ANTH V 1002x and y The Interpretation of Culture

The anthropological approach to the study of culture and human society. Using case studies from ethnography, the course explores the universality of cultural categories (social organization, economy, law, belief system, art, etc.) and the range of variation among human societies.
General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). General Education Requirement: Social Analysis (SOC).
3 points

ANTH V 1007x The Origins of Human Society

Examines the grand sweep of human development from our first bipedal steps some six million years ago, to the earliest evidence of art and symbolism, and on to the emergence of the first agricultural villages. Given the immensity of time under consideration, emphasis is placed on those heightened periods of change commonly described as "revolutions". Participants will become familiar with the fossil and/or archaeological records or those revolutions and the competing theories of why they occurred.
General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). General Education Requirement: Social Analysis (SOC).

ANTH V 1008y The Rise of Civilization

Rise of major civilizations in prehistory and protohistory throughout the world, from the initial appearance of sedentism, agriculture, and social stratification through the emergence of the archaic empires. Description and analysis of a range of regions that were centers of significant cultural development: Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Indus River Valley, China, North America, Mesoamerica, and Andean South America.
General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL).
3 points

ANTH V 1009x Introduction to Language and Culture

Introduction to the study of the production, interpretation, and reproduction of social meanings as expressed through language. In exploring language in relation to culture and society, the focus is on how communication informs and transforms the sociocultural environment.

ANTH BC 1099x Introduction to the Social Sciences at Barnard

Introduction to social science departments and faculty at Barnard. Faculty informally discuss their departments, disciplines, research methodologies, and interdisciplinary projects. Barnard graduates (social science majors) share their academic and career histories, discussing how undergraduate concentrations helped prepare them for their professional and personal lives.
General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). Not offered in 2009-2010.
1 point

ANTH V 3810 Madagascar

Critiques the many ways the great Red Island has been described and imagined by explorers, colonists, social scientists, and historians-as and Asian-African amalgamation, and ecological paradise, and a microcosm of the Indian Ocean. Religious diasporas, mercantilism, colonization, enslavement, and race and nation define key categories of comparative analysis. - L. Sharp
Prerequisites: Sophomore standing. Enrollment limited to 20 students. Instructor's permission required. Anthropology, African Studies, and Francophone Studies students encouraged to enroll. General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). General Education Requirement: Social Analysis (SOC).
4 points

ANTH V 2004x Introduction to Social and Cultural Theory

Introduces students to theoretical works and ideas that have formed the modern field of anthropology. These include classic 19th century social theories (e.g., those of Durkheim, Weber, Marx), 20th century interpretive approaches (for example, structuralism), and contemporary modes of sociocultural analysis.

ANTH V 2005y Ethnographic Imagination

Introduction to the theory and practice of "ethnography"-the intensive study of peoples' lives as shaped by social relations, cultural images, and historical forces. Considers through critical reading of various kinds of texts (classic ethnographies, histories, journalism, novels, films) the ways in which understanding, interpreting, and representing the lived words of people-at home or abroad, in one place or transnationally, in the past or the present-can be accomplished.
General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL).
3 points

ANTH V 2010x Major Debates in the Study of Africa
General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL).
3 points

ANTH V 2040x Hunter-Gatherers: Pasts, Presents & Possible Futures

Hunting and gathering has been identified as the strategy of subsistence at the time fully modern humans emerged, according to analogy with similar groups found today from the semi-deserts of southern Africa to frozen plains of Antarctica. The apparent temporal duration and geographical extension of this mode of life suggests that it is one of the most successful economic means by which human beings have lived their lives. There would seem, therefore, to be some merit in studying hunter-gatherers as a group. But to what extent can human societies be compared in the present, the past, and possibly the future, on the basis of their subsistence alone? - K. Fewster
Prerequisites: Sophomore Standing.
3 points

ANTH V 2100x Muslim Societies

Examination of religion and society not limited to the Middle East. A series of Muslim societies of various types and locations will be approached historically and contextually to understand their family resemblances and their differences, their distinctive mechanisms of coherence and their patterns of contestation.
General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL).
3 points

ANTH V 2102y Muslims in the West
General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL).
3 points

ANTH V 3004y Introduction to Environmental Anthropology

Introduces the main theoretical approaches of environmental anthropology beginning with cultural ecology and covering eco-systematic models, environmental history, political ecology, and new approaches deriving from contemporary anthropological theory. Ethnographic material from Melanesia, Latin America, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East illustrates the theoretical material introduced.
General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). General Education Requirement: Social Analysis (SOC).
3 points

