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: Win, Sum
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-A-II, WAY-SI
ANTHRO 3:
Introduction to Prehistoric Archaeology (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 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).
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
ANTHRO 6:
Human Origins (ANTHRO 206, BIO 106, 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.
Terms: Win
| Units: 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: 4
| UG Reqs: GER: DB-NatSci
ANTHRO 8N:
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: 3-4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
ANTHRO 10SC:
Darwin, Evolution, and Galapagos (HUMBIO 17SC)
Lessons from the study of flora and fauna in Galápagos from Darwin's time to today. Adaptation, sexual selection, speciation, and adaptive radiation. The challenges the Galapágos Islands pose for conservation.
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.
| 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
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.
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
ANTHRO 16N:
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.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
ANTHRO 18N:
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 Bhagvad Gita, the Zohar, and some ethnographies of non-literate traditions.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
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.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-AmerCul
ANTHRO 22N:
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 28:
Indigenous Australia
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: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
ANTHRO 71:
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.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
ANTHRO 82:
Medical Anthropology
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: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
ANTHRO 88:
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.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
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: Win
| 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: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
ANTHRO 91A:
Archaeological Methods (ANTHRO 291A, 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 91B:
Method and Evidence in Sociocultural Anthropology
Characteristic ways of collecting evidence and supporting arguments in sociocultural anthropology. How to evaluate ethnographic claims. Research activities such as interviewing, participant observation, tracking extended cases, inspecting archives, and reading popular culture.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 92:
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, Win
| Units: 1-3
| Repeatable
for credit
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.
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 95A:
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: ;
Ahmad, T. (PI);
Aldrich, C. (PI);
Barnett, C. (PI);
Befu, H. (PI);
Beliso-DeJesus, A. (PI);
Bird, D. (PI);
Bird, R. (PI);
Brown, M. (PI);
Burce, A. (PI);
Chua, J. (PI);
Contreras, D. (PI);
Costanzo, C. (PI);
DeGusta, D. (PI);
Domanska, E. (PI);
Duffey, C. (PI);
Durham, W. (PI);
Ebron, P. (PI);
Ferguson, J. (PI);
Fox, J. (PI);
Gibbs, J. (PI);
Glover, S. (PI);
Hodder, I. (PI);
Hubbard, L. (PI);
Inoue, M. (PI);
Irvine, D. (PI);
Jain, S. (PI);
Jones, J. (PI);
Karp-Toledo, E. (PI);
Klein, R. (PI);
Kohrman, M. (PI);
Kunanbaeva, A. (PI);
Lee, S. (PI);
Luhrmann, T. (PI);
Malkki, L. (PI);
McDermott, R. (PI);
Meskell, L. (PI);
Monroe, K. (PI);
Rick, J. (PI);
Robertson, I. (PI);
Romain, T. (PI);
Roque, A. (PI);
Ruhlen, M. (PI);
Truncer, J. (PI);
Voss, B. (PI);
Wilcox, M. (PI);
Yanagisako, S. (PI)
ANTHRO 95B:
Senior Paper
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: ;
Ahmad, T. (PI);
Aldrich, C. (PI);
Barnett, C. (PI);
Befu, H. (PI);
Beliso-DeJesus, A. (PI);
Bird, D. (PI);
Bird, R. (PI);
Brown, M. (PI);
Burce, A. (PI);
Chua, J. (PI);
Contreras, D. (PI);
Costanzo, C. (PI);
DeGusta, D. (PI);
Domanska, E. (PI);
Duffey, C. (PI);
Durham, W. (PI);
Ebron, P. (PI);
Ferguson, J. (PI);
Fox, J. (PI);
Gibbs, J. (PI);
Glover, S. (PI);
Hodder, I. (PI);
Hubbard, L. (PI);
Inoue, M. (PI);
Irvine, D. (PI);
Jain, S. (PI);
Jones, J. (PI);
Karp-Toledo, E. (PI);
Klein, R. (PI);
Kohrman, M. (PI);
Kunanbaeva, A. (PI);
Lee, S. (PI);
Luhrmann, T. (PI);
Malkki, L. (PI);
McDermott, R. (PI);
Meskell, L. (PI);
Monroe, K. (PI);
Rick, J. (PI);
Robertson, I. (PI);
Romain, T. (PI);
Roque, A. (PI);
Ruhlen, M. (PI);
Truncer, J. (PI);
Voss, B. (PI);
Wilcox, M. (PI);
Yanagisako, S. (PI)
ANTHRO 96:
Directed Individual Study
Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-15
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors: ;
Ahmad, T. (PI);
Aldrich, C. (PI);
Barnett, C. (PI);
Befu, H. (PI);
Beliso-DeJesus, A. (PI);
Bird, D. (PI);
Bird, R. (PI);
Brown, M. (PI);
Burce, A. (PI);
Chua, J. (PI);
Contreras, D. (PI);
Costanzo, C. (PI);
DeGusta, D. (PI);
Domanska, E. (PI);
Duffey, C. (PI);
Durham, W. (PI);
Ebron, P. (PI);
Ferguson, J. (PI);
Fox, J. (PI);
Gibbs, J. (PI);
Glover, S. (PI);
Hodder, I. (PI);
Hubbard, L. (PI);
Inoue, M. (PI);
Irvine, D. (PI);
Jain, S. (PI);
Jones, J. (PI);
Karp-Toledo, E. (PI);
Klein, R. (PI);
Kohrman, M. (PI);
Kunanbaeva, A. (PI);
Lee, S. (PI);
Luhrmann, T. (PI);
Malkki, L. (PI);
McDermott, R. (PI);
Meskell, L. (PI);
Monroe, K. (PI);
Rick, J. (PI);
Robertson, I. (PI);
Romain, T. (PI);
Roque, A. (PI);
Ruhlen, M. (PI);
Truncer, J. (PI);
Voss, B. (PI);
Wilcox, M. (PI);
Yanagisako, S. (PI)
ANTHRO 98:
Museum Methods
Individually directed work on anthropology collections. Introduction to the computerized storage and retrieval system, cataloging, exhibit techniques. May be taken for one or two quarters by arrangement with instructor.
Terms: Aut, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-4
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 8 units total)
Instructors: ;
Ahmad, T. (PI);
Aldrich, C. (PI);
Barnett, C. (PI);
Befu, H. (PI);
Beliso-DeJesus, A. (PI);
Bird, D. (PI);
Bird, R. (PI);
Brown, M. (PI);
Burce, A. (PI);
Chua, J. (PI);
Contreras, D. (PI);
Costanzo, C. (PI);
DeGusta, D. (PI);
Domanska, E. (PI);
Duffey, C. (PI);
Durham, W. (PI);
Ebron, P. (PI);
Ferguson, J. (PI);
Fox, J. (PI);
Gibbs, J. (PI);
Glover, S. (PI);
Hodder, I. (PI);
Hubbard, L. (PI);
Inoue, M. (PI);
Irvine, D. (PI);
Jain, S. (PI);
Jones, J. (PI);
Karp-Toledo, E. (PI);
Klein, R. (PI);
Kohrman, M. (PI);
Kunanbaeva, A. (PI);
Lee, S. (PI);
Luhrmann, T. (PI);
Malkki, L. (PI);
McDermott, R. (PI);
Meskell, L. (PI);
Monroe, K. (PI);
Rick, J. (PI);
Robertson, I. (PI);
Romain, T. (PI);
Roque, A. (PI);
Ruhlen, M. (PI);
Truncer, J. (PI);
Voss, B. (PI);
Wilcox, M. (PI);
Yanagisako, S. (PI)
ANTHRO 98E:
Catalhoyuk and Neolithic Archaeology (ANTHRO 298E)
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: 3-5
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.
