Graduate course listings -- spring 2002


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ANTHRO 215B: ADVANCED SEMINAR IN MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY: "VIOLENCE IN WAR AND PEACE"
N. Scheper-Hughes, P. Bourgois 4 units, M: 10-12, 115 Kroeber


This working seminar is limited to 15 participants. This is an experiment in developing new ways to theorize and to teach about violence from an anthropological perspective. The main text in this course is the large, two volume reader comprised of edited selections from our forthcoming (Basil Blackwell) anthology: Violence in War and Peace. Our intent is to bring the subjects of violence, genocide, and social suffering into the center of the discipline and to the social sciences more generally. The anthology is designed not only with graduate students in mind but for a broader reading public. We have in most cases included our edited markings on the original pages so that seminar participants can compare the full text of the selections to our abridged version. Criticisms ae not only welcome -- they are considered a part of this working seminar.

The seminar readings and discussions will continually juxtapose the routine, the ordinary -- the symbolic and normative violence of everyday life ("terror as usual") -- against sudden eruptions of unexpected, extraordinary, or "gratuitous" violence (as in genocide, state terror, dirty wars, terrorism, and popular political mobilizations, rough justice, guerrilla warfare, and civil wars). We will explore the relations and continuities (Scheper-Hughes's "genocide continuum") between political and criminal violence; between state violence and 'communal' violence; and race violence, sexual, and gender violence within the context of political, social, and individual (psychological) pathologies. Our readings and discussions will be concerned throughout with the links between individual and social suffering and with the larger context of politicaleconomy, colonial and post-colonial history and the continuum of structural, symbolic, political and everyday violence. We are interested in Boudieu's theory of symbolic violence, Taussig's "culture of terror", Primo Levi's "grey zone", Agamben's "impossibility of witnessing", and Foucault's "carceral network" among other useful formulations. We will look at anthropological vs. literary and political journalist forms witnessing violence. Finally, we will conclude with readings on demilitarization, individual and collective remorse, reparation, and new nation building.

Admission to the seminar is by permission of the instructors following the first seminar meeting with preference given to graduate students in anthropology and related disciplines who are already engaged in research on violence. Please come to the first seminar meeting with a 2-3 page narrative on your current status [1st-3rd year graduate student, ABD, returned from fieldwork, etc.), relevant experience, research, or applied work in the field of violence studies and /or interests, and/or any other special perspectives that you can contribute to the seminar.

Requirements:
1) Active participation in discussions and the submission each week of short critical reaction papers [not summaries] responding to one or more aspects of the week's readings
2) Co-facilitating with the instructors one class session.
3) A final paper (15-20 pages + bib.) based on either:
a) original research in one of the fields of violence
b) draft of a field statement - bibliographical essay on violence
c)theory paper responding to, interpreting, or criticizing our organization of the field of violence studies as we have proposed it in the Blackwell Anthology.
Two copies of the paper are due at the last class meeting on May 13, 2002.

Texts:
Reader: Violence in War and Peace, edited by N.Scheper-Hughes and P. Bourgois.
Highly Recommended Books:
Agamben, Giorgio. 1999. Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive. New York: Zone Books.
Fanon, Frantz. 1963. Wretched of the Earth. New York: Grove Press.
Philip Gourevitch . 1998. We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed with our Families. New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux.
Rian Malan. My Traitor's Heart. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press.

The following books are recommended to be used, selectively as background to the wekly discussions. Those leading the seminar discussion should have read the recommended text(s) for their chosen seminar discussion. These can be obtained through Amazon.com. We will try to have one copy of each available in the Anthropology Library.

