Summer 2007 Courses

Session D July 2-August 10

Anthro 121AC: American Material Culture
Kozakavich		CCN 12095
This course examines material and behavioral patterns of American social life and culture from the 17th century to the present, employing archaeological and historical approaches to goods and commodities, landscape, foodways, and architecture as they participated in constructing and communicating American identities. Students encounter the diversity of past American experiences through lecture, reading, and discussion of examples considering Native-American, African-American, Asian-American, and Euro-American peoples in rural and urban contexts.

 

Anthro 149: Psychological Anthropology
Giordano		CCN 12135
Had Freud been trained in India, would he have diagnosed Dora as hysteric? Or would other philosophies of mental health and therapy have influenced his diagnosis? This course introduces students to the field of psychological anthropology. In this course, we will explore the ways in which subjective experience is influenced by culture. Through the study of different systems of knowledge and understandings of normality and pathology, illness and healing, self and culture, we will ask such questions as: what is the relation between self and society? Are emotions culturally patterned? How do different cultures define illness and healing? How are different ways of expressing and experiencing suffering influenced by culture? How do different experiences of the body and emotions shape what individuals come to recognize as culture? In what ways are notions of culture produced within different therapeutic settings? Is cross-cultural psychological analysis possible, and if so, how? To reflect upon these questions, in readings and lectures we will explore anthropological, ethno-psychiatric, and psychoanalytic approaches to emotions and culture, possession and altered states, magic, transitional experiences, subjectivity and transference, personhood, the psychology of colonization, and the normal and the pathological.

 

Anthro 162AC: Myth, Magic, and Healing
Conrad		CCN 12140
This course seeks to investigate systems of meaning and belief from Folkloristic/anthropological perspectives, 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.

 

Anthro 115: Introduction to Medical Anthropology
Roebuck		CCN 12065
Syllabus Course Description: This intensive, three week, upper division undergraduate course in critical medical anthropology explores humans as simultaneously biological, social, cultural, and symbolic beings. It is concerned with questions of theoretical and applied significance, and with research that is of relevance to medicine and the biological sciences as well as to anthropology. Therefore, this class is suitable for undergraduate majors in anthropology and related disciplines and for pre-med students. The course provides a comparative perspective on the body, illness, disability, and other forms of human affliction, and on healing in societies ranging from highland New Guinea, central Africa, Asia, Brazil, Europe and the United States. Biomedicine is treated as one among many efficacious systems of medical knowledge, power, and healing. Lectures will treat topics including sorcery, witchcraft and magic; the efficacy of symbols; the relations among mind, body, self and society; the cultural shaping of emotions, pain, suffering; madness and civilization; the impact of gender, class, and race in disease; the social meanings of illness; power/knowledge and medical practice; the political economy of sickness and of health in global perspective. Medical anthropology provides a critical lens on the ways that people (as individuals and as populations) live, suffer, sicken, and die. It explores paths towards reaching a goal of, if not "health for all" (the utopian WHO premise) at least, "less death for the many." Week one introduces the field of medical anthropology and comparative medical systems through an anthropology of the mindful body; Week two deals with the personal, social, cultural and moral meanings and experience of illnesses and epidemics and of healing. Week three treats poverty, hunger, sickness and premature death in the so-called "developing" world ending with a unit on medicine and human rights and a manifesto for liberation medicine via the engaged research, doctoring, and political vision of the anthropologist/ physician, Dr. Paul Farmer. Requirements: Three exams. Two in-class exams and a three hour final exam, weekly critical reaction papers in response to the assigned readings ; two 8-10 page field research assignments (an illness narrative; a mini health ethnography), group work and class exercises in addition to participation in a discussion group.

Field Studies

Anthro 134A: Field Methods in Archaeology, Japan
Habu
Syllabus Application Course Homepage 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. Prerequisites: It is preferred that students have successfully completed Anthropology 2 (Introduction to Archaeology) or its equivalent at other institutions, but it is not required. The ability to communicate in Japanese is ideal, but not necessary. Qualifications: Field school participants are expected to be well organized and punctual. Since the excavation will be conducted in collaboration with Japanese archaeologists and local employees of the Preservation Office of the Sannai Maruyama Site, we expect our students to respect cultural traditions, customs and rules of these people (see below for more information). Certain restrictions will apply for evening and weekend free time activities to avoid cultural problems (see below). Textbooks: (1) Habu, Junko, 2004: Ancient Jomon of Japan. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. (2) Hester, T. R., H. J. Shafer and K. L. Feder, 1997: Field Methods in Archaeology. Mayfield Publishing Company, Mountain View, CA. (In addition, several articles on Japanese archaeology and field/lab methods will be assigned as course readings. Read them before the field school starts.) Evaluation: 1) Participation in field and lab work, meetings and house chores 40% 2) Field journal entries (10%) and daily summaries (10%) 20% 3) Mid-term and final exam (20% x 2) 40%

