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Course Schedule
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| ANTHROPOLOGY |
| 070.103 (H,S)
(W) |
AFRICA AND THE MUSEUM (3) Guyer Limit
25 An
introduction to Africa, artistic creativity, collection and
exhibition: as African history, as anthropology of art and objects,
and as public controversy in our national institutions. Works
with the Baltimore Museum of Art.
Cross-listed with Africana Studies |
Sec.
01 |
ThF
9-10:30 |
| 070.217
(H,S) |
ETHNOGRAPHY AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY (3) Ryang Limit 25
This course
considers the way in which biography, autobiography, and ethnography
can be compared and complementarily used.
Cross-listed with Studies of Women, Gender and Sexuality |
Sec. 01 |
T 12-3 |
| 070.308 (H,S)
(W) |
RECASTING EUROPE (3) Carter
In Europe,
through what some have called the second wave (postwar) of international
migration, a migration process has brought migrants and refugees
from many parts of the developing world. Explores changing
European identity, immigration and politics. |
Sec. 01 |
M 1-4 |
| 070.317
(H,S)
(W) |
JUNIOR/SENIOR SEMINAR: ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON LAW AND SOCIAL ORDER
(3) Poole
This course
explores the history and practice of anthropology through a
consideration of the problem of law. Readings cover issues
such as legal pluralism, judicial authority, courtroom rituals,
human rights, and customary law.
This is a required course for anthropology majors |
Sec. 01 |
Th 12-3 |
| 070.324 (H,S) |
THE SOCIAL HISTORY OF LANGUAGES (3) Haeri Limit 25 A
look at the history of languages in terms of their codification,
their adaptations for administrative purposes, their use in
literature, their dissemination, expansion, or decline. Examples
of languages we will consider in the course are Latin, Arabic,
Hebrew, French, and English. |
Sec. 01 |
Th 12-3 |
| 070.335 (H,S) |
GENDER SEXUALITY AND MODERN ISLAM (3) Lal Limit 25 Senior undergraduates only and open to graduates This course will use feminist theoretical
reading strategies to ask what we can learn about notions of
gender and sexuality in Islamic cultures. Readings include
social texts, books of advice, films, as well as writings of
activists to see how they ground themselves in this historical
heritage to constitute contesting positions regarding questions
of family, domesticity, and more generally in relation to norms
of sociality and everyday life. Cross-listed
with History and Studies of Women, Gender and Sexuality |
Sec. 01 |
W 2-5 |
| 070.345 (H,S) |
WHO FRAMED KOREANS IN JAPAN? (3) Ryang Limit 50
The course will critically read texts that concern Koreans in Japan
and discuss cultural contacts, ethnic conflict, and future coexistence
of Koreans and Japanese. |
Sec. 01 |
F 12-3 |
| 070.356 (H,S) |
CULTURE AND POWER IN CONTEMPORARY MIDDLE EAST (3) Haeri Limit 25 This course
will provide an in-depth knowledge of selected countries in
the Middle East through cultural productions such as film and
literature. Particular attention is paid to educational systems
and lives of minorities. |
Sec. 01 |
T 12-3 |
| 070.368 (H,S)
(W) |
MODERN SOUTH ASIA: THE CITY AND EVERYDAY LIFE (3) Khan Limit 25 This
course considers the city as expressive of the collective dreams
of states and societies in South Asia. The anthropological
treatment of family, religious devotion, caste affiliations,
local politics, and popular culture will further locate these
dreams within everyday urban life. Cross-listed with Geography
and Environmental Engineering |
Sec. 01 |
ThF 10:30-12 |
| 070.372 (H,S)
|
IMAGE IN ART, SCIENCE, AND EVERYDAY LIFE (3) Das This
course looks at anthropological text on the image as expression,
representation, and criticism. We look at painting, photography,
and imaging techniques in medicine.
Course canceled 11/19/04
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Sec. 01
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F 1-4
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| 130.319 (H) |
GOOD VERSUS EVIL: THE EXPRESSION OF JUSTICE, ETHICS AND WISDOM IN ANCIENT
EGYPT (3) Chauvet Limit 25
Cross-listed with Near Eastern Studies
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Sec.
01 |
MW
2-3:30 |
| 130.351 (H,S) |
EMERGENCE OF CIVILIZATION: A CROSS-CULTURAL EXAMINATION (3) Schwartz
Cross-listed with Near Eastern Studies
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Sec.
