102 ANTHROPOLOGY: HUMAN ORIGINS AND CULTURE (4
hrs)
Professor Steve Leigh Office: 393 Davenport Hall; PH: 244-3503
Instructor Missy Loyet Office: #2 Spurlock; PH: 265-0471
This course is a basic introduction to the aims, methods and results of archaeological and physical anthropological research into human origins and human physical, biological and cultural evolution. Topics include the nature of evolution, our primate ancestors, becoming human, human variation, the origin of technology and tools use, the origin and evolution of language and art, domestication of plants and animals, and the rise of early civilizations. Lectures are geared towards introducing students to the basic concepts of the discipline; discussion sections clarify the approaches used and permit discussion of the topics under review. In addition to a midterm and a final exam, quizzes will be given in discussion sections.
REQUIRED TEXTS:
Jolly, C.J. and R. White. Physical Anthropology and Archaeology. 5th Edition. Alfred A. Knopf Publishers, New York.
Lewin, R.
Human Evolution: An Illustrated Introduction. Third Edition. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Boston.
Gonick, L.
Cartoon History of the Universe, Volume 2. Sticks and Stones. Rip-Off Press, San Francisco.
*THIS COURSE
FULFILLS THE SOCIAL PERSPECTIVES GEN. ED. REQ.
103 INTRODUCTION
TO CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY
Professor Alejandro Lugo Office: 385 Davenport Hall; PH: 333-0823
Cultural Anthropology is the study of the various ways in which contemporary peoples create and are created by cultural processes. Cultural anthropologists have contributed to such a study by writing ethnographies which are based on fieldwork and on the comparative analysis of different societies from around the world. Thanks to its unique approaches, cultural anthropology offers a broad perspective on a wide range of important social issues such as language, gender, ethnicity, religion, identity, marriage, sexuality, economic systems, ecology, and politics—all from a cross-cultural perspective.
Understanding these vital areas of human life is critical because their social consequences influence, ultimately, the well being of all human beings, especially in the multiethnic and multicultural world that we now inhabit. Consequently, this course 1) should help students understand and appreciate cultural variation in time and space; 2) should enhance their awareness of and sensibility to cultural diversity and culture change; and, finally, 3) should help them develop interpretive skills to better grasp the variety of socio-cultural phenomena with which we are all confronted today.
*THIS COURSE
FULFILLS THE SOCIAL PERSPECTIVES GEN. ED. REQ.
103 INTRODUCTION
TO CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY (DISCOVERY)
Professor Mahir
Saul Office: 309J Davenport Hall; PH: 244-3502
This course
introduces students to a variety of the peoples in the world and the concepts
and methods anthropologists use to understand them. Particular attention will be paid to current debates about the
nature of tradition in light of the globalizing forces that touch even the most
remote societies. Students will read
both classical and new anthropological works, and, through discussion and
debate of those readings, address the crucial social phenomena of this century:
race and racism, ethnicity, nationalism and ethnic conflict, the changing
nature of kinship units and families, colonialism and political independence,
the problems of economic development, the force of religion in social life, and
translocal groups, networks, and ideas in the past and in the present.
*THIS COURSE
FULFILLS THE SOCIAL PERSPECTIVES GEN.ED.REQ.
105 INTRODUCTORY
WORLD ARCHAEOLOGY. (3hrs.)
Professor Tim
Pauketat Office: 123 Davenport Hall, PH:
244-8818
pauketat@uiuc.edu
Discusses the basic
philosophy and methods of archaeology, provides an introductory survey of
archaeological excavations and discoveries in the Near East, Asia, Europe, and
the Americas, with an emphasis on understanding how change happened in the
unwritten periods of human history. Beginning nearly four million years ago,
topics include King Tut's tomb, Stonehenge, Viking contacts with the Americas,
Cahokia and the mound builders, and the search for America's pre-Columbian
civilizations. This course is planned for non-Anthropology majors, and is meant
to appeal to students who have always had an interest in archaeology and the
past. The course is primarily a survey of archaeological finds around the
world. However, the course is also unique, for the students each have a chance
to excavate a simulated site of their very own. This "Dig" and a
"garbology" project constitute the written assignments for this
class. There are also several quizzes and two one-hour exams.
TEXTS: Images of the Past, by T. Price and G.
Feinman, Mayfield Publishing Company
*THIS COURSE FULFILLS
THE HISTORICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES GEN. ED. REQ.
