ANTHRO 1:
Introduction to Cultural and Social Anthropology (ANTHRO 201)
Crosscultural anthropological perspectives on human behavior, including cultural transmission, social organization, sex and gender, culture change, technology, war, ritual, and related topics. Case studies illustrating the principles of the cultural process. Films.
Terms: Spr, Sum
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-A-II, WAY-SI
ANTHRO 1S:
Introduction to Cultural and Social Anthropology (ANTHRO 101S)
Crosscultural anthropological perspectives on human behavior, including cultural transmission, social organization, sex and gender, culture change, technology, war, ritual, and related topics. Case studies illustrating the principles of the cultural process. Films.
Terms: Sum
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-A-II, WAY-SI
ANTHRO 3:
Introduction to Prehistoric Archeology (ARCHLGY 1)
Aims, methods, and data in the study of human society's development from early hunters through late prehistoric civilizations. Archaeological sites and remains characteristic of the stages of cultural development for selected geographic areas, emphasizing methods of data collection and analysis appropriate to each.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-A-II, WAY-SI
ANTHRO 6A:
Introduction to Biological Anthropology: Biological Variation and Evolution in the Human Species
Humans are amazingly diverse, differing in size, shape, color, and myriad less tangible dimensions. What is the significance of such diversity and how did it come to be? This course introduces the study of biological variation and evolution of the human species. It draws on evidence from a variety of disciplines (i.e. evolutionary biology, comparative anatomy, paleontology, archaeology and genetics) to foster an appreciation for human variation grounded in a scientific framework. Major topics to be discussed include evolution and adaptation, primate taxonomy, the fossil record, human growth and development, phenotypic differences within and among modern human populations, and variation in disease susceptibility. No Prerequisite.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER: DB-NatSci
ANTHRO 7:
Introduction to Forensic Anthropology
The application of anthropological and archaeological methods to forensics. Topics include the recovery and identification of individuals via skeletal and DNA analysis, reconstruction of premortem and postmortem histories of remains, analysis of mass graves, human rights issues, surveillance tape analysis, analysis of crime scene materials, and expert witness testimony. Legal and ethical dimensions.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER: DB-NatSci
ANTHRO 10SC:
Darwin, Evolution, and Galapagos (HUMBIO 17SC)
The tiny remote islands of Galápagos have played a large and central role in the study of evolution. Not surprisingly, they have also been central to the study of conservation. The fascinating adaptations of organisms to the unique ecosystems of the archipelago have left them particularly vulnerable to outside introductions. Drawing on lessons learned in Galapagos from Darwin's time to the present, this seminar explores evolution, conservation, and their connection in the Galapagos. Using case-study material on finches, iguanas, tortoises, cacti, Scalesia plants, and more, we will explore current theory and debate about adaptation, sexual selection, speciation, adaptive radiation, and other topics in evolution. Similarly, we will explore the special challenges Galápagos poses today for conservation, owing to both its unusual biota and the increasing human impact on the archipelago. This course includes an intensive eleven-day expedition to Galápagos to observe firsthand the evolutionary phenomena and conservation issues discussed in class. A chartered ship will serve as our floating classroom, dormitory, and dining hall as we work our way around the archipelago to visit as many as ten islands. For this portion of the class, undergraduates will be joined by a group of Stanford alumni and friends in a format called a Stanford "Field Seminar." Because our class time on campus is limited to one week before travel, students will be required to complete all course readings over the summer. Both on campus and in South America, the course emphasizes student contributions and presentations. Students will be asked to lead discussions and carry out literature research on the evolutionary and conservation biology of particular Galápagos species. The final assignment for the seminar is to complete a seven- to ten-page paper on the evolutionary biology and conservation challenges of a particular organism or adaptation and to present the main findings of that paper in a joint seminar of undergrads and alumni as we travel in Galápagos. Note: Students will arrive on campus and will be housed at Stanford until we leave for Galápagos. Travel to Galápagos will be provided and paid by Sophomore College (except incidentals) and is made possible by the support of the Stanford Alumni Association Travel/Study Program and generous donors. Students will return to campus late afternoon or evening on Sunday, September 23, the day before the fall term begins.
Terms: Aut, Sum
| Units: 2
ANTHRO 12SC:
Parks and Peoples: Dilemmas of Protected Area Conservation in East Africa (HUMBIO 19SC)
A September Studies course, offered in a special session before Autumn Quarter. Students participating in this course will have it added to their Autumn study list in late November. Pros and cons of parks and protected areas; the dilemma of achieving conservation in a way that creates local community benefits and is socially just. Case study approach to study protected area (PA) approaches, proponents, objectives, successes, benefits, costs, ways to increase compatibility of the interests of parks and people. Final paper on some aspect of conservation dilemmas in East Africa and presentation of paper.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 2
ANTHRO 15:
Sex and Gender
Commonality and diversity of gender roles in crosscultural perspective. Cultural, ecological, and evolutionary explanations for such diversity. Theory of the evolution of sex and gender, changing views about men's and women's roles in human evolution, conditions under which gender roles vary in contemporary societies, and issues surrounding gender equality, power, and politics.
Last offered: Winter 2011
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-Gender, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
ANTHRO 16:
Native Americans in the 21st Century: Encounters, Identity, and Sovereignty in Contemporary America (NATIVEAM 16)
What does it mean to be a Native American in the 21st century? Beyond traditional portrayals of military conquests, cultural collapse, and assimilation, the relationships between Native Americans and American society. Focus is on three themes leading to in-class moot court trials: colonial encounters and colonizing discourses; frontiers and boundaries; and sovereignty of self and nation. Topics include gender in native communities, American Indian law, readings by native authors, and Indians in film and popular culture.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
ANTHRO 18:
Peopling of the Globe: Changing Patterns of Land Use and Consumption Over the Last 50,000 Years (ARCHLGY 12, EARTHSYS 21, HUMBIO 182)
Fossil, genetic and archaeological evidence suggest that modern humans began to disperse out of Africa about 50,000 years ago. Subsequently, humans have colonized every major landmass on earth. This class introduces students to the data and issues regarding human dispersal, migration and colonization of continents and islands around the world. We explore problems related to the timing and cause of colonizing events, and investigate questions about changing patterns of land use, demography and consumption. Students are introduced to critical relationships between prehistoric population changes and our contemporary environmental crisis.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
ANTHRO 21N:
The Anthropology of Globalization
Preference to freshmen. Anthropological approach to how cultural change, economic restructuring, and political mobilization are bound up together in the process of globalization.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
ANTHRO 22N:
Ethnographies of North America: An Introduction to Cultural and Social Anthropology
Preference to freshmen. Ethnographic look at human behavior, including cultural transmission, social organization, sex and gender, culture change, and related topics in N. America. Films.
| Units: 3-4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
ANTHRO 24N:
Maya Hieroglyphic Writing
Preference to freshmen. Decipherment of classic Maya writing. Principles of archaeological decipherment. Maya calendrical, astronomical, historical, mythological, and political texts on stone, wood, bone, shell, murals, ceramics, and books (screenfold codices). Archaeology and ethnohistory of Maya scribal practice and literacy. Related Mesoamerican writing systems. The evolution of writing and the relevance of writing to theories of culture and civilization.
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom
ANTHRO 26N:
Hauntings, Visions, and Prophecy
This course explores the conditions under which people have experiences that they identify as ¿supernatural¿: experiences of something that is not physically present. We will explore the cultural and psychological dimensions of this very real phenomenon. We will not, however, make ontological judgments about whether something which is experienced as externally present is in fact externally present: in other words, this is a class about culture and psychology, not about metaphysics. We will do experimental work, using our selves and fellow classmates, as subjects, to understand who, when and how people have experiences that they deem ¿super¿natural.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
ANTHRO 27N:
Ethnicity and Violence: Anthropological Perspectives
Ethnicity is one of the most compelling and most modern ways in which people - in the midst of considerable global and local uncertainty - all across the world imagine and narrate themselves. This seminar will take an anthropological look at both the modernity and the compulsions of ethnic allegiance, and, why struggles over ethnic identity are so frequently violent. Our questions will be both historical ¿ how, why and when did people come to think of themselves as possessing different ethnic identities - and contemporary ¿ how are these identities lived, understood, narrated, and transformed and what is the consequence of such ethnicisation. We follow this through anthropological perspectives which ask persistently how people themselves locally narrate and act upon their experiences and histories. Through this we will approach some of the really big and yet everyday questions that many of us around the world face: how do we relate to ourselves and to those we define as others; and how do we live through and after profound violence? The seminar will take these larger questions through a global perspective focusing on cases from Rwanda and Burundi, India, Sri Lanka, Northern Ireland, Guatemala, and the countries of Former Yugoslavia among others. These cases cover a broad canvas of issues from questions of historicity, racial purity, cultural holism, and relations to the state, to contests over religious community, indigeneity, minority identities, globalization, gender, and generation.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
ANTHRO 28:
Indigenous Australia (ANTHRO 228)
The prehistory and ethnology of New Guinea and Australia. Regional climate, environment, and pre-European history. Ethnography of the contact period focusing on theoretical problems central to the development of anthropological theory. Contemporary sociopolitical issues. Films.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
ANTHRO 30Q:
The Big Shift: An Anthropological Approach to Wealth, Migration, and the New Margins of America
Is the middle class shrinking? How do people who live at the extremes of American society- the super rich, the working poor and those who live on the margins, imagine and experience "the good life"? How do we understand phenomena such as gang cultures, addiction and the realignment of white consciousness? This class uses the methods and modes of ethnographic study in an examination of American culture. Ethnographic materials range from an examination of the new American wealth boom of the last 20 years (Richistan by Robert Frank) to the extreme and deadlynnworld of the invisible underclass of homeless addicts on the streets of San Francisco (Righteous Dopefiend by Phillipe Bourgois and Jeff Schonberg). The experiences of Hispanic immigrants and the struggle to escape gang life in Los Angeles are highlighted in the story of Homeboy Industries a job creation program initiated by a priest working in LA's most deadly neighborhoods (G-Dog and the Homeboys by Celeste Fremon). Finally in Searching for Whitopia: an improbable journeynninto the heart of White America, Rich Benjamin explores the creation on ethnic enclaves (whitopias) as fear over immigration and the shrinking white majority redefine race consciousnessnnin the 21st century. Each of these narratives provides a window into the various ways in which Americans approach the subjects of wealth and the good life, poverty and the underclass, and thennconstruction of class, race, and gender in American society. Students will not be required to have any previous knowledge, just curiosity and an open mind.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
ANTHRO 32:
Theories in Race and Ethnicity
Concepts and theories of race and ethnicity in the social sciences and cultural studies. U.S. based definitions, ideas, and problems of race and ethnicity are compared to those that have emerged in other areas of the world.
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
ANTHRO 4:
Language and Culture
Comparative approach, using examples from many languages. Emphasis is on generally non-Western speech communities. Topics include: the structure of language; the theory of signs; vocabulary and culture; grammar, cognition, and culture (linguistic relativism and determinism); encodability of cultural information in language; language adaptiveness to social function; the ethnography of speaking; registers; discourse (conversation, narrative, verbal art); language and power; language survival and extinction; and linguistic ideology (beliefs about language).
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
ANTHRO 6:
Human Origins (ANTHRO 206, HUMBIO 6)
The human fossil record from the first non-human primates in the late Cretaceous or early Paleocene, 80-65 million years ago, to the anatomically modern people in the late Pleistocene, between 100,000 to 50,000 B.C.E. Emphasis is on broad evolutionary trends and the natural selective forces behind them.
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER: DB-NatSci
ANTHRO 60A:
Stanford Alpine Archaeology Project 2010
Alpine Archaeology is a discipline that applies traditional archaeology in montane contexts. While survey and excavation are standard methodologies, topography and climate bear on archaeological praxes in different ways. Soil chemistry in alpine contexts' testable by pH and other parameters - usually integrates less organic material and more geological material. Material preservation in alpine contexts factors in cold temperature for up to half a year with resulting lower diffusion for reduced oxidation and inhibited deterioration of organic materials. Because of montane environment, this course incorporates elements of paleoclimatology (including glaciation) and geomorphology (including geological processes of long term orogeny and erosion). Alpine ecology is studied including natural vegetation zones from 1000-3000 meters, along with transhumance, trade patterns, deforestation, constricted seasonal agriculture and anthropogenic change as well as restricted mobility along natural corridors (pass routes from lowlands to highlands to lowlands.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
ANTHRO 71:
Linguistic Field Methods (LINGUIST 174, LINGUIST 274)
Workshop applying methods for gathering and analyzing linguistic data in the field, i.e., from consultants who are native speakers of a language essentially unknown to the investigator. Principles of language documentation. Students will do local field projects and work on these both in and out of class. Format involves lectures, discussion, working with native speakers, and student presentations. Topics include: choosing a language; planning the project; computerized collection, storage, and analysis of linguistic data; field recording equipment; interviews and elicitation; diagnostic vocabulary lists and grammatical schedules; field study of everyday communication and discourse; area surveys and the ethnography of communication; ethics, reflexivity, and bias; working with human subjects and governments. Prerequisite: a course in linguistics or in anthropological field methods.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 78:
South Asian Fiction and Film: Minority as Cultural Form in India
Instruction will range from lectures by and discussions with each individual instructor as well as broad special-topic discussions led by a panel of all three. Guided readings and film viewings showcase different aspects of Indian culture and politics. Discussion of critical vantage points from which to negotiate and analyze minority cultural and political formations.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 1-2
ANTHRO 82:
Medical Anthropology (ANTHRO 282)
Emphasis is on how health, illness, and healing are understood, experienced, and constructed in social, cultural, and historical contexts. Topics: biopower and body politics, gender and reproductive technologies, illness experiences, medical diversity and social suffering, and the interface between medicine and science.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
ANTHRO 90A:
History of Archaeological Thought (ARCHLGY 103)
Introduction to the history of archaeology and the forms that the discipline takes today, emphasizing developments and debates over the past five decades. Historical overview of culture, historical, processual and post-processual archaeology, and topics that illustrate the differences and similarities in these theoretical approaches.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 90B:
Theory of Cultural and Social Anthropology
Preference to Anthropology majors. Anthropological interpretations of other societies contain assumptions about Western societies. How underlying assumptions and implicit categories have influenced the presentation of data in major anthropological monographs. Emphasis is on Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, and anthropological analyses of non-Western societies.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
ANTHRO 90C:
Theory of Ecological and Environmental Anthropology (HUMBIO 118)
Dynamics of culturally inherited human behavior and its relationship to social and physical environments. Topics include a history of ecological approaches in anthropology, subsistence ecology, sharing, risk management, territoriality, warfare, and resource conservation and management. Case studies from Australia, Melanesia, Africa, and S. America.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
ANTHRO 91:
Method and Evidence in Anthropology
This course provides a broad introduction to various ways of designing anthropological questions and associated methods for collecting evidence and supporting arguments. We review the inherent links between how a question is framed, the types of evidence that can address the question, and way that data are collected. Research activities such as interviewing, participant observation, quantitative observation, archival investigation, ecological survey, linguistic methodology, tracking extended cases, and demographic methods are reviewed. Various faculty and specialists will be brought in to discuss how they use different types of evidence and methods for supporting arguments in anthropology.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 91A:
Archaeological Methods (ARCHLGY 102)
Methodological issues related to the investigation of archaeological sites and objects. Aims and techniques of archaeologists including: location and excavation of sites; dating of places and objects; analysis of artifacts and technology and the study of ancient people, plants, and animals. How these methods are employed to answer the discipline's larger research questions.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 92A:
Undergraduate Research Proposal Writing Workshop
Practicum. Students develop independent research projects and write research proposals. How to formulate a research question; how to integrate theory and field site; and step-by-step proposal writing.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 2-3
| Repeatable
for credit
ANTHRO 92B:
Undergraduate Research Proposal Writing Workshop
Practicum. Students develop independent research projects and write research proposals. How to formulate a research question; how to integrate theory and field site; and step-by-step proposal writing.
Terms: Win
| Units: 2-3
ANTHRO 93:
Prefield Research Seminar
For Anthropology majors only; non-majors register for 93B. Preparation for anthropological field research in other societies and the U.S. Data collection techniques include participant observation, interviewing, surveys, sampling procedures, life histories, ethnohistory, and the use of documentary materials. Strategies of successful entry into the community, research ethics, interpersonal dynamics, and the reflexive aspects of fieldwork. Prerequisites: two ANTHRO courses or consent of instructor.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 93B:
Prefield Research Seminar: Non-Majors
Preparation for anthropological field research in other societies and the U.S. Data collection techniques include participant observation, interviewing, surveys, sampling procedures, life histories, ethnohistory, and the use of documentary materials. Strategies for successful entry into the community, research ethics, interpersonal dynamics, and the reflexive aspects of fieldwork. Service Learning Course (certified by Haas Center).
