Courses: Fall 2003

 

UNDERGRADUATE COURSES

GRADUATE COURSES

Many graduate courses are open to qualified undergraduates.

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UNDERGRADUATE COURSES

ANTHRO 1: INTRODUCTION TO PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
T. Deacon 4 units TuTh 11-12:30 Wheeler Auditorium

This course examines humans within an evolutionary context. We study human biology in order to understand ourselves as part of the natural world. We consider the history of evolutionary thought before and after Darwin; modern evolutionary theory; the mechanisms that produce change in organisms; human genetics; human variation and adaptation; our closest living relatives, the nonhuman primates; and the evolution of the primate order with special reference to the human fossil record as evidence of our evolutionary history. We will examine the interrrelations of biology, behavior and culture as these shape our lives. There will be three hours of lecture and one hour of discussion per week. See Anthropology 1 course web site.
Prerequisites: none
Course requirements: There will be two midterm examinations, one five-page paper, and a final exam. Participation in the discussion section is mandatory.
Required texts: How Humans Evolved, 3rd edition, R. Boyd and J. Silk, W. W. Norton, 2003.

ANTHRO 2: INTRODUCTION TO ARCHAEOLOGY
R. Tringham 4 units TuTh 3:30-5 295 Haas

This course will provide students with an overview of the methods, techniques, theories and goals of anthropological archaeologists today.

No introductory course on archaeology can be comprehensive. Most take either a topical approach (surveying topics that are explored through archaeology) or a historical approach (reviewing world prehistory). This course is topical, and is aimed at students who are interested in learning how archaeologists attempt to understand a variety of anthropological issues through the material remains of past people: social relations, including gender, power, and kinship; economic practices, including subsistence, craft production, and trade; political structures, from families to states; and experiences that enrich human life and thought, from music to visual arts, from religion to science, are all subjects of study for anthropological archaeology. We will also discuss how archaeology plays a role in contemporary sociopolitics, contributing to global tourism and the production of national and factional identities. Archaeology is distinguished by its concern with how material remains, including texts, can be used to address such questions about past human life, making inferences about the experience of people who are no longer alive through the fragmentary traces of their existence.

In Fall 2003, Anthropology 2 will be re-structured as a “hybrid” course that will integrate in-class interaction between students, faculty and graduate student instructors in a forum format with on-line self-preparation and with team-authored, inquiry-based projects in discussion sections.
Course requirements:
1) Several short problem sets focusing on a particular archaeological site, many requiring on-line activity, and a final team project, will be administered during the semester through the required 1-hour section meetings. These assignments focus on the real-world experience of using digital and printed sources of archaeological data to construct the past.
2) A midterm quiz and final examination will provide opportunities to link archaeological practice and theory that has been mastered in the on-line guides, participatory forums and discussion sections.
Prerequisites: None, except access to email and the Internet.
Required texts: TBA

ANTHRO 2L: INTRODUCTION TO ARCHAEOLOGY THROUGH MULTIMEDIA AUTHORING
R. Tringham 2 units W 2-3(sem), 3-5(lab), 13. 2224 Piedmont (MACTiA lab)

The aim of the course is to introduce students to multimedia authoring for archaeology and to encourage a critical view of the multimedia presentation of archaeology through commercial and educational WWWeb-sites and CDROMs. In the weekly seminar meetings we will discuss the role of multimedia and archaeology content in tandem with the themes being discussed in the general Anthropology 2 class. Guest speakers from education, edutainment and the computing industry will shed additional light on how multimedia is reshaping the way archaeology is perceived and performed.
Requirements: Attendance in the weekly seminar and lab/workshops is required. Through self-paced tutorials and media stream assignments, you will gradually gain skills in authoring multimedia products yourself, culminating in a creative, final multimedia project. The projects will be burned onto a class CD-ROM, available early Spring 2004.
Prerequisites: Students must be concurrently enrolled in Anthropology 2. Participation is at the instructor’s discretion. Students are not required to have any prior knowledge of multimedia authoring, but a good deal of enthusiasm, patience, and imagination is essential.
Wireless access: Much of this course will be actualized through wireless technology. We will provide 802.11b compliant wireless cards to you for the duration of the course for use in your laptops equipped with PCMCIA slots (either Mac or PC). Not having access to a laptop will not preclude you from joining the course but it will be useful.

