Spring 2020

280B: Seminars in Area Studies: Africa

Instructor: Mariane Ferme

Term: Spring 2020

Time: Th 11:00am-2:00pm

Unit: 4

Course Number: 32678

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250X-002: Seminars in Social and Cultural Anthropology: Special Topics- Rising Asia: Ethnographies and Novels

Instructor: Aihwa Ong

Term: Spring 2020

Time: W 2:00 pm - 3:59pm

Unit: 4

Course Number: 30907

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250X 009: Seminars in Social and Cultural Anthropology: Special Topics - The Logic of Sacrifice

Instructor: Daena Funahashi

Term: Spring 2020

Time: W 1:00pm - 3:59pm

Unit: 4

Course Number: 32070

Course Description:

This course examines sacrifice as an analytic as well as a logic that opens onto the question of relationality. Anthropologists have long shown that it is through
sacrifice – the voluntary destruction of valuables (including one’s own thoughts) – that individuals forge bonds not only with each other, but also with something...

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250X 003: Seminars in Social and Cultural Anthropology: Special Topics - Japan

Instructor: Karen Nakamura

Term: Spring 2020

Time: M 9:00am - 11:59am

Unit: 4

Course Number: 30908

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115: Introduction to Medical Anthropology

Instructor: Deborah Gordon

Term: Spring 2020

Time: T, Th 9:30am- 11:00am

Unit: 4

Course Number: 23324

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121C: Historical Artifact Identification and Analysis

Instructor: William White

Term: Spring 2020

Time: M 10:00 am - 12:00 pm (lecture) & W 9:00am-12:00pm (lab)

Unit: 4

Course Number: 30520

Course Description:

In North America, historical artifacts are items made after the arrival of Europeans in the fifteenth century. This class combination lecture/lab class is designed to help you learn the basics of historical artifact identification, analysis, and interpretation. You will apply what you learn...

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250V: Seminars in Social and Cultural Anthropology - Tourism

Instructor: Nelson Graburn

Term: Spring 2020

Time: Th 2:00pm - 3:59pm

Unit: 4

Course Number: 18957

Course Description:

This seminar is intended for students and visiting scholars with interests in research involving tourism and heritage – embedded of course in sociocultural contexts. It is for those who are beginning to get a grip on the topic, writing research proposals, preparing Field...

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250X 004: Technological Selves and Sociotechnical Systems

Instructor: Sarah Vaughn

Term: Spring 2020

Time: W 1:00pm - 3:59pm

Unit: 4

Course Number: 30909

Course Description:

This course considers the relationship between philosophies of technology and political narratives of history. In particular, we will consider why technology as a concept has troubled both modernist and decolonial thinking. Readings will engage key debates across the history of science, critical theory, anthropology, philosophy of...