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 Archeology (ARCHLGY 1)
Aims, methods, and data in the study of human society's development from early hunters through late prehistoric civilizations. Archaeological sites and remains characteristic of the stages of cultural development for selected geographic areas, emphasizing methods of data collection and analysis appropriate to each.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-A-II, WAY-SI
ANTHRO 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 10SC:
Darwin, Evolution, and Galapagos (HUMBIO 17SC)
Lessons from the study of flora and fauna in Galapagos from Darwin's time to today. Adaptation, sexual selection, speciation, andadaptive radiation. The challenges the Galapagos Islands pose for conservation.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 2
ANTHRO 12:
Anthropology and Art
Modernity. How the concept of art appears timeless and commonsensical in the West, and with what social consequences. Historicizing the emergence of art. Modernist uses of primitive, child art, asylum, and outsider art.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
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.
Terms: Win
| 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.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
ANTHRO 19Q:
Hauntings, Visions, and Prophecy
Preference to sophomores. Why do people see ghosts? Why do people believe that stars foretell the future? When do people see demons and angels? Focus is on the conditions under which people experience themselves as having sensory evidence of supernatural phenomena and the role of training and expectation in the process. Intellectual exploration of what is known from the ethnographic, historical, and psychological record. Practical experimental projects involve attempting to induce positive supernatural experience. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Terms: Win
| Units: 1-3
ANTHRO 21N:
The Anthropology of Globalization
Preference to freshmen. Anthropological approach to how cultural change, economic restructuring, and political mobilization are bound up together in the process of globalization.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
ANTHRO 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: Win
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-AmerCul
ANTHRO 22N:
Ethnographies of North America: An Introduction to Cultural and Social Anthropology
Preference to freshmen. Ethnographic look at human behavior, including cultural transmission, social organization, sex and gender, culture change, and related topics in N. America. Films.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
ANTHRO 31:
Ecology, Evolution, and Human Health
Human adaptation and plasticity (the ability of an individual with a given genotype to change its phenotype), human environments, and their relationship to health and well-being. Environment in the broadest sense including not just the physical and biotic but the social and psychological. Topics include the evolution of plasticity and reaction norms, the physiology of stress and the inflammatory response, demography, reproductive decision making, urbanization, migration, infectious disease, social capital and social networks, nutrition, nutritional deficiencies, growth, metabolic syndrome, and social inequalities. No prior course work in ecological or medical anthropology required.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom
ANTHRO 4:
Language and Culture
Comparative approach, using examples from many languages. Emphasis is on generally non-Western speech communities. Topics include: the structure of language; the theory of signs; vocabulary and culture; grammar, cognition, and culture (linguistic relativism and determinism); encodability of cultural information in language; language adaptiveness to social function; the ethnography of speaking; registers; discourse (conversation, narrative, verbal art); language and power; language survival and extinction; and linguistic ideology (beliefs about language).
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
ANTHRO 60A:
Stanford Alpine Archaeology Project 2010
Alpine Archaeology is a discipline that applies traditional archaeology in montane contexts. While survey and excavation are standard methodologies, topography and climate bear on archaeological praxes in different ways. Soil chemistry in alpine contexts' testable by pH and other parameters - usually integrates less organic material and more geological material. Material preservation in alpine contexts factors in cold temperature for up to half a year with resulting lower diffusion for reduced oxidation and inhibited deterioration of organic materials. Because of montane environment, this course incorporates elements of paleoclimatology (including glaciation) and geomorphology (including geological processes of long term orogeny and erosion). Alpine ecology is studied including natural vegetation zones from 1000-3000 meters, along with transhumance, trade patterns, deforestation, constricted seasonal agriculture and anthropogenic change as well as restricted mobility along natural corridors (pass routes from lowlands to highlands to lowlands.
Terms: Sum
| Units: 3
ANTHRO 82:
Medical Anthropology (ANTHRO 282)
Emphasis is on how health, illness, and healing are understood, experienced, and constructed in social, cultural, and historical contexts. Topics: biopower and body politics, gender and reproductive technologies, illness experiences, medical diversity and social suffering, and the interface between medicine and science.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
ANTHRO 90A:
History of Archaeological Thought (ARCHLGY 103)
Introduction to the history of archaeology and the forms that the discipline takes today, emphasizing developments and debates over the past five decades. Historical overview of culture, historical, processual and post-processual archaeology, and topics that illustrate the differences and similarities in these theoretical approaches.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 90B:
Theory of Cultural and Social Anthropology
Preference to Anthropology majors. Anthropological interpretations of other societies contain assumptions about Western societies. How underlying assumptions and implicit categories have influenced the presentation of data in major anthropological monographs. Emphasis is on Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, and anthropological analyses of non-Western societies.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
ANTHRO 90C:
Theory of Ecological and Environmental Anthropology (HUMBIO 118)
Dynamics of culturally inherited human behavior and its relationship to social and physical environments. Topics include a history of ecological approaches in anthropology, subsistence ecology, sharing, risk management, territoriality, warfare, and resource conservation and management. Case studies from Australia, Melanesia, Africa, and S. America.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
ANTHRO 91A:
Archaeological Methods (ARCHLGY 102)
Methodological issues related to the investigation of archaeological sites and objects. Aims and techniques of archaeologists including: location and excavation of sites; dating of places and objects; analysis of artifacts and technology and the study of ancient people, plants, and animals. How these methods are employed to answer the discipline's larger research questions.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 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.