143 BIOLOGICAL
BASES OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR. (3hrs.)
Professor Brian
Richmond Office: 189
Davenport Hall Ph: 333-3676
What makes us act
the way we do? Is our behavior a
product more of our biology or our upbringing?
In this course, we critically consider current controversies and ideas
on the origin and development of human behavior, and the extent to which human
behavior is influenced by ënatureí versus ënurtureí. We investigate the bases of human behavior by drawing on evidence
from the evolutionary record (primate and human evolution), comparative
ethology (especially non-human primates), neuroanatomy and psychology. Specific topics include hormones and
reproduction, growth & development, sociobiology, genetic bases of
behavior, language, the human brain, intelligence, and the evolution of human
behavior. The course should be of
interest to students in a wide variety of disciplines including biological and
social sciences and humanities as well as anyone interested in the study of
human behavior.
Sussman, R.W.
(1999) The Biological Basis of Human Behavior: A Critical Review. Upper Saddle
River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall. 382pp.
Garber, P.A. and
Leigh, S. (1999) Readings in the Biological Bases of Human Behavior. Fourth
Edition. Needham Heights, MA: Pearson Custom Publishing.
*THIS COURE
FULFILLS THE LIFE SCIENCES GEN. ED. REQ.
150 NOVEL
ARCHAEOLOGY (DISCOVERY).
(3hrs.)
Professor Olga Soffer Office: 309 Davenport Hall, PH: 333-2100
o-soffer@uiuc edu
This course is designed for non-anthropology majors and is a survey course of prehistory as seen through the eyes of novelists, science fiction writers, videos, and films. In this course we will learn something about what happened in the past - during roughly 2,500,000 years of our prehistory, as well as examine the interface between fact and fiction and the present and the past. Course requirements include reading a lot of novels, viewing films, as well as active participation in the class discussions. Exams include a midterm and a final as well as a term paper/project.
TENTATIVE TEXTS:
Auel, J. The Mammoth Hunters. New York:
Crown Publishing.
Bishop, M. Ancient of Days. New York: T. Doherty
Assoc.
Christie, A. Murder in Mesopotamia. New York:
Dell Publishing.
Fagan, B.M. World Prehistory. IVth ed. Little, Brown
and Co.
Gear, W.M. and K. Gear PEOPLE OF THE RIVER, New York: Tor
Kurten, B. Dance of the Tiger. Berkeley: University of California.
Michner, J. The Source. New York: Fawcett
paperbacks.
Von Daniken,
E. Chariots of the Gods. Berkeley:
Berkeley paperbacks.
*THIS COURSE
FULFILLS THE HISTORICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES GEN. ED. REQ.
179 CULTURE AND
ECOLOGY IN HUMAN HEALTH (3HRS)
Professor Linda
Klepinger Office 209G
Davenport Hall, PH: 244-3513
An overview of changing patterns of health and illness in human
societies from prehistory to the present.
The course emphasizes the relationships between culture, demography,
environment, and disease patterns, with examples from western and non-western
societies. It introduces alternative
culture theories of health and illness and differing health cares systems.
TEXTS:
Cohen, M.N., Health and the Rise of Civilization, 1989, Yale Univ. Press
Desowitz, R., New Guinea Tapeworms and Jewish Grandmothers, Norton
Dettwyler, Katherine, Dancing Skeletons: Life & Death in West
Africa. 1994 Waveland Press
One of the following books will be used:
Shem, Samuel, The House of God, Dell
Desowitz, R., The Malaria
Capers, Norton.
182 PEOPLES AND
CULTURES OF SOUTH AMERICA (4
hrs.)
Professor Arlene
Torres Office: 383
Davenport Hall, PH: 244-3511
This course will
examine the peoples and cultures of South America in historical and
contemporary perspectives. We begin with the colonial history of the region
which reveals enduring themes and issues central to the understanding of Latin
America today. Through case studies, guest lectures, accompanying articles, and
visual media, we will explore, contrast, and compare aspects of different
cultures from the diverse regions of this vast continent. Areas of exploration
will include indigenous and/or
Afro_Latin peoples of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador,
Peru and Venezuela. Cultural themes being examined will be colonialism, gender,
ethnicity, nationalism, political_economy through ritual and festivity.
*THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE NON-WESTERN
CULTURES GEN. ED. REQ.
