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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: By consent of instructor. Significant work outside of class time is expected of the student for this course.

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: By consent of instructor. Significant work outside of class time is expected of the student for this course.

Required of second-year Ph.D. students in the archaeology 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: By consent of instructor. Significant work outside of class time is expected of the student for this course

Required graduate seminar. The history of anthropological theory and key theoretical and methodological issues of the discipline. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.

Required graduate seminar for CS track. The history of anthropological theory and key theoretical and methodological issues in cultural anthropology. Prerequistes: this course is open only to Ph.D. students in anthropology or by permission of the instructor.

Is the past dead or alive? Where do we find it? What possibilities emerge when we discover it? This course explores how people think and live with history in the present, how different places can harbor different times, and how movement between them can create the effect of time travel. We will read monographs that bring the historian's concern with chronology, historicity, and change into dialogue with the anthropological themes of ritual, myth, and kinship. By synthesizing anthropological and historical approaches to time, we will learn how to build temporally capacious perspectives that unsettle commonplace divisions such as medieval-modern, colonial-postcolonial, and imperial-national. Prerequisite: By consent of instructor. Significant work outside of class time is expected of the student for this course.

Women of Color Feminisms

This graduate seminar examines East Asia through a "hauntological" lens by focusing on its qualities of "spectrality" made manifest as a spatial, phenomenological, and imaginal condition. At a moment when global geopolitical changes and renewed imperial ambitions consume public attention in the United States and around the world, this seminar attends to the relevance of the lingering past in order to grapple with the contemporary conditions in East Asia. How might renewed attention to the "spectrality" of contemporary Asia's national and interstitial states reorient and destabilize our notions of time, being, and place? Focusing on recent anthropological and ethnographic accounts of the spectral and ethereal in Asia to understand the politics at the margins, this course takes seriously the spectral images, imaginations, and phantoms of inequity, division, and historical legacy, or as Byron Good recently put it, "the anthropology of being haunted" as a means of grappling with the future of Asia as an entity and identity.

Inheritance is an ordinary English word that is a very difficult concept. Inheritance brings things together rather than specifying or narrowing them. Is it a "historical process" that leaves within you an "infinity of traces without leaving an inventory" (Gramsci), is it a refusal "of proffered desire" (Rose) of projects that claim you when you would otherwise? What are the prime sites where we can "see" inheritance at work? This class is a beginning into some of this terrain, picking some of these threads rather than all. It will focus on three major themes: property; the family; the psychic, and discuss them in relation to two forms, 1) that which is known to be inherited (even as secrets) and 2) that which is unknown that we inherit anyway. We will often read full length ethnographies and significant chunks of historical and sociological scholarship to pick out our own interpretations. Readings in the class deal with time and "deep time", law and property , movement and circulation, the familial and reproducible, and trauma and the unconscious. Throughout, readings examine how inheritance is structured through racialization, class and gender. The final project (which can take multiple forms as long as it is agreed upon with the instructor) will be to think through inheritance through your own work. Students are encouraged to work on this final project throughout the class.