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI
ANTHRO 94:
Postfield Research Seminar
Goal is to produce an ethnographic report based on original field research gathered during summer fieldwork, emphasizing writing and revising as steps in analysis and composition. Students critique classmates' work and revise their own writing in light of others' comments. Ethical issues in fieldwork and ethnographic writing, setting research write-up concerns within broader contexts.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 95:
Research in Anthropology
Independent research conducted under faculty supervision, normally taken junior or senior year in pursuit of a senior paper or an honors project. May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-10
| Repeatable
3 times
(up to 10 units total)
Instructors: ;
Befu, H. (PI);
Bird, D. (PI);
Bird, R. (PI);
Brown, M. (PI);
Codding, B. (PI);
Coll, K. (PI);
Curran, L. (PI);
Domanska, E. (PI);
Duffey, C. (PI);
Durham, W. (PI);
Ebron, P. (PI);
Engel, C. (PI);
Ferguson, J. (PI);
Fox, J. (PI);
Garcia, A. (PI);
Hansen, T. (PI);
Hodder, I. (PI);
Hunt, C. (PI);
Hunt, P. (PI);
Inoue, M. (PI);
Jain, S. (PI);
Jobin, M. (PI);
Jones, J. (PI);
Klein, R. (PI);
Kohrman, M. (PI);
Kunanbaeva, A. (PI);
Luhrmann, T. (PI);
Maguire, M. (PI);
Malkki, L. (PI);
Marciniak, A. (PI);
Melillo, S. (PI);
Meskell, L. (PI);
Murungi, C. (PI);
Rick, J. (PI);
Robertson, I. (PI);
Salkeld, D. (PI);
Thiranagama, S. (PI);
Voss, B. (PI);
Wilcox, M. (PI);
Wolf, A. (PI);
Yanagisako, S. (PI);
Zeiderman, A. (PI);
Coughlan, S. (GP);
McConnell, M. (GP)
ANTHRO 95B:
Directed Study in Honors and Senior Papers
Taken in the final quarter before graduation. Independent study and work on senior paper for students admitted to the program. Prerequisite: consent of program adviser and instructor.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-10
Instructors: ;
Befu, H. (PI);
Bird, D. (PI);
Bird, R. (PI);
Brown, M. (PI);
Codding, B. (PI);
Coll, K. (PI);
Curran, L. (PI);
Domanska, E. (PI);
Durham, W. (PI);
Ebron, P. (PI);
Ferguson, J. (PI);
Fox, J. (PI);
Garcia, A. (PI);
Hansen, T. (PI);
Hodder, I. (PI);
Hunt, C. (PI);
Inoue, M. (PI);
Jain, S. (PI);
Jobin, M. (PI);
Jones, J. (PI);
Klein, R. (PI);
Kohrman, M. (PI);
Kunanbaeva, A. (PI);
Luhrmann, T. (PI);
Malkki, L. (PI);
Marciniak, A. (PI);
Melillo, S. (PI);
Meskell, L. (PI);
Rick, J. (PI);
Robertson, I. (PI);
Salkeld, D. (PI);
Thiranagama, S. (PI);
Voss, B. (PI);
Wilcox, M. (PI);
Yanagisako, S. (PI);
Coughlan, S. (GP);
McConnell, M. (GP)
ANTHRO 96:
Directed Individual Study
Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-10
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors: ;
Befu, H. (PI);
Bird, D. (PI);
Bird, R. (PI);
Briault, C. (PI);
Brown, M. (PI);
Codding, B. (PI);
Coll, K. (PI);
Curran, L. (PI);
Domanska, E. (PI);
Durham, W. (PI);
Ebron, P. (PI);
Engel, C. (PI);
Ferguson, J. (PI);
Fox, J. (PI);
Garcia, A. (PI);
Hansen, T. (PI);
Hodder, I. (PI);
Hunt, C. (PI);
Inoue, M. (PI);
Jain, S. (PI);
Jobin, M. (PI);
Jones, J. (PI);
Klein, R. (PI);
Kohrman, M. (PI);
Kunanbaeva, A. (PI);
Luhrmann, T. (PI);
Maguire, M. (PI);
Malkki, L. (PI);
Marciniak, A. (PI);
Melillo, S. (PI);
Meskell, L. (PI);
Rick, J. (PI);
Robertson, I. (PI);
Salkeld, D. (PI);
Thiranagama, S. (PI);
Voss, B. (PI);
Wilcox, M. (PI);
Yanagisako, S. (PI);
Zeiderman, A. (PI);
Coughlan, S. (GP)
ANTHRO 97:
Internship in Anthropology
Opportunity for students to pursue their specialization in an institutional setting such as a laboratory, clinic, research institute, or government agency. May be repeated for credit. Service Learning Course (certified by Haas Center).
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-10
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors: ;
Befu, H. (PI);
Bird, D. (PI);
Bird, R. (PI);
Brown, M. (PI);
Codding, B. (PI);
Coll, K. (PI);
Curran, L. (PI);
Domanska, E. (PI);
Durham, W. (PI);
Ebron, P. (PI);
Ferguson, J. (PI);
Fox, J. (PI);
Garcia, A. (PI);
Hansen, T. (PI);
Hodder, I. (PI);
Hunt, C. (PI);
Inoue, M. (PI);
Jain, S. (PI);
Jones, J. (PI);
Klein, R. (PI);
Kohrman, M. (PI);
Kunanbaeva, A. (PI);
Luhrmann, T. (PI);
Malkki, L. (PI);
Marciniak, A. (PI);
Melillo, S. (PI);
Meskell, L. (PI);
Rick, J. (PI);
Robertson, I. (PI);
Salkeld, D. (PI);
Thiranagama, S. (PI);
Voss, B. (PI);
Wilcox, M. (PI);
Yanagisako, S. (PI);
Coughlan, S. (GP)
ANTHRO 98E:
Catalhoyuk and Neolithic Archaeology
Catalhoyuk as a case study to understand prehistoric social life during the Neolithic in Anatolia and the Near East. Developments in agriculture, animal domestication, material technology, trade, art, religion, skull cults, architecture, and burial practices. Literature specific to Catalhoyuk and other excavations throughout the Anatolian and Levantine regions to gain a perspective on diversity and variability throughout the Neolithic. The reflexive methodology used to excavate Catalhoyuk, and responsibilities of excavators to engage with larger global audiences of interested persons and stakeholders.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 1-3
ANTHRO 100A:
India's Forgotten Empire: The Rise and Fall of Indus Civilization
How and why cities with public baths, long-distance trade, sophisticated technologies, and writing emerged, maintained themselves, and collapsed in the deserts of present-day Pakistan and India from 2500 to 1900 B.C.
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom
ANTHRO 100C:
Chavin de Huantar Research Seminar
For participants in fieldwork at Chavín de Huantar. Archaeological research techniques, especially as applied at this site. Students work on data from the previous field season to produce synthetic written materials. Maybe repeated for credit.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 2-5
| Repeatable
3 times
(up to 10 units total)
ANTHRO 101:
The Aztecs and Their Ancestors: Introduction to Mesoamerican Archaeology
The prehispanic cultures of Mesoamerica through archaeology and ethnohistory, from the archaic period to the Spanish conquest in the 16th century.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom
ANTHRO 101A:
Archaeology as a Profession (ARCHLGY 107A)
Academic, contract, government, field, laboratory, museum, and heritage aspects of the profession.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 101S:
Introduction to Cultural and Social Anthropology (ANTHRO 1S)
Crosscultural anthropological perspectives on human behavior, including cultural transmission, social organization, sex and gender, culture change, technology, war, ritual, and related topics. Case studies illustrating the principles of the cultural process. Films.
Terms: Sum
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-A-II, WAY-SI
ANTHRO 102A:
Ancient Civilizations: Complexity and Collapse (ANTHRO 202A)
How archaeology contributes to understanding prehistoric civilizations. How and why complex social institutions arose, and the conditions and processes behind their collapse. The development of monumental architecture, craft specialization, trade and exchange, and social stratification using examples from the archaeological record. (HEF II, III; DA-B)
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom
ANTHRO 103:
The Archaeology of Modern Urbanism
Seminar. Urbanism as a defining feature of modern life. The perspective of archaeology on the history and development of urban cultures. Case studies are from around the globe; emphasis is on the San Francisco Bay Area megalopolis. Cities as cultural sites where economic, ethnic, and sexual differences are produced and transformed; spatial, material, and consumption practices; and the archaeology of communities and neighborhoods.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
ANTHRO 104:
Urban Life and Cultural Imagination in South Asia
This course introduces the history of urban development and urban culture in South Asia. The main bulk of the readings are ethnographic accounts and historical works on conflicts, dynamics, and cultural forms in South Asian cities in the 20th century.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
ANTHRO 104A:
Foraging for a Living (ANTHRO 204A)
As an economic mode of production, foraging has underwritten humanity for most of its existence. Drawing on archaeology, history, ethnography and new media, this class explores foraging from multiple angles ranging from early approaches in the social and biological sciences to neo-Marxist, neo-Darwinian and ecological perspectives. Topics include the expansion of humans across the planet 50,000 years ago, the emergence of diverse foraging practices in the late Quaternary, the marginalization of foraging economies following colonial invasions, contemporary foraging practices across the continents and foraging in urban environments including the promotion of foraging in modern culinary trends.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 106:
Incas and their Ancestors: Peruvian Archaeology (ANTHRO 206A, ARCHLGY 102B)
The development of high civilizations in Andean S. America from hunter-gatherer origins to the powerful, expansive Inca empire. The contrasting ecologies of coast, sierra, and jungle areas of early Peruvian societies from 12,000 to 2,000 B.C.E. The domestication of indigenous plants which provided the economic foundation for monumental cities, ceramics, and textiles. Cultural evolution, and why and how major transformations occurred.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
ANTHRO 106A:
Gang Colors: The Racialization of Violence and the American City (CSRE 106A)
Street gangs (e.g. Bloods, Crips, Mara Salvatrucha, M-18, etc.) serve as a window onto the experience of racial, ethnic and economic marginalization under late capitalism. This class explores the context that gives rise to gang violence through a combination of anthropological, sociological, and historical approaches. Students will be familiarized with the macro-social factors that shape both gangs and the politics of violence in the Americas, North and South.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 111:
Archaeology of Sex, Sexuality, and Gender (ANTHRO 211)
How archaeologists study sex, sexuality, and gender through the material remains left behind by past cultures and communities. Theoretical and methodological issues; case studies from prehistoric and historic archaeology.
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 112:
Public Archaeology: Market Street Chinatown Archaeology Project (ANTHRO 212, ASNAMST 112)
This internship-style course centers on the practice and theory of historical archaeology research and interpretation through a focused study of San Jose¿s historic Chinese communities. The course includes classroom lectures, seminar discussion, laboratory analysis of historic artifacts, and participation in public archaeology events. Course themes include immigration, urbanization, material culture, landscape, transnational identities, race and ethnicity, gender, cultural resource management, public history, and heritage politics. The course includes required lab sections, field trips, and public service. Transportation will be provided for off-site activities.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 2-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-EDP
| Repeatable
3 times
(up to 15 units total)
ANTHRO 114:
Prehistoric Stone Tools: Technology and Analysis (ANTHRO 214)
Archaeologists rely on an understanding of stone tools to trace much of what we know about prehistoric societies. How to make, illustrate, and analyze stone tools, revealing the method and theory intrinsic to these artifacts.
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
ANTHRO 116:
Data Analysis for Quantitative Research (ANTHRO 216)
This course allows graduate and advanced undergraduate students in archaeology and anthropology to acquire practical skills in quantitative data analysis. Some familiarity with basic statistical methods is useful but not assumed; the structure of the course will be flexible enough to accommodate a range of student expertise and interests. Topics covered include: statistics and graphics in R; database design, resampling methods, diversity measures, contingency table analysis, and introductory methods in spatial analysis.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 118:
Heritage, Environment, and Sovereignty in Hawaii (EARTHSYS 118)
This course explores the cultural, political economic, and environmental status of contemporary Hawaiians. What sorts of sustainable economic and environmental systems did Hawaiians use in prehistory? How was colonization of the Hawaiian Islands informed and shaped by American economic interests and the nascent imperialsm of the early 20th centrury? How was sovereignty and Native Hawaiian identity been shaped by these forces? How has tourism and the leisure industry affected the natural environment? This course uses archaeological methods, ethnohistorical sources, and historical analysis in an exploration of contemporary Hawaiian social economic and political life.
Last offered: Autumn 2010
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: WAY-EDP
ANTHRO 12:
Anthropology and Art
Modernity. How the concept of art appears timeless and commonsensical in the West, and with what social consequences. Historicizing the emergence of art. Modernist uses of primitive, child art, asylum, and outsider art.
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
ANTHRO 120:
The Maya
Lecture course on the ancient and modern Maya. We explore the archaeology, ecology, culture, and language history of the Maya from the earliest times to the Classic Maya Collapse in the 9th-10th Centuries A.D., and examine also the Post-Classic, the Conquest, and Colonial Periods, and the persistence and impact of the Maya in present-day Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, and diasporic Maya in the United States. The course acquaints students with the cultural achievements of the Maya in the context of the anthropology and archaeology of civilization, and considers issues of identity over vast periods of time. It includes discussion of the roles of isolation, contact, and geography in Maya history; principles of archaeological excavation and interpretation as applied to the Maya city-states, especially to their rise and fall; Maya hieroglyphic writing and its decipherment; Maya mythology and the Popol Vuh; Maya art in its Mesoamerican context; ethical issues in the management of Maya archaeological sites; principles of ethnographic analysis as applied in modern Maya communities, and Maya rebellions against colonial and modern states. Anthropology concentration: CS, Arch. No prerequisites.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
ANTHRO 120A:
Social Zooarchaeology ¿ Animals within Prehistoric Social Worlds (ANTHRO 220A, ARCHLGY 120, ARCHLGY 220)
The elevated status of animals in prehistory derived from their position as sentient beings sharing many of the ontological qualities of people "comparable life-cycles and behavioral traits in some cases, affection, the display of dominance hierarchies, and differing degrees of sociality" while at the same time retaining clear biological and behavioral differences. The course will consider aspects of the social and ontological relations between people and animals in prehistory, particularly cosmologies and folk classifications, and the place of animals in social relations and identity formation. It is aimed to understand how the presence, qualities, materialities, and networks of animal life shaped human socialities as much as human agency created engagement with the `animal estate'. Furthermore, it intends to define how to include animals as subjects in archaeological and anthropological studies taking non-human agency as a starting point. Focusing on case studies drawn from Europe, Asia and the Americas, the course is aimed to highlight varied and multifaceted intersection between humans and animals in the past.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 121A:
Hip Hop, Youth Identities, and the Politics of Language (AFRICAAM 121X, AMSTUD 121X, CSRE 121X, EDUC 121X, LINGUIST 155)
Focus is on issues of language, identity, and globalization, with a focus on Hip Hop cultures and the verbal virtuosity within the Hip Hop nation. Beginning with the U.S., a broad, comparative perspective in exploring youth identities and the politics of language in what is now a global Hip Hop movement. Readings draw from the interdisciplinary literature on Hip Hop cultures with a focus on sociolinguistics and youth culture.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-4
ANTHRO 124A:
Politics, nationalism, heritage and archaeology in Central/Eastern Europe (ANTHRO 224A, ARCHLGY 123, ARCHLGY 223)
The current state of archaeology in central and eastern part of Europe reveals a multiplicity of regional intellectual traditions and social factors, interrelating with each other in many complex ways. The course will discuss intellectual panorama of archaeologies in this part of the continent and examine the reaction to various socio-political, economic, intellectual, institutional and organizational conditions in its different parts that created a wide variety of local strategies within which archaeology has been practiced. As nationalism requires the elaboration of a real or invented remote past, the course will then consider how archaeological data have been manipulated for nationalist purposes, and discuss the relationship of archaeology to nation-building in Central and Eastern Europe. Contrastive conceptions of nationality and ethnicity are presented. The political uses of archaeology, involving mobilization and appropriation of archaeological and cultural heritage, are also reviewed. The problematic nature of nationalistic interpretations of the archaeological record is discussed in context of the professional and ethical responsibilities of archaeologists confronted with such interpretations.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 125:
Language and the Environment (ANTHRO 225)
Lecture course on vocabulary and grammar as keys to peoples¿ understanding and use of the environment. Ethnobotany, ethnobiology, and ethnosemantics in the analysis of the language of place, plants and animals, the earth, the body, and disease. Terminological gaps and gluts and what they imply. Language as a strategic resource in environmental management. Language contact and conflict in the modern global environment, with particular attention to the vocabularies of capitalism and property. Language extinction and its environmental implications. Anthropology concentration: CS, EE. No prerequisites.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-4
ANTHRO 126:
Cities in Comparative Perspective (URBANST 114)
Core course for Urban Studies majors. We will study urban space both historically and cross-culturally. Urban Studies, by definition, is an interdisciplinary field, where the methodological approaches draw upon a diverse set of analytic tools. Disciplines that occupy a prominent place in this class are geography, cultural anthropology, sociology, history, media studies, and literature. In this context, we will discuss the importance of cities around the world to the economic, cultural, and political well-being of modern societies and examine how forces such as industrialization, decentralization, and globalization affect the structure and function of cities.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
ANTHRO 128:
Visual Studies
Drawing on anthropology, art history, cultural studies, and other fields, this course explores how and why one might want to think critically about the politics of visuality, social imagination, the politics of making and consuming images and things, iconophonia and iconophilia, the classification of people and things into 'artists' and 'art', and cultural production more generally.
