PAUL LESLIE, Chair
Carole L. Crumley (22) Historical Ecology, State Societies, Complex Systems Theory, Global Environment Change, Ethnography, Ethnohistory, Archaeology of Europe
Arturo Escobar (54) Political Ecology; Anthropology of Development, Social Movements, and Science and Technology; Latin America; Colombia
Terence M. S. Evens (5) Social Anthropology, Social Theory, Phenomenology, Ethics, Philosophical Anthropology, Collectivist Settlements
Kaja Finkler (32) Medical Anthropology, Gender and Health, Economic Anthropology, Political Economy, Globalization, Mexico, Latin America
Dorothy C. Holland (16) Identity and Agency, Activism, Social Movements, History in Person, Cultural Studies, Environmental Studies, Schooling and Work, United States
Dale Hutchinson (63) Bioarchaeology, Human Osteology, Forensic Anthropology, Paleopathology, Health and Nutrition, Agricultural Origins and Consequences, Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic United States, South America
Norris B. Johnson (25) Architecture, Art and Aesthetics, Religious Landscapes, Japan
Paul W. Leslie (37) Biological Anthropology, Human Ecology, Demography, Population Genetics, Reproduction, East Africa
Donald Nonini (34) Theoretical: Transnationalism, Diasporas, and Globalization; Urban Anthropology; Politico-Economic Anthropology; Anthropology of the State; Cultural Politics of Ethnicity, Race, Class, Gender, and Nationality. Geographic: Chinese Populations in Southeast Asia; Economic Restructuring, Race Relations, and Local Politics in the Southern United States
James L. Peacock (11) History, Culture, Self, and Global Issues. Southeast Asia and Southeastern United States
Vincas P. Steponaitis (2) Archaeology, Political Economy, Chiefdoms, Quantitative Methods, Southeastern United States
Brian Billman (51) Archaeology of Political Organizations, Political Economy, and Human Violence; Settlement Pattern Analysis, Household Archaeology, Heritage Preservation, Andes, and Southwestern United States
Robert E. Daniels (4) Social Anthropology, Psychological Anthropology, Systems Theory, Africa
Glenn D. Hinson (36) Folklore and Folklife, Ethnography of Communication, Belief Studies, Public Folklore, African American Expressive Culture; African Diaspora, the American South
Peter Redfield (53) Anthropology of Science and Technology, Colonial History, Ethics, Humanitarianism and Human Rights, NGOs and Transnational Experts, Europe, French Guiana, Uganda
Patricia Sawin (52) Gender, Ethnography of Communication, Performance and Poetics, Local/Global Cultures, Southern United States, Latin America
C. Margaret Scarry (48) Archaeology, Paleoethnobotany, Subsistence Economy, North America, Chiefdoms
Karla Slocum (56) Globalization, Social Movements, Place, Race, Political Economy, Gender; the Caribbean, North America
Margaret Wiener (47) Politics of Knowledge, History and Memory, Colonial Societies, Science Studies, Translation, Material Culture, Indonesia, Southeast Asia
Flora L. Holt (68) Ecological Anthropology, Political Ecology, Indigenous Resource Management and Conservation, Amazon
Matthew Hull (69) Semiotics, Language, Bureaucracy and Governance, Information Technology, Urban Planning, Material Culture, Science and Technology, South Asia
Valerie Lambert (59) American Indians, Sovereignty, Tribal Nation-Building, Tribal Governance, Oklahoma
Christopher Nelson (64) History and Memory, Everyday Life, Ethnography, Critical Theory, Storytelling, Ritual and Performance, Japan and Okinawa
Charles Price (62) Black and Social Identity; Oral and Life History; Jamaica and the Anglophone Caribbean; Southern United States; Organizing and Capacity Building; Welfare and Higher Education Policies
Mark Sorensen (67) Biological Anthropology, Health and Culture Change, International Health, Adaptability, Nutrition, Russia, Siberia
Silvia Tomaskova (57) Archaeology, Paleolithic Europe, Archaeological Method and Theory, History of Science, Gender and Science, Hunter-Gatherer and Forager Studies
Richard Fox, Cultural Anthropology, Social Theory, History of Anthropology, Research Methodology, South Asia
