Anthropology

ANTH V1002x and y The Interpretation of Culture 3 pts. The anthropological approach to the study of culture and human society. Case studies from ethnography are used in exploring the universality of cultural categories (social organization, economy, law, belief system, art, etc.) and the range of variation among human societies. Discussion Section Required.

ANTH V1007x The Origins of Human Society 3 pts. Mandatory Recitations sections and $25.00 laboratory fee. An archaeological perspective on the evolution of human social life from the first bipedal step of our ape ancestors to the establishment of large sedentary villages. While traversing six million years and six continents, our explorations will lead us to consider such major issues as the development of human sexuality, the origin of language, the birth of "art" and religion, the domestication of plants and animals, and the foundations of social inequality. Designed for anyone who happens to be human.

ANTH V1008y The Rise of Civilization 3 pts. Mandatory Recitations sections and $25.00 laboratory fee. Enrollment limit is 300.DO NOT REGISTER FOR A RECITATION SECTION IF YOU ARE NOT OFFICIALLY REGISTERED FOR THE COURSE. The rise of major civilization 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. Lab Required.

ANTH V1009x Introduction to Language and Culture 3 pts. This is an 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, it focuses on how communication informs and transforms the sociocultural environment.

ANTH V1130y Africa and the Anthropologist 3 pts. Enrollment limit is 94. Susan Sontag famously wrote that: "Most serious thought in our time struggles with the feeling of homelessness". This course examines some of the classic texts that have been written about Africa as a place of "homelessness" or the place in which to search for "the self in others". The course is in two parts - the first part consists of theoretical readings on the history, uses, and abuses of anthropology as a discipline. The second part consists of texts written by African anthropologists. Rather than focus on concepts like kinship, marriage, the gift, etc. this course attempts to provide an intellectual history of the discipline and its relationship to Africa. The "kinship" links that are examined are therefore between ideas, authors, locales, and the particular space of southern Africa as a site of ethnographic and anthropological imaginings.

ANTH V1170 Islands 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Voyages to uncharted islands have long captured the western imagination-think Robinson Crusoe, Gauguin, King Kong and Gilligan's Island. Then there are the 'real' stories: Mutiny on the Bounty, Captain Cook, and Charles Darwin. Scientific discoveries have been made possible by long trips through the open ocean to observe, record, and analyze island life. What were voyages like for early explorers and settlers? What were they like for islanders? Taking the islands of the Pacific Ocean as our primary case material, this course examines islands as particular kinds of embodied spaces. What is an island as a social phenomenon? We will critically inventory ideologies and experiences, especially those arising from cultural contact. With reference to particular islands, we will explore histories of colonial interventions, sovereignty movements, and conditions of political marginality on the world stage. Are islands doomed to dependence on tourism, sweatshop labor, foreign military strategic interests, and foreign aid? What futures are possible for islands in a globalized world?

ANTH V1200 Sexuality 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Enrollment is 111. This course offers a broad overview of the social, cultural, political and economic dimensions of sexuality. It focuses on the rapid transformations that are taking place globally in the early twenty-first century, and on the impact that these transformations have had on sexuality. The relationships between men, women and children are changing quickly, as are traditional family structures and gender norms. What were once viewed as private matters have become public, and an array of new social movements (transgender, intersex, sex worker, people living with HIV) have come into the open. Sexuality has become a focus for public debate and political action in important new ways that will be examined in detail in this course.

ANTH V2004x Introduction to Social and Cultural Theory 3 pts. Introduces students to crucial theories of society, paying particular attention to classic social theory of the late-nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Traces a trajectory through writings essential for an understanding of the social: from Saussure, Durkheim, Mauss, Marx, Freud, and Weber, on to the structuralist ethnographic elaboration of Claude Levi-Strauss, the historiographic reflections on modernity of Michel Foucault, and contemporary modes of socio-cultural analysis. Explored are questions of signification at the heart of anthropological inquiry, and to the historical contexts informing these questions. Discussion Section Required.

ANTH V2005y The Ethnographic Imagination 3 pts. 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. Discussion Section Required.

ANTH V2006y Corruption in Critical Perspective 3 pts. What is corruption? Is it-as we are prone to suspect-detrimental to social equality, political participation, and economic growth? Through readings on the anthropology of bureaucracy, politics, exchange, and witchcraft, this class will develop a critical perspective on corruption that both problematizes and takes these intuitive claims seriously.

ANTH V2008x Film and Culture 3 pts. The class explores the intersection of aesthetics and ethnography in contemporary nonfiction filmmaking. Course readings address the blurring of boundaries between filmic genres and the multiplicity of relationships they establish between the "pro-filmic" and the filmic; the ethics as well as the epistemology of pictorial and audiovisual representation and the relationships that are put into play between films' subjects, their makers, and their audiences in a variety of cultural contexts, the social life of images, and the relationship between anthropological knowledge and various documentary modalities.

ANTH V2009y Culture through Film and Media 3 pts. This course will examine the intersections of film and anthropology. We will focus on the use of film within anthropology and turn the telescope around to propose a fragmentary anthropology of film. We will query histories and theories of film as they overlap with various understandings of anthropology, interrogating such historically problematic notions as "primitive" and "classic," "document" and "narrative." We will examine ethnographic and documentary films as they echo and collide with films seemingly outside the limits of their domains, emphasizing close analysis and detailed comparisons of our objects both in film and in language.

ANTH V2010 Major Debates in the Study of Africa 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. This course will focus on key debates that have shaped the study of Africa in the postcolonial African academy. We will cover six key debates (a) history before external impact; (b) agency and responsibility in different kinds of slave trade; (c) State Formation (conquest, slavery, colonialism); (d) underdevelopment (colonialism and globalization); (e) nationalism and the anti-colonial struggle; (f) pan-Africanism and globalization. The approach will be multidisciplinary and readings will be illustrative of different sides in the debate.

ANTH V2012 The Archaeology of Colonial Ireland: An Anthropological Perspective 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. The field of archaeology has much to contribute to a greater understanding of colonialism as it has privileged access to a comparative perspective of pre-capitalist colonial encounters and complementary kinds of evidence that can inform upon the historical processes of modern colonialism. In this class we will employ temporally and geographically diverse case studies from archaeological and historical literature situated within a critical discussion of colonial and post-colonial theory. Methodological strategies, problems, and limitations are also explored.

ANTH V2013 Africa in the 21st Century: Aesthetics, Culture, Politics 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. This course explores the relationship between indigenous and twenty-first century aesthetics, social, economic and political relationships in Africa. Students will be encouraged to examine aesthetic traditions in terms of the individual and social aspirations they embody, commerce through the geographies of exchange that articulate with specific resources, and politics through the diverse modes of sociality that prevail in different regions.

ANTH V2014x Archaeology and Africa: Changing perceptions of the African Past 3 pts. This course explores the changing perspectives on African archaeology over the last two centuries. We will trace the history of archaeological fieldwork in Africa, looking at archaeology's relationship to colonialism and European narratives of world history. These will be compared with the ways in which archaeology has been drawn upon in the post-colonial period within nationalist, Afrocentric and postcolonial accounts. Using a variety of archaeological case studies we will look at the key issues in African archaeology today, and assess how these debates have been informed by the particular history of archaeological interpretation in Africa. Topics will include the archaeology of human origins and dispersal out of Africa, the development of farming and the use of metals, the archaeology of African kingdoms and state formation, the colonial encounter, and the archaeology of the African Diaspora.

ANTH V2015 Chinese Society and Culture (formerly ANTH V3015) 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. 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 V2016 Gendered Migration in Transnational Asia 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. What makes women's migration experience different from men's in global capitalism today? The course will investigate contemporary women's transnational migration from developing countries to newly developed countries in Asia and beyond. We will discuss issues related to labor and marriage migrations, as well as trafficking in women, on both macro- and micro-levels. We are going to ask: how does the global economic restructuring shape the gendered migration today? What makes female labor different from male labor in the global labor market? What are push-and-pull factors that trigger these women to leave their hometown to be workers or wives in foreign countries? What difficulties do they experience after entering host societies and what impact would the migration flow bring to both laborer/bride receiving and sending countries? Moreover, we will explore the global market formation of transnational commodified marriages between women from developing countries and men from more developed countries. We will look at Filipina, Vietnamese and Chinese women migrating to Taiwan, Korea, Japan and the United States in particular. Throughout the semester, we will read empirical works from many disciplines, including anthropology, sociology, political economy and women's studies as well as primary source materials including news reports, online forums and watch documentaries and film clips.

ANTH V2020 Chinese strategies: cultures in practice 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. This course will examine major elements of Chinese culture historically and in the present-day. We will begin with a study of Chinese society in the late-imperial period (1368-1843), addressing key features of economic organization, kinship systems, popular religion and state administration. From this foundation, we will examine changes and (apparent) continuities in cultural practices over the course of China's Nationalist, Maoist and post-socialist revolutions, with particular attention to the present-day. Through the study of several recent ethnographies of conditions in rural and urban China, we will explore the ways in which the cultural conventions of the past have informed the strategies Chinese have devised in their negotiations with the global commercial economy and with an often predatory state.