ANTH V 3005y Societies and Cultures of Africa
General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). General Education Requirement: Social Analysis (SOC).
3 points

ANTH V 3009y Peoples and Cultures of North Africa and the Middle East
General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). Not offered in 2009-2010.
3 points

ANTH V 3014x East Asian Societies and Cultures

Introduction to the contemporary societies of China, Japan, and Korea, with special attention to social institutions and cultural patterns that shape hierarchy, egalitarianism, and inequality as reflected in family patterns, community life, religion, and economic behavior of social change.
General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL).
3 points

ANTH V 3015y Chinese Society

Social organization and social change in China from late imperial times to the present. Major topics include family, kinship, community, stratification, and the relationships between the state and local society.

ANTH V 3024y Africa and Modernity: A Changing Continent
General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). Not offered in 2009-2010.
3 points

ANTH V 3040x Anthropological Theory I

First of a two semester sequence intended to introduce departmental majors to key readings in social theory that have been constitutive of the rise and contemporary practice of modern anthropology. The goal is to understand historical and current intellectual debates within the discipline.

ANTH V 3041y Anthropological Theory II

Second of a two semester sequence intended to introduce departmental majors to key readings in social theory that have been constitutive of the rise and contemporary practice of modern anthropology. The goal is to understand historical and current intellectual debates within the discipline. To be taken in conjunction with ANTH V3040, preferably in sequence. This course replaces ANTH V3041 "Theories of Culture: Past and Present."
Prerequisites: ANTH V3040. Required of all Barnard Anthropology majors; open to other students with instructor's permission only. Enrollment limited to 40 students. General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL).
4 points

ANTH V 3043x The Anthropology of Religion and Society
General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL).
3 points

ANTH V 3044x Symbolic Anthropology

Exploration of the manner in which various anthropologists have constructed "culture" as being constituted of a set of conventional signs called "symbols" and the consequences of such a construal. Among the authors read are the anthropologists Valentine Daniel, Mary Douglas, Clifford Geertz, Claude Levi-Strauss, Sherry Ortner, David Schneider, Margaret Trawick, and Victor Turner; the social theorists Emile Durkheim, Karl Marx and Max Weber; the semioticians Ferdinand de Saussure and Charles Peirce; and the psychoanalysts Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan.
General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). Not offered in 2009-2010.
3 points

ANTH V 3055x Strategy of Archaeology
General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). Not offered in 2009-2010.
3 points

ANTH V 3160x The Body and Society

Introduction to medical anthropology, whose purpose is to explore health, affliction, and healing cross-culturally. Theory and methods from other fields will be drawn on to address critiques of biomedical, epidemiological, and other models of disease; the roles of healers in different societies; and different conceptions of the body and health.
Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor is required. Enrollment limited to 40. General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). General Education Requirement: Social Analysis (SOC). General Education Requirement: Reason and Value (REA).
3 points

ANTH W 3201y Introductory Survey of Biological Anthropology
General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). Not offered in 2009-2010.
4 points

ANTH V 3300x Pre-Columbian Histories of Native America

Explores 10,000 years of the North American archaeological record, bringing to light the unwritten histories of Native Americans prior to European contact. Detailed consideration of major pre-Columbian sites is interwoven with the insight of contemporary native peoples to provide both a scientific and humanist reconstruction of the past.

ANTH V 3320y Culture, Tourism, and Development
General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). Not offered in 2009-2010.
3 points

ANTH V 3465x Women and Gender in the Muslim World

Practices like veiling that are central to Western images of women and Islam are also contested issues throughout the Muslim world. Examines debates about Islam and gender and explores the interplay of cultural, political, and economic factors in shaping women's lives in the Muslim world, from the Middle East to Southeast Asia.