Last offered: Winter 2009
| 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);
Briault, C. (PI);
Brown, M. (PI);
Burce, A. (PI);
Chua, J. (PI);
Coll, K. (PI);
Contreras, D. (PI);
Costanzo, C. (PI);
Curran, L. (PI);
DeGusta, D. (PI);
Domanska, E. (PI);
Duffey, C. (PI);
Durham, W. (PI);
Ebron, P. (PI);
Engel, C. (PI);
Ferguson, J. (PI);
Fox, J. (PI);
Gibbs, J. (PI);
Glover, S. (PI);
Hodder, I. (PI);
Hubbard, L. (PI);
Hunt, C. (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);
Love, S. (PI);
Luhrmann, T. (PI);
Makarewicz, C. (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);
Salkeld, D. (PI);
Truncer, J. (PI);
Voss, B. (PI);
Wilcox, M. (PI);
Williams, B. (PI);
Yanagisako, S. (PI);
Coughlan, S. (GP)
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);
Briault, C. (PI);
Brown, M. (PI);
Burce, A. (PI);
Chua, J. (PI);
Coll, K. (PI);
Contreras, D. (PI);
Costanzo, C. (PI);
Curran, L. (PI);
DeGusta, D. (PI);
Domanska, E. (PI);
Duffey, C. (PI);
Durham, W. (PI);
Ebron, P. (PI);
Engel, C. (PI);
Ferguson, J. (PI);
Fox, J. (PI);
Gibbs, J. (PI);
Glover, S. (PI);
Hodder, I. (PI);
Hubbard, L. (PI);
Hunt, C. (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);
Love, S. (PI);
Luhrmann, T. (PI);
Makarewicz, C. (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);
Salkeld, D. (PI);
Truncer, J. (PI);
Voss, B. (PI);
Wilcox, M. (PI);
Williams, B. (PI);
Yanagisako, S. (PI);
Coughlan, S. (GP)
ANTHRO 96:
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);
Briault, C. (PI);
Brown, M. (PI);
Burce, A. (PI);
Chua, J. (PI);
Coll, K. (PI);
Contreras, D. (PI);
Costanzo, C. (PI);
Curran, L. (PI);
DeGusta, D. (PI);
Domanska, E. (PI);
Duffey, C. (PI);
Durham, W. (PI);
Ebron, P. (PI);
Engel, C. (PI);
Ferguson, J. (PI);
Fox, J. (PI);
Gibbs, J. (PI);
Glover, S. (PI);
Hodder, I. (PI);
Hubbard, L. (PI);
Hunt, C. (PI);
Inoue, M. (PI);
Irvine, D. (PI);
Jain, S. (PI);
Jobin, M. (PI);
Jones, J. (PI);
Karp-Toledo, E. (PI);
Klein, R. (PI);
Kohrman, M. (PI);
Kunanbaeva, A. (PI);
Lee, S. (PI);
Love, S. (PI);
Luhrmann, T. (PI);
Makarewicz, C. (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);
Salkeld, D. (PI);
Truncer, J. (PI);
Voss, B. (PI);
Wilcox, M. (PI);
Williams, B. (PI);
Yanagisako, S. (PI);
Coughlan, S. (GP)
ANTHRO 98E:
Catalhoyuk and Neolithic Archaeology
Catalhoyuk as a case study to understand prehistoric social life during the Neolithic in Anatolia and the Near East. Developments in agriculture, animal domestication, material technology, trade, art, religion, skull cults, architecture, and burial practices. Literature specific to Catalhoyuk and other excavations throughout the Anatolian and Levantine regions to gain a perspective on diversity and variability throughout the Neolithic. The reflexive methodology used to excavate Catalhoyuk, and responsibilities of excavators to engage with larger global audiences of interested persons and stakeholders.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 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: Spr
| 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 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: Aut
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom
ANTHRO 106:
Incas and their Ancestors: Peruvian Archaeology
The development of high civilizations in Andean S. America from hunter-gatherer origins to the powerful, expansive Inca empire. The contrasting ecologies of coast, sierra, and jungle areas of early Peruvian societies from 12,000 to 2,000 B.C.E. The domestication of indigenous plants which provided the economic foundation for monumental cities, ceramics, and textiles. Cultural evolution, and why and how major transformations occurred. (HEF II, III; DA-B)
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
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 121:
Language and Prehistory (ANTHRO 221)
Language classification and its implications for human prehistory. The role of linguistic data in analyzing prehistoric populations, cultures, contact, and migrations. Comparison of linguistic and biological classifications. Reconstruction, proto-vocabularies, and culture. Archaeological decipherment and the origins and evolution of writing. Archaeological and genetic evidence for human migrations. (DA-A; HEF II,III)
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom
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 124:
Maya Mythology and the Popol Vuh
The mythology and folklore of the ancient Maya, emphasizing the relationship between the 16th-century Quiché Maya mythological epic Popol Vuh (Book of the Council) and classic lowland Maya art, architecture, religion, and politics. General Mesoamerican mythology. Anthropological and other theories of mythology. Class participates in the creation of a web project on the Popol Vuh.
| Units: 3-5
ANTHRO 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 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 131:
The Politics of Humanitarianism (ANTHRO 231)
Anthropological approaches to contemporary practices of humanitarian intervention. How social theory can inform the politics of humanitarianism, charity, and philanthropy. Focus is on Africa from the colonial era to the present.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
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: 5
ANTHRO 135H:
CSRE House Seminar: Race and Ethnicity at Stanford (CSRE 135H)
Race, ethnicity, gender, and religion using the tools, analytical skills and concepts developed by anthropologists.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 3-6
ANTHRO 135I:
CSRE House Seminar: Race and Ethnicity at Stanford (CSRE 135I)
Race, ethnicity, gender, and religion using the tools, analytical skills and concepts developed by anthropologists.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-6
ANTHRO 135J:
CSRE House Seminar: Race and Ethnicity at Stanford (CSRE 135J)
Race, ethnicity, gender, and religion using the tools, analytical skills and concepts developed by anthropologists.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-6
ANTHRO 138A:
The Paleolithic of Africa (ANTHRO 238A, ARCHLGY 118, ARCHLGY 218)
A review of African Stone Age archaeology. The history of African Stone Age research; pre-Oldowan, Oldowan, Acheulean, Middle, and Late Stone Age cultures; and the human fossil record, hominid evolution, and the behavioral characteristics of early humans in Africa from an evolutionary perspective. Cultural variation and environmental adaptation, diffusion and/or evolution of technical behaviors, and the role of changes in environmental conditions on human mobility and technical behavior.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
ANTHRO 144A:
Introduction to Feminist Studies (FEMST 101)
What is feminism and why does it matter today? Debates over the status and meaning of feminism in the 21st century. Feminist theories and practices across topics that intersect with gender inequality such as race, health, socioeconomics, sexual orientation, international perspectives, new media, civil rights, and political change. Perspectives from philosophy, education, visual culture, literary and ethnic studies, performance and expressive arts, and social sciences.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-Gender, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
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.
Last offered: Winter 2009
| 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 148:
Health, Politics, and Culture of Modern China (ANTHRO 248)
One of the most generative regions for medical anthropology inquiry in recent years has been Asia. This seminar is designed to introduce upper division undergraduates and graduate students to the methodological hurdles, representational challenges, and intellectual rewards of investigating the intersections of health, politics, and culture in contemporary China.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
ANTHRO 148A:
Nomads of Eurasia: Culture in Transition (ANTHRO 248A)
Traditional peoples of Central and Inner Asia; their lifestyles and cultural history. Modern research approaches and recent fieldwork data published mainly in Russian and Central Asian languages. Audio-visual materials.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 151:
Women, Fertility, and Work (ANTHRO 251, HUMBIO 148W)
How do choices relating to bearing, nursing, and raising children influence women's participation in the labor force? Cultural, demographic, and evolutionary explanations, using crosscultural case studies. Emphasis is on understanding fertility and work in light of the options available to women at particular times and places.
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-Gender
ANTHRO 153A:
Japan's Postwar Cultural History (ANTHRO 253A)
Cultural and social history of Japan since WWII. Falling birth rates, changing family structure, decreasing and then increasing divorce rates, coping with societal aging, expansion of higher education, solving new educational problems, increasing variability of work situation, introduction of foreign workers. Attention to the legacy of Tokugawa and pre-war Japan as antecedent to postwar developments.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
ANTHRO 161:
Human Behavioral Ecology (ANTHRO 261)
Theory, method, and application in anthropology. How theory in behavioral ecology developed to understand animal behavior is applied to questions about human economic decision making in ecological and evolutionary contexts. Topics include decisions about foraging and subsistence, competition and cooperation, mating, and reproduction and parenting.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-SI, WAY-SMA
ANTHRO 161B:
Human Ecology of the Amazon (ANTHRO 261B, LATINAM 202, LATINAM 302)
The ecosystems of the Amazon and their human inhabitants. The biotic and abiotic factors shaping human adaptation to the region. Ethnographic literature used to explore subsistence patterns and the resource use of native Amazonians. Current changes in these economies and lifeways due to acculturation and market forces, and the implications for conservation.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 164A:
Anthropology of Ecotourism
Ecotourism has been touted as a win-win scenario for both biodiversity conservation and the well-being of local residents. In practice, these lofty ideals of ecotourism have proven difficult to implement. The rapid development of ecotourism over the last two decades. Focus is on the scholarly literature relating to ecotourism from both supporting and critical perspectives.
