Fall 2004 Courses
ANTHRO 1: INTRODUCTION TO BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
T. Deacon 4 units TuTh 2-3:30 Wheeler Auditorium
This course examines human anatomy and behavioral biology within an evolutionary context. It includes an introduction to: the history of evolutionary thought from before Darwin to the present; basic human genetics and molecular biology; human variation and adaptation; evolutionary influences on behavior; the anatomy, ecology, and behavior of our closest living relatives, the nonhuman primates; and the evolution of our lineage as reflected in the hominid fossil record. We will pay special attention to the complex interrelations of biology, behavior, and culture and the challenges of studying these interactions. There will be three hours of lecture and one hour of lab/discussion per week.
Prerequisites: none.
Requirements: There is one midterm, a final exam, and weekly quizzes. Participation in the lab/discussion section is mandatory and will include weekly quizzes.
Required texts:
"Introduction to Physical Anthropology" 10th ed., Jurmain, et al., Wadsworth 2005
"The Human Evolution Coloring Book" 2nd Ed. by A. Zihlman, Harper Collins 2000
Recommended text: "The Tangled Wing" 2nd Edition by M. Konner, Owl Books, Henry Holt & Co. 2002.
ANTHRO 2AC: INTRODUCTION TO ARCHAEOLOGY
K. Lightfoot 4 units MWF 9-10 155 Dwinelle (note room change)
Note: This class satisfies the American Cultures requirement.
Anthro 2AC is an introduction to the methods, goals, and theoretical concepts of archaeology. The field of archaeology is concerned with the study of past human societies based primarily on the material culture produced and used by people. For more than a century, archaeologists have been developing and refining a suite of methods for recovering and analyzing material cultural remains that have been deposited into the archaeological record. These material remains – artifacts, ecofacts, features, sites, etc. -- often comprise a rather fragmentary, but nonetheless complex data base. This course explores how archaeologists employ these material remains to construct interpretations about past societies. Lecture topics will include discussions on the formation of the archaeological record; the history of archaeology; developing a research design; field methods (survey and excavation) for recovering and recording archaeological data; laboratory methods employed in the analysis of archaeological data; chronology; and generating interpretations about the past.
One of the themes that will be addressed in the course is the concept of “excluded pasts” – traditional histories written by the dominant culture that are often exclusionary in their accounts of ancient and recent peoples. Mainstream histories often exclude or present in a biased or distorted manner accounts of common or lower status families, members of minority groups, or individuals persecuted for religious, political or sexual persuasions. The reason for touching on this theme is to recognize that the past practices of archaeology were exclusionary. As a western science dominated in its formative years by Euro-American men, archaeologists working in North America excavated burials and sacred sites with minimal consultation with descendant communities. Sensitive materials were appropriated and placed in museums and curation facilities. As will be discussed in class, Native American scholars refer to this kind of archaeology as “scientific colonialism” or “imperial archaeology.” As a consequence of a growing backlash to these past practices, in combination with recent legislation involving the repatriation of material culture back to descendant communities, the field of archaeology is currently undergoing significant changes in its methods and practices as it attempts to become a more inclusive and collaborative science. The course will explore how archaeologists today are creating close working relationships with diverse stakeholders, participating in collaborative research teams, and undertaking educational outreach with the public.
Anthro 2AC will highlight an important goal of contemporary archaeology – the construction of alternative, pluralistic histories using multiple lines of evidence. Course lectures and readings will consider how archaeology can provide a powerful methodology for constructing alternative histories of excluded peoples (and their encounters with the dominant culture) by examining the material culture of their daily practices. As we will see, the performance of daily routines produces patterned accumulations of material culture that are among the most interpretable kinds of deposits found in archaeological contexts. While most people may perceive these kinds of deposits as simply garbage or refuse collections, when analyzed by archaeologists they can provide critical insights about past people. The course examines how the archaeology of daily practice, when integrated with other sources of relevant information (oral traditions, oral histories, written records), provides the most powerful way to understand the past outside of a time machine.
The course will present case studies from California to highlight the potential of writing alternative histories about people with excluded pasts. The case studies will also highlight the benefits and challenges of working with diverse stakeholders, specifically Native Californian tribes (e.g., Kashaya Pomo), Hispanic descendant communities, and Euro-American historical societies. One case study will consider the construction of ancient histories (prehistory) of Native Californians using archaeological information from the imposing shell mounds of the San Francisco Bay that date back more than 4000 years. Other case studies will examine Native Californians more recent encounters with Hispanic and Euro-American colonists in the greater San Francisco Bay Area using archaeological data, native narratives, and pertinent written documents. These case examples will examine the pluralistic interactions of Native, Hispanic, and Euro-American peoples in various colonial institutions recently studied by UC Berkeley and other local archaeologists. These include the Franciscan missions of Alta California (featuring Mission Santa Cruz), the Spanish presidios (featuring the Presidio of San Francisco), Mexican ranchos (featuring the Petaluma Adobe), and European fur trade outposts (featuring the Russian colony of Fort Ross).
Prerequisites: None.
Course requirements: Three exams required (two midterms and a final exam) and a short research paper (3-5 pages, typed, double space). The format of the final and midterm exams is a combination of multiple choice, identification, and essay questions. Participation in weekly discussion sections is mandatory. Each student is responsible for signing up for a discussion section listed in the Schedule of Classes. The final grade will be based on participation in the discussion section (20%), the two midterm exams (20% each), the final exam (30%), and short research paper (10%). The purpose of the research paper is to have students select an archaeological site or place in the greater San Francisco Bay Area that will be the focus of archival/library research. Students will identify reports and publications written about the site, read a sample of the available literature, visit the site (if possible), and write up their observations in a 3-5 page paper (due in the last GSI section of the semester).
Discussion sections: Students must sign up for a discussion section or risk being dropped from the course. Discussion sections are an important component of the course and you are expected to attend them. Discussion section assignments must be turned in on time to receive full credit. Remember that performance in the discussion sections will count for 20% of your final grade.
Required texts:
1) Ashmore, Wendy and Robert J. Sharer. Discovering Our Past: A Brief Introduction to Archaeology. (3rd edition) Mayfield Publishing Co., Mountain View, California. 2000.
2) Anthro 2 COURSE READER. A course reader will be Available at Copy Central on Bancroft Ave. It will contain all the additional journal articles and book chapters required for the semester.