Terms: Win
| 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
1 times
(up to 5 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 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)
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom
ANTHRO 103:
The Archaeology of Modern Urbanism (ANTHRO 203)
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 103A:
Past Human Environments (ANTHRO 203A, ARCHLGY 101B, ARCHLGY 301B)
Perspectives, methods, and data that archaeology brings to human/environment interaction issues such as environmental variability and change, sustainability, and human impacts. How to use paleoenvironmental data in archaeological research; how to recover and analyze such data to reconstruct human/environment interactions in prehistory.
| Units: 3-5
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.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
ANTHRO 105A:
Indigenous Peoples of South America and the Politics of Ethnicity (ANTHRO 205A)
Recent developments showing a growing empowerment of Indigenous peoples and increased participation in the construction of democratic processes. Challenges to traditional state institutions; new worldviews based on cultural identity and ethnicity. Recent debates about special rights regarding territoriality and natural resources and other claims formulated by indigenous organizations to improve governance and implement a new type of citizen based on self-determination and the reorganization of the actual nation states.
| Units: 3-5
ANTHRO 107A:
Ethnohistory in the Andean World: Inca State, Rebellions, and Resistance (ANTHRO 207A)
The formation and expansion of the Inca state as a large multiethnic confederation, interrupted by the arrival of the Spaniards. Negotiations and adaptations during the colonial period; the proliferation of survival strategies allowing indigenous peoples to maintain their social organization; indigenous rebellions to recuperate land, local spiritual values, and central government. Emphasis is on the indigenous perspective. Ethnographic and ethnohistoric documents and findings that reflect events and thoughts from the conquest to the 20th century.
| Units: 3-5
ANTHRO 113:
Fanual 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.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
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. Prerequisites: 3 or 6 or other instructor-approved archaeology course work.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
ANTHRO 120:
Introduction to Language Change (LINGUIST 160)
Principles of historical linguistics:, the nature of language change. Kinds and causes of change, variation and diffusion of changes through populations, differentiation of dialects and languages, determination and classification of historical relationships among languages, rates of change, the reconstruction of ancestral languages and intermediate changes, parallels with cultural and genetic evolutionary theory, and implications of variation and change for the description and explanation of language in general. Prerequisite: introductory course in linguistics or evolutionary theory.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
ANTHRO 123A:
Human Diversity: A Linguistic Perspective (HUMBIO 187)
The diversity and distribution of human language and its implications for the origin and evolution of the human species. The origin of existing languages and the people who speak them. Where did current world languages come from and how can this diversity be used to study human prehistory? Evidence from related fields such as archaeology and human genetics. Topics: the origin of the Indo-European languages, the peopling of the Americas, and evidence that all human languages share a common origin.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom
ANTHRO 126:
Cities in Comparative Perspective (URBANST 114)
Core course for Urban Studies majors. The city as interdisciplinary object. Discourses about cities such as the projects, practices, plans, representations, and sensibilities that combine to create what people know about urban spaces. Local, national, and transnational spatial scales. Conversations across regional boundaries; geographies of difference. Case studies.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
ANTHRO 127A:
Anthropology of Sound, Identity, and Place (MUSIC 152)
The ethnography of sound; challenges and opportunities in representing and interpreting the music, noise, and silence of human cultures. Readings include work that avoids, engages with, distorts, and celebrates sound. Goal is for the students to develop critical theories and techniques. Guest lecturer is MacArthur Fellow Steven Feld. Fieldwork includes making recordings; final project.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 129:
The Anthropology of Production and Consumption
Recent studies by anthropologists and scholars in related disciplines on global production chains and consumption practices. Theories and methods for integrating analysis of the cultural processes that shape the transnational production of commodities with analysis of the cultural practices that shape their consumption. Transnational production, distribution, and consumption of commodities. Sources include literature on the cultural production of commodities and their consumption. Prerequisite: course work in cultural anthropology. Recommended: ANTHRO 90.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
ANTHRO 13:
Bioarchaeology
The study of skeletal remains from archaeological contexts. Methods of bioarchaeology including taphonomy, paleodemographics, paleopathology, and molecular approaches. Case studies illustrate issues such as health consequences of the adoption of agriculture, cannibalism, and relationships among health, violence, class, and sex in historic and prehistoric cultures.
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER: DB-NatSci
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.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
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: Aut
| Units: 3-5
ANTHRO 135H:
CSRE House Seminar: Race and Ethnicity at Stanford
Not open to freshmen. Race, ethnicity, gender, and religion using the tools, analytical skills and concepts developed by anthropologists.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 3-6
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 14:
Introduction to Anthropological Genetics (HUMBIO 14)
How genetic methods address anthropological questions. Examples include the evolutionary relationships between humans and the apes, the place of the Neanderthals in human evolution, the peopling of the New World, ancient DNA, the genetics of ethnicity, forensic genetics, genomics, behaviorial genetics, and hereditary diseases.
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER: DB-NatSci
ANTHRO 145A:
Poetics and Politics of Caribbean Women's Literature
Mid 20th-century to the present. How historical, economic, and political conditions in Haiti, Cuba, Jamaica, Antigua, and Guadeloupe affected women. How Francophone, Anglophone, and Hispanophone women novelists, poets, and short story writers respond to similar issues and pose related questions. Caribbean literary identity within a multicultural and diasporic context; the place of the oral in the written feminine text; family and sexuality; translation of European master texts; history, memory, and myth; and responses to slave history, colonialism, neocolonialism, and globalization.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-Gender
ANTHRO 146A:
Border Crossings and American Identities (AMSTUD 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 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: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
ANTHRO 147A:
Folklore, Mythology, and Islam in Central Asia
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 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 161A:
Ecology, Nature, and Society: Principle in Human Ecology (ANTHRO 261A)
Interdisciplinary. The study of diversity and change in human societies, using frameworks including anthropology, evolutionary ecology, history, archaeology, and economics. Focus is on population dynamics, family organization, disease, economics, warfare, politics, and resource conservation.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
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.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom
ANTHRO 163D:
Darwin's Legacy (HUMBIO 184)
New understandings that have followed on Darwinian principles; remaining frontiers of research; areas of controversy.His legacy in anthropology, biology, religion, medicine, psychology, philosophy, and literature. 3 units requires discussion section and term paper.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 1-3
ANTHRO 164:
EcoGroup: Current Topics in Ecological, Evolutionary, and Environmental Anthropology (ANTHRO 264)
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. Must be taken for 5 units; may be repeated once for 2 units.
Terms: Win
| Units: 2-5
| Repeatable
for credit
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.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| Repeatable
for credit
ANTHRO 166A:
Indigenous Forest Management (ANTHRO 266A)
Seminar. History, techniques and impacts, institutions for forest management, challenges to maintain indigenous resource bases in a globalizing world, policy framework, and emerging conservation and development alternatives.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
ANTHRO 169:
Communicating Science: Proposals, Talks, Articles (ANTHRO 269)
(Graduate students register for 269.) The principles and practice of effective communication in science. Grant proposals, conference presentations, and scientific journal articles. Focus is on writing and speaking skills in professional contexts.
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
ANTHRO 171:
The Biology and Evolution of Language (ANTHRO 271)
Language as an evolutionary adaptation of humans. Comparison of communicative behavior in humans and animals, and the inference of evolutionary stages. Structure, linguistic functions, and the evolution of the vocal tract, ear, and brain, with associated disorders (stuttering, dyslexia, autism, schizophrenia) and therapies. Controversies over language centers in the brain and the innateness of language acquisition. Vision, color terminology, and biological explanation in linguistic theory.
