102 ANTHROPOLOGY: HUMAN ORIGINS AND CULTURE (4 hrs)
Professor Steve Leigh Office: 209J Davenport Hall PH: 244-3503
Professor Barry Lewis Office: 209F Davenport Hall PH: 244-3501
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.
Texts:
Turnbaugh, William, et al. (2002) Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology. Eighth Edition. Wadsworth, Belmont, CA.
Lewin, R. (1999) Human Evolution: An Illustrated Introduction. Fourth\Edition. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Boston.
*THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE SOCIAL PERSPECTIVES GEN. ED. REQ.
103 INTRODUCTION TO CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY (4 hrs.)
Professor Andy Orta Office: 391 Davenport Hall PH: 244-7108
Cultural anthropologists are interested in the social organization of human communities, the social organization of meaning within these communities, and the ways this organization varies across communities. The aim of this course will be to present an overview of cultural anthropology focusing on the discipline's central concept: culture. Readings, lectures, assignments, and exams will expose students to a broad range of societies around the world and encourage a comparative awareness of their own. Beyond pursuing enduring questions of how people in different places and times find the world to be a meaningful place, cultural anthropology provides a uniquely informed perspective on a set of very pressing topics, including globalization, multiculturalism, racial and ethnic conflict, and gender relations.
*THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE SOCIAL PERSPECTIVES GEN. ED. REQ.
104 TALKING CULTURE (3 hrs)
Professor Janet Keller Office: 395 Davenport Hall PH: 333-3529
This course provides an introduction to linguistic
anthropology, focusing on language as a means to understand self and society;
demonstrating the role of language in the development of a person's concept of
self and in the creation and maintenance of society and culture; emphasizing
language use within community as key to the analysis of cultural practices and
beliefs. We examine how talk and
gestures actually work in different cultural contexts, look at problems of
cross-cultural communication, and explore difficulties among people who speak
the same language, especially when differences of class, age, gender, sexual
orientation, and/or ethnicity are involved.
Texts include the following books and a coursepack
Michael Agar Language Shock 1994
Laurie Bauer and Peter Trudgill (Eds.) Language
Myths 1998
*THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE SOCIAL PERSPECTIVES GEN. ED. REQ.
107 ARCHAEOLOGY OF ANCIENT EGYPT. (3 hrs)
Instructor: Missy Loyet Office 320 Wohlers Hall PH: 265-5527
A survey of Egyptian archaeology from prehistoric times through the New Kingdom. The first part of the semester will focus on modern archaeological techniques, including techniques developed in Egypt, as well as the earliest archaeological materials in Egypt. This part of the course will deal with pre-dynastic archaeology, or those materials, which pre-date Pharaonic Egypt. This includes the geological history of the Nile, the Paleolithic, and the origins of agriculture. The second half of the semester will focus on Dynastic Egypt, and will include presentations on the history, life, gods, religion, and architecture of this ancient civilization. In this section we will examine in depth some of the better known aspects of Egyptian civilization, including the pyramids, hieroglyphic writing, and mummification.
There are no prerequisites for this course, but Anthropology 102 or 105 is suggested.
Text:
Brewer/Teeter. Egypt and the Egyptians. Cambridge University Press.
*THIS COURSE FULFILLS: A) THE HISTORICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL
PERSPECTIVES GEN. ED. REQUIREMENT AND B)
COMP I
149 EVOLUTION AND HUMAN DISEASE (3 hrs)
Professor Linda Klepinger Office: 209G Davenport Hall PH: 244-3513
The course will familiarize students with the principles of evolution as they apply to changing patterns of human health and disease. Topics include: disease transmission, pathogen strategies, function of symptoms and spectrum of disease, evolution of virulence, concept of disease causality, antimicrobial antibiotic resistance, emerging diseases, stress and adaptation, nutrition, diabetes, and a diachronic overview of changing patterns of human disease and ecological factors. Specific examples of medical problems will be used to illustrate the operation of the basic biological and evolutionary concepts.
Grades will be based on performance on three hourly exams, a short paper in the form of a book review, and participation in class discussion.
Texts:
Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine by R. M. Nesse and G. C. Williams, Times Books, 1994.