01 |
MW
10 |
| 300.318 (H,S)
(W) |
JUSTICE, TRUTH, AND RECONCILIATION: RESPONSES TO GENOCIDE AND MASS TERROR
(3) Leys Limit 20 Cross-listed
with History, Jewish Studies, Humanities and Political Science |
Sec.
01 |
W
1-3 |
| 300.330 (H) |
THE GHOST AND THE MACHINE (3) DeVries Limit 20 Cross-listed with Philosophy, German, Romance Languages,
Political Science, and Humanities |
Sec.
01 |
Th
10:30-1 |
| 300.378 (H) |
WHAT
CAN A BODY DO? (3) Marrati
Limit 20 Cross-listed with Philosophy, Romance Languages, Political Science and
Humanities |
Sec.
01 |
M
2-4:30 |
| 360.258 (H,S)
|
WOMEN'S
HEALTH AND THE LIFE COURSE (3) Staff
Limit 15 . Limit 15 Prereq: Previous course
in Gender Studies or dealing with gender This course presents
an overview of health issues faced by women throughout the life
cycle. By combining approaches from health and social sciences,
the course examines women’s health issues in their social, cultural
and historical contexts.
Cross-listed with Interdepartmental and Women, Gender, and Sexuality |
Sec. 01 |
T 2:45-5:35 |
| 360.336 (H,S)
(W)
|
MINOR
IN MULTICULTURAL AND REGIONAL STUDIES RESEARCH METHODS - HONORS
SEMINAR (3) Northcott Perm.
Req'd. Cross-listed with Interdepartmental Course added 11/30/04 |
Sec. 01 |
Th
4-6pm |
| 360.386 (H,S)
(W) |
DO YOU WANT FRIES WITH THAT? A HISTORY OF FOOD AND EATING IN AMERICA (3) Northcott
Limit 20 Perm. Req’d. An exploration of anthropological perspectives
on food consumption in contemporary America. Students will
be involved in an on-going field project collecting eating histories
and surveying customers at local grocery stores in two Baltimore
neighborhoods. Cross-listed with Interdepartmental, Public
Health Studies, and Africana Studies |
Sec. 01 |
W 1-4 |
| 070.504 |
INDEPENDENT STUDY Staff |
|
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| 070.506 |
DIRECTED RESEARCH Staff |
|
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| 070.508 |
DIRECTED READINGS Staff |
|
|
| 070.552 |
INTERNSHIP Staff |
|
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| 070.562 |
SENIOR ESSAY Staff |
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| 070.625 |
THE TEMPORALITY OF LAW Poole
This course
revisits anthropological debates about legal form, customary
law and dispute resolution for insights into how the temporality
of law, as both process and expectation, shapes understandings
of community, responsibility and belonging.
|
Sec.
01 |
W
5-7pm |
| 070.627 |
THE IDEA OF THE MIDDLE CLASS Pandey The course investigates how the idea of
the middle class travels over time and across cultures and continents.
What social structures and aspirations does the concept imply?
What is its relationship to modernity in different societies,
including the colonial and postcolonial?
Cross-listed with History |
Sec. 01 |
W 3-5pm |
070.631 |
ANTHROPOLOGISTS, AND SOME OTHER WRITERS, ON WAR Reynolds Participants
will consider texts that reflect the changing nature of war.
Texts will be examined from an anthropological perspective and
specific issues will be pursued.