186 SOUTHEAST
ASIAN CIVILIZATIONS. (3hrs.)
Professor F.K. Lehman Office:
209H Davenport Hall, PH:
333-8423
f-lehman@uiuc.edu
Same as AS ST 186 and HIST 172
This is essentially an institutional history of the lowland civilizations of Mainland and Island Southeast Asia, with a strong anthropological orientation as its analytical/explanatory basis. It deals chiefly with the histories of the Indianized and Sinicized States in the context of the Indian Ocean-China Sea trade, the institutional history of Buddhism and Hinduism in the region, and the development of regional systems of monarchy and their local variations. It deals at length with the rise and development of regional and national cultures in these states, and the effects of Western Colonialism and the rise of new nations.
TEXT:
The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia,
Vol. I, Cambridge U Press.
*THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE NON-WESTERN
CULTURES & HISTORICAL & PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES GEN. ED. REQ.
209 FOOD, CULTURE AND SOCIETY (3 hrs.)
Professor Martin
Manalansan Office: 309C
Davenport Hall, PH; 244-3500
As American as apple pie!
Let’s have a coffee break.
I can’t eat any more – I have to
fit into a bikini this summer.
A Thanksgiving dinner without
turkey – impossible!
You have not eaten French haute
cuisine? Oh you poor thing!
You can’t be friends with them –
they eat dogs!
Food is part of our
daily life. More importantly, food goes
beyond providing nutrition and biological sustenance. Food establishes relationships, meanings and practices that revolve
around family, kinship, religion, gender, class, ethnic, national and other
collective identities. It marks
routine, important life events and special holidays. Food influences how we see ourselves against others. It is a medium for creating intimacy and for
discriminating against people.
The course
introduces students to the anthropological and sociological study of food in
order to better understand how food practices, culinary cultures and dietary
rules are embedded in our individual and collective memories, desires, and
struggles. Some of the themes to be
explored in this class include: cookbooks and cooking shows; diet and gender;
ethnic foods; haute cuisine and class inequalities; religion and food taboos;
cannibalism, fast-foods and nationalism; McDonaldization and globalization; and
world hunger.
Selected Required Texts:
Carol Counihan and
Penny van Esterik. (eds.) 1997. Food and Culture. New York: Routledge.
Sutton, David.
2001. Remembrance of Repasts: An Anthropology of Food and Memory. New
York: Berg Publishers.
Weismantel, Mary.
1988. Food Gender, and Poverty in the Ecuadorian Andes. Philadelphia:
University of Pennsylvania Press.
*THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE SOCIAL PERSPECTIVES GEN. ED. REQ.
220INTRODUCTION TO ARCHAEOLOGY
(3hrs)
Professor Barry Lewis Office: 209f Davenport
Hall, PH: 244-3501
This course
provides an introduction to theory and methods in archaeological research, data
collection, and analysis. The objective
is to familiarize the student with the strategies that are employed in the
investigation of archaeological remains and how these strategies further the
aims of an anthropological archaeology.
Grades will be based on 2 in-class exams, 2 section quizzes, and
weekly assignments.
Required texts:
Colin Renfrew &
Paul Bahn (2000) Archaeology: Theories, Methods, and Practice. 3rd edition. Thames & Hudson.
Other assigned
articles will be on e-reserves in the Undergrad Library.
243 NATURAL
HISTORY & SOCIAL BEHAVIOR OF THE GREAT APES (3 hrs.)
Instructor: TBA
This course
examines the social organization, mating patterns, feeding ecology and behavior
of free-ranging chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans. Lecture material is presented in a
historical perspective and focuses on topics such as social cooperation, mating
strategies, inter-and intrasexual social interactions, infanticide, tool use,
diet, food sharing, group structure, reproductive behavior and cognition, and
the appropriateness of the living great apes as models for understanding human
behavior and evolution..
Prerequisites: Anth. 102, 143, 240 or an equivalent course
in animal behavior. There will be a
midterm exam, class presentation and a final examination.
260 PEOPLES OF
THE WORLD: INTRODUCTION TO ETHNOGRAPHY (3 hrs.)
Professor F.K.