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II
ANTHRO 130D:
Spatial Approaches to Social Science (ANTHRO 230D, POLISCI 241S)
This multidisciplinary course combines different approaches to how GIS and spatial tools can be applied in social science research. We take a collaborative, project oriented approach to bring together technical expertise and substantive applications from several social science disciplines. The course aims to integrate tools, methods, and current debates in social science research and will enable students to engage in critical spatial research and a multidisciplinary dialogue around geographic space.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-AQR, WAY-SI
ANTHRO 134:
Object Lessons (ANTHRO 234)
Human-object relations in the processes of world making. Objectification and materiality through ethnography, archaeology, material culture studies, and cultural studies. Interpretive connotations around and beyond the object, the unstable terrain of interrelationships between sociality and materiality, and the cultural constitution of objects. Sources include: works by Marx, Hegel, and Mauss; classic Pacific ethnographies of exchange, circulation, alienability, and fetishism; and material culture studies.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 135H:
Conversations in CSRE: Case Studies in the Stanford Community (CSRE 135H)
Race, ethnicity, gender, and religion using the tools, analytical skills and concepts developed by anthropologists.
Terms: Aut, Win
| Units: 1-2
ANTHRO 136A:
Boundaries of Knowledge: Politics and Popular Culture in Kenya
This course looks at the relationship between popular culture and politics in Kenya. It investigates how knowledge about what is authentic and acceptable is produced and communicated in popular culture. Our emphasis will be on tracing how certain experiences, ideas, and beliefs are marked as either Kenyan or not in the process of producing knowledge about the country, and when translating this knowledge into political activity. Sources of material will include newspaper articles, novels, films, and television, in addition to ethnographic and theoretical texts.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 137:
The Politics of Humanitarianism (ANTHRO 237)
What does it mean to want to help, to organize humanitarian aid, in times of crisis? At first glance, the impulse to help issue generis a good one. Helping is surely preferable to indifference and inaction. This does not mean that humanitarian interventions entail no ethical or political stakes or that they are beyond engaged critique. We need to critique precisely that which we value, and to ask some hard questions, among them these: What are the differences among humanitarianism, charity, and philanthropy? What of social obligations and solidarities? How does the neoliberal world order currently create structural inequalities that ensure the reproduction of poverty and violence? How does the current order of things resemble or differ from the colonial world order? This course examines the history of humanitarian sensibilities and the emergence of organized action in the 'cause of humanity'. In the early years of humanitarian intervention, political neutrality was a key principle; it has now come under ever greater analytical and political scrutiny. We will examine the reasons for the politicization and militarization of aid -- be it humanitarian aid in natural disasters or political crises; development programs in the impoverished south ('the Third World'), or peace-keeping. We will end with a critical exploration of the concept of human rights, humanity, and personhood. The overall methodological aim of the course is to demonstrate what insights an ethnographic approach to the politics, ethics, and aesthetics of humanitarianism can offer.
Last offered: Spring 2011
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 138:
Medical Ethics in Stratified World: Examining Race, Difference and Power in the Research Enterprise (ANTHRO 238, CSRE 138)
This course will explore historical as well as current market transformations of medical ethics in different global contexts. We will examine various aspects of the research enterprise, its knowledge-generating and life-saving goals, as well as the societal, cultural, and political influences that make medical research a site of brokering in need of oversight and emergent ethics.nnThis seminar will provide students with tools to explore and critically assess the various technical, social, and ethical positions of researchers, as well as the role of the state, the media, and certain publics in shaping scientific research agendas. We will also examine how structural violence, poverty, global standing, and issues of citizenship also influence issues of consent and just science and medicine.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-EDP, WAY-ER
ANTHRO 139:
Ethnography of Africa (ANTHRO 239)
The politics of producing knowledge in and about Africa through the genre of ethnography, from the colonial era to the present. The politics of writing and the ethics of social imagination. Sources include novels juxtaposed to ethnographies.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
ANTHRO 139A:
Forgotten Africa (AFRICAST 139A, ARCHLGY 139A)
This course provides a general, introductory survey of Africa's past from prehistoric times into the 19th-century. Through lectures, readings, discussions, museum visits, debates and film, we will explore Africa's rich and dynamic past, juxtaposing the material remains of empires, states and cities with historical constructs of Africa as timeless, isolated and underdeveloped. The course begins with a critical examination of how we view Africa and its past and how the very concept of `Africa' changes throughout time. The course critically questions the usefulness of the prehistory/history divide and problematizes how Africa has served as an ethnographic font for examples of tribal life. We will challenge Western depictions of Africa as a dark continent `without history' by highlighting the continent's vibrant cultures, sophisticated technologies, dynamic and complex political systems and participation in far-reaching commercial networks, all predating the arrival of modern Europeans. The course ends with the transoceanic slave trade and nascent European colonialism and illuminates the roles these histories played in the production of negative and inaccurate images of Africa in contemporary discourse.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 14:
Introduction to Anthropological Genetics
For upper division undergraduates. The extent and pattern of variation among human genomes, the origin of these patterns in human evolution, and the social and medical impact of recent discoveries. Topics include: the Human Genome Project; human origins; ancient DNA; genetic, behavioral, linguistic, cultural, and racial diversity; the role of disease in shaping genetic diversity; DNA forensics; genes and reproductive technology.
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER: DB-NatSci
ANTHRO 146A:
Anthropology of Youth
This course will be a survey of classical texts and contemporary research on youth and generations. We will explore the historical and cultural construction of `youth¿ and youth practices across regions over time. We will pay special attention to the organization of contemporary capitalism, its effect in producing marginality and exclusion, and issues underlying youth political movements.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 147:
Nature, Culture, Heritage (ANTHRO 247)
Seminar. Shared histories of natural and cultural heritage and their subsequent trajectories into the present. How thought about archaeological sites and natural landscapes have undergone transformations due to factors including indigenous rights, green politics, and international tourism. The development of key ideas including conservation, wilderness, sustainability, indigenous knowledge, non-renewability and diversity. Case studies draw on cultural and natural sites from Africa, the Americas and Australia.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
ANTHRO 147A:
Folklore, Mythology, and Islam in Central Asia (REES 247A)
Central Asian cults, myths, and beliefs from ancient time to modernity. Life crisis rites, magic ceremonies, songs, tales, narratives, taboos associated with childbirth, marriage, folk medicine, and calendrical transitions. The nature and the place of the shaman in the region. Sources include music from the fieldwork of the instructor and the Kyrgyz epoch Manas. The cultural universe of Central Asian peoples as a symbol of their modern outlook.
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
ANTHRO 148:
Health, Politics, and Culture of Modern China (ANTHRO 248)
One of the most generative regions for medical anthropology inquiry in recent years has been Asia. This seminar is designed to introduce upper division undergraduates and graduate students to the methodological hurdles, representational challenges, and intellectual rewards of investigating the intersections of health, politics, and culture in contemporary China.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
ANTHRO 148A:
Nomads of Eurasia: Culture in Transition (ANTHRO 248A)
Traditional peoples of Central and Inner Asia; their lifestyles and cultural history. Modern research approaches and recent fieldwork data published mainly in Russian and Central Asian languages. Audio-visual materials.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 149:
South Asia: History, People, Politics (ANTHRO 249)
The South Asian subcontinent (comprising of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan and Sri Lanka) is one of the most diverse and densely populated regions in the world and increasingly prominent in new global political and cultural economies. South Asia has also provided the inspiration for cutting edge theories about the colonial state, postcolonial studies, democracy, popular culture, and religious conflict. The course will provide an overview of major historical events and social trends in contemporary South Asia and focus on themes such as gender, religion, caste, migration and movement, new technologies, the urban and rural, the state, and new forms of consumption among others.Thus, the course will give students historically and theoretically informed perspectives on contemporary South Asia, as well as how to apply insights learned to larger debates within the political and social sciences.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
ANTHRO 151:
Women, Fertility, and Work (ANTHRO 251, HUMBIO 148W)
How do choices relating to bearing, nursing, and raising children influence women's participation in the labor force? Cultural, demographic, and evolutionary explanations, using crosscultural case studies. Emphasis is on understanding fertility and work in light of the options available to women at particular times and places.
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-Gender
ANTHRO 154:
Anthropology of Drugs: Experience, Capitalism, Modernity (ANTHRO 254B, CSRE 154)
This course examines the significant role 'drugs' play in shaping expressions of the self and social life; in the management populations, and in the production of markets and inequality. It engages these themes through cultural representations of drugs and drug use, analyses of scientific discourse, and social theory. Topics include: the social construction of the licit and illicit; the shifting boundaries of deviance, disease and pleasure; and the relationship between local markets and global wars.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 154A:
Japan¿s Postwar Demographic And Social Changes (ANTHRO 254A)
Changing birth and death rates. Restructuring education and employment. Problems with seniors. Increasing foreign workers.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
ANTHRO 155:
Research Methods in Ecological Anthropology (ANTHRO 255)
The course prepare students for the methodological and practical aspects of doing ecologically oriented, quantitative anthropological field research. The primary goal is to explore what it means to ask anthropological questions in a systematic way. We will focus on understanding what can constitute an interesting question, how to frame a question in way that facilitates investigation, and how to design methods to begin investigating a question. In turn, the course will provide a format to refine research projects in preparation for doing more extensive fieldwork.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
ANTHRO 159:
Conservation and Development Dilemmas in Latin America: Galapagos as a Microcosm (ANTHRO 259)
The course will examine conservation and development dilemmas as they affect countries in Central and South America, eventually focusing on the Galapagos for a detailed case study. The class will explore the resolution of key issues in Galapagos in conjunction with research supported by an Environmental Ventures Project (EVP) Grant from the Woods Institute.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
ANTHRO 160:
Social and Environmental Sustainability: The Costa Rican Case (ANTHRO 260)
Seminar focused on issues of tropical sustainability with a particular emphasis on the Osa Peninsula of Costa Rica. Offered in conjunction with the Osa Initiative in the Wood¿s Institute for the Environment, the course highlights issues of human development in the tropics, through such means as agricultural development, ecotourism, conservation efforts, private and indigenous reserves, and mining. The course will draw from diverse disciplines including anthropology, rural sociology, conservation biology, geosciences, history, political science, and journalism. In addition to weekly discussions, students will development a research paper throughout the term which will be presented to a panel of selected Wood¿s Faculty during the final week of the term.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
ANTHRO 161:
Human Behavioral Ecology (ANTHRO 261, HUMBIO 117H)
Theory, method, and application in anthropology. How theory in behavioral ecology developed to understand animal behavior is applied to questions about human economic decision making in ecological and evolutionary contexts. Topics include decisions about foraging and subsistence, competition and cooperation, mating, and reproduction and parenting.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-SI, WAY-SMA
ANTHRO 166:
Political Ecology of Tropical Land Use: Conservation, Natural Resource Extraction, and Agribusiness (ANTHRO 266)
Seminar. The state, private sector, development agencies, and NGOs in development and conservation of tropical land use. Focus is on the socioeconomic and political drivers of resource extraction and agricultural production. Case studies used to examine the local-to-global context from many disciplines. Are maps and analyses used for gain, visibility, accountability, or contested terrain? How are power dynamics, land use history, state-private sector collusion, and neoliberal policies valued? What are the local and extra-local responses?
Terms: Win, Spr
| Units: 3
ANTHRO 167:
Signaling Theory (ANTHRO 267)
(Graduate students register for 267.) Why does the peacock have such a large elaborate tail? Why does conspicuous consumption serve to create markers of distinction? How does the pursuit of social capital generate prestige? Answers to these questions from convergent scholarship in social theory, economic theory, and evolutionary theory. The use of signaling theory to explain disparate social and material phenomena. Authors include Veblen, Bourdieu, and Zahavi. Prerequisite for undergraduates: consent of instructor.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
ANTHRO 169A:
New Citizenship: Grassroots Movements for Social Justice in the U.S. (CHICANST 168, CSRE 168, FEMST 140H)
Focus is on the contributions of immigrants and communities of color to the meaning of citizenship in the U.S. Citizenship, more than only a legal status, is a dynamic cultural field in which people claim equal rights while demanding respect for differences. Academic studies of citizenship examined in dialogue with the theory and practice of activists and movements. Engagement with immigrant organizing and community-based research is a central emphasis.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 171:
The Biology and Evolution of Language (ANTHRO 271, HUMBIO 145L)
Lecture course surveying the biology, linguistic functions, and evolution of the organs of speech and speech centers in the brain, language in animals and humans, the evolution of language itself, and the roles of innateness vs. culture in language. Suitable both for general education and as preparation for further studies in anthropology, biology, linguistics, medicine, psychology, and speech & language therapy. Anthropology concentration: CS, EE. No prerequisites.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER: DB-NatSci, WAY-SMA
ANTHRO 175:
Human Osteology (ANTHRO 275, BIO 174, BIO 274, HUMBIO 180)
The human skeleton. Focus is on identification of fragmentary human skeletal remains. Analytical methods include forensic techniques, archaeological analysis, paleopathology, and age/sex estimation. Students work independently in the laboratory with the skeletal collection.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER: DB-NatSci, WAY-SMA
ANTHRO 176:
Cultures, Minds, and Medicine (ANTHRO 276)
This workshop aims to bring together scholars from the social sciences, humanities, medicine and bio-science and technology to explore the ways that health and illness are made through complex social forces. We aim for informal, interactive sessions, full of debate and good will. We will meet every other week on Wednesday evening 5:30-7, starting on January 11, for dinner and conversation.May be repeat for credit
Terms: Win, Spr
| Units: 1
| Repeatable
6 times
(up to 6 units total)
ANTHRO 177:
Environmental Change and Emerging Infectious Diseases (ANTHRO 277, HUMBIO 114)
The changing epidemiological environment. How human-induced environmental changes, such as global warming, deforestation and land-use conversion, urbanization, international commerce, and human migration, are altering the ecology of infectious disease transmission, and promoting their re-emergence as a global public health threat. Case studies of malaria, cholera, hantavirus, plague, and HIV.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
ANTHRO 180:
Science, Technology, and Gender
Why is engineering often seen as a masculine profession? What have women's experiences been in entering fields of science and technology? How has gender been defined by scientists? Issues: the struggles of women in science to negotiate misogyny and cultural expectation (marriage, children), reproductive issues (surrogate motherhood, visual representations of the fetus, fetal surgery, breast feeding, childbirth practices), how the household became a site of consumerism and technology, and the cultural issues at stake as women join the ranks of scientists.
