070.222 (H,S)
(W)

AFRICA IN THE 21ST CENTURY (3)Guyer Limit 50    The present and future of Africa are often projected in apocalyptic terms. We attempt here to understand the ordinary realities of life- family, making a living, community, congregation, governance and inequality- with special attention to works by African scholars, public figures, writers and artists.
Cross-listed with Africana Studies 

Sec. 01

M 1-4

070.319 216 (H,S)
(W)

THE 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

ThF 12-1:30

070.327 (H,S)
(W)

POVERTY’S LIFE: ANTHROPOLOGIES OF HEALTH AND ECONOMY (3) Han   Limit 45 30   Medicine, economics, and ethics have profoundly shaped debates on poverty.  This course analyzes these debates and tracks the relationships between body, economy, and the everyday.  How can anthropological reasoning and methods inform approaches to health and economic scarcity and insecurity? 
Cross-listed with Public Health Studies and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Sec. 01

ThF 9-10:30

070.351 (H,S)
(W)

POLITICAL LIFE OF GENDER (3) Cervone   Limit 25  This course explores the role of gender in the production and contestation of socio-economic inequality and political domination.  Examples will be drawn from Latin America and other colonial and post-colonial societies.  Open to graduate students.
Cross-listed with Program for Latin American Studies and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Sec. 01

Th 1-4

070.365 (H,S)
(W)

ANTHROPOLOGY OF CHRISTIANITY (3) Cannell  Limit 30   Ethnography and historical readings on a wide variety of Christianities from diverse parts of the world; theoretical investigations of the unexpected ways Christianity has shaped thinking in the social sciences and beyond. Open to graduate students. Course canceled 05/23/07

Sec. 01

ThF 10:30-12

070.393 (H,S)

LAW AND DEVELOPMENT: POSTCOLONIAL PERSPECTIVES (3) Obarrio   Limit 30   Registration Requirements: Upper level undergrads only and open to graduate students   What is “development”? How are the interconnections between “structural adjustment” and the “rule of law” currently transforming the space of the postcolonial world? This course explores anthropological critiques of development with a focus on labor, land and locality.
Cross-listed with Program for Latin American Studies and Africana Studies

Sec. 01

T 1-4

070.397 (H,S)

INTRODUCTION TO SOUTH ASIA (3) Pandian   Limit 50   Introduction to the diversity and complexity of modern South Asia: kingship and colonialism; caste and religion; nationalism and violence; cinema and diaspora; politics of development, identity, and the body.
Cross-listed with History and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Sec. 01

TW 2-3:30

570.147 (H,S)
(W)

ADAM SMITH AND KARL MARX (3) Schoenberger  Limit 15  Freshman 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 Geography & Environmental Engineering

Sec. 01

F 1-4

389.201 (H)

INTRODUCTION TO THE MUSEUM: PAST AND PRESENT (3) Rodini   Limit 25 This course surveys museums, from their origins to their most contemporary forms, in the context of broader historical, intellectual, and cultural trends.  Anthropology, art, history, and science museums are considered.   Cross-listed with History, History of Art, and Museum & Society Programs

Sec. 01

MT 2-3:30pm

300.337 (H)

THINKING FILMS (3) Marrati  Limit 35 25  Cross-listed with Philosophy, Humanities, German and Romance Languages, Political Science, and Film and Media Studies.

Sec. 01

T 4-6pm, W 7-9pm

360.371 (S)
(W)

RELIGION AND SENSUALITY IN THE INDO-EUROPEAN IMAGINATION (3) Singh Limit 15 Are orgies immoral? Is God a sensual being? We study aspects of three distinct but overlapping cultures, Ancient Greece, India and the United States to understand different conceptions of human and divine sensuality, and the interplay of masculine, feminine and androgynous principles in religion and philosophy. Readings include Foucault, Pierre Hadot, Nietzsche, Weber, Gandhi, Thoreau, Emerson, as well as segments on Greek and Hindu myth, and the HBO television show 'Sex and the City'. Cross-listed with Classics, Interdepartmental, German & Romance Lang. & Lit. and Study of Women, Gender, & Sexuality  Course added 6/07/07

Sec. 01

ThF 1-2:30

362.375 (H,S)
(W)

BEBOP, MODERNISM AND CHANGE (3) Hayes   Limit 25    Taught at Peabody
Cross-listed with History, Political Science, and Sociology

Sec. 01

MW 12:30-2

570.427 (S)

NATURAL RESOURCES, SOCIETY, AND ENVIRONMENT (3) Schoenberger  Limit 20 Cross-listed with Public Health Studies and Geography & Environmental Engineering

Sec. 01

Th 1-4

070.503

INDEPENDENT STUDY Staff

070.505

DIRECTED RESEARCH  Staff

070.507

DIRECTED READINGS Staff

070.551

INTERNSHIP  Staff

070.561

SENIOR ESSAY Staff

070.613

ADVANCED TOPICS IN MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY  Han Limit 10          Perm. Req’d for Undergrads.  This course will examine methods and modes of writing in medical ethnography, and will address contemporary debates in the field of medical anthropology theory.  Readings will draw from recent ethnographies in medical anthropology and     pair these works with social and political theory.

Sec. 01

Th 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

W 3:30-5:30pm 1-3

070.617

ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCH METHODS Reynolds   Limit 6       Open to Anthropology graduate students only   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 10-12

070.649

READINGS IN ANTHROPOLOGICAL THEORY AND METHOD Staff  Limit 10      Staff and students will jointly discuss recently published works in major journals.  

Sec. 01

W 6-8pm

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

M 4-6pm

070.661

ANTHROPOLOGY OF CULTURES AND RELATEDNESS  Cannell   Limit 10    A critical exploration of the concept of kinship [relatedness] and what delimits it, with a focus on Euro-American materials, but also drawing on a wide range of ethnographic text. Cross-listed with Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Course canceled 5/23/07

  Sec. 01

Th 1-3

300.637

HISTORY AND EVENT  Marrati

 Cross-listed with Philosophy, Humanities, German and Romance Languages, Political Science, and History        

Sec. 01

M 5-8pm

300.670
(W)

THE SECULAR LIVES OF GRACE     de Vries 
Cross-listed with Humanities, Philosophy, German and Romance Languages, and Political Science.

Sec.01

Th 1-4pm

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