Allen, James (ed.). 2000. Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America. Santa Fe, NM: Twin Palms.
Arendt, Hannah. 1969. On Violence. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company.
Arendt, Hannah. 1963. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil. New York: Viking Press.
Bauman, Zygmunt. 1989. Modernity and the Holocaust. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
Binford, Leigh. 1996. The El Mozote Massacre. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press.
Borowski, Tadeusz. 1992. This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentleman. Penguin USA.
Bourdieu, Pierre. 2001. Masculine Domination, Richard Nice, trans. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press.
Bourgois, Philippe. 1995. In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Browning, Christopher. 1993. Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland. New York: Harper Perennial.
Conrad, Joseph. 1999 (1902). Heart of Darkness. New York: Penguin.
Cootze, J.M. Disgrace.
Danner, Mark. 1994. The Massacre at El Mozote. New York: Vintage.
Foucault, Michel. 1978. History of Sexuality. New York: Random House.
Foucualt, Michel. Discipline and Punish. New York: Random House.
Gilligan, James. 1996. On Violence. New York: Vintage.
Gordon, Robert. 1992. The Bushmen Myth: The Making of a Namibian Underclass. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
Green, Linda. 1998. Fear as a Way of Life. New York: Columbia University Press.
Grossman, Dave. 1995. On Killing: the Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society. Boston: Little Brown.
Herman. Judith. 1992. Trauma and Recovery. New York: Basic Books.
Kleinman, Arthur, Veena Das and Margaret Lock, eds. Social Suffering. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
Kroeber, Theodora. 1961. Ishi in Two Worlds. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Krog, Antjie. 1999. Country of My Skull: Guilt, Sorrow, and the Limits of Forgiveness in the New South Africa. Time Books.
Levi, Primo. 1988. The Drowned and the Saved. New York: Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Mamdani, Mahmood. 2001. When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism, and the Genocide in Rwanda. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Malkki, Liisa. 1995. Purity and Exile: Violence, Memory and National Cosmology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Nordstrom, Carolyn. 1997. A Different Kind of War Story. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Nordstrom, Carolyn and A. Robben, eds., Fieldwork Under Fire. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Pedelty, Mark. 1995. War Stories: The Culture of Foreign Correspondents. London: Routledge. Sachs, Albie. 2000. The Soft Vengeance of a Freedom Fighter. New, updated edition. University of California Press.
Scarry, Elaine. 1985. The Body in Pain: the Making and Unmaking of the World. Oxford University Press.
Scheper-Hughes, Nancy. 1992. Death Without Weeping. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Soyinka, Wole. 1999. The Burden of Memory: The Muse of Forgiveness. New York: Oxford University Press.
Taussig, Michael. 1986. Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man: A Study in Terror and Healing. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.


ANTHRO 220: WESTERN NORTH AMERICA
L. Scheiber 4 units, Tu: 10-12, 16 Hearst Gym


This course is designed for graduate students or advanced undergraduates interested in how archaeologists have reconstructed the prehistory of North America, based on a variety of theoretical commitments and innovative methodologies. This seminar will address various topics, including temporal frameworks, theoretical perspectives, peopling of the new world, subsistence strategies, political systems, cultural landscapes, trade and exchange, and contemporary ethical and political issues. The course is intended to provide students with a working knowledge of the prehistoric sequences and archaeological themes throughout North America, so that they are better prepared to evaluate popular and academic literature and incorporate a diverse array of interpretations in their own work. Weekly reading assignments on the above topics will provide the baseline for seminar discussions. Note: This course will consider all of North America north of Mexico, for broad-based comparisons to "Western North America."

Any graduate student or qualified undergraduate may enroll in the class. Contact the instructor via e-mail at scheiber@sscl.berkeley.edu


ANTHRO 223: AFRICAN PREHISTORY: "THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF HUMAN ORIGINS"
J. Sept 4 units, Tu: 2-4, 2547 Channing


When did we become "human"? This seminar will focus on the archaeology of human origins in the context of the African Stone Age, and we will explore two basic questions.

Cultural Animals? How can we model the behavioral traditions and socio-ecological adaptations of Early Stone Age hominid/hominin species? We will focus, particularly, on interpreting early Oldowan and Acheulian sites in an ethological context that includes the behaviors of other primates.

Whither Modernity? We will uncouple the genetic, anatomical, and archaeological arguments for the origins of our own species and examine the current debate about how "modern" was the behavior of early Homo sapiens sapiens, by studying contrasts between the regional archaeological records of the Middle and Late Stone Age.