Last offered: Winter 2009
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-Gender
ANTHRO 181:
Culture and Madness: Anthropological Approaches to Psychiatric Illness (ANTHRO 281, HUMBIO 146)
Interdisciplinary. Culture and social context on the identification, course, and outcome of psychiatric illness. What is known from psychiatry about the nature of illness as a biomedical process and from anthropology about the life course of illness within particular settings. Prerequisite: Human Biology core or equivalent or consent of instructor.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
ANTHRO 181A:
Gender in the Middle East: Iran, Turkey, and Egypt
This course explores the construction of gender in the Middle East. Drawing on the historical, sociological and anthropological research in the region, the course aims to question the stereotypes about the subordination of Muslim women and to offer students a systematic reading and analytical discussion of the political, economic and cultural structures that inform gender relations and practices in the region. The course starts with an examination of early Islam and religious sources with regard to women¿s status, then moves on to nationalist and modernization movements in the 19th and 20th centuries, and finally explores women¿s and men¿s lives in contemporary Egypt, Turkey and Iran. In this framework, we will pay special attention to Islamist mobilizations, family and sexual relations, as well as women's changing livelihoods and labor.
Last offered: Spring 2011
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI
ANTHRO 182:
An Anthropology of Annihilation: Tobacco at the Turn of the Millennium
The cigarette as the world's greatest weapon of mass destruction: 100 million dead worldwide from cigarettes during the 20th century, one billion expected to die in the 21st century. How to understand this toll, its production, management, politicization, and depoliticization? What can anthropological and allied perspectives disclose? How does the catastrophe challenge key precepts within anthropology and other branches of the academy?
Last offered: Winter 2011
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-SI
ANTHRO 183A:
Border Crossings and American Identities (AMSTUD 183, CSRE 183)
How novelists, filmmakers, and poets perceive racial, ethnic, gender, sexual preference, and class borders in the context of a national discussion about the place of Americans in the world. How Anna Deavere Smith, Sherman Alexie, or Michael Moore consider redrawing such lines so that center and margin, or self and other, do not remain fixed and divided. How linguistic borderlines within multilingual literature by Caribbean, Arab, and Asian Americans function. Can Anzaldúa's conception of borderlands be constructed through the matrix of language, dreams, music, and cultural memories in these American narratives? Course includes examining one's own identity.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-A-II, WAY-EDP
ANTHRO 199:
Senior and Master's Paper Writing Workshop (ANTHRO 299)
Techniques of interpreting data, organizing bibliographic materials, writing, editing and revising. Preparation of papers for conferences and publications in anthropology. Seniors register for 199; master's students register for 299.
Terms: Win, Spr
| Units: 1-2
| Repeatable
for credit
ANTHRO 19Q:
Hauntings, Visions, and Prophecy
Preference to sophomores. Why do people see ghosts? Why do people believe that stars foretell the future? When do people see demons and angels? Focus is on the conditions under which people experience themselves as having sensory evidence of supernatural phenomena and the role of training and expectation in the process. Intellectual exploration of what is known from the ethnographic, historical, and psychological record. Practical experimental projects involve attempting to induce positive supernatural experience. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
| Units: 1-3
ANTHRO 201:
Introduction to Cultural and Social Anthropology (ANTHRO 1)
Crosscultural anthropological perspectives on human behavior, including cultural transmission, social organization, sex and gender, culture change, technology, war, ritual, and related topics. Case studies illustrating the principles of the cultural process. Films.
Terms: Spr, Sum
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 202A:
Ancient Civilizations: Complexity and Collapse (ANTHRO 102A)
How archaeology contributes to understanding prehistoric civilizations. How and why complex social institutions arose, and the conditions and processes behind their collapse. The development of monumental architecture, craft specialization, trade and exchange, and social stratification using examples from the archaeological record. (HEF II, III; DA-B)
| Units: 3-5
ANTHRO 204A:
Foraging for a Living (ANTHRO 104A)
As an economic mode of production, foraging has underwritten humanity for most of its existence. Drawing on archaeology, history, ethnography and new media, this class explores foraging from multiple angles ranging from early approaches in the social and biological sciences to neo-Marxist, neo-Darwinian and ecological perspectives. Topics include the expansion of humans across the planet 50,000 years ago, the emergence of diverse foraging practices in the late Quaternary, the marginalization of foraging economies following colonial invasions, contemporary foraging practices across the continents and foraging in urban environments including the promotion of foraging in modern culinary trends.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 206A:
Incas and their Ancestors: Peruvian Archaeology (ANTHRO 106, ARCHLGY 102B)
The development of high civilizations in Andean S. America from hunter-gatherer origins to the powerful, expansive Inca empire. The contrasting ecologies of coast, sierra, and jungle areas of early Peruvian societies from 12,000 to 2,000 B.C.E. The domestication of indigenous plants which provided the economic foundation for monumental cities, ceramics, and textiles. Cultural evolution, and why and how major transformations occurred.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
ANTHRO 211:
Archaeology of Sex, Sexuality, and Gender (ANTHRO 111)
How archaeologists study sex, sexuality, and gender through the material remains left behind by past cultures and communities. Theoretical and methodological issues; case studies from prehistoric and historic archaeology.
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 212:
Public Archaeology: Market Street Chinatown Archaeology Project (ANTHRO 112, ASNAMST 112)
This internship-style course centers on the practice and theory of historical archaeology research and interpretation through a focused study of San Jose¿s historic Chinese communities. The course includes classroom lectures, seminar discussion, laboratory analysis of historic artifacts, and participation in public archaeology events. Course themes include immigration, urbanization, material culture, landscape, transnational identities, race and ethnicity, gender, cultural resource management, public history, and heritage politics. The course includes required lab sections, field trips, and public service. Transportation will be provided for off-site activities.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 2-5
| Repeatable
3 times
(up to 15 units total)
ANTHRO 214:
Prehistoric Stone Tools: Technology and Analysis (ANTHRO 114)
Archaeologists rely on an understanding of stone tools to trace much of what we know about prehistoric societies. How to make, illustrate, and analyze stone tools, revealing the method and theory intrinsic to these artifacts.
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 216:
Data Analysis for Quantitative Research (ANTHRO 116)
This course allows graduate and advanced undergraduate students in archaeology and anthropology to acquire practical skills in quantitative data analysis. Some familiarity with basic statistical methods is useful but not assumed; the structure of the course will be flexible enough to accommodate a range of student expertise and interests. Topics covered include: statistics and graphics in R; database design, resampling methods, diversity measures, contingency table analysis, and introductory methods in spatial analysis.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 22:
Archaeology of North America
Why and how people of N. America developed. Issues and processes that dominate or shape developments during particular periods considering the effects of history and interactions with physical and social environment. Topics include the peopling of the New World, explaining subsequent diversity in substance and settlement adaptations, the development of social complexity, and the impact of European contact.
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-AmerCul
ANTHRO 220A:
Social Zooarchaeology ¿ Animals within Prehistoric Social Worlds (ANTHRO 120A, ARCHLGY 120, ARCHLGY 220)
The elevated status of animals in prehistory derived from their position as sentient beings sharing many of the ontological qualities of people "comparable life-cycles and behavioral traits in some cases, affection, the display of dominance hierarchies, and differing degrees of sociality" while at the same time retaining clear biological and behavioral differences. The course will consider aspects of the social and ontological relations between people and animals in prehistory, particularly cosmologies and folk classifications, and the place of animals in social relations and identity formation. It is aimed to understand how the presence, qualities, materialities, and networks of animal life shaped human socialities as much as human agency created engagement with the `animal estate'. Furthermore, it intends to define how to include animals as subjects in archaeological and anthropological studies taking non-human agency as a starting point. Focusing on case studies drawn from Europe, Asia and the Americas, the course is aimed to highlight varied and multifaceted intersection between humans and animals in the past.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 224A:
Politics, nationalism, heritage and archaeology in Central/Eastern Europe (ANTHRO 124A, ARCHLGY 123, ARCHLGY 223)
The current state of archaeology in central and eastern part of Europe reveals a multiplicity of regional intellectual traditions and social factors, interrelating with each other in many complex ways. The course will discuss intellectual panorama of archaeologies in this part of the continent and examine the reaction to various socio-political, economic, intellectual, institutional and organizational conditions in its different parts that created a wide variety of local strategies within which archaeology has been practiced. As nationalism requires the elaboration of a real or invented remote past, the course will then consider how archaeological data have been manipulated for nationalist purposes, and discuss the relationship of archaeology to nation-building in Central and Eastern Europe. Contrastive conceptions of nationality and ethnicity are presented. The political uses of archaeology, involving mobilization and appropriation of archaeological and cultural heritage, are also reviewed. The problematic nature of nationalistic interpretations of the archaeological record is discussed in context of the professional and ethical responsibilities of archaeologists confronted with such interpretations.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 225:
Language and the Environment (ANTHRO 125)
Lecture course on vocabulary and grammar as keys to peoples¿ understanding and use of the environment. Ethnobotany, ethnobiology, and ethnosemantics in the analysis of the language of place, plants and animals, the earth, the body, and disease. Terminological gaps and gluts and what they imply. Language as a strategic resource in environmental management. Language contact and conflict in the modern global environment, with particular attention to the vocabularies of capitalism and property. Language extinction and its environmental implications. Anthropology concentration: CS, EE. No prerequisites.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-4
ANTHRO 228:
Indigenous Australia (ANTHRO 28)
The prehistory and ethnology of New Guinea and Australia. Regional climate, environment, and pre-European history. Ethnography of the contact period focusing on theoretical problems central to the development of anthropological theory. Contemporary sociopolitical issues. Films.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 230D:
Spatial Approaches to Social Science (ANTHRO 130D, POLISCI 241S)
This multidisciplinary course combines different approaches to how GIS and spatial tools can be applied in social science research. We take a collaborative, project oriented approach to bring together technical expertise and substantive applications from several social science disciplines. The course aims to integrate tools, methods, and current debates in social science research and will enable students to engage in critical spatial research and a multidisciplinary dialogue around geographic space.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 234:
Object Lessons (ANTHRO 134)
Human-object relations in the processes of world making. Objectification and materiality through ethnography, archaeology, material culture studies, and cultural studies. Interpretive connotations around and beyond the object, the unstable terrain of interrelationships between sociality and materiality, and the cultural constitution of objects. Sources include: works by Marx, Hegel, and Mauss; classic Pacific ethnographies of exchange, circulation, alienability, and fetishism; and material culture studies.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 237:
The Politics of Humanitarianism (ANTHRO 137)
What does it mean to want to help, to organize humanitarian aid, in times of crisis? At first glance, the impulse to help issue generis a good one. Helping is surely preferable to indifference and inaction. This does not mean that humanitarian interventions entail no ethical or political stakes or that they are beyond engaged critique. We need to critique precisely that which we value, and to ask some hard questions, among them these: What are the differences among humanitarianism, charity, and philanthropy? What of social obligations and solidarities? How does the neoliberal world order currently create structural inequalities that ensure the reproduction of poverty and violence? How does the current order of things resemble or differ from the colonial world order? This course examines the history of humanitarian sensibilities and the emergence of organized action in the 'cause of humanity'. In the early years of humanitarian intervention, political neutrality was a key principle; it has now come under ever greater analytical and political scrutiny. We will examine the reasons for the politicization and militarization of aid -- be it humanitarian aid in natural disasters or political crises; development programs in the impoverished south ('the Third World'), or peace-keeping. We will end with a critical exploration of the concept of human rights, humanity, and personhood. The overall methodological aim of the course is to demonstrate what insights an ethnographic approach to the politics, ethics, and aesthetics of humanitarianism can offer.
Last offered: Spring 2011
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 238:
Medical Ethics in Stratified World: Examining Race, Difference and Power in the Research Enterprise (ANTHRO 138, CSRE 138)
This course will explore historical as well as current market transformations of medical ethics in different global contexts. We will examine various aspects of the research enterprise, its knowledge-generating and life-saving goals, as well as the societal, cultural, and political influences that make medical research a site of brokering in need of oversight and emergent ethics.nnThis seminar will provide students with tools to explore and critically assess the various technical, social, and ethical positions of researchers, as well as the role of the state, the media, and certain publics in shaping scientific research agendas. We will also examine how structural violence, poverty, global standing, and issues of citizenship also influence issues of consent and just science and medicine.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 239:
Ethnography of Africa (ANTHRO 139)
The politics of producing knowledge in and about Africa through the genre of ethnography, from the colonial era to the present. The politics of writing and the ethics of social imagination. Sources include novels juxtaposed to ethnographies.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 23N:
Glimpses of Divinity
Preference to freshmen. How human beings search for and identify the presence of the divine in everyday human life. Sources include spiritual classics in the Christian, Jewish, and Hindu traditions including works by Augustine, Teresa of Avila, Jonathan Edwards, the Bhagavad Gita, the Zohar, and some ethnographies of non-literate traditions.
| Units: 3
ANTHRO 241:
The State in Africa
Postcolonial African states in historical and ethnographic context. Focus is on contemporary African states not as failures, but as the products of distinctive regional histories and political rationalities.
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 247:
Nature, Culture, Heritage (ANTHRO 147)
Seminar. Shared histories of natural and cultural heritage and their subsequent trajectories into the present. How thought about archaeological sites and natural landscapes have undergone transformations due to factors including indigenous rights, green politics, and international tourism. The development of key ideas including conservation, wilderness, sustainability, indigenous knowledge, non-renewability and diversity. Case studies draw on cultural and natural sites from Africa, the Americas and Australia.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 248:
Health, Politics, and Culture of Modern China (ANTHRO 148)
One of the most generative regions for medical anthropology inquiry in recent years has been Asia. This seminar is designed to introduce upper division undergraduates and graduate students to the methodological hurdles, representational challenges, and intellectual rewards of investigating the intersections of health, politics, and culture in contemporary China.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
ANTHRO 248A:
Nomads of Eurasia: Culture in Transition (ANTHRO 148A)
Traditional peoples of Central and Inner Asia; their lifestyles and cultural history. Modern research approaches and recent fieldwork data published mainly in Russian and Central Asian languages. Audio-visual materials.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 249:
South Asia: History, People, Politics (ANTHRO 149)
The South Asian subcontinent (comprising of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan and Sri Lanka) is one of the most diverse and densely populated regions in the world and increasingly prominent in new global political and cultural economies. South Asia has also provided the inspiration for cutting edge theories about the colonial state, postcolonial studies, democracy, popular culture, and religious conflict. The course will provide an overview of major historical events and social trends in contemporary South Asia and focus on themes such as gender, religion, caste, migration and movement, new technologies, the urban and rural, the state, and new forms of consumption among others.Thus, the course will give students historically and theoretically informed perspectives on contemporary South Asia, as well as how to apply insights learned to larger debates within the political and social sciences.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 251:
Women, Fertility, and Work (ANTHRO 151, HUMBIO 148W)
How do choices relating to bearing, nursing, and raising children influence women's participation in the labor force? Cultural, demographic, and evolutionary explanations, using crosscultural case studies. Emphasis is on understanding fertility and work in light of the options available to women at particular times and places.
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 254A:
Japan¿s Postwar Demographic And Social Changes (ANTHRO 154A)
Changing birth and death rates. Restructuring education and employment. Problems with seniors. Increasing foreign workers.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
ANTHRO 254B:
Anthropology of Drugs: Experience, Capitalism, Modernity (ANTHRO 154, CSRE 154)
This course examines the significant role 'drugs' play in shaping expressions of the self and social life; in the management populations, and in the production of markets and inequality. It engages these themes through cultural representations of drugs and drug use, analyses of scientific discourse, and social theory. Topics include: the social construction of the licit and illicit; the shifting boundaries of deviance, disease and pleasure; and the relationship between local markets and global wars.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 255:
Research Methods in Ecological Anthropology (ANTHRO 155)
The course prepare students for the methodological and practical aspects of doing ecologically oriented, quantitative anthropological field research. The primary goal is to explore what it means to ask anthropological questions in a systematic way. We will focus on understanding what can constitute an interesting question, how to frame a question in way that facilitates investigation, and how to design methods to begin investigating a question. In turn, the course will provide a format to refine research projects in preparation for doing more extensive fieldwork.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
ANTHRO 259:
Conservation and Development Dilemmas in Latin America: Galapagos as a Microcosm (ANTHRO 159)
The course will examine conservation and development dilemmas as they affect countries in Central and South America, eventually focusing on the Galapagos for a detailed case study. The class will explore the resolution of key issues in Galapagos in conjunction with research supported by an Environmental Ventures Project (EVP) Grant from the Woods Institute.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
ANTHRO 25N:
Contemporary Japanese Popular Culture
This is a seminar focusing on the intersection between politics and popular culture in contemporary Japan. It will survey a range of social and political implications of practices of popular culture. Topics include representations of gender in J-pop, manga, and anime, the otaku culture and its pathologization. Students will be introduced to theories of popular culture in general, and a variety of contemporary anthropological studies on Japanese popular culture in particular as well.
| Units: 1-3
ANTHRO 260:
Social and Environmental Sustainability: The Costa Rican Case (ANTHRO 160)
Seminar focused on issues of tropical sustainability with a particular emphasis on the Osa Peninsula of Costa Rica. Offered in conjunction with the Osa Initiative in the Wood¿s Institute for the Environment, the course highlights issues of human development in the tropics, through such means as agricultural development, ecotourism, conservation efforts, private and indigenous reserves, and mining. The course will draw from diverse disciplines including anthropology, rural sociology, conservation biology, geosciences, history, political science, and journalism. In addition to weekly discussions, students will development a research paper throughout the term which will be presented to a panel of selected Wood¿s Faculty during the final week of the term.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
ANTHRO 261:
Human Behavioral Ecology (ANTHRO 161, HUMBIO 117H)
Theory, method, and application in anthropology. How theory in behavioral ecology developed to understand animal behavior is applied to questions about human economic decision making in ecological and evolutionary contexts. Topics include decisions about foraging and subsistence, competition and cooperation, mating, and reproduction and parenting.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
ANTHRO 266:
Political Ecology of Tropical Land Use: Conservation, Natural Resource Extraction, and Agribusiness (ANTHRO 166)
Seminar. The state, private sector, development agencies, and NGOs in development and conservation of tropical land use. Focus is on the socioeconomic and political drivers of resource extraction and agricultural production. Case studies used to examine the local-to-global context from many disciplines. Are maps and analyses used for gain, visibility, accountability, or contested terrain? How are power dynamics, land use history, state-private sector collusion, and neoliberal policies valued? What are the local and extra-local responses?