ANTH V2027 Changing East Asia Foodways Not offered in 2013-2014. Changing East Asian Foodways" provides an introduction to the Historical Anthropology of East Asian cultures through an examination of changing foodways among the Chinese, Koreans, Japanese, Hong Kongese, Taiwanese and overseas Chinese, the responses of these groups to the global spread of fast food and café culture, and the role that East Asian food cultures have played in the social construction of difference and similitude in the Western cultures in which immigrants from East Asia have settled.

ANTH V2028 Pasts, Presents & Futures: An Introduction to 21st Century Archaeology 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. This course provides a comprehensive introduction to archaeology. We start with a critical overview of the origins of the discipline in the 18th and 19th centuries, and then move on to consider key themes in current archaeological thinking. These include ?time and the past: what is the difference? What are archaeological sites and how do we 'discover' them? How is the relationship between the living and the dead negotiated through archaeological practice? What are the ethical issues? How do we create narratives from archaeological evidence? Who gets written in and out of these histories? Archaeology, film and media.

ANTH V2035x Introduction to the Anthropology of South Asia 3 pts. This course provides a broad introduction to the anthropology of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. We will explore social and cultural formations such as caste, class, marriage and the family; as well as the organization of cultural diversity by colonial rule, nationalism and modern statehood, ethnic and religious conflict, and transnational circulations. In addition to secondary sources, students will be particularly encouraged to engage with primary sources such as treatises, speeches, poetry, music, and film. Through learning about the ethnography of the South Asia region, students will also gain an understanding of contemporary theoretical debates in anthropology, which include: the legacies of colonial rule in postcolonial societies, the social power of analytical categories, and the impact of globalization

ANTH V2040 Hunter-Gatherers: Presents, Pasts and Possible Futures 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. 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 the 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?

ANTH V2090 The Road 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. As literary, cinematic, and musical trope, the Road bears the weight of both transcendent American aspirations and banal evocations of national ethos. Engaging popular literature, film, and music, this course examines the figurative and literal Road as a medium that both reveals and constructs senses of American identity and place.

ANTH V2100 Muslim Societies 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. An 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.

ANTH V2139 Magic Witchcraft and Modernity 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Enrollment limit is 152. This class investigates magic and witchcraft, in addition to spirit mediums and ghosts in the shadow of technology, industry, and rational science. Beginning with the simple and open-ended definition of magic as a means to control and make sense of events that cannot be explained, the course is a journey through uncanny convergences and apparitional events that are at once sensual, yet ghostly. Course material ranges from baseball players who employ magical practices to deal with mathematical uncertainties of the game, to more challenging case studies on witchcraft, spirit possession, shamanism, and other forms of magic as healing. Alongside contemporary readings on the topic, students will also read classic anthropological texts on magic and witchcraft.

ANTH V2300 Anthropology of Estrangement 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. To examine anthropological explanation as a passage from the known to the unknown that problematizes the known as well as leaving some kernel of the strange, the exotic, and the unfamiliar a mystery and does not reduce everything to an explanation. How might we master the need for mastery? What happens after we have problematized the known? Readings: accounts of fieldwork, select ethnography, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Brecht, Benjamin, Bataille.

ANTH V2400 Culture and Finance 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. This class will construct a dual perspective on the intersection between culture and finance: On the one hand, we will be concerned with finance as a culturally constituted social field; on the other, we will examine the far-reaching sociocultural consequences of financial practices. Students will write four short papers, each corresponding to one of the four thematic sections of the class-Money and Exchange; Debt, Credit, and Value; The Production and Productivity of Risk; and Cultures of Crisis.

ANTH V3004 Introduction to Environmental 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. In the past thirty years, disciplines across the social sciences and humanities -- from philosophy to history to sociology to political science to geography to cultural studies -- have undergone a "greening" as the social aspects of nature have come to be seen as a legitimate, even sexy subject of scholarly investigation. In a very real sense, anthropology has always been environmental. Given nature's tremendous capacity to shape nearly every facet of our existence, both physiological and cultural, the self-proclaimed "science of humanity" could hardly be otherwise. This course provides a critical introduction to environmental anthropology, beginning with a brief exploration of its historical roots and examining its various iterations (including cultural, historical, and human ecology) but concentrating especially upon anthropology's contributions to the interdisciplinary field of political ecology, with a particular emphasis on issues of environmental justice. Although the readings for the course are discipline-specific, I will attempt to contextualize the anthropological take on particular environmental topics within the broader cross-disciplinary framework noted above in lectures and class discussions.

ANTH V3005 Africa: Culture and Society 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Exploration of the social orders and cultural sensibilities that form contemporary Africa. Examining the rise of urban cultures, religious movements, informal economies, crime and corruption, this class explores the structures of African life, the sensibilities they engender and the forms of life they give rise to.

ANTH V3007y Holy Lands, Unholy Histories: Archaeology before the bible 3 pts. This course provides a critical overview of prehistoric archaeology in the Near East (or the Levant - the geographical area from Lebanon in the north to the Sinai in the south, and from the middle Euphrates in Syria to southern Jordan). It has been designed to appeal to anthropologists, historians, and students interested in the Ancient Mediterranean and Middle Eastern Studies. The course is divided into two parts. First, a social and political history of prehistoric and "biblical" archaeology, emphasizing how the nature of current theoretical and practical knowledge has been shaped and defined by previous research traditions and, second, how the current political situation in the region impinges upon archaeological practice. Themes include: the dominance of "biblical archaeology" and the implications for Palestinian archaeology; Islamic archaeology; the impact of European contact from the Crusades onwards; the development of prehistoric archaeology.

ANTH V3008x Maximum Cinemas: Indian and Nigerian Film Cultures 3 pts. Hindi cinema represents one of the oldest and most dynamic forms of popular cinema whose popularity has spread far beyond India itself into countries from Senegal to Korea. Nigerian cinema, or Nollywood, represents one of the newest. In little more than a decade it has spread all over Africa and, increasingly, into the Caribbean and Black diaspora.

ANTH V3035 Religion in Chinese Society 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Chinese popular religion and ritual during the late traditional period and in modern times. Popular beliefs and practices concerning the cosmos, the gods, and the ancestors; the role in popular religion of Buddhism, Taoism, and the Imperial State Cult; popular religion, social change and the modern assault on "superstition."

ANTH V3040x Anthropological Theory I (formerly ANTH V3011 Social Relations: Living in Society) 4 pts. open to majors; all others with instructor's permission. Enrollment is 15. Prerequisite: an introductory course in anthropology. Institutions of social life. Kinship and locality in the structuring of society. Monographs dealing with both literate and nonliterate societies will be discussed in the context of anthropological fieldwork methods. (This course is open to anthropology majors; others require advanced permission of the instructor)

ANTH V3041y Anthropological Theory II 3 pts. The 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 3040, preferably in sequence. This course replaces ANTH V 3041 - Theories of Culture: Past and Present. Required of all Barnard Anthropology majors; Limited to 40, open to other students with instructor's permission only.

ANTH V3064 Death and the Body 3 pts. $25.00 mandatory laboratory feeNot offered in 2013-2014. This class explores the ways in which archaeologists use the dead body to explore past beliefs and social practices, critically assessing these approaches from the broader perspective of anthropological and sociological theories of the body's production and constitution. We'll look at the ways in which social status, gender and personhood are expressed through the dead body and through practices of body modification and display. In this context we'll also consider the social relations of archaeological exhumation, the conflict that can arise over the excavation of human remains, and their treatment as courtroom evidence in forensic archaeology.

ANTH V3075 Ethnoarchaeology: Theory and Method 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Analogies are constantly being made in archaeological interpretation, even if the process is not overt. Hodder argues that a prehistoric stone axe is only an 'axe' as opposed to 'a piece of polished stone 4x4cm' because of the image we have in our heads of everything that an axe is. Ethnoarchaeology, in its broadest sense, is the theoretical and methodological basis by which both these 'simple' analogies, and much more complex ones, are made. Given their mutual interests, it is interesting that there remain misunderstandings between the disciplines of archaeology and anthropology that affect the means by which archaeologists use (and abuse) ethnographies in their work, the means by which archaeologists tailor anthropological theory to their own ends, and the means by which the status of the reciprocal nature of the relationship between archaeology and anthropology is negotiated. In the 1960s to 1980s, and in the United States in particular, much of the research in ethnoarchaeology was directed towards the creation of epistemology and much effort was put into the production of Middle Range Theory to deal explicitly with the exact means by which ethnographic analogy is used in archaeological reasoning. The British-based critique of processualism in the 1980s and 1990s dismissed such methodology as intrinsic to the New Archaeology which created it. In keeping with contemporary theory, no coherent methodology was set up to address the issue of analogical reasoning in post-processual contexts. However, the legacy of this is that, given the importance of the interpretive tool of ethnoarchaeology, analogies continue to be used in archaeology. It is anticipated that the production of ethnoarchaeological methodologies is now a necessary part of the process of paradigm shift and that they may be the result of a synthesis of processualist ideas with those of the post-modern critique. The course will be taught by means of examples and case studies to illustrate the various theories of analogy that have been proffered. The course will be assessed by means of a small independent project in which students conduct an ethnoarchaeological study of their own.