In addition to writing a short "critical response" to a weekly selection of research articles, each student will be responsible for making two presentations to the class during the semester of case study sites that will help us contextualize and evaluate the interpretive arguments we're discussing that week. Grades will be based on these seminar activities and a final research paper.


ANTHRO 229B: ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH STRATEGIES
K. Lightfoot/ P. Kirch 4 units, W: 2-5, 2547 Channing


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: "GENDER AND FEMINIST PRACTICE"
M. Conkey 4 units, W: 9-11, 2547 Channing


In this seminar we will review the past 15 years of work on how archaeologists have taken up the study of "gender", including a consideration of how this work fits within the wider contexts of feminist and gender research in anthropology and other social sciences, and of feminist research more widely. We will pay particular attention to feminist critiques of science and to the epistemological issues that feminist theory raises for archaeology. We will engage with the theoretical resources of use to archaeologists, with understanding the kinds of "gender archaeology" that have been pursued, and probe the question: "has feminism changed archaeology?" We will pay particular attention to the ideas of what constitutes a feminist practice in and of archaeology. We will read extensively, and each student will undertake a research paper, with explicit attention to developing a publishable paper. Students may be expected to help out as coaches with the Anthropology 128 undergraduate course (same title) in the preparation of their in-class presentations.

Required texts:
1) Gilchrist, Roberta (2000) Gender and Archaeology: Contesting the Past. Routledge, London (paperback).
2) Longino, Helen ( 1990) Science as Social Knowledge. Princeton University Press (paperback).
3) A Course Reader/Readings.
4) Choose at least one of these three paperbacks:
Spector, Janet (1994) What this Awl Means: Feminist Archaeology at a Wahpeton Dakota Village. Minnesota Historical Society, Minneapolis.
Gilchrist, Roberta (1994) Gender and Material Culture: The Archaeology of Religious Women. Routledge, London.
Joyce, Rosemary (2000) Gender and Power in Prehispanic Mesoamerica. University of Texas Press, Austin.


ANTHRO 240B: FUNDAMENTALS OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL THEORY
D. Moore/A. Yurchak 5 units, TuTh: 2-5, 221 Kroeber


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 250V: TOURISM
N. Graburn 4 units, M: 10-12, 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 and S. Shelton, 1992. Anthropology, Art & Aesthetics
Alfred Gell, 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
R. Phillips and C. Steiner, 1998. Unwrapping Culture.
P. Patullo, 1996. Last Resorts: Caribbean.
T. Sinclair, 1997. Gender, Work and Tourism.br> John Urry, 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: SPECIAL TOPICS IN SOCIAL CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY: "CLASSIC ETHNOGRAPHIES"
L. Nader 4 units, M: 12-2, 15, 2224 Piedmont

Required texts:
Argonauts of the Western Pacific, B. Malinowski, Waveland Press.
Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies, M. Mead, Harper Collins.
Sorcerers of Dobu: The Social Anthropology of the Dobu Islanders of the Western Pacific, R.F. Fortune, Waveland Press.
Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic Among the Azande, Edward Evan, Clarendon Press.
Naven, Gregory Bateson, Stanford University Press.
Political Systems of Highland Burma: A Study of Kachin Social Structure, E.R. Leach, Books Britain.
Black Byzantium: The Kingdom of Nupe in Nigeria, S. Nadel
We Eat the Mines and the Mines Eat Us: Dependency and Exploitation in Bolivia, Nash, Columbia University Press.
Encounters With Aging: Mythologies of Menopause in Japan and North America, M. Lock, University of California Press. Nuclear Rites: A Weapons Laboratory at the End of the Cold War, Hugh Gusterson, Unversity of California Press.
Audit Cultures: Anthropological Studies in Accountability and the Academy, Marilyn Strathern, Routledge.
Zapotec Science: Farming and Food in the Northern Sierra of Oaxaca, Roberto J. Gonzalez, University of Texas Press.
Harmony Ideology: Justice and Control in a Zapotec Mountain Village, Laura Nader, Stanford Unversity Press.