Terms: Win, Spr
| Units: 3
ANTHRO 267:
Signaling Theory (ANTHRO 167)
(Graduate students register for 267.) Why does the peacock have such a large elaborate tail? Why does conspicuous consumption serve to create markers of distinction? How does the pursuit of social capital generate prestige? Answers to these questions from convergent scholarship in social theory, economic theory, and evolutionary theory. The use of signaling theory to explain disparate social and material phenomena. Authors include Veblen, Bourdieu, and Zahavi. Prerequisite for undergraduates: consent of instructor.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
ANTHRO 271:
The Biology and Evolution of Language (ANTHRO 171, HUMBIO 145L)
Lecture course surveying the biology, linguistic functions, and evolution of the organs of speech and speech centers in the brain, language in animals and humans, the evolution of language itself, and the roles of innateness vs. culture in language. Suitable both for general education and as preparation for further studies in anthropology, biology, linguistics, medicine, psychology, and speech & language therapy. Anthropology concentration: CS, EE. No prerequisites.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
ANTHRO 275:
Human Osteology (ANTHRO 175, BIO 174, BIO 274, HUMBIO 180)
The human skeleton. Focus is on identification of fragmentary human skeletal remains. Analytical methods include forensic techniques, archaeological analysis, paleopathology, and age/sex estimation. Students work independently in the laboratory with the skeletal collection.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 276:
Cultures, Minds, and Medicine (ANTHRO 176)
This workshop aims to bring together scholars from the social sciences, humanities, medicine and bio-science and technology to explore the ways that health and illness are made through complex social forces. We aim for informal, interactive sessions, full of debate and good will. We will meet every other week on Wednesday evening 5:30-7, starting on January 11, for dinner and conversation.May be repeat for credit
Terms: Win, Spr
| Units: 1
| Repeatable
6 times
(up to 6 units total)
ANTHRO 277:
Environmental Change and Emerging Infectious Diseases (ANTHRO 177, HUMBIO 114)
The changing epidemiological environment. How human-induced environmental changes, such as global warming, deforestation and land-use conversion, urbanization, international commerce, and human migration, are altering the ecology of infectious disease transmission, and promoting their re-emergence as a global public health threat. Case studies of malaria, cholera, hantavirus, plague, and HIV.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
ANTHRO 281:
Culture and Madness: Anthropological Approaches to Psychiatric Illness (ANTHRO 181, HUMBIO 146)
Interdisciplinary. Culture and social context on the identification, course, and outcome of psychiatric illness. What is known from psychiatry about the nature of illness as a biomedical process and from anthropology about the life course of illness within particular settings. Prerequisite: Human Biology core or equivalent or consent of instructor.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
ANTHRO 282:
Medical Anthropology (ANTHRO 82)
Emphasis is on how health, illness, and healing are understood, experienced, and constructed in social, cultural, and historical contexts. Topics: biopower and body politics, gender and reproductive technologies, illness experiences, medical diversity and social suffering, and the interface between medicine and science.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
ANTHRO 293B:
Master's Thesis Writing Seminar
May be repeated for credit.
| Units: 2-4
| Repeatable
for credit
ANTHRO 299:
Directed Individual Study
Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 1-10
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors: ;
Bird, D. (PI);
Bird, R. (PI);
Durham, W. (PI);
Ebron, P. (PI);
Ferguson, J. (PI);
Fox, J. (PI);
Hodder, I. (PI);
Hunt, P. (PI);
Inoue, M. (PI);
Jain, S. (PI);
Jones, J. (PI);
Klein, R. (PI);
Kohrman, M. (PI);
Luhrmann, T. (PI);
Malkki, L. (PI);
Meskell, L. (PI);
Rick, J. (PI);
Robertson, I. (PI);
Voss, B. (PI);
Wilcox, M. (PI);
Wolf, A. (PI);
Yanagisako, S. (PI);
Coughlan, S. (GP)
ANTHRO 299:
Senior and Master's Paper Writing Workshop (ANTHRO 199)
Techniques of interpreting data, organizing bibliographic materials, writing, editing and revising. Preparation of papers for conferences and publications in anthropology. Seniors register for 199; master's students register for 299.
Terms: Win, Spr
| Units: 1-2
| Repeatable
for credit
ANTHRO 30:
Linguistic Field Methods (LINGUIST 174, LINGUIST 274A)
Practical training in the collection and analysis of linguistic data from native speakers of a language largely unknown to the investigator. Documentation of endangered languages. Research goals, field trip preparation, ethics (including human subjects, cooperation with local investigators, and governmental permits), working in the community, technical equipment, and analytical strategies. Emphasis is on the use of recording devices and computers in collection and analysis. Prerequisite: introductory course in linguistics.
| Units: 3-5
ANTHRO 300:
Reading Theory Through Ethnography
Required of and restricted to first-year ANTHRO Ph.D. students. Focus is on contemporary ethnography and related cultural and social theories generated by texts. Topics include agency, resistance, and identity formation, and discourse analysis. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 301:
History of Anthropological Theory, Culture and Society
Required of Anthropology Ph.D. students. The history of cultural and social anthropology in relation to historical and national contexts and key theoretical and methodological issues as these inform contemporary theory and practices of the discipline. Enrollment limited to 15. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 302:
History of Anthropological Theory, Ecology and Environment
Evolutionary and ecological theory from the 19th century to present. Theory and concepts from evolution and ecology, emphasizing an-thropological applications. Evolutionary theories of human behavior, culture, and societies. Ecological theory behind carrying capacity, sustainable yield, and population growth. Emphasis is on tools of analysis and formulating research questions in anthropology today. Upper division undergrads require consent of instructor.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 303:
Introduction to Archaeological Theory
The history of archaeological thought emphasizing recent debates. Evolutionary theories, behavioral archaeology, processual and cognitive archaeology, and approaches termed feminist and post-processual archaeology in the context of wider debate in adjacent disciplines. The application and integration of theory on archaeological problems and issues. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 305:
Research Methods in Ecological Anthropology
The course prepare students for the methodological and practical aspects of doing ecologically oriented, quantitative anthropological field research. The primary goal is to explore what it means to ask anthropological questions in a systematic way. We will focus on understanding what can constitute an interesting question, how to frame a question in way that facilitates investigation, and how to design methods to begin investigating a question. In turn, the course will provide a format to refine research projects in preparation for doing more extensive fieldwork.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 306:
Anthropological Research Methods
Required of ANTHRO Ph.D. students; open to all graduate students. Research methods and modes of evidence building in ethnographic research. Enrollment limited to 10. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 308:
Proposal Writing Seminar
Required of second-year Ph.D. students in the culture and society track. The conceptualization of dissertation research problems, the theories behind them, and the methods for exploring them. Participants draft a research prospectus suitable for a dissertation proposal and research grant applications. Limited enrollment. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 31:
Ecology, Evolution, and Human Health (ANTHRO 331A)
Ecology, Evolution, and Human Health Human ecology, environments, adaptation and plasticity, and their relationship to health and well-being considered in the broad comparative context. Topics include human population history, subsistence ecology, demography, reproductive decision making, urbanization, migration, infectious disease, the physiology of stress and the inflammatory response, social capital and social networks, nutrition, nutritional deficiencies, growth, and social inequalities. No prior course work in ecological or medical anthropology required.
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom
ANTHRO 310G:
Introduction to Graduate Studies
Required graduate seminar. The history of anthropological theory and key theoretical and methodological issues of the discipline. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 2
ANTHRO 311G:
Introduction to Culture and Society Graduate Studies in Anthropology
Required graduate seminar for CS track. The history of anthropological theory and key theoretical and methodological issues in cultural anthropology. Prerequistes: for 1st year PhD students in the cultural and society track or by permission of the instructor.
Terms: Win, Spr
| Units: 2
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 4 units total)
ANTHRO 312:
Writing Across Audiences: Styles and Methods
This course examines the way anthropologists and others write to different audiences. What do you need to do communicate to a mainstream anthropology audience? How does that change when you write an editorial or place something in a popular venue? When you try to capture a non-anthropological medical audience? What methods might you consider adding to enable that cross-talk? We will examine a series of examples of people who have written across. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 314:
Policing the Family: Kinship and Society
The study of kinship has wandered off anthropological syllabi just as it assumes ever greater significance within contemporary (often dystopic) political debates on the societies produced by different kinds of families. Firstly, the course will ask whether kinship structures are distinct structures of recognition that generate their own ambivalence, anxiety, and comfort. We will focus this through discussing the relationship of kinship to gender roles and ideologies. Secondly, it will locate how talking, thinking, doing and imagining how people are ¿properly¿ related to each other (as well as potential transgressions) are central to imaginations of the social itself. This will also initiate a larger debate on the nature of social change. Thirdly, the course will give students a precise and calibrated entrypoint into the debates around kinship from the perspective of three differing disciplines, social history, psychoanalysis, and anthropology. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 315:
Memory Identity and Landscape: Archaeological Approaches
This course explores the construction of identity and community through archaeological, ethnographic and historical methods. Topics include the study of landscape, the use of DNA and human genomics and the historical relationships between archaeologists and Indigenous Peoples.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
ANTHRO 320A:
Race, Ethnicity, and Language (EDUC 389X, LINGUIST 253)
This seminar explores the linguistic construction of race and ethnicity across a wide variety of contexts and communities. Throughout the course, we will take a comparative perspective and highlight how different racial/ethnic formations participate in similar, yet different, ways of "doing race" though language, interaction and culture. Readings draw heavily from perspectives in (linguistic) anthropology and sociolinguistics. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-4
ANTHRO 323:
Graduate Seminar in Economic Anthropology
Classical and contemporary anthropological perspectives on topics such as money, markets and exchange; capitalist and non-capitalist modes of production; class and socio-economic differentiation; globalization and neoliberalism; and the social and cultural construction of the object, "the economy". Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 328:
Visual Culture
The politics of visuality, social imagination, and the ethics of visual production and consumption in the current moment. Sources include anthropology, art history, and philosophy. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 332:
Transformative Design (ENGR 231)
Project-based. How interactive technologies can be designed to encourage behavioral transformation. Topics such as self-efficacy, social support, and mechanism of cultural change in domains such as weight-loss, energy conservation, or safe driving. Lab familiarizes students with hardware and software tools for interaction prototyping. Students teams create functional prototypes for self-selected problem domains. Prerequisite: consent of instructor. Design Institute class; see http://dschool.stanford.edu.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
ANTHRO 332A:
The Anthropology of Heritage: Concepts, Contexts and Critique (ARCHLGY 132, ARCHLGY 232, ARCHLGY 332)
This seminar will explore foundational concepts currently employed within heritage practice and debates. Readings will examine the historically formative context of colonial-era and nationalist discourses on stewardship and culture, as well as postcolonial reformulations of such concepts as cultural property, cultural recognition and public history. The seminar will engage the question of the relationship between foundational concepts and the current cosmopolitan and internationalist vision for heritage, probing the enduring dynamics of North-South divides in heritage development and archaeological practice.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
ANTHRO 334A:
Introduction to Multispecies Theory in the Humanities and Social Sciences (FRENGEN 334)
This course will focus on such problems as: posthumanism and the emergence of non-anthropocentric human and social sciences, ¿multispecisim¿ in the re-rethinking of disciplines, redefinition of the concept of life in the human and social sciences by including non-human subjects, animals and plants as others, rethinking the category of the social as a collective of humans and non-humans, nonintentinal agency (as well as understanding of vitalism and animism), animal holocaust, multispecies art and living organisms as media in art (bio-art), ethics of compassion and the problem of the dignity of the non-human (including recent interest in the dignity of plants). Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 340:
Anthropology of the Imagination
The course explores the use of imagination in religion and in healing. Both symbolic healing and religion depend upon the capacity to treat what must be imagined as real. How does social practice enable this capacity? What is the role of the imagined in human sociality? Depending on class interests, we will read a variety of classic and more recent work: Durkheim¿s Elementary Forms of the Religious life; Frazer¿s Golden bough; Vygotsky Language and thought; Mary Watkins Invisible guests; Kohut Analysis of the self; and contemporary ethnographies by Mittermaier, McIntosh, Ashforth, work on trauma, and others. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 342:
Anthropology of Mind and Emotion
This course takes students through classic readings in the anthropology of mind and emotion, including many of the classics in early American anthropology--Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Gregory Bateson, Edward Sapir, Cora Du Bois¿and more recent figures: Catherine Lutz, Lila Abu-Lughod, Vincent Crapanzano, Gananath Obeysekere, Jean Briggs, Arthur Kleinman, Byron Good, Nancy Scheper-Hughes. We will explore the concerns that motivated the work, the kinds of evidence they bring to bear, and the audience they sought to reach.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 344B:
Graphic Medicine: Part 2
In this course students will study medical cultures through visual communication ranging from x-rays and PET scans to graphic novels. Course will also include literature on visual theory. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 353:
Landscape
This seminar offers an interdisciplinary approach to the study of landscape, noting the various processes and projects that have help create them. Readings draw together a broad range of theoretical approaches that are attentive to human-non-human interactions and the overlapping and divergent spatial and temporal questions of the exchanges between landscapes and humans. The readings will also draw attention to representational and non-representational ways that material and symbolic aspects of landscapes help constitute the making of place. The aim of the seminar is to explore the various methodologies for what they offer for the study of place.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 360:
Social Structure and Social Networks
In this course, we will explore social network analysis, a set of methods and theories used in the analysis of social structure. The fundamental conceit underlying social network analysis is that social structure emerges from relationships between individuals. We will therefore concentrate in particular on the measurement of relationships, emphasizing especially practical methodology for anthropological fieldwork. This is a somewhat unusual course because of its focus on social network research coming out of anthropological and ethological traditions. While most current practitioners of social network analysis are (probably) sociologists, many of both the methodological antecedents and theoretical justifications for the field can be found in these two traditions. A major goal of this course is to understand how the methods and perspectives of social network analysis can be usefully incorporated into contemporary approaches to ethnography and other anthropological modes of investigation.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 362A:
Introduction to Human Evolution, Ecology, Genetics, and Culture
Themes and topics of lasting heuristic value in the anthropological sciences. Combines the lecture content of 2A and 2B with a discussion section for graduate students. Must be taken in the Autumn Quarter of a student's first year in the graduate program.
Last offered: Autumn 2008
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 363:
Demography and Life History Theory
Problems in demography and theoretical population biology applied to human systems. Emphasis is on establishing relationships between models in theoretical population biology and empirical demographic methodology. Topics include philosophy of models and model building, population dynamics, stable population theory, species interactions in human ecology, models of infectious diseases and their control, cultural evolution. Prerequisites: HUMBIO 137 or consent of instructor.