Lehman Office: 209H Davenport Hall, PH: 244-8423
This course serves
as an introduction to the classical and more recent forms of ethnography, the
descriptive and analytical literature First,
it is intended to give anthropology students an introduction to the
range of actual/possible cultural and social systems, as a basis for understanding
what it is that anthropological theory is supposed to account for. Secondly, it
is intended as an introduction to the development of theory and method on the
basis of the history of how field work has been done and reported. Finally, it
is intended to show how the development of how ethnography is done has depended
upon the development of theory and upon the nature of the main issues and
problems, both theoretical and pragmatic that anthropologists have been
concerned with at different periods. The materials presented will be chiefly books
and monographs, but some use will also be made of ethnographic films.
*THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE SOCIAL PERSPECTIVES GEN. ED. REQ.
268 IMAGES OF THE “OTHER”
ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES (3 hrs.)
Professor Alma Gottlieb Office: 386C Davenport Hall; PH: 244-3515
Are racism, sexism, and other stereotypical ideologies of "the
Other" inevitable and universal, or do they have local histories and
alternatives? In comparing a broad
array of images of "the Other," the course will challenge you to
interrogate the cultural and historical foundations of the widespread
ideologies that define "other" populations. We deliberately examine many kinds of "other"
groups--as defined by ethnicity, "race," gender, health, religion and
other factors. In taking a broad sweep
both historically and cross-culturally, the course aims to demonstrate the
contingent nature of ideologies of "other" groups, and their
embeddedness in social institutions ranging from family structure and religion
to economy and polity.
The course is divided into six
sections. In the first part, we will
explore three conceptual orientations that will help us theorize notions of
"the Other." In the second
section, we will survey a small selection of mainstream Western images of
"other" groups from classic Greek times to late nineteenth century
Europe and the U.S. In the third part,
we will bring that study of Western images of "the Other" up to the
contemporary era. In the fourth
section, we will reverse our gaze to look at Western social traditions as
"Other"--from the viewpoints of a variety of selected non-Western
peoples during the era of European colonialism. In the fifth section, we will bring that study of non-Western
peoples' images of "the Other" into the contemporary era. In the sixth part we conclude our
intellectual odyssey and stand back to compare where we have been and what we
have learned.
All students will do a variety
of written assignments and will keep a running diary of how images of various
"others" operate in the popular media.
Readings will include a course pack of articles plus the following books
(tentative list):
William O'Barr, Culture & the Ad
Robert Murphy, The Body Silent
Marshall Sahlins, Historical Metaphors and Mythical Realities
Keith Basso, Portraits of the "Whiteman"
Prerequisites: a prior course in cultural anthropology or one of the
other social sciences would be helpful.
**THIS COURSE SATISFIES THE COMP II REQUIREMENT.
*THIS COURSE
FULFILLS HISTORICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES, COMPARATIVE WESTERNA ND
NON-WESTERN CULTURE AND COMP. II FOR GEN ED. REQ.
270 INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY
(3 hrs.)
Professor Janet Keller Office:
395H Davenport Hall, PH: 333-3529
This course
provides an in-depth introduction to the subfield of linguistic anthropology,
and examines the dynamic intersections between language, self, culture and
society. We explore language and
identity; language and mind; language and culture; discourse, power and performance
in social interaction and just talk.
Students will be introduced to a variety of theoretical approaches;
learn basic analytical procedures, and have opportunities to apply these to
problems. This course may be taken as a
standard offering (270) or for COMP II credit (271).
Texts are still
under consideration and will be assigned in conjunction with selected readings
made available through reserve or xerox.
Prerequisites:
None, but ANTH 104 recommended.
**THIS COURSE
SATISFIES THE COMP I REQUIREMENT FOR UNDERGRADUATES
271 INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY
(ADVANCED COMPOSITION)
(3hrs.)
Professor Janet Keller Office: 395 Davenport Hall, PH: 333-3529
jdkeller@uiuc.edu
This course
provides an in-depth introduction to the subfield of linguistic anthropology,
and examines the dynamic intersections between language, self, culture and
society. We explore language and
identity; language and mind; language and culture; discourse, power and
performance in social interaction and just talk. Students will be introduced to a variety of theoretical
approaches; learn basic analytical procedures, and have opportunities to apply
these to problems. This course may be
taken as a standard offering (270) or for COMP II credit (271).
Texts are still
under consideration and will be assigned in conjunction with selected readings
made available through reserve or xerox.
Prerequisites:
None, but ANTH 104 recommended.
**THIS COURSE SATISFIES THE COMP II REQUIREMENT FOR UNDERGRADUATES
277 ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON CITIES &
THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT (3hrs.)
