Class
No. |
Course ID |
Title |
Credits |
Type |
Instructor(s) |
Days:Times |
Location |
Permission
Required |
Dist |
Qtr |
| 2031 |
ANTH-101-01 |
Intro to Cultural Anthropology |
1.00 |
LEC |
Eisenberg-Guyot, Nadja |
TR: 1:30PM-2:45PM |
TBA |
|
GLB5
|
|
| |
Enrollment limited to 29 |
Waitlist available: Y |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
|
| |
NOTE: 12 seats reserved for first-years, 10 for sophomores, 4 for juniors, 3 for seniors. |
| |
Anthropology as a field asks what it means to be human: how do we know what is universal to human existence? What is natural and what is cultural? How can the strange become familiar and the familiar strange? This course introduces the theory and method of cultural anthropology as applied to case studies from different geographic and ethnographic areas. Topics to be considered include family and kinship, inequality and hierarchy, race and ethnicity, ritual and symbol systems, gender and sexuality, reciprocity and exchange, globalization and social change. |
| 2042 |
ANTH-101-02 |
Intro to Cultural Anthropology |
1.00 |
LEC |
Conroe, Andrew |
TR: 9:25AM-10:40AM |
TBA |
|
GLB5
|
|
| |
Enrollment limited to 29 |
Waitlist available: Y |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
|
| |
NOTE: 12 seats reserved for first-years, 10 for sophomores, 4 for juniors, 3 for seniors. |
| |
Anthropology as a field asks what it means to be human: how do we know what is universal to human existence? What is natural and what is cultural? How can the strange become familiar and the familiar strange? This course introduces the theory and method of cultural anthropology as applied to case studies from different geographic and ethnographic areas. Topics to be considered include family and kinship, inequality and hierarchy, race and ethnicity, ritual and symbol systems, gender and sexuality, reciprocity and exchange, globalization and social change. |
| 2451 |
ANTH-101-03 |
Intro to Cultural Anthropology |
1.00 |
LEC |
Guzman, Amanda |
TR: 10:50AM-12:05PM |
TBA |
|
GLB5
|
|
| |
Enrollment limited to 29 |
Waitlist available: Y |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
|
| |
Anthropology as a field asks what it means to be human: how do we know what is universal to human existence? What is natural and what is cultural? How can the strange become familiar and the familiar strange? This course introduces the theory and method of cultural anthropology as applied to case studies from different geographic and ethnographic areas. Topics to be considered include family and kinship, inequality and hierarchy, race and ethnicity, ritual and symbol systems, gender and sexuality, reciprocity and exchange, globalization and social change. |
| 2751 |
ANTH-207-01 |
Anth Persp Women & Gender |
1.00 |
LEC |
Nadel-Klein, Jane |
TR: 10:50AM-12:05PM |
TBA |
|
SOGI
|
|
| |
Enrollment limited to 30 |
Waitlist available: Y |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
|
| |
Also cross-referenced with WMGS |
| |
Using texts and films, this course will explore the nature of women’s lives in both the contemporary United States and a number of radically different societies around the world, including, for example, the !Kung San people of the Kalahari and the Mundurucù of Amazonian Brazil. As they examine the place of women in these societies, students will also be introduced to theoretical perspectives that help explain both variations in women’s status from society to society and "universal" aspects of their status. |
| 2752 |
ANTH-228-01 |
Anth from Margins/South Asia |
1.00 |
LEC |
Hussain, Shafqat |
TR: 2:55PM-4:10PM |
TBA |
|
SOC
|
|
| |
Enrollment limited to 19 |
Waitlist available: Y |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
|
| |
This course will examine how the northwestern and northern mountainous regions of South Asia have been constructed in the Western popular imagination, both in literary texts and in academic debates. Starting with the era of the Great Game in the late 19th century and ending with the current "war on terror," the course will explore the transformation and continuation of past social and political conditions, and their representations within the region. This will help illuminate some of the enduring themes in anthropological debates, such as culture contact; empires, territories, and resources; and human agency. |
| 2753 |
ANTH-254-01 |
The Meaning of Work |
1.00 |
LEC |
Nadel-Klein, Jane |
TR: 1:30PM-2:45PM |
TBA |
|
SOIP
|
|
| |
Enrollment limited to 19 |
Waitlist available: Y |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
|
| |
This course takes a cross-cultural look at the ways in which people define work in daily life. Drawing upon diverse sources, including ethnography, fiction, biography and investigative journalism, it will examine the ways in which people labor to make a living and to sustain their households. Students will consider such key questions as: What makes work meaningful? How are occupational communities formed? How is work gendered? How have global forces reshaped the nature of work? How do people experience the lack of work? Examples will be drawn from different work environments, including mining, fishing, agriculture, industry, service work, domestic work and intellectual work. |