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER: DB-NatSci, WAY-SMA
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)
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 175:
Human Osteology (ANTHRO 275, 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: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER: DB-NatSci, WAY-SMA
ANTHRO 178:
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.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER: DB-NatSci
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.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-Gender
ANTHRO 180A:
Biological and Evolutionary Perspectives on Gender and Sexuality (ANTHRO 280A)
Human sexuality, gender, and reproductive behavior using evolutionary and crosscultural framework. Themes such as the potential biases scientists bring to the study of sexuality, how findings are portrayed by the popular media, and the implications biological findings should or should not have on how contemporary society approaches gender issues.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
ANTHRO 181:
Culture and Mental 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: Spr
| Units: 3
ANTHRO 182:
An Anthropology of Annihilation: Tobacco at the Turn of the Millenium
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?
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI
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.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
ANTHRO 197:
Internship in Anthropological Sciences
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
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 4-5
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors: ;
Ahmad, T. (PI);
Aldrich, C. (PI);
Barnett, C. (PI);
Befu, H. (PI);
Beliso-DeJesus, A. (PI);
Bird, D. (PI);
Bird, R. (PI);
Brown, M. (PI);
Burce, A. (PI);
Chua, J. (PI);
Contreras, D. (PI);
Costanzo, C. (PI);
DeGusta, D. (PI);
Domanska, E. (PI);
Duffey, C. (PI);
Durham, W. (PI);
Ebron, P. (PI);
Ferguson, J. (PI);
Fox, J. (PI);
Gibbs, J. (PI);
Glover, S. (PI);
Hodder, I. (PI);
Hubbard, L. (PI);
Inoue, M. (PI);
Irvine, D. (PI);
Jain, S. (PI);
Jones, J. (PI);
Karp-Toledo, E. (PI);
Klein, R. (PI);
Kohrman, M. (PI);
Kunanbaeva, A. (PI);
Lee, S. (PI);
Luhrmann, T. (PI);
Malkki, L. (PI);
McDermott, R. (PI);
Meskell, L. (PI);
Monroe, K. (PI);
Rick, J. (PI);
Robertson, I. (PI);
Romain, T. (PI);
Roque, A. (PI);
Ruhlen, M. (PI);
Truncer, J. (PI);
Voss, B. (PI);
Wilcox, M. (PI);
Yanagisako, S. (PI)
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: Win, 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)
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
ANTHRO 203:
The Archaeology of Modern Urbanism (ANTHRO 103)
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
ANTHRO 203A:
Past Human Environments (ANTHRO 103A, ARCHLGY 101B, ARCHLGY 301B)
Perspectives, methods, and data that archaeology brings to human/environment interaction issues such as environmental variability and change, sustainability, and human impacts. How to use paleoenvironmental data in archaeological research; how to recover and analyze such data to reconstruct human/environment interactions in prehistory.
| 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.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
ANTHRO 205A:
Indigenous Peoples of South America and the Politics of Ethnicity (ANTHRO 105A)
Recent developments showing a growing empowerment of Indigenous peoples and increased participation in the construction of democratic processes. Challenges to traditional state institutions; new worldviews based on cultural identity and ethnicity. Recent debates about special rights regarding territoriality and natural resources and other claims formulated by indigenous organizations to improve governance and implement a new type of citizen based on self-determination and the reorganization of the actual nation states.
| Units: 3-5
ANTHRO 206:
Human Origins (ANTHRO 6, BIO 106, 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.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 207A:
Ethnohistory in the Andean World: Inca State, Rebellions, and Resistance (ANTHRO 107A)
The formation and expansion of the Inca state as a large multiethnic confederation, interrupted by the arrival of the Spaniards. Negotiations and adaptations during the colonial period; the proliferation of survival strategies allowing indigenous peoples to maintain their social organization; indigenous rebellions to recuperate land, local spiritual values, and central government. Emphasis is on the indigenous perspective. Ethnographic and ethnohistoric documents and findings that reflect events and thoughts from the conquest to the 20th century.
| Units: 3-5
ANTHRO 213:
Fanual 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.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
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. Prerequisites: 3 or 6 or other instructor-approved archaeology course work.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
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.
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: Aut
| Units: 3-5
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 245:
The Ancient Maya
Archaeology and culture. Origins, the natural world, and languages and writing of the Maya. Archaeological and historical dating and classification of periods. Life cycle, daily life, food, agriculture, technology, and medicine. Power, social structure, gender, and the state. Mythology, time, astronomy, art, and religion. Maya sites, their relations with each other and other Mesoamerican states and peoples. Collapse, the Spanish conquest, and today¿s Maya. Changes of archaeological focus and issues as exemplified in Mayan studies. Optional Spring Break field trip to Maya country (extra expense, limited capacity). (HEF II, IV; DA-A)
| Units: 2-5
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: Win
| Units: 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 261A:
Ecology, Nature, and Society: Principle in Human Ecology (ANTHRO 161A)
Interdisciplinary. The study of diversity and change in human societies, using frameworks including anthropology, evolutionary ecology, history, archaeology, and economics. Focus is on population dynamics, family organization, disease, economics, warfare, politics, and resource conservation.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
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.
Terms: Aut, Spr
| Units: 3-5
ANTHRO 264:
EcoGroup: Current Topics in Ecological, Evolutionary, and Environmental Anthropology (ANTHRO 164)
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. Must be taken for 5 units; may be repeated once for 2 units.
Terms: Win
| Units: 2-5
| Repeatable
for credit
ANTHRO 266A:
Indigenous Forest Management (ANTHRO 166A)
Seminar. History, techniques and impacts, institutions for forest management, challenges to maintain indigenous resource bases in a globalizing world, policy framework, and emerging conservation and development alternatives.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 269:
Communicating Science: Proposals, Talks, Articles (ANTHRO 169)
(Graduate students register for 269.) The principles and practice of effective communication in science. Grant proposals, conference presentations, and scientific journal articles. Focus is on writing and speaking skills in professional contexts.
| Units: 4-5
ANTHRO 271:
The Biology and Evolution of Language (ANTHRO 171)
Language as an evolutionary adaptation of humans. Comparison of communicative behavior in humans and animals, and the inference of evolutionary stages. Structure, linguistic functions, and the evolution of the vocal tract, ear, and brain, with associated disorders (stuttering, dyslexia, autism, schizophrenia) and therapies. Controversies over language centers in the brain and the innateness of language acquisition. Vision, color terminology, and biological explanation in linguistic theory.
| Units: 4-5
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)
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 275:
Human Osteology (ANTHRO 175, 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: Win
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 280A:
Biological and Evolutionary Perspectives on Gender and Sexuality (ANTHRO 180A)
Human sexuality, gender, and reproductive behavior using evolutionary and crosscultural framework. Themes such as the potential biases scientists bring to the study of sexuality, how findings are portrayed by the popular media, and the implications biological findings should or should not have on how contemporary society approaches gender issues.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
ANTHRO 281:
Culture and Mental 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: Spr
| Units: 3
ANTHRO 291A:
Archaeological Methods (ANTHRO 91A, 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 293B:
Master's Thesis Writing Seminar
May be repeated for credit.
