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102 ANTHROPOLOGY: HUMAN ORIGINS AND CULTURE. (4 hrs.)

Professor Linda Klepinger Office: 209G Davenport Hall, PH: 244-3513 klepinge@uiuc.edu
Professor Olga Soffer Office: 309H Davenport Hall, PH: 333-2100, o-soffer@uiuc.edu

 This course is a basic introduction to the aims, methods, and results of archaeological and physical anthropological research into human origins and the evolution of people both physically and culturally. Topics include the nature of evolution, our primate ancestors becoming human, tool use, the evolution of language, our human ancestors and their lifeways at different points in time in prehistory, the origins and consequences of food production, and the rise of civilization. Lectures are geared towards introducing students to the basic concepts of the disciplines while laboratory discussions clarify the approaches used and permit discussion of the topics under review. In addition to three examinations in the lecture class, quizzes, a written take-home assignment will be given in the laboratory discussion section.

 TEXTS: To be announced.
 *THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE SOCIAL PERSPECTIVES GEN. ED. REQ.

103 INTRODUCTION TO CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY (4hrs.)

Professor C.K. Shih Office: 387 Davenport Hall; PH: 333-7507 ckshih@uiuc.edu

 Cultural anthropology is the study of various ways of living and thinking in the human community by means of field work and comparative analysis. Thanks to its unique approaches, cultural anthropology offers a broad perspective on a wide range of important social issues. These issues are important because their consequences are determinative to the survival and well-being of all human societies which are increasingly interdependent.

 In this introductory course, after briefly introducing what anthropology as a discipline is about and how anthropologists work, we will examine topics such as culture, language, gender, ethnicity, marriage and the family, social organization, economic systems, religion, ecology, globalization of the world system, etc.

 This course should help you understand and appreciate cultural variation in time and space from a global perspective, enhance your awareness and sensitivity of cultural diversity and change in your living environment, and develop your interpretive skills for a variety of cultural phenomena. This course is intended for the purpose of liberal arts education. No assumption is made that students taking this course will go on to major in anthropology.
 *THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE SOCIAL PERSPECTIVES GEN. ED. REQ.

103 (DISCOVERY) INTRODUCTION TO CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY (4 hrs)

Professor Bill Kelleher Office: 391 Davenport Hall, PH: 244-3516 wkellehe@uiuc.edu

 Cultural anthropology attempts to make the diverse cultures of the world understandable. It seeks to make the strange, familiar, and the familiar, strange. It assumes that if we learn about different cultures then we learn something about ourselves. This course introduces cultural anthropology. It places it in the field of general anthropology and describes the methods and research problems which both tie it to and distinguish it from anthropology's other subfields. The course focuses attention on cultural anthropology's major research form, ethnography. It delineates its methodologies and its significant research areas - language use, kinship, social structure, religion and ritual, symbolic systems, cultural change, social conflict, ethnicity, economic organization, health and healing, and the artistic dimensions of social life. It places anthropology in the history of Euro-American social thought and introduces some of the contemporary debates in the discipline through lecture and discussion of a variety of world areas. The course consists of three lectures and a discussion section per week. There will be two hour exams during the semester, a short paper and numerous discussion section exercises.

 *THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE SOCIAL PERSPECTIVES GEN.ED.REQ.

105 INTRODUCTORY WORLD ARCHAEOLOGY. (3 hrs.)

Professor David Grove Office: 396B Davenport Hall, PH: 333-8381 E-mail d-grove@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. Topics cover nearly four million years of human prehistory, and include King Tut's tomb, Stonehenge, Viking contacts with the Americas, mound builders of the Midwest, and the search for America's prehistoric 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 prehistory. Anthropology 105, since its inception, has consistently been ranked as EXCELLENT in the CEQ's. 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 site of their very own on the Plato computer. This "Dig" constitutes the term project and is written up as a paper. There are also three one hour exams.

 TEXTS: Packet of Readings sold at TIS Bookstore
 *THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE HISTORICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES GEN. ED. REQ.

186 SOUTHEAST ASIAN CIVILIZATIONS (3 hrs)

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.

190 AMERICAN JEWISH CULTURE (3 hrs.)

Professor Matti Bunzl Office: 386B Davenport Hall; PH: 265-4068 bunzl@uiuc.edu

 This course will examine American Jewish experience in its cultural and historical diversity. In doing so, the course will introduce the approaches of cultural anthropology in order to investigate how an ethnic group has elaborated and continues to elaborate its identity in American culture and society through strategies of individual and collective behavior. In this framework, American Jewish identities will emerge as the products of specific interactions between Judaism's overarching cultural system and local American cultural formations. To understand these processes, we will initially examine the different waves of Jewish immigration, trace patterns of acculturation, and investigate American forms of antisemitism. This focus on Jewish migration will be followed by the sustained examination of American Jewish religions and communal life, emphasizing rearticulations of religions community from the nineteenth century to the present. In the final part of the course, we will discuss the ongoing cultural negotiation of American Jewish identities, focusing on questions of race, gender, and kinship.