ANTHRO 3: INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL & CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY
S. Brandes 4 units TuTh 2-3:30 Wheeler Auditorium

This course introduces students to the exciting field of social and cultural anthropology. It starts with a discussion of the major turning points in the discipline’s hundred-year history and continues with a focus on current issues and debates. In this latter section of the course, we center on a series of select topics, such as language and culture, popular culture, political discourse, food and drink, visual anthropology, and ritual and religion. In addition to lectures, films and other audio-visual material will be used in exploration of course subject matter. Grades will be determined through a combination of papers and examinations. We require an average of about 100 pages of reading per week.

ANTHRO 24: FRESHMAN SEMINAR: "NATIVE MAYA AND AZTEC LITERATURE FROM THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY"
R. Joyce 1 unit Tu 1-2, Rm. 101, 2251 College

This course will provide an opportunity for interested students to read poetry, mythology, and history written in native languages by Maya and Aztec authors in the sixteenth-century. Using the Roman alphabet introduced by the Spanish, Maya and Aztec scribes recorded their own rich oral tradition of spoken poetry, and created new compositions that integrated native texts and oral literature. While some of these texts were recorded for Spanish administrators and missionaries, much was written for indigenous audiences. We will draw on the many excellent modern translations to explore the poetics and literary imagination of the first few generations of Maya and Aztec people living under the new colonial regime.

ANTHRO 101: GENETIC ANTHROPOLOGY: HUMAN VARIATION IN AN EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVE
P. Billings 4 units M 4-7 220 Wheeler

Course description not yet available.

ANTHRO 111: HUMAN BEHAVIOR
T. Deacon 4 units W 4-6 155 Kroeber

Course description not yet available.

ANTHRO 114: HISTORY OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL THOUGHT
N. Graburn, X. Liu, 4 units MWF 2-3 145 Dwinelle

This course will present a history of anthropological thought from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century and will draw upon the major subdisciplines of anthropology. It will focus both upon the integration of the anthropological subdisciplines and upon the relationships between these and other disciplines outside anthropology. Three hours of lecture; one hour of required discussion section per week.

ANTHRO 115: INTRODUCTION TO MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
N. Scheper-Hughes 4 units TuTh 3:30-5 277 Cory

Medical Anthropology applies anthropological thinking and practice to the study of pain, illness, suffering, and healing. It explores the body as biologically given and culturally and historically situated so that medical anthropologists can even speak of "local biologies". Medical anthropology begins from a radical premise of epistemological openness to alternative understandings of illness, disease, and curing. The course is comparative, treating illness, misfortune, and healing in a number of societies from highland New Guinea to urban Japan, but there is also a strong focus is on the social expressions of illness, misfortune and healing in our own society. Bio-medicine is treated here as one among a great many effective systems of medical knowledge. The course will introduce the advanced undergraduate student to a critically interpretive approach to the field.

The first section of the course constitutes an anthropology of the mindful body; the social meanings and the social uses of illness; sickness and power; the regulation and management of dis-eased and distressed bodies and minds; body, mind and society relations in western/nonwestern medical systems; the cultural shaping of emotions, memory and healing; the social production of "new" diseases; the new bio-technologies and the redefinition of life, death and human value that they bring. Along the way we will explore the logic of witchcraft and sorcery as explanations of sickness and other unfortunate events; the power and efficacy of symbols; and a radical treatment of shamanism. Finally, the course will deal with the vexing topic of poverty, colonialism and death and the social reproduction of hunger, infant mortality, and "nervousness" in the heart of the neoliberal global order and in the world's 8th largest economy: Brazil. In all, medical anthropology is a critical reflection on the ways that people live, sicken, and die.
Requirements: Open to upper division undergraduates and to graduate students in the humanities, social sciences, biological sciences and to 'pre-med', medical, and public health students. The course assumes a general background and familiarity with social science concepts and ideas. The reading schedule is demanding and participation in discussion groups is required.