| Units: 2-4
| Repeatable
for credit
ANTHRO 295:
Research in Anthropological Sciences
Supervised work with an individual faculty member on the student research project. May be taken for more than one quarter.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 3-5
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors: ;
Ahmad, T. (PI);
Aldrich, C. (PI);
Barnett, C. (PI);
Befu, H. (PI);
Beliso-DeJesus, A. (PI);
Bird, D. (PI);
Bird, R. (PI);
Brown, M. (PI);
Burce, A. (PI);
Chua, J. (PI);
Contreras, D. (PI);
Costanzo, C. (PI);
DeGusta, D. (PI);
Domanska, E. (PI);
Duffey, C. (PI);
Durham, W. (PI);
Ebron, P. (PI);
Ferguson, J. (PI);
Fox, J. (PI);
Gibbs, J. (PI);
Glover, S. (PI);
Hodder, I. (PI);
Hubbard, L. (PI);
Inoue, M. (PI);
Irvine, D. (PI);
Jain, S. (PI);
Jones, J. (PI);
Karp-Toledo, E. (PI);
Klein, R. (PI);
Kohrman, M. (PI);
Kunanbaeva, A. (PI);
Lee, S. (PI);
Luhrmann, T. (PI);
Malkki, L. (PI);
McDermott, R. (PI);
Meskell, L. (PI);
Monroe, K. (PI);
Rick, J. (PI);
Robertson, I. (PI);
Romain, T. (PI);
Roque, A. (PI);
Ruhlen, M. (PI);
Truncer, J. (PI);
Voss, B. (PI);
Wilcox, M. (PI);
Yanagisako, S. (PI)
ANTHRO 298E:
Catalhoyuk and Neolithic Archaeology (ANTHRO 98E)
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: 3-5
ANTHRO 299:
Directed Individual Study
Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-10
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors: ;
Ahmad, T. (PI);
Aldrich, C. (PI);
Barnett, C. (PI);
Befu, H. (PI);
Beliso-DeJesus, A. (PI);
Bird, D. (PI);
Bird, R. (PI);
Brown, M. (PI);
Burce, A. (PI);
Chua, J. (PI);
Contreras, D. (PI);
Costanzo, C. (PI);
DeGusta, D. (PI);
Domanska, E. (PI);
Duffey, C. (PI);
Durham, W. (PI);
Ebron, P. (PI);
Ferguson, J. (PI);
Fox, J. (PI);
Gibbs, J. (PI);
Glover, S. (PI);
Hodder, I. (PI);
Hubbard, L. (PI);
Inoue, M. (PI);
Irvine, D. (PI);
Jain, S. (PI);
Jones, J. (PI);
Karp-Toledo, E. (PI);
Klein, R. (PI);
Kohrman, M. (PI);
Kunanbaeva, A. (PI);
Lee, S. (PI);
Luhrmann, T. (PI);
Malkki, L. (PI);
McDermott, R. (PI);
Meskell, L. (PI);
Monroe, K. (PI);
Rick, J. (PI);
Robertson, I. (PI);
Romain, T. (PI);
Roque, A. (PI);
Ruhlen, M. (PI);
Truncer, J. (PI);
Voss, B. (PI);
Wilcox, M. (PI);
Yanagisako, S. (PI)
ANTHRO 300:
Reading Theory Through Ethnography
Required of and restricted to first-year CASA 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.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 301:
History of Anthropological Theory
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: Aut
| 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.
Terms: Win
| Units: 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.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 306:
Anthropological Research Methods
Required of CASA Ph.D. students; open to all graduate students. Research methods and modes of evidence building in ethnographic research. Enrollment limited to 10.
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.
Terms: Spr
| 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.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 310G:
Introduction to Graduate Studies
Required graduate seminar. The history of anthropological theory and key theoretical and methodological issues of the discipline.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 2
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.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
ANTHRO 311G:
Introduction to Culture and Society Studies in Anthropology
Biomedical electronics and instruments based on electrical engineering for diagnostics and therapeutic treatments of biological systems, focusing on the theory and design principles in modern biomedical electronics using electromagnetic properties. Topics include circuit design for implanted medical devices, physics and signal processing for medical imaging systems, techniques for neural measurements and neuro-decoding, and electronics for drug delivery. Prerequisite: EE 214, 264, or 265.
Terms: Win, Spr
| Units: 1-2
| Repeatable
1 times
(up to 2 units total)
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.
Terms: Win
| 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.
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
Terms: Spr
| 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.
Terms: Aut
| 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.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
ANTHRO 337A:
Violence: The Sacred, and Rights of the Dead (FRENGEN 367)
The politics of dead bodies as key issue in the humanities during recent decades that link scholars from various disciplines. Contemporary examples of reburial practices of indigenous people, exhumation of disappeared bodies in Latin America, exhibitions of human remains, representation of dead bodies in art, and recent developments in the funerary practices (LifeGem, Biopresence). Rene Girard's theory of the relationship between violence and the sacred.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
ANTHRO 340:
Topics in Linguistic Anthropology
Reading seminar; restricted to Anthropology graduate students. The anthropology of language and semiotics. Focus is on the limits of textualism, and alternative semiotic and epistemic bases for theorizing language and representation. No linguistic anthropology course work required.
Terms: Win
| 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.
Terms: Win
| 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.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 361:
Human Behavioral Ecology (HUMBIO 117)
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.
| Units: 3-5
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.
Terms: Aut
| 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.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 370:
Advanced Theory and Method in Historical Archaeology
Current debates about theory and method.
Terms: Aut
| 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.
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 393:
