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ANTHRO 104: Tools for Meaningful Communities (LEAD 104, LIFE 104)

How can we live together and honor both difference and belonging? How do we create community amidst divisiveness and the existential threats of climate change, oppression of marginalized peoples, and our disconnection from ourselves and each other? We are inherently relational and have the potential to heal, flourish, and lead. Leadership and changemaking must be rooted in a commitment to deep inner work that cultivates wellbeing, insight, and wisdom. Inner work radiates outward to shape the systems that create and sustain our societies. In this class, grounded in your experiences at Stanford, you will cultivate skills and tools to enhance your intrapersonal, interpersonal and extrapersonal capacities to enact change for yourself and others. Working in teams, you will learn about and practice building community through the application of interdisciplinary frameworks that provide multiple perspectives on the transformation of the self, our relations with each other, our communities, and societal systems.
Last offered: Winter 2023 | UG Reqs: WAY-CE, WAY-EDP

ANTHRO 104B: Landscapes of Inequality: The Southwestern United (ARCHLGY 104B)

Inequality is one of the major social issues of the current moment in the United States. Racial, economic, and gender inequality has been even more pronounced in the fall out of the COVID-19 pandemic around the world. These injustices are identifiable at the individual and institutional level, but they also are enmeshed in the physical landscapes in which we live. What can archaeology (conventionally defined as the study of the past through material traces) help us learn about present day inequalities and landscapes? This course explores novel approaches to archaeological research across time in the Southwestern United States. We begin with material investigations of the experience of crossing the US-Mexico border, which demonstrate how the landscape itself is weaponized. We then move backwards in time to explore the intimate landscape of incarcerated people of Japanese Ancestry during WWII, where gardens were an important practice of persistence and opportunity for survivors to re-engage the past. Finally, we will explore how ancient Chacoan landscapes index the consolidation of power and hierarchy in the past, and are the site of struggles for indigenous sovereignty and environmental justice in the present. This course will introduce you to major themes in landscape studies and archaeology including: place-making, agency, regional analysis and ethics.
Last offered: Summer 2022

ANTHRO 104D: Introduction to Race and Technology (CSRE 104, SYMSYS 104)

How do ideas about race get encoded in the design of new technology? How have science and technology shaped our understanding of race and identity? Drawing on research in anthropology, history, media studies, STS, and beyond, we will consider how technology can reinforce and amplify racial inequality. From the 'scientific' origins of the concept of race in the 18th century to contemporary algorithms that attempt to detect a person's race from their image, we will explore how social ideas about race are both embedded in and transformed by technology. We will also highlight how communities of color have resisted the encroachment of harmful technologies and developed alternatives that promote racial justice. Topics covered will include: algorithmic bias, policing and borders, surveillance, disinformation, data colonialism, and labor issues like micro-tasking and data annotation. This introductory course has no prerequisites and welcomes students of all disciplines.
Last offered: Winter 2023

ANTHRO 106: Incas and their Ancestors: Peruvian Archaeology (ANTHRO 206A, ARCHLGY 102B)

The development of high civilizations in Andean S. America from hunter-gatherer origins to the powerful, expansive Inca empire. The contrasting ecologies of coast, sierra, and jungle areas of early Peruvian societies from 12,000 to 2,000 B.C.E. The domestication of indigenous plants which provided the economic foundation for monumental cities, ceramics, and textiles. Cultural evolution, and why and how major transformations occurred.
Last offered: Autumn 2019 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-SI

ANTHRO 106W: Ancient Andes: Politics, Economy, and Religion (ARCHLGY 106W)

More than 15,000 years ago, the first people settled in the Andes, a diverse landscape consisting of high mountain ranges, super arid deserts, and frigid ocean waters. These communities developed unique cultural, economic, and political strategies to thrive in this sometimes-harsh environmental milieu, creating spectacular adobe cities, intricate artworks, and cultivating the foodstuffs that make up the region's now-world famous cuisine. This seminar examines 3,000 years of Andean history and culture through an archaeological lens. Rather than attempting to review all of Andean history, we will study three salient themes: politics, economy, and religion. By looking at specific case studies from different cultural groups and societies (e.g., Chavín, Wari, Inka), we will tease apart how these three themes shaped Andean lifeways over the longue durée. We will study different Andean time periods but will attempt to do so in a way that looks beyond neo-evolutionary frameworks, in order to s more »
More than 15,000 years ago, the first people settled in the Andes, a diverse landscape consisting of high mountain ranges, super arid deserts, and frigid ocean waters. These communities developed unique cultural, economic, and political strategies to thrive in this sometimes-harsh environmental milieu, creating spectacular adobe cities, intricate artworks, and cultivating the foodstuffs that make up the region's now-world famous cuisine. This seminar examines 3,000 years of Andean history and culture through an archaeological lens. Rather than attempting to review all of Andean history, we will study three salient themes: politics, economy, and religion. By looking at specific case studies from different cultural groups and societies (e.g., Chavín, Wari, Inka), we will tease apart how these three themes shaped Andean lifeways over the longue durée. We will study different Andean time periods but will attempt to do so in a way that looks beyond neo-evolutionary frameworks, in order to situate the region within broader anthropological and archaeological discussions. Students are expected to complete assigned reading for the day prior to attending class and be prepared for group discussion. Through discussions of readings alongside written assignments, students will evaluate major debates in the field of Andean archaeology.

ANTHRO 110: Environmental Archaeology (ANTHRO 210, ARCHLGY 110)

This course investigates the field of environmental archaeology. Its goals are twofold: 1) to critically consider the intellectual histories of environmental archaeology, and, 2) to survey the various techniques and methods by which archaeologists assess historical environmental conditions through material proxies. The course will include lab activities.
Last offered: Winter 2022

ANTHRO 110B: Examining Ethnographies (ANTHRO 210B)

Eight or nine important ethnographies, including their construction, their impact, and their faults and virtues.
Terms: Win | Units: 5
Instructors: Ebron, P. (PI)

ANTHRO 111: Archaeology of Gender and Sexuality (ANTHRO 211B, ARCHLGY 129, FEMGEN 119)

How archaeologists study sex, sexuality, and gender through the material remains left behind by past cultures and communities. Theoretical and methodological issues; case studies from prehistoric and historic archaeology.
Terms: Spr | Units: 5 | UG Reqs: WAY-SI, WAY-EDP
Instructors: Voss, B. (PI)

ANTHRO 111C: Muwekma: Landscape Archaeology and the Narratives of California Natives (ARCHLGY 111B, NATIVEAM 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 2022

ANTHRO 112A: Archaeology of Human Rights (URBANST 147)

This introductory seminar provides a critical vantage point about human rights discourse from an archaeological perspective. The seminar is organized around four main questions: (1) Is cultural heritage a human right? (2) What are archaeologists learning about how the material and temporal dimensions of power and resistance? (3) How is archaeological evidence being used in investigations of human rights violations? (4) Can research about the past shape the politics of the present? Topics to be discussed include archaeological research on mass internment, colonialism, enslavement and coerced labor, ethnic cleansing, homelessness, gender discrimination, indigenous rights, and environmental justice.
Last offered: Spring 2018 | Repeatable 2 times (up to 5 units total)
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