The final grade is based on a midterm exam, and two short (ten pages each ) research papers, active participation in discussion groups, and a final exam.

 

ANTHRO 119: SPECIAL TOPICS IN MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY: TOPIC TBA
Staff 4 units MWF 3-4 101 Wurster

Course description not yet available.

ANTHRO 121B: THEORETICAL APPROACHES IN AMERICAN HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY
L. Wilkie 4 units TuTh 9:30-11 100 Wheeler

This course will provide the student with a background in the theoretical and methodological development of American historical archaeology, with particular emphasis on the ways in which archaeologists dealing with post-contact sites have approached the integration of archaeological, documentary, oral historical and ethnohistoric data. The course will also emphasize continuing theoretical developments in the discipline related to issues of ethnicity, gender, and households. Finally, the course will consider the politics of historical archaeology, and ways in which historical archaeologists and other public historians make the past relevant to the present.

ANTHRO 122D: WORLD OF ANCIENT MAYA
J. Lopiparo 4 units TuTh 12:30-2 110 Barrows

This course seeks to place the development of prehispanic Maya society in context and examine historical patterns of change as well as continuity. There are no prerequisites for the course, but previous exposure to a general introduction to Central American archaeology such as Anthropology 122C will be an advantage.

The course will briefly consider the general outlines of change through time from the Early Formative roots of occupation in the Maya world (centered on Guatemala, Yucatan, and Belize, and including adjacent areas of Chiapas, Tabasco, Honduras and El Salvador) to the sixteenth century. The majority of the course will be structured around key issues in understanding Maya society: economic specialization and interaction; social organization, gender, age, and status; the use of writing and calendars; and political centralization. Particular attention will be given to major transition points in Maya history: the emergence of settled villages; the internal diversification of settlements in the Formative Period; the adoption of writing and its application to monumental art that inaugurates the Classic Period; the "collapse" of Classic Maya societies, or their transformation into Postclassic states; and the experience of Maya states during the Spanish colonization in the sixteenth century.

Students will be expected to complete multiple writing exercises and prepare at least one discussion session in teamwork with colleagues. An in-class midterm and take-home final exam are also required. Texts for the course will be the revised edition of John S. Henderson's "World of the Ancient Maya" (required) and Jeremy Sabloff and John Henderson, editors, "The Eighth Century Classic Maya" (recommended; each student will be required to prepare one chapter from this work for discussion).

ANTHRO 123A: STONE AGE ARCHAEOLOGY: “LIFE IN THE ICE AGE: EUROPE THROUGH FICTION”
M. Conkey 4 units TuTh 9:30-11 160 Kroeber

In this course, we will read at least five fictionalized accounts of life in Ice Age Europe, many written by anthropologists/paleontologists. We will use these novels as a way to probe into not only what we think we know about this topic--from archaeological, paleo-ecological and fossil evidence, and from ethnoarchaeological and anthropological research--but also how these data and lines of evidence are used by the authors. We will explore the role and place of narrative and imagination in the constructions of the past, how these not only derive from but simultaneously inform research, and the “success” of each author in expanding, challenging, and constraining our understandings. Students will read not only the novels but a variety of other materials on the Ice Age humans of Europe. We will study stone tools, settlement data, paleoenvironments and the fossil evidence, as well as the ethnography of hunter-gatherers.

There will be three short “position” papers and an essay final exam. Students will each participate in one student-designed and implemented group/panel presentation. Anthropology 2 or an equivalent course on the methods, theories and concepts of archaeology is the pre-requisite.

ANTHRO 123D: ARCHAEOLOGY OF EAST ASIA
J. Habu 4 units TuTh 11-12:30 219 Dwinelle

The goal of this course is to provide a general picture of prehistoric and protohistoric archaeology in China, Japan and Korea. The course will emphasize the differences and similarities in archaeological studies between East Asia and North America. It will also consider the role of archaeology in East Asian societies today, and discuss how archaeological interpretations have been affected by the social and political contexts in these countries. Topics to be emphasized include changes in subsistence-settlement systems, origins and dispersal of food production, the development of social complexity, and the formation of states.

