Spring 2006 Courses

Anthro 2: INTRODUCTION TO ARCHAEOLOGY
Habu, J		CCN 02303
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Anthro 3: Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology
Graburn, N H		02342
Syllabus This year's Anthropology 3 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 Egypt, 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. Videos and slides as well as guest speakers will supplement the case studies. Adjuncts to the course include weekly section meetings with dynamic GSIs (Teaching assistants).

Anthro C100: Human Paleontology
White, T D		02462
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Anthro 112: Special Topics in Biological Anthropology
Deacon		CCN 02474
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Anthro 119: The Disaster and Its Doubles
Scheper-Hughes		CCN 02476
Seminar is limited to 15 participants. Instructor Permission Required. This is an intensive, upper division undergraduate seminar and study-action group on Katrina and its aftermaths. Seminar participants will read and reflect on the social and political constructions of 'nature', 'the human', and 'social suffering' in the wake of catastrophe. We will also explore public response and humanitarianism in the wake of disaster. We will begin close to home with readings and critical discussions of the 1991 Berkeley Hills Fires, the 1995 Chicago Heat Wave in the context of the 1995 Oklahoma Bombing, followed by readings on other 'natural' or otherwise 'naturalized' catastrophes occurring at different times and places, including the Irish Famine ( "The Great Hunger") of 1845-1849, the 1911 Chicago Shirtwaist Factory Fire, the Bhopal gas disaster , the resettlement of the Gwembe Tonga following the construction of the Kariba Damn in 1957 (Elizabeth Colson), the nuclear meltdown at Chernobyl and the 1970 earthquake that shook the Andes, shattering town after town in a long narrow valley of Callejon do Huaylas. A background in the social sciences is recommended but not required. Requirements Each week students will co-lead seminar discussions with the instructor. Weekly 2 page critical reaction papers reflecting on one or more aspect of the topic under scrutiny . A 15 page research paper based on library or field research analyzing chosen aspects of experiencing, living with, responding to an unexpected human catastrophe. Required Readings Susanna Hoffman and Anthony Oliver-Smith. 2002. Catastrophe & Culture: The Anthropologyof Disaster. Santa Fe: SAR Maurice Blanchot. 1995. The Writing of the Disaster. University of Nebraska Press. Colin Turnbull. 1972. The Mountain People. New York: Simon & Schuster Mark Danner. 1993. The Massacre at El Mozote. New York: Vintage Mike Davis. 1999. Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster, New York: Vintage Books/. Edward Linenthal. 2001. The Unfinished Bombing: Oklahoma City in American Memory.New York: Oxford University Press Eric Kleinenberg. 2002. Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago . Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Barbara Bode. 1990. No Bells to Toll: Destruction and Creation in the Andes. New York: Scribner. Adrianaa Petryna 2002. Life Exposed: Biological Citizens after Chernobyl. Princeton University Press Norman MacLean 1992 Young Men & Fire. Chicago: University of Chicago Cecil Woodham-Smith. The Great Hunger: Ireland 1845-1849. London: Penguin Books. Arthur Kleinman, Veena Das and Margaret Lock, eds. 1997. Social Suffering . University of California Press. Judith Herman. 1997. Trauma and Recovery. New York: Basic Books

Anthro 121C: Historical Artifact Identification and Analysis
Wilkie, L A		CCN 02477
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Anthro 122G: Archaeology of the American Southwest
Shackley, M		CCN 02483
Description: This course will outline the development of native cultures in the American Southwest from Paleo-Indian times (ca. 11,500 BC) through early European Contact (ca. A.D. 1600). Topics to be covered include: the greater environment, early foraging cultures, the development of agriculture and village life, the emergence and decline of regional alliances, abandonment and reorganization, and changes in social organization, external relations and trade. The course is designed as an advanced upper division seminar for students majoring in Anthropology with an emphasis in archaeology. Will be co-taught as a distance course with UCSC. UCSC prerequisites are Anth 1,2, and 3. A previous course in American archaeology is highly recommended, but not required (UCSC). At UCB, prerequisites include Anth 1,2,3, and at least Junior standing. The course will be co-taught via teleconferencing facilities between UCSC and UCB. The course schedule will follow Berkeley's semester system, which overlaps Santa Cruz's Winter and Spring Quarters. UCSC students must enroll in BOTH 196A(Winter) and 196B(Spring) to receive credit and an evaluation for either course. Students enrolled in this course must have a basic familiarity with using e-mail and the Web, including access to Adobe Acrobat, since a variety of course material only will be available electronically and communication among the professors and the course participants at both campuses will be largely through the internet and e-mail, to include the take-home exams, and the option of submitting the research paper electronically (any version of Microsoft Word is acceptable). Course Requirements (note grade percentiles): Course text: John Kantner (2004) Ancient Puebloan Southwest, Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 0521788803 And course reader through ERES at UCSC. Lab projects and quizzes = 25% or grade *Two take-home essay-style exams = 50% of grade *20 page research paper (For UCSC students: This paper fulfills the senior thesis requirement in Anthropology. Drafts and revisions will be required.) = 25% of grade