ADDED COURSE: CCN: 02941
ANTHRO 250X-2: SPECIAL TOPICS IN SOCIAL CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY: "DIASPORA, DISPLACEMENT, EXILE: SOCIAL MEMORY AND NARRATION"
J. Roosa, H. Nasser 4 units, W: 2-5, 223 Moses

Instructors:
John Roosa PhD (History), Rockefeller Fellow, IIS
Hala Nasser PhD (Theatre Studies), Rockefeller Fellow, IIS

The 21st century is characterised by uprecedented human mobility. The number of refugees and emigrants, for example, has dramatically risen over the past several decades. In every part of the globe there are large-scale displacements due to war, forced expulsions of minorities, land expropriation, and economic collapse. According to the United Nations, the number of refugees has jumped from 2 million to in 1975 to 22 million in 2001. A vocabulary has emerged to understand this phenomena: a new lexicon embracing "ethnic cleansing" and "IDPs" (Internally Displaced Persons), rubs shoulders with older, even ancient, terms, such as exile and diaspora. Much recent academic research has tried to develop theories and narratives adequate to represent this widespread uprooting and thus we have a welcome proliferation of books on borders, travel, transnationalism, hybridity, the territoriality of nation-states, the transgression of boundaries, diasporic communities, and new regimes of international governance.

This course addresses this foundational work but is especially concerned with how the displaced communities remember and narrate their experiences. Apart from theoretical works on the meaning of diaspora, exile, and social memory, the readings will include ethnographies, oral histories, novels based on oral history research, and memoirs written by the displaced.

The course is open to students of any academic and regional specialization. In reading texts about dispacement in a variety of geographical areas, from Europe to Southeast Asia, we will focus on the writer's research methodology, narrative technique, and the themes that have a broad relevance for comparative purposes (such as the memory of home and the means of surviving in a new environment).

Some of the primary concerns are how we as researchers conduct our research and choose to represent the experiences of the displaced: how we interact with people who have been victimized, how we handle stories of violence, how we write and speak about our research before the public, and how we think about which public we should be writing for.

Requirements:
In addition to informed participation in the weekly meetings, students will write a one-page (single-spaced) critical analysis of at least one of the readings each week. Students will take turns facilitating the discussions. Students will also write a 20-page research paper about the social memory of a displaced community.



ANTHRO 260: PROBLEMS IN FOLKLORE: "ON SYMBOLIC UNIVERSALS"
F. Vaz da Silva 4 units, W: 12-2, Rm. 15, 2224 Piedmont


This graduate seminar proposes to consider symbolic schemes that are perennial in folklore across space and time, with an emphasis on European data. First we will review theoretical works on symbolic patterns linked to the biological constraints of humankind, such as the notion of cyclic time in rites of passage; the symbolism of colors in connection with human physiology; snake symbolism in association with human juices such as blood, milk, and semen; and the symbolic equivalence of menstrual blood with incest in both cosmogonies and concrete ritual uses. Then, in light of such topics, we are to examine European fairy tales and medieval literature as well as myth-ritual complexes in other cultures. Finally, we will discuss on theoretical grounds the very notion of universal symbolism. The seminar will provide a forum for students interested in exploring the interface of folklore and anthropology. Grades will be based on classroom participation, including at least one presentation in class, and a term research paper.



ANTHRO 280C: SEMINARS IN AREA STUDIES: SOUTH ASIA
L. Cohen   4 units, F: 2-4, 125 Dwinelle (as of 2/1/02)


This intensive graduate seminar engages modern social theory in relation to the Indian subcontinent and its histories and contemporary sociology. The theme for 2001 is sovereignty. Literatures on kingship, colonial and national sovereignty, biopower and other contemporary governmentalities, and self-rule will be closely engaged. The focus is on India and Pakistan. For graduate students only. Readings may include selections from some of the following, reflecting the four themes of the seminar:

