ANTHROPOLOGY

070.265 (H,S)

ANTHROPOLOGY OF MEDIA (3) Pandian  Limit 40   The course examines the mediation of contemporary cultural life through technologies such as cinema, television, radio, design, and  the Internet, investigating questions of desire, power, identity, and belonging.
Cross-listed with Film & Media Studies

Sec. 01

TTh 10:30-11:45

070.319 (H,S)
(W)

LOGIC OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL INQUIRY (3) Das   Limit 30    A close look at ethnography as a mode of inquiry and as a genre of writing.  This will count as a required course for Anthropology majors but open to all undergraduates.

Sec. 01

WF 12-1:15

070.373 (H,S)
 (W)

ANTHROPOLOGY OF MENTAL ILLNESS (3) Han   Limit 60 50   How can we understand mental illness from an anthropological perspective?  A study of mental illness brings together a critical analysis of medical and psychiatric discourses, institutions of care, as well as economic inequality.  It also challenges us to consider fundamental questions of how to engage with subjectivity and experience.  In this course, we will work through historical analyses of psychiatric discourse, ethnographic explorations of mental illness and addictions, and social theory on subjectivity and science and technology.   Cross-listed with Public Health Studies, Program in Latin American Studies, and Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality

Sec. 01

TTh 12-1:15

070.378 (H,S)

CULTURAL PROPERTY AND POLITICS IN LATIN AMERICA (3) Poole   Limit 35   This course explores the political uses of culture and the idea of cultural property in Latin American indigenous movements, development policies and government programs.
Cross-listed with Program in Latin American Studies

Sec. 01

W 1:30-4

070.391 (H,S)

RELIGION AND THE PROBLEM OF SUFFERING (3) Singh   Limit 25   How do different religious traditions interpret the meaning of human suffering? How are secular responses to suffering inflected by religious or moral imaginations? Key authors include Nietzsche, Weber, Mauss, Deleuze, Rene Girard, Michael Taussig, Veena Das and the anthropological literature on social suffering.
Cross-listed with Public Health Studies
Dean’s Teaching Fellowship Course

Sec. 01

M 4:30-7

070.395 (H,S)

ANTHROPOLOGY OF CLOTHES (3) Haeri   Limit 25   Cross-cultural examination of the reasons for dressing in particular ways. We will look at economic and religious factors, the influence of fashion on our decisions, and conflicts over how we are to appear in public.

Sec. 01

Th 1:30-4

070.399 (H,S)

BACK TO THE FUTURE (3) Obarrio, Khan  Limit 35  What is the imagination of the future within and across cultures?  We explore this question by reading among the following topics: memory and monuments; prophecy and divination; social engineering and dystopias; political eschatology and warfare; hope and revolution; cyborg science; finance and future markets; Marxism and avant-gardes; sci-fi and punk.

Sec. 01

M 1:30-4

100.343 (H,S)
(W)

THE POWER OF PLACE: RACE AND COMMUNITY IN EAST BALTIMORE (3) Shell-Weiss   Limit 12 East Baltimore is often referred to as "the cradle of the black Baltimore community." Excluded from living in other parts of the city until the late 19th century, East Baltimore marks Baltimore¹s oldest black neighborhoods and the birthplace of activism and leadership that helped to make the city what it is today. Despite this long, rich past, however, much of the history of black East Baltimore has been lost, preserved only in limited fragments, in scattered repositories, or not at all. It is also a neighborhood that has experienced dramatic transitions, both social and physical. Students in this class will explore this neighborhood's rich history, collecting and analyzing oral histories with current and former residents.
Cross-listed with Africana Studies, Public Health Studies, Sociology, and History

Sec. 01

T 4:30-7:30pm

300.344 (H) (W)

GENOCIDE AS A PHILOSOPHICAL PROBLEM (3) Shuster Limit 20 30
Cross-listed with the Humanities Center, Jewish Studies, History, Philosophy and Political Science
Dean’s Teaching Fellowship Course

Sec. 01

M 1:30-4 4:30-7pm

300.383 (H)

