102 ANTHROPOLOGY: HUMAN ORIGINS AND CULTURE (4 hrs)

Professor John Polk Office: 188 Davenport Hall PH: 333-3676

jdpolk@uiuc.edu

Professor Barry Lewis Office: 209F Davenport Hall PH: 244-3501

blewis@uiuc.edu

This class explores the fossil and archaeological evidence for human biological and cultural evolution. We examine the fossil and artifact record of the last several million years in order to develop an understanding of why we are interesting animals and a somewhat unique species. The first part of the course considers our biological heritage. We learn the biological bases of human life and carefully evaluate the human fossil record. The second part of the course introduces students to archaeology, the evolution of cultural behavior, and world prehistory. Final grades will be based on two examinations, discussion section assignments, and two 3-5 page article reviews.

Texts:

Turnbaugh, William, et al. (2002) Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology. Eighth Edition. Wadsworth, Belmont, CA.

Lewin, R. (2005) Human Evolution: An Illustrated Introduction. Fifth Edition. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Boston.

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

103 INTRODUCTION TO CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY (4 hrs.)

Instructor Tim Pilbrow Office: 393 Davenport Hall PH: 265-6491

tpilbrow@uiuc.edu

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.

105 WORLD ARCHAEOLOGY (3HRS)

Professor Chris Fennell Office: 296 Davenport Hall PH: 244-7309

cfennell@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, McGraw-Hill, 4th ed. 2005; Adventures in Fugawiland: A Computerized Simulation in Archaeology, by T. Price and A. Gebauer, McGraw-Hill, 3d ed. 2002, with CD.

*THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE HUMANITIES AND ARTS GEN. ED. REQ.

165 NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS (DISCOVERY)

Professor Brenda Farnell Office 209E Davenport Hall PH: 244-9226

bfarnell@uiuc.edu

This course develops an understanding of the rich diversity of languages and cultures found among Native North American peoples from the perspectives of socio-cultural and linguistic anthropology.  We ask, "Why is a language so important to the people that use it?" and "How can the study of languages help us to understand cultural worlds that are radically different from our own?"  The American Indian is a powerful and complex symbol in North American culture and so we first reflect upon what we already know, or think we know, about this subject. How much of our (mis)understanding is based on stereotypes and misconceptions? To understand this historically, we look briefly at the invention of the "Indian" by their European colonizers, investigate the construction and representation of the "Indian" in popular culture, and, most importantly, listen to what American Indians themselves have to say about all this. The class includes several Native American guest speakers, visits to Native American events on campus, and an off-campus field trip.

Discovery courses are open to Freshman students only. No prerequisites.

*THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE NON-WESTERN CULTURES GEN. ED. REQ.

175 Archaeology and the Public  (3 hrs.)
Professor Helaine Silverman Office: 295 Davenport Hall PH: 333-1315

helaine@uiuc.edu

This course explores the manner in which archaeologists and the public have reconstructed and conversed about the past -- their own past and that of others. Through multiple case studies we examine the ways in which the ancient past has been interpreted, appropriated, represented, used and manipulated in the present for a variety of reasons by many different groups in many different societies. Among the topics covered are: science vs. pseudo-science; racializing the past (ancient astronauts; Atlantis; the "myth of the moundbuilders", Afrocentrism, "Black Athena", and the Olmecs of Mexico); politics of the past (Nazi archaeology; contemporary Peruvian politics); contested places and shared spaces (modern-age cultists at Stonehenge, tourists at Maya sites, museums and exhibitions, the landscape of contemporary Australian aborginals); orientalism and the construction of ancient Egypt (the concept of orientalism, the discovery of Tutankamon's tomb, the 1932 Mummy film with Boris Karloff, the 1999 Mummy film with Brendan Fraser); science or sacrilege? (U.S. archaeologists vs. U.S. Native American tribes); the present and future of the past (the pasts of Other Americans: Puerto Ricans/Tainos, Chicanos/Aztlan; "Primitivism" in 20th century art, creating tomorrow's ruins through memorials and memory, the traffic in antiquities, archaeological ethics, the past we deserve). There are 2 required books and some articles on electronic reserve. THIS COURSE HAS A MIDTERM AND A FINAL EXAM AS THE BASIS OF THE FINAL GRADE.

*THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE HISTORICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES GEN. ED. REQ

182 LATIN AMERICAN CULTURES(3 hrs)

Instructor Tim Smith Office: 206 International Studies Building; PH: 333-8419

smithtim@uiuc.edu

This class will introduce you to the diversity of Latin American and Caribbean experience. We will begin with a reflection on colonial legacies, exploring enduring themes of identity, culture and power. Through the semester we will consider differences and commonalities in contemporary life in the Americas, following case studies in books, articles and film. Themes will include regional hierarchies of race, class and gender; the complex position of indigenous peoples; regional experiences of violence, social movements and authoritarianism; processes of democratization; the impacts of neoliberal economic reform and globalization; and popular cultures, performance and religion.

*THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE U.S. MINORITY AND SOCIAL PERSPECTIVES GEN.ED.REQ.

225 WOMEN IN PREHISTORY-(same as Women's Studies 225)
Professor Olga Soffer Office: 309H Davenport Hall ;PH: 333-2100

o-soffer@uiuc.edu

This course introduces students to gender issues in archaeology and in what archaeologists produce: stories about the past.  We begin by considering the multiple ways of "knowing" the past and evaluate the potential biases in each. We then examine the history of gender studies in archaeology and  the roles that women have played in archaeology.  Next we consider the variety of approaches to engendering the past.  Armed with these theoretical and practical insights, we focus on  how we can reliably identify the presence of women in the archaeological record and reconstruct both their lives and the roles that they played in a variety of prehistoric cultures around the world. This course will be run in a lecture/discussion format involving extensive student participation.

Texts: 1. Sªrensen, M.L.S. 2000  Gender Archaeology.  Polity Press,Cambridge
       2.  Additional readings on reserve and available at Notes'n'Quotes, 502 East John.

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

230 INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY AND ETHNOLOGY (3 hrs)

Professor Mahir Saul Office: 309J Davenport Hall PH: 244-3502

m-saul@uiuc.edu

This course is intended to be an advanced introduction to sociocultural anthropology. It examines the encounter between the anthropologist and the people he or she studies and the many ways anthropologists produce knowledge through such concepts as culture, structure, gender, power, personhood, symbol, and political economy. More specifically, the students will read key theoretical essays (recent and not so recent) and concrete ethnographic texts that speak to late twentieth century contemporary debates (i.e. identity, cultural difference, global/local dimensions of everyday life, and so forth). Thus, the class will cover the kind of ethnography and theory that has shaped the type of anthropology practiced in the 1990's. The issues addressed in the course will be presented and (hopefully) understood in the larger context of the history of socio-cultural anthropology.

240 INTRODUCTION TO BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY. (3 hrs.)

Professor John Polk Office: 188 Davenport Hall PH: 333-3676

jdpolk@uiuc.edu

This course provides an in-depth review of fields of study in biological anthropology. Key issues and topics in contemporary biological anthropology are examined. The course investigates include genetics and adaptation in human populations, humans in biological and comparative context, and the fossil evidence for human evolution. Students should develop an appreciation of problems in this field, and should be prepared to enter 300-level courses in the subject. Evaluation is based on discussion and examinations (midterm and final).

Texts: Relethford, J (2003) The Human Species. McGraw Hill.

242 HISTORY OF HUMAN EVOLUTION (3 hrs)

Professor Stan Ambrose Office: 381 Davenport Hall PH: 244-3504

ambrose@uiuc.edu

What does it mean to be human? How did we become human? Answering these basic questions requires an understanding of the processes and mechanisms of evolution, the stages of human evolution after our lineage diverged from the last common ancestor of apes and humans in Africa, and the geological, ecological and environmental events that occurred during our evolution. We will examine the archaeological, genetic and paleontological evidence for patterns and trends observed, the processes involved and the events that occurred to make us modern humans. We will examine changing assumptions about our evolution and interpretations of the paleoanthropological record and how these interpretations influence modern society. Understanding the patterns and processes of becoming human should provide insights into modern human diversity, especially the paradox of why humans throughout the world are all so biologically similar, yet culturally diverse today.

Grading and evaluation of student performance will be based on participation in class discussions, two practical exams (midterm and final exams), and one essay paper. Readings on reserve will be assigned on a weekly basis.

Prerequisite: Anthropology 102, 143, or any higher-level biological anthropology or biology course.

TEXTS: Roger Lewin and Robert Foley. (2004) Principles of Human Evolution. 2^nd edition. Blackwell Science, Malden, MA.

W.W. Howells (1997). Getting Here. The story of human evolution. 2^nd edition. Compass Press.