ANTHRO 128-1: SPECIAL TOPICS IN ARCHAEOLOGY: “PRACTICE IN THE 6th -GRADE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AFTERSCHOOL PROGRAM”
K. Lightfoot 4 units W 9-11 101, 2251 College

THIS COURSE MEETS THE METHOD REQUIREMENT FOR MAJORS.

This course is designed to provide an opportunity for undergraduates to work with 6th graders in exploring the world of archaeology and multimedia technology. The students of this course will be expected to mentor the children in the activities of a newly-established after-school program in Roosevelt Middle School, Oakland. This program is sponsored and funded by a collaborative venture of the Interactive University of U.C. Berkeley, the Oakland Unified School District, and the UC Links Program of UCOP. The program is directed by Professor Ruth Tringham and managed by Amy Ramsay for the Archaeological Research Facility and Dept. of Anthropology.

The after-school program is designed to bring the archaeological experience to 6th graders through the medium of multimedia technology—multimedia authoring, WWWeb browsing, Virtual Reality Interactive games, etc. This program is voluntary for the 6th graders, and is being carried out under the auspices of the newly established "Village Center" at Roosevelt School which seeks to encourage the community as well as children in the after school activities.

The activities of the after-school program are devised by the students of this class in collaboration with the children and teachers. These activities will focus on the interpretation of archaeological materials rather than the "grand picture" of the past; it will focus on giving archaeology some immediacy in the children's lives by encouraging them to think of themselves in relation to their local history and cultural heritage. The activities will take the form of devising Virtually Real experience, games and stories through multimedia authoring, as well as "real" role-playing games and scenes around archaeological themes: excavation and the partial remains of food, fire, learning, shelter, play, family etc.
Prerequisites: This course will feed into and from a number of undergraduate courses in archaeology and anthropology, including the Introduction to Archaeology, and upper division courses on method and theory. It will also introduce students to issues of pedagogy and public archaeology. Students from other fields are welcome to participate. Bilingual students are strongly encouraged to apply. A course in the Introduction to Archaeology (Anthro.2) or its equivalent and the permission of the instructor (through interview held the first day of classes) are the only prerequisites. Access to an email and Internet account are essential since an important component of the course will be frequent consultation of the Course WWWebsite.
Previous participation in Multimedia Authoring for Archaeology classes will help but is not essential. Students who have not had any multimedia technology background will be assisted in catching up through self-paced tutorials held in the Multimedia Authoring Center for Teaching in Anthropology (MACTIA) in 2224 Piedmont.
Course Requirements: This course is essentially a practical research/service-learning course. Participation in the Roosevelt School after-school program (approx. 2-3 hrs one afternoon each week) is a required part of the course. Each student will be part of the course term project to evaluate the introduction of multimedia authoring and the archaeological experience to 6th-graders through this after-school program. You will be expected to keep a running log/diary of your observations. Instructions in making these observations and making evaluations will be given during the course.

ANTHRO 128-2: SPECIAL TOPICS IN ARCHAEOLOGY: “PUBLIC ANTHROPOLOGY”
S. Atalay 4 units MWF 1-2 122 Wheeler

Course description not yet available.

ANTHRO 128-3: SPECIAL TOPICS IN ARCHAEOLOGY: “FEMINIST PRACTICE IN ARCHAEOLOGY”
B. Clark CANCELLED

ANTHRO 128-4: SPECIAL TOPICS IN ARCHAEOLOGY: “ANIMALS AND ARCHAEOLOGY”
K. Twiss 4 units MWF 9-10 115 Kroeber

This course will investigate the complex and meaningful nature of human-animal relations in past societies. While archaeological analyses of animals' roles in human culture have often focused entirely on the nutritional or economic importance of meat, considerable ethnographic and ethnohistoric material demonstrates that animals and meat have significance far beyond their economic value. Topics to be addressed include the social importance of meat consumption, as well as animals as pets, as wealth, as sacrifice, as artistic symbols, and as totems (metaphors for humans).

