printer friendly pageANTHRO 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
Instructors:
Malkki, L. (PI)
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
Instructors:
Aldrich, C. (PI)
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
Instructors:
Harmand, S. (PI)
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Klein, R. (PI)
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.
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
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
Instructors:
Kohrman, M. (PI)
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
Instructors:
Kunanbaeva, A. (PI)
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.
| 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.
Instructors:
Brown, M. (PI)
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
Instructors:
Befu, H. (PI)
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