ANTHRO 286: Culture and Madness: Anthropological and Psychiatric Approaches to Mental Illness (ANTHRO 186, HUMBIO 146)
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? The course will be taught in conjunction with a two unit engaged learning component which will place students in relevant settings.nnOptional: The course will be taught in conjunction with an optional two-unit engaged learning component
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Luhrmann, T. (PI)
;
Mason, D. (PI)
ANTHRO 293B: Master's Thesis Writing Seminar
May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Win
| Units: 2-4
| Repeatable
for credit
ANTHRO 299: Senior and Master's Paper Writing Workshop (ANTHRO 199)
Techniques of interpreting data, organizing bibliographic materials, writing, editing and revising. Preparation of papers for conferences and publications in anthropology. Seniors register for 199; master's students register for 299.
Terms: Win, Spr
| Units: 1-2
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors:
Wetsel, M. (PI)
ANTHRO 300: Reading Theory Through Ethnography
Required of and restricted to first-year ANTHRO Ph.D. students. Focus is on contemporary ethnography and related cultural and social theories generated by texts. Topics include agency, resistance, and identity formation, and discourse analysis. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Tambar, K. (PI)
ANTHRO 301: History of Anthropological Theory, Culture and Society
Required of Anthropology Ph.D. students. The history of cultural and social anthropology in relation to historical and national contexts and key theoretical and methodological issues as these inform contemporary theory and practices of the discipline. Enrollment limited to 15. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Ferguson, J. (PI)
ANTHRO 301A: Foundations of Social Theory
The purpose of this course is to introduce key themes in social theory - the social, the modern subject, reason, autonomy, civility, interests, exchange, morality, life, the senses - through a reading of classic texts from Descartes up to psychoanalysis and phenomenology. nnEach section has original texts, commentaries, and background readings that place these texts in their deeper historical setting. Many of these commentaries trace how practical theories of 'lower' or minor selves - the subject people of the colonies, slaves, and other - were integral to the very development of ideas of the modern, autonomous and reasonable self in the western world. Prerequisite, by instructor consent.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Hansen, T. (PI)
ANTHRO 303: Introduction to Archaeological Theory
The history of archaeological thought emphasizing recent debates. Evolutionary theories, behavioral archaeology, processual and cognitive archaeology, and approaches termed feminist and post-processual archaeology in the context of wider debate in adjacent disciplines. The application and integration of theory on archaeological problems and issues. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Bauer, A. (PI)
ANTHRO 306: Anthropological Research Methods
Required of ANTHRO Ph.D. students; open to all graduate students. Research methods and modes of evidence building in ethnographic research. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Luhrmann, T. (PI)
ANTHRO 307: Archaeological Methods
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: consent of instructor.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Bauer, A. (PI)
ANTHRO 308: Proposal Writing Seminar in Cultural and Social Anthropology
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: consent of instructor.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Fullwiley, D. (PI)
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