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ADDED CLASS CCN: 02896

ANTHRO 215A: ADVANCED SEMINAR IN MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

L. Cohen, V. Adams 4 units, F: 9-12, Rm. 15, 2224 Piedmont

Description not yet available.

ANTHRO 222: ARCHAEOLOGY OF SOUTH AMERICA: "INTERSTITIAL SOCIETIES: SOCIAL ARCHAEOLOGY, POLITICAL AGENCY, AND CULTURAL IDENTITIES

C. Hastorf, 4 units, W: 9-12, Rm. 15, 2224 Piedmont

This seminar will consider a series of social and political models of social enabling, agency, and ways of societal re-creation and change that operated in the past. We will begin by reading and discussing some theories, with a view to their applications to archaeological examples. We will look to see how social principles were nested and of different cultural and temporal scales. We will critique and enable both the more traditional forms of social organization models as well as more recent models of social life and power (agency based, social power, liminal locations). Then we study a series of settings in the Andean region to look at the dynamics of social and political life to see how these various models work. This will focus on the interstitial phases, like the Initial, the Early Intermediate and the Late Intermediate periods . Please speak to instructor for clarification.

ANTHRO 227: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH: "HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY OF GENDER"

L. Wilkie 4 units, T: 2-4, Rm. 208, 2251 College

Drawing on feminist scholars in anthropology, history and women's studies, historical archaeology has become an important arena for discourses on the construction of gendered and sexed identities through material culture. While "historical archaeology" usually denotes the archaeology of North American sites after European contact, this course will review a range of text-aided archaeological studies from the old and new worlds.

ANTHRO 228: METHOD: "ARTIFACT ANALYSIS"

P. Kirch 4 units, Th: 1-4, Rm. 11, 2251 College

This is a graduate component of Anthro 132. Students registering for this course should plan to attend all lecture and lab sessions of Anthro 132 (Tu 1-4, Th 1-4). In addition to attending the 132 lectures and lab exercises, students in Anthro 228 will read additional case materials dealing with analysis of archaeological materials, and discuss these in a seminar format. Students with existing research collections which they need to analyze are especially encouraged to consider taking this course.

ANTHRO 229B: ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH STRATEGIES

M. Conkey/ R. Joyce 4 units, W 2-5, Rm. 101, 2251 College

This course is a required pro-seminar for first year graduate students in archaeology. In this semester the focus is on the design and implementation of archaeological research, with an emphasis on strategies for the retrieval and empirical study of material evidence in the field and laboratory. The seminar will also stress the constant interplay between theory and method in the design and implementation of research strategies, which is calculated to compliment your last semester's 229A course in theory.

The seminar is structured to a large degree around the process of developing, writing, submitting, and implementing a research project through the National Science Foundation (NSF). The NSF is the major governmental agency in this country that regularly funds "pure" archaeological research, both at senior and doctoral levels (Dissertation Improvement Grants). Many of you will probably be developing a Dissertation Improvement Grant for NSF at some point during your graduate career, and will probably prepare senior grants after you have received your Ph.D. Thus, it is in your professional interest to learn as early as possible what constitutes a "winning" proposal, one that will be judged positively by your professional peers.

Weekly readings and seminar discussions will explore topics germane for writing your NSF grant proposal, including preparing research designs, undertaking field and laboratory research and developing reasonable budgets. You should identify one or more research problems that you would like to address in a specific region of the world in developing your NSF grant proposal for this class.

Requirements: The requirements for the seminar include the preparation of an NSF grant proposal, participation in class discussions, and the critical review of book chapters and articles that will be assigned to you.