Lawrence Grossberg, Cultural Studies, U.S. Political Culture (1950s to present), U.S. Popular Culture (20th Century), Youth Culture, Cultural and Social Theory, Contemporary Philosophy
R. P. Stephen Davis (40) Archaeology, Computer Applications, Settlement Systems, Contact Period, Southeastern United States
Sue E. Estroff (31) Medical, Psychiatric Anthropology, Chronic Illness, Health Policy as a Cultural System, Research Ethics, Cultural Complications of Maternal-Fetal Interventions
Richard Fox, Sociocultural Anthropology, Urban Anthropology, India
Clark Larsen, Physical Anthropology, Bioarchaeology, Americas, Europe, Western Asia
John Pickles, Globalization, Modernity, Geographies of Social Change
Lorraine Aragon (71), Religion and States, Ethnonationalist Conflicts, Land Use and Place Identities, Arts and Intellectual Property Rights, Linguistic Anthropology, Southeast Asia, Indonesia
Michael C. Lambert (51) Political Anthropology, Economic Anthropology, Africa
John F. Scarry (49) Method and Theory, Cultural/Resource Management, Complex Societies, European-Native American Interaction
Philip Setel, Anthropology and Social Epidemiology of Infectious and Non-Infectious Diseases in Developing Countries; Qualitative Health Services Research; Theory and Measurement of Poverty and Marginalization; Demographic and Health Transitions
Debra G. Skinner (46) Culture and Human Development, Families and Childhood Disability, Sociocultural Implications of Genetic Research, Poverty Studies, Identity and Cultural Worlds, Anthropology of Schooling, Nepal, United States
Nila Chatterjee (66) Political and Historical Anthropology, Migration, Gender, Post-Colonial Issues, South Asia, Diaspora
Krisztina Fehervary, Sociocultural Anthropology, Post-socialist Eastern Europe
Alison Greene, Gender and Globalization in Yucatan, Mexico; Anthropological Theory
Eric Karchmer, Medical Anthropology, Chinese Medicine, Post-colonial studies, Science and Power, Contemporary Chinese Society
Frederick Klaits, Medical Anthropology, Care, AIDS, Comparative Christianity, Southern Africa
William S. Lachicotte Jr. (52) Medical Institutions and Technologies, Human Services, Professions and Public Life, Practice Theories, Sociality and Identity, United States
Karaleah Reichart, Economic Anthropology, Gender and Ethnicity, Conflict Resolution and Coalition Building, Life Histories, Appalachia
Brett Riggs (60) Archaeology, Contact Studies, Southeastern United States, Ethnohistory
Barry Saunders (72) Anthropology of Biomedicine, Technologies, and Embodiment
Sandy Smith-Nonini, Medical Anthropology, Anthropology of Sustainability (Energy and Economics), Professional Knowledge, Health Policy, Military Violence and Health, International Development, Social Movements, Latino Immigrants to the United States, Central America
Laurie C. Steponaitis (35) Archaeology, Hunter-Gatherers, Regional Survey, Settlement Patterns, Coastal Adaptations, Shellfish Analysis, Eastern North America
M. Jean Black, Ethnohistory, Cultural Ecology, Ethnography, North America
Erich Fox Tree, Political Economy of Language, Pan-Native Cultural Identity in the Americas, Indigenous Social Movements, Mesoamerica, Maya Ethnohistory, Languages, Ideology, Feuding, Guatemala
William H. Jansen III, Applied Anthropology, Behavioral Factors in Public Health, Public Policy, Health Service Delivery Systems, Health Care Seeking Behavior, Diplomacy, Culture Change, Circumpolar Peoples, South and Southeast Asia, Middle East
Scott L. H. Madry (65), Spatial Analysis, Remote Sensing, Geographic Information Systems, Global Positioning System, Modeling, Old World Prehistory
Charles Haines, South Asia, Muslim World, Globalization
Donald L. Brockington, Archaeology, Latin America, Middle America
John Gulick, Social Organization, Sex Roles and Identities, Fertility Behavior, Urban Cultures, Middle East
Richard A. Yarnell, Ecology, Evolution, Ethnobotany, North America
The Department of Anthropology offers advanced work leading to the master of arts and doctor of philosophy degrees. Students admitted into the graduate program are admitted for the PhD degree. A master’s degree may be taken as part of the program leading to the PhD degree; however, a master’s degree is not an essential part of the doctoral program.