Anthro 123C: Archaeology of Europe
Sterling, K		CCN 03188
Description: This course will explore major issues in European prehistory, from the arrival of the first hominids until the establishment of settled farming and pastoral communities just before the rise of the state societies. While the course follows a chronological path, each week a theme will be explored in greater depth that include the time period in question and bridge others, such as visual imagery, marking the landscape, or preserved human remains. Texts: primary text to be decided, plus additional e-res readings. Likely texts are: -S. Milisauskas, European Prehistory: A Survey, or -B. Cunliffe, The Oxford Illustrated History of Prehistoric Europe; with selections from: -C. Gamble, Prehistoric Societies of Europe, and -Champion, et al., Prehistoric Europe. Optional text (to be available on reserve): -C. Scarre, Exploring Prehistoric Europe. Course requirements: There will be a brief in-class map quiz, testing major bodies of water and land formations; one in-class midterm exam; and a group project. For the group project, groups of no more than 5 students will work together on a creative 20-30 minute presentation to the class on a focused concept or an archaeological site. Topics will be chosen with the instructor in the third week of classes. Grading: Map quiz 10% Midterm 30% Group project 30% Final exam 30%

Anthro 127A: Introduction to Skeletal Biology and Bioarchaeology
Agarwal		CCN 02486
This course is an introduction to skeletal biology and its basis for the analysis of human skeletal remains. The study of the human skeleton provides insight into human evolution and health, and can be applied in archaeological, forensic, and biomedical contexts. The first half of the course will deal with the structure, function, and growth of the human skeleton, while later classes will introduce the methods used to analyze and interpret archaeological skeletal remains and gain information on aspects such as age, sex, health, and biological variation. Lectures provide relevant background, but students are expected to devote a significant amount of time to work and participate in weekly labs. Prerequisites Anthropology 1, Biology 1B. Credit will not be given for this course if ANTHRO C103/IB C142 has been previously taken. Admission to the course with permission from instructor

Anthro 128: Special Topics in Archaeology
Dean, E		CCN 02492
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Anthro 128A: Special Topics in Archaeology
Palmer, D		CCN 02498
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Anthro 128M: Special Topics in Archaeology
Palmer, D		CCN 02501
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Anthro 129C: Archaeology of Hunter-Gatherers
Kim, M		CCN 02503
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Anthro 136H: Practice in the 6th Grade Archaeological Afterschool Program
Conkey, M		CCN 02510
Professor Meg Conkey (with Tamara Sturak and Charles Underwood) 4 units Tu 9-11 101, 2251 College. Additional requirement: off-campus after-school mentoring, one afternoon each week (Wed, Thurs, or Fri) Note: This course meets the method requirement for the anthropology major. This course is about ethnographic fieldwork, public archaeology, the anthropology of pedagogy and education, the anthropology of technology, and collaborative learning and the material and media representation of culture. The course is designed to provide an opportunity for undergraduates to work with 6 th graders in exploring the worlds of archaeology, history, and computer-based technologies. There is no mid-term or final examination for this course. Students enrolled in Anthropology 128m are expected to mentor and interact with children (predominantly 6 th graders) in Expedition, an after-school program at Roosevelt Middle School in Oakland. Additionally, this course fulfills the methods requirement for Anthropology majors, providing an opportunity to learn and use a variety of ethnographic skills, guided by adjunct faculty member Dr. Charles Underwood. The focus of the course this semester is encouraging the awareness of the multicultural nature of the meaning of material culture and its expression through digital storytelling. The Expedition after-school program, which is voluntary, is designed to bring the archaeological experience to 6 th graders through facilitated play with a variety of media, including: digital storytelling (video production), computer games, web browsing, hands-on exploration of real artifacts, etc. The facilitator for the Expedition program is Tamara Sturak. Pre-requisites: Students from fields other than archaeology and anthropology are welcome to participate. Bilingual students are strongly encouraged to apply. The Introduction to Archaeology (Anthro.2) or its equivalent or the permission of the instructor are the only prerequisites. Regular access to an email and Internet account are essential. 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. You will be expected to keep fieldnotes of your observations and enter them into the course database each week. Required reading: Kozol, J. 2000 Ordinary Resurrections: children in the years of hope. Crown Publ, New York. A course reader of weekly required readings will also be available for course.