199A ETHNOGRAPHY OF CONTEMPORARY ASIAN AMERICA

Professor TBA Office: See Department office, 109D Davenport Hall

 This course surveys the heterogeneity of the American Asian diaspora and integrates theoretical and methodological concerns from anthropology, including race, ethnicity, migration, identity, class, generation, gender, and community. It examines distinctions between the old and new (post 1965) immigrations: diverse immigration circumstances; and the nature and extent of the concentration of Asian American settlement. It considers the political circumstances and ideologies that have forged a pan-Asian American identity and the diffrences of class and circumstance that mediate against it.

199F Language in Culture and Society

Professor Brenda Farnell Office: 209E Davenport Hall; PH: 244-9226 bfarnell@uiuc.edu

 This course explores the central role that language plays in the creation of self, society and culture from the perspective of linguistic anthropology. We ask, "How do different languages affect thought and the way people organize experience? How does language use differ in other cultures? "How does a person's talk and gesture convey social information? How does a sign language work? Why do problems of communication still occur when people speak the same language? How does language use reinforce relationships of power, especially along racial, gender and class lines? Students will learn to record and analyze everyday talk and do a final project based on their own research.

 Required Texts:
Agar, Micheal. Language Shock: Understanding the Culture of Conversation
Schaller, Susan. A Man Without Words.
Readings in Language, Culture and Society (a coursepak)

220 INTRODUCTION TO ARCHAEOLOGY 3 hours

Professor Susan Gillespie Office: 386A Davenport Hall; PH: 244-5920 sgillesp@uiuc.edu

 This course is designed for anthropology majors and minors, providing an intensive and thorough overview of archaeological techniques, methods, and theories in preparation for advanced archaeology courses.  It introduces the science of archaeology as a subfield of anthropology, explaining how archaeologists make inferences and interpretations about past societies from surviving cultural and natural material remains.  Students will learn how to find and investigate sites, how to record and analyze remains, and how to assess when in time past events occurred.  They will also investigate different interpretive models for understanding cultural processes and culture change, and the theoretical perspectives used to frame questions about the past. 

 READINGS:
Sharer and Ashmore: ARCHAEOLOGY: DISCOVERING OUR PAST
Gillespie: ARCHAEOLOGY WORKBOOK
Gillespie: Lecture Guide and Additional Readings
 ADDITIONAL ASSIGNMENTS: Homework and laboratory exercises during weekly sections
 GRADING: 2 midterms and a final, exercises, class participation
 MANDATORY PREREQUISITE: ANTH 102

221 MATERIALS AND CIVILIZATION: AN OVERVIEW OF ARCHAEOMETRY 3 HRS.

Sarah Wisseman Office: 116 Observatory, PH: 333-6629 wisarc@uiuc.edu

 "Materials and Civilization..." is an introduction to archaeometry, the interface between archaeology and the natural and physical sciences. This interdisciplinary field requires close collaboration between different specialists who apply modern instrumental techniques (such as radiocarbon dating and neutron activation analysis) to extract technological, cultural, and historical information from ancient materials. Applications range from archaeological fieldwork to conservation of museum objects and historic monuments, including such topics as bone chemistry and paleodiet, early tool use, sourcing of ceramics, prospection and geoarchaeology, dating, and art forgery.

 The class will be enlivened by guest lectures, classroom debates, and fieldtrips to campus museums and laboratories. Evaluation will be based both on written work and oral participation.

 INSTRUCTOR: Sarah U. Wisseman, Director of the Program on Ancient Technologies and Archaeological Materials (ATAM), and a Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Adjunct Professor of the Classics. After completing a B.A. in Anthropology at Harvard University and a Ph.D in Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology at Bryn Mawr College, Dr. Wisseman worked as a curator at the Spurlock/World Heritage Museum prior to joining ATAM. Her special interests are ceramic technology and archaeometry, including experimental replication of Etruscan and Roman pottery. She has participated in archaeological excavations in Israel, Italy, and North America and supervised numerous archaeometric projects such as the one on the University of Illinois' Egyptian mummy.

 PREREQUISITE: Campus Honors Program or consent of the instructor. 

230 Introduction to Social Anthropology and Ethnography. (3hrs)

Professor Andrew Orta Office: 396D Davenport Hall, PH: 244-7108 Email andyorta@uiuc.edu

 This course is an advanced introduction to sociocultural anthropology. Through the systematic study of human diversity (and similarity), sociocultural anthropologists study fundamental dimensions of the human condition and their multiple expressions across space and time. We will discuss the basic concepts and analytic approaches of the field through a combination of case studies focused on specific societies and an historical overview of the development of the discipline. We will also discuss the research methods of sociocultural anthropology and engage in some ethnographic exercises of our own. The course will be organized with two correlated goals. One is historical as we look at sociocultural anthropology from its origins in the late 19th century through the present and consider important changes in the understanding of a central concept of anthropological inquiry culture. The second goal is to develop a grounding in the various analytic approaches that make up the broad field of sociocultural anthropology, including discussions of kinship, cultural ecology, social structure, exchange, political systems , symbolism and ritual, gender, ethnic and national identity, etc. For those students interested in pursuing further work in sociocultural anthropology, this course will provide the key facts, terms, and concepts necessary to continue work in the field. For all students, the course will present a glimpse of a range of human sociocultural systems and the contemporary challenges they confront, and encourage a comparative and critical awareness of other societies, of our own, and of the complex connections and histories that link us together.

