Summer 2019

R5B 004: Anthropology of Religion in Middle East

Instructor: Candace Lukasik

Term: Summer 2019 Session: D

Time: M, T, W, Th 12:00pm-1:59pm

What is the sociopolitical history through which the Middle East has come to occupy particular images within Western popular and political imaginaries? How have geopolitical interventions in the region affected the ways religion is practiced? What are the different sites by which we can look at and engage religion, in its diverse forms, across the Middle East? This course focuses on religion in the modern Middle...

189 002: Special Topics in Social/Cultural Anthropology: Between Old Fears and New Viruses

Instructor: Clara Mantini-Briggs

Term: Summer 2019 Session: A

Time: M, T, W, Th 2:00pm - 3:59pm

Since 1976, Ebola has been epidemiologically “contained” in Africa but proliferated in the U.S. media. The epidemic that began in 2014 produced only sporadic attention until U.S. healthcare professionals contracted the disease—and especially when their bodies “imported” infections into Europe and the United States. Ebola’s mediated visibility contrasts with some of the fastest...

112: Special Topics in Biological Anthropology: Forensic Anthropology

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Term: Summer 2019 Session: D

Time: M, T, W, Th 12:00pm - 1:59pm

Forensic anthropology has seen a lot of exposure through popular television, shows like CSI, Bones, and Law and Order. Have you ever wondered how much of what you were seeing was real? How much can we learn about a person’s life and death from their body/skeleton? This course is designed as an introductory class for students interested in demystifying and getting to know the real forensic...

189 004: Special Topics in Social/Cultural Anthropology: Ritual of the Human Past

Instructor: Lisa Johnson

Term: Summer 2019 Session: D

Time: T, W, Th 1:00pm - 3:30 pm

This course examines a series of overarching themes in ritual life that is shared across history and across the globe with topics such as mortuary rituals, ancestor veneration, ritual offerings, sacrifice, life-cycle rituals and shamanism. Throughout the course, we will discuss a history of theorizing ritual as well as the various lines of evidence for past ritual practice through a series of case-studies.

134A: Field Course in Archaeological Methods

Instructor: Alexei Vrancih

Term: Summer 2019 Session: D

Study Abroad in Peru

Practical experience in the field study of archaeological sites and materials. Coverage may include reconnaissance, mapping, recording, and excavation.

138A: Ethnographic Film: History and Theory

Instructor: Daniel Fisher

Term: Summer 2019 Session: A

Time: M, T, W, Th 12:00pm - 1:59pm

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 analyzed. Topics of interest include the role of visual media in ethnography, ethics in filmmaking, and the problematic relationship between seeing and believing. Requirements...

R5B 001: Urban China: Place Image Narrative

Instructor: Annie Malcolm

Term: Summer 2019 Session: D

Time: M, T, W, Th 12:00pm - 1:59pm

China’s urbanization is the largest migration in history. There are cities in China that did not exist thirty years ago. There are cities that are uninhabited- ghost towns resulting from unrealized speculations. There are places called cities that seem rural. There are millions of people from rural China living in cities. Increasingly, and this is not unique to China, people “do” urban things in non-urban places,...

R5B 003: Evolution of Brains and Behavior

Instructor: Tavi Steinhardt

Term: Summer 2019 Session: D

Time: M, T, W, Th 12:00pm-1:59pm

The main goal for this course is to develop skills for effective writing. We will discuss the concrete techniques that make writing clear (sentence level), cohesive (paragraph level), and convincing (argument level), and will practice those techniques through weekly peer workshops and in-class writing exercises, and by reading other writers’ work. In each discussion, we will explore a short reading and ask not...

R5B 002: Communication, Technology, Society

Instructor: Kamala Russell

Term: Summer 2019 Session: A

Time: M, T, W, Th 12:00pm - 1:59pm

How do the technological devices, applications, and processes that are all around us shape the way we communicate? How do platforms for communication and social networking produce both social worlds and new forms of community? What debates and concerns are circulating around the effects of such infrastructures for human sociality?

Through reading and in-class activities, this course will...

189 003: Anthropology of the Body

Instructor: Serin Ozge

Term: Summer 2019 Session: A

Time: M, T, W, Th 10:00am - 11:59am