Summer 2006 Courses

Anthro 1: Introduction to Biological Anthropology
Agarwal		CCN 99946
Description: Syllabus Note: Lab sections meet in Heart Gym Basement #20, sections will meet the first week after the first lecture This course examines human anatomy and behavioral biology within an evolutionary context. It is a 6-week intense study, that will include 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 6 hours of lecture and three hours of lab/discussion per week. The course will emphasize lecture, discussion and hands-on lab learning. No prerequisites. Requirements: There will be two exams, weekly evaluated labs and a major book reading assignment. Participation both lectures and in the lab/discussion section is mandatory. Required texts: Essentials of Physical Anthropology. Robert Jurmain, Lynn Kilgore, Wenda Trevathan , 2005, ISBN: 0495030619, and A Photographic Atlas for Physical Anthropology, Brief Edition, 2005 Paul Whitehead , ISBN: 0-89582-668-2

Anthro 3: Introduction to Social Anthropology
Ferme		CCN 99940
This course provides an introduction to aspects of social and cultural anthropology. It considers the changing scope of anthropological research and methodology, including past and present approaches to the field. Some of the principal topics scheduled for discussion include kinship, religion and ritual, forms of political organization, colonialism, continuity and change; and identity (e.g., ethnic, gender, and so on). Students are expected to attend two-hour lectures four days a week and one discussion section per week. Visual materials such as slides and films, visiting lectures, and indepth methodological workshops on research techniques will supplement lectures. REQUIRED TEXTS In addition to a textbook which will serve as a resource and general overview-Conrad Kottak's , Mirror for Humanity: A Concise Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (Fifth Edition)-a reader and the following books are required reading for the class: --Martin, Emily, The Woman in the Body: A Cultural Analysis of Reproduction --Mauss, Marcel, The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies --Todorov, Tzvetan, The Conquest of America: The Question of the Other

Anthro 171: Japan
Okubo		CCN 96874
This course will examine various approaches and topics in the study of Japanese culture and society through reading historical, anthropological, and sociological works on Japan. The course materials cover Japan's social transformation from the Meiji period to contemporary Japan to examine the themes of Japanese identity and Japanese sense of self, imperialism and colonialism, development of state/cultural nationalism, family, social institutions, marginalized voices, globalization, and pop culture. Special attention will be given to the contexts and effects of social transformation, why and how it happens and its outcome on everyday life. To get a better idea of this dynamic, the course spends some time looking inside schools, understanding schools as social institutions where the different social and cultural expectations are contested and negotiated. By examining the effect of social transformation on the educational arena, the course provides a sense of reality of contemporary Japan in concrete settings. Further, through a critical analysis of Japan's historical development, social transformation, and changes in everyday practice, the course provides an understanding of the entwinement of macro-level "structure" and micro-level "agency"/"practice" in Japanese society.

Anthro 172AC: Transnationalism and the Transformation of American Cultures
Delugan		CCN 96874
This course explores new ways of studying diversity and belonging in the United States by examining contexts of transnationalism that draw people within our hemisphere closer together. Through case studies we will analyze transformations of ethnicity, gender, race and national identity accompanying historical and contemporary migrations of people to the United States. Beginning with the earliest African arrivals, through the formation of the national border between the US and Mexico, to contemporary migrations from the Caribbean and Latin America, this course will examine the uneasy placement of Native peoples and new immigrants into national and ethno-racial categories. In addition we will study the transnational practices that increasingly permit the simultaneous maintenance of immigrant ties to original homelands; intercultural exchanges; and the formation of new social communities in the US. Students will reflect on how transnationalism more tightly links the US, Latin America and the Caribbean and how this dynamic transforms contemporary US society.

Session D

Anthro 2: Introduction to Archaeology
Blaisdell-Sloan		CCN 99943
Description:Welcome to Anthropology 2! Over the course of the next six weeks of this course you will learn about the aims, methods and history of archaeology, particularly anthropological archaeology. This means that you will be learning a lot of archaeological concepts, why and how archaeologists do what they do, and what kind of relevance archaeology has for the modern world. While this is not a survey of all of the different societies that we know archaeologically, we will be examining a variety of case studies to illustrate potentials and practicalities of the concepts, methodologies, and theories that we discuss. This course will serve as an excellent foundation if you are interested in participating in excavations and will generally make you an educated consumer of depictions of the past based on archaeological information.