Yellow Fever, Black Goddess: The Co-Evolution of People and Plagues by C. Wills, Addison-Wesley, 1996. and either:
New Guinea Tapeworms and Jewish Grandmothers by R. Desowitz, W.W. Norton, 1981.
or:
The Hot Zone by R. Preston.
*THIS COURSE PARTIALLY FULFILLS THE NATURAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY GEN.ED. REQ
175 ARCHAEOLOGY,
POPULAR CULTURE 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
others have reconstructed and conversed about the past -- their own past and
that of others. This course is about the past in the present in terms of the
social and political context of archaeology. 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
people, political parties, national governments and others. In this course we
also use the past as a vehicle for exploring very contemporary issues such as
racism, nationalism, ethnicity, memory, immigration, Afrocentrism,
pseudo-scientism, feminism, orientalism, tourism, primitivism, the
"exhibitionary complex," chicano longings for Aztlan, and the ethics
of excavating other peoples' ancestors. Throughout the course we consider
archaeology as popular culture in the United States today (e.g., "mummy
mania," documentaries, fiction films, and television programs about the
past: various videos will be shown in class) and as a very relevant
contemporary intellectual and social undertaking.
Readings: one
textbook, one course reader
Requirements: 4 brief
essays + attendance
*THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE HISTORICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL
PERSPECTIVES GEN. ED. REQ
188 Culture, Ethnicity, and Conflict ( 3
hrs)
Professor William Kelleher Office: 396B Davenport Hall PH: 244-3516
This course introduces fundamental concepts of
sociocultural anthropology as it examines a specific problem area: the
anthropology of conflict and violence.
The course begins by introducing a variety of debates on the relationship
of nature and culture. Is violence a natural and/or a natural
predisposition? After reviewing these
debates, we shall examine a series of case studies that we shall evaluate in
terms of the questions raised in this literature. In each of these cases, we shall examine the organization of space
and time (geography, history, and memory), the relationship of cultural
politics to ethnicity, and the intersection of group formation and the
development of nation states. The cases
to be studied include Northern Ireland, Rwanda, Bosnia, Guatemala, Sri Lanka,
and India.
190 AMERICAN JEWISH
CULTURE.
(3hrs.)
Professor Matti Bunzl Office: 386B Davenport Hall; PH: 265-4068
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 anti-Semitism. This focus on Jewish migration will be
followed by the sustained examination of American Jewish religions and communal
life, emphasizing rearticulations of religion 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
and the role of the Holocaust in American life.
*THIS
COURSE FULFILLS THE NON-WESTERN/US MINORITY CULTURES GEN. ED. REQ.
230 INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY AND ETHNOLOGY (3 hrs)
Professor Norman Whitten Office: 382 Davenport Hall PH: 244-3514
nwhitten@uiuc.edu
This course explores the social and cultural
anthropological studies of human societies by focusing on the development of
anthropological theories of social relations and social structures, culture
history, ritual and power, aesthetics and social movements, and modernity and
alternative modernity’s in a changing world.
We begin with an examination of critical works in the discipline of
anthropology. The complex
anthropological task of creating models that weave structure, social relations,
history, symbolic interpretations and representations is then addressed and
illustrated by reference to two African American ethnographies: the Saramaka of
Suriname and the Black Frontiersmen of Ecuador and Colombia. Finally, we re-examine these concepts and
techniques by specific reference to two contemporary people of the Republic of
Ecuador: the Afro-Latin Americans of the Western rain forest, and the Canelos
Quichua indigenous people of the Upper Amazon.
Texts:
Adam Kuper. Anthropology for Anthropologists: The Modern British School (1983).
Roger Keesing. Kin Groups and Social Structure
(1975).
Norman E. Whitten, Jr, Black Frontiersmen: Afro-American Culture of Ecuador and
Colombia (1994: fourth edition). (part of package)
Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney (editor). Culture Through
Time: Anthropological Approaches
(1990).
Dorothea S. Whitten and Norman E. Whitten, Jr.