ANTHRO 230-1: SPECIAL TOPICS IN ARCHAEOLOGY: "LANDSCAPE, NARRATIVES, AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF SOCIAL MEMORY IN ARCHAEOLOGY"

M. Plucienik 4 units, Tu: 12-2, Rm. 101, 2251 College

The "business" of archaeology could be said to be the construction of various forms of stories and memories. This course examines the ways in which anthropologists and especially archaeologists can approach histories which were made, told and enacted in the past, and how we, in the present, construct our own stories about both others, and ourselves and our discipline. Two of the most common ways of "making sense" of the fragmentary remains of archaeology are considered at length: landscape, which can supply a holistic context for people¹s lives, actions and memories, and certain kinds of narrative, which is another widely-used method of integrating long time-spans and disparate places. Recent work exploring "the past in the past" is looked at, and the possibility of a prehistoric archaeology of myth considered. The rôles which rhetoric, empathy, creativity and imaginative reconstruction can play in archaeology will be discussed, and will provide opportunities for reflexive engagement with places and stories known by the students as part of the coursework.

ANTHRO 240B: FUNDAMENTALS OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL THEORY

L. Cohen / A. Ong 5 units, T: 2-5, Rm. 101, 2251 College plus Th: 2-5, Rm. 101, 2251 College

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.

ADDED CLASS: CCN 02914

ANTHRO 250A: PSYCHOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

S. Pandolfo 4 units, W: 2-4, 115 Kroeber

Instructor approval only.
Description not available.

ANTHRO 250J: ETHNOGRAPHIC METHODS: "IMPLEMENTING AND ASSESSING THE FIELDWORK ENCOUNTER"

K. Erwin 4 units, M: 2-4, Rm. 15, 2224 Piedmont

CANCELLED.

ANTHRO 250K: COLONIALISM AND POSTCOLONIALISM: "IMAGINING EMPIRE: COLONIAL AND POST-COLONIAL THEORY"

R. Stein 4 units, W: 10-12, Rm. 101, 2251 College

This graduate seminar works examines the cultural politics of colonialism and postcoloniality, and considers the articulation between imperial power and issues of race, gender, and sexuality in different historical moments and contexts. Beginning with the scholarship of decolonization (Fanon, Cesaire), we will work closely through the foundational texts of postcolonial theory by scholars across the disciplines (Said, Spivak, Bhabha, Scott, Stoler), consider the debates over anthropology's historical relationship to imperial knowledge production (Asad, Stocking, Dirks), and investigate the theoretical and methodological tools with which anthropologists study imperial cultures in the present (Comaroff, Crapanzano, Gupta). Our aim is twofold: first, to develop a critical genealogy of postcolonial criticism and consider the ways in which vocabularies and theoretical paradigms have shifted over time; and second, to develop a set of critical theoretical tools with which to approach the study of colonialism, postcoloniality, and its cultures.

ANTHRO 250R: ANALYSIS OF FIELD DATA: "DISSERTATION WRITING"

S. Brandes 4 units, Th: 2-4, Rm. 15, 2224 Piedmont

CANCELLED.

ANTHRO 250T: TRIBAL SOCIETIES: "SMALL SCALE SOCIETIES THROUGH FILM

G. Berreman 4 units, Tu: 2-4, Rm. 15, 2224 Piedmont

This seminar will be devoted to the comparative study of contemporary small scale, kin-based, non-stratified, foraging and subsistence agricultural or herding societies. Often referred to as "tribal societies," and many of them identified as "endangered peoples," they comprise the archetypical subjects for anthropological studies. We will consider contemporary anthropological definitions, theories, perceptions and interpretations of such peoples. Of special interest will be some dozen major contemporary debates among informed anthropologists concerning the nature of small scale societies in general (such as: "the great hunter-gatherer debate") and in specific instances (such as those concerning the San, the Inuit, the Yanamamo, the Ik, the Samoans, Australian Aborigines, the "Tasaday," rain forest dwellers of SE Asia, etc.). These will be examined with reference to such issues as war and violence, female subordination, social hierarchy political centralization and subordination, etc.

A second focus will be on the fate of, and prospects for, such peoples in the contemporary world in the face of globalization: neo-colonialism, environmental degradation, tourism, capital penetration, exploitation of cultural property, national expansion, anthropological "authority," etc. The specific topics to be selected for the seminar's attention--and therefore the resources to be consulted and papers to be written--will be decided during initial meetings of the seminar.

An ethnographic film will be shown weekly, followed by discussion of readings and the film.