ANTH V3106x Post-Socialist China: State, Society, and Globalization 3 pts. Since 1989, socialism across Eurasia has experienced profound transformations. Different from the dramatic transition to "capitalism" and "democracy" in the former Soviet bloc, China (and to a large degree, Viet Nam as well) has adroitly combined an authoritarian state with a highly capitalist economy with socialism becoming a nominal rhetoric at large.

ANTH V3120y Historical Rituals in Latin America 3 pts. Requirements: Undergraduate majors. Enrollment is 60 Anthropologists and historians of literacy and communication have emphasized the reliance on multivocal imagery in the organization of social and political life in Latin America. Historically, the salient role of image and of ritual in political ritual was fed by the chasm between literate and illiterate segments of the population. During the twentieth century, however, the rise of mass politics on one hand, and television and other visual media on the other, gave a new lease on the vibrant relevance of historical ritual and myth in local polticial life. This course explores the role of religious and secular ritual and myth in framing historical processes. It makes special emphasis on the use of Catholic ritual, imagery, and mythology in the European conquest and colonization of the continent, and in revolution, nationbuilding, civic life, and sexual politics, since the 19tr century.

ANTH V3150 The Prehistory of Europe 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Course description The land mass that is now known as Europe has relinquished a rich archaeological database that bears testimony to prehistoric human activity from the Upper Palaeolithic to the end of the Iron Age, a time period of some 40 000 years. While it is possible to talk of a European prehistory at a general level, the large scale of the territory means that regional diversity will be taken into account. Archaeological evidence for various regions of Europe will be presented chronologically, along with a critique of the means by which archaeological data are deposited, discovered, and retrieved. The interpretations that have been made of these data, by different authors, will be critically compared and contrasted, taking into account the social and political contexts in which archaeologists wrote. The aim of this will be to demonstrate that archaeological narratives, or archaeologists? stories about the past, are much influenced by the contemporary contexts in which they are produced. Some of the material highlights of the course include Upper Palaeolithic cave paintings, such as those at Lascaux in France, Neolithic standing stone monuments, such as Stonehenge in England, Bronze Age hoards, and Iron Age hillforts from all over Europe. Palaeoenvironmental techniques, dating, ethnographic analogy and experimental archaeology are all methods that will be drawn on in the discussion of the available archaeological evidence in Europe and the interpretations which have been made from it.

ANTH V3160 The Body and Society 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Prerequisites: Non-anthropology majors require permission of the instructor. Enrollment limit to 40; not open to first-years. Introduction to medical anthropology, exploring health, affliction, and healing cross-culturally. Draws from theory and methods to address critiques of biomedical, epidemiological, and other models of disease; the roles of healers in different societies; the inseparable nature of religion and healing; and different conceptions of the body and how this affects cultural conceptions of health.

ANTH V3300 Pre-Columbian Histories of Native America 3 pts. Enrollment limited to 40 students.Not offered in 2013-2014. This course 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. Enrollment limit is 40.

ANTH V3440 US Cities in Transition 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Enrollment limited to 20. Preference given to CSER and Anthropology sophomores and juniors. This course will develop practical inroads into the problem of the transitioning American (U.S.) city that will both complement and complicate commonplace intuitions about the urban change we witness unfolding around us. Readings and primary material stay close to anthropological and ethnographic perspectives. We will consider how focusing on the meaning and experience of everyday life in changing urban spaces can problematize ideals associated with contemporary urban living, including various forms of diversity, residential-based social connection and democratic citizenship. Additional readings introduce students to analytical perspectives on multiculturalism, spatial experience and the public sphere. Taken together, readings, case studies, primary materials and discussions will equip students with the tools necessary to approach contemporary urban change with an anthropological lens.

ANTH V3465y Women and Gender Politics in the Muslim World 3 pts. 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 V3525 Introduction to South Asian History and Culture 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Examines four major aspects of contemporary South Asian societies: nationalism, religious reform, gender, and caste. Provides a critical survey of the history of and continuing debates over these critical themes of society, politics and culture in South Asia. Readings consist of primary texts that were part of the original debates and secondary sources that represent the current scholarly assessment on these subjects.

ANTH V3761x Ethnographic Research: Methods and Concepts 4 pts. Enrollment limit is 20. Instructor's permission required. This course introduces undergraduate students in anthropology, sociology, and related fields to ethnographic fieldwork. It is designed as a seminar/practicum, and we will divide our class time between the analysis of texts and the analysis of our own attempts to carry out the ethnographic methods described in those texts. Students will formulate an ethnographic question, which they will systematically investigate through weekly field assignments and a final research proposal. Throughout, we will attend not only to the application of particular methods to particular questions, but also to the broader epistemological and ethical questions that inform ethnographic fieldwork.

ANTH V3762x Native Meaning 4 pts. Enrollment limit is 15. This course uses primary and secondary source materials to teach the histories, cultures and philosophical systems of Indigenous peoples located within the United States and Canada. This course moves geographically through the East into the Circumpolar North, the Dakotas, and then into the Pacific Northwest and then moves temporally through pre-settlement into settlement periods through materials that comprise an active archive of Indigenous communicative practices, philosophies and politics. The course resists the earlier anthropological conceit of placing Indigenous peoples within a "before" state, as matter to be salvaged in an immanent disappearance of pure, cultural form and difference, as Indigenous people in fact have not disappeared, and possess deep histories that are alive within the present and in different cultural forms. As such, the course pairs cultural "artifacts," ethnography with contemporary expressive culture (autobiography, visual art) in order to create an intellectual genealogy and cultural history of Indigeneity and Indigenous sovereignty that lives within the present.

ANTH V3802 Ancient Egyptian Religion and Magic 4 pts. Enrollment limit is 15Not offered in 2013-2014. This course will provide a comprehensive overview of ancient Egyptian religion and magic. We will carefully investigate the Egyptian pantheon as well as the cosmology, cosmogony, religious texts, funerary beliefs, and concepts of the self throughout ancient Egyptian history. We will analyze textual, artistic and archaeological evidence, such as pyramids, mummies, sarcophagi, temple architecture, and statues of the gods and goddesses in an attempt to understand the complex and fascinating religious beliefs of the ancient Egyptians. We will also discuss the disappearance of the ancient Egyptian religion, gnosticism, and Coptic Christianity.

ANTH V3810 Madagascar 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Prerequisites: Non-Anthropology majors require the instructor's permission. Enrollment limit is 15. Critiques the many ways the great Red Island has been described and imagined by explorers, colonists, social scientists, and historians-as an Asian-African amalgamation, an ecological paradise, and a microcosm of the Indian Ocean. Religious diasporas, mercantilism, colonization, enslavement, and race and nation define key categories of comparative analysis.

ANTH V3821 Native America (formerly V3090) 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Enrollment limit is 40. This is an undergraduate seminar that takes up primary and secondary sources and reflections to a) provide students with an historical overview of Native American issues and representational practices b) provide students with an understanding of the ways in which land expropriation and concomitant military and legal struggle have formed the core of Native-State relations and are themselves central to American and Native American history and culture c) provide students with an understanding of Native representational practices, political subjectivity and aspiration.

ANTH V3822 Media, Aesthetics, Politics 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Enrollment is 25 with permission from instructor. Priority given to anthro majors, juniors and seniors. Politics revolves around what can be seen, felt, sensed. Political acts are encoded in medial and aesthetic forms-bodies protesting in the street, punch holes on a card, images on a television newscast, tweets about events unfolding in real time-by which the political becomes manifest in the world. How do these forms gain their force? What role do they play in shaping people as subjects and defining the terms of political possibility? How do they reinscribe particular relations of power as issues of political concern and concrete transformation? This course will explore these questions as part of our effort to trace the connections between media, aesthetics, and politics.

ANTH V3829 Absent Bodies 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Prerequisites: Instructor's permission required. Enrollment is 15. Across a range of cultural and historic contexts one encounters traces of bodies-and persons-rendered absent, invisible, or erased. Knowledge of the ghostly presence nevertheless prevails, revealing an inextricable relationship between presence and absence. This course addresses the theme of absent bodies in such contexts as war and other memorials, clinical practices, and industrialization, with interdisciplinary readings drawn from anthropology, war and labor histories, and dystopic science fiction. Enrollment is 15, instructor's permission required.