From Myth to Creation: Art From
Amazonian Ecuador (1988). (part of package)
Selected readings on the Saramaka of Suriname and the Canelos Quichua of Amazonian Ecuador will be distributed. These include readings on the Indigenous Uprising of 1990, and the Indigenous March for Land and Life in 1992. (part of package)
231 AFRICAN AND INDIGENOUS AMERICANS OF SOUTH AMERICA. (3 hrs)
Professor Arlene Torres Office: 383 Davenport Hall PH: 244-3511
Contemporary African American and Indigenous American people of South America constitute dynamic cultures that extend across national borders. Taken together, these two diaspora aggregations of people, one displaced from Africa and Europe, provide evidence extraordinary cultural, social, and ethnic endurance in the face of radical and relentless change. Course combines information on both African-American and Native-American cultures in ethnographic and comparative perspectives.
*THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE NON-WESTERN/US MINORITY CULTURES AND SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES GEN ED. REQ.
240 INTRODUCTION TO BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY. (3 hrs.)
Professor Chris Grassi Office: 393 Davenport Hall, PH: 333-3676
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.
243 NATURAL HISTORY & SOCIAL BEHAVIOR OF THE
GREAT APES (3 hrs.)
Professor
Paul Garber Office 309K Davenport Hall PH: 333-0075
This course examines the social organization, mating
patterns, feeding ecology and behavior of free-ranging chimpanzees, bonobos,
gorillas, and orangutans. Lecture
material is presented in a historical perspective and focuses on topics such as
social cooperation, mating strategies, inter-and intrasexual social
interactions, infanticide, tool use, diet, food sharing, group structure,
reproductive behavior and cognition, and the appropriateness of the living
great apes as models for understanding human behavior and evolution..
Prerequisites: Anth. 102, 143, 240 or an equivalent course
in animal behavior.
258 PEOPLE OF THE ICE AGE. (3 hrs)
Professor Olga Soffer Office: 309H Davenport Hall PH: 333-2100
This course explores a vast period of human prehistory-some
2 million to 10,000 years ago- before people domesticated plants and animals
and first cities arose around the world.
We will use archaeological, paleoanthropological, and ethnographic evidence
to understand past lifeways in Africa, Europe, Asia, Australia and the
Americas. The course will emphasize an
integration of theory and data for understanding both specific cultures of the
past as well as for observed changes in past cultures of the Pleistocene.
Bogucki, P.
1999. The Origins of Human Society. Blackwell Publishers, Malden, Mass.
Additional
readings on reserve in the Undergraduate Library
259 SPANISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES IN THE UNITED STATES. (3hrs.)
Professor Alejandro Lugo Office: 385 Davenport Hall PH: 333-0823
In this class, we will examine the cultures and histories
of U.S. Latinas and Latinos. Although we will focus on recent ethnographic
studies about AND by Latinos and Latinas, we will also explore other genres:
poetry, short story, film, video and historical and sociological texts. Topics
to 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 Latina/o 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."
262/WS
262 CULTURAL IMAGES OF WOMEN (3 hrs.)
Professor Alma Gottlieb Office: 386C Davenport Hall, PH: 244-3515
Do women everywhere wish to be slender? Is menstruation everywhere viewed as a curse
or handicap? Is childbirth seen
universally as an illness to be medicated?
Is motherhood by definition a heterosexual experience? This course will explore these and related
questions, investigating how women around the world experience their
bodies. Throughout the semester we will
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. Through a variety of
readings, films, and inquiries on these topics, the course will introduce you
to critical approaches to gender and society offered by cultural anthropology.
Course Requirements:
Students will do a variety of writing for the class,
including the following:
-Several in-class quizzes
-one take-home essay
-1-2 page reactions to films shown in class
-Short essays on controversial topics
-Short reaction piece to a relevant campus lecture or event
-Short piece based on personal fieldwork (24 hours without
looking in a mirror)
Prerequisites:
You will get more out of this course if you have already
taken at least one introductory course in cultural anthropology (e.g. ANTH
103), history, or one of the other social sciences (sociology, political
science, economics), or another women's studies course.