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 165A:
People and Parks: Management of Protected Areas
As resources become scarcer, parks increasingly serve as ideological battlegrounds for contested core human values and often put livelihoods at stake. Their historical development and the complex array of present-day issues associated with the formal protection of biodiversity. The ideas behind parks and the evolution of these ideas.
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 166:
Political Ecology of Tropical Land Use: Conservation, Natural Resource Extraction, and Agribusiness (ANTHRO 266)
Seminar. The state, private sector, development agencies, and NGOs in development and conservation of tropical land use. Focus is on the socioeconomic and political drivers of resource extraction and agricultural production. Case studies used to examine the local-to-global context from many disciplines. Are maps and analyses used for gain, visibility, accountability, or contested terrain? How are power dynamics, land use history, state-private sector collusion, and neoliberal policies valued? What are the local and extra-local responses? Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
ANTHRO 171:
The Biology and Evolution of Language (ANTHRO 271, HUMBIO 145L)
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.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER: DB-NatSci, WAY-SMA
ANTHRO 173:
Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change: Resilence, Vulnerability, and Environmental Justice (HUMBIO 111)
The complexity of social and political issues surrounding global environmental change. Emphasis is on synergies precipitated by human-induced climatic change. Case studies and scenarios to explore the vulnerability and resilience in households, communities, regions, and nationmstates most affected by extreme weather conditions. Their concerns, livelihood changes, and diverse responses of rural smallholders, indigenous communities, the state, and local and regional migrants. Central theme is environmental justice.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
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: Win
| 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.
Last offered: Winter 2009
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-Gender
ANTHRO 181:
Culture and Madness: Anthropological Approaches to Psychiatric Illness (ANTHRO 281, HUMBIO 146)
Interdisciplinary. Culture and social context on the identification, course, and outcome of psychiatric illness. What is known from psychiatry about the nature of illness as a biomedical process and from anthropology about the life course of illness within particular settings. Prerequisite: Human Biology core or equivalent or consent of instructor.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
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?
Last offered: Spring 2009
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI
ANTHRO 197:
Internship in Anthropology
Opportunity for students to pursue their specialization in an institutional setting such as a laboratory, clinic, research institute, or government agency. May be repeated for credit
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);
Briault, C. (PI);
Brown, M. (PI);
Burce, A. (PI);
Chua, J. (PI);
Coll, K. (PI);
Contreras, D. (PI);
Costanzo, C. (PI);
Curran, L. (PI);
DeGusta, D. (PI);
Domanska, E. (PI);
Duffey, C. (PI);
Durham, W. (PI);
Ebron, P. (PI);
Engel, C. (PI);
Ferguson, J. (PI);
Fox, J. (PI);
Gibbs, J. (PI);
Glover, S. (PI);
Hodder, I. (PI);
Hubbard, L. (PI);
Hunt, C. (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);
Love, S. (PI);
Luhrmann, T. (PI);
Makarewicz, C. (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);
Salkeld, D. (PI);
Truncer, J. (PI);
Voss, B. (PI);
Wilcox, M. (PI);
Williams, B. (PI);
Yanagisako, S. (PI);
Coughlan, S. (GP)
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: Aut
| 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 221:
Language and Prehistory (ANTHRO 121)
Language classification and its implications for human prehistory. The role of linguistic data in analyzing prehistoric populations, cultures, contact, and migrations. Comparison of linguistic and biological classifications. Reconstruction, proto-vocabularies, and culture. Archaeological decipherment and the origins and evolution of writing. Archaeological and genetic evidence for human migrations. (DA-A; HEF II,III)
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
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 231:
The Politics of Humanitarianism (ANTHRO 131)
Anthropological approaches to contemporary practices of humanitarian intervention. How social theory can inform the politics of humanitarianism, charity, and philanthropy. Focus is on Africa from the colonial era to the present.
Terms: Aut
| 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: 5
ANTHRO 238A:
The Paleolithic of Africa (ANTHRO 138A, ARCHLGY 118, ARCHLGY 218)
A review of African Stone Age archaeology. The history of African Stone Age research; pre-Oldowan, Oldowan, Acheulean, Middle, and Late Stone Age cultures; and the human fossil record, hominid evolution, and the behavioral characteristics of early humans in Africa from an evolutionary perspective. Cultural variation and environmental adaptation, diffusion and/or evolution of technical behaviors, and the role of changes in environmental conditions on human mobility and technical behavior.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
ANTHRO 23N:
Glimpses of Divinity
Preference to freshmen. How human beings search for and identify the presence of the divine in everyday human life. Sources include spiritual classics in the Christian, Jewish, and Hindu traditions including works by Augustine, Teresa of Avila, Jonathan Edwards, the Bhagavad Gita, the Zohar, and some ethnographies of non-literate traditions.
| Units: 3
ANTHRO 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.
Last offered: Winter 2009
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 248:
Health, Politics, and Culture of Modern China (ANTHRO 148)
One of the most generative regions for medical anthropology inquiry in recent years has been Asia. This seminar is designed to introduce upper division undergraduates and graduate students to the methodological hurdles, representational challenges, and intellectual rewards of investigating the intersections of health, politics, and culture in contemporary China.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
ANTHRO 248A:
Nomads of Eurasia: Culture in Transition (ANTHRO 148A)
Traditional peoples of Central and Inner Asia; their lifestyles and cultural history. Modern research approaches and recent fieldwork data published mainly in Russian and Central Asian languages. Audio-visual materials.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 24N:
Maya Hieroglyphic Writing
Preference to freshmen. Decipherment of classic Maya writing. Principles of archaeological decipherment. Maya calendrical, astronomical, historical, mythological, and political texts on stone, wood, bone, shell, murals, ceramics, and books (screenfold codices). Archaeology and ethnohistory of Maya scribal practice and literacy. Related Mesoamerican writing systems. The evolution of writing and the relevance of writing to theories of culture and civilization.
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom
ANTHRO 251:
Women, Fertility, and Work (ANTHRO 151, HUMBIO 148W)
How do choices relating to bearing, nursing, and raising children influence women's participation in the labor force? Cultural, demographic, and evolutionary explanations, using crosscultural case studies. Emphasis is on understanding fertility and work in light of the options available to women at particular times and places.