ANTHRO 250V: TOURISM

N. Graburn 4 units, M: 10-12, Rm. 15, 2224 Piedmont

This seminar will explore some of the core features of modernity and modernizing forces in the contemporary world. Touristic processes are emblematic of modernity and are a major force in the transnational penetration to hinterlands and the III and IV Worlds. Art may now be created as a measure of modernity, both to express new national identities and as resistance to cultural appropriation. Other art forms are preserved from pre-modernity but used the same way.

This course is intended for students in the social sciences preparing for, carrying out, or writing up research on these topics, including writing field statements. The emphasis will be on topics of immediate professional interest to the students and the instructor. Books and journals on reserve include:

J. Coote & S. Shelton, 1992. Anthropology, Art and Aesthetics
Gell, Alfred 1998. Art and Agency: An Anthropological Theory
B. Kirschenblatt-Gimblett. 1998. Destination Culture: Tourism, Museums and Heritage
Jeremy MacClancy, 1997. Contesting Art: Art, Politics and Identity
Phillips, R and Steiner, C. 1998. Unwrapping Culture
Patullo, P. 1996. Last Resorts: Caribbean
Sinclair, Thea. 1997. Gender, Work and Tourism
Urry, John. 1997. Consuming Places

Important journals On Reserve in the Anthropology Library, Kroeber Hall, include:
G155 A1 A58 Annals of Tourism Research
G155 A1 T6576 Journal of Travel Research
G191.6 R86 Leisure, Tourism and Recreation Abstracts

Please see instructor for more details.

ANTHRO 250X-1: SPECIAL TOPICS: "SCIENCE, REASON, AND MODERN POWER"

X. Liu 4 units, F: 10-12, 111 Kroeber (note room change)

The intellectual horizon of our time is veiled by the effort to re-write the history of modernity, and such an effort has affected how anthropologists question the other-ness of other societies. This seminar aims at an understanding of modern power by examining: 1) a number of philosophical reflections on science, particularly on its empiricist epistemology and its function as a model for social sciences; 2) some recent examples of anthropological (or sociological) studies of science or scientists or scientific claims; 3) the historical emergence of the appeal to a style of reasoning that is quantitative (or statistical) in essence. In short, this seminar will deal with how scientific research is implicated in a structure of power/knowledge and how modern power is intrinsically embedded in the mode of statistical reason. Broadly speaking, this seminar tries to provide some background knowledge for the development of the project of an anthropology of modernity, which, regardless any specific area interests that one may have, has become central to any possible understanding of cultural or historical processes of other societies.

Texts required:
Durkheim, E. [1897]1951. Suicide.
Foucault, M. 1970. The order of things.
Feyeabend, P. 1975. Against method.
Hacking, I. 1983. Representing and intervening.

Sahlins, M. 1976. The use and abuse of biology.
Latour, 1986. Laboratory life.
Nader, L. 1996. The naked science.
Rabinow, P. 1999. French DNA.

Hacking, I. 1975. The emergence of probability.
MacKenzie, D. A. 1981. Statistics in Britain, 1865-1930.

ANTHRO 250X-2: SPECIAL TOPICS: "CLASSIC ETHNOGRAPHIES"

L. Nader 4 units, M: 12-2, 111 Kroeber

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ANTHRO 250X-3: SPECIAL TOPICS: "THE QUESTION OF THE SUBJECT"

P. Rabinow 4 units, W: 3-6, 222 Wheeler

Note change of topic.
This seminar for advanced graduate students will explore the core issues osurrounding the definitions of the classical subject and its fate in modernity. Consent of instructor is required.

