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ANTHRO 1: INTRODUCTION TO PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

J. Marks, 4 units, TTh 2-3:30, Wheeler Auditorium

 

This course will provide the student with an introduction to the primary theories and concepts relating to Biological Anthropology. The course will cover the three main subdisciplines of Biological Anthropology: Human Biology, Paleoanthropology, and Primatology. Course material will be introduced to students in a variety of ways, including visual presentations (in lecture and section) and hands-on experiences (in section).

There will be three hours of lecture and one hour of discussion section per week.

Prerequisites: None.

ANTHRO 2: INTRODUCTION TO ARCHAEOLOGY

R. Tringham, 4 units, MWF 10-11, 145 Dwinelle

 

Archaeology is a conjunction of techniques and disciplines which makes possible the study of phases and aspects of the human past that are not documented by written records. Anthropology 2 offers an introduction to the fundamentals of archaeological concepts and methods. In its broadest role, archaeology attempts to treat the development of behavior from nonhuman antecedents to the complex cultural patterns and socio-economic systems that are documented in history, ethnography and the daily newspapers. Anthropology sketches in bold outline aspects of what is known and thought about the evolution of human culture and behavior from its earliest beginnings to the present, even peering into the future. The course also examines how archaeologists find out about the past. Much of this latter aspect of the course will be undertaken in section discussions of excavation techniques, dating and the study of artifacts and buildings and garbage.

 

Requirements: Mid-term examination, final examination and several problem sets that are issued during the semester through section meetings. Each student is required to attend a one-hour section meeting each week.

 

Prerequisites: None.

 

 

ADDED CLASS: CCN: 02461

ANTHRO 2L: MULTIMEDIA ADJUNCT COURSE TO INTRO TO ARCHAEOLOGY

R. Tringham, 2 units, W 2-3, and F 1-3, 2224 Piedmont (Multimedia Authoring Ctr. for Teaching in

Anthropology)

 

Maximum 24 students.

Location of the course: Multimedia Authoring Center for Teaching in Anthropology (MACTIA), 2224 Piedmont. Times: Wednesday 2-3 (seminar) and Friday 1-3. (lab)

A special section of Anthropology 2 will be offered as a supplemental course to the regular Anthropology 2. Students who opt for Anthro 2L will be expected to fulfill all the requirements for Anthro 2 in addition to the special requirements of the multimedia section.

 

The aim of the course is to introduce students to multimedia authoring for archaeology and the multimedia presentation of archaeology through commercial and educational WWWeb-sites and CDROMs. Weekly seminar meetings will discuss the role of multimedia and archaeology content in tandem with the themes being discussed in the general Anthropology 2 class. Through self-paced tutorials and the media stream assignments, students will gradually gain skills in authoring multimedia products themselves, culminating in the creative final multimedia project. Multimedia authoring itself will be guided in the weekly laboratory session following the seminar.

 

Prerequisites: None, but participation is at the instructor's discretion. Priority will be given to students concurrently enrolled in Anthropology 2.

 

 

ANTHRO 3: INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL & CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY

N. Graburn, 4 units, TTh 9:30-11, Wheeler Auditorium

This year's Anthropology 3 will use the recent work of the Berkeley faculty and others to illuminate recent trends in socio-cultural anthropology. It introduces a comparative framework for understanding a range of ways of life, including urban, peasant, horticultural, pastoralist and hunter-gatherer societies. However, our emphasis will be contemporary complex societies and their recent changes and social problems, including Japan, China, USA, South Africa, Mexico, India and Russia, and post-colonial peoples of Africa and the Pacific. The course will focus on anthropological research ethics and methods, and issues of gender, social-political change, and the globalizing socio-cultural system. Videos and slides as well as guest speakers will supplement the case studies. Adjuncts to the course include weekly section meetings with exciting young GSIs (Teaching assistants), boring lecture summary handouts, essential "Black Lightning Notes," and possibly a voluntary ELL Class on "How to ace courses at Cal."

Grades will be based on one in-class midterm (30%), one ungraded (but compulsory) genealogy assignment and a series of short research assignments spread out over the term (30%), and a final exam (40%). Overall grades may be raised or lowered up to 5% for discussion section attendance and participation.