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 253A:
Japan's Postwar Cultural History (ANTHRO 153A)
Cultural and social history of Japan since WWII. Falling birth rates, changing family structure, decreasing and then increasing divorce rates, coping with societal aging, expansion of higher education, solving new educational problems, increasing variability of work situation, introduction of foreign workers. Attention to the legacy of Tokugawa and pre-war Japan as antecedent to postwar developments.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
ANTHRO 261:
Human Behavioral Ecology (ANTHRO 161)
Theory, method, and application in anthropology. How theory in behavioral ecology developed to understand animal behavior is applied to questions about human economic decision making in ecological and evolutionary contexts. Topics include decisions about foraging and subsistence, competition and cooperation, mating, and reproduction and parenting.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
ANTHRO 261B:
Human Ecology of the Amazon (ANTHRO 161B, LATINAM 202, LATINAM 302)
The ecosystems of the Amazon and their human inhabitants. The biotic and abiotic factors shaping human adaptation to the region. Ethnographic literature used to explore subsistence patterns and the resource use of native Amazonians. Current changes in these economies and lifeways due to acculturation and market forces, and the implications for conservation.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 264:
EcoGroup: Current Topics in Ecological, Evolutionary, and Environmental Anthropology
Seminar; restricted to graduate students. Topics vary with instructor. How to ask appropriate questions, how to derive research hypotheses from theory, how to design methodologies for testing hypotheses, and how to present results by reading and critiquing key contemporary papers in the field. Ph.D. students enrolling in this course to fulfill the department review course requirement must enroll in 5 units. Graduate students enrolling in this course to participate in a topical forum may enroll in 2 units. Course may be repeated for 2 units. Prerequisites: by consent of instructor.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| Repeatable
for credit
ANTHRO 266:
Political Ecology of Tropical Land Use: Conservation, Natural Resource Extraction, and Agribusiness (ANTHRO 166)
Seminar. The state, private sector, development agencies, and NGOs in development and conservation of tropical land use. Focus is on the socioeconomic and political drivers of resource extraction and agricultural production. Case studies used to examine the local-to-global context from many disciplines. Are maps and analyses used for gain, visibility, accountability, or contested terrain? How are power dynamics, land use history, state-private sector collusion, and neoliberal policies valued? What are the local and extra-local responses? Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
ANTHRO 271:
The Biology and Evolution of Language (ANTHRO 171, HUMBIO 145L)
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.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
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 281:
Culture and Madness: Anthropological Approaches to Psychiatric Illness (ANTHRO 181, HUMBIO 146)
Interdisciplinary. Culture and social context on the identification, course, and outcome of psychiatric illness. What is known from psychiatry about the nature of illness as a biomedical process and from anthropology about the life course of illness within particular settings. Prerequisite: Human Biology core or equivalent or consent of instructor.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
ANTHRO 282:
Medical Anthropology (ANTHRO 82)
Emphasis is on how health, illness, and healing are understood, experienced, and constructed in social, cultural, and historical contexts. Topics: biopower and body politics, gender and reproductive technologies, illness experiences, medical diversity and social suffering, and the interface between medicine and science.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 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);
Briault, C. (PI);
Brown, M. (PI);
Burce, A. (PI);
Chua, J. (PI);
Coll, K. (PI);
Contreras, D. (PI);
Costanzo, C. (PI);
Curran, L. (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);
Love, 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);
Williams, B. (PI);
Yanagisako, S. (PI);
Coughlan, S. (GP)
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);
Briault, C. (PI);
Brown, M. (PI);
Burce, A. (PI);
Chua, J. (PI);
Coll, K. (PI);
Contreras, D. (PI);
Costanzo, C. (PI);
Curran, L. (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);
Hunt, C. (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);
Love, 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);
Williams, B. (PI);
Yanagisako, S. (PI);
Coughlan, S. (GP)
ANTHRO 30:
Linguistic Field Methods (LINGUIST 174, LINGUIST 274A)
Practical training in the collection and analysis of linguistic data from native speakers of a language largely unknown to the investigator. Documentation of endangered languages. Research goals, field trip preparation, ethics (including human subjects, cooperation with local investigators, and governmental permits), working in the community, technical equipment, and analytical strategies. Emphasis is on the use of recording devices and computers in collection and analysis. Prerequisite: introductory course in linguistics.
| Units: 3-5
ANTHRO 300:
Reading Theory Through Ethnography
Required of and restricted to first-year 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. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
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 302:
Theory and History of Evolution and Ecology
Evolutionary and ecological theory from the 19th century to present. Theory and concepts from evolution and ecology, emphasizing an-thropological applications. Evolutionary theories of human behavior, culture, and societies. Ecological theory behind carrying capacity, sustainable yield, and population growth. Emphasis is on tools of analysis and formulating research questions in anthropology today. Upper division undergrads require consent of instructor.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 306:
Anthropological Research Methods
Required of ANTHRO Ph.D. students; open to all graduate students. Research methods and modes of evidence building in ethnographic research. Enrollment limited to 10. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 308:
Proposal Writing Seminar
Required of second-year Ph.D. students in the culture and society track. The conceptualization of dissertation research problems, the theories behind them, and the methods for exploring them. Participants draft a research prospectus suitable for a dissertation proposal and research grant applications. Limited enrollment. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 310G:
Introduction to Graduate Studies
Required graduate seminar. The history of anthropological theory and key theoretical and methodological issues of the discipline. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 2
ANTHRO 311G:
Introduction to Culture and Society Graduate Studies in Anthropology
Required graduate seminar for CS track. The history of anthropological theory and key theoretical and methodological issues in cultural anthropology. Prerequistes: for 1st year PhD students in the cultural and society track or by permission of the instructor.
Terms: Win, Spr
| Units: 1-3
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 3 units total)
ANTHRO 32:
Theories in Race and Ethnicity
Concepts and theories of race and ethnicity in the social sciences and cultural studies. U.S. based definitions, ideas, and problems of race and ethnicity are compared to those that have emerged in other areas of the world.
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
ANTHRO 324:
Political Anthropology
An anthropological approach to politics through bringing anthropological ways of thinking and modes of analysis to bear on key presuppositions of modern Western political thought. Ideas of rights, the individual, society, liberty, democracy, equality, and solidarity; ethnographic accounts used to identify the limits of conventional analytical approaches and to document the forms of politics that such approaches either ignore or misunderstand. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 326:
Postcolonial and Indigenous Archaeologies
The role of postcolonial and Indigenous archaeologies as emergeant disciplinary activities within contemporary society. Community based archaeologies; the roles of oral history, landscape, and memory; archaeology as political action; and history in archaeological projects. The emergence of Indigenous archaeology within N. America in relation to limitations imposed by processual or new archaeology; and NAGPRA, Kennewick, essentialism, and terminal narratives within this context. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 327:
Language and Political Economy
Theories of language: Saussure, Jakobson, Hymes, Marx, Foucault, Butler, and Derrida. The theorization of language in its linkages to power, social relations, and history. Prerequisites: Linguistics or Anthropology course work. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 332:
Transformative Design (ENGR 231)
Project-based. How interactive technologies can be designed to encourage behavioral transformation. Topics such as self-efficacy, social support, and mechanism of cultural change in domains such as weight-loss, energy conservation, or safe driving. Lab familiarizes students with hardware and software tools for interaction prototyping. Students teams create functional prototypes for self-selected problem domains. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
ANTHRO 333A:
The Cultural Politics of Ambiguity
Contemporary conceptual approaches to understanding the politics and production of certainty, ambiguity, and doubt. The seemingly ambiguous nature of the science of industrial pollution and contamination exonerate corporate and government polluters from rising rates of cancer, while the science of liberal economic models seems to create no alternative to massive economic subsidies of the financial sector. How culpability, exoneration, transformative action, institutional stasis, and political rely on the production of certainty, ambiguity, and doubt. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 338:
Anthropological Approaches to Religion
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 343:
Culture as Commodity
Focus is on theories of commodification, interests in tourism, national cultures as marketable objects, and how identities are constituted through production and consumption. The formation of global style and taste. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 345:
New Visions in Medical Anthropology
Recent experimental histories of the field. Emphasis is on how, working within anthropology's classic format, the ethnographic monograph, authors have innovatively responded to the challenges of representing amorphous, unspoken, and often violent relationships between the body and social change. The authors' expository techniques, and how they engage and extend theoretical debate. How to assess works within medical anthropology and its allied fields. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 349:
Anthropology of Capitalism
Issues in cultural theory and methodology through research on people who have greater material and cultural resources than those usually studied by anthropologists. How ideas about ideology, hegemony, identity, power, and practice are altered in studying those considered to be agents of power rather than the subaltern. Topics: global capitalism, masculinity, white racial subjectivity. Enrollment limited to 20. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 357:
Other Minds: Puzzles in Psychiatric and Psychological Anthropology
Problems in the way anthropologists explore other minds anthropologically and the ways in which anthropologists seek to understand the models of other minds held by the people observed. Topics include theory of mind, witchcraft, belief, empathy, psychosis, trauma, Freud, Vygotsky, and cognitive dissonance. Prerequisite: consent of instructor. Under grads cannot take this class without permission of the instructor.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 362A:
Introduction to Human Evolution, Ecology, Genetics, and Culture
Themes and topics of lasting heuristic value in the anthropological sciences. Combines the lecture content of 2A and 2B with a discussion section for graduate students. Must be taken in the Autumn Quarter of a student's first year in the graduate program.
