ANTHROPOLOGY

 070.132 (H,S)
(W)
             

INVITATION TO ANTHROPOLOGY (3) Das Limit 50 35  This course will introduce students to modes of reasoning in anthropology. How do anthropologists examine questions such as the meaning of family, is writing always linear, is shopping good for society?

Sec. 01

ThF 12-1:30

070.134 (H,S)

             

RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD: AN INTRODUCTION (3) Staff   Limit 40 30  This course gives an introduction to the religious vocabulary and practices of different religions in the contemporary world. Course added 11/14/06

Sec. 01

MTW 10

 070.218 (H,S)
(W)
             

THE POLITICS OF MULTICULTURALISM (3) Cervone Limit 25  This course examines the political significance and the appeal of the concept of multiculturalism in a number of countries of Latin American and Oceania in the context of native people’s struggles for recognition and justice.
Cross-listed with Program for Latin American Studies

Sec. 01

TTh 2-3:30

070.317 303 (H,S)
(W)

JUNIOR/SENIOR SEMINAR:  CHILDREN & YOUTH IN ARMED CONFLICT (3) Reynolds   Limit 25  Junior/Senior priority The course will examine anthropological theory by focusing on the situation of children and young people in war, violence, and on-going conflict. The nature and course of young people’s participation in such situations will be analyzed. A particular focus is on the parts played by the young in resistance movements and on their acquisition of political consciousness. Required course for majors.

Sec. 01

T 1-4

070.324 (H,S)
(W)

THE SOCIAL HISTORY OF LANGUAGES (3) Haeri  Limit 25 A look at the history of languages in terms of their social functions, codification, adaptations for administrative purposes, their use in literature, their dissemination, expansion, or decline. Examples of language we will consider in the course are Latin, Arabic, Hebrew, French and English.

Sec. 01

M 1-4

070.325 (H,S)
(W)

THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF MONEY (3) Guyer   Limit 50  Money has been accorded many roles and meanings, in exchange and as wealth, across society and history. This course combines ethnographic, comparative and historical study with research on the present.

Sec. 01

MTW 11

070.328 (H,S)
(W)

THE CONCEPT OF THE PATIENT IN ANTHROPOLOGY (3) Meyers   Limit 25  The course will explore the way in which the patient emerges as a category of thought and analysis in anthropology.
Cross-listed with History of Science and Technology, the Humanities Center, and Public Health Studies
Dean’s Teaching Fellowship Course

Sec. 01

ThF 10:30-12

070.347 (H,S)
(W)

DISCOURSE ANALYSIS (3) Haeri   Limit 20 We will examine distinct notions of discourse in the works of various scholars and learn to carry out discourse analysis in a number of traditions. This will include the analysis of narratives. Open to graduate students.

Sec. 01

W 1-4

070.360 (H,S)
(W)
             

NEGOTIATING THE EVERYDAY THROUGH POVERTY:  THE SITUATION OF CHIDREN IN BALTIMORE (3) Reynolds   Limit 25   
Research seminar in which the class as a group finds out about the situation of children in Baltimore using a variety of methods including the collection of census materials, local survey data, interviews with policy makers and narrative sessions with young people.

Sec. 01

W 1-4

070.361 (H,S)
(W)
             

RELIGION AND PLURALISM IN ISLAMIC SOCIETIES (3) Baxstrom     Limit 20     This course explores contemporary issues related to religion and diversity in the Islamic World. Readings will cover issues regarding faith in public life, secularism, freedom of expression, modernization, and globalization.
Cross-listed with Political Science and the Humanities Center

Sec. 01

ThF 1:30-3

070.369 (H,S)
(W)
              

ANTHROPOLOGY OF THE SENSES (3) Khan   Limit 30   What is the play of senses in politics? How does historical and ethnographic attention to vision, hearing and smell help us think about the emotions prevalent in everyday life, political judgment and religious practice?
Cross-listed with Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, the Humanities Center, and Political Science

Sec. 01

ThF 10:30-12

070.386 (H,S)
(W)

“MAIL ORDER BRIDES”? UNDERSTANDING THE PHILIPPINES IN SOUTHEAST ASIAN CONTEXT (3) Cannell Limit 35   Prereq: Students must have taken a required course in Anthropology. Permission required if prerequisite is not met   Open to graduate students. A look at new ethnographic writing on the Philippines, assessing the viewpoints of both Filipino and non-Filipino scholars. Special emphasis on topics in kinship and gender, and also work on tourism and transnational migration. Cross-listed with Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, History, and Political Science

Sec. 01

WF 2-3:30

070.390 (H,S)

LATIN AMERICAN CITIES:  THE DILEMMA OF PUBLIC SPACE (3) Procupez   Limit 25    An exploration of various expressions of political imagination and collective action in Latin American urban public spaces. Will use anthropological perspectives to analyze the porous boundaries between the public and the private, and the impact of globalization on the cities of the region.
Cross-listed with Program for Latin American Studies
Dean’s Teaching Fellowship Course
 

Sec. 01

ThF 9-10:30

070.394 (H,S)

THE GIFT OF JUSTICE (3) Obarrio  Limit 25   This course explores the value of the anthropology of the gift for a discussion of the concept of justice. Focusing on the issue of “transitional justice”, it surveys surveys ethnographies of law in post-war transitions and truth commissions from Latin America and Africa. Theoretical readings on gift, law and pardon, will include essays by Mauss, Sahlins, Bordieu, Strathern and Derrida, among others.  