ANTHRO 250X-4: SPECIAL TOPICS: "CHILDREN IN SITUATIONS OF CONFLICT: INNOCENCE AND EXPERIENCE"

P. Reynolds 4 units, Tu: 10-12, 101, 2251 College (note change)

The situation of children in armed conflict is currently a major concern among those who focus on the interests of the young and among those whose interest is in the propagation of Human Rights and International legislation to restrict the involvement of children in war and to limit harm done to them. During the course, the situation of children in recent and on-going conflicts will be examined and the nature and causes of their participation will be analysed. We shall begin by looking at the role of children in past wars and at the possible reasons for the absence of detailed documentation of it. We shall consider why the engagement of the young in warfare is pruned from the archive. We shall discuss the romance of war and reflect on the possible influence on children of ideals to do with bravery and heroism that imbue stories about and images of combat. The course will examine written evidence for data on recruitment, training, treatment, deployment and political engagement of the young during periods of armed conflict. A particular focus will be on the participation of the young in resistance movements and their acquisition of political consciousness. In accord with this, we shall take account of their rejection of the manner in which they are often categorised once war has ended and of some political compromises that accompany the return to peace. Material will be presented that deals with the harm war does, including the damage wrought on children's bodies by land mines; their predicament when born as a consequence of rape; and the callous targeting of children as members of civilian populations during the conduct of war. Representations of children's terror and suffering in the media will lead us into a consideration of its use and abuse. Finally, we shall look at various ways in which conflicts are brought to an end and the attention that is given to children¹s needs in the process. Patterns of healing and ideas about trauma will be traced with regard to recent formulations of diagnosis, counselling and attempts to lay the ghosts of the past.

Goals: It is expected that students will emerge from the course with an understanding of the ways in which social-cultural studies contribute to the analysis of an ancient activity--warfare--as it affects the young who seem to be increasingly drawn into its ambit as participants and/or victims. It will suggest ways to examine the archive and critique current universalistic and directive institutional forms. Students will be encouraged to analyse the effects of definitions that are widely drawn on in the description of a variety of conflicts and query the extent to which they influence the analysis of queer the pitch. A critical response will be developed as we consider the power that institutions can wield, for good or ill, in defining patterns of description and prescription of the conduct of war. It will be further developed when we contemplate concepts like "coercive harmony" (Laura Nader) as applied to institutional means employed in ending conflict , and "the politics of contempt" (Olga Nieuwenhuys) as applied to the imposition of Western notions of childhood around the world,

Requirements: Active participation in the seminar discussions and in co-leading one of the sessions. Co-leading requires additional preparation and consultation with the instructor. Each student is expected to write a brief (3-5 pages) critical response paper every fortnight reflecting on some part (or all) of the required readings assigned during that time. The responses will constitute part of the final assessment and will guide our exploration. Each student will write a research paper (20-25 pages maximum) on a substantive topic related to the course. A one page research proposal/abstract and a list of readings is due in class after the first five weeks of meetings.

ADDED COURSE CCN: 02941

ANTHRO 250X-5: SPECIAL TOPICS: "REMAKING KINSHIP, CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES, NEW DIRECTIONS"

K. Erwin 4 units, M: 2-4, 15, 2224 Piedmont

This course examines recent anthropological studies of family and kinship from a theoretical and critical perspective. What socio-political conditions, bio-technological developments, and analytic concerns drive this renewed interest in "kinship", and in what new directions do they lead? Specifically, course readings and discussions will examine the debates produced by these new studies, and consider the range of rethinking about kinship that has been produced in relation to political and social movements, new reproductive technologies, and new conceptual frameworks. Topics will include the role of bio-technology, nation-state and global politics, postsocialism and transnationalism, and socio-political forces in shaping definitions and meanings of family in the US and elsewhere; also the role of gender, sexuality, marriage, law, reproduction, adoption, migration and a range of medical technologies (include sperm and egg donation; "transplant kin"; and others). This course is open to graduate students in anthropology, medical anthropology and demography. Others must get instructor's approval to enroll.