Anthro 136J: Archaeology and the Media: Digital Narratives in, for, and about Archaeology 2: Building a Video
Tringham		CCN 02522
Syllabus bspace Format 15-week studio course. The instructor meets for one hour per week lecture/discussion (M 10-11), and 2-hour studio twice a week (M11-1, W 10-12) in MACTIA LAB, 2224 Piedmont. *Note Anthro 136j satisfies the Methods requirement for the Anthropology major. Pre-Requisites Anthropology 136i is the prerequisite for this course. With approval of the instructor, Anthropology 136h, 134b, 138a (and possibly other courses – even Anthro 2) may also be counted as a pre-requisite. Access to the Internet and an email account are essential. Course Description This course focuses on the use of digital media to create narratives about the practice and the products of archaeology. This course is a collaborative, hands-on experience in video production about the practice and the products of archaeology . Students work together in teams of 2-3 students to produce short videos from their own research . Projects will be chosen from proposals submitted at the beginning of the course. Students share equally the responsibilities of research and writing, directing, camera, sound recording, and editing. Students will often need to meet with their teammates outside of class time. The format will remain the MACTiA model of technical training and guidance in which a priority is given to well-researched content. The aim of this course is to build on the research, videography and software skills carried out in Anthro 136i, 136h, 134b, or 138a. The course focuses on coaching the student authoring process, including the production of digital video media, creating and accessing media asset databases, setting up and keeping to production timetables, detailed storyboarding, and team collaborative authoring of a digital narrative of a student-researched project. We hope to submit the best final projects to national and international festivals. For this reason, close attention is given to the rules and protocols of intellectual property. This course will teach you how to create that narrative in a professional-looking video format using Apple's iLife products in combination with the Final Cut Pro studio of programs. In addition to traditional videography, the course focuses on the use of digital technologies to re-mix and re-purpose existing images and video footage to combine with your own video footage to create digital movies.

Anthro 138B: Field Production of Ethnographic Film
Leimbacher		CCN 02528
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Anthro 139: Controlling Processes
Nader, L		CCN 02476
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Anthro 169B: Research Theory and Methods in Socio-Cultural Anthropology
Cohen, L		CCN 02543
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Anthro 180: Mediterrainean Society
Brandes, S		CCN 02558
Syllabus This area course focuses on the social anthropology of Europe, with an emphasis on southern Europe, including Portugal, France, Spain, Italy, Greece, and, to a lesser extent, the Balkans. Course material incorporates literature from both urban and rural settings, and covers economics, politics, and demography (marriage, mortality, migration), as well as food, folklore, and expressive culture. Some readings and lectures are geared to demonstrate the importance of Mediterranean Europe--particularly the Iberian Peninsula --to an understanding of Latin American civilization. The impact of globalization on regional cultures is another topic central to the course. Lectures are supplemented by slides and videos. The course can be used to satisfy the area requirement for the anthropology major, but may be taken without prerequisites.