ANTHRO 132: ANALYSIS OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL MATERIALS: “CERAMIC ANALYSIS”
R. Joyce 4 units TuTh 3:30-5 16 Hearst Gym

Ceramics are the most enduring of human-made material found in archaeological sites throughout the world. Archaeologists bring a wide range of techniques to bear on understanding archaeological ceramics, and use them as evidence to address an equally wide array of questions. Fundamentally, all archaeological research on ceramics is based on assumptions about how the material behaves, and how human use of the material was likely organized in the past. This course is designed to introduce students to the technology of pre-industrial ceramics in sufficient detail to allow them to understand archaeological analyses and particpate in basic descriptive research on archaeological assemblages containing pottery. We will read and discuss key publications that establish some of the widely accepted directions for research, and debate the utility of some less-traditional approaches.
Course requirements: will include in-class participation in a variety of activities (leading discussions of specific readings, participating in discussions in other formally defined roles, taking part in hands-on exercises individually and in groups) and completion of a multi-stage lab project. Completion of the lab project will require a minimum of the scheduled 3 hours of lab per week.
Course format: Three hours of lecture/discussion and three hours of laboratory per week.
Prerequisites: Anthro 2 or consent of instructor.
Credit option: Course may be repeated for credit. This course fulfills the method requirement in Anthropology.

ANTHRO 135: PALEOETHNOBOTANY: ARCHAEOLOGICAL METHODS AND LABORATORY TECHNIQUES
C. Hastorf 4 units T 9:30-12:30 16 Hearst Gym

This laboratory class is designed to introduce you to the basics of archaeological laboratory methods through a focus on archaeobotanical identification and data analysis. We will be studying the major classes of plant remains likely to be encountered in archaeological sites, how to identify them and then organize the data in order to make interpretable results. The course will emphasize the use of plant remains to answer specific archaeological questions, rather than study the plant remains for their own sake, however most of our time will be spent on basic methods.

The class is designed with both a discussion section where interactive discussions occur on assigned readings and a laboratory portion. The discussion will focus on major issues in the sub discipline from preservation, methods, to sampling and collection, to interpretation. The laboratory portion will work through identification procedures. Discussion, laboratory participation, laboratory notebooks and projects will form the basis of the grade.

ANTHRO 138A: HISTORY OF ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM
I. Leimbacher 4 units M 3-7 155 Kroeber

The course will trace the development of ethnographic film from its beginnings at the turn of the century to the present. In addition to looking at seminal works in the field, more recent and innovative productions will be viewed and analysed. Topics of interest include the role of visual media in ethnography, ethics in film making, and the problematic relationship between seeing and believing. Requirements include film critiques, a film proposal, and a final exam.
Note: Students who plan to take Anthro 138B for their method requirement in Spring 2003, must complete 138A.
Prerequisites: 3 or 114

ANTHRO 148: ANTHROPOLOGY OF THE ENVIRONMENT: “NATURE, POWER, AND CULTURE POLITICS”
D. Moore 4 units MW 12-2 155 Kroeber

Surveys anthropological perspectives on the environment and examines differing cultural constructions of nature. Coverage includes theory, method, and case materials extending from third world agrarian contexts to urban North America. Topics may include cultural ecology, political ecology, colonialism and conservation, third world environmental struggles, the cultural politics of nature, and environmental imaginaries.

ANTHRO 152: ART AND CULTURE
N. Graburn 4 units TuTh 3:30-5 4 LeConte

Course description not yet available.

ANTHRO 157: ANTHROPOLOGY OF LAW
L. Nader 4 units TuTh 2-3:30 100 Lewis

An introduction to law in culture and society. Among the topics discussed will be the use of law for dispute management, the interplay between law and colonialism, law and ideology, legal pluralism, the evolution of law and conception of justice, legal hegemonies and user theory in the context of local, national, and global processes. Reading and lecture materials include a cross culture perspectives.

