Contact OFFICE: 201 Anthropology and Art Practice Building (Formely Known As Kroeber Hall)E-MAIL: pandolfo@berkeley.eduPHONE: 642-9229 OFFICE HOURSThursday 12 to 3 pmBy appointment via online sign up sheet. Students will need to email Professor Pandolfo to get the link to sign up.
Contact OFFICE: 301 Anthropology and Art Practice Building (Formely Known As Kroeber Hall)E-MAIL: xinliu@berkeley.eduPHONE: 510 858 5173OFFICEHOURS Wednesdays 12:00PM - 2:00PM; 2:00PM - 3:00PM by appointment
This course explores disability worlds in the Bay Area through the ethnographic field methods, visual anthropology, and design anthropology. What does it mean to be disabled? How are disability organizations in the Bay Area trying to accomplish social and political change? What is the disability world? Through close participant observation and iterative design, students will work closely with...
Various topics covering current research theory, method; issues of social and cultural concern; culture change, conflict, and adaptation. May combine more than one subdiscipline of Anthropology.
How did we get from the "warrior woman" and "model minority" to "Southeast Asian refugees" and "crazy rich Asians"? How do the imagination, understanding and politics of Asia American and Asian-American shift over time and space? What are the political, economic, and cultural stakes in re-imaginations of what is "Asian" in contemporary times?
Selected ethnographies, novels, and films will be read as dynamic...