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 364A:
EcoGroup: Problems in Ecological and Evolutionary Anthropology
Seminar; restricted to graduate students. Topics vary with instructor. How to ask appropriate questions, how to derive research hypotheses from theory, how to design methodologies for testing hypotheses, and how to present results by reading and critiquing key contemporary papers in the field. Ph.D. students enrolling in this course to fulfill the department review course requirement must enroll in 5 units. Graduate students enrolling in this course to participate in a topical forum may enroll in 2 units. Course may be repeated for 2 units. Prerequisites: by consent of instructor.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 2-5
ANTHRO 365B:
Beyond the Bourgeois Self: Desire, Subjection, and the Limits of the Human
The course seeks to provide an overview of the conceptual and historical development of modern, western ideas of personhood and subjectivity, as the subject as simultaneously constituted as an ¿I¿ and subjected by the powers of disciplines, property regimes and cultural conventions. The readings are excerpts from key philosophical texts paired with commentaries that put the philosophical positions into a deeper historical context. Many of these commentaries trace how practical theories of `lower¿ or minor selves ¿ the subject people of the colonies, slaves and others ¿ were integral to the very development of ideas of the modern, autonomous and acting self in the western world. The first part of the course began with Descartes and ended in late nineteenth century, the era of high bourgeois culture and imperialism. This second part deals with significant elements of twentieth century thought along the same global lines. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 366:
Paper Works
This seminar will focus on the emerging body of literature on the materiality of the production, circulation, and mediation of paperwork as constituitive of modern forms of governance. We will discuss specific genres of paperworks - notes, memos, files, documents, as well as archives and other mnemonic technologies - both as cultural practices and reflexive objects, and examine how they produce modern social epistemologies of accountability, evidence, the fact, and truth in the fields of law, business, and public administration, as well as in civil society generally. Readings will include works by Max Weber, Bruno Latour, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Cornelia Vismann, Ann Stoler, and others. Prerequisite: graduate standing or consent of instructor.
Last offered: Spring 2011
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 371:
Proposal Writing for Archaeologists (ARCHLGY 371)
Required of second-year Ph.D. students in the archaeology track. The conceptualization of dissertation research problems, the theories behind them, and the methods for exploring them. Participants draft a research prospectus suitable for a dissertation proposal and research grant applications. Limited enrollment. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 2
ANTHRO 376:
Archaeology: The Emergence of a Discipline
This course explores the key thinkers and practitioners who have founded the discipline of archaeology. Reaching back into the nineteenth century, the course examines in depth the key figures, their preoccupations and projects that shaped the way that archaeology grew through the 20th and into the 21st century. Global in scope, the emphasis will be on field projects and practical problems that stimulated the intellectual development of archaeology as an independent discipline closely tied to geology, history, anthropology, and the natural sciences. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 380:
Practice and Performance: Bourdieu, Butler, Giddens, de Certeau
Poststructuralist theories of iteration and mimesis used by social scientists to negotiate the tension between social structure and social practice: Gidden's structuration theory; Bourdieu's practice theory; Butler's theories of gender performativity; and de Certeau's analysis of tactics and strategies. Ethnographic and archaeological case studies that employ methodologies inspired by these approaches. Intersections and contradictions between these theorists' work; their use in anthropological practice. Issues of gender, sexuality, and ethnicity. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Last offered: Winter 2010
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 400:
Dissertation Writers Seminar
Required of fifth-year Ph.D. students returning from dissertation field research and in the process of writing dissertations and preparing for professional employment. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1-3
| Repeatable
for credit
ANTHRO 401A:
Qualifying Examination: Topic
Required of second- and third-year Ph.D. students writing the qualifying paper or the qualifying written examination.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 2-5
Instructors: ;
Befu, H. (PI);
Bird, D. (PI);
Bird, R. (PI);
Brown, M. (PI);
Codding, B. (PI);
Curran, L. (PI);
Domanska, E. (PI);
Durham, W. (PI);
Ebron, P. (PI);
Ferguson, J. (PI);
Fox, J. (PI);
Garcia, A. (PI);
Hansen, T. (PI);
Hodder, I. (PI);
Hunt, C. (PI);
Inoue, M. (PI);
Jain, S. (PI);
Jones, J. (PI);
Klein, R. (PI);
Kohrman, M. (PI);
Kunanbaeva, A. (PI);
Luhrmann, T. (PI);
Malkki, L. (PI);
Marciniak, A. (PI);
Melillo, S. (PI);
Meskell, L. (PI);
Rick, J. (PI);
Robertson, I. (PI);
Salkeld, D. (PI);
Thiranagama, S. (PI);
Voss, B. (PI);
Wilcox, M. (PI);
Yanagisako, S. (PI);
Coughlan, S. (GP)
ANTHRO 401B:
Qualifying Examination: Area
Required of second- and third-year Ph.D. students writing the qualifying paper or the qualifying written examination. May be repeated for credit one time.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 2-5
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 10 units total)
Instructors: ;
Befu, H. (PI);
Bird, D. (PI);
Bird, R. (PI);
Brown, M. (PI);
Codding, B. (PI);
Coll, K. (PI);
Curran, L. (PI);
Domanska, E. (PI);
Durham, W. (PI);
Ebron, P. (PI);
Ferguson, J. (PI);
Fox, J. (PI);
Garcia, A. (PI);
Hansen, T. (PI);
Hodder, I. (PI);
Hunt, C. (PI);
Inoue, M. (PI);
Jain, S. (PI);
Jobin, M. (PI);
Jones, J. (PI);
Klein, R. (PI);
Kohrman, M. (PI);
Kunanbaeva, A. (PI);
Luhrmann, T. (PI);
Malkki, L. (PI);
Marciniak, A. (PI);
Meskell, L. (PI);
Rick, J. (PI);
Robertson, I. (PI);
Salkeld, D. (PI);
Thiranagama, S. (PI);
Voss, B. (PI);
Wilcox, M. (PI);
Yanagisako, S. (PI);
Coughlan, S. (GP)
ANTHRO 440:
Teaching Assistantship
Supervised experience as assistant in one undergraduate course.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 3-5
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors: ;
Befu, H. (PI);
Bird, D. (PI);
Bird, R. (PI);
Brown, M. (PI);
Codding, B. (PI);
Coll, K. (PI);
Curran, L. (PI);
Domanska, E. (PI);
Durham, W. (PI);
Ebron, P. (PI);
Ferguson, J. (PI);
Fox, J. (PI);
Garcia, A. (PI);
Hansen, T. (PI);
Hodder, I. (PI);
Hunt, C. (PI);
Inoue, M. (PI);
Jain, S. (PI);
Jobin, M. (PI);
Jones, J. (PI);
Klein, R. (PI);
Kohrman, M. (PI);
Kunanbaeva, A. (PI);
Luhrmann, T. (PI);
Malkki, L. (PI);
Marciniak, A. (PI);
Meskell, L. (PI);
Rick, J. (PI);
Robertson, I. (PI);
Salkeld, D. (PI);
Thiranagama, S. (PI);
Voss, B. (PI);
Wilcox, M. (PI);
Yanagisako, S. (PI);
Coughlan, S. (GP)
ANTHRO 441:
Master's Research Thesis
Supervised work for terminal and coterminal master's students writing the master's project in the final quarter of the degree program.
Terms: Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-15
| Repeatable
1 times
(up to 15 units total)
Instructors: ;
Befu, H. (PI);
Bird, R. (PI);
Brown, M. (PI);
Codding, B. (PI);
Coll, K. (PI);
Curran, L. (PI);
Domanska, E. (PI);
Durham, W. (PI);
Ebron, P. (PI);
Ferguson, J. (PI);
Fox, J. (PI);
Garcia, A. (PI);
Hansen, T. (PI);
Hodder, I. (PI);
Hunt, C. (PI);
Inoue, M. (PI);
Jain, S. (PI);
Jobin, M. (PI);
Jones, J. (PI);
Klein, R. (PI);
Kohrman, M. (PI);
Kunanbaeva, A. (PI);
Lee, S. (PI);
Luhrmann, T. (PI);
Maguire, M. (PI);
Malkki, L. (PI);
Meskell, L. (PI);
Rick, J. (PI);
Robertson, I. (PI);
Romain, T. (PI);
Salkeld, D. (PI);
Thiranagama, S. (PI);
Truncer, J. (PI);
Voss, B. (PI);
Wilcox, M. (PI);
Yanagisako, S. (PI);
Zeiderman, A. (PI)
ANTHRO 442:
Reading Group
Graduate student reading group on a thematic topic of interest.nnIntended for first or second-year cohort PhD students.nnSections: Liisa Malkki, Sylvia Yanagisako, Thomas Hansen, Paulla Ebron, andnnMiyako Inoue
Terms: Win
| Units: 2-3
| Repeatable
1 times
(up to 5 units total)
ANTHRO 444:
Anthropology Colloquium: Graduate Seminar
Department Colloquia Lecture Series. Lectures presented on a variety of anthropological topics. Enrollment is required and restricted to the Department of Anthropology Master¿s students and First and Second-year PhD students. May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1
| Repeatable
for credit
ANTHRO 445:
Anthropology Brown Bag Series
Current topics and trends in cultural/social anthropology, archaeology, and environmental and ecological anthropology. Enrollment in this noon-time series is restricted to the Department of Anthropology Master¿s students and First and Second-year PhD students.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1
| Repeatable
for credit
ANTHRO 450:
Research Apprenticeship
Supervised work on a research project with an individual faculty member. May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-15
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors: ;
Befu, H. (PI);
Bird, D. (PI);
Bird, R. (PI);
Brown, M. (PI);
Codding, B. (PI);
Coll, K. (PI);
Curran, L. (PI);
Domanska, E. (PI);
Durham, W. (PI);
Ebron, P. (PI);
Ferguson, J. (PI);
Fox, J. (PI);
Garcia, A. (PI);
Glover, S. (PI);
Hansen, T. (PI);
Hodder, I. (PI);
Hunt, C. (PI);
Inoue, M. (PI);
Jain, S. (PI);
Jobin, M. (PI);
Jones, J. (PI);
Klein, R. (PI);
Kohrman, M. (PI);
Kunanbaeva, A. (PI);
Lee, S. (PI);
Luhrmann, T. (PI);
Malkki, L. (PI);
Marciniak, A. (PI);
Meskell, L. (PI);
Rick, J. (PI);
Robertson, I. (PI);
Salkeld, D. (PI);
Thiranagama, S. (PI);
Voss, B. (PI);
Wilcox, M. (PI);
Yanagisako, S. (PI);
Coughlan, S. (GP)
ANTHRO 451:
Directed Individual Study
Supervised work for a qualifying paper, examination, or project with an individual faculty member.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-15
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors: ;
Befu, H. (PI);
Bird, D. (PI);
Bird, R. (PI);
Brown, M. (PI);
Codding, B. (PI);
Coll, K. (PI);
Curran, L. (PI);
Domanska, E. (PI);
Durham, W. (PI);
Ebron, P. (PI);
Ferguson, J. (PI);
Fox, J. (PI);
Garcia, A. (PI);
Hansen, T. (PI);
Hodder, I. (PI);
Hunt, C. (PI);
Inoue, M. (PI);
Jain, S. (PI);
Jobin, M. (PI);
Jones, J. (PI);
Klein, R. (PI);
Kohrman, M. (PI);
Kunanbaeva, A. (PI);
Lee, S. (PI);
Luhrmann, T. (PI);
Maguire, M. (PI);
Malkki, L. (PI);
Marciniak, A. (PI);
Meskell, L. (PI);
Rick, J. (PI);
Robertson, I. (PI);
Salkeld, D. (PI);
Thiranagama, S. (PI);
Voss, B. (PI);
Wilcox, M. (PI);
Wolf, A. (PI);
Yanagisako, S. (PI);
Coughlan, S. (GP)
ANTHRO 452:
Graduate Internship
Provides graduate students with the opportunity to pursue their area of specialization in an institutional setting such as a laboratory, clinic, research institute, or government agency.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 3-5
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors: ;
Befu, H. (PI);
Bird, D. (PI);
Bird, R. (PI);
Brown, M. (PI);
Codding, B. (PI);
Coll, K. (PI);
Curran, L. (PI);
Domanska, E. (PI);
Durham, W. (PI);
Ebron, P. (PI);
Ferguson, J. (PI);
Fox, J. (PI);
Garcia, A. (PI);
Hansen, T. (PI);
Hodder, I. (PI);
Hunt, C. (PI);
Inoue, M. (PI);
Jain, S. (PI);
Jobin, M. (PI);
Jones, J. (PI);
Klein, R. (PI);
Kohrman, M. (PI);
Kunanbaeva, A. (PI);
Luhrmann, T. (PI);
Maguire, M. (PI);
Malkki, L. (PI);
Marciniak, A. (PI);
McDermott, R. (PI);
Meskell, L. (PI);
Rick, J. (PI);
Robertson, I. (PI);
Salkeld, D. (PI);
Thiranagama, S. (PI);
Voss, B. (PI);
Wilcox, M. (PI);
Yanagisako, S. (PI);
Coughlan, S. (GP)
ANTHRO 55A:
Introduction to Archaeobotany (ARCHLGY 55)
The aim of this course is to provide a short introduction to archaeobotany. An overview of types of archaeobotanical remains will include an examination of macrobotanical remains (seeds, charcoal), microfossil remains (starch, pollen, phytoliths) and molecular remains (aDNA, isotopes). The ways in which various types of plant remains have been used will be discussed through case studies. Major debates that archaeobotanical research has shed light on, including the origins of agriculture and issues around domestication will also be examined. Some practical work will allow students to gain familiarity with botanical nomenclature and some archaeobotanical protocols and plant identification techniques.Students will look at microfossil residues from local grinding slabs and write a short paper on the residues recovered. They will also look at seed remains from either Chinese or local flotation samples using microscopes in the lab.
| Units: 5
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 0
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors: ;
Befu, H. (PI);
Beliso-DeJesus, A. (PI);
Bird, D. (PI);
Bird, R. (PI);
Brown, M. (PI);
Codding, B. (PI);
Coll, K. (PI);
Curran, L. (PI);
Domanska, E. (PI);
Durham, W. (PI);
Ebron, P. (PI);
Ferguson, J. (PI);
Fox, J. (PI);
Garcia, A. (PI);
Hansen, T. (PI);
Hodder, I. (PI);
Hunt, C. (PI);
Inoue, M. (PI);
Jain, S. (PI);
Jobin, M. (PI);
Jones, J. (PI);
Klein, R. (PI);
Kohrman, M. (PI);
Kunanbaeva, A. (PI);
Luhrmann, T. (PI);
Malkki, L. (PI);
Marciniak, A. (PI);
Meskell, L. (PI);
Rick, J. (PI);
Robertson, I. (PI);
Salkeld, D. (PI);
Thiranagama, S. (PI);
Voss, B. (PI);
Wilcox, M. (PI);
Yanagisako, S. (PI);
Coughlan, S. (GP)
ANTHRO 802:
TGR Dissertation
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 0
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors: ;
Befu, H. (PI);
Bird, D. (PI);
Bird, R. (PI);
Brown, M. (PI);
Codding, B. (PI);
Coll, K. (PI);
Curran, L. (PI);
Domanska, E. (PI);
Durham, W. (PI);
Ebron, P. (PI);
Ferguson, J. (PI);
Fox, J. (PI);
Garcia, A. (PI);
Hansen, T. (PI);
Hodder, I. (PI);
Hublin, J. (PI);
Hunt, C. (PI);
Hunt, P. (PI);
Inoue, M. (PI);
Jain, S. (PI);
Jobin, M. (PI);
Jones, J. (PI);
Klein, R. (PI);
Kohrman, M. (PI);
Kunanbaeva, A. (PI);
Lee, S. (PI);
Luhrmann, T. (PI);
Malkki, L. (PI);
Marciniak, A. (PI);
Meskell, L. (PI);
Rick, J. (PI);
Robertson, I. (PI);
Salkeld, D. (PI);
Thiranagama, S. (PI);
Voss, B. (PI);
Wilcox, M. (PI);
Wolf, A. (PI);
Yanagisako, S. (PI);
Zeiderman, A. (PI);
Coughlan, S. (GP)
ANTHRO 90D:
Social Theory in the Anthropological Sciences
Required of majors. Foundational course in the history of social theory in anthropology from the late 19th century to the present. Major approaches to human culture and society: symbolic, social, material, and psychological. Questions about the role of theory in anthropology and how it can be applied to human issues. (HEF IV)
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
ANTHRO 98B:
Digital Methods in Archaeology (ANTHRO 298B)
This is a course on digital technologies in archaeology used for documentation, visualization, and analysis of archaeological spaces and objects. Emphasizes hands-on approaches to image manipulation, virtual reality, GIS, CAD, and photogrammetry modeling methods.