ANTHRO 3: INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL & CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY
N. Graburn 4 units TuTh 9:30-11 Wheeler Auditorium
E-mail for Nelson Graburn: graburn@berkeley.edu
E-mail for Head GSI, Laura Hubbard: lhubbard@berkeley.edu
This course will use the recent work of the Berkeley faculty and others to illuminate contemporary trends in socio-cultural anthropology. It introduces a comparative framework for understanding a range of ways of life, including urban, peasant, horticultural, pastoralist and hunter-gatherer societies. However, our emphasis will be contemporary complex societies and their recent changes and social problems, including Japan, China, USA, South Africa, Mexico, India and Russia, and post-colonial peoples of Africa and the Pacific. The course will focus on anthropological research ethics and methods, and issues of gender, social-political change, and the globalizing socio-cultural system.
Course requirements: Grades will be based on one genealogy assignment (10%), one in-class midterm exam (25%), and a short research assignment in the Bay Area (25%), and a final exam (40%). Overall grades may be raised or lowered up to 5% for discussion section attendance and participation.
Required books (all paperback):
Conrad Kottak, Mirror for Humanity (4th edition, 2004)
Marjorie Shostak, Nisa: the life and words of a !Kung Woman (African hunter-gatherers)
Matthews Hamabata, Crested Kimono (Japanese business family)
Hani Fakhouri, Kafr El-Elow (Industrializing Egyptian village)
Aihwa Ong, Buddha is Hiding (Cambodian immigrants to California)
Nancy Frey, Pilgrim Stories (Contemporary European ‘pilgrim/trekkers/cyclists')
[See her website.]
There will also be a READER, available at Copy Central, 2560 Bancroft Way (848-9600)
Regular lectures will be supplemented by visiting speakers and videos including: “Ishi: the Last Yahi,” “The Axe Fight,” “Crooked Beak of Heaven,” “Transnational Fiesta,” “Zengbu after Mao,” and “Starting Fire with Gunpowder.”
ANTHRO 24: FRESMAN SEMINAR: “RITUAL, TOURISM, AND IDENTITY IN THE MODERN WORLD”
N. Graburn 1 unit M 11-12, 115 Kroeber
This seminar focuses on anthropological approaches to two main topics: ritual and tourism, and conceives of them as both constituting and expressing sociocultural identity. Rituals are events and processes found in all the world's societies. They emphasize heightened sensory awareness and special social, temporal and spiritual contexts. Commonly they function to mark the passage of personal and social time and to make explicit social structures and identity. Tourism is a form of secular ritual involving travel, commonly associated with modernity; there is a close relationship between tourism and pilgrimage. The class will focuses on the student's own experiences in rites of passage, family heritage and social rituals, and travel experiences, in relation to ideas discussed in class and in the readings. Students will be expected to attend and participate in the class every week. This seminar is intended for freshmen from as diverse social and academic backgrounds as possible, who have interest in the connections between their studies and the outside world. For some students this course may be a preparation for short and long-term studies abroad.
ANTHRO 84: SOPHOMORE SEMINAR: "ANTHROPOLOGY BETWEEN HISTORY AND MEMORY"
M. Ferme 1 unit W 10-12 204 Dwinelle (note change of time and room)
This seminar will address through short weekly readings the topic of different forms of temporality and events in historical and individual memory as it has been covered ethnographically by anthropologists and others. Among possible areas to be covered are texts in sociocultural anthropology, classic social theory, history, philosophy, folklore, and other areas dealing with forms of remembering and memorialization, and the politics thereof.
ANTHRO 111: EVOLUTION OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR
T. Deacon 4 units TuTh 9:30-11 155 Kroeber
This course has been cancelled.
ANTHRO 114: HISTORY OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL THOUGHT
R. Joyce 4 units MWF 2-3 145 Dwinelle
This course will present a history of anthropological thought from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century and will draw upon the major subdisciplines of anthropology. It will focus both upon the integration of the anthropological subdisciplines and upon the relationships between these and other disciplines outside anthropology. Three hours of lecture; one hour of required discussion section per week.
Required Texts:
Geertz, C. 1973. The Interpretation of Cultures. New York: BasicBooks.
Herzfeld, Michael. 2001. Anthropology: Theoretical Practice in Culture and Society. Malden, MA: Blackwell.
Kuper, A. 1996. Anthropology and Anthropologists: The Modern British School. London and New York: Routledge.
Moore, Henrietta L. 1988. Feminism and Anthropology. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
ANTHRO 121AC: AMERICAN MATERIAL CULTURE
L. Wilkie 4 units TuTh 11-12:30 160 Kroeber (note room change)
Note: This course meets the American Cultures Requirement.
Material culture as an expression of American socioeconomic, political, religious, gender and ethnic values since the 17th century. Topics include: architecture, domestic artifacts, food ways, healthcare and “pop culture.” European, African, Hispanic, Asian and Native American examples will be considered.
Prerequisites: Anthropology 2 recommended.
ANTHRO 124A: ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC
P. Kirch 4 units TuTh 3:30-5 155 Kroeber
The prehistory of the Pacific Islands begins with the entry of modern humans into Australia and Melanesia more than 40,000 years ago. In later phases, it included the dispersal of humans to the most remote places on earth, including Easter Island. This course surveys recent developments in Pacific Islands archaeology and prehistory, including: evidence for Pleistocene settlement of Australia and Melanesia; the dispersal of the Austronesian-speaking peoples; development of complex chiefdoms in Polynesia and Micronesia; prehistoric exchange systems; adaptation to island ecosystems, and human impact on island environments; and other topics. The approach taken is that of holistic anthropology and historical anthropology. Thus, although the course draws primarily from archaeological evidence, the contributions of historical linguistics, comparative ethnography, and biological anthropology will also be reviewed. There are no prerequisites, although Anthro 2 is strongly recommended, as a working knowledge of archaeological concepts and methods will be assumed.
Required texts: P. Kirch, 2000, On the Road of the Winds: An Archaeological History of the Pacific Islands Before European Contact. University of California Press. Required.
ANTHRO 128M: SPECIAL TOPICS IN ARCHAEOLOGY/METHOD: “THE AFTERSCHOOL PROGRAM”
R. Tringham 4 units Tu 9-11 101, 2251 College (note change of time)
Note: This course meets the method requirement for the anthropology major.