ANTH V 3525x Introduction to South Asian History and Culture

Looks at four major aspects of contemporary South Asian societies: nationalism, religious reform, gender, and caste. The object is to provide a critical survey of the history as well as the continuing debates over these crucial themes of society, politics, and culture in South Asia. Readings include primary texts that were part of the original debates as well as secondary sources that represent the current scholarly assessment on these subjects.
General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). General Education Requirement: Historical Studies (HIS). General Education Requirement: Social Analysis (SOC). Not offered in 2009-2010.
3 points

ANTH V 3660y Gender, Culture, and Human Rights
General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL).
3 points

ANTH V 3700x Colloquium: Anthropological Research Problems in Complex Societies
General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). Not offered in 2009-2010.
4 points

ANTH V 3820x Theory and Method in Archaeology
General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). Not offered in 2009-2010.
4 points

ANTH V 3824y Fantasy, Film, and Fiction in Archaeology
General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). Not offered in 2009-2010.
4 points

ANTH BC 3868y Ethnographic Field Research in New York City

A seminar-practicum on field research in New York City. Exploration of anthropological field research methods followed by supervised individual field research on selected topics in urban settings.
Prerequisites: Recommended for majors prior to the senior year. Open to non-majors by permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 20 students. General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). Not offered in 2009-2010.
4 points

ANTH V 3882x Politics of Sensibility & the Sensory Order

Explores how corporeal senses (e.g. of touch, vision, smell, listening) are formed through various sociocultural practices which render bodies, objects, and media part of a world 'sensible.' Upper-division seminar open to advanced undergraduates. - A. Heo
Prerequisites: Sophomore standing. Limited to 20 students.
4 points

ANTH V 3895y Anthropology and the Politics of Climate Change

Addresses the ways that we can understand the variety of issues and challenges facing individuals, organizations, and nations as we come to understand and combat anthropogenic climate change. Drawing on work in anthropology, sociology, geography, and other disciplines, this course will examine concepts of risk and vulnerability, the role of science and local knowledge, and the social contexts of policies and actions, as well as how climate change is affecting and will continue to affect communities worldwide. - N. Peterson
Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 20 students.
4 points

ANTH V 3903y The Ethnoarchaeology of Cities

Consideration of cities from several points of view: a developmental and comparative perspective, looking at urban origins. Focus on New York City from its inception to the present, examining its spatial defined subunits ("neighborhoods"), structured by class and ethnicity.
General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). Not offered in 2009-2010.
3 points

ANTH V 3904x Native Americans and Europeans

Examines European-indigenous interactions in varied North American settings, from the 15th - 19th centuries, through archaeological, ethnographic, and historic materials. Focuses on power relationships expressed in a material nexus and through landscape reorganization.
General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). General Education Requirement: Social Analysis (SOC). Not offered in 2009-2010.
3 points

ANTH V 3906y Functional Linguistics

Introduction to functional linguistics: describing, classifying and explaining the relation between linguistic form and linguistic function; and language typology: describing and comparing the forms and functions of the world's languages in order to uncover, classify and explain cross-linguistic patterns.

ANTH V 3907y Posthumanism

Explores what a post-human anthropology might look like. Readings draw from anthropology, actor-network theory, science studies, media studies, and science fiction.
General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL).
4 points

ANTH V 3908y Global Economy in Anthropological Perspective
General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL).
4 points

ANTH V 3910x Colloquium: Transformation of Traditional Societies: China and France
General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). Not offered in 2009-2010.
4 points

ANTH V 3912y Ethnographic China
General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL).
4 points

ANTH V 3913x Reading Ethnography: Mainland Southeast Asia

Intended to satisfy the requirements for the major.
General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). Not offered in 2009-2010.
4 points

ANTH V 3917x Social Theory and Radical Critique in Ethnic Studies
- N. Panourgia
General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL).
4 points

ANTH V 3918x Asian-American Communities
General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). Not offered in 2009-2010.
4 points

ANTH V 3920x Economy and Society in Prehistory
Prerequisites: Introduction to Archeology or permission of the instructor required. Enrollment limited to 15 students. General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). Not offered in 2009-2010.
4 points

ANTH V 3921x Anti-Colonialism
General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL).
4 points

ANTH V 3922x Colloquium: The Emergence of Human Society
General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL).
4 points

ANTH V 3928y Religion and Mediation

Analyzes the role of mediation in religious practice. Explores the ways in which religion is encoded into specific semiotic forms and how the nature of those forms - and their performance contexts - affect the practice of religion and the ways of making the divine manifest. Topics include word, print, image, sound, film and video in relation to Islam, Pentecostalism, Buddhism and animist religions.