Required Books (all paperback):

TEXT:

A. Rubel & P. Rosman, The Tapestry of Culture Boston: McGraw-Hill (6th edit. 1997)

CASE STUDIES (all paperbacks):

L. Gill, Precarious Dependencies (Aymara, domestics in Bolivia)

M. Shostak Nisa (African hunter-gatherers, woman's biography)

R. Condon, Inuit Youth (Canadian Eskimo adolescents)

S. Plattner, High Art Down Home (The "Art World" in the U.S.)

*E. Hertz , The Trading Crowd (Shanghai stock market)

 

 

ADDED CLASS: CCN 02578  

ANTHRO 24: FRESHMAN SEMINAR: "FOOD AND CULTURE: A LOOK AT THE HUMAN CONDITION THROUGH FOOD"

C. Hastorf, 1 unit, M 2-3, 115 Kroeber (Note change of room)

 

Food touches everything. Food is the foundation of every economy. It is a central part of political strategies of states, chiefs, households, and families. Food marks social differences, boundaries, bonds and contradictions. Eating is an endlessly evolving enactment of gender, family, and community. By reading some key Anthropological chapters on food, we will think about how food-sharing creates solidarity, how food scarcity damages the human community and human spirit. We examine some of the meanings of eating, fasting, being fat, and being thin, and their links to gender.

 

The main text will be the new reader Food and Culture edited by Carole Counihan and Penny van Esterik (1997), Routledge Publs.

 

Assignments will be a series of short essays on particular subjects brought up in the readings and discussions.

 

 

ANTHRO 108: PROBLEMS IN PRIMATE BEHAVIOR AND ECOLOGY

K. Milton, 4 units, MW 12-2, 22 Warren

 

CANCELLED.

 

 

ANTHRO 112: SPECIAL TOPICS IN BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY: "EVOLUTION OF HUMAN SEXUALITY"

L. Hager, 4 units, TT 12:30-2, 102 Stanley -- Note change of schedule.

 

This class examines the evolution of human sexuality from biological and cultural perspectives. We place human sexuality with an evolutionary framework as we contemplate the sexual nature of the modern human body and of modern human behavior with a view from the past as well as the present. We examine modern humans from around the world to better understand just what is meant by "human sexuality," and we study our closest living relatives, the nonhuman primates, to better understand our primate heritage. Finally, we examine clues from the hominid fossil record for evidence of the origins of modern human sexuality.

 

 

ANTHRO 114: HISTORY OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL THOUGHT

X. Liu, 4 units, MWF 11-12, 100 GPB

 

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.

 

Readings:

Harris, M. 1968. The rise of anthropological theory. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company (esp., Chs. 1-14).

Kuper, A. 1996. Anthropology and anthropologists - the modern British school. London and New York: Routledge.

Lévi-Strauss, C. 1963. Structural anthropology. New York: BasicBooks (esp., Chs. I, II, IV, X, XI).

Lévi-Strauss, C. 1966. The savage mind. Chicago: Chicago University Press (eps., Chs. 1 and 7).

Geertz, C. 1973. The interpretation of cultures. New York: BasicBooks (esp., Intro., Chs. 14 and 15).

 

 

ADDED CLASS: CCN 02653  

ANTHRO 119: SPECIAL TOPICS IN MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY: HEALTH, HEALING, AND THE BODY IN ASIAN CULTURES

K. Erwin, 4 units, TT 9:30-11, 200 Wheeler

 

This course explores the cultural beliefs and practices associated with medicine (healing), health, and the body in Asian cultures. After introducing students to alternative concepts of health and the body fundamental to traditional Chinese medicine (TMC) and Ayurveda (India) in particular, the course will explore a series of topics and issues aimed at understanding how historical, economic, social, and cultural processes shape the lived experience of health and healing in various Asian contexts. Specific topics include: clinical encounters (with both Asian and Western medicine in Asian societies); the role of the physician/healer; experiences of illness and healing; shamanism; religion and healing; childbirth; aging; death; cultural conceptions of gender and the body; sexuality; AIDS; psychiatry/mental health; medical pluralism; spirit possession; TMC in transnational contexts; and the role of globalization/modernity in both the revival and transformation of "traditional" healing practices and beliefs. The scope of ethnographic examples covered in readings and course materials will include East (China, Japan, Korea), South (India, Sri lanka), and Southeast Asia (Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore). However, due to the expertise of the instructor, East Asian, and particularly Chinese, examples will receive particular emphasis.

 

This is an upper division course, aimed at junior and senior anthropology, Asian studies, and pre-med. majors as well as graduate students in anthropology, medical anthropology, public health, Asian Studies, and related disciplines.