231 African and Indigenous Americans in South America

Professor Norman Whitten 382 Davenport Hall; PH: 244-3514 nwhitten@uiuc.edu

This course focuses on African Latin American and Indigenous Latin American peoples of South and Central America. Today, and back through history, contemporary Black and Native populations make up enclaves of vibrant people who often extend across national borders. Taken together, these two diaspora aggregations of people-one displaced from Africa to the Americas, the other displaced within the Americas-provide evidence of extraordinary cultural, social, and ethnic resilience and endurance in the face of radical and relentless change. Today the literature on such people is divided regionally (e.g. Andean and Amazonian) and in terms of origins (African American and Native American. Few scholars choose to specialize in both African American and Native American studies. The people we study in this course are usually ignored. Occasionally, however they are sensationalized and romanticized. In this course we will reflect often now how people are "written out of history," or why their contributions are "erased from history." This takes us into selected aspects of history of Europe, Africa, and the Americas that have influenced the dominant perspectives in anthropology.

 The course initially focuses directly on the paradoxes, contradictions, and antinomies of racialist exclusion in nation-states whose leaders espouse an ideology of racial mixture, and whose implicit and cultural recognized attitudes espouse an orientation toward Euro-White supremacy. Materials drawn from history buttress this description, as do material drawn from discourses of indigenous, black, mixed, and other dynamic cultural aggregations. We also draw from recent literature on "ethnogenesis" in the Americas. This is an important concept in cultural anthropology that has been used metaphorically by many scholars to refer to a people (or culture, or society) who seem to have come into being as a definable aggregate at some point in history. As such, the concept may refer to history-what is written about a people-or to historicity-what people say about their pasts, their origins, their sense of being and becoming.

 The concept of ethnogenesis takes us to case studies to be introduced into the course. Examples include the "Black Carib" (Garífuna) of Central America, the "Black Arawak" of Guyana, the "Sacha Runa" (Forest People) of Amazonian Ecuador, the creators of the Zambo Republic of Western Ecuador and their modern descendants, the Asháninka (Campa) of Peru, the Peruvian Amazonian Mestizos, and the Brazilian Caboclos, and the Suriname-Guyana Maroons, among many others. We make analogies to the United States by reference to the pivotal importance of images of "indigenes" in Black social and cultural life, and that of "blacks" in Native American discourses. An example of the former is the significance of Black Hawk (the Upper-Midwestern indigenous resistance leader) in the African American religious of Mississippi and Louisiana, and of the indigenous religious sodalities of New Orleans that emerge just before and during Mardi Gras.

 With this material-history, historicity, ethnogenesis, case histories of salient (but often neglected) South and Central American peoples-combined with comparisons to cognate U.S. and Canadian cultural constructs, the course moves to the imagery of nationalist and ethnic bloc movements, and the ways by which ethnogenetic cultural constructions become appropriated and deployed in modern political contexts.

Prerequisites
Anthropology 103 and/or 182 and/or 230, and/or 282
*this course fulfills the cultural studies: non-western/us minority cultures: non-Western social & behavioral sciences Gen. ed. req.

259 SPANISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES IN THE UNITED STATES

Professor Alejandro Lugo Office: 385 Davenport Hall, PH: 333-0823 a-lugo@uiuc.edu

 In this class, we will examine the cultures and histories of Spanish-speaking peoples of the United States. Although we will focus on recent ethnographic studies about and by Latinos and Latinas, we will also explore other genres: poetry, short story, literary criticism, film, video, and historical texts. The topics be discussed include: identity, language, ideology, sexuality, power, racial discourse, gender inequality, and diasporas. We will critically examine the imagined, the intended, and the invented communities constituting the Spanish-speaking population of this country. In particular, we will explore (though not exclusively) the experiences of Mexican-Americans, Puerto Ricans, and Cuban Americans, both "white" and "non-white".

268 Images of the "Other": Anthropological Perspectives (4 hrs.)

Professor Arlene Torres Office: 383 Davenport Hall; PH: 244-3511 a-torres@uiuc.edu

 Do all peoples view neighboring or distant populations as radically different "Others," or can humans create mutual images based on a notion of shared humanity?  In this course we will compare and analyze the range of images of ethnic, "racial," gender, class and bodily differences that have operated in both Western and non-Western societies.  To complement the class readings, all students will keep a running diary of how images of the "Other" operate in their own lives. Prerequisite:  A previous or concurrent course in history and/or one of the social sciences would be helpful.