This course is designed to provide an opportunity for undergraduates to work with 6th graders in exploring the world of archaeology and multimedia technology. The students of this course will be expected to mentor the children in the activities of a newly-established after-school program in Roosevelt Middle School, Oakland. This program is sponsored and funded by a collaborative venture of the Interactive University of U.C. Berkeley, the Oakland Unified School District, and the UC Links Program of UCOP. The program is directed by Professor Ruth Tringham and managed by Amy Ramsay for the Archaeological Research Facility and Dept. of Anthropology.
The after-school program is designed to bring the archaeological experience to 6th graders through the medium of multimedia technology -- multimedia authoring, WWWeb browsing, Virtual Reality Interactive games, etc. This program is voluntary for the 6th graders, and is being carried out under the auspices of the newly established "Village Center" at Roosevelt School which seeks to encourage the community as well as children in the after school activities.
The activities of the after-school program are devised by the students in collaboration with the children and teachers. These activities will focus on the interpretation of archaeological materials rather than the "grand picture" of the past; it will focus on giving archaeology some immediacy in the children's lives by encouraging them to think of themselves in relation to their local history and cultural heritage. The activities will take the form of devising Virtually Real experience, games and stories through multimedia authoring, as well as "real" role-playing games and scenes around archaeological themes: excavation and the partial remains of food, fire, learning, shelter, play, family etc.
Prerequisites: This course will feed into and from a number of undergraduate courses in archaeology and anthropology, including the Introduction to Archaeology, and upper division courses on method and theory. It will also introduce students to issues of pedagogy and public archaeology. Students from other fields are welcome to participate. Bilingual students are strongly encouraged to apply. A course in the Introduction to Archaeology (Anthro 2) or its equivalent and the permission of the instructor (through interview held the first day of classes) are the only prerequisites. Access to an email and Internet account are essential since an important component of the course will be frequent consultation of the Course WWWebsite.
Previous participation in Multimedia Authoring for Archaeology classes will help but is not essential. Students who have not had any multimedia technology background will be assisted in catching up through self-paced tutorials held in the Multimedia Authoring Center for Teaching in Anthropology (MACTIA) in 2224 Piedmont.
Course requirements: This course is essentially a practical research/service-learning course. Participation in the Roosevelt School after-school program (approx. 2-3 hrs one afternoon each week) is a required part of the course. Each student will be part of the course term project to evaluate the introduction of multimedia authoring and the archaeological experience to 6th-graders through this after-school program. You will be expected to keep a running log/diary of your observations. Instructions in making these observations and making evaluations will be given during the course.
ANTHRO 132: ANALYSIS OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL MATERIALS: “POTTERY AND OTHER ARCHAEOLOGICAL MATERIALS FROM THE JOMON PERIOD, JAPAN”
J. Habu 4 units Tu 12:30-3:30, Th 12:30-3:30 lab, -- both in 16 Hearst Gym
This course is Instructor Approval Only. In order to apply for admittance to the class, you must come to the first lecture --NO exceptions. Selection will be made at that time.
The course is intended to acquaint students with various analytical methods to study the material culture of the Jomon Period. Jomon is a name of a prehistoric culture in Japan which lasted from about 10,000 to 300 B.C. Unlike many other prehistoric hunter-gatherer cultures, the Jomon culture is characterized by the production and use of pottery, polished stone axes, and elaborately decorated artifacts, as well as the presence of large settlements, shell-mounds, and various kinds of ceremonial features. In this sense, the Jomon culture shares a number of characteristics with other so-called "complex" hunter-gatherers.
Using Jomon pottery as an example, the first half of the course aims to provide hands-on training in the laboratory methods of pottery analysis as well as to survey major topics in ceramic analysis, including technology, type/style, chronology, function, and organization of ceramic production and distribution. The second half of the course deals with the retrieval and analysis of micro faunal and floral remains from Jomon sites. Special emphasis will be given to the importance of systematic sampling and quantitative analysis of these micro archaeological remains. Through these examinations, future directions for the study of the Jomon culture in the context of the "complex" hunter-gatherers will be discussed. Note, this course structure may change slightly depending on budget decisions.
ANTHRO 134B: MULTIMEDIA AUTHORING FOR ARCHAEOLOGY
R. Tringham 4 units M 10-11 15, 2224 Piedmont
M. Ashley M 11-1 & W 10-12(lab) 12, 2224 Piedmont (MACTiA lab)
and J. Ristevski
Prerequisites: Anthro 2, Introduction to Archaeology or consent from the instructors. Students who participated in the 2004 summer field-schools will have first priority. In order to confirm registration for admittance to the class or request to be added, you must come to the first lecture. NO EXCEPTIONS. Confirmation of your admittance to the class will be made at that time.
This is a studio course that satisfies the Methods requirement for the Anthropology major. It follows up on the fieldwork conducted by the participants in the 2004 field-schools in Tambo Colorado, Peru, Çatalhöyük, Turkey and others. Students who participated in the field-schools will work as post-excavation leads in small groups with new students to guide them through the processing of both media and primary archaeological data from the projects. The goal is to complete initial processing of all data into an integral and cohesive universe by the end of the fall semester.
Format: Weekly seminars will review theoretical readings, offer topical short lectures and team progress reports on each of the major projects and their research tasks. Studio sessions will focus on group hands-on training to cover state-of-the-art methods for processing the archaeological media. Teams will be developed to cover specific data types - photographic, texture, laser scanner points, GIS, differential-GPS, aerial photography and satellite imaging, spherical/cylindrical/one-shot Quicktime VR, high-resolution close-range scanner data. Students will specialize in two or more technologies but will cycle through topical workshops and gain exposure to all of the techniques. Milestones for data processing will be set for each site and related data set.
Teams: Teams will be created for each site. Smaller groups will be formed to specialize on each technology (approx. 3-4 students) and will be either site-specific or site-mixed depending on appropriateness. One group will focus on documenting the course itself to offer documentary perspective on the post-excavation experience. All teams will include at least one field-school veteran, URAP mentor or technology expert.
Requirements: Seminar participation and reading are essential for success in the course, as are attendance, completion of tutorials and team effort. Each site team (3-5 individuals) will produce a preliminary website using the integrated data. This will be a small, comprehensive site, the equivalent of an initial site report. Each individual student will create a multimedia research project that focuses on one of their technology specialties crossed with their assigned archaeological site.
Required reading: Lock, G. 2003 Using Computers in Archaeology. Routledge, New York.