ANTH V3831x Cultures and Ecomomies: Explorations in Economic Anthropology 4 pts. Enrollment limit is 20. Enrollment priorities: Seniors and Juniors This class explores the intersection of economy, culture, and society from a comparative, anthropological perspective. What have anthropologists learned about the different economic systems of the societies they study? How do economic practices and processes interact with the broader sociocultural worlds in which they are pursued and elaborated? What kind of concepts and methods do anthropologists draw on in their ethnographic (and archeological) researches into the diversity of human economic life? By reading classic and contemporary works in the field of economic anthropology, this class introduce students to longstanding discussions and debates about: economic rationality as a social form; the application of economic principles and methods to non-marketized societies; the nature of exchange and value; the sociocultural dimensions of monetarization and marketization; the role of gender and class in economic production; and the paradoxes of private property in everyday lives. Anthropology and economics have maintained a long and productive, if often combative relationship with one another, and one of the aims of the course is to explore that relationship from a number of critical perspectives.

ANTH V3840 Urban life and cultural Imagination in South Asia 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. One of the most conspicuous changes in South Asia in the last decades has been the enormous growth of cities across the region. The rate of urbanization in South Asia has historically been relatively modest. Today more than sixty five cities in South Asia have more than a million people, and there are hundreds of smaller cities around 300,000 to half a million people across the wider region. The World Bank projects that in less than a decade, India alone will have around half a billion people living in cities. Of these at least a third and possibly more will be living in slums. Urban slums in India and elsewhere in the subcontinent are the most highly politicized places with more people voting and taking to the streets than anywhere else. The future of particularly India but also other countries in the region is undoubtedly urban, political power is urban, new technologies and new cultural phenomena are all decidedly urban. This course has two aims: Firstly, to give the participants a strong overview of the historical development of cities and urban culture across the South Asian region from the pre-colonial cities until today. Secondly, the participants will be given a broad and sensitive introduction to many aspects of contemporary urban cultures, conflicts, identities and experiential frames in South Asian cities. The readings will be work by critical historians and social theorists of South Asia; recent ethnographies of many aspects of contemporary urban life in South Asia's cityscapes; popular novels, short stories and films that address various aspects and mythologies of urban life in the region.

ANTH V3845 Religion in Taiwan: Beliefs and Practices in a Changing Society 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. This seminar is concerned with religion in contemporary Taiwan and with the historical developments that have helped shape it. Subjects for discussion include the transplanting of Chinese religious forms of religion (ie., state cult Confucianism, Buddhism, Daoism, popular religion) into Taiwan and their subsequent development on the island. The seminar also considers the religious life of Taiwan's native peoples, the past and present impact of western missionary-derived Christianity, and the consequences of growing and deepening ties with mainland China for religion in present-day Taiwan.

ANTH V3850 Psychoanalysis, Colonialism, and Race 4 pts. Enrollment limit is 20Not offered in 2013-2014. This course investigates the complex relationships among colonialism, psychoanalysis, and race. The first part of the course examines the impacts of colonial ideologies of race on key Freudian theories, as well as the complicity of psychoanalysis in the colonial project. It then considers specific means by which imperial regimes shaped the subjectivities of colonizers and the colonized, including the application of theories and treatments connected to ethnopsychiatry. The second part of the course looks at racialized theories of mental illness and modes of social control in current mental health practice. After considering the global circulation of Freudian concepts, the course examines contemporary schools of psychoanalysis that revise classical understandings of mental structure, psychopathology, race, and therapeutic action. The course concludes with readings of recent case studies in cross-racial psychoanalysis.

ANTH V3853 Moving Truths: The Anthropology of Transnational Advocacy Networks 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Transnational advocacy is an increasingly important dimension of contemporary globalizations, reconfiguring relations of knowledge, power, and possibility across cultures and societies. As sites of enacting expertise, activism, and legality, transnational advocacy networks are crucial for not only making claims and causes mobile across locales, but for making them moving within locales - affective and effective. While transnational advocacy networks are often studied by political scientists, this course focuses on a growing body of anthropological ethnographic research.

ANTH V3855 Secular Modernity and Religious Authority 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. This course seeks to understand the relationship between secular and religious forms of authority in the modern world. Among topics to be considered include the rise of religiosity in the public and political spheres, tolerance and pluralism, and the legal organization of religious practices. Course enrollment is limited to 20 students.

ANTH V3860 Mythology 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Enrollment limit 20. This course is intended as an advanced seminar for anthropology students and others engaged in questions of social theory. Students must already have taken at least 2 anthropology courses and/or equivalent classes in social theory, religious studies or philosophy. The course provides an in depth exploration of both the theories of mythology that have dominated classical anthropology, and four 'case studies' through which students will engage particular but recurrent problematics in the history of mythology. These case studies are drawn from a variety of contexts, and in their juxtaposition will provide the basis for a consideration of what it can mean to do a comparative study of mythology today. The 'four case studies,' address themselves to: 1), the animal-human relation; 2) the question ofkinship; 3) the idea of sovereignty and the problem of the political; and 4) the myth of modernity, and the commodity economy. Select theoretical texts drawn from anthropology, literary criticism, history and philosophy will provide the analytic terms through which these materials will be examined

ANTH V3863 Ethnography of Indigenous Australia 4 pts. Instructor's permission required.Not offered in 2013-2014. Indigenous Australia has been of immense importance in the history of Anthropology as well as in the sociology of religion and psychoanalysis (eg. Durkheim' s Elementary Form , and Freud's Totem and Taboo). Long an icon of radical Otherness in the Western imagination (see the movie Walkabout, for instance), indigenous Australians now contest the moods and tropes of that imagination with alternative modes of memory, film, visual art, and storytelling.

ANTH BC3868x and y Ethnographic Fieldwork In New York City 4 pts. (Enrollment limited to 15. open to anthropology majors; others with instructor's permission) Seminar-workshop 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.

ANTH BC3871x and y Senior Seminar: Problems In Anthropological Research. 4 pts. Instructor's Permission Required Please note: this course is intended for--and required of-- Barnard seniors. Discussion of research methods and planning and writing of a senior essay accompanies 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 the adviser as well as the meeting of specific deadlines set by the department.

ANTH V3873 LANGUAGE AND POLITICS 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Language is central to political process. While all agree that language is used to symbolize or express political action, the main focus of this course is on how language and other communicative practices contribute to the creation of political stances, events, and forms of order. Topics addressed include political rhetoric and ritual, political communication and publics, discrimination and hierarchy, language and the legitimation of authority, as well as the role of language in nationalism, state formation, and in other sociopolitical movements like feminism and diasporic communities. Since this course has the good fortune of coinciding with the 2012 U.S. Presidential election, we will make significant use of campaign rhetorics as a means of illustrating and exploring various themes.

ANTH V3875 Sensing Place, Placing Music 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Enrollment limit is 35. This class is an engagement between theoretical texts on the uses and production of space and place in Western modernity and conceptions of regional culture and identity in popular American imaginations, with particular emphasis on the genres commonly referred to as "roots" music. We begin by tracing a few major threads in theoretical treatments of place and space, with examples from phenomenological, historical materialist, and semiotic schools of thought. We will then attempt to distill the relevance of these approaches to lived experience by looking at a short selection of ethnographic accounts of the relationships among regional, class, and racial identities in the U.S. The ultimate goal is to bring the theoretical and ethnographic to bear upon articulations of what music anthropologist Steven Feld calls "senses of place" in performance of roots music, particularly early blues and country. To this end, we combine close, in-class listenings with historical readings on the popularity of these music genres, and their performers, in the 20th century. As a final task, students will be asked to examine, in light of the course readings, representations of place or place-based identity in a musical artifact of their choosing.

ANTH V3876y Chinese Science and Medicine in East Asia and Beyond 4 pts. Enrollment limit is 18. This course examines the history and human impact of Chinese science and medicine in broad East Asian and transnational contexts. Using a socio-cultural approach, we will examine social, cultural, and political milieus within which various forms of science and medicine were practiced and understood across Chinese history and beyond the stereotypical "Chinese" boundary.

ANTH V3879x The Medical Imaginary 4 pts. Enrollment limited to 15 & instructor's permission required. Non anthropology majors require instructor's permission How might we speak of an imaginary within biomedicine? This course interrogates the ideological underpinnings of technocratic medicine in contexts that extend from the art of surgery to patient participation in experimental drug trials. Issues of scale will prove especially important in our efforts to track the medical imaginary from the whole, fleshy body to the molecular level. Key themes include everyday ethics; ways of seeing and knowing; suffering and hope; and subjectivity in a range of medical and sociomedical contexts.

