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This course provides an introduction to psychological and psychiatric anthropology, the sub discipline in which anthropologists pay careful attention to phenomenological and subjective experience. We will read some classics and more contemporary material, and include a focus on methods and writerly representation. Significant work outside of class time is expected of the student for this course.

This course surveys approaches to the study of language and semiotics, examining the relationship between sign and body, interaction and institution, narrative and action, and discourse and practice. Readings include both core writings in semiotic theory and contemporary anthropology. We will be especially attentive to the links between theoretical and methodological questions in ethnographic research. One major focus of the course will be to explore how students can apply key concepts of semiotic theory (genre, voicing, poetics, performance) in their own research projects. Significant work outside of class time is expected of the student for this course.

Cultural anthropologists have made significant contributions to studies that link culture and economy. Drawing together a range of cross-cultural debates, as these emerge in theoretical discussions and ethnographies, this graduate seminar explores themes that include value, property, cultural production, and consumption.

Anthropological research and knowledge production across multiple traditional and new media platforms and practices including film, video, photography, theatre, design, podcast, mobile apps, interactive games, web-based social networking, and augmented reality

This course examines how race is made. We will pay close attention to how people engage with material, economic, scientific, and cultural forces to articulate human group difference as a given, and even natural. In this seminar, we will look at the reality of race as a literally constructed phenomenon, where historical, colonial, bodily, market, penal, and humanitarian constituent elements both circulate and sediment racial understandings. To focus our readings and discussions we will divide this vast terrain into three units: race and the colonial encounter, race and biopower, and race in systems of capital accumulation.

This interdisciplinary course explores how modern African histories, bodies, and natures have been entangled with technological activities. Viewing Africans as experts and innovators, we consider how technologies have mediated, represented, or performed power in African societies. Topics include infrastructure, extraction, medicine, weapons, communications, sanitation, and more. Themes woven through the course include citizenship, mobility, labor, bricolage, in/formal economies, and technopolitical geographies, among others. Readings draw from history, anthropology, geography, and social/cultural theory. PhD Students in History completing the two-quarter graduate research seminar requirement should enroll in HISTORY 449A in Winter and 449B in Spring quarter.

The goal of this seminar is to explore the phenomenological method and its relevance for ethnographic and historical research. We will discuss work by Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, Sartre, Levinas, Petitmengin, and others in the philosophical tradition, and work by those in the empirical tradition like James, Jaspers, Parnas and Sass, Hufford, Taves, Radcliffe and others, and read them alongside ethnographic and historical work which sets out to understand subjective experiences like depression, trauma, identity, mysticism, smell and despair. Prerequisite: By instructor consent. Significant work outside of class time is expected of the student in this course.

This seminar will focus on recent and seminal texts in Medical Anthropology, broadly construed.Prerequisite: by instructor consent

In this course we will explore contemporary issues of culture and power rooted in science, medicine, technology and futurist proposals to better the human condition. We will investigate anthropological and ethnographic-based theories and methods to propose alternative ethical solutions to those with narrow technological fixes. Our readings will be rooted in examining global stratification, economic sources of migration, human biases regarding climate and nature, as well as the routinization of norms around sexual power, labor exploits, privacy infringements, data sharing, and pervasive automation. The course will be structured as a writing workshop with frequent, short writing assignments to be shared with others in the course. The workshop format will facilitate the course goal of each person producing at least one publishable article or other product of public-facing intervention at the end of the quarter.