ANTH V 3932x Anthropology of Jazz
General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). Not offered in 2009-2010.
4 points

ANTH V 3939y Millennial Futures: Mass Culture and Japan

Addresses mass culture and its relationship with Japan at the end of the century, as it anticipates the continuation of millennial anxieties and fantasies into the 21st century. With one of the most developed, mass-mediated formations in the world, Japan becomes a compelling instance of late modernity, non-western, yet not. With ethnographic sensibilities, approaches such thematic domains as everyday orderliness, criminality and terror, gender and sexuality, and money and consumption through the media of print, video, film, sound recordings, and photography. Theoretical works in mass cultural criticism and Japan-specific readings are paired with weekly seminar discussions.
General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL).
4 points

ANTH V 3940y Ethnographies of the Mid East

Explores the themes that have shaped ethnographic literature of the Middle East. These include topics such as colonialism, gender, Islam, nationalism and the nation-state.

ANTH V 3942x Anthropological Study of Ritual
General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). Not offered in 2009-2010.
4 points

ANTH V 3943y Youth and Identity Politics in Africa

Examines ways in which African youth inevitably occupy two extremes in academic writings and the mass media: as victims of violence, or as instigators of social chaos. Considers youth as generating new cultural forms, as historically relevant actors, and informed social and/or political critics. At the core of such critiques lie possibilities for the agentive power of youth in Africa.
Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor is required. Enrollment limited to 15 students. General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). General Education Requirement: Social Analysis (SOC). Not offered in 2009-2010.
4 points

ANTH W 3945y The Ethnographic Problem in Ethnic Studies
General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL).
4 points

ANTH V 3946y African Popular Culture
Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor required. Enrollment limited to 15 students. General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). General Education Requirement: Social Analysis (SOC). Not offered in 2009-2010.
4 points

ANTH V 3947x Text, Magic, and Performance

Examination of text and performance, as informed by magic and related articulations of power. Topics explored include: prophetic writing, historical inscription; divine kingship, cosmology, divination; colonial fiction, nationalist figuration; spirit possession, ritual sacrifice; mask performance, music, shadow theatre. Draws principally on Southeast Asian sources. Key concerns are subjectivity and repetition.
Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor required. Enrollment limited to 20 students. General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). Not offered in 2009-2010.
4 points

ANTH V 3949y Sorcery and Magic
Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 20 students. General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). Not offered in 2009-2010.
4 points

ANTH V 3950y Anthropology of Consumption

Examines theories and ethnographies of consumption as well as the political economy of production and consumption. Compares historic and current consumptive practices, compares exchange based economies with post-Fordist economies. Engages the work of Mauss, Marx, Godelier, Baudrillard, Appadurai, and Douglas among others.
Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor required. Enrollment limited to 20 students. General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). General Education Requirement: Social Analysis (SOC).
4 points

ANTH V 3951y Pirates, Boys, and Capitalism

Detailed analysis of the history and figure of the pirate in the Western imagination. Asks why the pirate exerts such appeal through the ages and aims at introducing key problems in anthropological and cultural theory concerning colonialism, violence, homosexuality, rebellion, and the importance of the child's imagination of the above.
Prerequisites: Enrollment limited. General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). Not offered in 2009-2010.
4 points

ANTH V 3952y Taboo and Transgression

Transgression of taboos is the basis of crime, sex, and religion in any society. As "the labor of the negative", transgression is also a critical element in thought itself. Working through anthropology of sacrifice and obscenity, as well as relevant work by Bataille, Foucault, and Freud, this course aims at understanding why taboos exist and why they must be broken.
Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor required. Enrollment limited to 20 students. General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). Not offered in 2009-2010.
4 points

ANTH V 3954x Bodies and Machines

Examines how bodies become mechanized and machines embodied. Studies shifts in the status of the human under conditions of capitalist commodification and mass mediation. Readings consist of works on the fetish, repetition and automaticity, reification, and late modern techno prosthesis.

ANTH V 3960y The Culture of Public Art and Display in NYC

A field course and seminar considering the aesthetic, political, and sociocultural aspects of selected city museums, public spaces, and window displays.
General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL).
4 points

ANTH V 3961y Subsequent Performances

Explores the dynamic interaction between operatic compositions (especially Mozart's Don Giovanni and The Marriage of Figaro) and their subsequent performances, with particular emphasis on the cultural, political, and economic contexts that shape both the original composition and the following reproductions. Critical apparatus includes Abbate and Butler.
Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 15 students. Priority given to upper class anthropology and music majors; students must attend operas outside of class. General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). Not offered in 2009-2010.
4 points