Anthro 121AC: American Material Culture
TBD		96872
Patterns in material culture as it reflects behavioral and psychological aspects of American culture since the 17th century. Topics include architecture, domestic artifacts, mortuary art, foodways and trash disposal. This course will provide the student with a sampling of the diversity of the American (United States) experience as viewed from the archaeologist's and historical anthropologist's perspectives. Because the language of archaeology is material culture, we'll be exploring how people have used crafts, goods, and space to communicate and negotiate identities and relationships with one another in the contexts of colonization, the birth of a new nation, industrialization, and modernization. The experiences of colonizers and colonized, enslaved people, and post-colonial immigrant peoples and their families will be discussed. Due to the breadth and diversity of the material to be covered, the course will have both a loosely chronological and topical structure, but will not adhere formally to either.

Anthro 136I: Archaeology and the Media

Tringham

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96955

*Read this first*

This course satisfies the methods requirement for the undergraduate major in Anthropology.

Syllabus

** Please note that this is a hands-on course that will combine lecture and lab work during the meeting times. Students will need to enroll in both the lecture and lab sections to be admitted to the class. Enrollment is limited and demand is expected to exceed space available.

*** While the schedule of classes description says that this class takes place from 9-12, it does not mention that there is also an addition studio from 1-4pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays at the same location.

Description:
The course will be taught in the ArchaeoCommons Media Center at the San Francisco Presidio Students will learn to critically analyze how mass media (film, TV, Internet, computer games) affect the way in which we view and approach the past. To become fully media literate, students will also create a collaborative short digital movie using iMovie, focusing on the history and resources of the SF Presidio . The content of the course in Summer 2006 will be centered on the public re-presentation of the San Francisco Presidio and other San Francisco heritage sites (including those destroyed during the 1906 earthquake) in the context of the global re-presentation of cultural heritage sites and landscapes. We will take advantage of the proximity of both on-going heritage conservation, field research, and media outreach of the San Francisco Presidio. Students gain experience in constructive critique of existing digital sources (watching many movies!), while at the same time being guided themselves through the digital authoring process (making a 5 minute movie).

Prerequisites: Anthro 2 and/or 3 or equivalent

Anthro 149: Psychological Anthropology
Pitcher		CCN 99927
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Anthro 162AC: Topics in Folklore
Conrad		CCN 99925
Description (For more detail, see the Syllabus): This course seeks to investigate systems of meaning and belief from a Folkloristic/anthropological perspective – focusing on the symbolic, expressive, and performative ways in which we make sense of and give meaning to our day-to-day lives. We will investigate the ways in which these systems of belief and knowledge permeate all layers of society; are hotly contested; and in that contestation, expose as they try to justify, power relations. Focusing primarily, on the American Experience(s), always with an eye to their historical traces, we will interrogate the ways in which these are imbricated and implicated in the discourses on race, nation, and gender.

Field Studies

Anthro 134A: Jomon Hunter-Gatherers in Japan: Field school at the Sannai Maruyama site

Habu

96954

Syllabus - Course Website
This four-week summer program provides an introduction to the field and laboratory methods of the archaeology of prehistoric Jomon hunter-gatherers in Japan. Fieldwork takes place at the Sannai Maruyama site in Aomori Prefecture, northern Japan in collaboration with the Preservation Office of the Sannai Maruyama site (a branch office of the Board of Education of Aomori Prefecture). The site is a large prehistoric settlement dated to the Early and Middle Jomon period (ca. 3900-2300 B.C.). Students will have an opportunity to receive hands-on training in excavation methods and laboratory work, including flotation, classification and identification of faunal and floral remains, and analyses of pottery and stone tools. This field school is part of an on-going research project directed by the instructor.

The total cost for this field school is $4230 for Undergradutes, $4722 for Graduates, and $4500 for Visitors.

For more information on this field school, please see this website.

Anthro 134A: Stone Tools in the American Southwest: Field Practice in Archaeological Petrology

Shackley

96955

Description:
This summers field school is designed to familiarize students with an archaeological view of quarry (stone procurement) sites in the North American Southwest and stone tool technology, by an examination of obsidian, chert, and other volcanic sources used for the last 12,000 years. Through in-the-field classroom and field sessions, students will learn field collection strategies, sampling, mapping the secondary distribution of sources, geological and topographical map reading, and an introduction to the identification of rocks in the field. The course will involve a week or more dry camping in the Jemez Mountains, northern New Mexico, and other trips from the base in Albuquerque, New Mexico. A number of strenuous day-long hikes into stone sources will require good fitness and ability to cope with very warm weather and potentially stormy Southwestern monsoon. Housing will be in the dormitories on the campus of the University of New Mexico, and part of the time we will be camping at Bandelier National Monument in northern New Mexico. Transportation in the field provided. There is a field/lab fee for the course. Strongly suggest previous camping and hiking experience. One text and a course reader. Weekends free to explore the great American Southwest on your own.

Total cost will be $3508 for Undergraduates, $4000 for Graduates, and $3778 for Visitors.