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Classes
ANTHR 1101
Course Description
This First-Year Writing Seminar is devoted to the anthropological study of the human condition. Anthropology examines all aspects of human experience, from the evolution of the species to contemporary ... view course details
FWS Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
Section Topic
Topic: FWS: Brazil Beyond the Olympics
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- MWMcGraw Hall 215
Instructors
Fajans, J
Additional Information
For more information about First-year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute.
FWS Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
Section Topic
Topic: FWS:(Re)assessing Success—Ethnographic, Approaches
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- MWFMcGraw Hall 366
Instructors
Saavedra Espinosa, M
Additional Information
For more information about First-year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute.
FWS Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
Section Topic
Topic: FWS:South Asian Religions and Healing Practices
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- MWFMcGraw Hall B65
Instructors
Willford, A
Additional Information
For more information about First-year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute.
FWS Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
Section Topic
Topic: FWS:Age of Extinctions: Morality, Conserv, &Design
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- MWFMcGraw Hall 215
Instructors
Dalyan, C
Additional Information
For more information about First-year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute.
FWS Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
Section Topic
Topic: FWS:Zombie Apocalypse! Collapse in N. Amer Cult
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- TRMcGraw Hall 215
Instructors
Boke, C
Additional Information
For more information about First-year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute.
FWS Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
Section Topic
Topic: FWS: Studying Science Scandals
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- MWMcGraw Hall 365
Instructors
Middlebrooks, M
Additional Information
For more information about First-year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute.
ANTHR 1300
Course Description
The evolution of humankind is explored through the fossil record, studies of the biological differences among current human populations, and a comparison with our closest relatives, the primates. This ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion.
Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Meeting Pattern
- MWGoldwin Smith Hall G22
Instructors
Arcadi, A
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- FMcGraw Hall B65
Instructors
Staff
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- FMcGraw Hall B65
Instructors
Staff
ANTHR 1520
Course Description
No description available. view course details
Regular Academic Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
2 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- TBA Kotagiri, India
Instructors
Willford, A
Additional Information
Taught in India. Participation in the NFLC, Kortagiri India Program required.
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
ANTHR 2010
Course Description
The Near East is a land often defined by "firsts": the first cities, first writing, first empires. As a result, archaeology has long looked to the region for explanations of origins, particularly the origins ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 6610, ARKEO 2010, ARKEO 6610, NES 2610, NES 6610
Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- TRWhite Hall 106
Instructors
Khatchadourian, L
ANTHR 2045
Course Description
This course will introduce students to the politics, practices, aesthetics, and purposes of North American Indigenous music. Students will learn about socio-historical contexts of colonization and sovereignty, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- MWFMcGraw Hall 215
Instructors
Uran, C
ANTHR 2135
Course Description
This course will explore major themes in the archaeology of the South Asian subcontinent from the earliest palaeolithic hunter gatherers to the development of large empires in the mid first millennium ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARKEO 2135, ASIAN 2265
Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Meeting Pattern
- TRMcGraw Hall 215
Instructors
Suvrathan, U
ANTHR 2140
Course Description
Archaeology is the exploration of the human past through the study of material remains made and used by people in the past. However, this field of study has inspired endless theories of ancient aliens, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARKEO 2140
Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- TRMorrill Hall 107
Instructors
Suvrathan, U
ANTHR 2201
Course Description
Throughout most of the human career, people survived by hunting and gathering wild foods. The advent of food production is one of the most profound changes in (pre)history. This course examines the current ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARKEO 2201
Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- MWFGoldwin Smith Hall G76-Lewis
Instructors
Russell, N
ANTHR 2285
Course Description
Throughout Greek and Roman history, the idea of Egypt inspired powerful imaginative responses ranging from fascination to fear. This course investigates Egyptian interactions with the Greco-Roman world ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: ARKEO 2285, CLASS 2685, NES 2985
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TRLincoln Hall B08
Instructors
Barrett, C
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- TGoldwin Smith Hall 142
Instructors
Barrett, C
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- FUris Hall G24
Instructors
Staff
ANTHR 2400
Course Description
This course will introduce students to the meaning and significance of forms of cultural diversity for the understanding of contemporary issues. Drawing from films, videos, and selected readings, students ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion.
Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- MWGoldwin Smith Hall G76-Lewis
Instructors
Fiskesjo, M
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- RGoldwin Smith Hall 156
Instructors
Staff
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- RGoldwin Smith Hall 350
Instructors
Staff
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- RMorrill Hall 110
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Staff
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- RRockefeller Hall 183
Instructors
Staff
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- RRockefeller Hall 187
Instructors
Staff
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- RStimson Hall 119
Instructors
Staff
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- RGoldwin Smith Hall 181
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Staff
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- RRockefeller Hall 189
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Staff
ANTHR 2450
Course Description
You are what you eat! This course examines the way food is produced, prepared, exchanged, presented, and given meaning in cultures around the world. It examines the symbolism of specific foodstuffs. Who ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion.
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- MWFMalott Hall 251
Instructors
Fajans, J
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- WUris Hall G26
Instructors
Staff
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- WMcGraw Hall 145
Instructors
Staff
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- WStimson Hall 119
Instructors
Staff
ANTHR 2468
Course Description
Medicine has become the language and practice through which we address a broad range of both individual and societal complaints. Interest in this "medicalization of life" may be one of the reasons that ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: BSOC 2468, STS 2468
Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Meeting Pattern
- TRWarren Hall 151
Instructors
Langwick, S
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- RWhite Hall B14
Instructors
Staff
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- RUris Hall G88
Instructors
Staff
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- FMcGraw Hall 365
Instructors
Staff
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- RMorrill Hall 102
Instructors
Staff
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- RRockefeller Hall B15
Instructors
Staff
Class Number & Section Details
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- FRockefeller Hall B15
Instructors
Staff
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- FMorrill Hall 110
Instructors
Staff
Class Number & Section Details
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- FMalott Hall 205
Instructors
Staff
Class Number & Section Details
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- FGoldwin Smith Hall 144
Instructors
Staff
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- FMcGraw Hall 145
Instructors
Staff
ANTHR 2472
Course Description
Engaging Other Cultures develops understandings and skills required to live and work in diverse cultural and organizational contexts, abroad and at home. Learning to deal effectively with linguistic, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- MWFGoldwin Smith Hall 158
Instructors
Mahajan, N
ANTHR 2920
Course Description
Drugs can heal you or poison you, set you free or land you in prison, depending on who you are and your place in the world. The course sheds light on structural inequalities that result from the production, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 2230, FGSS 2220, LGBT 2220
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- MWWhite Hall 106
Instructors
Hodzic, S
Additional Information
Department Consent Required (Add)
ANTHR 3026
Course Description
Greece's recent debt crisis has brought into sharp focus the fact that economies are not only interconnected across the globe but that they are embedded in wider social and political relations. How then ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- TRUris Hall G24
Instructors
Mahajan, N
ANTHR 3045
Course Description
While zombies have existed at some level of reality for centuries, it was not until the 20th Century that zombies overran the global popular imagination. Because of their origins at the many points of ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- MWFUris Hall 254
Instructors
Uran, C
ANTHR 3061
Course Description
Computers are powerful tools for working, playing, thinking, and living. Laptops, PDAs, webcams, cell phones, and iPods are not just devices, they also provide narratives, metaphors, and ways of seeing ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COMM 3560, INFO 3561, STS 3561, VISST 3560
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- TRHollister Hall 110
Instructors
Ziewitz, M
Additional Information
Department Consent Required (Add)
ANTHR 3230
Course Description
Human-animal relationships are often seen in utilitarian, especially nutritional terms. This is especially true of the analysis of animal remains from archaeological sites. It is clear, however, that animals ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 6230, ARKEO 3230, ARKEO 6230
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- MWFMorrill Hall 107
Instructors
Russell, N
ANTHR 3245
Course Description
This course considers the possibility of connections between the America and the Old World before the Spanish "discovery" not only as an empirical question, but also as an intensely controversial issue ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 6245, ARKEO 3245, ARKEO 6245
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- WMcGraw Hall 365
Instructors
Henderson, J
ANTHR 3256
Course Description
This course is a survey of the rise and decline of civilizations in the Andean region of western South America before the European invasion. We begin with a consideration of Andean environments and an ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 7256, ARKEO 3256, ARKEO 7256, LATA 3256, LATA 7256
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- TRMcGraw Hall B65
Instructors
Henderson, J
ANTHR 3400
Course Description
