ANTHRO 103: The Archaeology of Climate (ARCHLGY 106)
This course reviews the long-term relationships between human societies and Earth's climatic systems. It provides a critical review of how archaeologists have approached climate change through various case studies and historical paradigms (e.g., societal `collapse,¿ resilience, historical ecology) and also addresses feedbacks between past human land use and global climate change, including current debates about the onset of the Anthropocene.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Bauer, A. (PI)
ANTHRO 103A: Human Osteoarchaeology (ANTHRO 203A)
The course will cover the methodological and theoretical backgrounds to human osteoarchaeology, introduce the student to the chemical and physical characteristics of bone, and to the functional morphology of the human skeleton. Classes will consist of a taught component that outlines how osteoarchaeologists reconstruct individual life-histories based on age, sex etc.; this is combined with hands-on identification of different skeletal elements and the markers used to inform the analytical methods. Additional scientific methodologies are also introduced that increasingly form a major component of human osteoarchaeology.
Last offered: Spring 2014
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.
Terms: Sum
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Danis, A. (PI)
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 107: Black Political Struggle Across the Americas (AFRICAAM 137)
This course orients students to the intersections between Anthropology and Black Studies through a survey of select ethnographic, historical, literary, and cinematographic materials based on Black political mobilizations across Latin America and the Caribbean. Organized by themes, the course pairs anthropological scholarship on Black political mobilizations against racialized violence and dispossession with critical Black Studies theoretical texts this scholarship is in conversation with. These pairings center what contemporary Black political struggle across the Americas teaches us about Black suffering, police terror, the problems of neoliberal multiculturalism, and the potential of transnational connections. Through case studies from Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, Colombia, and Brazil, we ask: How have understanding the conditions of life of Black communities in the Americas contributed to and/or challenged broader theorizations of the State, violence, rights, and recognition? How do contemporary mobilizations and political imaginations of Black communities push the modern nation-state into crisis through demands for Black life? And how do these struggles theorize the time and space of the conditions of Black life through transnational politics?
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Morris, J. (PI)
ANTHRO 108B: Gender in the Arab and Middle Eastern City (FEMGEN 108B, URBANST 108B)
What are the components of gendered experience in the city, and how are these shaped by history and culture? How do meanings attributed to Islam and the Middle East obscure the specificity of women¿s and men¿s lives in Muslim-majority cities? This course explores gender norms and gendered experience in the major cities of Arab-majority countries, Iran and Turkey. Assigned historical and sociological readings contextualize feminism in these countries. Established and recent anthropological publications address modernity, mobility, reproduction, consumption, and social movements within urban contexts. Students will engage with some of the key figures shaping debates about gender, class, and Islam in countries of the region typically referenced as North Africa and the Middle East (MENA). They will also evaluate regional media addressing concerns about gender in light of the historical content of the course and related political concepts.
Last offered: Winter 2018
ANTHRO 109A: Archaeology of the Modern World (ANTHRO 209A, ARCHLGY 109A)
Historical archaeology, also called the archaeology of the modern world, investigates the material culture and spatial history of the past five centures. As a discipline, historical archaeology has been characterized by (1) a methodological conjunction between history and archaeology; (2) a topical focus on the ¿three Cs¿: colonization, captivity, and capitalism ¿ forces which arguably are constitutive of the modern world; and (3) an epistemological priority to recovering the perspectives of ¿people without history.¿ Each of these three trends is widely debated yet they continue to profoundly shape the field. This seminar provides an in-depth examination of the emergence and development of this historical archaeology, with a focus on current issues in theory and method. For undergraduates, the prerequisite is
Anthro 3 or consent of instructor.
Last offered: Autumn 2017
| UG Reqs: WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
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: Spring 2018
ANTHRO 110B: Examining Ethnographies (ANTHRO 210B)
Eight or nine important ethnographies, including their construction, their impact, and their faults and virtues.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Ebron, P. (PI)
ANTHRO 111: Archaeology of Gender and Sexuality (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.
Last offered: Autumn 2019
| UG Reqs: WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
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