243 NATURAL HSITORY AND SOCIAL BEHAVIOR OF THE GREAT APES (3 hrs)

Professor Rebecca Stumpf Office: 289 Davenport Hall PH: 333-8072

rstumpf@uiuc.edu

This course examines the biology and behavior of our closest living relatives, the great apes. Beginning with an overview of the taxonomic relationship between the great apes and humans, we will then cover the social organization, mating patterns, feeding ecology and behavior of chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans. Lecture material focuses on topics such as social cooperation, mating strategies, inter-and intra-sexual social interactions, infanticide, tool use, diet, food sharing, reproductive behavior, cognition and conservation. We will evaluate the appropriateness of the great apes as models for understanding human behavior and evolution.

Prerequisites:  Anth. 102, 143, 240 or an equivalent course in animal behavior.

262/WS 262 CULTURAL IMAGES OF WOMEN (HONORS) (3 hrs.)

Professor Alma Gottlieb Office: 386C Davenport Hall, PH: 244-3515

ajgottli@uiuc.edu

v Why isn't Miss America ever fat?

v Is menstruation everywhere viewed as a curse or handicap?

v Why are some African girls eager to undergo "circumcision"?

v Is childbirth seen universally as an illness to be medicated?

v Is motherhood by definition a heterosexual experience?

This course explores these and related questions, investigating how women around the world experience their bodies through the life cycle. We’ll inquire how not only social roles but also images, uses and meanings of the bodies that all women inhabit are shaped in deep, though often invisible, ways by culture. We do this by comparing women's experiences of their bodies in the contemporary U.S. with those of women elsewhere around the world. Through readings, films, guest speakers (including a practicing doula or midwife), and hands-on research and fieldwork exercises, the course introduces you to the gendered experience of the body as understood by cultural anthropology.

Written and Other Work will include the following:

Film Reaction (10%): You’ll choose one of the films we'll see in class and write a short paper about it. Your paper should be primarily scholarly and analytical, but it can also include personal reactions based on your life experience. I'll supply guidelines for these Film Reactions, and a sample evaluation form on which I'll note comments

Personal Ethnography (20%): You’ll conduct ethnographic fieldwork in your own life by going for 24 hours without looking in a mirror, and writing a short analytic piece about the experience, relating to issues & perspectives covered in the course reading. I'll supply guidelines for this project, and a sample evaluation form on which I'll note comments.

Interview-based paper (20%): You’ll conduct ethnographic interviews with a female of an older generation—preferably a relative--about some aspect(s) of her bodily experiences, and write a paper based on these interviews and relating to issues & perspectives covered in the course readings. I'll supply guidelines for this project, and a sample evaluation form on which I'll note comments.

FGO Controversy (20%): You’ll participate in a scholarly debate and turn in debate notes, or write a debate essay, about the growing global controversy over female genital operations. I'll supply guidelines for this project, and a sample evaluation form on which I'll note comments.

Final Essay Exam (20%): This will be a comprehensive exam allowing you to reflect broadly on the major themes raised by the course. You’ll be given a choice of several essay questions, from which you’ll select one to answer.

Class Participation (10)%): This is a seminar—everyone will participate actively in class discussions!

Readings will include a selection of articles on e-reserve as well as the following books (tentative list):

Karen Houppert, The Curse: Confronting the Last Unmentionable Taboo: Menstruation

Susan Bordo, Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body

Colleen Ballerino Cohen, Richard Wilk, and Beverly Stoeltje, eds., Beauty Queens on the Global Stage

Robbie Davis-Floyd and Carolyn Sargent, eds., Childbirth and Authoritative Knowledge

Bettina Shell-Duncan and Ylva Hernlund, eds., Female “Circumcision”: Culture, Controversy, and Change

Ellen Lewin, Lesbian Mothers

*THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE "SOCIAL PERSPECTIVES" GEN. ED. REQUIREMENT

ANTH 277 (Honors Course) Cities and the Built Environment (3 hrs.)
Professor Helaine Silverman Office: 295 Davenport Hall PH: 333-1315