Last offered: Autumn 2008
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 374:
Archaeology of Colonialism/Postcolonialisms
Advanced graduate seminar focused on the archaeology of colonial and postcolonial contexts, both prehistoric and historic. Emphasis on intersections between archaeological research and and subaltern, postcolonial, and transnational feminist/queer theory. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
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. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Terms: Win
| 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);
Briault, C. (PI);
Brown, M. (PI);
Burce, A. (PI);
Chua, J. (PI);
Coll, K. (PI);
Contreras, D. (PI);
Costanzo, C. (PI);
Curran, L. (PI);
DeGusta, D. (PI);
Domanska, E. (PI);
Duffey, C. (PI);
Durham, W. (PI);
Ebron, P. (PI);
Engel, C. (PI);
Ferguson, J. (PI);
Fox, J. (PI);
Gibbs, J. (PI);
Glover, S. (PI);
Hodder, I. (PI);
Hubbard, L. (PI);
Hunt, C. (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);
Love, S. (PI);
Luhrmann, T. (PI);
Makarewicz, C. (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);
Salkeld, D. (PI);
Truncer, J. (PI);
Voss, B. (PI);
Wilcox, M. (PI);
Williams, B. (PI);
Yanagisako, S. (PI);
Coughlan, S. (GP)
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);
Briault, C. (PI);
Brown, M. (PI);
Burce, A. (PI);
Chua, J. (PI);
Coll, K. (PI);
Contreras, D. (PI);
Costanzo, C. (PI);
Curran, L. (PI);
DeGusta, D. (PI);
Domanska, E. (PI);
Duffey, C. (PI);
Durham, W. (PI);
Ebron, P. (PI);
Engel, C. (PI);
Ferguson, J. (PI);
Fox, J. (PI);
Gibbs, J. (PI);
Glover, S. (PI);
Hodder, I. (PI);
Hubbard, L. (PI);
Hunt, C. (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);
Love, S. (PI);
Luhrmann, T. (PI);
Makarewicz, C. (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);
Salkeld, D. (PI);
Truncer, J. (PI);
Voss, B. (PI);
Wilcox, M. (PI);
Williams, B. (PI);
Yanagisako, S. (PI);
Coughlan, S. (GP)
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);
Briault, C. (PI);
Brown, M. (PI);
Burce, A. (PI);
Chua, J. (PI);
Coll, K. (PI);
Contreras, D. (PI);
Costanzo, C. (PI);
Curran, L. (PI);
DeGusta, D. (PI);
Domanska, E. (PI);
Duffey, C. (PI);
Durham, W. (PI);
Ebron, P. (PI);
Engel, C. (PI);
Ferguson, J. (PI);
Fox, J. (PI);
Gibbs, J. (PI);
Glover, S. (PI);
Hodder, I. (PI);
Hubbard, L. (PI);
Hunt, C. (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);
Love, S. (PI);
Luhrmann, T. (PI);
Makarewicz, C. (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);
Salkeld, D. (PI);
Truncer, J. (PI);
Voss, B. (PI);
Wilcox, M. (PI);
Williams, B. (PI);
Yanagisako, S. (PI);
Coughlan, S. (GP)
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);
Briault, C. (PI);
Brown, M. (PI);
Burce, A. (PI);
Chua, J. (PI);
Coll, K. (PI);
Contreras, D. (PI);
Costanzo, C. (PI);
Curran, L. (PI);
DeGusta, D. (PI);
Domanska, E. (PI);
Duffey, C. (PI);
Durham, W. (PI);
Ebron, P. (PI);
Engel, C. (PI);
Ferguson, J. (PI);
Fox, J. (PI);
Gibbs, J. (PI);
Glover, S. (PI);
Hodder, I. (PI);
Hubbard, L. (PI);
Hunt, C. (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);
Love, S. (PI);
Luhrmann, T. (PI);
Makarewicz, C. (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);
Salkeld, D. (PI);
Truncer, J. (PI);
Voss, B. (PI);
Wilcox, M. (PI);
Williams, B. (PI);
Yanagisako, S. (PI);
Coughlan, S. (GP)
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: ;
Briault, C. (PI);
Coll, K. (PI);
Curran, L. (PI);
Engel, C. (PI);
Hunt, C. (PI);
Klein, R. (PI);
Love, S. (PI);
Makarewicz, C. (PI);
Salkeld, D. (PI);
Williams, B. (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);
Briault, C. (PI);
Brown, M. (PI);
Burce, A. (PI);
Chua, J. (PI);
Coll, K. (PI);
Contreras, D. (PI);
Costanzo, C. (PI);
Curran, L. (PI);
DeGusta, D. (PI);
Domanska, E. (PI);
Duffey, C. (PI);
Durham, W. (PI);
Ebron, P. (PI);
Engel, C. (PI);
Ferguson, J. (PI);
Fox, J. (PI);
Gibbs, J. (PI);
Glover, S. (PI);
Hodder, I. (PI);
Hubbard, L. (PI);
Hunt, C. (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);
Love, S. (PI);
Luhrmann, T. (PI);
Makarewicz, C. (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);
Salkeld, D. (PI);
Truncer, J. (PI);
Voss, B. (PI);
Wilcox, M. (PI);
Williams, B. (PI);
Yanagisako, S. (PI);
Coughlan, S. (GP)
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);
Briault, C. (PI);
Brown, M. (PI);
Burce, A. (PI);
Chua, J. (PI);
Coll, K. (PI);
Contreras, D. (PI);
Costanzo, C. (PI);
Curran, L. (PI);
DeGusta, D. (PI);
Domanska, E. (PI);
Duffey, C. (PI);
Durham, W. (PI);
Ebron, P. (PI);
Engel, C. (PI);
Ferguson, J. (PI);
Fox, J. (PI);
Gibbs, J. (PI);
Glover, S. (PI);
Hodder, I. (PI);
Hubbard, L. (PI);
Hunt, C. (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);
Love, S. (PI);
Luhrmann, T. (PI);
Makarewicz, C. (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);
Salkeld, D. (PI);
Truncer, J. (PI);
Voss, B. (PI);
Wilcox, M. (PI);
Williams, B. (PI);
Yanagisako, S. (PI);
Coughlan, S. (GP)
ANTHRO 440:
Teaching Assistantship
Supervised experience as assistant in one undergraduate course.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 3-5
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors: ;
Ahmad, T. (PI);
Aldrich, C. (PI);
Barnett, C. (PI);
Befu, H. (PI);
Beliso-DeJesus, A. (PI);
Bird, D. (PI);