Texts:
Readings will include a packet of articles as well as the
following books:
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
Karen Houppert, The Curse: Confronting the Last
Unmentionable Taboo: Menstruation
Ellen Lewin, Lesbian Mothers
Bettina Shell-Duncan and Ylva Hernlund, eds, Female
"Circumcision": Culture,
Controversy, and Change
*THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE "SOCIAL
PERSPECTIVES" GEN. ED.
REQUIREMENT
266 AFRICAN FILM AND AFRICAN SOCIETY (3hrs)
Professor Mahir Saul Office: 309J Davenport Hall PH: 244-3502
A course on recent feature films produced in African countries. These films are used to provide an introduction to contemporary Africa. Some of these films have received prestigious international awards. The films shown in the class are treated as entertainment, as art, and as documents revealing social issues in contemporary Africa. The course will include readings on Africa, on the countries where the films were made, and on the topics that they deal with. After the first two introductory weeks the students will watch one film per week. Attendance of these screenings and of the period of lecture and discussion is obligatory. There will be exams and weekly writing assignments.
Texts:
I. Bakari & M. Cham, African Experiences of Cinema
M. Diawara, African Cinema, Politics & Culture
N. Thiong’o, Decolonizing the
Mind
*THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE NON-WESTERN CULTURES GEN ED. REQ.
286 ANTHROPOLOGICAL ISSUES IN THE STUDY OF ASIAN AMERICA.
Professor Nancy Abelmann Office: 389 Davenport Hall PH: 244-7733
Through an examination of ethnographic writings on Asian
America, this course considers a number of theoretical and methodological
debates in social cultural anthropology.
This course pays particular attention to the contribution that
anthropological questions and methods make to the understanding of Asian
America, and in turn to the ways in which the examination of Asian America can
contribute to anthropological thinking.
In keeping with anthropology's increasing interest in the genre of
ethnography itself, this course examines texts that challenge the borders of
ethnography including fiction and memoir.
The course will include mini-field work projects on Asian Americans in
Urbana-Champaign.
Assigned books will include:
Lum, Casey Man Kong. 1996. In Search of a Voice: Karaoke
and Chinese Americans.
Fadiman,
Anne. 1997. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her
American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures.
Fenkl, Heinz Insu. 1996. Memories of My Ghost Brother.
Small, Cathy. 1997. Voyages from Tongan Villages to
American Suburbs.
Ng, Fae Myenne. 1993. Bone.
Bernard Wong. 1998.
Ethnicity and Entrepreneurship: The New Chinese Immigrants in the San Francisco
Bay Area.
Kanae, Lisa Linn. Sista Tongue.
Zhou, Min and Carl L.
Bangston III. 1998. Growing Up American: How Vietnamese Children Adapt to
Life in the United States.
302 TRANSNATIONAL ISLAM: EUROPE AND THE U.S. ( 3 hrs)
Professor Mahir Saul Office: 309J Davenport Hall PH: 244-3502
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.
John Esposito, Islam the Straight Path
Jorgen Nielsen, Muslims in Western Europe
G. Nonneman, et. al. Muslim Communities in the New
Europe
Philip Lewis, Islamic Britain
Barbara Metcalf, ed. Making Muslim Space in North
America and Europe
330 The History and Historiography of Anthropology. (4 hrs. or 1 unit)
Professor Matti Bunzl Office: 386B Davenport Hall; PH: 265-4068
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.
333 SOUTH AMERICAN INDIANS OF THE ANDEAN REGION. (3 hrs.)
Professor Andrew Orta Office: 391 Davenport Hall PH: 244-7108
This course examines the histories and cultures of the peoples of the Andean region of South America. Reading classical and contemporary scholarship on the Andes, we will address traditional (and still crucial) anthropological themes in the regional ethnography (kinship and social structure, exchange, ritual, etc.), along with new directions in Andean ethnography reflecting changes in regional societies as well as changes in anthropology. As a site of early colonial encounter, a setting for complex processes of racialization, a set of instructive cases of pioneering post-colonial nation building, a core example of regional area studies, a backdrop for contemporary movements championing indigenous ethnic identity in national and global political fora, and a region reeling from the effects of neoliberal reforms of recent decades, the Andes serve as a case study of pressing contemporary interest and broad comparative relevance to scholars of other parts of the world. The course is intended for students interested in the Andes and Latin America as well as students with more comparative interests in the region.