 Readings and films: to be announced
*THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE HISTORICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES GEN.ED.REQ.
** THIS COURSE SATISFIES THE COMP II REQUIREMENT FOR UNDERGRADUATES.
***THIS COURSE IS A DISCOVERY COURSE FOR FRESHMAN.

318 Anthropological Research Design. (3hrs)

Professor R. Barry Lewis Office: 209F Davenport Hall; PH: 244-3501 blewis@uiuc.edu

 This is a first course in research design for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in cultural anthropology, biological anthropology, and archaeology. Topics to be covered include different approaches to framing questions and designing research, sampling, the design of questionnaires and other kinds of data forms, research ethics, data collection techniques, coding, and general problems of measuring quantitative and qualitative data in anthropological research. Each student will be expected to participate actively in class discussions and presentations of research design issues and projects. Problem sets that apply the principles covered in class will be assigned throughout the semester. There will be an essay type midterm and final exam. Students will each complete the course by choosing a research problem, designing an approach to solve the problem, and executing the data collection portion of the research design.

333 SOUTH AMERICAN INDIANS OF THE ANDEAN REGION (3hrs)

Professor Andrew Orta Office: 396D Davenport Hall; PH: 244-7108 andyorta@uiuc.edu

 This course is intended to provide an overview of Andean histories and cultures through a sampling of classic and recent scholarship on the region. As the Andes is a vast and variegated region, our work this semester will necessarily be incomplete. Taking as our point of departure the time of the Spanish invasion of the region, the goals of this class are: a) to provide a basic familiarity with historical events, patterns and themes as these characterize the Andes as a `culture area'; b) to appreciate the diversity of social forms across the region as these reflect the varied impact of Incan, Iberian and post-Independence social, political and economic practices; c) to impart a basic fluency in the concepts of Andean social structure, subsistence strategies, ritual practices, and so forth, and a sense of the ongoing debates in the regional literature; and, d) to examine recent developments impacting the people of the region and current discussions about the politics and possibilities of "Andean ethnography."

340 ANTHROPOLOGY: HUMAN EVOLUTION I (3hrs or 3/4 or 1 unit)

Professor Steve Leigh Office: 393 Davenport Hall, PH: 244-3503 Email s-leigh@uiuc.edu

 This class focuses on the morphological evolution of the human lineage over the last five million years. Specifically, morphological variation through time is studied and interpreted in an evolutionary framework. The course employs theories and methods from diverse fields such as primate behavior, comparative anatomy, archaeology, and molecular biology in order to gain an integrated understanding of the evolutionary biology of the human lineage. Interpretation of present and past human variability is emphasized.
 TEXTS:
Required:
Conroy, G (1997), Reconstructing Human Origins. WW Norton, New York.
Ciochon, RL and Fleagle, JG (1993), The Human Evolution Source Book. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.  

348 AFRICAN PREHISTORY. (3 hrs. or 3/4 or 1 unit)

Professor Stanley Ambrose Office: 189 Davenport Hall, PH: 244-3504 E-mail ambrose@uiuc.edu

 Africa is the cradle of mankind and the sole source of evidence for the first four million years of hominid evolution and cultural development. For the most recent periods the archaeological record is a major source of evidence for the precolonial history of modern African populations. This course surveys the fossil and archaeological evidence for the evolution of human behavioral patterns from the earliest hominids to modern humans in Africa. Topics will include a survey of the fossil hominids, models of hominid origins, alternative models for the intellectual, cultural, economic and technical abilities of early hominids, a survey of regional cultural sequences, the diversification and specialization of cultural traditions in later prehistory, and the processes and events resulting in the present distribution of hunter-gatherer, pastoral and agricultural adaptations. Ecological and evolutionary approaches to understanding the processes of hominid evolution and culture change will be stressed.

 Requirements include one mid-term exam, a final exam, and a short term paper.
Prerequisite: Anthropology 102.
TEXTS: David W. Phillipson (1993). African Archaeology, 2nd edition (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge).

351 ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEYING: TECHNIQUES AND APPLICATIONS (3hrs or 1 unit)

Professor Tim Pauketat Office: 123 Davenport Hall; PH: 244-8818 pauketat@uiuc.edu

 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: Anthropology 102 is the primary requirement and 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.

360 PEOPLES AND CULTURES OF OCEANIA

Professor Janet Dixon Keller Office: 395 Davenport Hall; PH: 333-3529 jdkeller@uiuc.edu

 This course will be an opportunity to review a variety of Pacific ethnographies and films. We will take a comparative approach including textual, visual and museum representations of major geographical and cultural arenas in Oceania. The aim of the seminar is to familiarize students with the rich cultural traditions of the Pacific. We will explore topics ranging from the changing significance of ocean voyaging in Pacific Island life to the changing role of identities rooted in place, from the past foundations of everyday life in oral traditions to the present explosion of stories, sounds and sentiments characteristic of island lifeways, and from colonial encounters through the intense co-participation of islanders and outsiders in World War II, to post colonial/nation building discourses and practices.