Incoming graduate students are required to complete two two-semester core courses in the fall semester, Sociocultural Theory and Ethnography (ANTH 701) and Evolution and Ecology (ANTH 703), and a choice of two of three core courses in the spring semester: Sociocultural Theory and Ethnography (ANTH 702), Evolution and Ecology (ANTH 704), or Archaeological Theory (ANTH 705). Remaining courses are selected from a list of concentration courses, field research courses, and professional preparation courses. Students are expected to take at least three courses from within their chosen area of concentration or from a set of courses designated by the program in medical anthropology or the program in archaeology.
The PhD degree requires specialization in a defined area of study and the completion of an acceptable dissertation treating some problem within this area. The PhD program is quite flexible; any area and problem can be selected for study, provided they meet the approval of the adviser, the PhD committee, and the faculty. Part of the training of a professional anthropologist should include undertaking research within a culture significantly different from the candidate’s own. Such research is normally the context for gathering dissertation data in sociocultural anthropology.
Graduate students may, in accordance with the regulations of The Graduate School, take courses offered by other departments or neighboring universities. Courses in anatomy, biology, ecology, epidemiology, folklore, history, cultural studies, genetics, geography, linguistics, philosophy, psychology, or sociology are often particularly appropriate. Departmental policy is to help the student select courses that supplement and strengthen the specialization in anthropology.
The Department of Anthropology works closely with the Curriculum in Ecology, the Odum Institute for Research in Social Science, the Curriculum of International Studies, the University Center for International Studies, the Institute of Latin American Studies, the Carolina Population Center, the University Program in Cultural Studies, and the Research Laboratories of Archaeology, and has various active training and research interests in conjunction with other departments and schools of the University.
Up-to-date lists of Anthropology faculty and courses, along with additional information about the graduate program, faculty research projects, and other information, are available on the department’s Web site: www.anthropology.unc.edu.
400 [179] INTRODUCTION TO GENERAL LINGUISTICS (LING 400) (3). (See LING 400 for description.)
411 [111] LABORATORY METHODS IN ARCHAEOLOGY (3). An examination of the laboratory techniques used by archaeologists to analyze artifacts and organic remains, including the analysis of stone tools, pottery, botanical remains, and bone. Billman, Scarry, Tomaskova.
412 [112] PALEOANTHROPOLOGY (3). This course traces the evolution of humans and non-human primates, including behaviors, tools, and bodies of monkeys, apes, and human hunters and gatherers, evolutionary theory, and paleoanthropological methods. Hutchinson.
413 [111A] ARCHAEOBOTANY LAB METHOD (3). A general survey of the laboratory techniques used to study and draw social and behavioral inferences from plant remains recovered from archaeological sites. Scarry.
413L ARCHAEOBOTANY LAB (1). This is a required one-hour laboratory section to be taken in conjunction with ANTH 413. Prerequisite, any course in archaeology or permission of the instructor. Scarry.
414 [114] HUMAN OSTEOLOGY (3). This course will focus on the analysis of human skeletal materials in the laboratory and in the field, with an emphasis on basic identification, age and sex estimation, and quantitative analysis. Hutchinson.
414L HUMAN OSTEOLOGY LAB (1). The laboratory analysis of human skeletal materials with an emphasis on basic identification, age and sex estimation, and quantitative analysis. Must be taken concurrently with ANTH 414. Hutchinson.
415 [111B] ZOOARCHAEOLOGY (3). This course will focus on the analysis of animal remains from archaeological sites. Introduction to laboratory methods, analytical approaches, and interpretive frameworks for zooarchaeology. Hutchinson.
415L ZOOARCHAEOLOGY LAB (1). Examination of identification techniques, quantitative methods and interpretive frameworks used to analyze animal remains recovered from archaeological sites. Corequisite, ANTH 415. Prerequisite, an archaeological course or permission of the instructor. Hutchinson.
416 [116] BIOARCHAEOLOGY (3). The study of human skeletal remains from archaeological contexts. The collection and interpretation of quantitative and qualitative data is emphasized to assess the relationship between past biology, environment, culture, and behavior. Hutchinson.
417 [111C] LITHICS (3). Laboratory techniques in stone tool research and experimental practice. Tomaskova.