ANTHRO 135: PALEOETHNOBOTANY: ARCHAEOLOGICAL METHODS AND LABORATORY TECHNIQUES
C. Hastorf 4 units Tu 9:30-12:30, Th 9:30-12:30 lab, -- both in 16 Hearst Gym
This class is designed to introduce the basic procedures of archaeological laboratory methods required for archaeobotanical identification and data analysis. We will be studying the major classes of plant remains likely to be encountered in archaeological sites, how to collect and process the material from the excavations, how to identify them and then how to organize the data in order to make interpretable conclusions. The course will emphasize the use of plant remains to answer archaeological questions, rather than study the plant remains for their own sake. The class is designed with both a lecture discussion section where interactive discussions occur on assigned readings and a laboratory practicum portion. The discussion will focus on major issues in the sub-discipline from preservation and taphonomy, to analytical identification methods, to sampling and collection, to interpretation. The laboratory portion will work through identification procedures. Some field trips are organized.
ANTHRO 138A: HISTORY AND THEORY OF ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM
I. Leimbacher 4 units M 3-7 155 Kroeber
The course will trace the development of ethnographic film from its beginnings at the turn of the century to the present. In addition to looking at seminal works in the field, more recent and innovative productions will be viewed and analyzed. Topics of interest include the role of visual media in ethnography, ethics in filmmaking, and the problematic relationship between seeing and believing. Requirements include film critiques, a film proposal, and a final exam.
Prerequisites: Anthro 3 or 114.
ANTHRO C147B: SEXUALITY, CULTURE, AND COLONIALISM: “THINKING ABOUT SAME-SEX MARRIAGE”
L. Cohen 4 units TuTh 9:30-11 20 Barrows
The course is divided into four parts: (1) Kinship/Care, (2) Ritual Today, (3) On the "Civil," and (4) American Culture Wars.
1) Kinship/Care examines the anthropological field of kinship and its transformation over the past century and a quarter. Our primary questions will be "what is kinship?," "what is a claim to kinship?," and "what is the relationship of kinship and care?" We will focus on the writing of some of the following: Lewis Henry Morgan, Ernest Crawley, E.E. Evans-Pritchard, Claude Levi-Strauss, David Schneider, Michelle Rosaldo, John D'Emilio, Gayle Rubin, Jeffrey Weeks, Sylvia Yanagisako and Jane Collier, Marilyn Strathern, John Borneman, Judith Butler, Andrew Sullivan, Michael Warner, others.
2) Ritual Today examines the field of ritual and its transformation over the same period. We briefly review early and more contemporary cognitive and functional theories of ritual and go on to examine the relation of ritual to religion, to the law, to the public, and to modernity. Our primary questions will be "what is ritual action?," "what makes ritual action effective?," and "what makes ritual action authentic?"
3) On the "Civil" examines the relationship of marriage and the civil: debates in many countries over civil unions, of course, and their identity to or difference from marriage, but also debates on civil law and whether there can or must be a uniform civil code, focusing on marriage law in India. Behind all these lies the question of what is the "civil" and how do these debates remake it.
4) Finally, American Culture Wars asks why this country appears divided and why and how the issue of same-sex marriage has become one central site where this division is perceived and given a certain kind of reality.
The course begins by reviewing the history of the current debate. Readings will primarily be from a course reader. Course evaluation is based on exams, classroom performance, a field exercise, and a final take-home. Course size is limited.
ANTHRO 147C: GLOBALIZATION AND GENDER IN THE ASIA PACIFIC
A. Ong, P. Cheah 4 units TuTh 11-12:30 180 Tan
This course introduces students to an understanding of globalization and its reworking of gender systems, exchanges, desires, and rights in the Asia-Pacific, and beyond. Globalization may be analytically divided into two related global phenomena: novel market-state relations, and accelerated transnationalism. Contemporary capitalism (neoliberalism) involves the reconfiguration of the world economy, with practical consequences for relations between the nation-state, the market, and the transformation or "unbinding" of relations between state and society. Transnationalism refers to the consequential accelerated flows of people, goods, cultures, and politics across national borders occasioned by markets, migrations, criminal syndicates, and translocal organizations. Globalization thus refers to diverse rationalizing, disruptive, and uneven processes that are reordering relations among society, gender, race, class, and identity in our contemporary market civilization. Interconnections, as well as disjunctures between regions, nation-states, and within fragmented national spaces are continually transforming the experience and meaning of modern life.
Because the effects of globalization and transnationalism are situated phenomena, we need to understand how things unfold in particular regional configurations. Perhaps nowhere else in the world are the effects more wide-ranging and contrastive than in the Asia-Pacific (including N. America). In no other region are globalizing strategies, regimes of control, migrations, and modern imageries so conspicuously marked by gender, as well as national, racial, and age differences. Gender is explicitly deployed as a form of kinship, labor, and state control in relation to market forces, and consequently gender difference counts in claims to personal dignity, class membership, and citizenship. Class readings and lectures will emphasize the role of corporations, service industries, and markets in the making and unmaking of gender regimes; in fostering the crisscrossing paths of people, goods, and consuming desires; in promoting self-fashioning among mobile subjects; in gendering national identity; and finally, in the scrambling of conventional links between citizenship and the nation-state by political strategies of feminists at home, and human rights discourses and NGOs affecting women's interests in Asia.
Course requirements: Students are expected to have read assigned readings before class, and will be called upon to answer questions. The midterms and finals will be based on readings and class lectures; trial questions will be circulated.
ANTHRO 149: PSYCHOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
S. Pandolfo 4 units TuTh 11-12:30 60 Evans (NOTE: class will meet at 2060 VLSB starting Tuesday, 9/14.)
The history of psychological anthropology from the culture and personality school through current constructionist approaches to indigenous psychologies. Topics may include ethnopsychiatry, psychoanalysis, psychiatric approaches to possession and altered states, emotion and culture, gender, sexuality, and erotics. The focus will be on the use of psychology in cultural analysis rather than medical approaches. Is cross-cultural psychological analysis possible, and if so, how?
ANTHRO 157: ANTHROPOLOGY OF LAW
G. Bishharat 4 units TuTh 2-3:30 101 Morgan
This course will provide a broad overview of the field of the anthropological study of “law” - defined in the broadest terms as formal law and legal institutions, but also encompassing other modes of dispute processing and regulation, in both contemporary and historical societies. The course will begin by examining disputing in the smaller scale communities more traditionally examined by anthropologists, and will move to progressively larger-scale societies, including nation-states, and ultimately will consider the international legal system. Along the way, the course will promote the adoption of a detached, inquisitive, and critical - that is to say, anthropological - perspective on the contemporary American legal system, and focus attention both on its cultural underpinnings, and on the complications which arise in its operation within a society of increasing ethnic diversity. Methodologocial and interpretive problems will also be considered.