helaine@uiuc.edu

The focus of the course this semester is on tourist cities. Tourism, in its modern Western iteration, is closely associated with colonialism, imperialism, and capitalism. Beginning in the seventeenth century the sons of the European elite, notably the British, made a lengthy Grand Tour of the continent as part of their cultural and educational training. In the nineteenth century wealthy young women, appropriately chaperoned, set off as tourists as well. As empires grew, so did opportunities for tourism, with Egypt becoming particularly popular among the upper classes in the second half of the nineteenth century into the early twentieth. With the technological advances of Industrial Revolution trains and steam ships and later cars and ultimately planes and jets facilitated the mass movement of people, opening up travel to the middle classes both nationally and internationally. Today the tourism industry is global in scope, transnational in economic organization, and still strongly colonialist in cultural practice. This course is a critical examination of tourist cities in their social, political, economic, and physical (built environment) aspects over time and across the world.  The approach in this course is necessarily interdisciplinary, drawing on perspectives from architecture, landscape architecture, art, advertising, geography, history, cultural studies, literature, and cultural theory, among others. Fundamental concepts considered include colonialism; imperialism; globalization; the production of cultural identity and sense of place/locality; the manufacture and consumption of heritage in the postmodern world; and the concepts of authenticity, imaginary, representation, theming, gaze, appropriation, simulacra, and hyperreality. We will read 6 books and some articles on electronic reserve. Among the case studies considered are: Las Vegas, Disneyland, Galena, historic American sites, slave centers of Ghana, Machu Picchu, York, London, Caribbean islands. THE FINAL GRADE IS BASED ON 3 small written assigments ( #1: write a travel memoir of a city in the United States or abroad that you have visited as a tourist; #2: make a scrapbook of ten photographs of a place you have visited and write the captions for your photographs or get ten photographs of a place and write the captions for the images based on what the images convey to you; #3: write a marketing campaign for a place to make it a tourist attraction), one course project, AND  a mandatory visit with the professor to New Salem, IL on a spring Saturday.

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

362 Body, Personhood, and Culture

Instructor: Laura Bellows Office: 391 Davenport Hall PH: 244-7459

lbellows@uiuc.edu

The body’s contents and meanings appear self-evident to us, familiar as we are with the compelling claims and authority of Western scientific discourses. Our own notions of the body and what constitutes the person are not, however, self-evident to other people in the world working with a very different “science” and cosmology than that we are familiar with. In this course, we will look in detail at our own concepts of the body and person both historically and today in contrast primarily to those of the Hindu Balinese in Indonesia as well as ethnographic examples from South and Southeast Asia. Our main task over the course of the semester will be to investigate what exactly constitutes the “body” and the “person” in these different cultural contexts—how is gender determined?; what are the body’s contents and characteristics?; how are reproduction and sexuality understood?; and what is the relationship, if any, between the body and the universe?. Topics we will discuss in the exploration of these broad questions include: rules around eating and hygiene; medicine and healing practice; beauty, movement, and art; sexuality and representations of sexuality (including literature, art, and pornography), and cosmology. In addition to completion of assigned readings, and attendance of lectures, and discussion, students will be asked to undertake ethnographic fieldwork projects and written assignments.

402 TRANSNATIONAL ISLAM, EUROPE-US

Professor Mahir Saul Office: 309J Davenport Hall PH: 244-3502

m-saul@uiuc.edu

This course deals with communities of Islamic origin or converts to Islam in Europe and the USA. In the case of Europe these communities are the result of immigration and the course addresses how decolonization and changes in world economy shaped this movement and how Islam, either as faith or as perceived identity, now is influencing national identities and issues of citizenship. In the US the course deals with conversion among African-Americans, relations with Asian immigrants, race, religion, and the impact of recent geopolitical policies on domestic perception of Islam.

407 GIS FOR ANTHROPOLOGISTS

Professor Barry Lewis Office: 209F Davenport Hall PH: 244-3501

blewis@uiuc.edu

This course is a hands-on laboratory introduction to the basic principles of geographical information systems (GIS) software and its potential applications in archaeological, biological, and cultural anthropology research. Topics include GIS database fundamentals, linking to non-spatial data, spatial analysis and inference, data sources. Problem sets that apply the course materials to anthropological data will be assigned throughout the semester. Each student will complete the course by designing and implementing a GIS-based research project.

Texts:

DeMers, Michael N. (2005) Fundamentals of Geographic Information Systems.

3rd edition.  John Wiley & Sons, NY.

Ormsby, Tim, et al. (2004) Getting to Know ArcGIS Desktop.  2nd edition.

ESRI Press, Redlands, CA.

411 METHODS OF CULTURAL ANTH.

Professor Nancy Abelmann Office 389 Davenport Hall PH: 244-7733

nabelman@uiuc.edu

This course understands that fieldwork is an analytically motivated process. Ethnographers enter their "fields" with -- and conduct their research in constant dialogue with -- research questions and hypotheses. In this spirit, this course will take up the methods of anthropological research, namely the articulation among the research question, field research, and data analysis. Required readings will examine interviews; observation; textual analysis; ethics; archival research (including  popular/political discourse); fieldnotes; and surveys. The course will include many ethnographic exercises as well as a mini ethnography conducted through EOTU (The Ethnography of the University, www.eotu.uiuc.edu).  Texts include: Pierre Bourdieu et al, The Weight of the World: Social Suffering in Contemporary Society; Mitchell Duneier, Sidewalk; Emerson, Fretz, and Shaw, Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes; and Capps and Ochs, Constructing Panic: The Discourse of Agoraphobia. Partner and group work will be required.