ANTHRO C160: FORMS OF FOLKLORE
(cross-listed with ISF C160)
A. Dundes 4 units TuTh 12:30-2 Wheeler Auditorium

This is usually a fairly large lecture course. It is designed for upper-division students, though not necessarily anthropology majors. In fact, most of the students enrolled are not anthropology majors. The course is intended to provide an introduction to the discipline of folklore, e.g., myth, folktale, proverb, riddle, gesture, game, etc. Similar courses at other universities are often offered by faculty members in the English departments. The emphasis here includes the humanistic, literary approach, but also emphasizes the relevance of folklore materials for social scientists.
Course requirements: Three hours of lecture per week. There is one midterm, a final, and a course project which consists of making a collection of folklore on the basis of fieldwork interviews conducted locally. There is considerable reading required in the course.
Required texts: TBA

ANTHRO 169B: RESEARCH THEORY AND METHOD IN SOCIAL/CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY
Staff 4 units TuTh 11-12:30 118 Barrows

Course description not yet available.

ANTHRO 172AC: TOPICS IN AMERICAN CULTURES: TOPIC TBA
Staff 4 units Tu 3:30-6:30 9 Lewis

Course description not yet available.

ANTHRO 181: MIDDLE EAST AND ISLAM
S. Pandolfo 4 units MWF 10-11 160 Kroeber

What can an anthropology of the Middle East, of the Arab World and of Islam be, in this end-of-century shaken by social and religious upheavals and characterized at once by cultural fragmentation and by a radicalization of the stake of identity?

The course seeks a response to this question, both as a problematization of the field of study—Muslim Cultures, Arab Society, the Middle East—and of the anthropological imagination liable to approach it. Taking its lead from the moving stance of early Arab travellers, geographers and philosophers of civilization (orientalist, colonial, political, ethnological) that have constituted Islam and the modern Middle East into a stylized object of study. Through the discussion of a variety of texts, ranging from historical and anthropological works on Islam and Middle Eastern societies to contemporary fiction and criticism—the course emphasizes diversity, plurality and movement as crucial dimensions of a “decolonized” anthropology of the Middle East and of Islam.

ANTHRO 183: ANTHROPOLOGY OF AFRICA
M. Ferme 4 units TuTh 12:30-2 155 Kroeber

This course focuses on the contemporary experiences of Africans on the continent and in the diaspora. Among the topics addressed are the “retreat from modernity” experienced in many parts of Africa after the promises of the early post-Independence years; the forms of sociality and imaginaries opened up by life in diasporas on a global scale; and the juggling of multiple identities and worldviews. We shall examine how new horizons opened up by the circulation of popular culture, by communication and transnational migration within Africa and beyond shape (and are shaped by) daily life on the rural-urban continuum on the continent and elsewhere. The novelty is not only at the level of local-global linkages, but often in new unexpected regional ones (for instance, we will examine Nigeria’s relatively recent cultural, strategic, and politico-economic hegemony in the West African region. The course will also address the less benign effects of these novel articulations of cultural, social, and politico-economic relations. We will examine the socio-cultural features of different global, transnational, and regional entities—multinational corporations with an interest in African natural and mineral resources, well-meaning NGOs, humanitarian organizations, international political alliances, new juridical bodies with unusually broad jurisdiction, trade organizations, and so on, and their relationships with different African societies and states. Lectures and readings will also cover the “Africanization” of modern political in postcolonial states; and the creative integration of modern and earlier economic and legal forms.

ANTHRO 189-1: SPECIAL TOPICS IN SOCIAL/CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY: TOPIC TBA
A. Yurchak 4 units MW 10-12 155 Kroeber

Course description not yet available.

ANTHRO 189-2: SPECIAL TOPICS IN SOCIAL/CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY: SOCIALISM
M. Stoilkova 4 units MWF 12-1 101 Wurster

Course description not yet available.

GRADUATE COURSES

ANTHRO 219-1: TOPICS IN MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY: “ANTHROPOLOGY OF THE BODY”
N. Scheper-Hughes 4 units M 12-2 15, 2224 Piedmont

Course description not yet available.

ANTHRO 219-2: TOPICS IN MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY: TOPIC TBA
Staff 4 units W 10-12 15, 2224 Piedmont

Course description not yet available.