ANTH V3880y Listening: An Ethnography of Sound 4 pts. Prerequisites: the instructor's permission. This course explores the possibilities of an ethnography of sound by attending to a range of listening encounters: in urban soundscapes of the city and in natural soundscapes of acoustic ecology; from histories of audible pasts and resonances of auditory cultural spaces; through repeated listenings in the age of electronic reproduction and at the limits of listening with experimental music. Sound, noise, voice, reverberation, and silence, from von Helmholtz to John Cage and beyond: the course turns away from the screen and dominant epistemologies of the visual, for an extended moment, in pursuit of sonorous objects and cultural sonorities.

ANTH V3882 Bodily Senses 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. This course explores how corporal senses (e.g. of touch, vision, smell listening) are formed through various sociocultural practices which render bodies, objects, and media part of a word 'sensible.' Upper-division seminar open to advanced undergraduates.

ANTH V3883 ANTH OF CULT BIO LING DIVRSTY 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Today localities with high incidences of genetic, species, and ecosystem diversity more often than not map directly onto localities with high incidences of human cultural and linguistic diversity. These localities are generally in parts of the world that have been, until quite recently, at the frontiers of resource extraction, human migration and resettlement, and capital expansion. Extraction, migration' and economic expansion tend to result in a decrease in both biological and cultural diversity. People living in these diverse areas often fall into the lowest categories of indicators for poverty and are often desirous of economic development. Equally often they are targeted for economic development interventions by expansionist states and resource-hungry businesses. Conservation organizations often target these localities for protection because of the various forms of diversity found in them and because they also often have high numbers of species with restricted ranges. This course examines the articulation of biological, linguistic, and cultural diversity.

ANTH V3884 Capitalism and Authoritarianism 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. This course investigates capitalism developed outside liberal democratic societies. Namely, we will study market capitalism in the societies that are most commonly characterized as authoritarian. In the recent decades, there have been an increasing number of successful market economies such as Singapore or China that flourished within political regimes marked by state intervention, cronyism, and lack of transparency. Authoritarian capitalism appears to provide an ideological alternative to the Western model of capitalism based on liberal democratic governance, as evidenced by the recent embarking of post-Soviet Central Asian countries on this path of development. In this light, our objective is to understand how authoritarian governments enable and promote capitalist economy. At the same time, we keep in sight how capitalist relations promote authoritarian practices. Altogether, this course aims to complicate the expectation that liberal democracy is capitalism's ideal companion and to develop a nuanced and comprehensive understanding of capitalism in authoritarian societies.

ANTH V3886 Signs and Wonders 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. This course explores the dynamic interplay between "signs" - as evidence, knowledge, meaning, rationality - and "wonder(s)" - as passion, affect, sensation, but also as object, phenomenon, catalyst, and event - across a plurality of sites and registers: medieval theology, early modern science, the colonial encounter; skepticism, mysticism, demonology, and fascism; psychoanalysis, art, poetry, film; digitality, virtuality, and special effects; Enlightenment Europe, Evangelical America, postcolonial Africa, and beyond. What does wonder look like at the interface of madness, terror, and the sublime? What is this passion, this pathos, that can lead both to tireless critical inquiry and to unquestioning, indeed totalitarian, discipleship? How do signs and wonders become political technologies? At the outer reaches of knowability, how have marvels, wonders, miracles, and monstrosities been constructed, sensed, mastered, and mass-mediatized in different times and places? And finally, if, as Socrates believed, philosophy begins in wonder, can we say the same for anthropology? What exactly is the sensation - the awe, curiosity, fascination, even horror - of anthropology's encounter with its worlds? Along with ethnographic and historical texts, readings will include Lévi-Strauss, Viveiros de Castro, Ingold, Lingis, Daston and Park, Greenblatt, Rubenstein, Benjamin, Freud, Tarde, Deleuze, and Canetti.

ANTH V3887 The Anthropology of Palestine 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Enrollment linit is 20. This course examines the relationship between different forms of knowledge about Palestinians and the political and social history of the region. It explores the complex interplay of state, ethnicity, gender, sexuality and class at both local and global levels in constructing what Palestine is and who Palestinians are. The course takes up diverse areas, from graphic novels to archaeological sites, from news reporting to hiking trails, to study how Palestine is created and recreated. Students will gain a familiarity with anthropological concepts and methodological approaches to Palestine. They will become familiar with aspects of the social organization, historical developments and political events that have shaped the region over the last century. The course is also intended to develop students' skills in written and oral communication, analysis, ethnographic observation, and critical thinking.

ANTH V3889 THE PRODUCTIVITY OF CRISIS 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. In what sense are crises productive? How is it that destruction, loss, and rupture can serve as the constituent features of a social order? We will approach these questions by revisiting and reclaiming several key texts-from within and beyond anthropology----on the intertwined problems of crisis and social reproduction.

ANTH V3891 Anthropology of Art 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Prerequisites: Instructor's permission required. Enrollment limit is 15. Art has been understood and conceptualized in a variety of ways.In Western public culture, art has been commonly regarded in terms of autonomous creativity and individual genius. In former socialist countries, the state emphasized the social obligations of the artist to the collective good. Antlyopologists challenged these understandings of art as an activity separate from the everyday life by providing accounts of contexts where creativity is intrinsically connected to ritual life, and artifacts are an expression of the connection to the land and ancestry. In light of trade, colonialism, and more recently, economic globalization, there has been a lot of traffic in people and commodities between these aesthetic and socioeconomic regimes-also the subject of prolific anthropological inquiry. This course offers an exploration of all these discussions, and proposes an understanding of art as embedded in its surrounding social context rather than existing as a universal self-standing category.

ANTH V3892 Contemporary Central Asia (formerly anth V2029) 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Enrollment limit is 30. First-come, first-served basis. This course investigates contemporary Central Asia as a specific context of post-socialist and postcolonial transition to newly independent statehood in the aftermath of global Cold War politics. Drawing on cultural artifacts and scholarly analyses, this course introduces students to Central Asian politics, economy, society, and culture. We will survey the processes related to macro-political and economic structure such as democratization, market reforms, and nation-building in conjunction with the everyday life of communities. Besides scholarly accounts of Central Asia, course materials include films, artworks, and internet discussions forums.

ANTH V3893 The Bomb 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Prerequisites: the instructor's permission. Enrollment limit is 20. The first part of the course focuses on the history of the creation of the atomic bomb and the aftermath of its use during World War II. We look at the socialization of the scientists involved in the birth of the bomb; at the devastation it wrought in Hiroshima and Nagasaki; and at the physical and psychological injuries that afflicted its survivors, especially the immediate and long-term effects of radiation poisoning and trauma. The course then considers the Cold War period, examining civil defense campaigns, the cultural features of weapons laboratories, and the devastating physical and environmental contamination suffered by communities--disproportionately composed of indigenous populations-where such weapons repeatedly have been tested. The second part of the course explores the transformative cultural and psychological consequences of living with the bomb. Readings consider the evidence of spontaneous psychic adaptations to life in the nuclear age. They also examine governments' deliberate attempts to shape citizens' cognitive and emotional lives. How do states produce political subjects who comply with military imperatives? What role does the continual manufacture of foreign threats and enemies play in this process? While acknowledging the powerful forces that seek to control public perceptions of nuclear arms by minimizing their destructive potential, the course concludes by considering organized resistances to increasing nuclear proliferation and to militarism.

ANTH V3894 African Futures 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Although polemical and demonizing visions of Africa continue to proliferate within various quarters of public discourse, scholarly characterizations are more agnostic, tending to cycle between the fatalistic and upbeat. "Africa," it seems, has become a montage of competing destinies: alongside accounts of unrelenting debt and extreme precarity, war machines and disposable populations, occult imaginaries and eviscerated states, we are given vibrant sketches of a continent to come, of novel styles of life and habits of self-creation. This course explores the contours of Africa's variegated present through engagement with its emergent social and cultural forms: the refiguring of the city through the informal and the informational, state pullback and a privatized commons, development projects and humanitarian interventions, the intoxicating efflorescence of miracles and so many prosperity gospels, new techniques of law and criminality, experimental forms of violence and warfare, newly public - and vigorously ostracized - modes of intimacy and desire. Engaging these issues from a cross-disciplinary perspective, with materials spanning the ethnographic and historical to the literary and philosophical, this course will serve as a critical introduction to the debates, concepts, and orientations through which African futures are being produced and apprehended.

ANTH V3895 Anthropology and the Politics of Climate Change 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014.

This course 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 how climate change is affecting and will continue to affect communities worldwide, concepts of risk and vulnerability, the role of science and local knowledge, and the social contexts of policies and actions.

ANTH V3899 Food, Ecology, Globalization 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Prerequisites: the instructor's permission. Enrollment limit is 20.