L&S 180A: Archaeology of Sex and Gender
Joyce		CCN 51977
Syllabus This course can count as an upper-division archaeology course for the major or can be used to satisfy breadth requirements. The course brings together theoretical work from gender and women's studies, science studies, philosophy and the social sciences on sex and gender, with archaeological case studies from the forefront of contemporary scholarship. Course topics will include (but are not limited to) biological sexing; masculinity; motherhood; youth and age; gender, race and ethnicity. A central question will be, how do archaeologists employ their expertise in the study of material remains to approach questions often considered accessible only through texts or direct observation of behavior? By including case studies from historical archaeology (where texts are one part of the data) this course will demonstrate how approaching texts with ideas gained from studying material evidence helps scholars deepen their understanding. Students will also gain an understanding of the distinct historical developments of sex/gender systems in different world traditions. Description: 4 Units-- 3 hours lecture/discussion, 1 hour section per week The course brings together theoretical work from gender and women's studies, science studies, philosophy and the social sciences on sex and gender, with archaeological case studies from the forefront of contemporary scholarship. Course topics will include (but are not limited to) biological sexing; masculinity; motherhood; youth and age; gender, race and ethnicity. A central question will be, how do archaeologists employ their expertise in the study of material remains to approach questions often considered accessible only through texts or direct observation of behavior? By including case studies from historical archaeology (where texts are one part of the data) this course will demonstrate how approaching texts with ideas gained from studying material evidence helps scholars deepen their understanding. Students will also gain an understanding of the distinct historical developments of sex/gender systems in different world traditions. Basis for evaluation. This course is based on a model of learning in which students actively engage with primary research publications in small and large groups during scheduled section and lecture periods. Core reading for each week should be completed in advance, and forms the basis for lecture/discussions introducing the topics. Additional selected readings will be discussed individually in sections starting with week 4. Every student will read at least one of these readings every week. One student in each section will lead discussion of each of the selected articles in section and in a follow-up lecture/discussion the following week. Students who are not leading discussion will be responsible for formulating questions based on section discussions and their own reading of selected articles. Because of the participation required to do well in this course, attendance at both lecture discussions and sections is necessary. Section participation will count for 30% of your grade. Lecture/discussion participation will account for a further 20% of your grade. The remainder of your grade will be based on a semester-long team research project including individual completion of two project benchmark assignments (10% each), peer grading of participation in preparing the group project presentation (10%), and a final grade for the group project (20%). Required texts: Most readings will be provided through the course website. The following three books will be ordered for the course, and many core or selected readings will come from them. You will need to choose one to read as part of your group project; copies of each will also be on reserve in the Anthropology library: -Lynn M. Meskell and Rosemary A. Joyce. Embodied Lives: Figuring Ancient Egypt and the Classic Maya. Routledge, London: 2003. - Barb Voss and Rob Schmidt, editors. Archaeologies of Sexuality. Routledge Press, London:2000 -Laurie Wilkie. The Archaeology of Mothering: An African-American Midwife's Tale. Routledge Press, London: 2003

Anthro 188: Transnational Asia: Cultures in Motion
Ong, A		CCN 02476
Syllabus This is a "special area" course for topics otherwise not covered. It is framed not by national boundaries, but by transnational movements, networks, communication and exchange across East and Southeast Asia. "Cultures in motion" captures the diverse flows, confluences, and disjunctures that are shaping a distinctive East Asian landscape of modernity. This shifting constellation of thinking, feeling, and action is not determined by a single country or state or culture, but configured by the flux and heterogeneity of multiple articulations and disarticulations that disregard conventional borders. The class is organized around the following themes through which desires, power, problems, and resolutions are crystallized: nationalism, publics, cities, entrepreneurialism, ethnicity, family, food, finance, pleasures, drugs, terrorism, and transnational subjects. This innovative approach explores topics that have diverse and ambiguous effects on communities regardless of political borders. For instance, food and fashion, fueled by global markets, have become important shapers and markers of identity in the region. Family and lifestyle are also being influenced by malls and global media. Meanwhile, the spread of "terrorist" networks, alongside the more commonly described "business networks," indexes the challenge of alternative political visions. Mega-cities that cater to Asia's new rich, yuppies, and expatriates are dependent on the circulations of multi-ethnic migrant workers. Refugees and bar-girls are also among the displaced which have become fixtures in cross-border webs of interconnection. This moving landscape captures the radical mutations, risks, and pitfalls of contemporary Asian emergence. Some lectures will be accompanied by slides and videos. The class is opened to mainly juniors and seniors. There is a mid-term and a final. Required Book: A. Ong, Flexible Citizenship: the Cultural Logics of Transnationality, 1999

 

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GRADUATE COURSES

Note: Graduate seminars are open to qualified undergraduates at the discretion of the instructor.