Sec. 01

M 1-4

130.110 (H,S)

INTRODUCTION T0 ARCHAEOLOGY  (3) McCarter,S   Limit50
Cross-listed with Near Eastern Studies

  Sec. 01

TTh 12

361.200 (H)
(W)

THE POLITICS OF MULTICULTURALISM (3) Cervone  Limit 25 *Reading intensive   This course examines the political significance and the appeal of the concept of multiculturalism in a number of countries of Latin American and Oceania in the context of native people’s struggles for recognition and justice. Cross-listed with Latin American Studies Course canceled 11/27/06

Sec. 01

TTh 2-4

360.339 (H,S)
(W)

BLACK POWER FANTASIES (3) Carpenter/Spence   Limit 16   This course will look at the origins and evolution of Black Power and notions of Black Empowerment from political, anthropological, media and arts perspectives. The class will also be engaged in a dialogue with a similar course taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Cross-listed with Political Science, and Africana Studies and Interdepartmental

  Sec. 01

T 1-4

130.351 (H,S)

THE EMERGENCE OF CIVILIZATION: A CROSS CULTURAL EXAMINATION (3) Schwartz   Limit 50
Cross listed with Near Eastern Studies

Sec. 01

MW 10

300.350 (H)

MORAL PERFECTIONISM (3) de Vries/ Lefebvre   Limit 20   Taking Stanley Cavell's Cities of Words as our guide, this course explores themes and principles of moral perfectionism in philosophy, literature, and film. Attendance at weekly film screenings is mandatory. Cross listed with Humanities, Philosophy, and German and Romance Languages and Literatures

 Sec. 01

Scr.

T 2-4:30

T 8-10:30pm

300.357 (H)

WHAT COUNTS AS HUMAN? (3) Marrati   Limit 20  Cross listed with Philosophy, the Humanities Center, Political Science, and German and Romance Languages and Literatures

 Sec. 01

F 1-3:30

300.372 (H,S)

HOLOCAUST TESTIMONIES  (3) Leys  Limit 20
Cross-listed with the Humanities Center, History, and History of Science and Technology

  Sec. 01

M 2-4

070.504

INDEPENDENT STUDY Staff

070.506

DIRECTED RESEARCH Staff

070.508

DIRECTED READINGS Staff

070.552

INTERNSHIP Staff

070.562

SENIOR ESSAY Staff

070.638

MODERNITY OF RELIGION: BELIEF Khan  Limit 15  How is “belief” rendered an object of study within anthropology and religious studies? What relationships between interiority and exteriority does it signal? How are concerns over dissimulation and deception articulated and contended with? Open to advanced undergraduates

Sec. 01

Th 2-4

070.650

DUPLICITY AND LAW Poole 
This course examines the idea of law as both process and promise through a reading of classic and contemporary anthropological discussions of law, legal pluralism, custom and the state. 

Sec. 01

T 1-3

360.670

GENERAL SEMINAR: INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL STUDIES IN CULTURE, POWER & HISTORY   Grovogui    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

300.619   

TRAUMA THEORY NOW Leys
 Limit 20   Cross-listed with History, History of Science and Technology, the Humanities Center, Philosophy, and English

Sec. 01

T 1-4

300.671   

STANLEY CAVELL’S “THE CLAIM OF REASON”  de Vries/ Marrati     Limit 15    Cross-listed with the Humanities Center, Philosophy, Political Science, English, and German and Romance Languages and Literatures

Sec. 01

Th 1-4

070.802

DISSERTATION RESEARCH Staff

070.872

DIRECTED READINGS AND RESEARCH Das

070.878

DIRECTED READINGS AND RESEARCH Northcott

070.880

DIRECTED READINGS AND RESEARCH Guyer

070.884

DIRECTED READINGS AND RESEARCH Reynolds

070.886

DIRECTED READINGS AND RESEARCH Poole

070.890

DIRECTED READINGS AND RESEARCH Haeri

070.892

DIRECTED READINGS AND RESEARCH Khan

070.896

DIRECTED READINGS AND RESEARCH Schoenberger

070.898

DIRECTED READING AND RESEARCH Berry