ANTHRO C160: FORMS OF FOLKLORE
* Cross-listed with ISF 160
A. Dundes 4 units TuTh 12:30-2 Wheeler Auditorium
This is usually a fairly large lecture course. It is designed for upper-division students, though not necessarily anthropology majors. In fact, most of the students enrolled are not anthropology majors. The course is intended to provide an introduction to the discipline of folklore, e.g., myth, folktale, proverb, riddle, gesture, game, etc. Similar courses at other universities are often offered by faculty members in the English departments. The emphasis here includes the humanistic, literary approach, but also emphasizes the relevance of folklore materials for social scientists.
Course requirements: Three hours of lecture per week. There is one midterm, a final, and a course project, which consists of making a collection of folklore on the basis of fieldwork interviews conducted locally. There is considerable reading required in the course.
Readings: TBA.
ANTHRO 161: NARRATIVE FOLKLORE
P. Tokofsky 4 units TuTh 3:30-5 166 Barrows
This course will focus on fairy tales and legends, primarily in European and American contexts. Through close studies of selected examples (from Little Red Riding Hood and Bluebeard to kidney thieves and lost gerbils), we will critically review various methods of analysis and interpretation. We also explore transformations of oral stories in popular media such as film, comics, and literature.
Required texts:
Gary Alan Fine and Patricia Turner. Whispers on the Color Line: Rumor and Race in America. University of CA Press, 2004
Maria Tatar. The Classic Fairy Tales. Norton, 1998
James Taggart. Enchanted Maidens. Princeton University Press, 1990
Angela Carter. The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories. Penguin, 1990
ANTHRO 162: TOPICS IN FOLKLORE “ON THE CONCEPTS OF TRADITION, FOLKLORE AND MODERNITY”
P. Anttonen 4 units TuTh 3:30-5 166 Barrows
The course has been cancelled.
ANTHRO 166: LANGUAGE IN SOCIETY
A. Yurchak 4 units MW 12-2 123 Dwinelle
Social and linguistic aspects of verbal activities, speech communities, language power and social inequality, language and ethnicity, language nation and state. Detailed course description not yet available. Contact Professor Yurchak for more information.
ANTHRO 181: THEMES IN THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF THE MIDDLE EAST
S. Mahmood 4 units TuTh 2-3:30 160 Dwinelle (note room change)
This course will explore some of the major themes through which the Middle East has been studied within the discipline of anthropology. Some of the themes we will cover are: tribe, kinship, gender, poetics, political conflict, and religion.
ANTHRO H195 A/B: SENIOR HONORS THESIS WRITING GROUP
Staff 1 unit W 4-6 111 Kroeber
The seminar will not meet the first week of classes. The writing group is intended for students participating in both semesters of the senior honor thesis year. Enrollment is voluntary, however those who choose to enroll are required to attend and actively participate in the weekly reading, writing, and discussion.
Text: Howard S. Becker, Writing for Social Scientists: How to Start and finish Your Thesis, Book, or Article.
RELATED COURSES IN OTHER DEPARTMENTS
LETTERS AND SCIENCE 126: TOWARD AN ANTHROPOLOGY OF BIOLOGY: “GENOMICS AND CITIZENSHIP” CCN: 51251
P. Rabinow 3 units TuTh 5-6:30 2060 VLSB
Note: This course will meet the upper division biological anthropology requirement for the major.
College Courses foster and support the ideals of a liberal arts education at the highest levels of excellence. One goal of this multi-disciplinary, upper level, College course is to provide an overview of the current state of genomic biology as well as the world it functions in and that has shaped it. Another is to help students to develop a critical and informed perspective on these topics so as to participate as citizens in their shape of their future developments. We call this topic “anthropology” because we believe that the kind of being we are – anthropos – is currently in the process of being reshaped by the revolution in the life sciences – logos — that is underway. It is worth remembering that the term “biology” was coined in 1802. Today, we wonder whether we are crossing a threshold where biology will impact human self-understanding as powerfully as did the Darwinian synthesis. To address that question we must think through the question of how to understand “bios” as well as to effect and govern changes to it.
Course requirements: The course has no prerequisites. We intend it to be challenging. Students will be obliged to acquire a basic understanding of elements of molecular biology, anthropology, philosophy, political economy, literary criticism, and critical analysis of other media.
There is a course reader. There are supplementary readings, film and video showings. Classroom attendance and participation in discussion sections is mandatory.
Grades: There is no curve. Grades will be based on an in-class midterm (30-40%), occasional short written exercises covering readings and lectures (10%), participation in discussion sections (10%), a term paper (40-50%).
GRADUATE COURSES
Note: Graduate seminars are open to qualified undergraduates at the discretion of the instructor.
ANTHRO 219: TOPICS IN MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
N. Scheper-Hughes 4 units M 12-2 123 Dwinelle
This course has been cancelled.
ANTHRO 221: PRECOLUMBIAN CENTRAL AMERICA: “PRACTICE AND KNOWLEDGE IN MESOAMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGY”
R. Joyce 4 units Tu 12-2 101, 2251 College
Cancelled.
ANTHRO 229A: ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH STRATEGIES: "HISTORY AND THEORY OF ARCHAEOLOGY"
P. Kirch 4 units W 2-5 101, 2251 College
This seminar is REQUIRED for all entering graduate students in archaeology. It is open to other students in anthropology and other departments who are interested in archaeological theory.
This proseminar is designed to be an introduction to the history and theory of anthropological archaeology. The seminar focuses primarily on the theoretical development of Anglo-American archaeology, with some discussions on the interaction with other intellectual traditions. Broader social, political, and economic contexts of archaeological practice are also considered. Particular attention is given to major developments and debates over the last five decades that have shaped the field of anthropological archaeology as we know it today. The first half of the seminar covers an historical overview of the three major traditions in anthropological archaeology: culture historical, processual, and post-processual approaches. The second half of the seminar considers topics and intellectual debates that are particularly relevant to archaeological practice today. Through these discussions, students are exposed to major theoretical writings in past and contemporary archaeology.
