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ANTHRO 182A: Down and Out: Marginal Lives and Institutional Technologies (ANTHRO 282A)

This course examines the neglect and management of socially marginalized persons including the mentally ill, youth runaways, child wards of the state, drug addicts and prisoners. In this course, we will approach the concept of marginality by investigating the spaces and institutions of decay, neglect and rehabilitation to which unwanted and indigent individuals are relegated. Readings are focused on qualitative research conducted within institutions of health, welfare, and reform. There will be two comparative public mental health sections in this course: one focused on South Asia and the second on Africa. This course is relevant for students interested in medical anthropology, applied anthropology, public health policy, or clinical careers in medicine, psychology, or social work.
Terms: Win | Units: 5
Instructors: Marrow, J. (PI)

ANTHRO 183: Ecology, Evolution, and Human Health (ANTHRO 283)

This course examines human ecology, human environments, adaptation and plasticity, and their relationship to health and well-being. All are considered in the broad comparative context. Topics include human population history, subsistence ecology, demography, reproductive decision making, migration, infectious disease, risk management, and social inequalities. Particular attention will be paid to small-scale subsistence populations. Small-scale societies demonstrate an enormous range of variation in both environmental challenges faced and adaptations thereto. The process of human adaptation simply can not be understood in the absence of a broad grounding in this range of challenge and adaptation.
Terms: Spr | Units: 3-5 | UG Reqs: GER:EC-GlobalCom
Instructors: Jones, J. (PI)

ANTHRO 184: Spirituality and Healing (HUMBIO 179S)

The puzzle of symbolic healing. How have societies without the resources of modern medicine approached healing? Why do these rituals have common features around the world? Shamanism, spirit possession, prayer, and the role of placebos in modern biomedicine. Students do ethnographic work and practical explorations along with more traditional scholarly approaches to learning.
Terms: Win | Units: 3-5 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
Instructors: Luhrmann, T. (PI)

ANTHRO 192: Capstone Course: Careers in Anthropology

This course offers senior Anthropology majors the opportunity to explore various professional and career options open to trained anthropologists, while offering individualized support for postgraduate planning. Enrollment limited to Anthropology majors and minors, required of majors in EE, CS and MED tracks.
Terms: Win | Units: 3
Instructors: Coll, K. (PI)

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.

ANTHRO 200C: STS Senior Capstone (STS 200C)

Genetics, Ethics and Society. This course will explore three socially transforming components of genetics research that hold simultaneously liberating and constraining possibilities for populations and publics, both locally and globally. Topically the course will be divided into three sections. First, we will examine past and present issues dealing with the study of human subjects, as well as recent proposals to eventually bring full genome scans to every individual (personal genomics). Next we will learn of large-scale projects that aim to map the presence of environmental pathogens by their genetic signatures on a planetary scale and how different global populations may be affected. The last section of the course will focus on still other projects and policies that aim to expand the scope and capacity of state and international law enforcement through DNA-based forensics (the FBI CODIS database and the UK¿s Human Provenance Pilot Project). Projects like the latter also overlap with theories about community, families, and citizens who may or may not be linked through DNA. New concepts, such as the forensic "genetic informant" within a family unit, human DNA and isotope ¿country matches¿ in cases of state asylum, and DNA based kinship rules for family reunification in many Western countries, will be explored. In all three sections we will also examine scientific ethics when subject populations are minorities, or somehow structurally disadvantaged globally.nn This capstone course will provide students with tools to explore and critically assess the various technical, social, and ethical positions of researchers, as well as the role of the state and certain publics in shaping scientific research agendas that promise to reorganize critical aspects of human life. Students will be encouraged to explore these dynamics within such important societal domains as health, law, markets of bio-surveillance, and the growing industry of disease and heritage DNA identity testing among others. We will read works from social scientists of science practice, ethicists, medial humanists and scientists. This course will equip students with tools to write about the intersection of science and society and to engage in a research project that relates to the topical foci of the course, broadly conceived.
Terms: Spr | Units: 5 | UG Reqs: WAY-SI

ANTHRO 201: Introduction to Cultural and Social Anthropology (ANTHRO 1)

Crosscultural anthropological perspectives on human behavior, including cultural transmission, social organization, sex and gender, culture change, technology, war, ritual, and related topics. Case studies illustrating the principles of the cultural process. Films.
Terms: Spr | Units: 5
Instructors: Ferguson, J. (PI)

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)

ANTHRO 205A: Archaeological Fieldwork: Critical Analysis and Practical Application (ANTHRO 105A)

This introduction to archaeological fieldwork involves both field and seminarnncomponents, each component meeting once per week. During the field sessions,nnwe will investigate an archaeological site on campus using methods of survey,nnmapping, testing, and excavation (digging, recording units/features, profilennillustration). In seminar, we will critically examine archaeological fieldworknnthrough reading, writing, and discussion, exploring topics such as history ofnnarchaeological excavation, production of archaeological knowledge, disjuncturennbetween theory and practice, reflexive methodologies, ethics, collaboration, andnnspecialization. No experience necessary, but students with fieldwork experiencennare welcome.
Terms: Spr | Units: 2-3
Instructors: Reinhart, K. (PI)

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: Spr | Units: 5
Instructors: Klein, R. (PI)
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