| ANTHROPOLOGY |
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| 070.206
(H,S)
(W)
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WELCOME TO BALTIMORE HON: A THEORETICAL AND
PRACTICAL EXPLORATION OF POLITICAL ANTHROPOLOGY (3) Northcott Limit 20 This year-long course will combine a semester-long
(fall) overview of politcal anthropology and qualitative
research methods with a semester-long (spring) directed
research project at a Baltimore field site. Course
canceled 07/19/05
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Sec. 01
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T 1-4
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| 070.216 (H,S) |
THE LOGIC OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL INQUIRY
(3)
Reynolds 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 |
M
12-3 |
| 070.301 (H,S)
(W) |
ENVISIONING AFRICAN DIASPORA: AN INTRODUCTION
(3) Carter A study of the African diaspora
involving select views from the United
States, Africa, and the New
World. Focusing on the genesis and causes of migration
(including the slave trade), cultural transformations,
forms of identity, and relations to structures of power,
nations, and the world community.
Cross-listed with Africana Studies |
Sec. 01 |
Th 12-3 |
| 070.325 (H,S) |
THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF MONEY (3) Guyer The root of evil?
The passing “stranger”? The proof of virtue? Money has
been accorded many roles and meanings, in exchange and
as wealth, across society and history. The course combines
lethnographic, comparative and historical study
with research on the present. |
Sec.
01 |
MTW 10 |
| 070.336 (H,S) |
KINSHIP: JUST WHAT IS IT? (3) Ryang Limit:
60
This course focuses on anthropological approaches to kinship.
Students will read key texts and there will be mini ethnographic
exercises. Strongly recommended for students who wish
or are majoring in Anthropology. |
Sec.
01 |
F
12-3 |
| 070.357 (H,S)
(W) |
FANON (3) Carter This course will focus
on a close reading of the work of Franz Fanon, a central
figure in the development of postcolonial theory. |
Sec.
01 |
F
1-4 |
| 070.358 (H,S)
|
AFRICAN-AMERICAN AND DALIT
‘HISTORIES’: Part One - SLAVERY and UNTOUCHABILITY (3) Pandey Limit 25 Seniors and Juniors and only First of a three-part course, to be taught over three semesters,
examining the making of African American and Dalit
lives and struggles. Part 2 will deal with ‘Emancipation’,
and Part 3 with ‘New Elites and New Politics’. (Note:
Each segment of the course is complete in itself. Students
do not have to commit themselves to taking all three parts,
though they may find some advantage in doing so). Cross-listed
with History and Africana Studies
Course
canceled 05/12/05 |
Sec.
01
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T
1-4
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| 070.377 (H,S)
(W) |
MAGIC, SCIENCE, RELIGION (3) Khan Limit
35 What modes of thinking characterize “magic”,
“science”, and “religion?” We will examine classical
theoretical writings by Frazier, Weber, Durkheim,
Evans-Pritchard, Levi-Straus, and Bergson
and use the insights they provide to read contemporary
ethnographies concerned with religion and rationality
in the modern world.
Cross-listed with the Humanities Center |
Sec.
01 |
ThF 10:30-12 |
| 070.378 (H,S)
(W) |
CULTURAL
PROPERTY AND POLITICS IN LATIN AMERICA (3) Poole 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 Latin American
Studies |
Sec. 01 |
W 2-5 |
| 070.389 (H,S)(W) |
EXPERIMENTS
IN ETHNOGRAPHIC REPRESENTATION (3) Carpenter Limit 16
Open
to Graduate Students
This
course will look at ethnography as a genre of writing
in terms of its goals and objectives and explore the possibilities
for constructing ethnographies in non-written forms. Theories
of media and artistic production will be emphasized. Students
will be required to create an ethnographic project in
a non-written medium and write about the experience. Course
added 4/11/05 |
Sec.
01 |
M
1-4 |
| 300.377 (H) |
RADICAL ENLIGHTENMENTS: SPINOZA’S HERETIC “ATHEISM AND THE
MATERIALIST TRADITION” (3) deVries Limit 30
20
Cross-listed with Philosophy, German, Romance Languages
and Political Science |
Sec.
01 |
Th 1-3:30 |
| 300.383 (H) |
WHAT MAKES US DESIRE? (3) Marrati Limit
20
Cross-listed with the Humanities Center, Romance Languages, and
Philosophy |
Sec.
01 |
M
2-4:30 |
| 360.101
(H,S) |
INTRODUCTION TO AFRICANA STUDIES (3) Hayes Limit 25 Introduction to Africana Studies through
an interdisciplinary examination of patterns of change,
movement, & adaptation among people of African descent
in Africa & the Americas.
Cross-listed with Africana Studies, History, Political Science, the
Humanities
Center & Sociology Course
added 05/23/05
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Sec. 01 |
ThF 10:30-12 |
| 360.131
(H,S)
(W)
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INTRODUCTION TO LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES II (3) Kurlat-Ares Limit
50 30 The objective
is to introduce students to Latin American using 6 major
themes including Amerindian civilizations as well as Colonial
legal, social and cultural legacies. Classes conducted
in English.