(Honors Section)
Professor Helaine
Silverman Office:
295 Davenport Hall, PH: 333-1315
Cities have existed for thousands of years. In this course we examine the evolution of cities from earliest
times through the present and into the future.
The course is set up in lecture-discussion form. There are three small field projects in town
that are conducted with the professor. Several feature-length films will be
shown. There are no exams. Students will be graded on the basis of five written
assignments.
*THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE WESTERN & SOCIAL SCIENCES GEN ED. REQ.
318 ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCH DESIGN. (3hrs.)
Professor R. Barry Lewis Office: 209F Davenport Hall; PH: 244-3501
blewis@uiuc.edu
This course
examines the basic principles of research design. It is aimed at undergraduate and graduate students in cultural
anthropology, biological anthropology, and archaeology. Topics to be covered include research
ethics, different approaches to framing questions and designing research,
proposal writing, sampling, the design of questionnaires and other kinds of
data collection forms, data collection techniques, and general problems of
measuring quantitative and qualitative data in anthropological research.
An important
component of Anth 318 is for the student to select a research problem, design
an approach to solve the problem, and execute the data collection
portion of the design. The research
project will count for 35% of the final grade. There
also will be homework assignments worth 35% of your grade and two
essay-type take-home exams worth a total of 30%. An introductory statistics
course is no longer a prerequisite of Anth 318.
Anth 318 or Anth
353 qualify you to apply for the department's NSF Ethnographic Research
Training Fellowship.
Required texts:
Bailey, Kenneth D.
(1994) Methods of Social Research. 4th edition. Free Press, NY.
Institutional
Review Board. (1995) Handbook for Investigators: For the Protection of Human
Subjects in Research. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
(copies will be distributed in class or made available on-line)
Gould, Stephen J.
(1996) The Mismeasure of Man. Rev. edition. W.W. Norton, NY (#24 on the Modern Library's "100 Best
Nonfiction Books of the 20th Century").
Other assigned
articles will be on e-reserves in the Undergrad Library.
Recommended: Unobtrusive Measures, by
Eugene Webb et al. (1999) Revised Edition.
Sage, Thousand Oaks, CA.
321 SOCIAL ORGANIZATION AND STRUCTURE (3 hrs. or 1 unit)
Professor Mahir Saul Office: 309J Davenport Hall; PH: 244-3502
This course deals
with fundamental issues of social structure.
It is organized loosely chronologically, moving from classical British
Social Anthropology to French Structuralism and then to interpretive approaches
and recent American developments. The
emphasis, however, is on basic ideas and their applications rather than the
history of the field. The core of each
class session consists of discussion about the assigned reading. The course grade is based upon three short
take-home examination papers. The texts
will be photocopied articles and excerpts.
327 ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE INCAS (3 hrs. or 1 unit)
Professor Helaine Silverman Office: 295 Davenport Hall; PH: 333-1315
The Incas were the culmination of cultural development in Ancient Peru. This course examines the Inca Empire and the great pre-Inca states so as to understand how the Incas built on ancient Andean patterns of statecraft and how they modified these. Throughout the course we will try to identify the distinctly Andean features that define these societies. Lectures will be illustrated with slides.
The requirements for undergraduates are a midterm and final exam.
Graduate students will read extensively from a large bibliography and do a take-home exam.
328 NORTH AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGY (3 hrs. or 3/4 or 1 unit)
Professor Tim Pauketat Office: 123 Davenport Hall; PH: 244-8818
This course
presents a contemporary understanding of the pre-Columbian and early contact
era culture histories and social landscapes north of Mesoamerica. Lectures,
activities, discussions, and readings review all portions of the continent from
pre-PaleoIndian to later sedentary, warring, and agricultural peoples.
Particular regions and time periods contribute differentially to an
understanding of theoretical issues. Thus, this course is more than a survey.
It looks at specific regions of North America to help understand specific
problems in archaeology: Poverty Point and Chaco Canyon and the co-optation of
community by polity, Paquime and the limits of Mesoamerican imperial control,
the Thule expansion and cultural adaptation, Coles Creek and the transmission
of culture, Cahokia's collapse and the genesis of the Plains tribes, European
missions and plantations and the "resistance" of native and African
cultures. Sites and artifacts are reviewed in class to help understand the ways
that material culture and space embody such processes of change. Field trips to
museums and sites round out the experiential component of the class. There are
weekly lab or take-home assignments and two exams.