Anthro 227: Historical Archaeology Research
Wilkie, L		CCN 02783
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Anthro 228: Seminar on the Method and Theory of Lithic Technology
Shackley		CCN 02785
Description: Seminar level overview of current method and theory in lithic technology. The geographic focus will be worldwide, although the emphasis will be topical. Major topics of discussion will include archaeometric methods in the service of lithic technology (NAA, XRF in raw material studies; ESEM in utilization studies; optical petrography), procurement and production, debitage analysis, style, ethnicity and gender studies, experimental technology (replication studies), use-wear studies, ethnoarchaeology, analytical and laboratory methods; critical examination of various theoretical approaches to stone tool analysis. Additional class time outside of class (depending on weather) will be devoted to flintknapping practice including replication, and an examination of the obsidian debitage and projectile points from McEuen Cave (AZ W:13:6 ASM), a hunter-gatherer to farmer transition rockshelter site in southeastern Arizona, and Largo Gallina, a late period pueblo in northern New Mexico. Weekly reading on topics will provide the basis for seminar discussion. All students are expected to read assigned material and participate in discussions. Required texts: Odell, G.H. 2003 Lithic Analysis, and Whittaker, J.C. 1994 Flintknapping: Making and Understanding Stone Tools. Requirements: Graduate students only. Classroom participation and a research paper. No exams. Research paper should focus on one or more of the topics discussed in class, an ongoing project, or the analysis of assemblages. One or more students will be required to guide the discussion each week drawing on assigned readings, with the possible addition of one or two more readings of your choice. These students are responsible for providing copies of all readings, and making them available at a pre-arranged location. Many of the readings will be in reserved books in the Anthro library. Flintknapping toolkit -- Those without knapping gear may purchase a tool kit plus moose antler billet from Great Lakes Lithics (www.greatlakeslithics.com). Frank Stevens will give us a good price. Order the beginner kit, plus a small finished antler billet, and tell him you're taking this class. This tool kit will last many years. Price approximately $50.00. I also recommend that you carry a 10x hand lens.

Anthro 229B: Archaeological Research Strategies
Joyce, Kirch		CCN 02786
Description: This course is the second half of the required seminar for first year graduate students in archaeological Anthropology. In contrast with Anthropology 229A, our focus is on the process of conducting archaeological research: how to frame a research question, define specific strategies for creating data appropriate to address that question, and how to carry out the research strategy, including finding funding, negotiating permits and contracts, and defining and writing reports. The emphasis of the seminar is pragmatic, building on the work already accomplished in Anthropology 229A, which students are expected to apply without further direction from the instructors. The final product of the seminar will be a grant proposal written according to the standards of the National Science Foundation (NSF). The NSF is the major governmental agency in this country that regularly funds archaeological research, both at the senior and doctoral levels (that latter through Dissertation Improvement Grants). The ability to present a fundable research proposal to the NSF is not only a pragmatic necessity for many archaeologists; it can serve as a method to develop proposals for other funding sources. During the seminar, we will identify and discuss a number of these alternative funding sources, and consider how the basic pieces required for an NSF proposal can be used to assembled proposals for these alternative sources.

Anthro 230 S001: The Reconstruction of Life in Past Populations
Agarwal		CCN 02789
This advanced 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 critical study of 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 some 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 Prerequisites Admission to the course with permission from instructor Students enrolled in class will be required to attend the first part of the ANTHRO127A lab section to learn skeletal anatomy and bioarchaeological methods

Anthro 230 S002: Special Topics in Archaeology
Conkey		CCN 02792
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Anthro 230 S003: Archaeology and the Media
Tringham		CCN 02795
Syllabus B-space Format 15-week studio/seminar course. A 2 hour seminar (Mon 1-3) is combined with a 2-hour studio/practice component (choose from Mon 11-1 or Wed 10-12) in which basic skills in digital video and image capture and editing are taught. The class is taught in the Multimedia Authoring Center for Teaching in Anthropology (MACTiA), 2224 Piedmont. Course description Do you have an archaeological narrative that you have been dying to tell? Tell it with a movie – an inspirational medium; movies reach a broader audience; they are the perfect medium to express a multi-vocal narrative, self-reflexivity, and the transparency of the knowledge construction process. This course will teach you how to create that narrative in a professional-looking video format using Apple's iLife products in combination with the Final Cut Pro studio of programs. It also provides the opportunity for the hands-on development of video and other imagery to create database narratives about cultural heritage issues for dissemination to a broader public. This course focuses on the use of digital technologies to re-mix and re-purpose existing images and video footage to combine with your own video footage to create digital movies. You will learn about the rules and risks of intellectual property . We will discuss the context in which archaeological narratives can become intertextual by mixing media (including the Internet, live theater, digital databases, and movies). We will also have critical discussions of the way in which digital media are used by archaeologists, journalists, TV producers, film producers, and many others to create narratives about the past and global cultural heritage. The course is open to graduate students from all disciplines. Students are encouraged to bring their own research projects, video footage and images to the course. Prerequisites A research project about cultural heritage (in its broadest sense) that has already been done or is in progress and patience with computers.

Anthro 240B: Fundamentals of Anthropological Theory
Hirschkind; Liu		CN 02798
Syllabus Course Description: A continuation of the conversation from 240A on the fundamentals of anthropology. Required for first year grad students.