 Several themes will guide our discussions. First, although we will emphasize contemporary scholarship, we will juxtapose more recent work with earlier contributions to allow us to begin to assess changes in the topics and styles of ethnographic writing/film, and central research problems over the past century. We will be attentive to issues of voice and perspective, the increasing presence of local authorship in anthropological work, and the complex issues of families and fieldwork. Such discussions will allow us to touch on the topics of representation, authority and collaboration. In this context we will consider the rapidly changing role of museums in anthropological practice and schedule a visit to the Pacific Arts Festival at the Field Museum in October. A third thread will take us from the riches of ethnographic detail in the Pacific to the emergence of significant theories in the discipline.

 Please note the change in time from the regular time table.
Welcome to all who may wish to join in!

362 MODERN EUROPE: HISTORY AND ETHNOGRAPHY

Professor Bill Kelleher Office: 391 Davenport Hall, PH: 244-3516 wkellehe@uiuc.edu

 In the past two decades ethnographic work in Europe has proliferated. This literature has addressed a variety of anthropological problems but has had modernity and the sociocultural processes entailed in it as a nearly constant theme. This course, likewise, organizes the anthropology of Europe around the theme of modernity - the social, cultural, political and economic processes which constitute it and the dilemmas which it creates. The course pays particular heed to approaches which intersect history and anthropology. Topics to be addressed include the rural/urban divide; changing family structures; class formation; nationalism and ethnic conflict; religion, ritual and society; gender; contemporary immigration; and transformations in the formerly socialist states. Prerequisite: Anthropology 103 and 230.

 There will be a coursepack to accompany the following texts:
John Borneman, Belonging in the Two Berlins: Kin, State,Nation
Paul Gilroy, There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack
Temma Kaplan, Red City, Blue Period: Social Movements in Picasso's Barcelona
Nadia C. Serematakis, The Last Word: Women, Death and Divination in Inner Mani
Patrick Joyc, Democratic Subjects: The Self and the Social in Nineteenth Century England
Anastasia N. Karakasidou, Fields of Wheat, Hills of Blood: Passages to Nationhood in Greek Macedonia, 1870-1990
Katherine Verdery, National Ideology Under Socialism
Stuart Hall et al., Modernity: An Introduction to Modern Societies

375 PREHISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY OF MEXICO. (3 hrs. or l unit)

Professor David Grove Office: 396B Davenport Hall, PH: 333-8381 E-mail d-grove@uiuc.edu

 This a very thorough course on Mexican prehistory from about 20,000 B.C. to 1300 A.D. The content is primarily with the early farming villages and the evolution of civilization. Stress is placed on cultures such as the Olmec, Teotihuacanos, and Zapotecs. Lectures usually include many slides. Although the presentation is intensive, non-anthropologists and non-archaeologists interested in Mexico and Mexican prehistory frequently take this course and do well in it. Eight short take-home assignments are required in addition to a midterm and a final exam. Undergraduates not meeting the prerequisites must obtain consent of the instructor. This course does not deal with either the Aztecs or Maya. These are specially presented in Anthropology 276 and 376, general courses (for majors and non-majors) dealing with these two well-known civilizations and offered in the spring semesters.
 TEXTS: Prehistoric Mesoamerica (revised edition) by R. E. W. Adams.

378 Advanced Archaeological Methods

Professor R. Barry Lewis Office: 209F Davenport Hall; PH: 244-3501 blewis@uiuc.edu

 This course is designed for archaeology students who wish to master a selection of the most common advanced methods for the analysis of archaeological data. The tentative topic list includes:

• Seriation
• Archaeological stratigraphy by the Harris method
• How to turn sketch maps into CAD drawings
• Radiocarbon dates, their calibration and analysis
• Database design
• Cluster analysis
• Correspondence Analysis

The class will meet for four hours each week--two hours devoted to examining theoretical and methodological issues and two hours in lab analyzing archaeological data. Problem sets that apply the course materials to archaeological data will be assigned throughout the semester. Recommended prerequisites for this course include Anth 220, Anth 354, Anth 355, an introductory statistics course, or equivalent experience.

 The main computer packages will be:

• Stata - general purpose statistical package
• WinBasp - the Bonn Archaeological Statistics Package
• DeltaCAD and/or TurboCAD - general purpose CAD packages

 TEXTS:
Principles of Archaeological Stratigraphy, by Edward Harris. 1989. 2nd edition. Academic Press, New York.
Exploratory Multivariate Analysis in Archaeology, by M. J. Baxter. 1994. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh.