This course is about being Black throughout the Atlantic world. What constitutes Blackness? What experiences, cultural understandings and social problems shape the identities of people of African descent? ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 3402, ASRC 3400, LSP 3400
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- TRAfricana Ctr B01
Instructors
LaBennett, O
ANTHR 3405
Course Description
This course explores research on race, ethnicity and language in American education. It examines historical and current patterns of school achievement for minoritized youths. It also examines the cultural ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 3405, EDUC 3405, LSP 3405
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- TRMorrill Hall 106
Instructors
Villenas, S
ANTHR 3447
Course Description
Long overlooked by anthropologists, sport and recreation are increasingly recognized as important windows into culture. Sport can be approached from a number of directions -- interpreted as a ritual; viewed ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- TRMcGraw Hall B65
Instructors
Sangren, P
ANTHR 3470
Course Description
The specter of the nonhuman continues to haunt anthropology and the humanities alike. Across these fields, however, recent scholarship has demonstrated how objects and beings classified as nonhuman grow ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- TRMcGraw Hall B65
Instructors
Garces, C
ANTHR 3545
Course Description
A comprehensive exploration of the peoples and cultures of the Himalayas. Ethnographic materials draw on the lifeways of populations living in the Himalayan regions of Bhutan, India, Nepal, and Tibet. ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 7545
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- TRMalott Hall 224
Instructors
March, K
ANTHR 4102
Course Description
This course will explore how women are portrayed in hip hop music and culture, addressing women both as consumers and producers. We will draw on texts that analyze misogyny in hip hop music and music videos, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 4402, ASRC 4402, FGSS 4402, LGBT 4402
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- TRAfricana Ctr B01
Instructors
LaBennett, O
ANTHR 4109
Course Description
This course asks how do racialization projects constitutive of modern European empire figure in the making of nation states? How in particular did anticipation of rights bearing European publics, enshrining ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AAS 4509, SHUM 4509
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- TA D White House 110
Instructors
Munasinghe, V
ANTHR 4211
Course Description
Ceramics are among the most ubiquitous materials in the archaeological record. From prehistory to the present, the manipulation of clay to form pottery and other synthetic objects has transformed domains ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 6211, ARKEO 4211, ARKEO 6211, NES 4544, NES 6544
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- FMcGraw Hall 125
Instructors
Khatchadourian, L
ANTHR 4254
Course Description
This seminar provides a higher-level general introduction to, and survey of, contemporary theories, methods, and approaches in the archaeology of the Mediterranean world. Rather than focusing on a specific ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 7254, ARKEO 4254, ARKEO 7254, ARTH 4754, ARTH 6754, CLASS 4754, CLASS 7754, NES 4654, NES 7654
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- RGoldwin Smith Hall 122
Instructors
Manning, S
ANTHR 4311
Course Description
A cliche among medical professionals says, "If you have a hammer, every problem looks like a nail." In other words, treatment decisions often are dictated by available technologies. This course looks at ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: BSOC 4311, STS 4311
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- TRockefeller Hall 187
Instructors
Prentice, R
Additional Information
Department Consent Required (Add)
ANTHR 4418
Course Description
What are the poetics and politics of ethnographic writing? How is this genre, what many would call the signature of cultural anthropology, distinct from other modes of scholarly writing? What ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 7418
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- RWhite Hall B06
Instructors
Ramberg, L
ANTHR 4425
Course Description
What is hope? How is hope produced and lost? How is hope distributed in society? What role does hope play in the production of knowledge, imagination and belief? In this course, we will investigate these ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 7425
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- MUris Hall 394
Instructors
Miyazaki, H
ANTHR 4427
Course Description
This seminar reads pivotal theoretical works in feminist anthropology critically. We will follow the development of anthropological theory with specific reference to sex, sexuality and gender, beginning ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 7427, FGSS 4427, FGSS 7427
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- WMcGraw Hall 215
Instructors
March, K
ANTHR 4439
Course Description
This seminar course's starting point is Agamben's widely discussed ideas about "bare life" in relation to modern state sovereignty and to continuities with earlier forms of sovereignty. The course unfolds ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 7439
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- TMcGraw Hall 215
Instructors
Fiskesjo, M
ANTHR 4467
Course Description
This course examines theories of subjectivity and self-formation from a comparative, ethnographic perspective. We begin by examining classic and contemporary phenomenological, psychodynamic, semiotic, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 7467
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- WMcGraw Hall B65
Instructors
Willford, A
ANTHR 4520
Course Description
No description available. view course details
Regular Academic Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- TBA Kotagiri, India
Instructors
Willford, A
Additional Information
Taught in India. Participation in the NFLC, Kortagiri India Program required.