ANTH V3903 Cities: Ethno-archaeology, Archaeology and Theory 4 pts. Enrollment limited to 20 plus instructor's permission requiredNot offered in 2013-2014. Enrollment limit to 20. This course will examine cities in comparative perspective, over time and space, from several viewpoints. We will examine how and when they develop, how they function, and what urban life is like. Is the urban experience the same for all residents? At all times? In all places? We will begin with theory and some urban history and then focus on New York as a laboratory, from its origins to the present. The course involves a kind of archaeology called "ethnoarchaeology" in which we look at living societies and communities in order to gain a better understanding of past and present. Our examination of contemporary urban life pays special attention to spatial organization and order, the geography of power in the urban landscape, and to material things, as these are the kinds of data that archaeologists typically focus on.

ANTH V3906 Functional Linguistics and Language Typology 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. This course introduces students to functional linguistics and language typology. Functional linguistics involves describing, classifying and explaining the relation between linguistic form (e.g. various grammatical patterns embodied in phonology, morphology, and syntax) and linguistic function (e.g. the ends communicative utterances serve and the meanings grammatical categories encode). Language typology involves describing and comparing the forms and functions of the world's languages in order to uncover, classify and explain cross-linguistic patterns.

ANTH V3908 Global Economy In Anthropological Perspective 4 pts. Enrollment limit is 15Not offered in 2013-2014. This course focuses on how anthropologists theorize and study globalization. We will explore contemporary theories and methods, as well as trace historical trajectories in anthropological engagement with regional trade, production, and labor systems. Many of the questions about globalization revolve around cultural confrontations and social, political and economic transformations. Observers of these processes in multiple disciplines attempt to answer similar questions. How trade systems transformed production and labor in participating areas in other periods of history? How is identity reconfigured and manipulated in contemporary globalization? How are forms of identity commoditized and marketed in global transactions? What forms of resistance to globalization have emerged, where and why? How do issues of race, gender, class, ethnicity and religion intersect in global labor settings? How are sexualities, bodies and body parts implicated in global economies of consumption? The anthropological encounter with these complex issues invokes particular theories and methodologies. Fieldwork, longitudinal engagement with issues and locations, multi-sited studies, and following commodity chains are some of the current methods used to uncover the voices and perspectives various actors bring to encounters. Selected ethnographies, case studies, fiction and other forms of media all explore the lived experience of globalized work, travel, and technological encounters at various sites of interaction.

ANTH V3912x Ethnographic China 4 pts. Reading of selected ethnographies of China from among the many published since 1990. In the context of rapid social and economic change in China during this period, the seminar will critically consider how each ethnography represents the observations, interpretations, and field techniques of the anthropologist who is its author. Also discussed will be the shared themes and contesting perspectives emerging from a comparison of these works, as well as the overall contribution of this ethnographic research to our understanding of China as an emerging world power.

ANTH V3913 Ancient Egyptian Culture 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Ancient Egypt was one of the most advanced cultures in antiquity. This course will go beyond the pyramids and pharaohs to investigate the culture and daily life of the ancient Egyptians from the Old Kingdom to the Hellenistic period. Students will learn about ancient Egyptian magic, emotion, cosmogony, education, recreation, travel, and diplomacy by reading ancient Egyptian folklore, dream spells, love poetry, wisdom texts, religious hymns, and royal propaganda in translation. In addition to exploring the laws, occupations, and medical knowledge of the ancient Egyptians, we will also analyze how gender, race, sexuality, class, and disability were constructed and represented.

ANTH V3913 Ancient Egyptian Culture 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Ancient Egypt was one of the most advanced cultures in antiquity. This course will go beyond the pyramids and pharaohs to investigate the culture and daily life of the ancient Egyptians from the Old Kingdom to the Hellenistic period. Students will learn about ancient Egyptian magic, emotion, cosmogony, education, recreation, travel, and diplomacy by reading ancient Egyptian folklore, dream spells, love poetry, wisdom texts, religious hymns, and royal propaganda in translation. In addition to exploring the laws, occupations, and medical knowledge of the ancient Egyptians, we will also analyze how gender, race, sexuality, class, and disability were constructed and represented.

ANTH V3914 Indigeneity in the Andes 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. While historically important, indigenous identity or indigeneity has become an increasingly powerful idiom for reimagining collective action and remaking sociopolitical demands in the Andes. Many scholars, activists, and politicians go so far as to speak of a "return of the ayllu," referring to the traditional unit of social, political and economic organization among highland Aymara and Quechua peoples. With good reason, they point to recent social mobilizations (like the "gas war" in the "indigenous city" of El Alto, Bolivia) and a sea-change in national politics (the ascendancy of Evo Morales and Ollanta Humala to the presidency in Bolivian and Peru, both of whom claim indigenous affiliations, Aymara and Quechua, respectively) as evidence of the crucial role indigeneity now plays, as a structure for making sociopolitical demands, in Andean societies. Through a range of historical and ethnographic readings, this course will explore the past and present of "claiming indigeneity" in the Andes. Special emphasis will be placed upon the Quechua and Aymara peoples of what is now highland Peru and Bolivia, seeing how indigenous cultural practices and understandings of indigeneity emerged and changed, from the Spanish Conquest to the colonial period to the modernization and multiculturalist projects of the nation-state.

ANTH V3918 Sufism in Central Asia 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. This course will explore Sufism in Central Asia under czarist and Soviet rule to the present day from an anthropological perspective. The seminar will begin with a broad overview of the origins and historical development of different Sufi orders throughout Central Asia, particularly the Naqshbandiyya, Yasawiyya and Qadiriyya orders. We will cover Sufism in Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Xinjiang and the Caucasus. Emphasis will be placed on the practice of Sufism, the political role of Sufism, Sufi-inspired music, and the multifarious portrayals of Sufis as miraculous healers, elite soldiers, wandering dervishes, indispensible powerbrokers and raving madmen.

ANTH V3921x Anticolonialism 4 pts. Enrollment limit is 20. Through a careful exploration of the argument and style of three vivid anticolonial texts, C.L.R. James' The Black Jacobins, Aimé Césaire's Discourse on Colonialism, Albert Memmi's Colonizer and Colonized, and Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth, this course aims to inquire into the construction of the image of colonialism and its projected aftermaths established in anti-colonial discourse.

ANTH V3922 The Emergence of State 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. The creation of the earliest states out of simpler societies was a momentous change in human history. This course examines major theories proposed to account for that process, including population pressure, warfare, urbanism, class conflict, technological innovation, resource management, political conflict and cooperation, economic specialization and exchange, religion/ideology, and information processing.

ANTH V3923x Colonialism and the Intellectual 4 pts. Enrollment limit is 20. This course is a consideration of the choices and dilemmas faced by the category of intellectuals who have been labeled 'colonial intellectuals'.

ANTH V3924y Anthropology and Disaster 4 pts. Prerequisites: the instructor's permission. Enrollment limit 20. This course examines various approaches to the study and representation of natural and humanly caused disasters. Course readings include eyewitness accounts of calamities, personal memoirs of genocide, and ethnographic reports of the aftermath of floods, earthquakes, political violence, and nuclear reactor explosions. The course also considers conventional patterns of disaster response, as well as shifting notions of disaster preparedness that have emerged since 9/11. It concludes with an examination of post-disaster reconstruction, looking at the ways social divisions, economic conditions and political interests invariably affect the cultural, public health, and psychological repercussions of disasters.

ANTH V3926 Rewriting Modernity: Transculturation and the Postcolonial Intellectual 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. This course is an examination of how postcolonial intellectuals have participated in the creation and contesting of alternative/multiple/'fugitive' modernities.

ANTH V3928 Religious Mediation 4 pts. Enrollment limit is 16 and instructor's permission is required.Not offered in 2013-2014. Reading theories of media and of religion we will examine how transformations in media technology shift the ways in which religion is encoded into semiotic forms, how these forms are realized in performative contexts and how these affect the constitution of religious subjects and religious authority. Topics include word, print, image, and sound in relation to Islam, Pentecostalism, Buddhism and animist religions.

ANTH V3929 Ancient Egyptian Civilization 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. This course is an introduction to the civilization of ancient Egypt, beginning with the pyramids and ending with Hellenistic Alexandria. We will analyze artistic and archaeological evidence, such as tomb decoration, temples, pyramids, mummies, papyri, and sanctuary, to understand the ancient Egyptian civilization through material culture. Students will become familiar with the legendary pharaohs, hieroglyphic writing, and elaborate mythology of ancient Egypt. We will also investigate the most recent discoveries and controversies in Egyptology.

ANTH V3933x Arabia Imagined 4 pts. This course explores Arabia as a global phenomenon. It is organized around primary texts read in English translation. The site of the revelation of the Quran and the location of the sacred precincts of Islam, Arabia is the destination of pilgrimage and the direction of prayer for Muslims worldwide. It also is the locus of cultural expression ranging from the literature of the 1001 Nights to the broadcasts of Al Jazeera. We begin with themes of contemporary youth culture and political movements associated with the Arab Spring. Seminar paper.