Anthro 134A: Field Methods in California Archaeology, Fort Ross
Lightfoot
Application This course is an introduction to the basic principles of archaeological field methods. The course will be taught off campus at the Fort Ross State Historic Park, a three hour drive north of the Berkeley campus on the scenic Sonoma County coastline. Students will participate in an on-going field research project involving the study of prehistoric and historic Native Californian sites in the nearby hinterland of Fort Ross,a mercantile colony established by the Russians in the early nineteenth century (1812-1841). The Fort Ross research project is a collaborative effort involving participants from the California Department of Parks and Recreation, the Kashaya Pomo tribe, and the University of California, Berkeley.In addition, field work will also be undertaken at China Camp State Park (and possibly Tomales Bay State Park). The purpose of the China Camp work will be to record and study late prehistoric and early historic Native American sites, especially shell mounds and other kinds of archaeological sites. Students will receive training in survey techniques designed to detect archaeological materials in the field;in methods for recording and mapping archaeological materials; and in strategies for recovering archaeological remains through systematic surface collection and limited subsurface testing.The ultimate goal of the field work at Fort Ross State Historic Park is the development of an interpretive trail detailing the culture history of the Kashaya Pomo tribe and their encounters with the Russian colony of Fort Ross. Lectures will also be given on the ethics of collaborative archaeological field research. Students will work with Kashaya Pomo elders and tribal scholars in the development and refinement of an interpretative master plan for the trail. Collaborative work will also take place with the Sacred Sites Protection Committee concerning Coast Miwok archaeology and the Native people of the Marin Peninsula as part of the field work at China Camp State Park. Dates: July 2 to August 3, 2007 Instructor: Professor Kent Lightfoot, Department of Anthropology, 232 Kroeber Hall, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-3710 Note: Students will stay at a field camp in the Fort Ross State Historic Park. Students may also be camping in the China Camp State Park. Each student will be charged a fee of $575 to cover the costs of establishing the field camp, hiring a cook,buying food and supplies, and covering field charges (SEE APPLICATION FORM FOR DETAILS). Prerequistes: Anthro 2 (Introduction to Archaeology) required and permission of instructor.All students must fill out an application form. Upon acceptance, students will be provided with the course control number required to register for the course. Application Deadline:April 27, 2007. Applications are available as a link from this web site, or can be obtained at the Anthropology Department, 232 Kroeber Hall.

Anthro 134A: Stone Tool Sources of the American Southwest: Field Practice in Archaeological Petrology, New Mexico
Shackley
This summer field school is designed to familiarize students with an archaeological view of quarry (stone procurement) sites and stone tool technology in the North American Southwest, by a field examination of obsidian, chert, and other volcanic sources used for the last 13,000 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 the potentially stormy Southwestern monsoon. Housing will be in the dormitories on the campus of the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, and part of the time we will be camping at Bandelier National Monument in northern New Mexico. Transportation in the field provided. Field visits to Paleoindian and Pueblo period sites, and lectures by earth scientists and archaeologists from UNM and Los Alamos National Lab included. Weekends free to explore the great American Southwest on your own. Principal Faculty: Professor M. Steven Shackley, PhD Arizona State University geoarchaeological science, analytical chemistry, lithic technology, obsidian studies, preceramic Southwest (http://www.swxrflab.net/); shackley@berkeley.edu Graduate Student Instructor: Celeste Henrickson, MA Washington State University, Doctoral student, UCB geomorphology, ceramic ethnography, hunter-gatherers, northwest Mexico; celestenicole@berkeley.edu Required texts: (1) Obsidian: Geology and Archaeology in the North American Southwest. University of Arizona Press. At UC Bookstore; (2) course reader available in New Mexico on the first day of class. Required of you: You are required to participate in all lectures and field projects. You are required to keep a field journal of your notes, observations, mapping, and other observations. These will be turned in every Friday and we will make comments and return them to you. You will be mainly evaluated on keeping your journal updated. The content is not as important as making consistent observations. There will be a non-graded" final exam" at the end to evaluate what you've learned for future field classes. There is one text and a reader. Prerequistes: Sophomore standing or above, Anthro 2 or equivalent, field camping experience required. Instructor approval required. Admission to the course is competitive and limited. Application and Enrollment : Submit the questionnaire (available at http://www.swxrflab.net/fieldschool.htm, or at 209 Kroeber Hall) to Professor Shackley. The form may be emailed, sent postal mail, or hand delivered. Early application is advised since enrollment is limited. Upon acceptance, students will be provided with the course control number required for registration. Ancipated cost to students: There is a $1500.00 field/lab fee for the course (may change depending on enrollment) This fee covers housing,incidentals and transportation in the field. Meals and transportation to New Mexico are the student's responsibility. Course fee of $1326.00.