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
ANTHR 4733
Course Description
American Jews have frequently been touted as a "model minority." This course will take a more critical look at the historical interactions between Jewish immigration, United States industrialization, and ... view course details
ANTHR 4900
Course Description
Field research abroad as part of the Cornell-Nepal Studies Program, the Cornell-Honduras Program, or other departmentally approved programs. Topics are selected and project proposals prepared by student ... view course details
ANTHR 4910
Course Description
Independent reading course in topics not covered in regularly scheduled courses. Students select a topic in consultation with the faculty member who has agreed to supervise the course work. view course details
ANTHR 4920
Course Description
Independent reading course in topics not covered in regularly scheduled courses. Students select a topic in consultation with the faculty member who has agreed to supervise the course work. view course details
ANTHR 4925
Course Description
No description available. view course details
Regular Academic Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- TBA Kotagiri, India
Instructors
Willford, A
Additional Information
Taught in India. Participation in the NFLC, Kortagiri India Program required.
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
ANTHR 4984
Course Description
Final write-up of the thesis under the direct supervision of the thesis advisor, who will assign the grade for this course. view course details
ANTHR 4992
Course Description
Course will consist of weekly, seminar-style meetings of all thesis writers until mid-semester, under the direction of the honors chair. This second semester concentrates on preparation of a full draft ... view course details
ANTHR 6010
Course Description
Focuses on linkages between culture and social institutions, representations, and practices. The nature of these linkages is debated from strongly contesting points of view in social theory (structuralist, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
6 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- TMcGraw Hall 215
Instructors
Garces, C
ANTHR 6102
Course Description
This course will explore the relationship between popular belief, political action, and the institutional deployment of social power. The class will be roughly divided in three parts, opening with a discussion ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 6202, GOVT 6202, HIST 6202, SOC 6200
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- MWhite Hall 104
Instructors
Bensel, R
Additional Information
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
ANTHR 6211
Course Description
Ceramics are among the most ubiquitous materials in the archaeological record. From prehistory to the present, the manipulation of clay to form pottery and other synthetic objects has transformed domains ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 4211, ARKEO 4211, ARKEO 6211, NES 4544, NES 6544
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- FMcGraw Hall 125
Instructors
Khatchadourian, L
ANTHR 6230
Course Description
Human-animal relationships are often seen in utilitarian, especially nutritional terms. This is especially true of the analysis of animal remains from archaeological sites. It is clear, however, that animals ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 3230, ARKEO 3230, ARKEO 6230
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- MWFMorrill Hall 107
Instructors
Russell, N
ANTHR 6245
Course Description
This course considers the possibility of connections between the America and the Old World before the Spanish "discovery" not only as an empirical question, but also as an intensely controversial issue ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 3245, ARKEO 3245, ARKEO 6245
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- WMcGraw Hall 365
Instructors
Henderson, J
ANTHR 6440
Course Description
This seminar focuses on preparing a full-scale proposal for anthropological fieldwork for a dissertation. Topics include identifying appropriate funding sources; defining a researchable problem; selecting ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Sat/Unsat(Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- WMcGraw Hall 215
Instructors
Boyarin, J
ANTHR 6610
Course Description
The Near East is a land often defined by "firsts": the first cities, first writing, first empires. As a result, archaeology has long looked to the region for explanations of origins, particularly the origins ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: ANTHR 2010, ARKEO 2010, ARKEO 6610, NES 2610, NES 6610
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- TRWhite Hall 106
Instructors
Khatchadourian, L
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- TWhite Hall B02
Instructors
Khatchadourian, L
ANTHR 6890
Course Description
Formations of progressive or revolutionary hope have become increasingly rare and are often replaced, for many working out of the German critical tradition, by critique of Enlightenment. This ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 6893, GERST 6490, JWST 6990, NES 6990
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- TOlin Library 403
Instructors
Boyarin, J
Fleming, P
ANTHR 7010
Course Description
