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COURSE CATALOGUE
ANTHROPOLOGY
Anthropology
411 Milbank Hall
854-9389, 5428
www.barnard.edu/anthro
Professors: Judith Shapiro (President Emerita), Lesley Sharp
Associate Professor: Nadia Abu El-Haj (Chair), Brian Larkin, Paige West
Assistant Professors: Severin Fowles, Paul Kockelman
Other officers of the University offering courses listed below:
Professors: Lila Abu-Lughod, Partha Chatterjee, Myron Cohen, Terence D’Altroy, E. Valentine
Daniel, Nicholas Dirks, Ralph Holloway, Mahmood Mamdani, Don J. Melnick,
Brinkley Messick, Rosalind Morris, Elizabeth Povinelli, David Scott, Michael Taussig
Research Professor: Nan Rothschild
Associate Professors: Elaine Combs-Schilling, Marina Cords, Steven Gregory, Marilyn Ivy, John Pemberton
Assistant Professors: Nicholas De Genova, Neni Panourgia, Sandhya Shukla
Lecturers: Rashmi Sadara, Karen Seeley
For a complete list of
faculty on leave see:
http://www.barnard.edu/provost/facleavelist.html
Anthropology examines how cultures provide frames for the ways people think, act and make sense of their society. Now, with the quickening movement of culture, ideas and people we seek to examine the forms of life that emerge from this movement and the interactions and conflicts that result. Barnard Anthropology provides students new ways to perceive and analyze the world, to understand difference and to think on a global scale while still focused on the lived experiences of everyday life.
Majors in anthropology can take advantage of internships offered by several major museums and libraries in New York City. Various summer schools provide opportunities for research in archaeology and ethnography and, under certain circumstances, such work may be credited toward the Barnard degree. Students interested in cultural anthropology are encouraged, whenever possible, to conduct research in the New York area, or, during their summer vacations, in other localities. The department also encourages majors to consider spending a semester abroad; students who plan to do so should plan early, in consultation with the chair and their advisor, in order to incorporate required courses in proper sequence.
All courses, except those limited to majors, satisfy the College’s distribution requirements. Courses listed as W 4000 are open to majors, non-majors, and interested graduate students.
The department also cooperates with related programs such as Africana Studies, American Studies, Foreign Area Studies, Human Rights Studies, Urban Studies, and Women’s Studies, and with other departments offering, as an option to their majors, a four-course cluster in Anthropology. Arrangements for combined, double, joint, and special majors are made in consultation with the chair.