338 GIS FOR ANTHROPOLOGY. (4 hrs)
Professor Barry Lewis Office: 209F Davenport Hall PH: 244-3501
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. (2000) Fundamentals of Geographic Information Systems.
2nd Edition. John Wiley & Sons, New York.
Ormsby, Tim, et al. (2001) Getting to Know ArcGIS Desktop. ESRI Press,
Redlands, CA.
348 PREHISTORY
OF AFRICA. (3 hrs.)
Professor Stanley Ambrose Office:
189 Davenport Hall, PH:
244-3504
Africa is the cradle of humanity and the sole source of
evidence for the first four million years of hominid evolution and cultural
development, and the place where many of the most significant advances in
cultural evolution and innovations in technology occurred. 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 development of intellectual, cultural, economic, linguistic 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, or consent of the instructor.
Texts: African Archaeology 2nd edition (1993), by
David W. Phillipson, Cambridge University Press.
Human Beginnings in South Africa (1999), by Hilary J. Deacon and Jeanette Deacon, Altamira
Press.
350 PREHISTORY OF EUROPE (3 hrs)
Professor
Olga Soffer Office 309H
Davenport Hall PH: 333-2100
This is a comprehensive course covering about a million
years of European prehistory from initial colonization to the successful spread
of farming communities across Europe.
It focuses both on cultural history and on processual issues of cultural
integration and culture change. The
class will be run as a seminar where lectures on general issues will be
combined with weekly student presentations on the specific regional
archaeological records of their chosen area.
TENTATIVE TEXTS:
Gamble, C. l999 THE
PALEOLITHIC SOCIETIES OF EUROPE, Cambridge U. Press
Milisauskas, S. ed.
2002. EUROPEAN PREHISTORY. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers
Additional readings on reserve in the Undergraduate Library
352 THEORY AND METHOD OF LITHIC ANALYSIS (3 hrs., 3/4 or 1 unit)
Professor Stanley Ambrose Office: 381 Davenport Hall PH: 244-3504
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: Andrefsky,
William, Jr. (1998) Lithics:
Macroscopic Approaches to Lithic Analysis. Cambridge Manuals in
Archaeology. Cambridge University
Press.
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.
359 FORENSIC
ANTHROPOLOGY (3 hrs or 3/4 or 1 unit)
Professor Linda Klepinger Office: 386A Davenport Hall PH: 244_3513
klepinge@uiuc.edu
This course focuses on the use of anthropology in legal and
law enforcement procedures. Topics to
be covered include skeletal identification (both gross and microscopic
techniques), skeletal trauma analysis, taphonomy, legal applications of human
genetics, footprint evidence, the expert witness and
ethics.
Prerequisite:
Anthropology 356 or consent of instructor.
Required Texts:
Reichs, Kathleen J, ed.
Forensic Osteology: Advances in the Identification of Human Remains, 2nd
Ed. (Charles C. Thomas: Springfield,
1998).
360 PEOPLES AND
CULTURES OF OCEANIA. (3 hrs)
Professor Janet Keller Office: 395 Davenport Hall PH:
333-3529
This course is specifically designed for advanced
undergraduates this semester. Cultural traditions and contemporary
socio-political issues in the Pacific are introduced through ethnography, film
and museum exhibits. The new Spurlock
Museum exhibits on Oceania will provide an additional venue for research and
study. Graduate students are welcome
but I would like to work with each of you who may be interested in order to
create an independent focus of study relevant to your emerging research
interests.
Substantive topics to be explored include: cultural and
political geography; reinventing traditions, colonialism and nationalism in
identity formation; indigenous literature from oral performance to English
compositions; religious transformations in island communities; tourism; museum
exhibitions, impacts of environmental change on islanders' lifeways, and
diasporic movements of Pacific peoples.
The place of Oceania in the development of anthropological theory will
also be addressed.
Student projects for the class will involve opportunities
to trace the history of a material artifact or artifacts, investigate the mix
of traditional and foreign ideas in contemporary religions or political
formations, explore islanders' perspectives on issues such as nuclear testing,
global warming or fishing rights, and/or interrogate stereotypes of island life
as "paradise."