ANTH V3937x Mass-Mediations of Modernity 4 pts. Prerequisites: at least one course in anthropology or social theory. How do new media technologies affect social worlds? What is the relationship between mass mediation and modernity? Explores the force of media technology, its relationship to transnational forms of capital, to the development of new subjectivities, and to the rise of new networks of power and social relations.

ANTH V3939x Millennial Futures: Mass Culture and Japan 4 pts. Prerequisites: the instructor's permission Addresses mass culture and its relationship to Japan at the end of the 20th century. Approaches the themes of millennial anxiety and wishfulness in such domains as everyday life, technology, criminality, gender and sexuality, and consumption.

ANTH V3940 Ethnographies of the Middle East 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. This course 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. Prerequisites: previous enrollment in anthropology course.

ANTH V3947x Text, Magic, Performance 4 pts. Prerequisites: the instructor's permission. This course pursues interconnections linking text and performance in light of magic, ritual, possession, narration, and related articulations of power. Readings are drawn from classic theoretical writings, colonial fiction, and ethnographic accounts. Domains of inquiry include: spirit possession, trance states, séance, witchcraft, ritual performance, and related realms of cinematic projection, musical form, shadow theater, performative objects, and (other) things that move on their own, compellingly. Key theoretical concerns are subjectivity--particularly, the conjuring up and displacement of self in the form of the first-person singular "I"--and the haunting power of repetition. Retraced throughout the course are the uncanny shadows of a fully possessed subject.

ANTH V3949 Sorcery and Magic 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Prerequisites: the instructor's permission. Enrollment limit is 20. In considering philosophical, aesthetic, and political aspects of sorcery in contemporary and historical settings, also considers the implications of postmodernism for anthropological theorizing as itself a form of sorcery.

ANTH V3950 Anthropology of Consumption 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Prerequisites: the instructor's permission. Enrollment limit is 20. 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.

ANTH V3952 Taboo and Transgression 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Enrollment limit is 33. The 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.

ANTH V3954 Bodies and Machines: Anthropologies of Technology 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Prerequisites: the instructor's permission. 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 technoprosthesis. Permission of Instructor required.

ANTH V3957 Ethnography of the Everyday 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. The 'Ethnography of the Everyday' offers students an opportunity to engage the discipline's methods and genres, and the ethico-philosophical questions about representativeness and exemplarity that subtend them.The course will consider the everyday as an alternative concept to 'culture' and habitus,' while looking at the ethnographic works that were informed by those ideas.Students will undertake weekly writing assignments as part of an investigation not only of method but of aesthetics, expression, and representation in general.

ANTH V3960 The Culture of Public Art and Display In New York City 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Prerequisites: Students must sign-up in the Anthropology Department prior to registering for this course. Enrollment limit to 16. Field course and seminar considering the aesthetic, political, and sociocultural aspects of selected city museums, public spaces, and window displays.

ANTH V3966x Culture and Mental Health 4 pts. Enrollment limit is 20 & the instructor's permission is required. Limited to juniors & seniors. This course 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.

ANTH V3969 Specters of Culture 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Prerequisites: the instructor's permission. Pursues the spectral effects of culture in the modern. Traces the ghostly remainders of cultural machineries, circuitries of voice, and representational forms crucial to modern discourse networksthrough a consideration of anthropologically significant, primarily nonwestern sites and various domains of social creation--performance, ritual practice, narrative production, technological invention. Instructor's permission required.

ANTH V3970x Biological Basis of Human Variation 4 pts. Enrollment limited to 15 students and instructor's permission required Prerequisites: ANEB V1010 and permission of the instructor. Biological evidence for the modern human diversity at the molecular, phenotypical, and behavioral levels, as distributed geographically.

ANTH V3971x Culture and Environmental Behavior 4 pts. Enrollment limit is 15. Seemingly "natural" meanings and objects are produced and known within distinctive cultural, political, economic, and historic contexts. These cultural forms are then circulated, reproduced, and naturalized in ways that obscure the social milieu in which they arose. In this course we will denaturalize nature.

ANTH V3973 Environmental and Development 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014.

ANTH V3974 Lost Worlds, Secret Spaces: Modernity and the Child 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Prerequisites: the instructor's permission. Examines the figure of the child in modernity. Study of children and the delineation of a special time called childhood have been crucial to the modern imagination; for example, the child tended to be assimilated to the anthropological notion to the "primitive" (and vice versa), with repercussions ranging from psychoanalysis to painting, from philosophy to politics. Engages the centrality of the child through interdisciplinary readings in anthropology, history, children's literature, art criticism, educational theory, and psychology.

ANTH V3975x ANTHROPOLOGY OF MEDIA 4 pts. Instructor's approval. Enrollment limit is 16 This course examines the materiality and infrastructures of media technologies and their role in producing social life. It draws together anthropology and media theory to examine how media operate upon the body and how they produce our sense of space, time and collectivity. Examining infrastructures and practices of media in differing societies we will ask whether this forces us to approach core questions in media theory and anthropology in a different light.

ANTH V3976 Anthropology and Science 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014.

ANTH V3977 Trauma 4 pts. Enrollment limit is 20Not offered in 2013-2014. Prerequisites: the instructor's permission. Investing trauma from interdisciplinary perspectives, explores connections between the interpersonal, social, and political events that precipitate traumatic reactions and their individual and collective ramifications. After examining the consequences of political repression and violence, the spread of trauma within and across communities, the making of memories and flashbacks, and the role of public testimony and psychotherapy in alleviating traumatic reactions.

ANTH V3978x Dialogic Imagination in Opera 4 pts. Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor via email at: mec3. Must state year and major and why you with to join the class. Enrollment limited to 14. Priority given to upper class anthropology and music majors. Students must attend operas outside class time. Drawing on theories of Bakhtin and Eco, analyzes the production logic of three opera performances in terms of communication media utilized; the class, status and gendered perspectives mobilized; and the devices used to engage or distance the audience. Performance rather then musicological angles stressed.

ANTH V3980 Nationalism 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Prerequisites: the instructor's permission. This course will cover the basic readings in the contemporary debate over nationalism. It will cover different disciplinary approaches and especially look at recent studies of nationalism in the formerly colonial world as well as in the industrial West. The readings will offer a mix of both theoretical and empirical studies. The readings include the following: 1) Eric Hobsbawn: Nationalism since 1700; 2) Ernest Gillner: Nations ans Nationalism; 3) Benedict Anderson: Imagined Communities; 4) Antony Smith: The Ethnic Origins of Nations; 5) Linda Coley: Britons; 6) Peter Sahlins: Boundaries and 7) Partha Chatterjee; The Nation and Its Fragments. Prerequisite: intended for seniors but not necessarily anthropology majors.

ANTH V3983y Ideas and Society In the Caribbean 4 pts. Enrollment limit 15. Focusing on the Anglo-Creole Caribbean, examines some aspects of popular culture, literary expression, political change, and intellectual movements over the past thirty years.

ANTH V3987 The Archaeology of Sex and Gender 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Third-wave feminism has introduced a dynamism to the study of gender and sexuality in archaeology that situates gender as a relational category intersecting with aspects of identity such as race, ethnicity, status and class. In this seminar, we explore gender, sexuality, social organization and identity in earlier societies that were filled with a diversity of peoples. We examine geographically and historically diverse cases that range from prehistoric Europe to twentieth-century San Francisco through archaeological investigations rooted in space, material culture, and daily practice.

ANTH V3988y Race/Sexuality Science and Social Practice 4 pts. Scientific inquiry has configured race and sex in distinctive ways. This class will engage critical theories of race and feminist considerations of sex, gender, and sexuality through the lens of the shifting ways in which each has been conceptualized, substantiated, classified and managed in (social) science and medicine.

ANTH V3989 Introduction to Urban Anthropology 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Enrollment limit 25. This seminar is an introduction to the theory and methods that have been developed by anthropologists to study contemporary cities and urban cultures. Although anthropology has historically focused on the study of non-Western and largely rural societies, since the 1960s anthropologists have increasingly directed attention to cities and urban cultures. During the course of the semester, we will examine such topics as: the politics of urban planning, development and land use; race, class, gender and urban inequality; urban migration and transnational communities; the symbolic economies of urban space; and, street life. Reading will include the work of Jane Jacobs, Sharon Zukin, and Henri Lefebvre.

ANTH V3993 World Archaeologies/Global Perspectives 4 pts. Instructor's permission required.Not offered in 2013-2014. Prerequisites: At least one of ANTH V1007, ANTH V1008 or ACLG V2028. This capstone seminar explores the archaeology of the modern world from a postcolonial perspective. It addresses key theoretical issues in historical archaeology, and considers case studies in the recent archaeology of Africa and the Americas. The seminar has a particular focus on questions of ethics, heritage and indigenous perspectives in the practice of archaeology. It fulfills the major seminar requirement for the archaeology major.