| 2890 |
ANTH-263-01 |
Anthropology of Humor |
1.00 |
LEC |
Conroe, Andrew |
TR: 10:50AM-12:05PM |
TBA |
|
SOC
|
|
| |
Enrollment limited to 19 |
Waitlist available: Y |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
|
| |
This course examines humor, satire, and parody across a broad range of cultural and historical settings. Our approach is historical and ethnographic, and rests on the idea that there exist various and diverse traditions of humor, each deeply embedded in its own social and political context. We will be exploring the ways in which specific cultural, historical, and social contexts shape how humor is created, interpreted, and responded to. At the same time, we will look at how humor can travel outside of its intended context in surprising and often-contentious ways, being revived or reinterpreted in places spatially or temporally quite distant from its context of creation. |
| 2820 |
ANTH-306-01 |
Disruptive Bodies |
1.00 |
SEM |
Eisenberg-Guyot, Nadja |
T: 6:30PM-9:00PM |
TBA |
|
SOC
|
|
| |
Enrollment limited to 15 |
Waitlist available: Y |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
|
| |
This class will bring disability studies to bear on anthropological conversations about structural violence, processes of disablement, and the social construction of the body. We will explore disability as identity, condition, and position; the kinds of impairments that count as disabilities and according to what social, medical and political forces; the structural relations between race, gender, class, and disability; disability justice; and the politics of injury and illness. We will consider how disability might enable us to do anthropology differently through practice-based exercises, auto-ethnography, and collaborative and experimental research. Through these experiments, students will develop their own projects to construct the methods of a "crip" anthropology. |
| 2754 |
ANTH-308-01 |
Anthropology of Place |
1.00 |
SEM |
Nadel-Klein, Jane |
M: 1:30PM-4:10PM |
TBA |
|
GLB5
|
|
| |
Enrollment limited to 18 |
Waitlist available: Y |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
|
| |
This course explores the increasingly complex ways in which people in industrial and non-industrial societies locate themselves with respect to land and landscape. Contrary to some widespread assumptions regarding the fit between identity and place (i.e., ethnicity and nationalism), we study a range of settings in which people actively construct, contest, and reappropriate the spaces of modern life. Through texts, seminar discussions, films, and a field-based research project as the major exercise, students will explore a number of issues, including cultural persistence and the loss of place; the meaning of the frontier and indigenous land rights struggles; gender and public space; the deterritorialization of culture (i.e., McDonald’s in Hong Kong); and the cultural costs of an increasingly "fast" and high-tech world. |
| 2755 |
ANTH-319-01 |
Understandings of Puerto Rico |
1.00 |
LEC |
Guzman, Amanda |
TR: 1:30PM-2:45PM |
TBA |
|
SOGI
|
|
| |
Enrollment limited to 19 |
Waitlist available: Y |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
|
| |
|
Cross-listing: AMST-319-01 |
| |
An island uniquely characterized by a liminal political status and a dominant stateside diaspora, the U.S. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico has been the subject of renewed national attention in the wake of the devastating 2017 Hurricane María and the 2019 "Verano Boricua" which saw the ousting of the governor, Ricardo Rosselló. This course interrogates Puerto Rican culture on its own terms - shifting from traditional definitions of identity formation to contemporary critiques centering historically marginalized communities amidst ongoing climate and economic precarity. Students will work hands-on analyzing diverse (im)material cultural productions, originating from the island and stateside diasporas. Students will engage with Puerto Rican cultural workers as they develop new, critical understandings of the island's cultural legacy and its future. |
| 2961 |
ANTH-330-01 |
Anthropology of Food |
1.00 |
SEM |
Beebe, Rebecca |
M: 6:30PM-9:00PM |
TBA |
|
SOC
|
|
| |
Enrollment limited to 19 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
|
| |
Because food is necessary to sustain biological life, its production and provision occupy humans everywhere. Due to this essential importance, food also operates to create and symbolize collective life. This seminar will examine the social and cultural significance of food. Topics to be discussed include the evolution of human food systems, the social and cultural relationships between food production and human reproduction, the development of women’s association with the domestic sphere, the meaning and experience of eating disorders, the connection between ethnic cuisines, nationalist movements and social classes, and the causes of famine. |