TEXTS: Ancient North America, by Brian Fagan (3rd
edition), course-pack.
*THIS COURSE
FULFILLS THE HISTORICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES GEN. ED. REQ.
343 INTRODUCTION TO PRIMATE MORPHOLOGY AND BEHAVIOR (3 hrs. 3/4 or 1 unit)
Instructor: TBA Please contact the department at 333-3616
Survey of primate social behavior and the classification, morphology, and distribution of living and extinct species; emphasis on interrelationships among behavior, biology, and ecology.
Prerequisite: ANTH 240 or EEE 246; or consent of instructor.
351 ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEYING: TECHNIQUES AND APPLICATIONS (3 hrs. or 1 unit)
Instructor TBA. Please contact the department at 333-3616
Familiarization with methods used in the location and recording of archaeological sites, including techniques of mapping especially adapted to the needs of archaeology; attention given to means of presenting results and interpreting data derived from this work; and work both in the field and in the laboratory.
Prerequisite: Anth 102 or consent of instructor.
356
HUMAN OSTEOLOGY. (3 hrs. or 1 unit)
Professor Linda Klepinger Office: 209G Davenport
Hall, PH: 244-3513
klepinge@uiuc.edu
Identification of human skeletal material
and basic techniques of measurement; morphological methods of assessing age at
death, sex, ancestry and stature from the human skeleton. Exams include five lab quizzes, one lab
final and one written final. No paper.
TEXT:
Bass, William M., Human Osteology, Columbia:
Missouri Archaeological Society.
Recommended: Steele and Bramblett, The Anatomy and Biology of the Human Skeletal,
Texas A & M University Press.
366 CLASS, CULTURE AND SOCIETY (3
hrs.)
Professor Arlene
Torres Office: 383 Davenport Hall, PH: 244-3511
This course examines anthropological studies of work, class, and gender in variety of sociohistorical and modern contexts. It addresses debates about the salience of class, particularly when we consider the global and (U.S. national) transformation of labor; the racialization, ethnicization and feminization of the manufacturing industry; and the importance of consumption. The course begins with an examination of slave, indentured, and free labor. We will then examine how these labor patterns were examined and interpreted by various theorists in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. As such we will examine classical theories of class and how they inform contemporary theories about the gendered, racial and cultural dimensions of class via our critical analysis of ethnographic work.
Brice Heath, Shirley Ways with words: language, life, and work in communities and classrooms. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983.
Centro de Estudios Puertorriquenos Centro Journal Special Issue on Chicago 2002
Davis, Lloyd and Paul Thomas (ed.) Culture and the State Routledge 1998.
Gewertz Deborah and Frederick K. Errington Emerging class in Papua New Guinea: the telling of difference. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Joyce, Patrick (ed) Class. Oxford University Press1995.
Lamming, George In the Castle of My Skin (with an introd. by Richard Wright) New York: Collier Books, 1970, c1953
Lewis, Earl In their own interests: race, class, and power in twentieth-century Norfolk, Virginia. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991.
Martinez-Vergne Teresita Shaping the discourse on space: charity and its wards in nineteenth-century San Juan, Puerto Rico. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1999. And/or Eileen Suarez-Findlay Imposing decency: the politics of sexuality and race in Puerto Rico, 1870-1920. Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 1999.
McCarthy, Cameron The Uses of Culture. New York: Routledge, 1998. Whalen, Carmen From Puerto Rico to Philadelphia: Puerto Rican workers and postwar economies. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2001.
Willis, Paul Learning to labour: how working class kids get working class jobs. Columbia University Press, 1977.
Additional readings will provided as well.
367 CULTURES OF AFRICA (3 hrs.)
Professor Mahir Saul Office: 309J Davenport Hall; PH: 244-3502
This course is an introduction to the populations of Sub-Saharan
Africa. The readings will illustrate
the diversity of social, political, and economic systems of Africa as well as
the different style of research. They
will include works considered classic as well as more recent writings.
There will also be a packet of photocopied articles
371 ETHNOGRAPHY THROUGH LANGUAGE (3
hrs.)
Professor Janet
Keller Office: 395 Davenport Hall; PH: 333-3529
This is a course in
ethnography focusing on how cultural processes are revealed in language and
speech. We will review a number of
ethnographic works that use linguistic data (each in a different way) to
illustrate sociocultural processes and advance theoretical frameworks. Although the class focuses on language, the
intent is not to privilege this aspect of human symbolic capacities but rather
to illustrate its potential as a resource for anthropologists studying matters
well beyond the strict domain of linguistics.