ANTH V3996 The Archaeology of Colonial Ireland: An Anthropological Perspective 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. The anthropology of the colonial encounter and its legacies must be considered to be one of the most significant areas of research in the discipline. Like agency, material culture has proven to play a pivotal role in the process of colonialism beyond being a mere residue of cultural interaction, bringing archaeological research to the forefront of a more holistic approach to the past. In this class, pre-modern Ireland will be examined through the anthropological lens whereby key cultural interactions and transformations will be grounded in colonial theory. It looks specifically at the archaeological record and ethnohistoric texts of "Celtic", Viking, Anglo-Norman, and Tudor culture contact and examines the effect that these colonial encounters - both real and imagined - have had on present-day notions of "Irishness".

ANTH W3997x Supervised Individual Research Course In Anthropology 2-6 pts. Prerequisite: the written permission of the staff member under whose supervision the research will be conducted.

ANTH W3998y Supervised Individual Research Course In Anthropology 2-6 pts. Prerequisite: the written permission of the staff member under whose supervision the research will be conducted.

ANTH V3999x and y The Senior Thesis Seminar in Anthropology 4 pts. Prerequisites: the instructor's permission. Students must sign-up in the department prior to registering. Enrollment limit is 17. This is a seminar at which senior anthropology majors will develop a research project and write a thesis in consultation with a professor. Students must have at least a 3.6 GPA in the major and a preliminary project concept. This is a year-long course: a mark given at the end of the first term of a course in which the full year of work must be completed before a qualitative grade is assigned. The grade given at the end of the second term is the grade for the entire course.

ANHS W4001 The Ancient Empires 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. This course provides a comparative study of five of the world's most prominent ancient empires: Assyria, Egypt, Rome, the Aztecs, and the Inkas. The developmental histories of those polities, and their essential sociopolitical, economic, and ideological features, are examined in light of theories of the nature of early empires and methods of studying them.

ANTH W4002y Controversial Topics in Human Evolution 3 pts. Enrollment limit is 15 and instructor's permission is required. Controversial issues that exist in current biological/physical anthropology, and controversies surrounding the descriptions and theories about particular fossil hominid discoveries, sANTH V3897 Occupy the Field: Global Finance, Inequality, Social Movement uch as the earliest australopithecines, the diversity of Home erectus, the extinction of the Neandertals, the evolution of culture, language, human cognition. Prerequisite: Instructor's permission and introductory biological/physical anthropology course.

ANTH W4022 Political Ecology 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Analyzes global, national, and local environment issues from the critical perspectives of political ecology. Explores themes like the production of nature, environmental violence, environmental justice, political decentralization, territoriality, the state, and the conservation interventions. Instructor's permission

ANTH W4024 Anthropology of Europe 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. What constitutes an anthropology of Europe? Explores the anthropological imagination of Europe as a cultural category through detailed studies of selected ethnographies and the history of anthropological research in Europe, from post-war concerns with modernization and vanishing peasants, to current debates over European identity and unity.

ANTH W4042 Agent, Person, Subject, Self 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Treats the interrelated notions of agent, person, subject, and self from a semiotic and social perspective.

ANTH G4147x (Section 001) Human Skeletal Biology I 3 pts. Enrollment limited to 15 students and instructor's permission required Recommended for archaeology and physical anthropology students, pre-meds, and biology majors interested in the human skeletal system. Intensive study of human skeletal materials using anatomical and anthropological landmarks to assess sex, age, and ethnicity of bones. Other primate skeletal materials and fossil casts used for comparative study (Enrollment limit 12 and Instructor's Permission required)

ANTH G4148y Human Skeletal Biology II 3 pts. Enrollment limit 12 and Instructor's Permission required. Recommended for archaeology and physical anthropology students, pre-meds, and biology majors interested in the human skeletal system. Intensive study of human skeletal materials using anatomical and anthropological landmarks to assess sex, age, and ethnicity of bones. Other primate skeletal materials and fossil casts used for comparative study.

ANTH G4148y Human Skeletal Biology II 3 pts. Enrollment limited to 15 students and instructor's permission required Recommended for archaeology and physical anthropology students, pre-meds, and biology majors interested in the human skeletal system. Intensive study of human skeletal materials using anatomical and anthropological landmarks to assess sex, age, and ethnicity of bones. Other primate skeletal materials and fossil casts used for comparative study (Enrollment limit 12 and Instructor's Permission required)

ANHS W4177 Religion, Caste, and Culture: The Anthropological history of India 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. How did Western scholars/missionaries/anthropologists/colonial officials understand the strange world of India they found themselves in? The religion was unrecognizable by the terms of a Western understanding: it was not congregational, confessional, or recognizably scriptural. Culturally, Indian society was deeply hierarchical, divided by a system called "caste" which was both scriptural and not. Furthermore, religion and caste contributed centrally to the understanding of "culture" a term invoked interchangeably with "tradition." The divide between caste, religion, and culture, at the same time the difficulty of implementing that divide baffled Western scholars and missionaries of the late medieval period, but also later (19th century) colonial officials and anthropologists. Knowledge about India was centrally produced by these various gatherers and compilers of information on India, and in this course we begin with early accounts of missionary activities, and will work our way through the writings of political theorists, sociologists, anthropologists, in order to arrive at an understanding of the interdisciplinary and anthropological history of India.

ANTH G4200 Fossil Evidence of Human Evolution 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Prerequisites: ANEB V1010 or the equivalent, and permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 12. Intended for advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students who are interested in paleoanthropology. Provides a closer look at what comprises the fossil evidence for human evolution from the australopithecines of 4 million years ago to the fully modern human species of 25,000 years ago. Involves hands-on examination of the departmental casts.

ANTH W4277 Topics in Anthropology of the Middle East 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014.

ANTH W4282y Islamic Law 3 pts. An introductory survey of the history and contents of the Shari'a combined with a critical review of Orientalist and contemporary scholarship on Islamic law. In addition to models for the ritual life, we will examine a number of social, economic and political constructs contained in Shari`a doctrine, including the concept of an Islamic state, and we also will consider the structure of litigation in courts. Seminar paper.

ANTH W4340 Cinemas of the Maghreb (Morocco, Alegira, Tunisia) 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. This course focuses on one expressive form(cinema) in one predominantly Arab Muslim region(the Maghreb, comprising the nations of Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria), as part of an anthropological effort to explore the ways in which films taken individually and a nation's cinema as a whole can help us understand society. The discussion of films and filmmakers will be set in the historical, political, cultural, and social contexts of the individual countries and of the region. The approach will combine historical and thematic perspectives, highlighting differences and similarities from country to country, from film to film, and from filmmaker to filmmaker.

ANTH W4346 Laboratory Techniques 3 pts. $25.00 mandatory laboratory feeNot offered in 2013-2014. Training in general archaeological methods. Data recording techniques, preparation of reports and illustration, etc.

ANTH W4358 Ireland 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014.

ANTH W4440 Conflict Talk and the Legal Process 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Examines conflict talk and conflict-solving mechanisms in various communicative environments. Through a review of the most significant studies in legal anthropology and conflict talk, explores issues such as the public nature of conflict talk, its referentiality, the structural practices involved in this process, and the roles played by power and by communicative performances to reach a judgement and carry out a sentence.

ANTH W4444 Cultures of Terror: Anthropological Perspective On Political Violence 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014.

ANTH W4450 Of Mimicry and Membership: Eastern Europe of Postcolonialism 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. This course addresses social and cultural processes currently taking place in the formerly socialist Eastern Europe focusing on how postsocialist lives are defined, experienced and understood by those living them. Among the topics discussed are emerging forms of nationalism, gender relations, language use, production and consumption, identification with place, and emigration and diaspora.

ANTH G4480x Critical Native and Indigenous Studies 3 pts. Enrollment limit is 15. Advanced undergraduate and gradudate students This course is an interdisciplinary survey of the literature and issues that comprise Native American and Indigenous Studies. Readings for this course are organized around the concepts of indigeneity, coloniality, power and "resistance" and concomitantly interrogate these concepts for social and cultural analysis. The syllabus is derived from some of the "classic" and canonical works in Native American Studies such as Custer Died for Your Sins but will also require an engagement with less canonical works such as Red Man's Appeal to Justice in addition to historical, ethnographic and theoretical contributions from scholars that work outside of Native American and Indigenous Studies. This course is open to graduate students and advanced undergraduates.

ANTH W4636 Animals, Transformation, Secrecy 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014.

ANTH W4638 Anthropology of Media 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014.

ANHS W4650 Political Identity, Civil Wars, and State Reform In Africa 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Investigation of civil war situations in post-independence Africa as background against which to understand changing definitions of political identities forged during the colonial period. Focus on the subject of rights, and not just the content; in other words, whose rights? And not just, which rights?