On the returns of kingship: Main Texts:
Homo Hierarchicus: An Essay on the Caste System, Louis Dumont
The Hollow Crown: Ethnohistory of an Indian Kingdom, Nicholas B. Dirks
Structure and Cognition, Veena Das
Religion, Civil Society, and the Sate: A Study of Sikhism, J.P.S. Uberoi
The Poison in the Gift, Gloria Raheja
Supplemental Texts:
The Destiny of a King, Georges Dumezil
The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society, J.C. Heesterman
The Kingıs Two Bodies, Ernst Kantorowicz
History of Sexuality, Vol. I, Michel Foucault
Homo Sacer, Giorgi Agamben

On political sovereignty: Main Texts:
Self and Sovereignty, Ayesha Jalal
The Saffron Wave: Democracy and Hindu Nationalism in Modern India, Thomas Hansen
Supplemental Texts:
The Ideas of Sovereignty and State in Indian Political Thought, K.M. Panikkar
Land and Sovereignty in India, Andre Wink
Democracy and Authoritarianism in South Asia, Ayesha Jalal
Doctors for Democracy: Health Professionals in the Nepal Revolution, Vincanne Adams
Democracy Without Associations, Pradeep Chhibber
The Furies of Indian Communalis: Religion, Modernity, and Secularization, Achin Vanaik
The Illegitimacy of Nationalism, Ashis Nandy

On colonial and postcolonial governmentality: Main Texts:
Colonialism and Its Forms of Knoledge: The British in India, Bernard S. Cohn
Postcolonial Development: Agriculture in the Making of Modern India, Akhil Gupta
Supplemental Texts:
Dominance Without Hegemony: History and Power in Colonia India , Ranajit Guba
Bonded Histories: Genealogies of labor Servitude in Colonial India, Gyan Prakash
Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference, Dipesh Chakrabarty
Hybrid Histories: Forests, Frontiers, and Wildness in Western India, Ajay Skaria

On self-rule and the subject: Main Texts:
An Autobiography, of the Story of My Experiments With Truth, M.K. Gandhi
Gandhi's Body: Sex, Diet, and the Politics, of Nationalism, Joseph Alter
Womanhood in the Making, Mary Hancock
Camera Indica, Chris Pinney
Supplemental Texts:
Hind Swaraj, or, Indian Home Rule, M.K. Gandhi
Religion Against the Self: An Ethnography of Tamil Rituals, Isabelle Nabokov



ANTHRO 280D: CHINA
X. Liu 4 units, F: 10-12, 15, 2224 Piedmont

As "a history of the present," this seminar reads through a number of recent ethnographic writings about that vast social space in hope of understanding, first, a particular tradition of anthropological studies of a particular region as a mirror of change in the conditions of life in the contemporary world; and, second, the connections and paths that link this particular anthropological tradition to the larger context of debates in social and human sciences in general.

Required texts:
Rofel, L. 1999. Other modernities. UC Press.
Liu, X. 2000. In one's own shadow. UC Press.
Ruf, G. A. 2000. Cadres and Kin. Stanford U. Press.
Schein, L. 2000. Minority rules. Duke U. Press.
Litzinger, R. 2000. Other Chinas. Duke U. Press.
Gillette, M. B. Between Mecca and Beijing. Stanford U. Press.
Mueggler, E. 2001. The age of wild ghost. UC Press.
Zhang, L. 2001. Strangers in the city. Stanford U. Press.

Tang, F-W. et al. eds., 2000. Chinese urban life under reform. Cambridge U. Press.
Perry, E. et al. eds., 2000. Chinese society. Rutledge.
Bakken, B. 2000. The exemplary society. Oxford.
Yeh, W-H. ed., 2000. Becoming Chinese. UC Press.
Dirlik, A. et al. eds., 2001. Postmodernism and China. Duke U. Press.
Perry, E. 2001. Challenging the mandate of heaven. M.E. Sharpe.



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.



ADDED COURSE: CCN: 02953
ANTHRO 290-2: Public Archaeology
M. Conkey 1 unit

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 schoolıs 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.

Related courses in other departments: folklore


FOLK 250B: FOLKLORE THEORY AND TECHNIQUES
A. Dundes 4 units, W: 4-6, 201 Giannini


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.