Folklore 250B: Governmentality and the Commodification of Culture
Briggs		CN 31903
Syllabus Description: This seminar explores the emergence of notions of tradition and modernity and their continual reproduction in dominant epistemologies and political formations. It uses a range of contemporary scholarship ( Anderson , Chakrabarty, Foucault, Latour, Mignolo, Pateman, Poovey, and others) to critically reread how foundational works published between the seventeenth and mid-twentieth centuries in folklore and anthropology, and the philosophical texts with which they are in dialogue, are imbricated within and help produce traditionalities and modernities. The second semester brings the project up to the present, focusing on works that provide new perspectives on the politics of culture and vernacular cultural forms. The seminar will focus this time on scholarship that analyzes the way that vernacular culture gets commodified, becomes part of global assemblages, and becomes the focus of regimes of governmentality—and/or efforts to resist them. Graduate students from all departments are welcome. Students who previously took Folklore 250A and/or B can retake the course for credit. 250A is not a prerequisite for 250B

Anthro 250R: Dissertation Writing
Brandes		CCN 02801
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Anthro 250V: Tourism
Graburn		CCN 02804
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Anthro 250X S001: "Classic" Ethnographies
Nader, L		CCN 02807
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Anthro 250X S002: Modernity: Global Bio-Politics of Security
Rabinow		CCN 02810
Description: This seminar is for all of those people working on research (on whatever level) on issues of biopolitics, risk, security, preparedness and other related topics. We will run the seminar as a lab meeting. Participants will be expected to contribute work in progress and to attend regularly. Readings will depend on the configuration of research topics.

Anthro 250X S003: Feminist Theory and Ethnography
Lamphere, L		CCN 02813
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Anthro 250X S004: Ethnographies of East and Southeast Asia
Ong, A		CCN 02815
Syllabus The seminar reads recent ethnographic investigations in Asian sites of emergence. Themes include markets, cities, property, privatization, gender, the body, public sphere, media, nationalism, citizenship, and transnationalism. Some readings are drawn from my two forthcoming works: an edited volume (with Li Zhang), Privatizing China; and Neoliberalism as Exception: Mutations in Citizenship and Sovereignty (forthcoming).

Anthro 250X S005: Whats at Stake? The Art and Practice of Designing and Writing a Doctoral Research Project and Proposal
Scheper-Hughes		CCN 03185
This seminar is limited to graduate students in cultural and medical anthropology who are beginning to formulate their doctoral research projects and are preparing to submit major research proposals. The seminar will focus on designing and writing intellectually vibrant , methodologically sound and 'high stake' research proposals across all the subfields of cultural and medical anthropology. Each seminar participant will prepare: a) a short (2 page research abstract) by week two; a first draft of the proposal to be read, discussed during the next several meetings; a revision of the original proposal will be read, discussed during the last three weeks of the seminar. In addition to writing two drafts – an original proposal to be read, critiqued and discussed within the seminar – and a second, revised proposal, faculty visitors to the seminar will discuss their own processes of writing research proposals and how these imaginary and semi-fictional documents were transformed in and by the field experience. Each week we will read a small selection of key articles on ethnographic theory and practice.

Anthro 250X S006: Advanced Topics in Methodology
Cohen, L		CCN 03194
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Anthropology C261 & Folklore C261: Theories of Narrative (this course is cross-listed)
Young		CCN 31905
Syllabus Katharine Young's CV Suppose you inhabited a reality in which your fellow inhabitants conjured up other realities at will, displaying them before you by acts of narration? "Theories of Narrative" proposes a range of approaches to such conjuring acts in face-to-face, mouth-to-ear, skin-to-skin interaction. The course centers on fast folklore, narrative genres that dissect out into the matrix of the ordinary, that cut to the quick - preeminently, storytelling in conversation - as key to the more durable folk genres - the folktale, the legend, the epic, the myth - genres that change slowly, that hold out against the rhythms of modernity and constitute themselves enclaves of the traditional. Moving across a spectrum of genres, the course examines the formal, structural, and contextual properties of narratives in relation to gestures, the body, and emotion; imagination and fantasy; memory and the senses; space and time. These narratives turn on transmission as well as tradition; they are narratives at work, on the move, in action.

Anthro 280C: South Asia

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Anthro 290 L001: Survey of Anthropological Research
The Staff		CCN 02819
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Anthro 290 L002: Survey of Anthropological Research
The Staff		02822
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