printer friendly pageANTHRO 134: Object Lessons (ANTHRO 234)
Human-object relations in the processes of world making. Objectification and materiality through ethnography, archaeology, material culture studies, and cultural studies. Interpretive connotations around and beyond the object, the unstable terrain of interrelationships between sociality and materiality, and the cultural constitution of objects. Sources include: works by Marx, Hegel, and Mauss; classic Pacific ethnographies of exchange, circulation, alienability, and fetishism; and material culture studies.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
Instructors:
Weiss, L. (PI)
ANTHRO 139: Ethnography of Africa (ANTHRO 239)
The politics of producing knowledge in and about Africa through the genre of ethnography, from the colonial era to the present. The politics of writing and the ethics of social imagination. Sources include novels juxtaposed to ethnographies.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
ANTHRO 147: Nature, Culture, Heritage (ANTHRO 247)
Seminar. Shared histories of natural and cultural heritage and their subsequent trajectories into the present. How thought about archaeological sites and natural landscapes have undergone transformations due to factors including indigenous rights, green politics, and international tourism. The development of key ideas including conservation, wilderness, sustainability, indigenous knowledge, non-renewability and diversity. Case studies draw on cultural and natural sites from Africa, the Americas and Australia.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
Instructors:
Meskell, L. (PI)
ANTHRO 147A: Folklore, Mythology, and Islam in Central Asia (REES 247A)
Central Asian cults, myths, and beliefs from ancient time to modernity. Life crisis rites, magic ceremonies, songs, tales, narratives, taboos associated with childbirth, marriage, folk medicine, and calendrical transitions. The nature and the place of the shaman in the region. Sources include music from the fieldwork of the instructor and the Kyrgyz epoch
Manas. The cultural universe of Central Asian peoples as a symbol of their modern outlook.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
ANTHRO 148: Health, Politics, and Culture of Modern China (ANTHRO 248)
One of the most generative regions for medical anthropology inquiry in recent years has been Asia. This seminar is designed to introduce upper division undergraduates and graduate students to the methodological hurdles, representational challenges, and intellectual rewards of investigating the intersections of health, politics, and culture in contemporary China.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
Instructors:
Kohrman, M. (PI)
ANTHRO 149: South Asia: History, People, Politics (ANTHRO 249)
The South Asian subcontinent (comprising of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan and Sri Lanka) is one of the most diverse and densely populated regions in the world and increasingly prominent in new global political and cultural economies. South Asia has also provided the inspiration for cutting edge theories about the colonial state, postcolonial studies, democracy, popular culture, and religious conflict. The course will provide an overview of major historical events and social trends in contemporary South Asia and focus on themes such as gender, religion, caste, migration and movement, new technologies, the urban and rural, the state, and new forms of consumption among others.Thus, the course will give students historically and theoretically informed perspectives on contemporary South Asia, as well as how to apply insights learned to larger debates within the political and social sciences.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-SI, WAY-EDP
Instructors:
Thiranagama, S. (PI)
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.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-Gender
ANTHRO 155: Research Methods in Ecological Anthropology (ANTHRO 255)
The course prepare students for the methodological and practical aspects of doing ecologically oriented, quantitative anthropological field research. The primary goal is to explore what it means to ask anthropological questions in a systematic way. We will focus on understanding what can constitute an interesting question, how to frame a question in way that facilitates investigation, and how to design methods to begin investigating a question. In turn, the course will provide a format to refine research projects in preparation for doing more extensive fieldwork.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
Instructors:
Bird, D. (PI)
ANTHRO 161: Human Behavioral Ecology (ANTHRO 261, HUMBIO 117H)
Theory, method, and application in anthropology. How theory in behavioral ecology developed to understand animal behavior is applied to questions about human economic decision making in ecological and evolutionary contexts. Topics include decisions about foraging and subsistence, competition and cooperation, mating, and reproduction and parenting.
Last offered: Spring 2013
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-SI, WAY-SMA
ANTHRO 177: Environmental Change and Emerging Infectious Diseases (ANTHRO 277, HUMBIO 114)
The changing epidemiological environment. How human-induced environmental changes, such as global warming, deforestation and land-use conversion, urbanization, international commerce, and human migration, are altering the ecology of infectious disease transmission, and promoting their re-emergence as a global public health threat. Case studies of malaria, cholera, hantavirus, plague, and HIV.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
Instructors:
Durham, W. (PI)
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Jones, J. (PI)
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