384 FAMILY, GENDER, AND POPULATION IN CONTEMPORARY CHINA (3 hrs)

Professor C.K. Shih Office: 387 Davenport Hall; PH: 333-7507 ckshih@uiuc.edu

 Population overgrowth has become one of the most powerful factors shaping contemporary China's political, social, and economic constructions. As a result of the increasing population pressure as well as the government policies in reaction to it, the family as a cornerstone of Chinese social structure has been fundamentally changed in the past few decades. In this changing process the traditional Chinese gender system, with itself being continually transformed by the social movements of the 20th century, has played a significant role. In this seminar we will examine this process by viewing demographic regime, gender, and the family as systems constantly interplaying with each other and the changing government policies as potent agents catalyzing the interactions of these systems. Topics to be covered include social conditions in the pre- communist Chinese society; overview of change and frameworks for analyzing change; family, gender, and development; demographic transformation; and family gender, and population among the Chinese ethnic minorities.

398A HUMAN EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY. (4 hrs or 1 unit)

Professor Stanley Ambrose Office: 189 Davenport Hall, PH: 244-3504 ambrose@uiuc.edu

 The objective of the course is to acquire an understanding of cause and effect: how an environment constrains or promotes different kinds of adaptations, and to understand the extent to which human behaviors can be explained as adaptations to their environments. For some levels of behavior, like subsistence, the relationship is obvious. However, "higher" levels of behavior such as territoriality, or endogamy and exogamy, which are often considered either fixed attributes of human behavior, may instead be the flexible outcomes of adaptations to certain kinds of environments. It should be possible to use the principles and concepts presented in this course to generate predictive statements about the patterns of adaptive behavior of human populations from information about the biotic and abiotic features of an environment, the structure of resources exploited, and the human subsistence strategy and technology used.

 Prerequisites: Anthropology 102, 103 or equivalent, an introductory Life Science course, or consent of the instructor.

 Requirements: Midterm and final exams, and a term project comprising a set of three problem-oriented exercises in which a chosen type of ecosystem will be examined and described given three different kinds of human use. This continuing project will be facilitated by use of the Human Relations Area Files.

 Texts:
Emilio Moran. 1982. Human Adaptability. 2nd edition (Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado).
Eric Alden Smith and Bruce Winterhalder (eds) 1992 Evolutionary Ecology and Human Behavior. (Aldine de Gruyter, New York).
Additional readings will be placed on reserve in the Education Library.

398B HISTORY OF ANTHROPOLOGY (1/2 or 1 unit)

Professor Matti Bunzl Office: 386B Davenport Hall, PH: 265-4068 bunzl@uiuc.edu

 This course will provide a selective overview of the history and historiography of anthropology in the 19th and 20th centuries. The class will move chronologically and topically, paying particular attention to the social, institutional, and historical contexts of paradigmatic shifts, the interconnections between various national traditions, and the negotiations of the discipline's boundaries. Within this framework, we will be especially concerned with the historicization of American anthropology, comparing its conceptual organization to other national traditions and exploring the unique perspectives it engenders. Students will be encouraged to pursue their individual interest in the history and theory of anthropology.

398C TOPICS IN ASIAN AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGY

Professor TBA Please check departmental office 109D for more information.

398L THE PEOPLES AND CULTURES OF SOUTH ASIA. (1/2 or 1 unit)

Professor F.K. Lehman Office: 209H Davenport Hall, PH: 333-8423 E-mail f-lehman@uiuc.edu

 A critical and analytic survey of the anthropological literature on India, Sri Lanka and (to some extent) Pakistan and Bangladesh. The purpose of the course is to acquaint students with what anthropology has contributed to our knowledge of the societies, institutions, cultures and cultural history of South Asia, and what the anthropological study of India has contributed to comparative and theoretical anthropology in general. The course will be held as a sort of proseminar after some introductory lectures orienting the class to South Asia as a physical and cultural region, we shall choose important works on successive topics in South Asian anthropology for discussion by the instructor and the class, with each being presented by a student who has chosen it. Every effort will be made to ensure that as many of the major topics in the literature are dealt with, and that the major scholarly figures and works in the field, past and current are covered. There will be a mid-term and a final examination. Class presentations will be graded, but written term papers are optional (if a paper is of substantial value, it may be submitted in lieu of the final examination). There will be no single textbook for this course, but every student should be familiar with the South Asia volume (Volume 5) of the Encyclopedia of World Cultures, which is recommended for purchase.

398T African Americans in Latin America and the Caribbean (4hrs. or 1 unit)

Professor Arlene Torres Office: 383 Davenport Hall, PH: 244-3511 a-torres@uiuc.edu

 This course focuses on the African American experience in Latin America and the Caribbean from an historical and contemporary perspective.  By developing an understanding of anthropological approaches to the study of cultural retentions and transformations and the study of race and ethnicity we critically explore how blackness is constituted and reconstituted throughout the "New World" Diapsora. We begin with an analysis of theoretical models and ethnographic texts that inform contemporary  Afro-Latin scholarship. We then range in focus from history, to the structure of race relations, to the study of various cultural contexts where a black identity is embraced and affirmed. Finally, we will critically reflect upon the ways by which racial paradigms forged over the past five centuries have informed our knowledge and understanding of the blackness in the Americas as we approach the twenty-first century.