 

Requirements:

Students with specific interests in other cultures are encouraged to pursue further readings in that area in a required term project/research paper (10pp; 25%). Other course requirements include: an in-class midterm and take-home final (both short essay; 25% each); 3 short (2pp) essays on the weekly reading assignments (these will be used to support and encourage class discussion and questions in a seminar/small group format) (15%); regular class attendence and active participation (10%).

 

Recommended prerequisite:

Anthropology 115 (Introduction to Medical Anthropology; or equivalent).

 

 

ANTHRO 123A: STONE AGE ARCHAEOLOGY: "LIFE IN ICE-AGE EUROPE THROUGH FICTION: EXPLORING ARCHAEOLOGY AND NARRATIVE"

M. Conkey, 4 units, THIS CLASS HAS UNFORTUNATELY BEEN CANCELLED, HOWEVER, IT IS PLANNED TO BE TAUGHT IN SPRING 2000.

 

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.

 

Prerequisite: Anthropology 2 or an equivalent course on the methods, theories and concepts of archaeology.

 

 

ANTHRO 128: SPECIAL TOPICS IN ARCHAEOLOGY:

The Staff, 4 units, MWF 2-3, 30 Wheeler

 

CANCELLED..

 

 

ADDED CLASS: CCN 02659

ANTHRO 131: ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE: "GEOSPATIAL METHODS"

C. Dore, 4 units, Tu 5-8, C30 Hearst Annex (note change of room.)

 

Almost all archaeological data has a spatial component. Where something is and what it is associated with provides most of our information about the past. Over the last 20 years, computer technologies have allowed archaeologists to take full advantage of spatial data. This course will provide you with a basic understanding of the state-of-the-art geospatial methods archaeologists are using--methods that are essential job skills for archaeologists today and into the next decade. Geospatial analysis, especially the ability to visualize past and present landscapes, can be fun too. As one archaeologist put it, "geospatial computer work is not only essential, it is way cool".

 

This course will cover geographic information systems; the global positioning system; photogrammetry; satellite, aerial, and subsurface (geophysical) remote sensing; geographical visualization; and basic cartography. It will present the fundamental concepts necessary for working with geospatial data sets and introduce basic techniques for manipulating geospatial data. The course will be taught on computers within a geographical information system.

 

Requirements:

Each week there will be assigned readings and a computer exercise. Since this "hands on" class meets only once a week, students are expected to attend every class session.

 

Prerequisites:

Anthro 2, and basic computer skills.

 

 

ANTHRO 132: ANALYSIS OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL MATERIALS: "POTTERY AND OTHER ARCHAEOLOGICAL MATERIALS FROM THE JOMON PERIOD, JAPAN"

J. Habu, 4 units, F 10-12 (lecture) and F 1-4 (lab), 16 Hearst Gym

 

This course is Instructor Approval Only. In order to apply for admittance to the class, you must come to the first lecture --NO exceptions. Selection will be made at that time.

 

The course is intended to acquaint students with various analytical methods to study the material culture of the Jomon Period. Jomon is a name of a prehistoric culture in Japan which lasted from about 10,000 to 300 B.C. Unlike many other prehistoric hunter-gatherer cultures, the Jomon culture is characterized by the production and use of pottery, polished stone axes, and elaborately decorated artifacts, as well as the presence of large settlements, shell-mounds, and various kinds of ceremonial features. In this sense, the Jomon culture shares a number of characteristics with other so-called "complex" hunter-gatherers.

 

Using Jomon pottery as an example, the first half of the course aims to provide hands-on training in the laboratory methods of pottery analysis as well as to survey major topics in ceramic analysis, including technology, type/style, chronology, function, and organization of ceramic production and distribution. The second half of the course deals with the retrieval and analysis of micro faunal and floral remains from Jomon sites. Special emphasis will be given to the importance of systematic sampling and quantitative analysis of these micro archaeological remains. Through these examinations, future directions for the study of the Jomon culture in the context of the "complex" hunter-gatherers will be discussed.

 

 

ADDED CLASS: CCN 02665  

ANTHRO 134B: MULTIMEDIA AUTHORING IN ARCHAEOLOGY

R. Tringham, 4 units, M 12-2 and Tu 3-6, 2224 Piedmont (note change of room)

 

This course is designed to provide an opportunity for undergraduates to work with sixth 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 will be voluntary for the sixth 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 will be 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.