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-EngrAppSci
ANTHRO 98F:
Field School Training Workshop
Provides students important preparatory orientation to anthropology as well as the methods, ethics, and logistics of the specific field school each student will be attending in the summer.
| Units: 1-3
ANTHRO 105:
Ancient Cities in the New World (ANTHRO 205)
Preindustrial urbanism as exemplified by prehispanic New World societies. Case studies: the central and southern highlands of Mesoamerica, and the Maya region. Comparative material from highland S. America.
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
ANTHRO 109:
Archaeology: World Cultural Heritage (ANTHRO 209)
Focus is on issues dealing with rights to land and the past on a global scale including conflicts and ethnic purges in the Middle East, the Balkans, Afghanistan, India, Australia, and the Americas. How should world cultural heritage be managed? Who defines what past and which sites and monuments should be saved and protected? Are existing international agreements adequate? How can tourism be balanced against indigenous rights and the protection of the past?
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
ANTHRO 110A:
Neandertals and Modern Humans: Origin, Evolution, Interactions (ANTHRO 210A)
The expansion out of Africa of our species represents the last spectacular step in the course of Human Evolution. It resulted in the colonization of the whole planet and the replacement of archaic forms of humans in Eurasia. One way to investigate why Homo sapiens has been such a successful species is to compare its evolution with that of its closest relative, the Neandertals. Exploring the bio-cultural processes at work in the two lineages leads to examine some of the main issues in Paleoanthropology and the most recent methodological advances in the field.
| Units: 3
ANTHRO 113:
Faunal Analysis: Animal Remains for the Archaeologist (ANTHRO 213, BIO 166, BIO 266)
The analysis of fossil animal bones and shells to illuminate the behavior and ecology of prehistoric collectors, especially ancient humans. Theoretical and methodoloigcal issues. The identification, counting, and measuring of fossil bones and shells. Labs. Methods of numerical analysis.
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 117A:
Conservation Medicine in Practice (HUMBIO 117)
Examination of the interconnectedness of the environment and human and animal health. Investigation of the `One World-One Health' paradigm, by examining issues such as climate change and human health, ecological perturbation and infectious diseases, and the importance of new conceptual approaches to combat disease emergence and spread. Seminars, from experts working in government, NGOs, public health, medicine and academia, will emphasize the importance of inter-disciplinary approaches (medicine, epidemiology, anthropology, ecology, environmental science) in understanding health scenarios, and also upon the importance of using science and policy to improve public health.
| Units: 4
ANTHRO 121:
Language and Prehistory (ANTHRO 221)
Language classification and its implications for human prehistory. The role of linguistic data in analyzing prehistoric populations, cultures, contact, and migrations. Comparison of linguistic and biological classifications. Reconstruction, proto-vocabularies, and culture. Archaeological decipherment and the origins and evolution of writing. Archaeological and genetic evidence for human migrations. (DA-A; HEF II,III)
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom
ANTHRO 123:
Readings in Linguistic Anthropology (ANTHRO 223)
One or two major related works on language in its cultural context. Works for 2007-08 involve attempts to correlate linguistic and non-linguistic data for analysis of prehistoric human contact and migrations. May be repeated for credit.
| Units: 2
| Repeatable
for credit
ANTHRO 124:
Maya Mythology and the Popol Vuh
The mythology and folklore of the ancient Maya, emphasizing the relationship between the 16th-century Quiché Maya mythological epic Popol Vuh (Book of the Council) and classic lowland Maya art, architecture, religion, and politics. General Mesoamerican mythology. Anthropological and other theories of mythology. Class participates in the creation of a web project on the Popol Vuh.
| Units: 3-5
ANTHRO 127:
City and Sounds
How do people experience modern cities and urban public cultures through auditory channels? How does sound mediate and constitute urban space? How to listen to and write about culture through sound. Students carry out narrative interviews and sound fieldwork in the Bay Area. Readings include urban anthropology, semiotics, art history, social studies of science and technology, media studies, and musicology.
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 127A:
Cities and the Future: Utopias, Dystopias, and Other Urbanisms to Come
What sort of futures are being imagined for the cities of the twenty-first century? An interdisciplinary seminar, this course will critically analyze how the future of cities, and the cities of the future, are being thought about and acted upon in the present. It is designed for graduate students and advanced undergraduates with experience in the social sciences and humanities and who also have a keen interest in urban studies. Its primary objective is to develop sophisticated ways of thinking about the future of cities, since doing so has real significance for the kind of city we want to, and eventually will, ourselves inhabit.
| Units: 3
ANTHRO 130A:
Interpreting Space and Place: An Introduction to Mapmaking
How mapmaking, geographical information systems (GIS), and spatial tools can be applied in social research. Qualitative and quantitative approaches in the use of geospatial information. Methodologies and case examples.
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 130B:
Introduction to GIS in Anthropology (ANTHRO 230B)
How GIS and spatial tools can be applied in social research. Case studies and student projects address questions of social and cultural relevance using real data sets, including the collection of geospatial data and building of spatial evidence. Analytical approaches and how they can shape a social and cultural interpretation of space and place.
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 131:
The Politics of Humanitarianism (ANTHRO 231)
Anthropological approaches to contemporary practices of humanitarian intervention. How social theory can inform the politics of humanitarianism, charity, and philanthropy. Focus is on Africa from the colonial era to the present.
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
ANTHRO 135:
Cultural Studies
Identity, community, and culture; their interactions and formation.
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
ANTHRO 135A:
The Anthropology of Security (ANTHRO 235A)
This seminar begins by outlining the main theoretical and empirical challenges in the areas of surveillance studies and security studies. The seminar provides a space wherein students will be able to discuss these inter-disciplinary areas and develop their own Anthropology-informed perspectives. The seminar then discusses the work of Anthropologists who through their ethnographic and theoretical work have helped developed and important and emergent area: ¿The Anthropology of Security¿. Areas covered include, inter alia, national security, security and war, biometrics, gated-ness, and environmental and bio-security threats.
| Units: 3-5
ANTHRO 135I:
CSRE House Seminar: Race and Ethnicity at Stanford (CSRE 135I)
Race, ethnicity, gender, and religion using the tools, analytical skills and concepts developed by anthropologists.
| Units: 1-2
ANTHRO 140A:
Ethnographic Archaeologies (ANTHRO 240A, ARCHLGY 137)
How have ethnographic and archaeological methods been combined in anthropological research? What methodological and theoretical implications do these kinds of projects generate? Seminar topics will include ethnoarchaeology, ethnographies of archaeological practice, public archaeology and heritage ethics. Lecture and discussion.
| Units: 4-5
ANTHRO 146:
Car Culture (STS 150)
Since at least the 50s, the U.S. has been notorious as a nation in love with the car. An examination of this premise, analyzing new methods of production brought by automobile manufacture, how automobiles shaped urban growth, debates about pollution and environmental degradation, and debates around auto safety. How the car has influenced American practices including courting, eating out, and suburban living.
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 152A:
Urban Poverty and Inequality in Contemporary China
Experiences of poverty and inequality and their relationship to gender, space development, post-socialism, and globalization. How processes of class-making in China's cities are bound up with transformations in the country's sociopolitcal landscape.
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 153A:
Japan's Minorities (ANTHRO 253A)
Cultural and social history of Japan since WWII. Falling birth rates, changing family structure, decreasing and then increasing divorce rates, coping with societal aging, expansion of higher education, solving new educational problems, increasing variability of work situation, introduction of foreign workers. Attention to the legacy of Tokugawa and pre-war Japan as antecedent to postwar developments.
| Units: 3-5
ANTHRO 162:
Indigenous Peoples and Environmental Problems (ANTHRO 262)
The social and cultural consequences of contemporary environmental problems. The impact of market economies, development efforts, and conservation projects on indigenous peoples, emphasizing Latin America. The role of indigenous grass roots organizations in combating environmental destruction and degradation of homeland areas.
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom
ANTHRO 163:
Conservation and Evolutionary Ecology (ANTHRO 263)
Environmental degradation resulting from human behavior, and what can be done about it. Patterns of interaction between people and environments, and why they vary over time and space. Topics include adaptation and behavior, resource acquisition and utilization, conflicts of interest, collective action problems, conspicuous consumption, waste, land management, and public policy.
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
ANTHRO 164A:
Anthropology of Ecotourism
Ecotourism has been touted as a win-win scenario for both biodiversity conservation and the well-being of local residents. In practice, these lofty ideals of ecotourism have proven difficult to implement. The rapid development of ecotourism over the last two decades. Focus is on the scholarly literature relating to ecotourism from both supporting and critical perspectives.
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 164B:
Anthropology of Tourism
As ¿the largest scale movement of goods, services, and people that humanity has ever seen,¿ tourism is an immense phenomenon and is currently the world¿s most immense industry, reaching some of the most remote people and places on the planet. Yet scholars have only begun to focus on the topic in recent decades. This seminar-style course will focus on the key anthropological and social science literature relating to tourism from both supporting and critical perspectives; however, tourism is an inherently multi-disciplinary subject and students from all disciplines are encouraged to enroll. After providing an initial overview of this phenomenon and field of study, later sections of the course will focus on emerging sub-types of tourism including sustainable tourism, ecotourism, agritourism, and geotourism to name just a few.
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 165:
Parks and Peoples: The Benefits and Costs of Protected Area Conservation
Seminar. Emphasis is on the social impact of parks and reserves. Integrated conservation and development projects (ICDPs) based on protected areas; alternative ways to derive local social benefits from them. Cases include Yellowstone, Manu, Galápagos, Ngorongoro, and Guanacaste.
| Units: 5
| Repeatable
for credit
ANTHRO 165A:
People and Parks: Management of Protected Areas
As resources become scarcer, parks increasingly serve as ideological battlegrounds for contested core human values and often put livelihoods at stake. Their historical development and the complex array of present-day issues associated with the formal protection of biodiversity. The ideas behind parks and the evolution of these ideas.
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 168A:
Risky Environments: The Nature of Disaster (ANTHRO 268A)
This seminar explores topics including environmental movements and countercultures, human agency and geoengineering ecotourism, and indigenous perspectives of changing climates to query how humans view `nature¿ in terms of stability, instability, risk and disaster in the 21st century. Case studies draw upon a broad range of geographical regions including the Arctic, Iceland, Australia, and the Americas. Discussions will draw upon film portrayals and interviews with researchers in addition to readings.
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 172:
Seminar on Cultural Evolution and Coevolution (ANTHRO 272)
Upper division/graduate seminar on recent approaches to the study of cultural evolution and coevolution. Critical evaluation of Darwinian and non-Darwinian theories, with special attention to the interplay of culture, genes, environment and society. Students will undertake projects of their own design to review, test, or improve current theoretical formulations. Prerequisite: a university-level course in evolution, ecology, or human behavioral biology.
| Units: 3-5
| Repeatable
1 times
(up to 5 units total)
ANTHRO 173:
Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change: Resilence, Vulnerability, and Environmental Justice (HUMBIO 111)
The complexity of social and political issues surrounding global environmental change. Emphasis is on synergies precipitated by human-induced climatic change. Case studies and scenarios to explore the vulnerability and resilience in households, communities, regions, and nationmstates most affected by extreme weather conditions. Their concerns, livelihood changes, and diverse responses of rural smallholders, indigenous communities, the state, and local and regional migrants. Central theme is environmental justice.
| Units: 3
ANTHRO 174:
Beginnings of Social Complexity (ANTHRO 274)
Models and examples of the social evolution of stratification and political centralization in prehistoric human societies. Inferences from the archaeological record concerning the forces and mechanisms behind the rise and fall of complex societies, particularly in S. America. (HEF II; DA-B)
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 179:
Cultures of Disease: Cancer
History, politics, science, and anthropology of cancer; political and economic issues of disease and health care in the U.S., including the ethics and economics of health care provision, the pharmaceutical industry, carcinogen production, and research priorities.
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 184:
Spirituality and Healing (HUMBIO 179S)
The puzzle of symbolic healing. How have societies without the resources of modern medicine approached healing? Why do these rituals have common features around the world? Shamanism, spirit possession, prayer, and the role of placebos in modern biomedicine. Students do ethnographic work and practical explorations along with more traditional scholarly approaches to learning.
| Units: 3-5
ANTHRO 185A:
Race and Biomedicine (ASNAMST 185A)
Race, identity, culture, biology, and political power in biomedicine. Biological theories of racial ordering, sexuality and the medicalization of group difference. Sources include ethnography, film, and biomedical literature. Topics include colonial history and medicine, the politics of racial categorization in biomedical research, the protection of human subjects and research ethics, immigration health and citizenship, race-based models in health disparities research and policy, and recent developments in human genetic variation research.
| Units: 3-5
ANTHRO 205:
Ancient Cities in the New World (ANTHRO 105)
Preindustrial urbanism as exemplified by prehispanic New World societies. Case studies: the central and southern highlands of Mesoamerica, and the Maya region. Comparative material from highland S. America.
| Units: 3-5
ANTHRO 206:
Human Origins (ANTHRO 6, HUMBIO 6)
The human fossil record from the first non-human primates in the late Cretaceous or early Paleocene, 80-65 million years ago, to the anatomically modern people in the late Pleistocene, between 100,000 to 50,000 B.C.E. Emphasis is on broad evolutionary trends and the natural selective forces behind them.
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 209:
Archaeology: World Cultural Heritage (ANTHRO 109)
Focus is on issues dealing with rights to land and the past on a global scale including conflicts and ethnic purges in the Middle East, the Balkans, Afghanistan, India, Australia, and the Americas. How should world cultural heritage be managed? Who defines what past and which sites and monuments should be saved and protected? Are existing international agreements adequate? How can tourism be balanced against indigenous rights and the protection of the past?
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 210:
Examining Ethnographies
Eight or nine important ethnographies, including their construction, their impact, and their faults and virtues.
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 210A:
Neandertals and Modern Humans: Origin, Evolution, Interactions (ANTHRO 110A)
The expansion out of Africa of our species represents the last spectacular step in the course of Human Evolution. It resulted in the colonization of the whole planet and the replacement of archaic forms of humans in Eurasia. One way to investigate why Homo sapiens has been such a successful species is to compare its evolution with that of its closest relative, the Neandertals. Exploring the bio-cultural processes at work in the two lineages leads to examine some of the main issues in Paleoanthropology and the most recent methodological advances in the field.
| Units: 3
ANTHRO 210B:
Critical Theory and The Environment (AMSTUD 210, MTL 210)
Critical theoretical approaches (such as cultural studies, Marxism, postcolonial theory, cultural geography, feminism, and science studies) have generally been underutilized as methodologies for grappling with environmental situations, yet they hold much promise for addressing their complexity. This course asks: How does critical theory about the environment construe the current situation? What kinds of political or technological solutions do these theories call for or imply? The first half of the seminar introduces critical approaches and methodologies in relation to the environment. In the second section, we will use a variety of theoretical approaches to address environmental justice, water, agriculture, toxics, and animals.
| Units: 3-5
ANTHRO 213:
Faunal Analysis: Animal Remains for the Archaeologist (ANTHRO 113, BIO 166, BIO 266)
The analysis of fossil animal bones and shells to illuminate the behavior and ecology of prehistoric collectors, especially ancient humans. Theoretical and methodoloigcal issues. The identification, counting, and measuring of fossil bones and shells. Labs. Methods of numerical analysis.
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 221:
Language and Prehistory (ANTHRO 121)
Language classification and its implications for human prehistory. The role of linguistic data in analyzing prehistoric populations, cultures, contact, and migrations. Comparison of linguistic and biological classifications. Reconstruction, proto-vocabularies, and culture. Archaeological decipherment and the origins and evolution of writing. Archaeological and genetic evidence for human migrations. (DA-A; HEF II,III)
| Units: 3-5
ANTHRO 223:
Readings in Linguistic Anthropology (ANTHRO 123)
One or two major related works on language in its cultural context. Works for 2007-08 involve attempts to correlate linguistic and non-linguistic data for analysis of prehistoric human contact and migrations. May be repeated for credit.
| Units: 2
| Repeatable
for credit
ANTHRO 230B:
Introduction to GIS in Anthropology (ANTHRO 130B)
How GIS and spatial tools can be applied in social research. Case studies and student projects address questions of social and cultural relevance using real data sets, including the collection of geospatial data and building of spatial evidence. Analytical approaches and how they can shape a social and cultural interpretation of space and place.