414 WRITING ETHNOGRAPHY

Professor Alma Gottlieb Office: 386C Davenport Hall PH: 244-3515

ajgottli@uiuc.edu

Many scholars now question the unbroachable theoretical divide between the humanities and the social sciences, the unique authority of the scholar/author, and the invisibility of the reader in producing scholarly texts. Focusing on the ways in which scholars are also authors, in this course we will explore current debates by reading a selection of contemporary anthropological texts (and some prescient precursors) that boldly experiment with the writing of ethnography. In so doing, the course allows us to engage with important issues relevant to broad interdisciplinary conversations and critical debates about the nature of writing in the social sciences. Using a body of data from a particular ethnographic context (either from library research or their own field data), students will try their hand at experimenting with several ethnographic writing styles themselves.

Readings will likely include the following (in part or whole):

Ruth Behar, The Vulnerable Observer (1996)

Kirin Narayan, Love, Stars and All That (1994)

David Plath, Long Engagements (1980)

Paul Stoller, Jaguar (1999)

Dennis Tedlock, Days from a Dream Almanac (1990)

Marjorie Wolf, Thrice-Told Tale (1992)

plus a selection of shorter texts on e-reserve, including work by Zora Neale Hurston, Gregory Bateson, Clifford Geertz, Richard and Sally Price, Graciela Hernandez, Richard Handler, Barbara Tedlock, Julie Taylor, Carol Stack, John van Maanen, and others.

Prerequisites:

This course is especially designed for advanced undergraduate students who have already taken at least one 300-level course in cultural anthropology, and graduate students in cultural anthropology, writing studies, and education. Other students should contact the instructor before enrolling.

General Education Credit:

For undergraduate students, this course is approved for credit in the campus-wide Advanced Composition (formerly Composition II) requirement.

439 ANTH THEORY AS SCIENCE

Professor F.K. Lehman Office: 209H Davenport Hall PH: 333-8423

f-lehman@uiuc.edu

An exploration of current theory in social-cultural anthropology, with emphasis on examining theories in the light of contemporary ideas about theoretical adequacy and argumentation designed especially for anthropology concentrators and anthropology graduate students. Midterm and final exam. Required paper.

Texts:

Harris, M., Theories of Culture in Postmodern Times. Altamira Press, 1999.

440 HUMAN PALEONTOLOGY (3 hrs)

Instructor Varsha Pilbrow Office: 285 Davenport Hall PH: 265-6490

vpilbrow@uiuc.edu

This course will use an in-depth survey of the hominid fossil record as a means to reconstructing the evolutionary history of humans. A multidisciplinary approach is best suited to the study of human evolution. Consequently, an emphasis will be placed on understanding basic evolutionary and systematic concepts, studying geochronometric techniques, and reviewing research findings from a variety of scientific disciplines, including evolutionary biology, paleontology, primatology, comparative anatomy, molecular biology, geology and archaeology. We will spend the semester reviewing what is currently known about the fossil record of human evolution, the methods employed in recovering and analyzing fossil material, the history of discovery, and how these data have been and currently are interpreted.

443 PRIMATE FORM AND BEHAVIOR (3 hrs)

Professor Rebecca Stumpf Office: 289 Davenport Hall PH: 333-8072

rstumpf@uiuc.edu

This course focuses on primate social behavior and the classification, morphology, and geographic distribution of living primate species. This course will review all of the living primate species and the morphological and molecular bases for their classification. We will then examine the extensive behavioral and morphological variation in diet, locomotion and social systems. Particular emphasis will be placed on the interrelationships between ecology, behavior, and morphological adaptations.

Prerequisites: ANTH 240 or EEE 246

451 ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEYING

Professor Chris Fennell Office: 296 Davenport Hall PH: 244-7309

cfennell@uiuc.edu

Familiarization with analytic frameworks for spatial analysis of social dynamics, modeling spatial relationships, and methods used in locating, recording, and mapping archaeological sites; attention given to means of formulating survey plans, interpreting data, and presenting results through work both in the field and in the laboratory.

Prerequisite: Anth 102 or consent of instructor.

TEXTS: Field Methods in Archaeology, by T. Hester, H. Shafer, and K. Feder, Mayfield Pub., 7th ed. 1997 (required); Archaeological Survey, by J. Collins and B. Molyneaux, Alta Mira Press, 2003 (required); Sampling in Archaeology, by C. Orton, Cambridge University Press, 2000 (suggested).