ANTH V 3962y History and Memory
General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). General Education Requirement: Social Analysis (SOC). Not offered in 2009-2010.
3 points

ANTH V 3966y Culture, Mental Health and Clinical Practice

Considers mental disturbance and its relief by examining historical, anthropological, psychoanalytic and psychiatric notions of self, suffering, and cure. After exploring the ways in which conceptions of mental suffering and abnormality are produced, we look at specific kinds of psychic disturbances and at various methods for their alleviation.
Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 20 students. Junior standing or completion of introductory course(s) in Psychology and/or Anthropology. General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL).
4 points

ANTH V 3969x Specters of Culture

Pursues the spectral effects of culture in the modern. Through a consideration of anthropologically significant, primarily non-western sites and various domains of social creation-performance, ritual practice, narrative production, technological invention-traces the ghostly remainders of cultural machineries, circuitries of voice, and representational forms crucial to modern discourse networks.

ANTH V 3970x Biological Basis of Human Variation

Examination of the biological data for modern human diversity at the molecular, phenotypical, and behavioral levels, as distributed geographically.
Prerequisites: ANTH V1010. Permission of instructor required. General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL).
4 points

ANTH V 3971x Environment and Cultural Behavior

Examines human understandings and transformations of nature, drawing on theories of the relationship between nature and culture and the social production and construction of nature. Analyzes contemporary environmental use, conservation projects, and environmentally focused ethnographic writing. Demonstrates the relationship between nature ideologies and productions, and the social, economic, and environmental politics they engender.

ANTH V 3972y Reproduction as Ideology: Conception and the Fetus Cross-Culturally

Imagines conception and the fetus as cultural ideas. We will explore how various cultures throughout time and in contemporary discourse rationalize conception and the identity of the fetus. This cross-cultural discussion will provide the basis for a discussion of how kinship structure, social life and family are constructed. These concepts will then be related to American contemporary controversies surrounding abortion, new reproductive technologies, and the sociopolitical issues embedded within conception and childbirth. Finally we will place these issues within a global context of debates over reproduction ideology and population strategies.

ANTH V 3973x Environment and Development

Examines how economic development and environmental conservation have become different means for valuing nature and natural resources. Both of these have sometimes altered and sometimes reinforced inequalities across local, national, and international scales. In this course, students will be asked to think critically about the relationships between global commodities, natural resources management, development organizations, and local ideas about these. - N. Peterson
Prerequisites: Junior standing or permission of instructor.
4 points

ANTH V 3974x Lost Worlds, Secret Spaces: Modernity and the Child
General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL).
4 points

ANTH V 3975y (Section 001) Anthropology of Media
- Brian Larkin
Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 16 students. General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL).
4 points

ANTH V 3976x Anthropology of Science

Examines debates in the social studies of science, beginning with a focus on questions of epistemology and analyzing the significance of social interests, laboratory and social practices, and "culture(s)" in the making of scientific knowledge. The course then turns to consider the role of the sciences in fashioning larger social worlds.
Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor required. General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). General Education Requirement: Social Analysis (SOC).
3 points

ANTH V 3977y Trauma

Examines trauma as an individual, collective, and international political phenomena. Topics include the history and physiology of trauma, trauma and psychoanalysis, trauma and politics, and trauma after 9-11.
Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 20 students. General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL).
3 points

ANTH V 3978y Dialogic Imagination

Draws on the perspectives of Bakhtin and other theorists to analyze the logic of five opera performances the class will attend this semester. Productions scrutinized in terms of the forms of communication utilized; the class, status, and gender perspective mobilized; and the specified mechanisms used to engage or distance the audience from them. Performance rather than musicological angle emphasized.
Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor required. Enrollment limited to 15 students. General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL).
4 points

ANTH V 3979x Fluent Bodies

The recent proliferation of writings on the social significations of the human body have brought to the fore the epistemological, disciplinary, and ideological structures that have participated in creating a dimension of the human body that goes beyond its physical consideration. The course, within the context of anthropology, has two considerations, a historical one and a contemporary one. If anthropology can be construed as the study of human society and culture, then, following Marcel Mauss, this study must be considered the actual, physical bodies that constitute the social and the cultural.
General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL).
4 points

ANTH V 3980x Nationalism: History and Theory

Covers the basic readings in the contemporary debate over nationalism and different disciplinary approaches and looks at recent studies of nationalism in the formerly colonial world as well as in the industrial West. The readings offer a mix of both theoretical and empirical studies, including the following: Eric Hobsbawn: Nationalism since 1700; Ernest Gillner: Nations and Nationalism; Benedict Anderson: Imagined Communities; Antony Smith: The Ethic Origins of Nations; Linda Coley: Britons; Peter Sahlins: Boundaries; and Partha Chatterjee: The Nation and Its Fragments.