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 231:
The Politics of Humanitarianism (ANTHRO 131)
Anthropological approaches to contemporary practices of humanitarian intervention. How social theory can inform the politics of humanitarianism, charity, and philanthropy. Focus is on Africa from the colonial era to the present.
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 235A:
The Anthropology of Security (ANTHRO 135A)
This seminar begins by outlining the main theoretical and empirical challenges in the areas of surveillance studies and security studies. The seminar provides a space wherein students will be able to discuss these inter-disciplinary areas and develop their own Anthropology-informed perspectives. The seminar then discusses the work of Anthropologists who through their ethnographic and theoretical work have helped developed and important and emergent area: ¿The Anthropology of Security¿. Areas covered include, inter alia, national security, security and war, biometrics, gated-ness, and environmental and bio-security threats.
| Units: 3-5
ANTHRO 240A:
Ethnographic Archaeologies (ANTHRO 140A, ARCHLGY 137)
How have ethnographic and archaeological methods been combined in anthropological research? What methodological and theoretical implications do these kinds of projects generate? Seminar topics will include ethnoarchaeology, ethnographies of archaeological practice, public archaeology and heritage ethics. Lecture and discussion.
| Units: 4-5
ANTHRO 245A:
Evolutionary Theory in Archaeology
The ability of scientific evolutionary theory to explain human behavior as represented in the archaeological record. Past attempts to apply evolutionary theory in archaeology are compared to more recent Darwinian efforts, as are current evolutionary approaches to human behavior in related fields. The ontological underpinnings and methodological requirements of a Darwinian archaeology and its potential contribution to archaeology as an explanatory system. (HEF I)
| Units: 3-5
ANTHRO 253A:
Japan's Minorities (ANTHRO 153A)
Cultural and social history of Japan since WWII. Falling birth rates, changing family structure, decreasing and then increasing divorce rates, coping with societal aging, expansion of higher education, solving new educational problems, increasing variability of work situation, introduction of foreign workers. Attention to the legacy of Tokugawa and pre-war Japan as antecedent to postwar developments.
| Units: 3-5
ANTHRO 262:
Indigenous Peoples and Environmental Problems (ANTHRO 162)
The social and cultural consequences of contemporary environmental problems. The impact of market economies, development efforts, and conservation projects on indigenous peoples, emphasizing Latin America. The role of indigenous grass roots organizations in combating environmental destruction and degradation of homeland areas.
| Units: 3-5
ANTHRO 263:
Conservation and Evolutionary Ecology (ANTHRO 163)
Environmental degradation resulting from human behavior, and what can be done about it. Patterns of interaction between people and environments, and why they vary over time and space. Topics include adaptation and behavior, resource acquisition and utilization, conflicts of interest, collective action problems, conspicuous consumption, waste, land management, and public policy.
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 268A:
Risky Environments: The Nature of Disaster (ANTHRO 168A)
This seminar explores topics including environmental movements and countercultures, human agency and geoengineering ecotourism, and indigenous perspectives of changing climates to query how humans view `nature¿ in terms of stability, instability, risk and disaster in the 21st century. Case studies draw upon a broad range of geographical regions including the Arctic, Iceland, Australia, and the Americas. Discussions will draw upon film portrayals and interviews with researchers in addition to readings.
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 272:
Seminar on Cultural Evolution and Coevolution (ANTHRO 172)
Upper division/graduate seminar on recent approaches to the study of cultural evolution and coevolution. Critical evaluation of Darwinian and non-Darwinian theories, with special attention to the interplay of culture, genes, environment and society. Students will undertake projects of their own design to review, test, or improve current theoretical formulations. Prerequisite: a university-level course in evolution, ecology, or human behavioral biology.
| Units: 3-5
| Repeatable
1 times
(up to 5 units total)
ANTHRO 274:
Beginnings of Social Complexity (ANTHRO 174)
Models and examples of the social evolution of stratification and political centralization in prehistoric human societies. Inferences from the archaeological record concerning the forces and mechanisms behind the rise and fall of complex societies, particularly in S. America. (HEF II; DA-B)
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 298B:
Digital Methods in Archaeology (ANTHRO 98B)
This is a course on digital technologies in archaeology used for documentation, visualization, and analysis of archaeological spaces and objects. Emphasizes hands-on approaches to image manipulation, virtual reality, GIS, CAD, and photogrammetry modeling methods.
| Units: 3-5
ANTHRO 304:
Data Analysis for Quantitative Research
Univariate, multivariate, and graphical methods used for analyzing quantitative data in anthropological research. Archaeological and paleobiological examples. Recommended: algebra. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 307:
Archaeological Methods and Research Design
Methodological aspects of field and laboratory practice from traditional archaeological methods to the latest interdisciplinary analytical techniques. The nature of archaeological data and inference; interpretive potential of these techniques. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 309:
Advanced Evolutionary Theory in Anthropological Sciences
History of evolutionary theory from the 19th century to present, emphasizing anthropological applications. Theory and concept in evolutionary biology; evolutionary theories of culture; and interactions of genetic, social, and cultural evolution and their implications. Emphasis is on tools of analysis and the value of evolutionary thinking for formulating research questions in anthropology today. Prerequisite: graduate standing or consent of instructor. (HEF II, III)
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 310C:
Intersections
Themes of materiality and visuality, aesthetic and other forms of cultural production, and the meanings of creativity and convention. Ethnographic and archaeological material and case studies from worldwide cultural contexts. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 311:
Ethnographic Writing
For graduate students writing or planning to write a dissertation using ethnographic methods. The choices made by the authors of ethnographies in constructing an argument, using data and speaking to an audience of readers. Readings include chapters written by class members currently writing dissertations. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
| Units: 3-5
ANTHRO 319:
South Asia: History, People, Politics
The South Asian subcontinent (comprising of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan and Sri Lanka) is one of the most diverse and densely populated regions in the world and increasingly prominent in new global political and cultural economies. South Asia has also provided the inspiration for cutting edge theories about the colonial state, postcolonial studies, democracy, popular culture, and religious conflict. The course will provide an overview of major historical events and social trends in contemporary South Asia and focus on themes such as gender, religion, caste, migration and movement, new technologies, the urban and rural, the state, and new forms of consumption among others.Thus, the course will give students historically and theoretically informed perspectives on contemporary South Asia, as well as how to apply insights learned to larger debates within the political and social sciences. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 321:
Reading Marx, Reading Weber
This advanced graduate seminar is devoted to a critical reading of selected writings by two nineteenth century social theorists who continue to shape anthropology and social analysis more broadly. Prerequisites: Graduate standing in Anthropology or permission of the instructor. Previous graduate level coursework in cultural or social anthropology, social theory or cultural studies is required. No auditing is permitted. Maximum enrollment 12.
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 322:
From Biopolitics to Necropolitics and Beyond
Scholarship produced and informed by Michel Foucault. Focus is on the final period of Foucault¿s life; how his discussions of biopolitics, subjectification, governmentality, and death have served as touchstones for recent empirical research. Key interventions initially made under these rubrics; how anthropologists and others have applied, challenged, and extended them. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 324:
Political Anthropology
An anthropological approach to politics through bringing anthropological ways of thinking and modes of analysis to bear on key presuppositions of modern Western political thought. Ideas of rights, the individual, society, liberty, democracy, equality, and solidarity; ethnographic accounts used to identify the limits of conventional analytical approaches and to document the forms of politics that such approaches either ignore or misunderstand. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 326:
Postcolonial and Indigenous Archaeologies
The role of postcolonial and Indigenous archaeologies as emergeant disciplinary activities within contemporary society. Community based archaeologies; the roles of oral history, landscape, and memory; archaeology as political action; and history in archaeological projects. The emergence of Indigenous archaeology within N. America in relation to limitations imposed by processual or new archaeology; and NAGPRA, Kennewick, essentialism, and terminal narratives within this context. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 327:
Language and Political Economy
Theories of language: Saussure, Jakobson, Hymes, Marx, Foucault, Butler, and Derrida. The theorization of language in its linkages to power, social relations, and history. Prerequisites: Linguistics or Anthropology course work. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 331:
The Anthropology of Technology
Iconic discipline-building works of the last three decades; readings that lay out and intervene in contemporary debates. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 331A:
Ecology, Evolution, and Human Health (ANTHRO 31)
Ecology, Evolution, and Human Health Human ecology, environments, adaptation and plasticity, and their relationship to health and well-being considered in the broad comparative context. Topics include human population history, subsistence ecology, demography, reproductive decision making, urbanization, migration, infectious disease, the physiology of stress and the inflammatory response, social capital and social networks, nutrition, nutritional deficiencies, growth, and social inequalities. No prior course work in ecological or medical anthropology required.
| Units: 3-5
ANTHRO 333A:
The Cultural Politics of Ambiguity
Contemporary conceptual approaches to understanding the politics and production of certainty, ambiguity, and doubt. The seemingly ambiguous nature of the science of industrial pollution and contamination exonerate corporate and government polluters from rising rates of cancer, while the science of liberal economic models seems to create no alternative to massive economic subsidies of the financial sector. How culpability, exoneration, transformative action, institutional stasis, and political rely on the production of certainty, ambiguity, and doubt. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 334:
Trauma and Healing
This course considers class and recent work on culture and psychiatry with an emphasis on trauma. We consider work on the main diagnostic categories like depression and schizophrenia, but also the work on dissociation, war combat, PTSD, and psychosis.
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 336:
Anthropology of Rights
Ideas of rights at the center of contemporary politics around the world. An anthropological perspective on how rights are invoked, claimed, and translated into institutional policies in ethnographic cases. The limitations of liberal notions of rights and innovative forms of politics emerging within and against rights talk. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 337:
The Politics of Humanitarianism
What does it mean to want to help, to organize humanitarian aid, in times of crisis? At first glance, the impulse to help issui generis a good one. Helping is surely preferable to indifference and inaction. This does not mean that humanitarian interventions entail no ethical ot political stakes ¿ or that they are beyond engaged critique. We need to critique precisely that which we value, and to ask some hard questions, among them these: What are the differences among humanitarianism, charity, and philanthropy? What of social obligations and solidarities? How does the neoliberal world order currently create structural inequalities that ensure the reproduction of poverty and violence? How does the current order of things resemble or differ from the colonial world order? This course examines the history of humanitarian sensibilities and the emergence of organized action in the ¿cause of humanity¿. In the early years of humanitarian intervention, political neutrality was a key principle; it has now come under ever greater analytical and political scrutiny. We will examine the reasons for the politicization and militarization of aid -- be it humanitarian aid in natural disasters or political crises; development programs in the impoverished south (¿the Third World¿), or peace-keeping. We will end with a critical exploration of the concept of human rights, humanity, and personhood. The overall methodological aim of the course is to demonstrate what insights an ethnographic approach to the politics, ethics, and aesthetics of humanitarianism can offer.
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 338:
Anthropological Approaches to Religion
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 339:
Anthropology of Religion
This course presents classic and contemporary work on the anthropology of religion: Durkheim Elementary Forms of the Religious Life; Levy-Bruhl; Primitive Mentality; Douglas Purity and Danger; Evans Pritchard Nuer Religion; and recent ethnographies/scholarly work by Robbins, Keane, Keller, Boyer, Barrett, and others.
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 343:
Culture as Commodity
Focus is on theories of commodification, interests in tourism, national cultures as marketable objects, and how identities are constituted through production and consumption. The formation of global style and taste. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 344:
Graphic Medicine
In this course students will study medical cultures through visual communication ranging from x-rays and PET scans to graphic novels. Course will also include literature on visual theory.
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 345:
New Visions in Medical Anthropology
Recent experimental histories of the field. Emphasis is on how, working within anthropology's classic format, the ethnographic monograph, authors have innovatively responded to the challenges of representing amorphous, unspoken, and often violent relationships between the body and social change. The authors' expository techniques, and how they engage and extend theoretical debate. How to assess works within medical anthropology and its allied fields. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 346A:
Sexuality Studies in Anthropology
Current research on sexuality from perspectives including paleoanthropology, archaeology, ethnography, and linguistic anthropology. Readings paired with case studies that explore theoretical and methodological issues. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 349:
Anthropology of Capitalism
Issues in cultural theory and methodology through research on people who have greater material and cultural resources than those usually studied by anthropologists. How ideas about ideology, hegemony, identity, power, and practice are altered in studying those considered to be agents of power rather than the subaltern. Topics: global capitalism, masculinity, white racial subjectivity. Enrollment limited to 20. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 352:
Foucault: The Question of Method
Foucault as methodological exemplar for historical and social research. Emphasis is on his historical studies of clinical medicine, prisons, and sexuality, and on applying his methods to empirical studies of topics such as colonialism, race, and liberal governmental rationality.
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 355:
Cities in Global Perspective
Interdisciplinary approach to examining global cities. The concept of the global city, and the interdependent processes that help produce urban spaces. Situating the transformation of urban spaces within globalization and its differential effects; current explanatory frameworks that pay attention to multiple scales of spatial and economic articulation. Prerequisite: graduate standing.
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 356:
The Anthropology of Development
Multidisciplinary. Topics vary annually. Areas include Africa, S. Asia, and Latin America. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 357:
Other Minds: Puzzles in Psychiatric and Psychological Anthropology
Problems in the way anthropologists explore other minds anthropologically and the ways in which anthropologists seek to understand the models of other minds held by the people observed. Topics include theory of mind, witchcraft, belief, empathy, psychosis, trauma, Freud, Vygotsky, and cognitive dissonance. Prerequisite: consent of instructor. Under grads cannot take this class without permission of the instructor.
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 362:
Human Spatial Dynamics: Seminar in Communicating Contemporary Science
This seminar is designed to bring together all students and faculty currently working on issues related to human use of land and spatially defined resources. The focus is to provide a forum for reporting on recent results and question development, providing students with vital skills in designing and communicating the results of research. Under grads by permission of instructor.
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 364:
EcoGroup: Current Topics in Ecological, Evolutionary, and Environmental Anthropology
Seminar; restricted to graduate students. Topics vary with instructor. How to ask appropriate questions, how to derive research hypotheses from theory, how to design methodologies for testing hypotheses, and how to present results by reading and critiquing key contemporary papers in the field. Ph.D. students enrolling in this course to fulfill the department review course requirement must enroll in 5 units. Graduate students enrolling in this course to participate in a topical forum may enroll in 2 units. Course may be repeated for 2 units. Prerequisites: by consent of instructor.
| Units: 5
| Repeatable
for credit
ANTHRO 365:
The Theory of the Modern Subject
This course traces the emergence of a coherent theory of the modern subject through readings of philosophical works and social theory from 18th century to the 20th century.
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 370:
Advanced Theory and Method in Historical Archaeology
Current debates about theory and method. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 373:
Things: An Archaeology of the Relationships Between Humans and Things
This course examines a variety of approaches that claim to explore the relationships between humans and things. Some of the approaches include Marx and material culture studies; Heidegger; cognitive and phenomenological; Actor Network Theory. But there is a need also to examine behavioral and ecological and Darwinian approaches. Many of these approaches do not adequately deal with the physicality of things as objects and there is a need to seek a way to incorporate such aspects of things into social theory.
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 374:
Archaeology of Colonialism/Postcolonialisms
Advanced graduate seminar focused on the archaeology of colonial and postcolonial contexts, both prehistoric and historic. Emphasis on intersections between archaeological research and and subaltern, postcolonial, and transnational feminist/queer theory. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 375:
Archaeology and Globalism
The emergence of archaeology as a discipline in the context of the rise of the nation state. Global economies and other issues have created a new context for archaeology. How are archaeology and heritage responding? The idea of world heritage. The impact of postcolonialism. The commodification of the past: the past as theme park, as travel tourism or nostalgia, as exotic and other. Conflict between uses of the past for identity and as theme park; between heritage and resource or play. The impact of the Goddess, New Age, and other movements. Archaeology and human rights issues including forensic archaeology. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
| Units: 4-5
ANTHRO 446A:
Method of Analysis Program in the Social Sciences (COMM 310)
Colloquium series. Creation and application of new methodological techniques for social science research. Presentations on methodologies of use for social scientists across departments at Stanford by guest speakers from Stanford and elsewhere. See http://mapss.stanford.edu.
| Units: 1
| Repeatable
for credit