Texts will be drawn from:
Cathy Small _ Voyages: From Tongan Villages to American
Suburbs 1997
Nicholas Thomas _ Entangled Objects: Exchange, Material
Culture and Colonialism in the Pacific
1991
Ben Burt and Michael Kwa'ioloa _ Living Tradition: A
Changing Life in Soloman Islands
1997
Jan Rensel and Margaret Rodman (eds) _ Home in the
Islands: Housing and Social Change in the Pacific 1997
Epeli Hau'ofa Tales of the Tikongs 1983
Nancy Pollock These Roots Remain: Food
Habits in Islands of the Central and Eastern Pacific since Western Contact 1992
Andrew Strathern et al Oceania: An Introduction to
the Cultures and Identities of Pacific Islanders 2002
372 BORDER
LATINA/LATINO CULTURES AND IDENTITIES. (3 hrs)
Professor Alejandro Lugo Office: 385 Davenport Hall PH:
333-0823
This course explores and examines the production of U.S.
Latina/Latino identities as instances of international, cultural, historical,
and social border crossings. In both
regional and global contexts, we will analyze the ways in which Mexican
American, Cuban American and Puerto Rican identities have been shaped by
colonial relations vis-a-vis Spain and by postcolonial conditions vis-a-vis the
United States.
390 Archaeological Heritage Management: Theory and
Practice
Professor Helaine Silverman Office: 295 Davenport Hall PH:
333-1315
Heritage management emphasizes the recursive relationship
between local, regional, national and international cultural patrimonies of the
past in a historically and socially informed multivocalic present. The purpose of this course is to present
detailed coverage of the theoretical and practical issues of archaeological
heritage management to advanced undergraduate students and graduates students
committed to a career in archaeology and who will be confronting cultural
heritage and social and environmental impact issues as museum curators, pubic
archaeologists, resource managers, and academic archaeologists. The course will be run largely as a seminar,
focusing on incisive discussion and debate of the readings (several books and a
course reader).
TOPICS TO BE COVERED:
* Defining the archaeological heritage.
* History and the preservation of place. How are histories
of place constructed and reproduced? What is meant by the cultural conservation
of place? Whose histories are preserved by national historic preservation
programs? How can place history empower the local community?
* Theming the past. Invented tradition. Manufacturing
history and inventing place. Case study: Colonial Williamsburg.
* Nationalism and archaeology.
* Resort ruins.
Archaeological Tourism. Case study: Chichen Iztá.
* Protecting Archaeological Sites. Scheduling Monuments.
Conflicts. Case study: Stonehenge.
* World Heritage Sites. Case study: Machu Picchu, Nazca
Lines, Cahokia.
* The reconstruction of archaeological sites.
Authenticity. Simulacra. Hyperreality.
* Museums. Issues of Representation, Communities,
Descendant Communities, Politics, and Economics. Site museums. Case study:
Krannert Art Museum, Spurlock Museum.
* NAGPRA and Its Evolving Legacy.
* CRM (Cultural Resource Management).
* Antiquities Laws and Their Enforcement. UNESCO. The
Semantic Shift from Antiquity to Art (i.e., legitimizing collecting).
Collecting Cultural Property. Case Study: Sipán. Case study: Journal of Field
Archaeology's section on the antiquities market.
* Other Laws: U.S. and International.
* Ethics in Archaeology.
* Public Education
398G PRIMATE FORAGING STRATEGIES. (4 hrs or 1 unit)
Professor Christina Grassi Office: 393 Davenport Hall PH: 333-3676
This course will provide a focused view on how and why
primates travel in groups and utilize resources. Special attention will be paid to diet, how diet may influence
other aspects of primate life such as grouping patterns, and the differences
between primate communities in different geographical regions. Students will evaluate recent hypotheses and
theories in primate behavioral ecology.
Evaluation is based on class discussion, examinations, and a research
paper.
Texts: Fleagle, J.