WHAT MAKES US DESIRE?  (3)  Marrati  Limit 20
Cross-listed with the Humanities Center

Sec. 01

T 1:30-4

360.147 (H,S)
(W)

ADAM SMITH AND KARL MARX (3) Jelavich/ Schoenberger  Limit 20      
Freshmen only  Smith and Marx are often treated as icons in debates about capitalism and their thinking is reduced to sound bites. In this course we read them closely to see what they really said. You may be surprised.  Cross-listed with Interdepartmental, History, and Geography and Environmental Engineering

Sec. 01

W 1:30-4

Sec. 01

M 1:30-4

070.503

INDEPENDENT STUDY Staff

070.505

DIRECTED RESEARCH  Staff

070.507

DIRECTED READINGS Staff

070.551

INTERNSHIP  Staff

070.561

SENIOR ESSAY Staff

070.607

ON CARE AND WELL-BEING Han Limit 10 What productive anthropological inquiries would a reflection on care and well-being provoke? This course engages these issues through anthropological, historical, and philosophical perspectives. It raises critical questions of how medical institutions and discourses as well as historical and political change transform subjectivity and relationality. Focused reading on texts from: Michel Foucault, Georges Canguilhem, Jean-Luc Nancy, Heidegger, and Levinas. We will put these readings in conversation with recent and classic ethnography and historical monographs and essays.

RECENT ETHNOGRAPHIES IN MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY   In this seminar, we will do close readings of eight to ten recent ethnographies in medical anthropology.  These ethnographies will be paired with selections of pertinent social theory. The reading list will comprise recently published work with a broad range of topics:  HIV/AIDS, desire/affect, and the social lives of technology, to name a few.  We will study methodologies employed in these Ethnographies, both in terms of fieldwork and in writing.  We will pay close attention to how social theory relates to ethnographic insight.

Sec. 01

W 4-6pm

070.616

PROSEMINAR ON ANTHROPOLOGICAL THEORY   Poole  Limit 10  This course will consistof close reading of anthropological texts in order to elicit the relation between knowledge and institutions.  Will not provide a survey but will select one or two salient concepts and place them within the conceptual and institutional history of various anthropologies.

Sec. 01

T 1:30-3:30

070.617

METHODS:  ANTHROPOLOGICAL IMAGINATION Pandian Limit  10  This course takes imagination as a rubric through which to explore problems and practices of method and interpretation in sociocultural anthropology.

Sec. 01

Th 4-6pm

070.651

ANTHROPOLOGY OF “THE EVERYDAY” Khan   Limit 15    In this course we will treat “the everyday” as an orienting concept by which to engage social theory and ethnography.  We will read from among the following: Durkheim, Tarde, Lefebvre, de Certeau, Freud, Nietzsche, Cavell, Brooks, Das, Gilsenan, and Pandalfo.   
Cross-listed with Political Science, German and Romance Languages and Literatures, the Humanities Center, and Geography and Environmental Engineering

Sec. 01

F 10-12

070.659

PROPOSAL WRITING  Obarrio   Limit 20 The seminar will offer a forum for students to discuss research projects, prepare grant proposals and think further about issues of ethnographic methodology and writing.  Open to anthropology graduate students only.

  Sec. 01

F 2-4

070.801

DISSERTATION RESEARCH Staff

070.867

DIRECTED READING AND RESEARCH Han

Sec. 01

070.869

DIRECTED READING AND RESEARCH Pandian

Sec. 01

070.871

DIRECTED READING AND RESEARCH  Das

Sec. 01

070.879

DIRECTED READING AND RESEARCH
Guyer

Sec. 01

070.883

DIRECTED READING AND RESEARCH
Reynolds

Sec. 01

070.885

DIRECTED READING AND RESEARCH
Poole

Sec. 01

070.893

DIRECTED READING AND RESEARCH
Obarrio

Sec. 01

070.895

DIRECTED READING AND RESEARCH Schoenberger

Sec. 01

070.897

DIRECTED READING AND RESEARCH Berry

Sec. 01