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ANTHRO 134C: Movements and Migrations: Understanding the Movements of People (ARCHLGY 163, ASNAMST 163)

Mass movements of people across the world is not a new phenomenon. And yet, in the contemporary moment, the pace of migration from global business networks to displacements from violence and climate change as well as the interconnectivity of social networks is unprecedented. In this discussion seminar class, we will focus on the movements and migrations of people in North America. Though we will focus on the contemporary era, we start with examining the multiple ways that anthropologists understand, document, and make sense of the ways in which people have moved throughout history from bioanthropological, linguistic, archaeological, and ethnographic methodologies. We will further unpack some of the key theoretical discourses around the movement of people, and the frames of analysis that are commonly applied. By considering this topic through multiple lenses we will begin to appreciate the complexities of studying the movement of people and the relevance that these questions have to the present day. In addition to understanding the myriad of debates and case studies around movement and migration, students will develop their own research projects, learning essential skills in executing ethnographic approaches and applying the knowledge we survey throughout the course.
Last offered: Autumn 2022 | UG Reqs: WAY-EDP, WAY-SI

ANTHRO 134W: Elements of the Environment

What do trending TikTok diets have to do with biodiversity loss? This course examines environmental problems around bodily contamination, water scarcity, and climate change from a social and cultural perspective. It provides students with an interdisciplinary introduction to the complex relationship between society and the environment using theoretical and methodological approaches from anthropology, geography, and political ecology. From oil spills to celiac disease, this course explores how contemporary environmental problems related to consumption, production, and destruction are shaping - and being shaped by - the politics of race, gender, and class. The course begins with certain foundational texts about the knotty and intimate relations between nature and humanity. We will define and engage with key concepts in social studies of the environment like toxicity, embodiment, perspectivism, dispossession, and structural violence, among others. Readings in this course consider a range more »
What do trending TikTok diets have to do with biodiversity loss? This course examines environmental problems around bodily contamination, water scarcity, and climate change from a social and cultural perspective. It provides students with an interdisciplinary introduction to the complex relationship between society and the environment using theoretical and methodological approaches from anthropology, geography, and political ecology. From oil spills to celiac disease, this course explores how contemporary environmental problems related to consumption, production, and destruction are shaping - and being shaped by - the politics of race, gender, and class. The course begins with certain foundational texts about the knotty and intimate relations between nature and humanity. We will define and engage with key concepts in social studies of the environment like toxicity, embodiment, perspectivism, dispossession, and structural violence, among others. Readings in this course consider a range of topics, including: agroindustry, chronic disease, urban waste management, mineral extraction, and environmental activism. It will emphasize understanding these issues through a cross-cultural perspective in two ways: 1) by exploring how different cultural practices and forms of knowledge shape unequal environmental relations and 2) by drawing connections across diverse geographic and social contexts. Students will acquire the research skills to trace links between industrial pesticide use and diet culture, between oil spills and colonialism, and between access to clean water and urbanization. The aim of this course is to identify the subtle ways in which environmental politics?however distant they may seem - play out in our everyday lives, and to ask: can we do anything about it?
Terms: Win | Units: 3 | UG Reqs: WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
Instructors: Zhang, A. (PI)

ANTHRO 136C: Latin American Pasts: Archaeology and Cultural Heritage (ARCHLGY 136)

Latin America is vast in pre-colonial and colonial monuments. Past societies defined by archaeologists - Aztecas, Chavin, Chinchorro, Inka, Maya, Moche, Nazca, Tiahuanaco, among others - cohabit with Spanish colonial era structures and contemporary human settlements. Most studies on Latin America have focused on monuments, conservation and sustainability, overlooking economic and social struggles related to heritage use and management. Selecting certain case studies of famous archaeological sites, this class will explore the main characteristics of pre-Hispanic cultures from an archaeological perspective as well as from critical heritage studies. Currently, Latin American regions and entire states have adopted some of these 'archaeological cultures' and redefined them as their 'ancestors', adopting archaeological discourses in their daily lives. In addition to learning about these sites archaeologically, this class will analyze native communities´ claims, development projects, education narratives, nation-branding documentaries and marketing spots, memes, and other resources. The class will also consider the accelerated urban growth of these areas - a major feature of Latin American and global south countries - and the consequences for the development of heritage and its sustainable conservation in the Spanish-speaking Americas.
Last offered: Spring 2022 | UG Reqs: WAY-EDP, WAY-SI

ANTHRO 136W: Race in a Global Context

This seminar will explore how race is understood, lived, and deployed in modern societies around the world. The objective of the course is for students to understand that race is a historical, culturally constructed system of categorization with real structural and everyday political, social, and economic impacts, shaped by and mediated through both global and local processes. The course will begin by establishing race as a social and colonial construct from the complex and contested colonial project of 'race-making' while also foregrounding race as an analytic ripe for contemporary sociocultural analysis. Set up with this historical and conceptual background, students will explore the cultural dimensions of race in particular contexts around the world as they grapple with scholarly and public debates and discussions. While each week¿s readings are clustered around a common theme, students will be encouraged to apply concepts across case studies as they learn different approaches to studying race anthropologically. Course materials include ethnographies of race and readings, films, and podcasts on the histories and theories of race, colonialism, and empire.
Terms: Win | Units: 3 | UG Reqs: WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
Instructors: Cherian, A. (PI)

ANTHRO 137A: The Archaeology of Africa and African Diaspora History and Culture (AFRICAAM 125, ANTHRO 237A, ARCHLGY 137A, ARCHLGY 237A)

