Sociocultural Anthropology

James Holston

Contact OFFICE: 303 Anthropology and Art Practice Building (Formerly Known As Kroeber Hall) E-MAIL: jholston@berkeley.edu PHONE: 510-642-3392 OFFICE HOURS Sign-up for office hours at this link: https://www.wejoinin.com/jholston@berkeley.edu

A Conversation with Daena Funahashi

In this conversation, Assistant Professor of Anthropology Daena Funahashi and PhD student Justin Greene speak about the why of anthropology, Bataille, “crazy medicine,” and Dionysian “de-struction.”

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Justin Greene: I guess the most basic question to start with is, why anthropology? How did that discipline become a home?

Daena Funahashi: I took a really meandering path to end up here. I started out in botany in my undergrad. I guess I was always interested in the intersection of plants and people, but at that stage I was more...

A Conversation with Anand Pandian '04

In this conversation, Anand Pandian, Professor and Department Chair of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University and alumnus of the Department of Anthropology at UC Berkeley, and PhD student Justin Greene speak about ecologies, ethnographies, and anthropological educations.

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Justin Greene: You started out at Berkeley not in anthropology, I believe, but in Environmental Studies?

Anand Pandian: I was admitted into a program in the College of Natural Resources called Environmental Science, Policy, and Management [ESPM]. I spent two years...

189 001: Disability, Ethnography, and Design

Instructor: Karen Nakamura

Term: Fall 2019

Time: Tu, Th 12:30 pm – 1:59 pm

Room: 101 2251 College

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...

189 002: Vulnerability, Adaptation, and Resilience: Critical Perspectives on Global Climate Change

Instructor: Sarah Vaughn and Stephen Collier

Term: Fall 2019

Time: Tu, Th 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm

Room: Wurster 106

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.

Requirements Class Fulfills:

Meets Social & Behavioral Sciences, L&S Breadth

196: Reimagining Asia-America

Instructor: Aihwa Ong

Term: Fall 2019

Time: M 2:00pm -4 :00pm

Room: 317 Kroeber

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...

157: Anthropology of Law

Instructor: Laura Nader

Term: Fall 2019

Time: Tu, Th 11:00 am - 12:29 pm

Units: 4

Comparative survey of the ethnography of law; methods and concepts relevant to the comparative analysis of the forms and functions of law.

Requirements Course Fulfills

Social & Behavioral Sciences, L&S Breadth

Carceral Geographies Course Thread

Law & Humanities Course Thread

Saba Mahmood

Contact OFFICE: 117 Kroeber E-MAIL: smahmood@berkeley.edu PHONE: 664-4497 OFFICE HOURS: On sabbatical Please sign up on the sheet posted at the door of my office to schedule a meeting time with me in advance.