Bird, R. (PI);
Briault, C. (PI);
Brown, M. (PI);
Burce, A. (PI);
Chua, J. (PI);
Coll, K. (PI);
Contreras, D. (PI);
Costanzo, C. (PI);
Curran, L. (PI);
DeGusta, D. (PI);
Domanska, E. (PI);
Duffey, C. (PI);
Durham, W. (PI);
Ebron, P. (PI);
Engel, C. (PI);
Ferguson, J. (PI);
Fox, J. (PI);
Gibbs, J. (PI);
Glover, S. (PI);
Hodder, I. (PI);
Hubbard, L. (PI);
Hunt, C. (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);
Love, S. (PI);
Luhrmann, T. (PI);
Makarewicz, C. (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);
Salkeld, D. (PI);
Truncer, J. (PI);
Voss, B. (PI);
Wilcox, M. (PI);
Williams, B. (PI);
Yanagisako, S. (PI);
Coughlan, S. (GP)
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);
Briault, C. (PI);
Brown, M. (PI);
Burce, A. (PI);
Chua, J. (PI);
Coll, K. (PI);
Contreras, D. (PI);
Costanzo, C. (PI);
Curran, L. (PI);
DeGusta, D. (PI);
Domanska, E. (PI);
Duffey, C. (PI);
Durham, W. (PI);
Ebron, P. (PI);
Engel, C. (PI);
Ferguson, J. (PI);
Fox, J. (PI);
Gibbs, J. (PI);
Glover, S. (PI);
Hodder, I. (PI);
Hubbard, L. (PI);
Hunt, C. (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);
Love, S. (PI);
Luhrmann, T. (PI);
Makarewicz, C. (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);
Salkeld, D. (PI);
Truncer, J. (PI);
Voss, B. (PI);
Wilcox, M. (PI);
Williams, B. (PI);
Yanagisako, S. (PI);
Coughlan, S. (GP)
ANTHRO 451:
Directed Individual Study
Supervised work for a qualifying paper, examination, or project with an individual faculty member.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-15
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors: ;
Ahmad, T. (PI);
Aldrich, C. (PI);
Barnett, C. (PI);
Befu, H. (PI);
Beliso-DeJesus, A. (PI);
Bird, D. (PI);
Bird, R. (PI);
Briault, C. (PI);
Brown, M. (PI);
Burce, A. (PI);
Chua, J. (PI);
Coll, K. (PI);
Contreras, D. (PI);
Costanzo, C. (PI);
Curran, L. (PI);
DeGusta, D. (PI);
Domanska, E. (PI);
Duffey, C. (PI);
Durham, W. (PI);
Ebron, P. (PI);
Engel, C. (PI);
Ferguson, J. (PI);
Fox, J. (PI);
Gibbs, J. (PI);
Glover, S. (PI);
Hodder, I. (PI);
Hubbard, L. (PI);
Hunt, C. (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);
Love, S. (PI);
Luhrmann, T. (PI);
Makarewicz, C. (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);
Salkeld, D. (PI);
Truncer, J. (PI);
Voss, B. (PI);
Wilcox, M. (PI);
Williams, B. (PI);
Yanagisako, S. (PI);
Coughlan, S. (GP)
ANTHRO 452:
Graduate Internship
Provides graduate students with the opportunity to pursue their area of specialization in an institutional setting such as a laboratory, clinic, research institute, or government agency.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 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);
Briault, C. (PI);
Brown, M. (PI);
Burce, A. (PI);
Chua, J. (PI);
Coll, K. (PI);
Contreras, D. (PI);
Costanzo, C. (PI);
Curran, L. (PI);
DeGusta, D. (PI);
Domanska, E. (PI);
Duffey, C. (PI);
Durham, W. (PI);
Ebron, P. (PI);
Engel, C. (PI);
Ferguson, J. (PI);
Fox, J. (PI);
Gibbs, J. (PI);
Glover, S. (PI);
Hodder, I. (PI);
Hubbard, L. (PI);
Hunt, C. (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);
Love, S. (PI);
Luhrmann, T. (PI);
Makarewicz, C. (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);
Salkeld, D. (PI);
Truncer, J. (PI);
Voss, B. (PI);
Wilcox, M. (PI);
Williams, B. (PI);
Yanagisako, S. (PI);
Coughlan, S. (GP)
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);
Briault, C. (PI);
Brown, M. (PI);
Burce, A. (PI);
Chua, J. (PI);
Coll, K. (PI);
Contreras, D. (PI);
Costanzo, C. (PI);
Curran, L. (PI);
DeGusta, D. (PI);
Domanska, E. (PI);
Duffey, C. (PI);
Durham, W. (PI);
Ebron, P. (PI);
Engel, C. (PI);
Ferguson, J. (PI);
Fox, J. (PI);
Gibbs, J. (PI);
Glover, S. (PI);
Hodder, I. (PI);
Hubbard, L. (PI);
Hunt, C. (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);
Love, S. (PI);
Luhrmann, T. (PI);
Makarewicz, C. (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);
Salkeld, D. (PI);
Truncer, J. (PI);
Voss, B. (PI);
Wilcox, M. (PI);
Williams, B. (PI);
Yanagisako, S. (PI);
Coughlan, S. (GP)
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);
Briault, C. (PI);
Brown, M. (PI);
Burce, A. (PI);
Chua, J. (PI);
Coll, K. (PI);
Contreras, D. (PI);
Costanzo, C. (PI);
Curran, L. (PI);
DeGusta, D. (PI);
Domanska, E. (PI);
Duffey, C. (PI);
Durham, W. (PI);
Ebron, P. (PI);
Engel, C. (PI);
Ferguson, J. (PI);
Fox, J. (PI);
Gibbs, J. (PI);
Glover, S. (PI);
Hodder, I. (PI);
Hubbard, L. (PI);
Hunt, C. (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);
Love, S. (PI);
Luhrmann, T. (PI);
Makarewicz, C. (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);
Salkeld, D. (PI);
Truncer, J. (PI);
Voss, B. (PI);
Wilcox, M. (PI);
Williams, B. (PI);
Yanagisako, S. (PI);
Coughlan, S. (GP)
ANTHRO 90D:
Social Theory in the Anthropological Sciences
Required of majors. Foundational course in the history of social theory in anthropology from the late 19th century to the present. Major approaches to human culture and society: symbolic, social, material, and psychological. Questions about the role of theory in anthropology and how it can be applied to human issues. (HEF IV)
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
ANTHRO 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.
| 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.