Language is increasingly used as a tool by ethnographers to investigate
the concepts, practices and textured nuances of "culture." What this does is place theory and methods,
once the hallmark of linguistic anthropology, in a wider arena. This class emphasizes this wider arena by
exploring topics such as translation, orthography, literacy, language and
power, gendered speech, dialect and identity, literal and symbolic dimensions
of meaning, emplaced narratives, memories, the arts of speaking, childhood
socialization, the integration of gesture and word, and expressions of emotion.
The aim of the
course is to provide students with an intellectual tool kit for research and
critical reflection.
Texts will be drawn
from:
Feld, Steven, Sense
and Sentiment: Birds, Weeping, Poetics and Song in Kaluli Expression. 2nd edition. 1990.
Duranti, Alessandro
From Grammar to Politics: Linguistic Anthropology in a Western Samoan Village.
1994.
Basso, Keith,
Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache. 1996.
Errington, J.
Joseph, Shifting Languages: Interaction and identity in Javanese
Indonesia. 1998.
Kulick, Don,
Language Shift and Cultural Reproduction: Socialization, Self and Syncretism in
a Papua New Guinea Village. 1992.
Lindstrom, Lamont,
Knowledge and Power in a South Pacific Society. 1990.
Besnier, Niko Literacy, Emotion and Authority on a
Polynesian Outlier. 1995.
Kathleen A Place On
the Side of the Road. 1996.
Supplementary
readings will be provided by xerox and may include excerpts from Dell Hymes In
Vain I Tried to Tell You 1986, Dennis Tedlock 1983 The Spoken Word and the Work
of Interpretation, Gary Witherspoon Language and Art in the Navajo Universe
1977 and assorted articles.
380 SYMBOLIC AND INTERPRETIVE
ANTHROPOLOGY (4 hrs. or 1 unit)
Professor Alma Gottlieb Office: 386C Davenport Hall; PH: 244-3515
This course
explores a range of symbolic and interpretive approaches within
anthropology. The course is divided
into two sections. In the first section
we will briefly review early precursors of symbolic and interpretive
anthropology, including early French symbolist and surrealists, Freud, Weber,
Cassirer, Langer, Durkheim and Mauss, and Maurice Halbwachs. Then we will jump to the first wave of
contemporary symbolic and interpretive anthropologists, focusing on Berger and
Luckmann, Mary Douglas, Victor Turner, Clifford Geertz, Roy Wagner and Sherry
Ortner. During the remainder of the
course we will concentrate on works by more recent and contemporary
authors. Throughout the course, we will
consider such topics as: the cultural construction of memory; the cultural
constitution of space and place; the symbolics of power/representing the
colonial encounter; the efficacy of ritual and performance; the politics and
art of writing the ethnographic text; and, throughout, the powers and
limitations of symbolic and interpretive approaches in anthropology.
PREREQUISITES: All
students should have some background in cultural anthropology. Undergraduates students should have already
taken at least one of the following: ANTH 230, 321, 363 (or equivalent
elsewhere). Graduate students in
departments other than anthropology are encouraged to consult with the
instructor to see if their background is optimal before enrolling for this
course.