Required Texts (preliminary list):
Schneider; American Kinship
Carol Stack; All Our Kin and selections from Call to Home
Judith Stacey; Brave New Families Stories of Domestic Upheaval in Late 20th C. America
Kath Weston; Families We Choose Gays, Lesbians and Kinship
Marilyn Strathern; Reproducing the Future: Essays on Anthropology, Kinship, and the New Reproductive Technologies 
Susan Kahn; Reproducing Jews
Susan Gal and Gail Kligman; The Politics of Gender after Socialism
Helena Ragone and France Winddance Twine (eds.);  Ideologies and Technologies of Motherhood: Race, Class, Sexuality, Nationalism

Course Pack (CP)
A preliminary list of readings for the Course Pack includes selections from the following list (in whole or in part): Radcliffe-Brown; Evans-Pritchard; B. Malinowski; E. Bott; Freud; Chodorow; Yanagisako; J. Collier; J. Borneman; M. Strathern; L. Sharp; S. Beck; X. Liu; A. Anagnost; Ong; and others.

ANTHRO 260: PROBLEMS IN FOLKLORE: "ESTONIAN AND FINNISH FOLKLORISTICS"

U. Valk 4 units, W: 10-12, 121 Wheeler

The seminar will focus on the folkloristic research traditions in Finland and Estonia. The course begins with a short historical introduction that draws the outline of the early history of folkloristics, and the establishment of the Finnish (historic-geographic) school, including collecting folklore and founding the folklore archives. We shall discuss the works of Jakob Hurt, Walter Anderson, Oskar Loorits, Ivar Paulson (Estonia) and Kaarle Krohn, Antti Aarne, Uno Harva, Martti Haavio and Matti Kuusi (Finland). However, the main emphasis of the seminar will be on contemporary research, current theories and methodologies. We shall discuss such topics and approaches as genre theory, textuality and variation, paremiology, epics, folklore and national identity, folklore and Internet, gender aspects of folklore, folklore and mentalities, and the connection between folkloristics and comparative religion. The works to be discussed will take us outside the Balto-Finnic region into India, Siberia and elsewhere.

Requirements: active participation in the seminar discussions, class presentation and the final research paper (due at the end of the semester).Required reading: "Thick Corpus, Organic Variation and Textuality in Oral tradition" (Studia Fennica Folkloristica 7) Weekly discussions will be based on this book.

ANTHRO 270B: SEMINAR IN SOCIAL-LINGUISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY: "FOUNDATIONS OF LANGUAGE IN CONTEXT"

W. Hanks 4 units, Tu: 3-6, 331 LeConte

This course is an intensive introduction to the study of language as a cultural system and speech as socially embedded communicative practice. It is the core course for students wishing to take further coursework in linguistic anthropology, and is designed for graduate students. Upper level undergraduates may enroll with permission of instructor. There are no special prerequisites. The course will meet once weekly, with roughly 70% of class time devoted to lectures and the remainder to discussion. Grades will be based on oral participation, a short essay in week 8 and a final essay of no more than 20 pages double spaced.

Topics include linguistic structure, its relation to other sign systems, speech acts and "performativity," approaches to "context," varieties of interaction, language in historical research and basic elements of a practice approach to language. Prior background in sociocultural anthropology, semantics/pragmatics, rhetortic, textual criticism or intensive foreign language study would be helpful, but is not required. We will do close readings of Saussure, Austin, Boas, Sapir, Benveniste, Chomsky, Labov, Merleau Ponty, Voloxinov, Bourdieu and Goffman, among others.

Requirements:
(i) punctual attendance of all meetings (discussion will be cumulative and it is important to stay abreast of lectures);
(ii) reading of all required material and such additional sources as interest individual students;
(iii) active engagement in class discussions;
(iv) written work:
Essay 1 (5-7 pp) 3:00 p.m. Tues March 6 (turn in at start of class)
Final Essay (20 pp) 9:00 a.m. Monday March 13

There are no prerequisites. If you are uncertain regarding your preparation for the course, speak with the instructor within the first two weeks.

ANTHRO 290: SURVEY OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCH

C. Hastorf 1 unit, M: 4-6, 160 Kroeber

The departmental seminar, which is held on alternate 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.

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FOLKLORE

FOLK 250B: FOLKLORE THEORY AND TECHNIQUES

A. Dundes 4 units, W: 4-6, Prof. Dundes's house.

This seminar is a survey of the history of development of Folklore and Folkloristic theory and method worldwide. Assignment includes writing a research paper for possible publication.

Prerequisites: Consent of the instructor.