This course asks how anthropologists articulate the relevance of our work in theoretical and political terms by staging an encounter between three disparate strands of scholarship: anthropology of the ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
2 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- TGoldwin Smith Hall 158
Instructors
Hodzic, S
ANTHR 7254
Course Description
This seminar provides a higher-level general introduction to, and survey of, contemporary theories, methods, and approaches in the archaeology of the Mediterranean world. Rather than focusing on a specific ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 4254, ARKEO 4254, ARKEO 7254, ARTH 4754, ARTH 6754, CLASS 4754, CLASS 7754, NES 4654, NES 7654
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- RGoldwin Smith Hall 122
Instructors
Manning, S
ANTHR 7256
Course Description
This course asks how anthropologists articulate the relevance of our work in theoretical and political terms by staging an encounter between three disparate strands of scholarship: anthropology of the ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 3256, ARKEO 3256, ARKEO 7256, LATA 3256, LATA 7256
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- TRMcGraw Hall B65
Instructors
Henderson, J
ANTHR 7418
Course Description
What are the poetics and politics of ethnographic writing? How is this genre, what many would call the signature of cultural anthropology, distinct from other modes of scholarly writing? What ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 4418
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- RWhite Hall B06
Instructors
Ramberg, L
ANTHR 7425
Course Description
What is hope? How is hope produced and lost? How is hope distributed in society? What role does hope play in the production of knowledge, imagination and belief? In this course, we will investigate these ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 4425
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- MUris Hall 394
Instructors
Miyazaki, H
ANTHR 7427
Course Description
This seminar reads pivotal theoretical works in feminist anthropology critically. We will follow the development of anthropological theory with specific reference to sex, sexuality and gender, beginning ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 4427, FGSS 4427, FGSS 7427
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- WMcGraw Hall 215
Instructors
March, K
ANTHR 7439
Course Description
This seminar course's starting point is Agamben's widely discussed ideas about "bare life" in relation to modern state sovereignty and to continuities with earlier forms of sovereignty. The course unfolds ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 4439
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- TMcGraw Hall 215
Instructors
Fiskesjo, M
ANTHR 7467
Course Description
This course examines theories of subjectivity and self-formation from a comparative, ethnographic perspective. We begin by examining classic and contemporary phenomenological, psychodynamic, semiotic, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 4467
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- WMcGraw Hall B65
Instructors
Willford, A
ANTHR 7520
Course Description
Independent reading course on topics not covered in regularly scheduled courses. Students select a topic in consultation with the faculty member who has agreed to supervise the course work. view course details
ANTHR 7530
Course Description
Independent reading course in topics not covered in regularly scheduled courses. Students select a topic in consultation with the faculty member who has agreed to supervise the course work. view course details
ANTHR 7540
Course Description
Independent reading course on topics not covered in regularly scheduled courses. Students select a topic in consultation with the faculty member who has agreed to supervise the course work. view course details
ANTHR 7545
Course Description
A comprehensive exploration of the peoples and cultures of the Himalayas. Ethnographic materials draw on the lifeways of populations living in the Himalayan regions of Bhutan, India, Nepal, and Tibet. ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 3545
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- TRMalott Hall 224
Instructors
March, K
ANTHR 7550
Course Description
Independent reading course in topics not covered in regularly scheduled courses. Students select a topic in consultation with the faculty member who has agreed to supervise the course work. view course details
ANTHR 7553
Course Description
This course develops an integrative approach to anthropological theory by means of an intensive examination of local life in China. Among the linked topics are family and kinship, local identity, ritual, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- RMcGraw Hall 222
Instructors
Sangren, P
ANTHR 7910
Course Description
Independent reading course in topics not covered in regularly scheduled courses. Students select a topic in consultation with the faculty member who has agreed to supervise the course work. view course details
ANTHR 7920
Course Description
Independent reading course in topics not covered in regularly scheduled courses. Students select a topic in consultation with the faculty member who has agreed to supervise the course work. view course details
ANTHR 7930
Course Description
Independent reading course in topics not covered in regularly scheduled courses. Students select a topic in consultation with the faculty member who has agreed to supervise the course work. view course details