417L LITHIC ANALYSIS LAB (1). This is a required one-hour laboratory section to be taken in conjunction with ANTH 417. Prerequisite, any course in archaeology or permission of the instructor. Tomaskova.
418 LAB METHODS: CERAMIC ANALYSIS (3). A survey of the laboratory techniques used by archaeologists to study and draw social and behavioral inferences from ancient pottery. Steponaitis.
421 [102] ARCHAEOLOGICAL GEOLOGY (GEOL 421) (3). Prerequisite, permission of the instructor. Archaeological geology is the application of geological principles and techniques to the solution of archaeological problems. Geological processes and deposits pertinent to archaeological sites, geological framework of archaeology in the southeastern United States, and techniques of archaeological geology and site analysis are studied. Students make field trips to three or more sites in the Southeast and write required reports on geological aspects of the sites. Three lecture hours a week.
428 [142] RELIGION AND ANTHROPOLOGY (FOLK 428) (RELI 428) (3). Religion studied anthropologically as a cultural, social, and psychological phenomenon in the works of classical and contemporary social thought. Peacock.
428H [142H] RELIGION AND ANTHROPOLOGY (3). Religion studied anthropologically as a cultural, social, and psychological phenomenon, in the works of classical and contemporary social thought.
429 [129] CULTURE AND POWER IN SOUTHEAST ASIA (ASIA 429) (FOLK 429) (3). The formation and transformation of values, identities, and expressive forms in Southeast Asia in response to forms of power. Emphasis on the impact of colonialism, the nation-state, and globalization. Wiener.
435 [135] CONSCIOUSNESS AND SYMBOLS (FOLK 435) (CMPL 435) (3). This course explores consciousness through symbols. Symbols from religion, art, politics, and self are studied in social, psychological, historical, and ecological context to ascertain meanings in experience and behavior. Peacock.
436 [187] GENDER AND SCIENCE (WMST 436) (3). Feminist approaches to science; history of scientific constructions of male and female nature, and theoretical approaches to the role of gender in science. Tomaskova.
437 EVOLUTIONARY MEDICINE (3). This course explores evolutionary dimensions of variation in health and disease in human populations. Topics include biocultural and evolutionary models for the emergence of infectious and chronic diseases and cancers. Sorensen.
438 [138] RELIGION AND NATURE (RELI 435) (3). Concepts of nature within religions and a variety of worldwide spiritual traditions. Emphasis on sacred space, place, and pilgrimage as a vital intersection of religion and nature. Johnson.
438H [138H] RELIGION AND NATURE (RELI 435H) (3). Concepts of nature within religions and a variety of worldwide spiritual traditions. Emphasis on sacred space, place, and pilgrimage as a vital intersection of religion and nature. Johnson.
439 POLITICAL ECOLOGY (3). Examines environmental degradation, hunger, and poverty through the lens of power relationships, particularly inequality, political and economic disenfranchisement, and discrimination. Discussion of global case studies, with a Latin American focus.
440 [140] GENDER AND CULTURE (WMST 440) (3). Cross-cultural comparison of gender roles through the life of a person, comparison to student’s own experiences. Discussion of changing sex and gender roles through history in different cultures.
441 [141] THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF GENDER, HEALTH, AND ILLNESS (WMST 441) (3). The course explores cultural beliefs, practices and social conditions that influence health and sickness of women and men from a cross-cultural perspective. Finkler.
447 [147] ANTHROPOLOGY OF WORK (3). Anthropological investigations of work and the relationship between work, family life, and community in contemporary societies in the United States, Asia, and Latin America, within the framework of globalization. Nonini.
447H [147H] ANTHROPOLOGY OF WORK (3). Anthropological investigations of work and the relationship between work, family life, and community in contemporary societies in the United States, Asia, and Latin America, within the framework of globalization. Nonini.
449 [149] ANTHROPOLOGY AND MARXISM (3). Critical study of Marx’s mature social theory and its relationship to contemporary anthropology. Nonini.
451 [151] FIELD SCHOOL IN ARCHAEOLOGY (6). Prerequisite, permission of the instructor. Intensive training in archaeological field methods and techniques. Students participate in the excavation, recovery, recording and interpretation of archaeological remains. Instruction given in survey, mapping, photography, flotation recovery, etc. V. Steponaitis.