Course canceled 01/24/05
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Sec. 01
|
T 1-3
|
| 070.641 |
PUBLIC
SPACE/PUBLIC SPEECH Guyer/Haeri
The course
examines changes in public arenas in the present day, particularly
outside the west. We study the forms of agonistic engagement
in the public sphere, and the forms of expression, translation
and rhetorical performance that mediate them. Course added
02/09/05 |
Sec. 01 |
M
2-4 |
| 070.643 |
ANTHROPOLOGY’S ENGAGEMENT WITH PHILOSOPHY Das
We will read selected
texts of anthropologists who have engaged philosophers to see
how such categories as “belief,” “reason,” and “everyday,” are
illuminated through this engagement. |
Sec. 01 |
Th 6-8pm |
| 040.688 |
COMPARATIVE APPROACHES TO ANCIENT RITUAL, RELIGION,AND SOCIETY Detienne/Yatromanolakis
Cross listed with Classics, History,
and Humanities Center |
Sec. 01 |
W 3-5 |
| 300.600 |
INSTANCES: ON LIVING HERE & NOW DeVries Limit 20
Cross-listed with Philosophy, German, Romance Languages, Humanities, and Political
Science |
Sec. 01 |
T 10:30-1 |
| 300.619 |
TRAUMA THEORY NOW Leys
Cross-listed with History of Science & Technology, History, Humanities,
and Political Science |
Sec. 01 |
T 1-4 |
| 300.656 |
THE EVENT AND THE ORDINARY. ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF DELEUZE AND CAVELL Marrati
Cross-listed
with Philosophy, Political Science, Romance Languages, and Humanities
|
Sec. 01 |
W 10:30-1 |
| 360.670 |
GENERAL SEMINAR: INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL STUDIES IN CULTURE, POWER & HISTORY
Northcott Graduate students only or instructor=s consent for Senior undergraduates. Attendance is mandatory at all seminar
meetings
Cross-listed with History, Sociology, and Interdepartmental |
Sec.
01 |
Th
4-6pm |
| 070.802 |
DISSERTATION RESEARCH Staff |
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| 070.872 |
DIRECTED READING AND RESEARCH
Das |
|
|
| 070.874 |
DIRECTED READING AND RESEARCH
Pandey |
|
|
| 070.876 |
DIRECTED READING AND RESEARCH Carter |
|
|
| 070.878 |
DIRECTED READING AND RESEARCH Northcott |
|
|
| 070.880 |
DIRECTED READING AND RESEARCH
Guyer |
|
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| 070.882 |
DIRECTED READING AND RESEARCH Ryang |
|
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| 070.884 |
DIRECTED READING AND RESEARCH Reynolds |
|
|
| 070.886 |
DIRECTED READING AND RESEARCH Poole |
|
|
| 070.888 |
DIRECTED READING AND RESEARCH
Lal |
|
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| 070.890 |
DIRECTED READING AND RESEARCH
Haeri |
|
|
| 070.896 |
DIRECTED READINGS AND RESEARCH
Schoenberger |
|
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| 070.898 |
DIRECTED READING AND RESEARCH
Berry |
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| ANTHROPOLOGY |
| 070.206 (H,S)
(W) |
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 political
anthropology and qualitative research methods with a semester-long
(spring) directed research project at a Baltimore field site. |
Sec.
01 |
T
1-4 |
| 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 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 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 |
Sec.
01 |
T
1-4 |
| 070.377 (H,S)
(W) |
MAGIC, SCIENCE, RELIGION (3) Khan 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) |
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 |
| 300.377 (H) |
RADICAL ENLIGHTENMENTS: SPINOZA’S HERETIC “ATHEISM AND THE
MATERIALIST TRADITION” (3) deVries Limit 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 |
| 360.233 (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 |
MW
2-3:30 |
| 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 |
|
|
| 070.505 |
DIRECTED RESEARCH Staff |
|
|
| 070.507 |
DIRECTED READINGS Staff |
|
|
| 070.551 |
INTERNSHIP Staff |
|
|
| 070.561 |
SENIOR ESSAY Staff |
|
|
| 070.609 |
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. |
Sec.
01 |
W
12-2 |
| 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. |
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 |
| 070.657 |
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 |
|
|
| 070.871 |
DIRECTED READING AND RESEARCH Das |
Sec.
01 |
|
| 070.873 |
DIRECTED READING AND RESEARCH Pandey |
Sec.
01 |
|
| 070.875 |
DIRECTED READING AND RESEARCH Carter |
Sec.
01 |
|
| 070.877 |
DIRECTED READING AND
RESEARCH
Northcott |
Sec.
01 |
|
| 070.879 |
DIRECTED READING AND
RESEARCH
Guyer |
Sec.
01 |
|
| 070.881 |
DIRECTED READING AND RESEARCH Ryang |
Sec.
01 |
|
| 070.883 |
DIRECTED READING AND
RESEARCH
Reynolds |
Sec.
01 |
|
| 070.885 |
DIRECTED READING AND
RESEARCH
Poole |
Sec.
01 |
|
| 070.895 |
DIRECTED READING AND RESEARCH Schoenberger |
Sec.
01 |
|
| 070.897 |
DIRECTED READING
AND RESEARCH
Berry |
Sec.
01 |
|
| 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 |
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