In recent decades, there has been a surge in archaeological research related to the African diaspora. What initially began as plantation archaeology and household archaeology to answer questions of African retention and identity, has now developed into an expansive sub-field that draws from collaborations with biological and cultural anthropologists. Similarly, methodological approaches have expanded to incorporate geospatial analysis, statistical analysis, and, more recently, maritime archaeological practices. The growth of African diaspora archaeology has thus pushed new methodological and theoretical considerations within the field of archaeology, and, inversely, added new insights in the field of Africana Studies. This course covers the thematic and methodological approaches associated with the historical archaeology of Africa and the African diaspora. Students interested in Africa and African diaspora studies, archaeology, slavery, and race should find this course useful. In addit more »
In recent decades, there has been a surge in archaeological research related to the African diaspora. What initially began as plantation archaeology and household archaeology to answer questions of African retention and identity, has now developed into an expansive sub-field that draws from collaborations with biological and cultural anthropologists. Similarly, methodological approaches have expanded to incorporate geospatial analysis, statistical analysis, and, more recently, maritime archaeological practices. The growth of African diaspora archaeology has thus pushed new methodological and theoretical considerations within the field of archaeology, and, inversely, added new insights in the field of Africana Studies. This course covers the thematic and methodological approaches associated with the historical archaeology of Africa and the African diaspora. Students interested in Africa and African diaspora studies, archaeology, slavery, and race should find this course useful. In addition to an overview of the development of African diaspora archaeology, students will be introduced to the major debates within the sub-field as well as its articulation with biological and socio-cultural anthropology. The course covers archaeological research throughout the wide geographical breadth of the African diaspora in Latin America, North America, the Caribbean, East, and West Africa, and the Indian Ocean. The themes covered include gender, race, identity, religion, and ethics in relation to the material record. Lectures will be supplemented with documentary films and other multimedia sources.
Terms: Aut | Units: 3-5 | UG Reqs: WAY-EDP, WAY-SI

ANTHRO 148: Health, Politics, and Culture of Modern China (ANTHRO 248, CHINA 155A, CHINA 255A)

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: Spr | Units: 3 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-SI, WAY-EDP
Instructors: Kohrman, M. (PI)

ANTHRO 180B: Investigating Ancient Materials (ANTHRO 280B, ARCHLGY 180, ARCHLGY 280, MATSCI 127, MATSCI 227)

If you wish to enroll, please use the linked form to request instructor consent: https://tinyurl.com/AncientMaterials - This course examines how concepts and methods from materials science are applied to the analysis of archaeological artifacts, with a focus on artifacts made from inorganic materials (ceramics and metals). Coverage includes chemical analysis, microscopy, and testing of physical properties, as well as various research applications within anthropological archaeology. Students will learn how to navigate the wide range of available analytical techniques in order to choose methods that are appropriate to the types of artifacts being examined and that are capable of answering the archaeological questions being asked. ----- If you wish to enroll, please use the linked form to request instructor consent: https://tinyurl.com/AncientMaterials For full consideration, this form must be submitted by Monday, September 4th.
Terms: Aut | Units: 3-4 | UG Reqs: WAY-SI, WAY-SMA
Instructors: Chastain, M. (PI)

ANTHRO 182N: Smoke and Mirrors in Global Health

A few years ago, health experts began calling out tobacco as engendering a global health crisis, categorizing the cigarette as the world's greatest weapon of mass destruction. A "global health crisis"? What merits that title if not tobacco use? A hundred million people were killed by tobacco in the 20th century, and ten times that number ¿ a billion people ¿ are predicted to die prematurely from exposure to cigarette smoke over the next hundred years. How has tobaccocome to be labeled a global health crisis over the last decade and what has been the political response? From whence does activism and ongoing complacency regarding tobacco arise? How are they created in different cultural contexts?This course aims to provide students conceptual tools to tackle two specific thought projects: (1) to understand how institutional actors compete to define a situation in the world today as a problem of global health, and (2) to understand the sociocultural means by which something highly dangerous to health such as the cigarette is made both politically contentious and inert. On both fronts, special attention will be given to the ways global health activism and complacency unfold in the U.S. and China.
Last offered: Winter 2020 | UG Reqs: WAY-SI

ANTHRO 186: Culture and Madness: Anthropological and Psychiatric Approaches to Mental Illness (ANTHRO 286, HUMBIO 146, PSYC 286)

Unusual mental phenomena have existed throughout history and across cultures. Taught by an anthropologist and psychiatrist, this course explores how different societies construct the notions of "madness": What are the boundaries between "normal" and "abnormal", reason and unreason, mind and body, diversity and disease? Optional: The course will be taught in conjunction with an optional two-unit discussion section.
Last offered: Spring 2023 | UG Reqs: WAY-EDP, WAY-SI

ANTHRO 196F: The Worlds of Labor in Modern India (HISTORY 296L)

This colloquium will introduce students to the exciting and expanding field of Indian labor history and provide them a comprehensive historiographical foundation in this area of historical research. Seminars will engage with one key monograph in the field every week, with selected chapters of the monograph set as compulsory reading. In these seminars, we will explore the world of the working classes and the urban poor in colonial and post-colonial India, as also the Indian labor diaspora. We will understand myriad workplaces such as jute and cotton mills, small workshops, farms and plantations. We will also explore forms of protest and political mobilization devised by workers in their struggles against structures of oppression and in their quest for a life of dignity. Most importantly, these seminars will train students in the methods deployed by labor historians to access the lives of the largely unlettered workers of the region who seldom left a trace of their consciousness in archival documents. Overall, we will connect the debates in the history of labor in modern India to wider discussions about the nature of capitalism, colonial modernity, gender, class, caste and culture.
Last offered: Winter 2022 | UG Reqs: WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
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