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
ANTHRO 105:
Ancient Cities in the New World (ANTHRO 205)
Preindustrial urbanism as exemplified by prehispanic New World societies. Case studies: the central and southern highlands of Mesoamerica, and the Maya region. Comparative material from highland S. America.
| Units: 3-5
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 109A:
The Origins of Food Production and Village Life: Prehistoric Archaeology of the Near East (ANTHRO 209A, ARCHLGY 116, ARCHLGY 316)
Major transformations in human lifeways from ca 18,000 - 6,000 B.C.E. in the Near East, including the Levant, Anatolia, and Cyprus. The transition from hunting-gathering to agro-pastoralism, the emergence of sedentary lifeways, plant and animal domestication processes, the appearance of first villages and towns, and the social consequences of novel economic and settlement practices.
| Units: 3-5
ANTHRO 111:
Archaeology of Sex, Sexuality, and Gender (ANTHRO 211)
How archaeologists study sex, sexuality, and gender through the material remains left behind by past cultures and communities. Theoretical and methodological issues; case studies from prehistoric and historic archaeology.
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 113:
Faunal Analysis: Animal Remains for the Archaeologist (ANTHRO 213, BIO 166, BIO 266)
The analysis of fossil animal bones and shells to illuminate the behavior and ecology of prehistoric collectors, especially ancient humans. Theoretical and methodoloigcal issues. The identification, counting, and measuring of fossil bones and shells. Labs. Methods of numerical analysis.
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 114:
Prehistoric Stone Tools: Technology and Analysis (ANTHRO 214)
Archaeologists rely on an understanding of stone tools to trace much of what we know about prehistoric societies. How to make, illustrate, and analyze stone tools, revealing the method and theory intrinsic to these artifacts.
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
ANTHRO 117A:
Environment and Health: An Impact Assessment (HUMBIO 117)
The effects of environment upon human and animal health and vice versa, including impacts of climate change, local environment (urban/rural health issues), land-use change upon health issues such as asthma, cholera, and malaria. Emphasis is on interdisciplinary approaches including medicine, epidemiology, ecology, and environmental science. Health/environment topics from multiple levels, such as from the standpoint of the individual organism to the ecosystem. How such knowledge is applied to policy and public health. Students construct new conceptual models for health/environment case studies.
| Units: 3
ANTHRO 123:
Readings in Linguistic Anthropology (ANTHRO 223)
One or two major related works on language in its cultural context. Works for 2007-08 involve attempts to correlate linguistic and non-linguistic data for analysis of prehistoric human contact and migrations. May be repeated for credit.
| Units: 2
| Repeatable
for credit
ANTHRO 125A:
Anthropology of Postsocialism
Seminar. Central issues in the anthropology of postsocialism, including the transformation of identity, value, gender relations, consumption habits, meanings of labor, and daily practices in relation to political, economic, and social transformation. What role does the past play in shaping the present, a question that continues to be of importance to studies of places living after socialism.
| Units: 3
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 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 132A:
Colonialism: From Prehistory to the Present (ARCHLGY 215)
Seminar. Focus is on questions about colonialism. Why do societies practice colonialism? How do archaeologists and anthropologists study colonialism in the past? How do colonialism and imperialism differ? Is it accurate to speak of colonialism in the distant past, or in the present? Case studies may include classical Greece and Rome, premodern China, pre-Columbian America, and European colonialism in Indonesia and N. America.
| Units: 3-5
ANTHRO 135:
Cultural Studies
Identity, community, and culture; their interactions and formation.
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
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.
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
ANTHRO 142A:
Introduction to Egyptian Archaeology (ARCHLGY 113)
The culture of ancient Egypt, from the predynastic to the end of the New Kingdom (3500-1070 B.C.E.), using evidence from funerary and religious monuments, settlements, and mortuary records. Egyptian gods and myths, pyramids and mummies, defied kings and animals,. Sources includes art, texts, and archaeology. The ancient Egyptian worldview and how the Egyptians created and contested all aspects of their daily lives, for eternity. Field trips to local museum exhibitions.
| Units: 3-5
ANTHRO 150:
Identity and Peoples of China (ANTHRO 250)
Who is Chinese? Perspectives on being Chinese from Han and ethnic minorities in China, in Taiwan, and among overseas Chinese. Emphasis is on distinguishing forces contributing to identity formation from ideological rhetoric about identity. (HEF I, IV)
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom
ANTHRO 152A:
Urban Poverty and Inequality in Contemporary China
Experiences of poverty and inequality and their relationship to gender, space development, post-socialism, and globalization. How processes of class-making in China's cities are bound up with transformations in the country's sociopolitcal landscape.
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 162:
Indigenous Peoples and Environmental Problems (ANTHRO 262)
The social and cultural consequences of contemporary environmental problems. The impact of market economies, development efforts, and conservation projects on indigenous peoples, emphasizing Latin America. The role of indigenous grass roots organizations in combating environmental destruction and degradation of homeland areas.
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom
ANTHRO 163:
Conservation and Evolutionary Ecology (ANTHRO 263)
Environmental degradation resulting from human behavior, and what can be done about it. Patterns of interaction between people and environments, and why they vary over time and space. Topics include adaptation and behavior, resource acquisition and utilization, conflicts of interest, collective action problems, conspicuous consumption, waste, land management, and public policy.
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
ANTHRO 164B:
Anthropology of Tourism
As ¿the largest scale movement of goods, services, and people that humanity has ever seen,¿ tourism is an immense phenomenon and is currently the world¿s most immense industry, reaching some of the most remote people and places on the planet. Yet scholars have only begun to focus on the topic in recent decades. This seminar-style course will focus on the key anthropological and social science literature relating to tourism from both supporting and critical perspectives; however, tourism is an inherently multi-disciplinary subject and students from all disciplines are encouraged to enroll. After providing an initial overview of this phenomenon and field of study, later sections of the course will focus on emerging sub-types of tourism including sustainable tourism, ecotourism, agritourism, and geotourism to name just a few.
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 165:
Parks and Peoples: The Benefits and Costs of Protected Area Conservation
Seminar. Emphasis is on the social impact of parks and reserves. Integrated conservation and development projects (ICDPs) based on protected areas; alternative ways to derive local social benefits from them. Cases include Yellowstone, Manu, Galápagos, Ngorongoro, and Guanacaste.
| Units: 5
| Repeatable
for credit
ANTHRO 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 174:
Beginnings of Social Complexity (ANTHRO 274)
Models and examples of the social evolution of stratification and political centralization in prehistoric human societies. Inferences from the archaeological record concerning the forces and mechanisms behind the rise and fall of complex societies, particularly in S. America. (HEF II; DA-B)
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 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 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.
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 205:
Ancient Cities in the New World (ANTHRO 105)
Preindustrial urbanism as exemplified by prehispanic New World societies. Case studies: the central and southern highlands of Mesoamerica, and the Maya region. Comparative material from highland S. America.
| Units: 3-5
ANTHRO 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 209A:
The Origins of Food Production and Village Life: Prehistoric Archaeology of the Near East (ANTHRO 109A, ARCHLGY 116, ARCHLGY 316)
Major transformations in human lifeways from ca 18,000 - 6,000 B.C.E. in the Near East, including the Levant, Anatolia, and Cyprus. The transition from hunting-gathering to agro-pastoralism, the emergence of sedentary lifeways, plant and animal domestication processes, the appearance of first villages and towns, and the social consequences of novel economic and settlement practices.
| Units: 3-5
ANTHRO 210:
Examining Ethnographies
Eight or nine important ethnographies, including their construction, their impact, and their faults and virtues.