 

The students of Anthropology 134B will work in close collaboration with the Graduate Student Section (Anthropology 228B), in which students will be working with the same sixth grade children in an in-class context. This latter course is more contrained by the requirements of the school curriculum in terms of content. We hope in Anthropology 134B to be able to address themes and topics and ways of looking at the past that are not addressed during their in-class participation.

  

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.

 

A small stipend to cover the cost of travel to the Roosevelt School will be provided.

 

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) are the only prerequisites. Access to an email and Internet account are essential prerequisites, since an important component of the course will be frequent consultation of the Course WWWebsite.

 

If you have taken previous Multimedia Authoring for Archaeology classes, this would be greatly to your advantage. Those 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.

 

 

 

ANTHRO 135B: ENVIRONMENTAL ARCHAEOLOGY

P. Kirch, 4 units, TTh 12:30-2, 160 Dwinelle

 

CANCELLED.

 

 

ANTHRO 138A: ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM: HISTORY

T. Anderson, 4 units, MW 2-4, 110 Barrows

 

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 filmmaking, 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 2000, must complete 138A.

 

Prerequisites: Anthro 3 or Anthro 114

 

 

ANTHRO 147A: COMPARATIVE GENDER SYSTEMS:

"GLOBALIZATION AND GENDER"

A. Ong, 4 units, TTh 12:30-2, 180 Tan

 

This course introduces students to an understanding of globalization and its reworking of gender systems, flows, meanings, and rights in the Asia-Pacific region, including North America. Globalization can be analytically divided into two related global phenomena: contemporary capitalism and transnationalism. Contemporary capitalism is the globalization of the market system, and transnationalism refers to the intensification of human flows, contacts, cultures, and politics across national borders occasioned by markets and wars. Globalization then is about the reorganization of society, gender, race, class and citizenship in relation to our market civilization that is also transforming late socialist countries.

 

Our approach will link the institutional reorganization of the market and the state to new gender arrangements, giving rise to new interests, connections, and struggles within and across countries in the Asia-Pacific region, including North America. We emphasize the institutional forms produced by global processes in relation to the making and unmaking of gender labor regimes, the effects on gender politics, the proliferation of female migrant circuits, sex work, the feminine dimensions of consumption, political strategies of feminists at home, and rights discourses and NGOs affecting women's interests in Asia. The effects of globalization on gender overseas will be linked to the reworking of gender and cultural citizenship in the United States.

 

Requirements: Students are expected to have read assigned readings before class, and will be called upon to answer questions. Besides serious engagement with the readings and active participation in class, students will be required to write a 5-6 page review on the themes from the class as a midterm. The finals will consist of answers to 2 out of 5 questions that will be circulated beforehand. No incompletes will be accepted.

 

Readings:

Aihwa Ong, Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationality. Duke U. Press.

M. B. Mills, Gender and Modernity: Women and Labor Migration in Thailand. Rutgers U Press.

Lisa Rofel, Modern Imaginaries and Other Modernities. U. California Press.

A Course Reader.

 

 

ANTHRO 148: ANTHROPOLOGY OF THE ENVIRONMENT

D. Moore, 4 units, TTh 12:30-2, 155 Kroeber (note change of room)

 

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 157: ANTHROPOLOGY OF LAW

L. Nader, 4 units, TTh 9:30-11, 155 Kroeber

 

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, and legal hegemonies and user theory.

 

 

ANTHRO 158: RELIGION AND ANTHROPOLOGY

M. Ferme, 4 units, TTh 11-12:30, 110 Barrows
NOTE: New room beginning 9/2 will be 2060 VLSB

A cultural perspective on the relationship between religious beliefs, practices, and institutions. The first part of the course will focus on the place of religion in the history of anthropology. We will review how key topics in the study of religion--such as magic, totemism, "animism," rites of passage, witchcraft, purity and pollution--opened up larger anthropological debates about comparative systems of thought and classification; theories of agency, consciousness, and misfortune; forms of kinship, marriage, and sociability, and so on. In the second part of the course, we will examine through lectures, readings, and films how people in different cultures construct on a daily basis a religious space and time, how religious principles inform the care of the body (its dress, appearance, size), of food, and of social relations, and the politics of religious beliefs and contestations. Course requirements will include a fieldwork-based term paper, three or four one-page written analyses of assigned readings, and an exam. Readings will include books and articles in a course reader.

Prerequisites: Anthro 3 or consent of instuctor.

 

 

ANTHRO C160: FORMS OF FOLKLORE

A. Dundes, 4 units, TTh 2-3:30, 100 Lewis

(cross-listed with ISF 160.)