Internship
Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-15
| Repeatable
3 times
(up to 30 units total)
Instructors: ;
Ahmad, T. (PI);
Aldrich, C. (PI);
Barnett, C. (PI);
Befu, H. (PI);
Beliso-DeJesus, A. (PI);
Bird, D. (PI);
Bird, R. (PI);
Brown, M. (PI);
Burce, A. (PI);
Chua, J. (PI);
Contreras, D. (PI);
Costanzo, C. (PI);
DeGusta, D. (PI);
Domanska, E. (PI);
Duffey, C. (PI);
Durham, W. (PI);
Ebron, P. (PI);
Ferguson, J. (PI);
Fox, J. (PI);
Gibbs, J. (PI);
Glover, S. (PI);
Hodder, I. (PI);
Hubbard, L. (PI);
Inoue, M. (PI);
Irvine, D. (PI);
Jain, S. (PI);
Jones, J. (PI);
Karp-Toledo, E. (PI);
Klein, R. (PI);
Kohrman, M. (PI);
Kunanbaeva, A. (PI);
Lee, S. (PI);
Luhrmann, T. (PI);
Malkki, L. (PI);
McDermott, R. (PI);
Meskell, L. (PI);
Monroe, K. (PI);
Rick, J. (PI);
Robertson, I. (PI);
Romain, T. (PI);
Roque, A. (PI);
Ruhlen, M. (PI);
Truncer, J. (PI);
Voss, B. (PI);
Wilcox, M. (PI);
Yanagisako, S. (PI)
ANTHRO 397A:
Directed Individual Tutorial
Supervised study with an individual faculty member.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-15
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors: ;
Ahmad, T. (PI);
Aldrich, C. (PI);
Barnett, C. (PI);
Befu, H. (PI);
Beliso-DeJesus, A. (PI);
Bird, D. (PI);
Bird, R. (PI);
Brown, M. (PI);
Burce, A. (PI);
Chua, J. (PI);
Contreras, D. (PI);
Costanzo, C. (PI);
DeGusta, D. (PI);
Domanska, E. (PI);
Duffey, C. (PI);
Durham, W. (PI);
Ebron, P. (PI);
Ferguson, J. (PI);
Fox, J. (PI);
Gibbs, J. (PI);
Glover, S. (PI);
Hodder, I. (PI);
Hubbard, L. (PI);
Inoue, M. (PI);
Irvine, D. (PI);
Jain, S. (PI);
Jones, J. (PI);
Karp-Toledo, E. (PI);
Klein, R. (PI);
Kohrman, M. (PI);
Kunanbaeva, A. (PI);
Lee, S. (PI);
Luhrmann, T. (PI);
Malkki, L. (PI);
McDermott, R. (PI);
Meskell, L. (PI);
Monroe, K. (PI);
Rick, J. (PI);
Robertson, I. (PI);
Romain, T. (PI);
Roque, A. (PI);
Ruhlen, M. (PI);
Truncer, J. (PI);
Voss, B. (PI);
Wilcox, M. (PI);
Yanagisako, S. (PI)
ANTHRO 397B:
Dissertation Fieldwork
Supervised work for CASA Ph.D. students conducting pre-dissertation or dissertation field research with an individual faculty member.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-15
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors: ;
Ahmad, T. (PI);
Aldrich, C. (PI);
Barnett, C. (PI);
Befu, H. (PI);
Beliso-DeJesus, A. (PI);
Bird, D. (PI);
Bird, R. (PI);
Brown, M. (PI);
Burce, A. (PI);
Chua, J. (PI);
Contreras, D. (PI);
Costanzo, C. (PI);
DeGusta, D. (PI);
Domanska, E. (PI);
Duffey, C. (PI);
Durham, W. (PI);
Ebron, P. (PI);
Ferguson, J. (PI);
Fox, J. (PI);
Gibbs, J. (PI);
Glover, S. (PI);
Hodder, I. (PI);
Hubbard, L. (PI);
Inoue, M. (PI);
Irvine, D. (PI);
Jain, S. (PI);
Jones, J. (PI);
Karp-Toledo, E. (PI);
Klein, R. (PI);
Kohrman, M. (PI);
Kunanbaeva, A. (PI);
Lee, S. (PI);
Luhrmann, T. (PI);
Malkki, L. (PI);
McDermott, R. (PI);
Meskell, L. (PI);
Monroe, K. (PI);
Rick, J. (PI);
Robertson, I. (PI);
Romain, T. (PI);
Roque, A. (PI);
Ruhlen, M. (PI);
Truncer, J. (PI);
Voss, B. (PI);
Wilcox, M. (PI);
Yanagisako, S. (PI)
ANTHRO 398:
Teaching Apprenticeship
Supervised work for a teaching mentor participating in an undergraduate course; not the same as teaching assistantship.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-15
| Repeatable
15 times
(up to 15 units total)
Instructors: ;
Ahmad, T. (PI);
Aldrich, C. (PI);
Barnett, C. (PI);
Befu, H. (PI);
Beliso-DeJesus, A. (PI);
Bird, D. (PI);
Bird, R. (PI);
Brown, M. (PI);
Burce, A. (PI);
Chua, J. (PI);
Contreras, D. (PI);
Costanzo, C. (PI);
DeGusta, D. (PI);
Domanska, E. (PI);
Duffey, C. (PI);
Durham, W. (PI);
Ebron, P. (PI);
Ferguson, J. (PI);
Fox, J. (PI);
Gibbs, J. (PI);
Glover, S. (PI);
Hodder, I. (PI);
Hubbard, L. (PI);
Inoue, M. (PI);
Irvine, D. (PI);
Jain, S. (PI);
Jones, J. (PI);
Karp-Toledo, E. (PI);
Klein, R. (PI);
Kohrman, M. (PI);
Kunanbaeva, A. (PI);
Lee, S. (PI);
Luhrmann, T. (PI);
Malkki, L. (PI);
McDermott, R. (PI);
Meskell, L. (PI);
Monroe, K. (PI);
Rick, J. (PI);
Robertson, I. (PI);
Romain, T. (PI);
Roque, A. (PI);
Ruhlen, M. (PI);
Truncer, J. (PI);
Voss, B. (PI);
Wilcox, M. (PI);
Yanagisako, S. (PI)
ANTHRO 399:
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: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-15
| Repeatable
15 times
(up to 15 units total)
Instructors: ;
Ahmad, T. (PI);
Aldrich, C. (PI);
Barnett, C. (PI);
Befu, H. (PI);
Beliso-DeJesus, A. (PI);
Bird, D. (PI);
Bird, R. (PI);
Brown, M. (PI);
Burce, A. (PI);
Chua, J. (PI);
Contreras, D. (PI);
Costanzo, C. (PI);
DeGusta, D. (PI);
Domanska, E. (PI);
Duffey, C. (PI);
Durham, W. (PI);
Ebron, P. (PI);
Ferguson, J. (PI);
Fox, J. (PI);
Gibbs, J. (PI);
Glover, S. (PI);
Hodder, I. (PI);
Hubbard, L. (PI);
Inoue, M. (PI);
Irvine, D. (PI);
Jain, S. (PI);
Jones, J. (PI);
Karp-Toledo, E. (PI);
Klein, R. (PI);
Kohrman, M. (PI);
Kunanbaeva, A. (PI);
Lee, S. (PI);
Luhrmann, T. (PI);
Malkki, L. (PI);
McDermott, R. (PI);
Meskell, L. (PI);
Monroe, K. (PI);
Rick, J. (PI);
Robertson, I. (PI);
Romain, T. (PI);
Roque, A. (PI);
Ruhlen, M. (PI);
Truncer, J. (PI);
Voss, B. (PI);
Wilcox, M. (PI);
Yanagisako, S. (PI)
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.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1-3
| Repeatable
for credit
ANTHRO 401A:
Qualifying Paper: 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: ;
Ahmad, T. (PI);
Aldrich, C. (PI);
Barnett, C. (PI);
Befu, H. (PI);
Beliso-DeJesus, A. (PI);
Bird, D. (PI);
Bird, R. (PI);
Brown, M. (PI);
Burce, A. (PI);
Chua, J. (PI);
Contreras, D. (PI);
Costanzo, C. (PI);
DeGusta, D. (PI);
Domanska, E. (PI);
Duffey, C. (PI);
Durham, W. (PI);
Ebron, P. (PI);
Ferguson, J. (PI);
Fox, J. (PI);
Gibbs, J. (PI);
Glover, S. (PI);
Hodder, I. (PI);
Hubbard, L. (PI);
Inoue, M. (PI);
Irvine, D. (PI);
Jain, S. (PI);
Jones, J. (PI);
Karp-Toledo, E. (PI);
Klein, R. (PI);
Kohrman, M. (PI);
Kunanbaeva, A. (PI);
Lee, S. (PI);
Luhrmann, T. (PI);
Malkki, L. (PI);
McDermott, R. (PI);
Meskell, L. (PI);
Monroe, K. (PI);
Rick, J. (PI);
Robertson, I. (PI);
Romain, T. (PI);
Roque, A. (PI);