Readings will
include a course pack of articles and the following books (tentative list):
Emile Durkheim and
Marcel Mauss, Primitive Classification
Maurice Halbwachs,
On Collective Memory
Peter L. Berger and
Thomas Luckmann, The Social Construction of Reality
Roy Wagner, The
Invention of Culture
James Clifford and
George E. Marcus, eds., Writing Culture: The Politics and Poetics of
Ethnography
Barbara Myerhoff,
Remembered Lives: The Work of Ritual, Storytelling, and Growing Older
James Fernandez,
Persuasions and Performances: The Play of Tropes in Culture
Rosalind Shaw, Memories of the Slave Trade: Ritual and Historical
Imagination in Sierra Leone
398I INTEGRATED
FOUR FIELDS SEMINAR. (4 hrs. or 1 unit)
Professor Steve Leigh Office: 209J Davenport Hall; PH: 244-3503
Professor Andy Orta Office: 391 Davenport Hall; PH: 244-7108
This course --
co-taught by an archaeologist, a biological anthropologist, and a cultural
anthropologist -- is designed to explore the nature of anthropology as an
integrated discipline. To do so,
faculty and students will engage in an ongoing dialogue across sub-disciplinary
lines, examining the theoretical, conceptual, and empirical domains that unite
and divide us as practitioners of anthropology. We will pay particular attention to some of the discipline's
"classic" issues; and in probing how the different sub-disciplines
approach them, we will seek new avenues of integration. Specific topics that will be covered
include: the culture/nature problem; language, gesture, and communicative
strategies; spirituality, religion, and ritual; ecology; kinship and the
genetic basis of behavior; the relationship of behavior to practice and
prehistory to history; evolutionary theory and its uses in each subfield; the
cultural concept of race and the biology of human variation; social hierarchy,
cooperation, and aggression in human and non-human primates; cognition,
decision making, and space; sex, gender, and mating/marriage systems, etc. Evaluation is based on 1) class discussion
and 2) a term paper that explores a contemporary topic in anthropology from a
multidisciplinary perspective. The
course is open to graduating seniors and graduate students in anthropology.
First-year graduate students are required to enroll in the course.
398L PEOPLES AND CULTURES OF SOUTH ASIA. (4 hrs. or 1 unit)
Professor F.K.
Lehman Office: 209H Davenport Hall; PH:
333-8423
This is a survey of
issues in the anthropology of India (and also Pakstan, Bangladesh and Sri
Lanka). In many ways, professional
anthropology ad its start under the British colonial regime there with the
establishment of the Anthropological Survey of India. This is intended to be an introduction to the vast
anthropological literature of this region, both culture-historical and
ethnographical. The purpose is to characterize the region as a domain of
anthropological study and to deal with the special issues for cultural and
social anthropological theory raise by specifically South Asian sociocultural
phenomena. Not least is a re-examination upon rigorous grounds, of the nature
of Caste, and of questions about the cultural relativity of notions of
Self/Individuality.
398P
Culture and Society in Russia and
the Successor States: Ethnographies of
Change (4 hrs. or 1 unit)
Instructor: Sarah Phillips
What was daily life like under socialism? How have recent transformations in the Newly Independent States
shaped people's national and personal identities? In post-socialism, how are states dealing with the "minority
question," the "woman question," etc.? What is ethnography, and how can it help us answer these
questions? To explore these issues,
this course will examine a broad range of historical and anthropological studies
of the NIS, focusing particularly on Russia and Ukraine. Major themes include byt (everyday life)
during and after state socialism; cultural transformations among indigenous
peoples; nationalism, memory, and nostalgia; religion and ethnicity in flux;
language and identity; gender politics; consumption and the new market; and
youth cultures. Along with many
articles, students will read several books, including Ries's Russian Talk:
Culture and Conversation during Perestroika; and Wanner's Burden of Dreams:
History and Identity in Post-Soviet Ukraine.
398S HISTORY OF ARCHAEOLOGY THEORY (4 hrs. or 1 unit)
Professor Olga Soffer Office: 309H Davenport Hall; PH: 333-2100
This
"capstone" undergraduate course/"groundstone" graduate
course is a seminar, which will focuses on the history of theory in
archaeology. We will examine the waxing
and waning of a number of theoretical approaches in our sub-discipline within
the context of both 1) the specific place and time period during which they
emerged, and 2) general developments in anthropology at large. An in depth critical analysis of the
different approaches (antiquarianism, evolutionism, historicism, neo-evolutionism,
functionalism, cultural ecology, Marxism in all its permutations,
structuralism, post-processualism including practice and agency theories, etc.)
will be augmented by specific examples of archaeological research done within
the framework of the paradigms in question.
Requirements:
For undergraduates - senior status and majoring in anthropology, or
permission of the instructor. For
graduate students - graduate student status in the Dept. of Anthropology or
permission of the instructor. IT IS
ADVISED TO TAKE THIS COURSE TOGETHER WITH ANTH. 330
TEXTS: 1
1. Trigger, B. G. l989 A History of Archaeological Thought. Cambridge U. Press.
2. other - TBA
3. Additional readings on reserve in Department
library, Davenport Hall # 193
443 PROBLEMS IN PRIMATE BEHAVIOR AND ECOLOGY.
(1 unit)
Professor Paul
Garber Office: 309K
Davenport Hall, PH: 333-0075
This course focuses on current topics and debates in primate behavior and ecology.