NATIVEAM 111B: Muwekma: Landscape Archaeology and the Narratives of California Natives (ANTHRO 111C, ARCHLGY 111B)
This course explores the unique history of San Francisco Bay Area tribes with particular attention to Muwekma Ohlone- the descendent community associated with the landscape surrounding and including Stanford University. The story of Muwekma provides a window into the history of California Indians from prehistory to Spanish exploration and colonization, the role of Missionaries and the controversial legacy of Junipero Serra, Indigenous rebellions throughout California, citizenship and land title during the 19th century, the historical role of anthropology and archaeology in shaping policy and recognition of Muwekma, and the fight for acknowledgement of Muwekma as a federally recognized tribe. We will visit local sites associated with this history and participate in field surveys of the landscape of Muwekma.
Last offered: Spring 2023
| Units: 3-5
NATIVEAM 124: Pueblo Revolt (ARCHLGY 124C)
The pueblo revolt of 1680 is recognized as the most successful indigenous rebellion in the New World. The revolt demonstrates a powerful counter narrative to the official histories of colonial America. In this course, we discuss and interrogate the four pillars of settler colonial "terminal narratives"- disease and demographic collapse, military conquest, missionization and acculturation. We will explore the philosophical and legal justifications for Spanish colonization, the use of and impact of colonial violence against Native Peoples and the ways in which the collective experience of colonial violence helped motivate a powerful social movement among Native Peoples. We discuss the historiography of the southwest, the role of anthropology and archaeology in perpetuating the mythology of conquest and the formation of collective identity and community in New Mexico using primary historical texts and archaeological evidence
Last offered: Winter 2024
| Units: 4-5
OB 686: Theory and Research in Authenticity
This doctoral seminar will focus on contemporary theory and research on authenticity in people, products and services. We will draw from work in multiple disciplines including sociology, psychology, anthropology, tourism, music, and philosophy. Students will read and discuss articles weekly, with regular class presentations. The course will culminate in a student paper reporting original insights and theory and research on authenticity. Limited to 20 students.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Carroll, G. (PI)
OBGYN 81Q: Perspectives on the Abortion Experience in Western Fiction
Explores the role of media in delivering abortion-related messages as well as the broader questions of how abortion and related issues are fundamentally integrated into the social fabric of US and global societies. Abortion remains one of the most controversial and polarizing challenges of our time. Yet, it has been a clinical, social, political, and cultural fact in a broad swath of societies for centuries. As is common for such lightning rod issues, the topic of abortion has featured prominently in novels and films. Each treatment provides a unique perspective on at least one aspect of abortion, whether it be clinical, social, political or cultural. How abortion is portrayed in novels and films provides the student of history, anthropology, and biology with insights into the author's or director's perspectives, and into societal attitudes and mores.
Last offered: Spring 2023
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II
ORALCOMM 172: Love: Art, Science, and Practice
Love is said to be the key to everything from psychological development to achieving social justice. But as renowned psychologist Erich Fromm said as far back as the 1950's, love appears to be disintegrating in modern society. This may be partly because most of us don't in fact understand it very well. It may be true that, as the Beatles say, All You Need is Love, but it also seems, as Lady Gaga says, we Don't Know What Love Is. This class is designed to give students an opportunity to take a deep dive into the nature of love - its history, its practice, and how it has been studied - and develop your skills for communicating what you've learned through presentations to your peers. We will look at all types of love, from familial and brotherly to romantic and spiritual, and you will be introduced to conflicting ways it has been defined (a drive, an emotion, an orientation to the world, etc.), functions it has been given (reproduction, kinship, finding ultimate truth, etc.), and ways peo
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Love is said to be the key to everything from psychological development to achieving social justice. But as renowned psychologist Erich Fromm said as far back as the 1950's, love appears to be disintegrating in modern society. This may be partly because most of us don't in fact understand it very well. It may be true that, as the Beatles say, All You Need is Love, but it also seems, as Lady Gaga says, we Don't Know What Love Is. This class is designed to give students an opportunity to take a deep dive into the nature of love - its history, its practice, and how it has been studied - and develop your skills for communicating what you've learned through presentations to your peers. We will look at all types of love, from familial and brotherly to romantic and spiritual, and you will be introduced to conflicting ways it has been defined (a drive, an emotion, an orientation to the world, etc.), functions it has been given (reproduction, kinship, finding ultimate truth, etc.), and ways people have cultivated it (service, therapy, spiritual practice). The course will introduce you to how various disciplines such as anthropology, biology, psychology, and art approach a complex experience such as love. And it will introduce you to different ways we can talk about big topics like love, especially through short presentations about our own learning. You will write a short research paper, a short story, and at the end of the quarter you will make a formal oral presentation about what your research and writing has taught you. Click here for the form to apply:
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Terms: Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: WAY-CE, Writing 2
Instructors:
Willihnganz, J. (PI)
OSPCPTWN 20: Social Dynamics of Health in South Africa: A Medical Anthropological Perspective
This seminar introduces students to the field of anthropology's intersection with Health, Illness and Medical Histories. Drawing on discourses in Body politics, feminist theories of health and medical anthropological approaches to research, this seminar series seeks to question and explore the nature of health realities in South Africa and Africa more broadly. Essentially, it provides an intersectional exploration into how health is comparatively conceptualised using anthropology as the model of analysis. The series is presented discursively and students' lived-experience and critical reflections are welcomed. Topics covered in the course include anthropological configurations of 'the body' (including phenomenology and biopower) as well as the history and geography of medicine (something of a broad sweep of the impact of European medicinal encounters in Africa). The theoretical approach adopted will consider postcolonial theory, development theory, and feminist theories to unpack healt