452 THEORY AND METHOD OF LITHIC ANALYSIS (3 hrs., 3/4 or 1 unit)

Professor Stanley Ambrose Office: 381 Davenport Hall PH: 244-3504

ambrose@uiuc.edu

Stones and bones modified and transported by prehistoric humans are two of the main classes of archaeological evidence of prehistoric human behavior. In order to integrate these classes of data into archaeological analyses and for informed anthropological interpretations one must have a clear understanding of physical properties of stone and bone raw materials, and of principles and techniques of artifact manufacture. This course will involve lectures, readings, discussions and practical laboratory exercises on a variety of aspects of lithic analysis, including identification, description, experimental manufacture, illustration, determination of function, metrical measurement, statistical analysis, graphic presentation of data and typological classification systems. The conceptual emphasis will be on the use of lithic analysis of test anthropological models of human behavior.

Grading and evaluation of student performance will be based on participation in class discussions, two practical exams (midterm and final exams), artifact illustrations, and the accuracy, completeness and organization of the laboratory and lecture notebook. Readings on library reserve will be assigned on a weekly basis.

Prerequisite: Anthropology 220, or consent of the instructor.

TEXTS: Odell, George H. (2004) Lithic Analysis. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York.

Inizan, M. -L., M. Reduron-Ballinger, H. Roche and J. Tixier (1999) Technology and Terminology of Knapped Stone. CREP: Nanterre, France.

A manual of lithic analysis and typology will also be required.

486 PEOPLES AND CULTURES OF MAINLAND SOUTHEAST ASIA. (3 hrs)

Professor F.K. Lehman Office: 209H Davenport Hall, PH: 333-8423

f-lehman@uiuc.edu

This course defines the region as a system of interdependencies amongst peoples founded upon the way largely Indian models of statecraft and society were adapted by the lowland states to the Southeast Asian environment. The course surveys these systems and the peoples living in the area, and analyzes selected social and cultural structures, both lowland and tribal, in the context of the regional system of dependencies.

There is a map quiz, a mid-term, a final examination; the two examinations combine essay questions and questions requiring identification of peoples and places and items of social and cultural importance to the region. There will be no term paper, because I prefer to have the students in the course read both deeply and widely over the region as a whole. The course depends upon grasping certain theoretical questions from social and cultural anthropology, but I make every attempt to explain these in the lectures so that a student with little or no previous exposure to anthropology, but with an interest in the region from some other point of view may take the course with profit.

The format of the course is overwhelmingly a series of formal lectures, but there is ample scope given for pursuing questions raised by the students in class. No textbook exists for the course but selected anthropological books are required, such as C.F. KEYES’S ETHNIC ADAPTATION AND IDENTITY: KARENS ON THE THAI FRONTIER WITH BURMA; ER. LEACH’S POLITICAL SYSTEMS OF HIGHLAND BURMA AND G.B. MILNER’S NATURAL SYMBOLS IN SOUTHEAST ASIA. Moreover, every student ought to ready thoroughly C.F. KEYES’S THE GOLDEN PENINSULA, which was the textbook for such a course until it went out of print, and of which numerous copies are available in the library. In addition, an extended syllabus, together with a large list of readings on Reserve in the Education and Social Science Library is handed out.

Prerequisite: Anth 220 or 230 or consent of instructor.

499B ANTHROPOLOGY OF POST-SOCIALISM

Instructor Tim Pilbrow Office: 393 Davenport Hall PH: 265-6491

tpilbrow@uiuc.edu

Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, citizens of the formerly state socialist societies in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union have experienced wrenching transformations in their economic security, means of livelihood, and  political enfranchisement. Yet this is largely framed both by outside observers and locals within a master narrative of the triumph of market capitalism and democracy over totalitarianism that pays little attention to the dislocation and trauma that such large-scale social transformation has entailed for many. This course draws on anthropological research on the late-socialist and post-socialist period to examine how ethnographically-grounded studies can inform our understanding of post-socialist transformations. The course examines also how attention to the varied experience of post-socialism might push anthropological theory and practice in new directions.