Janson, C. and Reed, K. (1999) Primate
Communities. Cambridge University
Press
Boinski, S. and Garber, P.(2000) Primates on the Move: How and why animals
travel in groups. University of
Chicago Press
Selected readings may be added
398Z CENTRAL ASIA PAST AND PRESENT (4 hrs or 1 unit)
Professor Russell Zanca Office: 104 Intl. Studies Bldg PH: 333-1244
The idea of Central Asia has changed
repeatedly in recent scholarship owing to factors of geography, Western involvement,
and twentieth century political economies.
In addition to understanding constructions of Central Asia in
historiography, this course will help students learn the justification for
including Afghanistan, former Soviet republics, and parts of China, India,
Iran, and Pakistan into the latest idea of Central Asia.
We will read selections in the cultures,
politics, and histories of Central Asian peoples with an eye toward explaining
cross-cultural similarities (in religion, daily practices, economies, and
social institutions) that link various groups in this part of the world. Such consideration will lead us to the
relevance of the physical and the cultural in terms of a shared geography.
440 PROBLEMS IN PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY. (1 unit)
Professor Steve Leigh Office: 209J Davenport Hall PH: 244-3503
This course explores allometry (the study of size and its consequences) and heterochrony (shifts in developmental scheduling between ancestor and descendant species). The majority of our investigations will focus on primates, with special emphasis on what these taxa imply for human evolution. Our objectives are to understand allometry and the parallels between ontogeny and phylogeny.
450H Pre-State Sociopolitical Complexity in the Central Andes. (1 unit)
Professor Helaine Silverman Office: 295 Davenport Hall PH: 333-1315
In this course we explore the extensive literature and debates pertaining to Preceramic VI, the Intitial Period, Early Horizon and Early Intermediate Period in terms of the processes and variations in the civilizational trajectory in the Central Andes prior to the emergence of states. The goal of the course is identification of the theoretical paradigms that have been and/or can be applied to these societies, deep familiarity with the material culture ("art", architecture, settlement patterns, etc.) that characterize them, and mastery of the archaeological data as thus far known. The course will be run as a seminar. Reading load is heavy. Students will produce a term paper at the end of the semester demonstrating control of the literature about a particular society or problem pertaining to the course material in the form of a potential review article. Incompletes will not be permitted.
450I Introduction to Illinois Anthropology. (1/2 or 1 unit)
Professor Matti Bunzl Office 386B Davenport Hall PH: 265-4068
This course meets once a week to introduce first-year graduate students to the anthropology faculty at the University of Illinois. Students will be required to prepare for the meetings by reading selections of faculty members' work.
450T AFRICAN AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGY. (1 unit)
Professor Arlene Torres Office: 383 Davenport Hall PH: 244-3511
This course introduces students to African American Anthropology. In an era where iculture warsi and debates about ícanonsí have taken center stage, how does the anthropological community define itself? By addressing the legacy of African American scholarship in the discipline of anthropology we will examine the political economy of íraceí and ícanon-building in America. We will also discuss the theoretical and methodological contributions of African American ethnographers to further develop our understanding of how social stratification on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender and class throughout the African American Diaspora has informed anthropological thought.
Text to be announced, please contact the instructor.
Additional readings will be placed on reserve.
461 ARCHAEOLOGICAL THEORY. ( 1 unit)
Professor Timothy Pauketat Office: 123 Davenport Hall PH: 244-8818
Bridging the theoretical divide formerly occupied by the processual-postprocessual debate are new theories that go to the very heart of understanding the relationship between people and cultural histories. This advanced seminar explores the direction of those theories, focusing on material culture, space, memory, and time in archaeology. We will read from recent archaeological books by Lynn Meskell, Julian Thomas, and Marcia-Anne Dobres, among others, from selections in edited books, and from the pages of the Journal of Social Archaeology, Material Culture, the Cambridge Archaeological Journal. Students will be required to seek outside readings to bring into class discussions. Each student will be expected to develop her or his own theoretical understanding of the relationships between culture and history via a term paper. The papers will be re-evaluations of archaeological case material in light of new theories of materiality, spatiality, and temporality.
463 FEMINIST THEORY IN ANTHROPOLOGY. (1 unit)
Professor Alma Gottlieb Office: 386C Davenport Hall PH: 244-3515
PLEASE SEE THE INSTRUCTOR