Ruhlen, M. (PI);
Truncer, J. (PI);
Voss, B. (PI);
Wilcox, M. (PI);
Yanagisako, S. (PI)
ANTHRO 401B:
Qualifying Paper: 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: ;
Ahmad, T. (PI);
Aldrich, C. (PI);
Barnett, C. (PI);
Befu, H. (PI);
Beliso-DeJesus, A. (PI);
Bird, D. (PI);
Bird, R. (PI);
Brown, M. (PI);
Burce, A. (PI);
Chua, J. (PI);
Contreras, D. (PI);
Costanzo, C. (PI);
DeGusta, D. (PI);
Domanska, E. (PI);
Duffey, C. (PI);
Durham, W. (PI);
Ebron, P. (PI);
Ferguson, J. (PI);
Fox, J. (PI);
Gibbs, J. (PI);
Glover, S. (PI);
Hodder, I. (PI);
Hubbard, L. (PI);
Inoue, M. (PI);
Irvine, D. (PI);
Jain, S. (PI);
Jones, J. (PI);
Karp-Toledo, E. (PI);
Klein, R. (PI);
Kohrman, M. (PI);
Kunanbaeva, A. (PI);
Lee, S. (PI);
Luhrmann, T. (PI);
Malkki, L. (PI);
McDermott, R. (PI);
Meskell, L. (PI);
Monroe, K. (PI);
Rick, J. (PI);
Robertson, I. (PI);
Romain, T. (PI);
Roque, A. (PI);
Ruhlen, M. (PI);
Truncer, J. (PI);
Voss, B. (PI);
Wilcox, M. (PI);
Yanagisako, S. (PI)
ANTHRO 440:
Teaching Assistantship
Supervised experience as assistant in one undergraduate course.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 3-5
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors: ;
Ahmad, T. (PI);
Aldrich, C. (PI);
Barnett, C. (PI);
Befu, H. (PI);
Beliso-DeJesus, A. (PI);
Bird, D. (PI);
Bird, R. (PI);
Brown, M. (PI);
Burce, A. (PI);
Chua, J. (PI);
Contreras, D. (PI);
Costanzo, C. (PI);
DeGusta, D. (PI);
Domanska, E. (PI);
Duffey, C. (PI);
Durham, W. (PI);
Ebron, P. (PI);
Ferguson, J. (PI);
Fox, J. (PI);
Gibbs, J. (PI);
Glover, S. (PI);
Hodder, I. (PI);
Hubbard, L. (PI);
Inoue, M. (PI);
Irvine, D. (PI);
Jain, S. (PI);
Jones, J. (PI);
Karp-Toledo, E. (PI);
Klein, R. (PI);
Kohrman, M. (PI);
Kunanbaeva, A. (PI);
Lee, S. (PI);
Luhrmann, T. (PI);
Malkki, L. (PI);
McDermott, R. (PI);
Meskell, L. (PI);
Monroe, K. (PI);
Rick, J. (PI);
Robertson, I. (PI);
Romain, T. (PI);
Roque, A. (PI);
Ruhlen, M. (PI);
Truncer, J. (PI);
Voss, B. (PI);
Wilcox, M. (PI);
Yanagisako, S. (PI)
ANTHRO 444:
Anthropology Colloquium: Graduate Seminar
Required of first-year graduate students. The use of the scientific method in anthropological research. Published papers from subfields illustrate effective research design, the formulation and testing of hypotheses, and comparative methods. Field exercises in interviewing, observation, and taking and using field notes. The ethics of field research and procedures for maintaining physical and mental health in the field. 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 and social anthropology, cultural archaeology, and archaeology.
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: ;
Ahmad, T. (PI);
Aldrich, C. (PI);
Barnett, C. (PI);
Befu, H. (PI);
Beliso-DeJesus, A. (PI);
Bird, D. (PI);
Bird, R. (PI);
Brown, M. (PI);
Burce, A. (PI);
Chua, J. (PI);
Contreras, D. (PI);
Costanzo, C. (PI);
DeGusta, D. (PI);
Domanska, E. (PI);
Duffey, C. (PI);
Durham, W. (PI);
Ebron, P. (PI);
Ferguson, J. (PI);
Fox, J. (PI);
Gibbs, J. (PI);
Glover, S. (PI);
Hodder, I. (PI);
Hubbard, L. (PI);
Inoue, M. (PI);
Irvine, D. (PI);
Jain, S. (PI);
Jones, J. (PI);
Karp-Toledo, E. (PI);
Klein, R. (PI);
Kohrman, M. (PI);
Kunanbaeva, A. (PI);
Lee, S. (PI);
Luhrmann, T. (PI);
Malkki, L. (PI);
McDermott, R. (PI);
Meskell, L. (PI);
Monroe, K. (PI);
Rick, J. (PI);
Robertson, I. (PI);
Romain, T. (PI);
Roque, A. (PI);
Ruhlen, M. (PI);
Truncer, J. (PI);
Voss, B. (PI);
Wilcox, M. (PI);
Yanagisako, S. (PI)
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: ;
Ahmad, T. (PI);
Aldrich, C. (PI);
Barnett, C. (PI);
Befu, H. (PI);
Beliso-DeJesus, A. (PI);
Bird, D. (PI);
Bird, R. (PI);
Brown, M. (PI);
Burce, A. (PI);
Chua, J. (PI);
Contreras, D. (PI);
Costanzo, C. (PI);
DeGusta, D. (PI);
Domanska, E. (PI);
Duffey, C. (PI);
Durham, W. (PI);
Ebron, P. (PI);
Ferguson, J. (PI);
Fox, J. (PI);
Gibbs, J. (PI);
Glover, S. (PI);
Hodder, I. (PI);
Hubbard, L. (PI);
Inoue, M. (PI);
Irvine, D. (PI);
Jain, S. (PI);
Jones, J. (PI);
Karp-Toledo, E. (PI);
Klein, R. (PI);
Kohrman, M. (PI);
Kunanbaeva, A. (PI);
Lee, S. (PI);
Luhrmann, T. (PI);
Malkki, L. (PI);
McDermott, R. (PI);
Meskell, L. (PI);
Monroe, K. (PI);
Rick, J. (PI);
Robertson, I. (PI);
Romain, T. (PI);
Roque, A. (PI);
Ruhlen, M. (PI);
Truncer, J. (PI);
Voss, B. (PI);
Wilcox, M. (PI);
Yanagisako, S. (PI)
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: 4-5
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors: ;
Ahmad, T. (PI);
Aldrich, C. (PI);
Barnett, C. (PI);
Befu, H. (PI);
Beliso-DeJesus, A. (PI);
Bird, D. (PI);
Bird, R. (PI);
Brown, M. (PI);
Burce, A. (PI);
Chua, J. (PI);
Contreras, D. (PI);
Costanzo, C. (PI);
DeGusta, D. (PI);
Domanska, E. (PI);
Duffey, C. (PI);
Durham, W. (PI);
Ebron, P. (PI);
Ferguson, J. (PI);
Fox, J. (PI);
Gibbs, J. (PI);
Glover, S. (PI);
Hodder, I. (PI);
Hubbard, L. (PI);
Inoue, M. (PI);
Irvine, D. (PI);
Jain, S. (PI);
Jones, J. (PI);
Karp-Toledo, E. (PI);
Klein, R. (PI);
Kohrman, M. (PI);
Kunanbaeva, A. (PI);
Lee, S. (PI);
Luhrmann, T. (PI);
Malkki, L. (PI);
McDermott, R. (PI);
Meskell, L. (PI);
Monroe, K. (PI);
Rick, J. (PI);
Robertson, I. (PI);
Romain, T. (PI);
Roque, A. (PI);
Ruhlen, M. (PI);
Truncer, J. (PI);
Voss, B. (PI);
Wilcox, M. (PI);
Yanagisako, S. (PI)
ANTHRO 74A:
Public Culture: Anthropological Approaches to Media and Popular Culture
How to think about media through its producers, audiences, and unexpected uses. Reception studies and the idea of a public as a self-aware audience or crowd. Social and textual analyses of popular culture.
| Units: 3-5
ANTHRO 77:
Japanese Society and Culture (ANTHRO 277A)
Focus is on power, identity, and the politics of knowledge production. How transnational interactions influence Japanese identity. How anthropological knowledge has contributed to understanding Japanese culture and society. Gender, race and class; contemporary ethnographies. Modernity and globalization. Cultural politics, domestic work, labor management, city planning, ad images, anime, martial art, fashion, theater, leisure, and tourism.