ANTHRO 229A: ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH STRATEGIES
R. Joyce, L. Wilkie 4 units W 2-5 101, 2251 College

This graduate seminar is REQUIRED for all first and second-year graduate students in archaeology. It is open to other students in anthropology and in other departments who are interested in the history and theory of archaeological practice. Particular attention in the seminar will be given to the Anglo-American tradition of archaeological practice, although other intellectual regions will be considered, depending upon the areas of student interest and research. In particular we shall focus on the emergence and specification of the so-called "ecological-evolutionary"paradigm: how and why it came to take the form(s) that it did, what issues and approaches were precluded or marginalized, what "gains" it has achieved, and how and why it set the stage for the various "post-processualist" types or archaeology that have emerged recently. There will be regular discussions and extensive reading. Students are expected to attend all classes, to participate and to be prepared. In addition, one major research paper (20-25 pages long) and probably a few debate presentations will be required during the course of the semester.

ANTHRO 230-1: SPECIAL TOPICS IN ARCHAEOLOGY: “PUBLIC ARCHAEOLOGY: CREATING INTERPRETIVE TRAILS”
K. Lightfoot 4 units Tu 10-12 101, 2251 College

Course description not yet available.

ANTHRO 230-2: SPECIAL TOPICS IN ARCHAEOLOGY: “SOCIAL ARCHAEOLOGY”
M. Conkey 4 units M 1-3 101, 2251 College

Course description not yet available.

ANTHRO 230-3: SPECIAL TOPICS IN ARCHAEOLOGY: “THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE AINU”
J. Habu 4 units M 10-12 101, 2251 College

Course description not yet available.

ANTHRO 230-4: SPECIAL TOPICS IN ARCHAEOLOGY: “PALEOETHNOBOTANY”
C. Hastorf 4 units W 9-12 16 Hearst Gym

This laboratory class is designed to introduce you to the basics of archaeobotanical identification, data analysis and interpretation. The discussion will focus on major issues in the sub discipline from preservation, methods, to sampling and collection, but especially interpretation linked to various archaeological theoretical debates. We will be studying the major classes of plant remains likely to be encountered in archaeological sites, their taphonomy, how to identify them and then organize the data in order to make interpretable results. The course will emphasize the use of plant remains to answer specific archaeological questions, rather than study the plant remains for their own sake. Depending on the class size, there might be an additional laboratory component to this class.

ANTHRO 240A: FUNDAMENTALS OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL THEORY
P. Rabinow 4 units WF 3-6 221 Kroeber (Gifford Room)

Anthropological theory and practice—following the rest of the world—have been undergoing important restructuring in the past decades. The course is organized to reflect this fact. We will begin by looking at recent debates about the nature and purpose of anthropology. This will provide a starting point for reading a series of classic ethnographies in new ways as well as examining some dimensions of the current research agenda in cultural anthropology.

Students will be required to present a series of classroom presentations as well as two papers. All students are invited; however, enrollment is strictly limited to and required of all Anthropology, Medical Anthropology, and Demography graduate students who have not been advanced to candidacy.

ANTHRO 250A: PSYCHOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
S. Pandolfo 4 units Time and Location TBA

Course description not yet available.

ANTHRO 250C: TRANSNATIONALISM: “THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF GLOBAL FORMS”
A. Ong 4 units M 1-3 327 Kroeber

Course description not yet available.

ANTHRO 250X-1: SPECIAL TOPICS IN CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY: “LINGUISTIC PRACTICE”
W. Hanks 4 units W 2-5 15, 2224 Piedmont

Course description not yet available.

ANTHRO 250X-2: SPECIAL TOPICS IN CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY: “ORIENTALISM, OCCIDENTALISM AND CONTROL: THE CIVILIZING PROCESS”
L. Nader 4 units W 10-12 15, 2224 Piedmont

This seminar will explore the ways in which East and West define each other to create their own special identity. Topics include the use of gender, development, modernization, religion, law, science/technology as categories cucial to a critical understanding of both “orientalism” and “occidentalism” in relation to hierarchy and control.