Cross-listed with Latin American Studies Course added 05/23/05
|
Sec. 01 |
T 2-4 Th 12-2 |
| 360.233 (H,S) |
FEMINIST AND QUEER THEORY (3) Staff Limit 20 Perm. req’d Prereq: 180.101-102 Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory only
Formerly offered as 070.204
Cross-listed with Studies of Women, Gender and Sexuality
and Interdepartmental |
Sec.
01 |
W
5:30-7:30pm
MW 2-3:30 |
| 360.375
(H,S)
(W) |
BEBOP,
MODERNISM AND CHANGE (3)
Hayes Limit 20 The
seminar explores the social & political content, meanings,
& intent of bebop music from the 1940’s to the 1960’s
and its impact on the social transformation of America.
Cross-listed
with Africana Studies, History, the Humanities
Center, Political Science and
Sociology Course added 05/23/05 |
Sec. 01 |
ThF 2-3:30 |
| 360.376
(H,S)
(W) |
THE
BODY OF ISLAM (3)
Baxstrom Limit: 30
Cross-listed
with Interdepartmental and Women,Gender, & Sexuality
|
Sec. 01 |
ThF 10:30-12 |
| 360.403 (H,S)
(W) |
THE FAMILY IN ECONOMIC AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL DISCOURSE
(3) Das/Khan Limit 20 This
seminar course explores the viability of family as a category
in the discourse of economics and anthropology.
Cross-listed
with Economics, Interdepartmental, and Studies of Women
and Gender and Sexuality |
Sec. 01 |
Th 1-3 |
| 070.503 |
INDEPENDENT STUDY Staff |
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| 070.505 |
DIRECTED RESEARCH Staff |
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| 070.507 |
DIRECTED READINGS Staff |
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| 070.551 |
INTERNSHIP Staff |
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| 070.561 |
SENIOR ESSAY Staff |
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| 070.609
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CHILD ON THE WING
Reynolds Open
to undergraduate seniors with Instructor’s permission. An examination of the life worlds
of children through ethnography. A look at children in
vulnerable situations, including that of war, chronic
poverty and disability. Course canceled 09/26/05
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Sec.
01
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W
12-2
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| 070.616 |
PROSEMINAR ON ANTHROPOLOGICAL THEORY
Guyer
This course will consist of 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.
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Sec.
01 |
W
3-5 |
| 070.617 |
ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCH METHODS Poole An introduction to basic ethnographic and historical methods
for anthropological fieldwork. Required course for all
second year anthropology graduate students. Will build
on fieldwork conducted during the previous summer. |
Sec.
01 |
T
1-3 |
| 070.645 |
QUEST FOR THE ORDINARY Das We will read key texts to ask both theoretical
and methodological questions about the relation between
the notions of the ordinary, the everyday, and the domestic. |
Sec.
01 |
T
6-8pm |
| 070.648 |
CHILD
ON THE WING - THE WRITERS' GROUP Reynolds
Course added 09/26/05 |
Sec.
01 |
W
6-8pm |
| 070.657 |
FANON Carter
This
course will focus on a close reading of the work of Franz
Fanon, a central figure in the development of postcolonial
theory. |
Sec. 01 |
F 1-3 |
| 070.801 |
DISSERTATION RESEARCH
Staff |
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| 070.871 |
DIRECTED READING AND RESEARCH
Das |
Sec.
01 |
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| 070.873 |
DIRECTED READING AND RESEARCH Pandey |
Sec.
01 |
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| 070.875 |
DIRECTED READING AND RESEARCH Carter |
Sec.
01 |
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| 070.877 |
DIRECTED READING AND
RESEARCH Northcott |
Sec.
01 |
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| 070.879 |
DIRECTED READING AND
RESEARCH Guyer |
Sec.
01 |
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| 070.881 |
DIRECTED READING AND RESEARCH Ryang |
Sec.
01 |
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| 070.883 |
DIRECTED READING AND
RESEARCH Reynolds |
Sec.
01 |
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| 070.885 |
DIRECTED READING AND
RESEARCH Poole |
Sec.
01 |
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| 070.895 |
DIRECTED READING AND RESEARCH Schoenberger |
Sec.
01 |
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| 070.897 |
DIRECTED READING
AND RESEARCH
Berry |
Sec.
01 |
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| 360.669 |
SEMINAR: CULTURE, POWER AND HISTORY
Northcott For Graduate Students only or
Perm. Req’d
Cross-listed with Interdepartmental |
Sec.
01 |
Th 4-6pm |
| 040.693 |
BACCHUS AND DIONYSUS TODAY Detienne
Cross-listed with Classics, History, the Humanities Center, and Romance Languages |
Sec.
01 |
W
3-5 |
| 300.677 |
TRANSCENDANCE & IMMANENCE: THEODOR
W. ADORNO AND GILLES DELEUZE deVries/Marrati
Cross-listed with English, the Humanities Center, Philosophy, German, Romance
Languages and Political Science |
Sec. 01 |
T 1-4 |