 

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.

 

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. Readings TBA.

 

 

ANTHRO 162: SPECIAL TOPICS IN FOLKLORE "STRATEGIES AND STRUCTURES OF BELIEF"

J. Michael, 4 units, MWF 3-4, 123 Wheeler

 

Why do some people believe in such unprovable phenomena as angels, ghosts, alien abductions, faith healing, or life after death? Why do others disbelieve in the existence of well-documented historical and social realities such as the Holocaust, racism, and sexism? How do we formulate, justify and maintain our beliefs? How do we determine what is true and what counts as evidence? Beginning with the assumption that believers are generally rational and intelligent people, we will develop a framework for understanding and evaluating how and why people believe the things they do, paying particular attention to the role of experience and narrative in establishing and validating belief. In examining such topics as the social construction of truth, paradigm shifts, phenomenology, worldview, faith, prejudice, and ideology, we will consider the media through which beliefs are transmitted and perpetuated, including legend, rumor, personal experience narratives, and popular media. Writing and research projects will encourage the students to critically examine their own belief systems and to actively and openly explore beliefs they do not share. The latter part of the semester may be devoted to a series of case studies, focusing on topics such as alien abduction, alternative medicine, American political belief systems, scientific skepticism, and racism.

 

 

ANTHRO 170: CHINA

X. Liu, 4 units, MWF 1-2, 2 LeConte

 

CANCELLED.

 

 

ANTHRO 181: MIDDLE EAST AND ISLAM

S. Pandolfo, 4 units, TTh 2-3:30, 20 Barrows

 

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 187: PEOPLE AND CULTURES OF THE HIMALAYAS

G. Berreman, 4 units, MWF 2-3, 180 Tan (note change of room)

 

This course deals with ethnography, change and social issues among the rural and urban peoples of Nepal, Bhutan, the Himalayan regions of India and Pakistan (Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh) and, where relevant, Afghanistan and Tibet (China). While the course addresses a broad range of topics it will reflect the instructor's interests and experience, primarily in India's Central Himalayas (Himal Pradesh and the Uttarakhand region of Uttar Pradesh) and in Nepal. His topical interests in these areas are focused on the nature and dynamics of social inequality (caste, class, gender and ethnicity), urbanization, migration, environmental/ecological issues and grass-roots responses thereto. Slides, films and guest lectures will supplement readings and lectures. There will be a term paper of modest proportions as well as mid-term and final exams.

 

 

ANTHRO 189-1: SPECIAL TOPICS IN SOCIAL/CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY: "FOUCAULT"

P. Rabinow, 4 units, MW 12-2, 155 Kroeber

 

CANCELLED.

 

 

ANTHRO 189-2: SPECIAL TOPICS IN SOCIAL/CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY: "GLOBAL POPULAR CULTURE: INTO THE NEW MILLENNIUM"

A. Yurchak, 4 units, TTh 11-12:30, 20 Barrows

This course will examine globalization through some of its dominant cultural forms - the expansion of markets and commodities, the export of political ideologies, the marketing of pop music, the dissemination of TV culture, and the spread of cyberculture. Specific emphasis will be given to the following questions. What impact does globalization have on local cultures and identities? What are local responses to globalizing forces? Is there emerging a single global culture - a "post-national" culture, or has globalization itself led to increased fragmentation and to a proliferation of local (ethnic, national) cultures? How do the processes of globalization contribute to the re-articulation of class, gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity and nationality? The course will draw on theories and studies from the disciplines of cultural anthropology and cultural studies. Cultural anthropology will contribute its sensitivity to historical circumstances of the production and reception of cultural forms and its emphasis on detailed ethnography in the studies of culture. Cultural studies will bring their focus on the analysis of culture as a terrain of struggle, as a contested set of symbolic forms and practices.

 

ADDED CLASS: CCN: 02809  

ANTHRO 196: UNDERGRADUATE SEMINAR: "GENETICS AND ANTHROPOLOGY"

J. Marks, 4 units, TTh 10-11, 115 Kroeber

 

The goal of this class is to discuss the ways in which genetics has an anthropological component: to familiarize anthropology students with the principles of human genetics, especially in those areas in which it differs from genetics of other organisms; and most importantly, to explore the ways in which genetics can be illuminated by anthropological knowledge. Each class will consist of 1 hour of lecture on the genetics, followed by 1 hour of student-led discussion on anthropologically-related topics raised by the readings for the week.