graduate students welcome by permission of instructor.
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ANTH 390-1
John Osburg
7:00PM - 7:00PM
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For ANTH 101, Being Human Cultural Anthropology. By application only. The TA program requires students to work in teams and to lead group discussion.
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ANTH 395H-1
7:00PM - 7:00PM
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No description
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Spring 2024
Number | Title | Instructor | Time |
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Monday and Wednesday | |
ANTH 243-1
Kristin Doughty
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Does it matter where our power comes from? Why or how and to whom? This course uses anthropological case studies of different kinds of energy sources (fossil fuels, nuclear, water, solar, wind) and different kinds of electrification (centralized grids versus micro-grids) around the world to think about the relationship between energy, environments, power, and culture with a specific focus on intersectional gender and sexuality. How do energy practices and cultural norms of racialized gender shape each other in various places around the world, and to what effects? What might empirical attention to how people talk about and use energy help us to understand about the energy transitions and climate crises of the 21st century? |
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ANTH 265-1
Nancy Chin
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This course uses social theories to frame current issues in global health. Readings include critiques of development and ethnographic methods. Pre-requisite: PHLT 101 or ANTH 101. |
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ANTH 283-1
Stefanie Bautista San Miguel
|
|
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, Chim, 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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ANTH 204-1
Kristin Doughty
|
|
This course is a general inquiry into the practice of ethnography, including fieldwork and writing, carried out through a close reading of materials that investigate the role of the built environment in the production of power and inequality. This course has two aims. First, it will enable students to analyze and evaluate how anthropologists create ethnographic knowledge. Second, it will introduce students to urban anthropology and in particular, to scholarship which examines the politics of urban restructuring (including urban renewal, gentrification, urban violence, deindustrialization, and other topics). Reading ethnographies that document struggles over space in the US and abroad, we will investigate different constellations of power, inequality, and resistance - - and how anthropologists study them. Prerequisite: ANT 101 or permission of instructor. |
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ANTH 232-1
Thomas Gibson
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This course explores the legal, political, and philosophical dimensions of the concept of indigenous people; how it differs from overlapping concepts such as peasantry, race, ethnicity, language, culture, and religion; how its definition varies according to the history of colonialism in different parts of the world; and why this movement gained momentum after the end of the Cold War. |
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ANTH 207-1
Thomas Gibson
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This course examines the arguments and the rhetoric of radical thinkers who have tried to change the world rather than just interpret it since the revolutions of 1848 |
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ANTH 216-1
Lois Metcalf
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Cultural and social dimensions of health and illness including the political and economic dimensions. |
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Monday, Wednesday, and Friday | |
ANTH 101-1
John Osburg
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How do people live, love, work, pray, parent, and play around the world? This course introduces students to the ways in which cultural anthropologists research human diversity. Students will learn about the different ways people understand racial categories and national identities; how they organize gender dynamics, sexualities, and families; how they generate belief systems and heal sickness; how they structure law, politics, and markets; and how they cope with transitions and upheaval. This course therefore raises questions about cultural diversity, social inequality, justice, and power, in a world shaped by global flows of people, money, media, and technology, and asks students to challenge their assumptions and consider alternative views. Open only to first-year and sophomore students. |
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Tuesday and Thursday | |
ANTH 224-1
Daniel Reichman
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What is progress? Are universal theories of development possible? This course introduces students to major trends in the anthropological study of international development through case studies from around the world. Topics include: indigenous people and development, debates over cultural property and cultural loss, sustainability, and the role of cultural values in economic life. |
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ANTH 215-1
Nancy Chin
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Using a critical lens, this course examines how forms of social organization create good health for some groups and poor health for other groups. Pre-requisite: ANTH 101 or PHLT 101. |
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ANTH 247-1
Fethi Keles
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This course explores various aspects of Muslim life globally. Relying on primary anthropological scholarship, documentary films, reports, articles, and journalistic pieces, the course provides an ethnographic lens to discuss such issues as gender, religion, politics, culture and tradition as they are manifest in the everyday practices of Muslims in different places around the world, including the United States. |
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ANTH 239-1
Fethi Keles
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This course explores the multi-layered experiences of different types (e.g. refugees, asylum seekers) and groups of immigrant populations in a number of contexts including the United States through anthropological and other scholarship, journalistic and reflective pieces, reports, films, and other sources. Topics covered span immigrants’ coping strategies, transnational engagements, adaptation trajectories, and their socioeconomic and other contributions. |
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Wednesday | |
ANTH 304-1
Kathryn Mariner
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What is the relationship between social location and physical location? How do cities and their inhabitants simultaneously produce social identity categories, power relations, and space/place? In this advanced course for anthropology majors, students will read and discuss ethnographic accounts of the spatialization of culture within various global urban contexts, illustrating that space is not simply a politically neutral container for subjects and behaviors. Together, we will explore how ethnography itself is a placemaking activity. Theoretical frames will include the social production and social construction of space, embodied space, translocal space, and the relationship between discourse and space. In attending to social and legal landscapes, the built environment, movement, and placemaking, students will propose, develop, and present their own individual research projects to be shared in a research symposium at the culmination of the course. NOTE: Open to declared anthropology majors and minors who have taken ANT 101 and one 200-level core course; graduate students welcome by permission of instructor. |
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Friday | |
ANTH 262-1
Kathryn Mariner
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Spring Leaf seminar by instructor permission only. Day/time TBD |