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 0
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors: ;
Ahmad, T. (PI);
Aldrich, C. (PI);
Barnett, C. (PI);
Befu, H. (PI);
Beliso-DeJesus, A. (PI);
Bird, D. (PI);
Bird, R. (PI);
Brown, M. (PI);
Burce, A. (PI);
Chua, J. (PI);
Contreras, D. (PI);
Costanzo, C. (PI);
DeGusta, D. (PI);
Domanska, E. (PI);
Duffey, C. (PI);
Durham, W. (PI);
Ebron, P. (PI);
Ferguson, J. (PI);
Fox, J. (PI);
Gibbs, J. (PI);
Glover, S. (PI);
Hodder, I. (PI);
Hubbard, L. (PI);
Inoue, M. (PI);
Irvine, D. (PI);
Jain, S. (PI);
Jones, J. (PI);
Karp-Toledo, E. (PI);
Klein, R. (PI);
Kohrman, M. (PI);
Kunanbaeva, A. (PI);
Lee, S. (PI);
Luhrmann, T. (PI);
Malkki, L. (PI);
McDermott, R. (PI);
Meskell, L. (PI);
Monroe, K. (PI);
Rick, J. (PI);
Robertson, I. (PI);
Romain, T. (PI);
Roque, A. (PI);
Ruhlen, M. (PI);
Truncer, J. (PI);
Voss, B. (PI);
Wilcox, M. (PI);
Yanagisako, S. (PI)
ANTHRO 802:
TGR Dissertation
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 0
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors: ;
Ahmad, T. (PI);
Aldrich, C. (PI);
Barnett, C. (PI);
Befu, H. (PI);
Beliso-DeJesus, A. (PI);
Bird, D. (PI);
Bird, R. (PI);
Brown, M. (PI);
Burce, A. (PI);
Chua, J. (PI);
Contreras, D. (PI);
Costanzo, C. (PI);
DeGusta, D. (PI);
Domanska, E. (PI);
Duffey, C. (PI);
Durham, W. (PI);
Ebron, P. (PI);
Ferguson, J. (PI);
Fox, J. (PI);
Gibbs, J. (PI);
Glover, S. (PI);
Hodder, I. (PI);
Hubbard, L. (PI);
Inoue, M. (PI);
Irvine, D. (PI);
Jain, S. (PI);
Jones, J. (PI);
Karp-Toledo, E. (PI);
Klein, R. (PI);
Kohrman, M. (PI);
Kunanbaeva, A. (PI);
Lee, S. (PI);
Luhrmann, T. (PI);
Malkki, L. (PI);
McDermott, R. (PI);
Meskell, L. (PI);
Monroe, K. (PI);
Rick, J. (PI);
Robertson, I. (PI);
Romain, T. (PI);
Roque, A. (PI);
Ruhlen, M. (PI);
Truncer, J. (PI);
Voss, B. (PI);
Wilcox, M. (PI);
Yanagisako, S. (PI)
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 91C:
Anthropological Methods in Ecology, Environment, Evolution (ANTHRO 291C)
The methodological and practical aspects of conducting anthropological investigation into human-environmental interactions. Tools for developing, asking, and evaluating anthropological questions in a systematic way. What can constitute an important question, how to frame a question that facilitates investigation, how to design a research project to begin investigating a question, hypothesis development, and experimental design. Approaches to ethnographic, behavioral, and ecological data collection, sampling strategies, observational methods, recording techniques and presentation style.
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 98B:
Digital Methods in Archaeology (ANTHRO 298B)
Hands-on. Topics include: data capture, digital survey, and mapping instruments; GPS; digital video and photography; 3-D scanning; data analysis; CAD; GIS; panoramic virtual reality; and photogrammetry.
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-EngrAppSci
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 111A:
Cultural Heritage in Post-Socialist Europe (ARCHLGY 111)
How the fall of the Berlin wall transformed everyday life culturally, politically, and economically through transitions to capitalism and democracy. Interdisciplinary writing in anthropology, archaeology, urban studies, cultural studies, and media commentary on cultural heritage, memory and identity in the post-socialist Europe. How intervention into these spaces by contemporary artists and architects offers alternatives to think about the past?
| Units: 3-5
ANTHRO 115A:
Environmental Crises and State Collapse: Lessons from the Past (HUMBIO 115)
The effects and consequences of long-term human interaction with the environment. How and why past societies adapted, or failed to adapt, to changing environmental conditions and relevance to current environmental problems. Demographic, archaeological, and environmental data assessed using case studies from around the world since the late Pleistocene. Development of agriculture, societal collapse, sustainability, and policy response. Prerequisite: Human Biology core or equivalent or consent of instructor.
| Units: 3
ANTHRO 116A:
Magic, Science, and Religion: Archaeological Perspectives (ANTHRO 216A, ARCHLGY 110, ARCHLGY 310)
How human beings make sense of their worlds. The naturalness of ideas, human relations to the natural and supernatural, and dichotomies of West and other, sacred and secular, and faith and skepticism. The material-historical constitution of different of modes of thought. Sources include classic and contemporary theoretical readings in archaeology, anthropology and science studies. Archaeological and ethnographic case studies from different world regions and historical periods.
| Units: 4-5
ANTHRO 126A:
Post-Socialist CIty
Anthropological approach to the investigation of cities in post-socialist societies. How the cities designed and built by socialist urban planners have changed since the 90s. City planning and architecture, politics of public space, and urban sociality. How the cities have been planned; how people inhabit and change cities in their daily lives.
| Units: 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 128A:
Undesired Bodies: Labor Migration, the Nation State, and Globalization
Interdisciplinary. What an anthropological approach demonstrates about labor migration and its impact on migrant workers, the nation state, and globalization processes. Issues of globalization, economics, nationalism, statehood, bureaucracy, class, and race.
| Units: 3-5
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 130C:
Applying GIS in Anthropological Research (ANTHRO 230C)
GIS as a tool in the management and analysis of spatial data in anthropology, focusing on archaeology and ecological anthropology. Topics include methodological approaches (collecting data in the field, finding publicly-available data, and integrating and querying data in a GIS) and theoretical implications (the nature of spatial data, scales, and topics of analysis).
| Units: 3-5
ANTHRO 143A:
Coming of Age; Youth, Power, and Public Culture in the Middle East
The lived experiences of Middle Eastern youth. The role of everyday practices in the production of society, culture, and politics. Focus is on public spaces of collectivity and sociality such as shopping areas, checkpoints, border crossings, and streetscapes. The negotiation and exertion of power at different scales. Topics such as militarism, migration, labor, gender, and family.
| Units: 3-5
ANTHRO 149B:
Postwar Social History of Japan (ANTHRO 249B)
Cultural and social history of Japan since WW II. Falling birth rates, changing family structure, 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 151:
Women, Fertility, and Work (ANTHRO 251)
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 160:
Paleoanthropology Seminar (ANTHRO 260)
Aspects of human evolution through primary literature and fossils. Topics vary to fit the interests of participants. May be repeated for credit.
| Units: 3-4
| UG Reqs: GER: DB-NatSci
| Repeatable
for credit
ANTHRO 162C:
Current Issues in Paleoanthropology (ANTHRO 262C, BIO 130)
Current issues in fossil, archaeological, and genetic evidence for human evolution. Topics chosen by participants. May be repeated for credit.
| Units: 1
| Repeatable
for credit
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: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
ANTHRO 175B:
Advanced Human Osteology (ANTHRO 275B)
Skeletal analytical methods such as paleopathology, taphonomy, osteometry, and functional and evolutionary morphology. Strategies for osteological research. Students conduct independent projects in their area of interest.