ANTHRO 230-1: SPECIAL TOPICS IN ARCHAEOLOGY: “VIRTUAL PLACES, REAL PLACES, AND DATABASE NARRATIVES"
R. Tringham 4 units M 1-3 15, 2224 Piedmont
This course starts out as a regular seminar on the Archaeology of Architecture and Place. Soon, however, we will take off from the more traditional physical and technological aspects of architecture and landscape to explore an agent- and observation-centered study of the senses of place, focused on, but not exclusive of places where the built environment is present. The course welcomes those whose research is blessed with standing architecture, buried architecture, or invisible architecture.
Participants in the seminar will be encouraged to stretch the interpretation of their places of research to include sound, texture, movement, smell, as well as light, shadow, temperature, weather, as it is sensed by the agents of the past and present. This kinetic immersion in past places as imagined in the present has been the topic of a number of recent publications as well as attempts at expression and presentation through electronic media. In this seminar we shall critically examine many of these. And since critique is only successful if done from a position of experience, participants will be encouraged (but not required) to experiment with the use of digital media in visualizing and creating "virtual places". I am especially interested in exploring some of the more humanistic concepts of narrative-creation that is embedded and grows out of empirical databases, whereby our archaeological databases of the built environment and landscape are not containers to be filled with data objects, but are sets of observations that can be woven into narratives of place.
Required Reading: TBA
ANTHRO 230-2: SPECIAL TOPICS IN ARCHAEOLOGY: “ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE AFRICAN DIASPORA”
L. Wilkie 4 units W 10-12 102 Barrows
Course description not yet available.
ANTHRO 230-3: SPECIAL TOPICS IN ARCHAEOLOGY: "WRITING THE FIELD"
R. Joyce, R. Tringham 4 units Tu 12-2 101, 2251 College
This seminar is intended to guide students in the definition of a field within anthropological archaeology, from initial conceptualization to writing of a field statement, dissertation chapter, or review article. A "field" may be defined as a body of knowledge considered to have intellectual coherence. Fields are constituted through acts of writing, including those using newmedia, and then come to delimit domains of knowledge. Yet as this definition makes clear, a field is an heuristic construct. Many fields are recognized and embodied in such forms as undergraduate and graduate courses, introductory texts and survey articles, but all are artificial in this sense. One implication is that moving the discipline forward begins by defining new fields. Participants in this course will be expected to define a field and produce a statement of that field by the end of the semester.
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor required.
Required text: Howard Becker, "Writing for Social Scientists."
ANTHRO 230-4: SPECIAL TOPICS IN ARCHAEOLOGY: "THE RECONSTRUCTION OF LIFE IN BIOARCHAEOLOGY"
S. Agarwal 4 units M 10-12 101, 2251 College
This seminar course explores how we reconstruct past lifeways from archaeological skeletal remains. It deals with the skeletal biology of past populations, covering both the theoretical approaches and methods used in the analysis of skeletal and dental remains. Issues surrounding the reconstruction of the individual and population such as age, sex and paleodemography will be explored. The health and disease of teeth and bones, and the biomechanical and chemical analyses of bone will also be explored. While this course is intended for graduate students that have both interest and previous knowledge in bioarchaeology, it is not exclusive to those pursuing careers in biological anthropology. The emphasis is on critical analysis, research skills, and communication skills that can be useful in pursuing careers in other sub-disciplines of anthropology and laboratory research, or other lateral health-related fields. Required readings will be from a reading package, and additional current literature. The class is intended to be an interactive learning process in discussion and presentation format, and students must take an active part in class. Admission to the class is with consent of the instructor.
Required texts: A list of required readings will be provided and held at the library.
ANTHRO 230-5: SPECIAL TOPICS IN ARCHAEOLOGY: "FOOD ARCHAEOLOGY"
C. Hastorf 4 units W 9-12 101, 2251 College
Food is necessary to stay alive, yet it is never consumed without being transformed by social meanings and settings. Food is truly the cultural core of society. This course will focus on food as a way to view society through economic, symbolic, historic, and political lenses. We will explore the notion that food is transformed by and transforms the human situation. To study this vast and ever expanding subject, we will read and discuss a series of authors who have proposed theoretical perspectives or important examples on the study of food in society. We will also include a temporal perspective by reading archaeological studies and techniques in order to learn in what ways we can begin to approach food more broadly in archaeology.
We will discuss a series of books and articles every week in class. Every participant is expected to read all of the assigned readings for each class. Each week participants will prepare readings for discussion and will be responsible to lead the discussion on one item. A food journal will also be kept by each student.
ANTHRO 240A: FUNDAMENTALS OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL THEORY
P. Rabinow 5 units W: 12-3 in 221 Kroeber and F: 2-5 in 15, 2224 Piedmont
Anthropological theory and practice--following the rest of the world--have been undergoing important restructuring in the past decades. The course is organized to reflect this fact. We will begin by looking at recent debates about the nature and purpose of anthropology. This will provide a starting point for reading a series of classic ethnographies in new ways as well as examining some dimensions of the current research agenda in cultural anthropology.
Enrollment is strictly limited to and required of all Anthropology, and Medical Anthropology graduate students who have not been advanced to candidacy.
ANTHRO 250R: ANALYSIS OF FIELD DATA: "DISSERTATION WRITING"
N. Scheper-Hughes 4 units M 10-12 15, 2224 Piedmont
This small working seminar is limited to 10 participants. It is an advanced dissertation writing group designed for graduate students in anthropology and medical anthropology who have returned from the field and who have already begun the task of data analysis and dissertation writing. It is not suitable for people who are just back from the field and have not yet assembled their data into a format that will allow them to begin the task of writing.
Permission of the instructor is required. Please write a brief statement to Prof. Scheper-Hughes by the end of the spring semester with an abstract, tile, and draft table of contents of your dissertation, your progress to date, and whether you have attended previous dissertation writing seminars.
Seminar Format: Each seminar participant is expected to submit for discussion and constructive criticism a dissertation outline in addition to two (draft) chapters of the dissertation. Copies of the chapters are to be circulated to each member of the seminar on Friday at noon (no exceptions) prior to the seminar when the chapter is to be discussed. The seminar participants and the seminar leader will need at least two days to read and write comments on the draft chapters that will be discussed each week. As this is a co-taught seminar it is the obligation of each participant to read and respond in detail and in legibly written marginal comments and in a brief summary statement for each chapter that is submitted to the group. Additionally, each week two seminar members will be asked to introduce another seminar members chapter, to do a 'deep reading' of the text, as it were, before the rest of the seminar participants chime in with their comment and suggestions. It goes without saying that criticism should be frank but presented in a supportive and collegial manner. Writing is a terrifying experience and circulating what we have written among peers is not easy.