ANTH V 3983y Ideas and Societies in the Carribean
General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). Not offered in 2009-2010.
4 points

ANTH V 3988x Race and Sexuality in Scientific and Social Practice
- N. Abu-El-Haj
General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). General Education Requirement: Reason and Value (REA). Not offered in 2009-2010.
4 points

ANTH V 3989x Urban Anthropology
Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 18 students. General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL).
4 points

ANTH V 3993y World Archaeology in Global Perspectives
General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). Not offered in 2009-2010.
3 points

ANTH V 3994x Anthropology of Extremity: War
General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). Not offered in 2009-2010.
4 points

ANTH W 4001x The Ancient Empires
Prerequisites: ANTH V1002 or permission of the instructor. General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). Not offered in 2009-2010.
3 points

ANTH W 4002y Controversial Topics in Human Evolution
Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor and introductory biological/physical anthropology course. General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). Not offered in 2009-2010.
3 points

ANTH W 4009y Class and Culture in the United States
Prerequisites: Enrollment limited. Junior standing; preference to seniors and graduate students, and to anthropology majors and anthropology graduate students if necessary. General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). Not offered in 2009-2010.
3 points

ANTH W 4011x Critical Social Theory
Prerequisites: Junior standing. Enrollment limited to 30 students. General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). Not offered in 2009-2010.
3 points

ANTH W 4013y Thailand: History, Modernity, Nation
General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). Not offered in 2009-2010.
3 points

ANTH W 4022y Political Ecology

Analyzes global, national, and local environmental issues for the critical perspectives of political ecology. Explores concepts such as the production of nature, environmental violence, environmental justice, political decentralization, territoriality, and conservation interventions. - P. West

ANTH W 4042x or y Agent, Person, Subject, Self

Treats the interrelated notions of agent, person, subject, and self from a semiotic and social perspective.
General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). General Education Requirement: Social Analysis (SOC).
3 points

ANTH W 4065y Archaeology of Idols

Explores 40,000 years of the human creation of, entanglement with, enchantment by, and violence towards idols. Case studies roam from the Paleolithic to Petra and from the Hopi to the Taliban, and the theoretical questions posed include the problem of representation, iconoclasm, fetishism and the sacred.

ANTH G 4113y (Section 001) Religion, Media, Anthropology
- Brian Larkin
3 points

ANTH W 4625x Anthropology and Film
General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). General Education Requirement: Social Analysis (SOC). General Education Requirement: The Visual and Performing Arts (ART). Not offered in 2009-2010.
3 points

ANTH G 6129y Economy, Value and Society

Explores economy and society, as seen through the lens of two classic works: Marx's Capital (volume 1) and Evans-Pritchard's Nuer (books 1 and 2). It has several overarching goals. First, to give students the opportunity to read, compare, and discuss two classic works in social theory-works that are often read in a piece-meal and rushed fashion, or presupposed as general canon. Second, to introduce students to key categories in British social anthropology, and Marxist and substantivist economics-and to provide a genealogy of these categories. To sketch an alternative metalanguage for examining social relations vis-à-vis the economy-one which is grounded in American Pragmatism and Boasian (Linguistic) Anthropology. And finally, in light of this genealogy and metalanguage, to reconsider a key set of disjunctures in the theoretical imaginary: householding to moneymaking, status to contract, community to society, quality to quantity, use-value to exchange-value, concrete domination to abstract domination, private to public, punishment to discipline, and so forth.

ANTH BC 3871x-BC3872y Senior Thesis Seminar: Problems in Anthropological Research

Discussion of research methods and planning and writing of a Senior Essay in Anthropology will accompany research on problems of interest to students, culminating in the writing of individual Senior Essays. The advisory system requires periodic consultation and discussion between the student and her adviser as well as the meeting of specific deadlines set by the department each semester.

ANTH BC 3999x and y Individual Projects
Research projects and internships are planned in consultation with members of the department and work is supervised by the major's adviser.
Prerequisites: Permission of department required.
1-4 points. Maximum 4 points.