 Required Texts
Hyatt, Vera and Rex Nettleford (eds.) Race, Discourse and the Origin of the Americas Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995
Mintz,  Sidney  & Richard Price  The Birth of African American Culture: An Anthropological Perspective Boston: Beacon Press, 1992
Whitten, Norman E. Jr.  & Arlene Torres Blackness in Latin America and the Caribbean Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998 (Vol. 1)
Torres Arlene  &  Norman E. Whitten, Jr.  Blackness in Latin America and the Caribbean Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998 (Vol. 2)
Recommended: Rahier, Jean M. Representations of Blackness and the Performance of Identities Westport, CT: Bergin and Garvey 1999.
 Additonal Readings will be placed on reserve.

450F Exploring the Problem of "Science" and "Humanism"

Professor Brenda Farnell Office: 209E Davenport Hall; PH: 244-9226 bfarnell @uiuc.edu

with Dr. Charles Varela (Visiting Scholar) and Prof. Rom Harré (Visiting Professor)

 Science is not the heartless pursuit of objective information. It is a creative human activity, it geniuses acting more as artists than as information processors. Stephen J. Gould 1988  

Scientists are very prejudiced, and it seems to me, that is what actually gives dynamism to science. That's what scientific imagination is. Gunther Stent, 1988. 

In this seminar we shall systematically examine the "science" versus "humanism" debates in anthropology and the social sciences generally, situating current tensions in their appropriate historical and theoretical contexts. We ask, to what extent has the positivist misconception of objectivity, scientific rationality, and scientific practice created the current climate in which scientists reject humanism and humanists reject science? A post-positivist reading suggests that both sides may have 'thrown the baby out with the bathwater'. We will work from the premise that an adequate philosophy of science must be grounded in ethnographies of actual scientific practice rather than in the idealization, ideology and propaganda that are often found in textbook definitions of "scientific method."

 During the course, we will enjoy a 4 week visit by distinguished Oxford philosopher of science and socio-cultural psychologist, Rom Harré. Prof. Harré will lead our explorations into the differences between the natural and social sciences, and contrasts between positivism and realism as an adequate conception of rationality and knowledge for understanding in the human sciences. Other topics include (i) the nature of the scientific revolution --what was it a revolution against, and what for? ; (ii) the beginning of the humanist revolt in Romanticism; (iii) the problem of objectivism and post-positivist notions of objectivity as both a reflective (intellectual) and reflexive (personal and cultural) process; and (iv) the implications of all this for claims to knowledge in ethnographic accounts --for example, the anthropological critique of "writing culture" raised important questions about ethnographic authority, reflexivity and problems of representation , but to what extent has the underlying dualism between subjective/objective been addressed adequately?

 Students will conduct a brief ethnographic research project in a natural/ social science of their choice, and write a final paper that demonstrates their understanding of course materials. Students from all four fields of anthropology are strongly encouraged to take the course.

Required texts: (plus a coursepak of required readings)
Harré, Rom, 1984. The Philosophies of Science: An Introductory Survey.
Harré Rom. 1994. The Discursive Mind.
Keat, Russell and John Urry. 1982. Social Theory as Science.
Kolakowski, Leszek. 1972. Positivist Philosophy.
McGill. Allan. 1994. Rethinking Objectivity.
Snow, C.P. 1993[1959]. The Two Cultures.
Toulmin, Stephen, 1990. Cosmopolis: The Hidden Agenda of Modernity.

450G RESEARCH PROBLEMS IN ETHNOHISTORY:  COSMOGONY AND COSMOLOGY (1 Unit)

Professor Susan Gillespie Office: 386A Davenport Hall; PH: 244-5920 sgillesp@uiuc.edu

 This seminar investigates how sociocosmological classification systems are encoded in indigenous documents.  Emphasis is placed on cosmogony and subsequent "history," unraveling the sequential generation and valuation of cultural categories within a narrative structure. The course begins with a sampling of approaches to cosmogonic accounts in various parts of the world (including Sahlins' Islands of >History, Parmentier's The Sacred Remains, de Heusch's The Drunken King or the Origin of the State, and for the New World, selections from Andean Cosmologies Through Time, Rethinking History and Myth, Animal Myths and Metaphors, and Urton's The History of a >Myth). 

 The main focus is on 16th century cosmogonic-historical texts from Guatemala and Mexico.  The texts are approached discursively as products of the colonial context in which they were written.  A specific syntactic methodology is introduced to determine the nature of organizing narrative schemata.  The major case study is an indepth analysis of the Popol Vuh of the Quiche Maya.  Other Maya texts consulted for comparison may include Yucatec Maya documents whose narrative structure has gone unrecognized, The Chilam Balam of Chumayel and The Ritual of the Bacabs.  Contemporary Aztec documents will also be examined, e.g., the Leyenda de los Soles and Historia de los Mexicanos por sus Pinturas.  Most documents are studied from translations, but dictionaries for the native languages will be consulted to comprehend the multivocality of the embedded tropes.  Time and interest permitting, prehispanic Maya hieroglyphic cosmogonic texts may be examined.