Two draft chapters will be discussed at each seminar meeting. Occasionally the group shall repair to the faculty club or to a local cafe for informal discussion, mutual support, and refreshment following the seminar.
Although preparation of manuscripts for publication will be addressed throughout the seminar, conference papers and drafts of articles based on the dissertation will NOT be accepted in lieu of dissertation chapters. The increasing pressure to publish, publicize, and report early on ones work is often a detriment and obstacle to the successful and timely completion of the dissertation project itself which must be given the highest priority.
Seminar Guests: Each presenting student is encouraged to invite a dissertation advisor to the seminar on the days they present their chapters. I will invite an editor from an academic press to visit the seminar once during the semester to discuss the preparation of dissertations for submission to academic and university publishers.
ANTHRO 250X-1: SPECIAL TOPICS IN CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY: “PUBLICS AND PUBLICITY”
L. Cohen 4 units Tu 12-2 15, 2224 Piedmont
Genealogies of "the public" and of its constitutive publicity. Critical engagement with various analyses of the binary public/private, particularly in relation to national and confessional form. Discussion of the concept of a counterpublic. Working through the relation of the theory and ethnography of publics to the question of an ethics, with a focus on the imperatives and limits of the "public intellectual."
ANTHRO 250X-2: SPECIAL TOPICS IN CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY: “ANTHROPOLOGY OF SCIENCE”
C. Hayden 4 units Tu 2-4 101, 2251 College
This graduate seminar explores work at the intersection of science studies and anthropology, with a particular interest in the emergent field of postcolonial science studies. Readings will address, first, some fundamental arguments and methodological interventions in/across science studies. The work of Latour, Haraway, Shapin and Schaffer, Traweek, Harding, and others, will introduce critical debates over science studies and its status as itself a form of social theory. Subsequent readings pick up on key themes in these debates and extend them across several fields of inquiry. Broadly stated, topics will include: Notions of alterity, local or traditional knowledge, and encounter; constructions of nature and natural histories understood through critical engagement with colonialism, race, and nationalism; questions of exchange, reciprocities, and the propertization of scientific research; and technoscience as a mode of configuring citizenships and allocating the functions of ‘the state.’
Indicative readings: B. Latour, Science in Action, 1988 B. Latour, The Politics of Nature, 2004 D. Haraway, ModestWitness@Second.Millennium, 1997 H. Raffles, In Amazonia, 2001 A. Petryna, Life Exposed, 2002 D. Poole, Visions of Modernity, 1997 G. Prakash, Another Reason, 1999 S. Franklin and M. Lock, eds. Remaking Life and Death: Toward an Anthropology of the Biosciences, 2003.
ANTHRO 250X-3: SPECIAL TOPICS IN CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY: “HISTORY OF THE SENSES”
C. Hirschkind 4 units Th 2-4 15, 2224 Piedmont
An Anthropological History of the Senses: Epistemology, Ethics, and Technology
This course explores modalities of sensory experience and expression across a number of religious and cultural contexts. Our inquiry will approach the historical construction of the senses in terms of the mutual constitution of the perceiving subject and the social and natural world as object of perception. Three themes will guide this exploration: 1) Epistemology: How has the question of human sensory capacities been posed in relation to knowledge in different cultural contexts, as both an enabling and limiting condition? What have been the relative virtues ascribed to different senses in regard to various types of knowledge and experience? 2) Ethics: Taking such diverse contexts as the medieval monastery and the modern public sphere, we will examine how different sensory capacities have been seen to enable specific forms of ethical life. What sensibilities, modes of responsiveness, and hierarchies of sight, hearing, smell, touch, and taste have underpinned social and political arrangements within differing historical and cultural situations? 3) Technology: What has been the role of technology in transforming sensory landscapes and extending human capacities of sensory experience? In approaching these questions, we will draw on literature from the disciplines of philosophy, religion, anthropology, history, and literary criticism.
ANTHRO 250X-4: SPECIAL TOPICS IN CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY: “GLOBALIZATION & ANTHOPOLOGICAL PROBLEMS”
A. Ong 4 units Tu 2-4 317 Kroeber
There is no agreement as to what “globalization” means. One may argue, however, that in the social sciences, the term has a general marker for heterogeneous and often contradictory transformations -- in economic organization, social regulation, political governance, and ethical regimes -- that are felt to have profound though uncertain, confusing, or contradictory implications for contemporary human life. Increasingly, the phenomena that concern social scientists assume spatial forms that are non-isomorphic with standard units of analysis such as country, nation, and culture. The emergence of various localisms and regionalisms, along with “transnational” patterns have been the subject of growing interest and investigation. This is a problem that cuts to the heart of contemporary social sciences. Many observers believe that we have witnessed a shift in the core dynamics of social, cultural, economic and political life.
In anthropology, we have had a range of analytical responses. One approach has been to track migrant flows and the emergence of “transnational” communities. Another view has been to stress cultural flows that come to reconstitute new spaces or “scapes” of social organization and activity. A third has been to examine the rise of “localities”, however defined, as articulations with, effects of, or dynamic responses or resistances to, global forces. In this seminar, we will discuss a fourth alternative, an approach to globalization as a problem-space that constitutes contemporary anthropological problems. We will consider the methodological implications of a perspective that takes into account particular assemblages of mobile “global forms,” politics, and ethics that put at stake what it means to be human today.
Course requirements: Priority is given to graduate students in Berkeley anthropology. Students are expected to make class presentations and to write a research paper based on theoretical arguments read in class. No incompletes are accepted.
Selected Readings:
Jonathan X. Inda and Renato Rosaldo, eds. The Anthropology of Globalization (Blackwell, 2002)
Ulrich Beck, Anthony Giddens, Reflexive Modernization (Stanford, 1995)
David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity (Blackwell 1989)
Andrew Barry, Political Machines. (Athlone Press, 2001)
T. Osbourne, N. Rose, eds. Foucault and Political Reason (Chicago, 1996)
A. Ong, Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationality. (Duke 1999)
A. Ong & S. Collier, eds. Global Assemblages: Technology, Politics and Ethics as Anthropological Problems (Blackwell, 2004).