Anthro 134A: The Archaeology of Slavery and Abolition, Virginia and New York
Wilkie
This course will be a multi-sited field school for the summer of 2007, with a start date in the first half of June, and lasting for six weeks. Students enrolled in the course will excavate for three weeks in Virginia, at Bacon's Castle slave quarter, and for three weeks at the Matilda Gage housesite in upstate New York (near Syracuse), giving the students to experience excavation at the homes of enslaved African Americans and the home of a white abolitionist that also served as a stop on the underground railroad. This is an absolutely unique opportunity in all of historical archaeology. Students will learn archaeological survey, mapping, excavation and basic artifact analysis techniques. There will be field trips to other locally significant sites incorporated into each portion of the field school. Anticipated costs to students: Students will be charged for tuition (6 units) and a separate fee to cover food and housing and daily transportation to sites (currently estimated at $1500 per student for the 6 weeks) and will be expected to cover their own travel to the sites. In the past, summer sessions financial aid packages have covered these additional expenses for some students. Site details: Gage House: This portion of the field school will take place at the site of the Matilda Joslyn Gage House, a historical house museum located in Fayetteville, New York. Gage was actively involved in the abolition and woman suffrage movements during the latter half of the nineteenth century, and excavations will focus on a sheet midden and other yard features associated with this activist household ca. 1854-1898, conducted as part of the ongoing restoration of the house and property. Students will learn basic area excavation, data recording, mapping, historical research, and laboratory techniques, in addition to the interpretation of methods and findings to and interaction with the non-archaeologist public. Research emphasis will be placed on the inter-relatedness of sociopolitical reform movements in the region (such as abolition and the Underground Railroad, woman's rights and suffrage, Native American sovereignty, and freethought), the household as locus of political action, public archaeology, and archaeology's use in informing interpretations at heritage sites. Field trips will be undertaken to historic house museums and sites of archaeological research related to the network of activists in the Central New York region during this period. Such sites may include: the Harriet Tubman Home and William H. Seward Home (Auburn, NY); the Gerrit Smith Estate(Peterboro); the Jerry Rescue site (Syracuse); and the Women's Rights National Historical Park (Seneca Falls) which includes the homes of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the M'Clintock family. Bacon's Castle Plantation Slave Quarter, Surry County, Virginia: Research at this site consists of an interdisciplinary study of the 19th century enslaved community at Bacon's castle. During this historic period there were as many as 80 enslaved African Americans living and working on this site, as well as being hired out for skilled labor. The Hankins family owned this plantation during the majority of the 19th century, and their family papers are located in the Virginia Historical Society. In the summer of 2007, I plan to finish the phase I archaeological survey that was abandoned in the late 1970s, which exposed evidence of multiple 19th century dwellings near the standing quarter, and a back-filled well. Portions of the original 19th century quarter still stand in the north yard of the plantation, and the phase I will continue in that area. The main goal of the 2007 field season will be to locate and partially excavate the 19th century slave Quarter, analyze, and interpret all artifacts and features, as well as the historical records. Approaching this site with the multiple perspectives gained from History, African Diaspora Studies, Religion, Gender Studies, Architecture, and Anthropology will provide a distinctive analysis of slavery and resistance in Antebellum Virginia. Traditional research topics such as foodways, lifestyle, clothing, labor (both hired out and on site), housing, health, agriculture, religion, family, birth control/gender, class, resistance, and leisure, will be addressed in the research design.