 REQUIREMENTS:  Class participation and the completion of a major analysis of a similar kind of document, chosen with the permission of the instructor.
 PREREQUISITE: CONSENT OF INSTRUCTOR.  Ability to read Spanish is helpful but not mandatory.
[NB: The course number may change to ANTH 456]

450S ARCHAEOLOGICAL THEORY - THE EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVE

Professor Olga Soffer Office: 309H Davenport Hall; PH: 333-2100 o-soffer@uiuc.edu

 This course is a graduate seminar focusing on the history of theory in archaeology. Weekly meetings will center around the work of major European figures in the field who have had a significant theoretical impact on archaeology. By focusing on the work of such scholars as F. Bordes, V.G. Childe, D. Clark, E. Higgs, I. Hodder, A. Leroi-Gourhan, M Shanks and C. Tilley among others, we will examine broader theoretical issues and paradigms such as historic contingency vs. process, evolutionary theory, functionalism, diffusionism, ecology, social theory, structuralism, and Marxism. The course will consist of lectures, discussions of readings, as well as weekly or forthnightly student presentations.

 Prerequisites: graduate standing, Anth. 220 or equivalent.
 Textbooks (tentative)
Hodder, I. l991 Archaeological Theory In Europe: the last three decades. London: Routledge.
Trigger, Bruce G. l989 A History of Archaeological Thought. Cambridge University Press.

 PLUS A PLETHORA of assigned readings placed in the Anthropology Dept. Library.

450W Aesthetics, Power, and Cosmology among Indigenous- and Afro-Latin American People of South America"

Professor Norman Whitten Office: 382 Davenport Hall; PH: 244-3514 nwhitten@uiuc.edu

This course focuses on the intersection of cultural anthropology, aesthetics, the visual arts, festivity and cosmology. We seek to integrate issues that arise in aesthetics with comparable issues in cultural performance and the enactment of identities. The course may be taken by students specializing in South America, and it may also be taken by students who know nothing in advance about South America, but who would like to explore this subject matter. The course is part of the area course selection for Latin America in anthropology, and it will become part of the program for certification for professional museology through the Spurlock Museum.

The course is divided into two parts. In Part I we focus specifically on the visual arts in Indigenous and Afro-Latin American cultures of South America, with special attention to the processes of production and the significations that emerge in quotidian and ritual presentations. As we move toward the end of Part I, issues of festivity, ritual, ceremony, discourse, and mythology emerge as highly salient to understanding the visual. Part II takes us to these realms of performance and orality to reach the heart of cultural transmission of aesthetic phenomena. Part II takes us directly to the relationship between discourse as it emerges in mythology and song texts, and the visual representations of human and other beings as these representations reflect back on the visual arts themselves. As we work through part II we come to the issues of cosmology and cosmogony in South American systems of visual art and discourse. Here we move to approaches to symbolism and to the expression of symbolic formations through festivity, ritual, and myth. We then turn to what Lawrence E. Sullivan calls the "Primordium" and "Eschaton," which are time-space formations in indigenous and Afro-Latin American cultures, to explore recurrent transformations in native cosmology (here we treat "native" as African as well as Indigenous South American). During this exploration we must keep in mind that Sullivan is abstracting South American cosmology from studies of contemporary people, including those such as the Asháninka (Campa) and Canelos Quichua often portrayed as "on the road to full-scale assimilation." We continue working with Sullivan, in his sections "Cosmology: The Meaning of the World," "Anthropology: The Meaning of the Human Condition," and "Terminology: The Meaning of the End.

 Finally, we return to some of our original cases to particularize the readings of Falassi, Leach, and Sullivan. Our case studies begin with "inner-directed" exploration and will probably be those of the Yekuana (Makiritare) and Desana. Using the Shipibo as an intellectual bridge, we next move to an understanding of cosmology, aesthetics, festivity and culture as "outer-directed" as well as "inner directed" phenomena by reference to cognate case studies such as the Canelos Quichua and Saramaka.

455 ARCHAEOLOGY APPROACHES TO CULTURAL COMPLEXITY (1 unit)

Professor Tim Pauketat Office: 123 Davenport Hall; PH: 244-8818 pauketat@uiuc.edu

The contemporary study of "cultural complexity" in archaeology reconsiders the older studies of political economy, social organization, and meaning, but in terms of the production and transmission of traditions, practices, identities, and boundaries. This theory seminar focuses on the new and rapidly changing applications of theories on human agency, practice, gender, orthodoxy, culture contact, syncretism, domination, and history. Discussions will focus on a series of "new classic" books and critical articles, intended to allow students to participate in an advance, collective theory-building effort.

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