499L ANTHROPOLOGY OF CONTEMPORARY MEXICO

Professor Alejandro Lugo Office: 385 Davenport Hall PH: 333-0823

a-lugo@uiuc.edu

This is a seeminar on culture, power, and everyday life in Mexico and its borderlands for both graduate and (advanced) undergraduate students. We will critically examine historically based ethnographic studies as well as ethnographically grounded historical analyses of communities (villages, cities, neighborhoods, both national and transnational--and of the "imagined community") from different perspectives which interrogate essentialist notions of “lo mexicano without ignoring its cultural and ethnographic effects. We will also explore how these communities transcend geographical limits and borders and how they are constituted by gender, race, and class differentials. In this course, we will emphasize, as well, an analysis and understanding of the historical and political forces that led to “an anthropology of Mexico, beginning with U.S.-Mexico encounters during the Mexican War of 1846-1848 and into the present. In the process, we will discuss how different phases of empire and revolutions (both economic and political), and their respective regimes of rule, helped shape the kind of ethnic and cultural communities which anthropologists and others studied throughout the 20th century and into the present both in continental Mexico and (to a lesser extent) in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. At the same time, we will discuss how the people themselves—indigenous and non-indigenous, women andd men, young and old, working class and intellectual and economic elites, braceros and their families—intterpret their own current situations and the historical forces behind them: including, among others, issues of human rights, gender and class inequalities, racism, nationalism, NAFTA, and cultural identity and cultural citizenship in an age of transnationalism that is redefining the Mexican nation-state.

513 FORMAL ANALYSIS OF KINSHIP

Professor F.K. Lehman Office: 209H Davenport Hall PH: 333-8423

f-lehman@uiuc.edu

A survey of a variety of the world’s systems of kinship, marriage, and family organization; concentration on the distinctive properties of kinship systems as a species of cultural and social structure, on the formal apparatus for describing and understanding cultural and social structures, and on the theory of kinship that arises from the use of such formal apparatus.

No texts required.

515M ETHNOGRAPHY OF INSTABILITY AND INSECURITY

Instructor Ellen Moodie Office: 187 Davenport Hall PH: 244-7849

emoodie@uiuc.edu

How can we write on shifting grounds? In this graduate seminar we will consider forms of ethnographic knowledge production in the midst of flux, fear and fragmentation. We will discuss a series of monographs, chapters and articles that approach precarious social circumstances on intimate, local and global scales and in merging political and everyday modes. We will think about how political and social insecurities are produced, whether as public spectacle or in power-laden circulation of secrets and instigation of paranoia. We will explore how people experience both the anguish of dramatic political change and the nervous daily exclusions of poverty and racism. We will look at the effects of global processes reordering economic relations and at the disintegration of social relations in the violence of war and terrorism. The works we will read include Carol Greenhouse et al.’s Ethnography in Unstable Places: Everyday Lives in the Contexts of Dramatic Political Change; Daniel M. Goldstein’s The Spectacular City: Violence and Performance in Urban Bolivia; William F. Kelleher Jr.’s The Troubles in Ballyboogin: Memory and Identity in Northern Ireland; Donna M. Goldstein’s Laughter Out of Place: Race, Class, Violence and Sexuality in a Rio Shantytown; Kathleen Stewart’s A Space on the Side of the Road: Cultural Poetics in an “Other” America; E. Valentine Daniel’s Charred Lullabies: Chapters in an Anthropography of Violence; and Erik Mueggler’s The Age of Wild Ghosts: Memory, Violence and Place in Southwest China.

515S THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF GENDER, SEX, AND AGE
Professor Olga Soffer Office: 309H Davenport Hall PH: 333-2100

o-soffer@uiuc.edu

The past ten years have seen an explosion of concern with sex, gender, sexuality, and to a lesser degree age in the past. This new graduate course will explore some of the many dimensions of this trend as it impacts on archaeological methods, theories, practices, and interpretations. The class will be run as a seminar divided into topical themes. In familiarizing ourselves with the breadth of issues implicated by a critical and informed interest in prehistoric sex and gender processes we will have to range broadly over issues of social, feminist and queer theories and concepts of sex, gender, epistemology, research methodologies, archaeological interpretation, and the daily practice of archaeology as it is undertaken by gendered individuals. Each topical theme, where possible, will be illustrated with a pertinent case study. In addition to covering a broad and diverse body of literature pertaining to our subject matter, during the semester we will critically focus on:

1) how our understanding of the past is affected and improved when we take the dynamics of gender, sex, and age into account,
2) what is required to accomplish this convincingly.

Requirements - graduate status, familiarity with methods and theory in prehistoric archaeology.

Texts/Readings TBA

517 ANTHRO APPROACH TO MEMORY

Professor Janet Keller Office: 395 Davenport Hall PH: 333-3529

jdkeller@uiuc.edu

This is a new course designed for advanced graduate students with interests in the areas of Culture, Memory and History in Ethnography. The first few weeks of the semester will be devoted to foundational, theoretical considerations shaping anthropological research on social memory, individual remembering and the interaction of these processes in representations and performance. Subsequently we will read a series of texts and shorter works (both articles and excerpts from longer volumes); each week addressing a different topic or critiquing a distinctive perspective in contemporary culture and memory studies. Graduate students participating in the class will develop critical reviews throughout the semester and present an original essay, research paper, dissertation segment, or research project design for the final requirement. Readings will be taken primarily from the following lists.