ANTHRO 250X-5: SPECIAL TOPICS IN CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY: “POSTCOLONIALITY AND THE RELIGIOUS QUESTION: THE MIDDLE EAST AND SOUTH ASIA”
S. Mahmood 4 units Tu 9-12 15, 2224 Piedmont
This course will explore how the question of religion has been debated within postcolonial South Asia and the Middle East. In particular, we will examine how postcolonial practices of modern governance (such as legal and educational reform, the institution of family law, population and health management, etc.) have redefined the field of religious argumentation in these regions on the one hand, and how the debates within Hinduism and Islam have in turn shaped how these practices of governance have taken a specific form with the Middle East and South Asia.
ANTHRO 250X-6: SPECIAL TOPICS IN CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY: “CONTEMPORARY ETHNOGRAPHY”
P. Rabinow 4 units W 3-6 221 Kroeber
This seminar will explore recent exemplars of anthropological writing. It is addressed to graduate students soon to face the prospect of producing monographs themselves.
ANTHRO 250X-7: SPECIAL TOPICS IN CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY: “POST-SOCIALISM: FORMER SOVIET UNION, CHINA, EASTERN EUROPE, CUBA”
A. Yurchak 4 units Tu 2-5 15, 2224 Piedmont
Course description not yet available.
ANTHRO 250X-8: SPECIAL TOPICS IN CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY: “RETHINKING POLITICAL THEOLOGY IN ISLAM AND IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE”
S. Pandolfo 4 units Th 2-5 101, 2251 College
Subjectivity, community, ethics and utopia, in Muslim tradition, contemporary practice, and in comparative critical theory.
ANTHRO 250X-9: SPECIAL TOPICS IN CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY: "WRITING ETHNOGRAPHY"
L. Nader 4 units W 12-2 15, 2224 Piedmont
Instructor approval required.
ANTHRO 260: PROBLEMS IN FOLKLORE: “FOLKLORE, NATION AND THE STATE”
P. Anttonen 4 units Tu 10-12 15, 2224 Piedmont
The course has been cancelled.
ANTHRO 270B: INTERACTIONAL SOCIO-LINGUISTICS: “FUNDAMENTALS OF LANGUAGE IN CONTEXT”
W. Hanks 4 units Th 10-1 101, 2251 College
This course is an intensive introduction to the study of language as a cultural system and speech as socially embedded communicative practice. It is the core course for students wishing to take further coursework in linguistic anthropology, and is designed for graduate students. Upper level undergraduates may enroll with permission of instructor. There are no special prerequisites. The course will meet once weekly, with roughly 70% of class time devoted to lectures and the remainder to discussion. Grades will be based on oral participation, a short essay in week 8 and a final essay of no more than 20 pages double spaced. There are no prerequisites. If you are uncertain regarding your preparation for the course, speak with the instructor within the first two weeks.
Topics include linguistic structure, its relation to other sign systems, speech acts and "performativity," approaches to "context," varieties of interaction, language in historical research and basic elements of a practice approach to language. Prior background in sociocultural anthropology, semantics/pragmatics, rhetortic, textual criticism or intensive foreign language study would be helpful, but is not required. We will do close readings of Saussure, Austin, Boas, Sapir, Benveniste, Chomsky, Labov, Merleau Ponty, Voloxinov, Bourdieu and Goffman, among others.
Course requirements: (i) punctual attendance of all meetings (discussion will be cumulative and it is important to stay abreast of lectures); (ii) reading of all required material and such additional sources as interest individual students; (iii) active engagement in class discussions; (iv) written work: Essay 1 (5-7 pp) & Final Essay (20 pp)
ANTHRO 290-1: SURVEY OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCH
STAFF 1 unit M 4-6 160 Kroeber
The departmental seminar, which is held on posted Mondays from 4-6 p.m. in 160 Kroeber throughout each semester, presents a range of speakers on current topics in anthropology. Speakers and topics are announced prior to the event on the glassed-in bulletin board opposite the main office (232 Kroeber). All students are invited; however, enrollment is strictly limited to and required of all Anthropology, Medical Anthropology, and Demography graduate students who have not been advanced to candidacy.
ANTHRO 290-2: SURVEY OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCH: “ARCHAEOLOGY GRADUATE STUDENT OUTREACH”
M. Conkey 1 unit Off Campus
Course may be repeated for credit. Preparation for and at least one visit with a designated elementary or secondary school, either at the school or in a school’s or group’s visit to the campus, bringing aspects of archaeological information and practice to the classroom, in consultation with the specific school and teacher(s). Designed to put into practice core values of contemporary archaeological practice, as specified in the Code of Ethics of the Society for American Archaeology. Readings, workshops, and some resources are provided, but selecting relevant materials, communication and coordination with the teacher of the class to be visited, and prepartory meeting with partners in the visit are anticipated. Total input per semester estimated to be 15 hours. Required each term of all in-residence graduate students in the archaeology program. Must be taken on a satisfactory/unsatisfactory basis.
ANTHRO 300: GRADUATE PEDAGOGY SEMINAR
* Note: This class will become Anthro 300 pending approval
R. Joyce M 12-2 101, 2251 College
Note: Required for all first-time GSIs appointed for 2004-2005 in Anthropology.
This seminar introduces new GSIs to the theory and practice of teaching and learning within the discipline of Anthropology. By the end of this course, participants will be able to effectively foster small group discussions; organize and coach group work; develop test questions that advance learning; and evaluate student work consistently. Participants will also have developed an individual teaching philosophy, grounded in theoretical work related to teaching and learning, and will understand the implications of that teaching philosophy for practice
FOLKLORE
FOLKLORE 250A: FOLKLORE THEORY AND TECHNIQUES
A. Dundes 4 units W 4-6 201 Giannini
This seminar, the first semester of a two-semester sequence, is a survey of the history of Folkloristic Theory and method worldwide. Assignment includes the compilation of an annotated bibliography on some folkloristic topic, the bibliography to be the basis of a research paper in the second semester of the year-long seminar.
Prerequisites: Consent of the instructor.
ANTHRO 260: PROBLEMS IN FOLKLORE: PUBLIC DISPLAYS: FESTIVITIES, EXHIBITIONS, MEMORIALS
P. Tokofsky 4 units time TBA room TBA
Acts of display surround us. We find them in homes and museums; at accident sites, memorials, and tourist destinations; and on the street. Traditional performances enact bodily and material displays at a wide variety of festive occasions. This course works toward "a political economy of showing" (Kirshenblatt-Gimblett) through consideration of Carnival, museum practices, and memorials (spontaneous and ephemeral ones, as well as enduring and official structures).