During the first part of the seminar readings will be discussed in seminar time and different participants will be designated to lead the discussions. Possible topics for papers should emerge from these discussions. The latter part of the seminar will include presentations of student research papers. The seminar will be structured by means of four topics: 1) the critique of the study of others; 2) the ubiquitous interest in other peoples that was part of the human experience long before there were social sciences; 3) 20th century views of the peoples of other civilizations—western, Islamic, Indian, Chinese, Japanese; and 4) the reactions and consequences of the present global interaction between civilizations of differing power positions.

ANTHRO 250X-3: SPECIAL TOPICS IN CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY: “RACE AND GOVERNMENTALITY”
D. Moore 4 units Tu 2-5 15, 2224 Piedmont

Course description not yet available.

ANTHRO 250X-4: SPECIAL TOPICS IN CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY: “DISCOURSE, POWER, AND PERFORMATIVITY
A. Yurchak 4 units Tu 10-12 144 Barrows

Course description not yet available.

ANTHRO 280B: AFRICA
M. Ferme 4 units Th 5-8 15, 2224 Piedmont

Course description not yet available.

ANTHRO 280D: CHINA: 20TH CENTURY CHINA: HISTORY AND ETHNOGRAPHIC IMAGINATION
X. Liu 4 units F 10-12 233 Dwinelle

This course seeks to engage in a critical examination of China's 20th-century experience through a collection of scholarly works in anthropology and history. Topics in this course include issues of memory, space, gender, ethnicity, nation and citizenship that pertain to the transformation of modern Chinese identity. Requirements for this course consist of several review essays and a term paper. This course is also listed as History 280F.
Required texts:
Levenson, J.1958-65. Confucian China and Its Modern Fate. 3 vols. UC Press.
Hershatter, G. 1997. Dangerous Pleasures. UC Press.
Yeh, W-Y. 2000. The Alienated Academy. Harvard.
Yeh, W-Y. 1996. Provincial Passages. UC Press.
Bergere, M-C. 1998. Sun Yat-sen. Stanford.
Wakeman, F. 1995. Policing Shanghai, 1927-1937. UC Press.
Strand, D. 1989. Rickshaw Beijing. UC Press.
Zhang, L. 2001. Strangers in the City. Stanford.
Mueggler, E. 2001. The Age of Wild Ghosts. UC Press.
Farquhar, J. 2002. Appetites. Duke.
Liu, X. 2002. The Otherness of Self. Michigan.
Yan, Y-X. 2003. Private Life under Socialism. Stanford.
No prerequisites.

ANTHRO 290-1: SURVEY OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCH
Staff 1 unit M 4-6 160 Kroeber

The departmental seminar, which is held on posted Mondays from 4-6 p.m. in 160 Kroeber throughout each semester, presents a range of speakers on current topics in anthropology. Speakers and topics are announced prior to the event on the glassed-in bulletin board opposite the main office (232 Kroeber). All students are invited; however, enrollment is strictly limited to and required of all Anthropology, Medical Anthropology, and Demography graduate students who have not been advanced to candidacy.

ANTHRO 290-2: PUBLIC ARCHAEOLOGY
M. Conkey 1 unit TBA 101, 2547 Bowditch

Course may be repeated for credit. Preparation for and at least one visit with a designated elementary or secondary school, either at the school or in a school’s or group’s visit to the campus, bringing aspects of archaeological information and practice to the classroom, in consultation with the specific school and teacher(s). Designed to put into practice core values of contemporary archaeological practice, as specified in the Code of Ethics of the Society for American Archaeology. Readings, workshops, and some resources are provided, but selecting relevant materials, communication and coordination with teacher of class to be visited, and preparatory meeting with partners in the visit are anticipated. Total input per semester estimated to be 15 hours. Required each term of all in-residence graduate students in the archaeology program. Must be taken on a satisfactory/unsatisfactory basis.

Ph.D. in Anthropology
(Social Cultural / Archaeology)

Ph.D. in Medical Anthropology

Master of Arts in Folklore

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