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER: DB-NatSci
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.
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
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 183A:
Bodies in Pain: Anthropological Perspectives on Suffering and Distress
How do people know of and about the pain of others? How do liberal traditions of what it means to be human inform ideas of pain and suffering? What are the ethical, political, medical and legal potentialities and limitations of the relationships among language, narrative, distress, and pain? Sources include anthropologically-informed modalities such as phenomenology, critical theories in medical anthropology, philosophical approaches to skepticism, and ethnographic engagements with suffering in everyday life.
| Units: 3-5
ANTHRO 184A:
Family Matters: Gender, Reproduction, and Making Family
Kinship structure. The history of kinship studies. Recent interventions in the study of family. New forms of family making in America such as transnational adoption and assisted reproduction. Readings primarily anthropological, but include science studies, gender theory, queer theory, and critical race studies.
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 186:
Kinship and Gender in South Asia (ANTHRO 286)
Focus is on current research of guest lecturers. Topics this year include prehistoric impacts of El Niño, human sacrifice in prehispanic Peru, and mortuary archaeology on the north coast of Peru. Prerequisite: 142/242 or equivalent or consent of instructor.
| Units: 1-3
ANTHRO 191C:
Anthropological Sciences Capstone Core Seminar
See 291 for description. Required of undergraduate majors who are not in the honors program. Must be taken in the senior year, or by petition in the junior year.
| Units: 1-3
ANTHRO 199:
Senior and Master's Thesis 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.
| Units: 1-2
| Repeatable
for credit
ANTHRO 201X:
Readings in Science, Technology, and Society
Focus is on anthropological approaches and contributions to the field.
| 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 216A:
Magic, Science, and Religion: Archaeological Perspectives (ANTHRO 116A, ARCHLGY 110, ARCHLGY 310)
How human beings make sense of their worlds. The naturalness of ideas, human relations to the natural and supernatural, and dichotomies of West and other, sacred and secular, and faith and skepticism. The material-historical constitution of different of modes of thought. Sources include classic and contemporary theoretical readings in archaeology, anthropology and science studies. Archaeological and ethnographic case studies from different world regions and historical periods.
| Units: 4-5
ANTHRO 218:
Literature, Politics, and Gender in Africa
Intersections of gender, power, and desire; the politics of colonialism and Christianity; and nationalism and postcoloniality. Emphasis is on the politics of writing and critical imagination in historical and social context. Readings include novels and other texts by African writers.
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 223:
Readings in Linguistic Anthropology
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 230C:
Applying GIS in Anthropological Research (ANTHRO 130C)
GIS as a tool in the management and analysis of spatial data in anthropology, focusing on archaeology and ecological anthropology. Topics include methodological approaches (collecting data in the field, finding publicly-available data, and integrating and querying data in a GIS) and theoretical implications (the nature of spatial data, scales, and topics of analysis).
| Units: 3-5
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 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 249B:
Postwar Social History of Japan (ANTHRO 149B)
Cultural and social history of Japan since WW II. Falling birth rates, changing family structure, 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 251:
Women, Fertility, and Work (ANTHRO 151)
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 260:
Paleoanthropology Seminar (ANTHRO 160)
Aspects of human evolution through primary literature and fossils. Topics vary to fit the interests of participants. May be repeated for credit.
| Units: 3-4
| Repeatable
for credit
ANTHRO 262C:
Current Issues in Paleoanthropology (ANTHRO 162C, BIO 130)
Current issues in fossil, archaeological, and genetic evidence for human evolution. Topics chosen by participants. May be repeated for credit.
| Units: 1
| Repeatable
for credit
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: 3-5
ANTHRO 270:
Advanced Topics in Medical Anthropology
Graduate seminar. Specialized topics in human health, illness, and healing from anthropological perspectives. Topics based upon faculty and graduate student research interests and current issues. Students present topical research and analysis from published sources; required journal-quality paper. The history, theories, and methods of research. Recommended: courses in medical anthropology.
| Units: 3-5
| Repeatable
for credit
ANTHRO 275B:
Advanced Human Osteology (ANTHRO 175B)
Skeletal analytical methods such as paleopathology, taphonomy, osteometry, and functional and evolutionary morphology. Strategies for osteological research. Students conduct independent projects in their area of interest.
| Units: 5
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.
| Units: 3-5
ANTHRO 277A:
Japanese Society and Culture (ANTHRO 77)
Focus is on power, identity, and the politics of knowledge production. How transnational interactions influence Japanese identity. How anthropological knowledge has contributed to understanding Japanese culture and society. Gender, race and class; contemporary ethnographies. Modernity and globalization. Cultural politics, domestic work, labor management, city planning, ad images, anime, martial art, fashion, theater, leisure, and tourism.
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 286:
Kinship and Gender in South Asia (ANTHRO 186)
Focus is on current research of guest lecturers. Topics this year include prehistoric impacts of El Niño, human sacrifice in prehispanic Peru, and mortuary archaeology on the north coast of Peru. Prerequisite: 142/242 or equivalent or consent of instructor.
| Units: 1-3
ANTHRO 290A:
Advanced Social Theory in the Anthropological Sciences
Social theories that have influenced anthropology including evolutionism, Marxism, interpretivism, and postmodernism. Implications of debates among theorists for anthropological research.
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 291C:
Anthropological Methods in Ecology, Environment, Evolution (ANTHRO 91C)
The methodological and practical aspects of conducting anthropological investigation into human-environmental interactions. Tools for developing, asking, and evaluating anthropological questions in a systematic way. What can constitute an important question, how to frame a question that facilitates investigation, how to design a research project to begin investigating a question, hypothesis development, and experimental design. Approaches to ethnographic, behavioral, and ecological data collection, sampling strategies, observational methods, recording techniques and presentation style.
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 298B:
Digital Methods in Archaeology (ANTHRO 98B)
Hands-on. Topics include: data capture, digital survey, and mapping instruments; GPS; digital video and photography; 3-D scanning; data analysis; CAD; GIS; panoramic virtual reality; and photogrammetry.
| Units: 3-5
ANTHRO 299:
Senior and Master's Thesis 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.
| Units: 1-2
| Repeatable
for credit
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.
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 326B:
Conduct and Misconduct in Science
The structure of modern science through a study of ethics and misconduct in research. Case studies of alleged scientific misconduct; what constitutes ethical research practices; the meaning of authorship; the limits of grantsmanship; the place of science in society; and roles of advisers, students, and postdocs. Theoretical and practical aspects of these issues. Emphasis is on anthropology and biology.
| Units: 3-5
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.
| 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.
| 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.
| Units: 4-5
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 356:
The Anthropology of Development
Multidisciplinary. Topics vary annually. Areas include Africa, S. Asia, and Latin America.
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 361A:
Advanced Ecological Anthropology
Seminar. The role of ecological models in the analysis of culture and social systems. Early efforts linking environments and social systems, such as cultural ecology, neofunctionalism, systems ecology. Current research trends including evolutionary ecology, indigenous resource management, and historical ecology. Case studies: agricultural involution in Java, ritual regulation in New Guinea, demographic change in the Swiss Alps, peasant ecology in Central America, and indigenous resource management in Amazonia. (DA-A)
| 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.
| Units: 4-5
ANTHRO 380A:
Topics in the Anthropology of China and Taiwan
Topics vary. May be repeated for credit.
| Units: 3-5
| Repeatable
for credit