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This seminar introduces students to the field of anthropology's intersection with Health, Illness and Medical Histories. Drawing on discourses in Body politics, feminist theories of health and medical anthropological approaches to research, this seminar series seeks to question and explore the nature of health realities in South Africa and Africa more broadly. Essentially, it provides an intersectional exploration into how health is comparatively conceptualised using anthropology as the model of analysis. The series is presented discursively and students' lived-experience and critical reflections are welcomed. Topics covered in the course include anthropological configurations of 'the body' (including phenomenology and biopower) as well as the history and geography of medicine (something of a broad sweep of the impact of European medicinal encounters in Africa). The theoretical approach adopted will consider postcolonial theory, development theory, and feminist theories to unpack health realities in South Africa and Africa more broadly. Typical to studies in health and well-being, the seminar series is interdisciplinary in its delivery and students are encouraged to engage critically with a broad range of literature and texts in order to grapple with the content. Thus, there are no prerequisites for doing the course and we welcome students with varying majors. The course will consist of weekly seminar sessions across 8 weeks (2 seminars per week, 16 seminar sessions in total)Instructor: Dr Efua Prah
Last offered: Winter 2022
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
OSPCPTWN 72: Cape Town as Archive: A Material and Ecological History of the Present
This 5-unit seminar will offer the maps and tools students need to navigate the social, political, historical, and geographical contexts that have shaped South Africa from the Colonial period to the post-Apartheid era. Because of its location at the tip of the continent and its extraordinary deposits of diamonds and minerals, South Africa has played a crucial role in the rise of globalization since the 1760s. Its unique ecological and social circumstances have placed Cape Town in a particular relation to the expansion of European power. The course seeks to better understand the global infrastructures that supported the exploitation of South Africa's ecology (through, for example, mining, the establishment of game parks, and the maintenance of a cheap labor force). The course will use theoretical tools from anthropology and literature to engage and analyze Africa as a site of extraction, and the ongoing impact of this history, including readings from decolonial and post-colonial movements across Africa.
Last offered: Autumn 2024
| Units: 5
OSPHONGK 66: Chinese Culture and Society in Transformation
This English-taught, introductory course provides a survey of Chinese culture and society. It focuses on basic social institutions and cultural norms in traditional Chinese society and their modern transformations. The readings, drawn mainly from the disciplines of history and anthropology, cover topics of family and kinship, marriage and gender relations, popular religion and rituals, ethnicity, community institutions, state power and its political control, and rural and urban political economies. The second half of the course draws particular attention to China's constant modernizing efforts in the past century, especially during the socialist revolution and post-Mao reforms, as well as their bearings upon contemporary Chinese social practices and cultural patterns. CUHK Course code: CHES2002, Enrollment limited.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
OSPHONGK 88: Meanings of Life
Learn about the processes through which individual meanings of life are formed and negotiated between individuals and their societies; you will learn this through reading and analysis of individual life stories in Japan and the United States. You will also learn about the evolution of senses of meaning indifferent societies across human history, from prehistory up until the present and future. These two areas of learning will enable you to think about societies past and present and about lives lived within these societies from a new perspective. You will also perhaps learn about how to think about your own life and meaning in a deeper and more conscious way; although this course is academic, it transcends the academic, to have a potential impact on your own thinking about your life. Although this course examines meanings of life from an anthropological perspective, no prior knowledge of anthropology is required: you can apply what you learn in this course to a wide range of disciplines and endeavors. Also enroll in CUHK course#ANTH2350. Enrollment limited.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
OSPISTAN 48: Gender and Politics
This class critically explores a variety of political, social, and economic processes through a gendered perspective. It perceives gender as an analytical category that continues to be shaped and reshaped as part of our everyday realities. Thus, this course is not about women's participation in formal political mechanisms. It considers femininities and masculinities together and conceptualizes politics outside of formal political procedures. The course is divided into three parts. During the first few weeks we begin by reviewing some of the processes through which gender has been constructed and how it can be used today as an analytical category. We specifically investigate complex notions such as gender, sex, femininity, masculinity, intersectionality and apply them to our understanding of politics, political economy and power. In the second and third parts of the course we use this foundation to explore various intersectional inequalities that govern everyday lives. We revisit variou
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This class critically explores a variety of political, social, and economic processes through a gendered perspective. It perceives gender as an analytical category that continues to be shaped and reshaped as part of our everyday realities. Thus, this course is not about women's participation in formal political mechanisms. It considers femininities and masculinities together and conceptualizes politics outside of formal political procedures. The course is divided into three parts. During the first few weeks we begin by reviewing some of the processes through which gender has been constructed and how it can be used today as an analytical category. We specifically investigate complex notions such as gender, sex, femininity, masculinity, intersectionality and apply them to our understanding of politics, political economy and power. In the second and third parts of the course we use this foundation to explore various intersectional inequalities that govern everyday lives. We revisit various issues of everyday politics and political economy from the perspective of often invisibilized experiences. We analyze a number of contemporary institutions, discourses and practices through themes of nations and states, ideologies of citizenship, labor practices and processes, development, economic globalization and international governance. By the end of this class, you will have the following competencies: (1) a working knowledge of main concepts of gender studies; (2) a mastery of main principles of feminist epistemology and methodology; (3) ability to apply these concepts and principles to political science problems; and (4) capability to analyze our everyday lives and problematize the multi-layered gender inequality problems around us. This course will begin online. The format will be updated with respect to public and university administration decisions. Lecture videos will not be available. However, PowerPoint slides and any supplementary material used in class will be available via Blackboard at the end of each week. You are encouraged to take this class if and only if you have already successfully completed a minimum of two years of course work toward your BA, and at least 2 of the following: introductory courses in political science, sociology, anthropology, and comparative politics.KU Course # INTL 325
Last offered: Autumn 2024
| Units: 3