| 2995 |
ANTH-341-01 |
Animism |
1.00 |
SEM |
Landry, Timothy |
TR: 9:25AM-10:40AM |
TBA |
|
SOC
|
|
| |
Enrollment limited to 14 |
Waitlist available: Y |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
|
| |
|
Cross-listing: RELG-341-01 |
| |
What if the world and all within it were aware, sentient, and conscious? What if mountains, rivers, forests, and unseen presences were not things, but beings with whom humans are always in relationship? This seminar explores practices from around the world that experience the universe as animate, ensouled, and alive. Students will trace the history of animism from its treatment as a marker of “primitive” religion to its revitalization in contemporary Indigenous thought. By joining ontological philosophy, theories of universal consciousness, and multispecies ethnography, the course reimagines animism as a theory of persons and interconnection. Together, these approaches raise urgent questions about what it means to live in a more-than-human community of relations and why animism matters today. |
| 1134 |
ANTH-399-01 |
Independent Study |
0.50 - 2.00 |
IND |
TBA |
TBA |
TBA |
Y |
SOC
|
|
| |
Enrollment limited to 15 |
Waitlist available: Y |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
|
| |
Submission of the special registration form, available in the Registrar’s Office, and the approval of the instructor and chair are required for enrollment. |
| 1083 |
ANTH-401-01 |
Adv Sem in Contemp Anth |
1.00 |
SEM |
Hussain, Shafqat |
W: 1:30PM-4:10PM |
TBA |
|
WEB
|
|
| |
Enrollment limited to 19 |
Waitlist available: Y |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
|
| |
Seats Reserved for Anthropology majors. |
| |
Anthropologists are a contentious lot, often challenging the veracity and relevance of each other’s interpretations. In this seminar, students will examine recent manifestations of this vexatiousness. The seminar will consider such questions as: Can culture be regarded as collective and shared? What is the relationship between cultural ideas and practical action? How does one study culture in the postmodern world of "the celluloid, global ethnoscape"? Can the practice of anthropology be fully objective, or does it demand a politics—an understanding that ideas, ours and theirs, are historically situated, politicized realities? Is domination the same everywhere? |
| 1135 |
ANTH-466-01 |
Teaching Assistantship |
0.50 - 1.00 |
IND |
TBA |
TBA |
TBA |
Y |
|
|
| |
Enrollment limited to 15 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
|
| |
Submission of the special registration form, available online, and the approval of the instructor are required for enrollment. Guidelines are available in the College Bulletin.
(0.5 - 1 course credit) |
| 2250 |
ANTH-497-01 |
Senior Thesis |
1.00 |
IND |
TBA |
TBA |
TBA |
Y |
WEB
|
|
| |
Enrollment limited to 15 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
|
| |
Submission of the special registration form, available online, and the approval of the instructor and director are required for enrollment in this single-semester thesis. (1 course credit to be completed in one semester.) |
| 2251 |
ANTH-499-01 |
Senior Thesis Part 2 |
1.00 |
IND |
TBA |
TBA |
TBA |
Y |
WEB
|
|
| |
Enrollment limited to 15 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
|
| |
This course is the second part of a two semester, two credit thesis. Submission of the special registration form and the approval of the thesis adviser and the director are required for enrollment. The registration form is required for each semester of this year-long thesis. |
| 2365 |
RELG-321-01 |
Buddhist Materiality |
1.00 |
SEM |
Kerekes, Susanne |
MW: 11:30AM-12:45PM |
TBA |
|
GLB2
|
|
| |
Enrollment limited to 19 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
|
| |
Also cross-referenced with ANTH, ARTHISTORY |
| |
If Buddhism preaches non-attachment, what is “Buddhist materiality”? Shouldn’t Buddhists be free of material things? Or, rather, who says they should be?In this course, we take Buddhist “stuff” seriously. Students are encouraged to look beyond modernist ideals of Buddhism as a “rational tradition” of only monks, manuscripts, and mindfulness. To do this, we must decolonialize Buddhism. Then, we consider the agency of nonhumans, not just of humans (i.e., we cover theories of Material Religion). Students will engage in object analysis and close-looking of Buddhist art objects and spirits. Things act upon us, and we(re)act upon them. They shape identity, create meaning, and maintain relationships. Things are never just things. They help us understand what people do in Buddhism, not just what they believe. |