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 211:
Archaeology of Sex, Sexuality, and Gender (ANTHRO 111)
How archaeologists study sex, sexuality, and gender through the material remains left behind by past cultures and communities. Theoretical and methodological issues; case studies from prehistoric and historic archaeology.
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 213:
Faunal Analysis: Animal Remains for the Archaeologist (ANTHRO 113, BIO 166, BIO 266)
The analysis of fossil animal bones and shells to illuminate the behavior and ecology of prehistoric collectors, especially ancient humans. Theoretical and methodoloigcal issues. The identification, counting, and measuring of fossil bones and shells. Labs. Methods of numerical analysis.
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 214:
Prehistoric Stone Tools: Technology and Analysis (ANTHRO 114)
Archaeologists rely on an understanding of stone tools to trace much of what we know about prehistoric societies. How to make, illustrate, and analyze stone tools, revealing the method and theory intrinsic to these artifacts.
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 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 (ANTHRO 123)
One or two major related works on language in its cultural context. Works for 2007-08 involve attempts to correlate linguistic and non-linguistic data for analysis of prehistoric human contact and migrations. May be repeated for credit.
| Units: 2
| Repeatable
for credit
ANTHRO 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.
| Units: 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 250:
Identity and Peoples of China (ANTHRO 150)
Who is Chinese? Perspectives on being Chinese from Han and ethnic minorities in China, in Taiwan, and among overseas Chinese. Emphasis is on distinguishing forces contributing to identity formation from ideological rhetoric about identity. (HEF I, IV)
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 262:
Indigenous Peoples and Environmental Problems (ANTHRO 162)
The social and cultural consequences of contemporary environmental problems. The impact of market economies, development efforts, and conservation projects on indigenous peoples, emphasizing Latin America. The role of indigenous grass roots organizations in combating environmental destruction and degradation of homeland areas.
| Units: 3-5
ANTHRO 263:
Conservation and Evolutionary Ecology (ANTHRO 163)
Environmental degradation resulting from human behavior, and what can be done about it. Patterns of interaction between people and environments, and why they vary over time and space. Topics include adaptation and behavior, resource acquisition and utilization, conflicts of interest, collective action problems, conspicuous consumption, waste, land management, and public policy.
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 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 274:
Beginnings of Social Complexity (ANTHRO 174)
Models and examples of the social evolution of stratification and political centralization in prehistoric human societies. Inferences from the archaeological record concerning the forces and mechanisms behind the rise and fall of complex societies, particularly in S. America. (HEF II; DA-B)
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 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 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 303:
Introduction to Archaeological Theory
The history of archaeological thought emphasizing recent debates. Evolutionary theories, behavioral archaeology, processual and cognitive archaeology, and approaches termed feminist and post-processual archaeology in the context of wider debate in adjacent disciplines. The application and integration of theory on archaeological problems and issues. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
| 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. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 307:
Archaeological Methods and Research Design
Methodological aspects of field and laboratory practice from traditional archaeological methods to the latest interdisciplinary analytical techniques. The nature of archaeological data and inference; interpretive potential of these techniques. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 309:
Advanced Evolutionary Theory in Anthropological Sciences
History of evolutionary theory from the 19th century to present, emphasizing anthropological applications. Theory and concept in evolutionary biology; evolutionary theories of culture; and interactions of genetic, social, and cultural evolution and their implications. Emphasis is on tools of analysis and the value of evolutionary thinking for formulating research questions in anthropology today. Prerequisite: graduate standing or consent of instructor. (HEF II, III)
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 310C:
Intersections
Themes of materiality and visuality, aesthetic and other forms of cultural production, and the meanings of creativity and convention. Ethnographic and archaeological material and case studies from worldwide cultural contexts. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 311:
Ethnographic Writing
For graduate students writing or planning to write a dissertation using ethnographic methods. The choices made by the authors of ethnographies in constructing an argument, using data and speaking to an audience of readers. Readings include chapters written by class members currently writing dissertations. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
| Units: 3-5
ANTHRO 322:
From Biopolitics to Necropolitics and Beyond
Scholarship produced and informed by Michel Foucault. Focus is on the final period of Foucault¿s life; how his discussions of biopolitics, subjectification, governmentality, and death have served as touchstones for recent empirical research. Key interventions initially made under these rubrics; how anthropologists and others have applied, challenged, and extended them. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 331:
The Anthropology of Technology
Iconic discipline-building works of the last three decades; readings that lay out and intervene in contemporary debates. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 336:
Anthropology of Rights
Ideas of rights at the center of contemporary politics around the world. An anthropological perspective on how rights are invoked, claimed, and translated into institutional policies in ethnographic cases. The limitations of liberal notions of rights and innovative forms of politics emerging within and against rights talk. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 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. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 346A:
Sexuality Studies in Anthropology
Current research on sexuality from perspectives including paleoanthropology, archaeology, ethnography, and linguistic anthropology. Readings paired with case studies that explore theoretical and methodological issues. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 352:
Foucault: The Question of Method
Foucault as methodological exemplar for historical and social research. Emphasis is on his historical studies of clinical medicine, prisons, and sexuality, and on applying his methods to empirical studies of topics such as colonialism, race, and liberal governmental rationality.
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 355:
Cities in Global Perspective
Interdisciplinary approach to examining global cities. The concept of the global city, and the interdependent processes that help produce urban spaces. Situating the transformation of urban spaces within globalization and its differential effects; current explanatory frameworks that pay attention to multiple scales of spatial and economic articulation. Prerequisite: graduate standing.
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 356:
The Anthropology of Development
Multidisciplinary. Topics vary annually. Areas include Africa, S. Asia, and Latin America. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 363:
Demography and Life History Theory
Problems in demography and theoretical population biology applied to human systems. Emphasis is on establishing relationships between models in theoretical population biology and empirical demographic methodology. Topics include philosophy of models and model building, population dynamics, stable population theory, species interactions in human ecology, models of infectious diseases and their control, cultural evolution. Prerequisites: HUMBIO 137 or consent of instructor.
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 370:
Advanced Theory and Method in Historical Archaeology
Current debates about theory and method. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 371:
Proposal Writing for Archaeologists
The craft of writing research and grant proposals. Focus is on proposals for archaeological fieldwork and laboratory research. Students prepare their own research proposals. Restricted to and required of second-year doctoral students in the Department of Anthropology, Archaeology concentration. Others require consent of instructor.
| Units: 5
ANTHRO 375:
Archaeology and Globalism
The emergence of archaeology as a discipline in the context of the rise of the nation state. Global economies and other issues have created a new context for archaeology. How are archaeology and heritage responding? The idea of world heritage. The impact of postcolonialism. The commodification of the past: the past as theme park, as travel tourism or nostalgia, as exotic and other. Conflict between uses of the past for identity and as theme park; between heritage and resource or play. The impact of the Goddess, New Age, and other movements. Archaeology and human rights issues including forensic archaeology. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
| Units: 4-5
ANTHRO 380A:
Topics in the Anthropology of China and Taiwan
Topics vary. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
| Units: 3-5
| Repeatable
for credit
ANTHRO 395:
Introduction to Cultural and Social Anthropology: Faculty Research
Required of first-year ANTHRO Ph.D. May be repeated for a total of 5 units of credit over three quarters.
| Units: 1-2
| Repeatable
3 times
(up to 5 units total)