Texts:

Durkheim, Emile 1974 [1924] Sociology and Philosophy. Reprint by The Free Press (a division of Macmillan Publishing). New York.

Connerton, Paul 1989 How Societies Remember. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Halbwachs, Maurice1980 [1950] The Collective Memory. New York: Harper and Row.

Malkki, Liisa 1995 Purity and Exile: Violence, Memory and National Cosmology Among Hutu Refugees in Tanzania. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Hyussen, Andreas 2003 Present Pasts: Urban Palimpsests and the Politics of Memory.Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Wertsch, James V. 2002 Voices of Collective Remembering. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Sutton, David 2001 Remembrance of Repasts: An Anthropology of Food and Memory. New York: Berg.

Stoller, Paul 1995 Embodying Colonial Memories. London and New York: Routledge.

With a selection from the following articles:

Bunzl, Matti 1995 On the Politics and Semantics of Austrian Memory: Vienna’s Monument against War and Facism.” History and Memory 7(2):7-40.

Bunzl, Matti 1998 Counter-Memory and Modes of Resistance: The Uses of Fin-de-Siecle Vienna for Present-Day Austrian Jews. In Dagmar Lorenz and Renate Posthofen (EDS.) Transforming the Center, Exploring the Margins: Essays on Ethnic and Cultural Boundaries in German Speaking Countries. Columbia, SC: Camden House.

Bloch, Maurice 1985 From Cognition to Ideology. In Richard Fardon (ED) Knowledge and Power: Anthropological and Sociological Approaches. Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press.

Cole, Jennifer 1998 The Work of Memory in Madagascar. American Ethnologist 25:610-633.

Fabian, Johannes 2001 Africa’s Belgium. In Johannes Fabian Anthropology with an Attitude: Critical Essays. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

And with excerpts from the following larger works:

Bartlett, Frederic C. 1967 [1932] Remembering: A Study in Experimental and Social Psychology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Borofsky, Robert 2000 Remembrance of Pacific Pasts: An Invitation to Remake History. Honolulu: University of Hawai’I Press.

Forty, Adrian and Suzanne Küchler (EDS.) The Art of Forgetting. New York: Berg.

Goody, Jack 2000 The Power of the Written Tradition. Washington D. C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.

Hoskins, Janet 1998 Biographical Objects: How Things Tell the Stories of Peoples Lives. London and New York: Routledge.

Hutchins, Edwin 1995 Cognition in the Wild. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Lambek, Michael and Antze, Paul (EDS) 1998 Tense Past: Cultural Essays in Trauma and Memory. London: Routledge.

Lowenthal, David 1985 The Past is a Foreign Country. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Neisser, Ulric (ED.) 1982 Memory Observed: Remembering in Natural Contexts.

San Francisco: W. H. Freeman and Company.

Neisser, Ulric and Robyn Fivush (EDS.) 1994 The Remembering Self: Construction and Accurancy in the Self-Narrative. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Neisser, Ulric and Eugene Winograd (EDS.) 1988 Remembering Reconsidered: Ecological and Traditional Approaches to the Study of Memory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Stewart, Kathleen  1996 A Space By the Side of the Road: Cultural Poetics in an Other America. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Wilson, Robert A. 2004 Boundaries of the Mind: The Individual in the Fragile Sciences. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

ANTH 561 Archaeological Theory.
Professor Helaine Silverman Office: 295 Davenport Hall PH: 333-1315

helaine@uiuc.edu

This course exposes students to the archaeological avant-garde, challenging students to assess each scholar's theory against the problem under consideration and data base. The goals of this course are to provide students with the critical ability to evaluate this so-called cutting-edge work; enable students to apply some of these ideas, where appropriate, to their own work; and (teach students to "talk the talk." Requirements: (1) come to class having done the reading and be prepared to discuss it by means of reading notes [25%]; (2) in-class discussion of your dissertation project and the theoretical approaches that underwrite it [25%]  (3) write the theoretical justification for your dissertation fieldwork, linking theory to an empirical problem so as to situate your work (5 pages, single-spaced) [50%]. This course will have a heavy and dense reading load. A preliminary syllabus is available now to students enrolling in this course. Please communicate with the professor to obtain a copy. The professor wishes to meet with students enrolling in ANTH 561 before the end of the Fall 2004 term (this semester) so that adjustments, if necessary, can be made in the syllabus prior to the start of classes in January.