452 [052] THE PAST IN THE PRESENT (3). Memory and history, history and politics, national narratives, the past in the present - a cross-cultural examination of ways of connecting the present and the past.
453 [153] FIELD SCHOOL IN SOUTH AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGY (6). Prerequisite, permission of the instructor. Taught in Peru. Intensive study of archaeological field and laboratory methods and prehistory of the Andes through excavation and analysis of materials from archaeological sties in Peru. Includes tours of major archaeological sites. Summer. Billman.
455 [155] ETHNOHISTORY (FOLK 455) (3). Integration of data from ethnographic and archaeological research with pertinent historic information. Familiarization with a wide range of sources of ethnohistorical data and practice in obtaining and evaluating information. Pertinent theoretical concepts are explored. Crumley.
456 [156] SMALL-SCALE SOCIETIES (3). The study of small-scale hunter-gatherer and farming societies from archaeological and ethnographic perspectives. Methods and theories for investigating economic, ecological, and social relations in such societies are explored. Scarry.
458 [158] ARCHAEOLOGY OF SEX AND GENDER (WMST 458) (3). A discussion of gender and sex roles and sexuality in past cultures - a cross-cultural examination of ways of knowing about past human behavior. Scarry.
460 [160] HISTORICAL ECOLOGY (ENST 460) (3). Historical Ecology is the framework for integrating physical, biological, and social science data with insights from the humanities to understand the reciprocal relationship between human activity and the Earth system. Crumley.
462 ANTHROPOLOGY, SPACE, AND POWER (3). Cross-cultural investigation of the relationships between space, power, and representations in modern urban life. Draws on different sources to examine the cultural politics of built forms, architecture, and urban planning. Nonini.
465 [165] ECONOMIC ANTHROPOLOGY (3). A comparative exploration through ethnographic and other social science sources of the sociocultural constitution of economic practices, including, but not limited to, the exchange, production and consumption in modern capitalist societies.
468 [168] STATE FORMATION (3). Prerequisite, permission of the instructor. Integration of ethnohistorical, ethnographic, and archaeological data on the topic of state formation. Definitions of the state are analyzed and the determining factors relative to increasing cultural complexity discussed. Crumley, Nonini.
469 [169] HISTORY AND ANTHROPOLOGY (3). Studies links between history and anthropology; cultures in historical perspective and history in cultural perspective; and effects of relations of power and historical interconnections on the peoples of the world. Redfield, Wiener.
470 [170] MEDICINE AND ANTHROPOLOGY (FOLK 470) (3). This course examines cultural understandings of health, illness, and medical systems from an anthropological perspective with a special focus on western medicine. Finkler.
472 [172] REFUGEES AND EXILE (3). This anthropological exploration of refugees and forced migration addresses displacement across national borders, local repercussions, and the influence of the lived experience of exile on displaced people’s identity.
473 [173] ANTHROPOLOGY OF THE BODY AND THE SUBJECT (FOLK 473) (3). Prerequisite, ANTH 470 or permission of the instructor. Anthropological and historical studies of cultural constructions of bodily experience and subjectivity are reviewed, with emphasis on the genesis of the modern individual and cultural approaches to gender and sexuality.
484 [184] LANGUAGE AND CULTURE (LING 484) (FOLK 484) (3). Study of cultural variation in styles of speaking applied to collection of ethnographic data. Talk as responsive social action and its role in the constitution of ethnic and gender identities. Holland.
485 [146] INTRODUCTION TO FOLKLORE (ENGL 485) (FOLK 485) (3). (See FOLK 485 for description.)
491 [191] POLITICAL ANTHROPOLOGY (3). Introduction to political anthropology. A thematically organized investigation of political processes in state societies, including state formation, with special attention to ethnographic and historical approaches. Nonini.
499 EXPERIMENTAL COURSE IN ANTHROPOLOGY IV (3). Examines selected topics from an anthropological perspective, generally to explore the potential for a course. Course description is available from the departmental office.
502 GLOBALIZATION AND TRANSNATIONALISM (3). Anthropological examination of processes of globalization and transnationalism, with special attention to transnational migration, emergence of transnational (“global”) institutions, commodity flows, and dissemination of ideologies, cultural frameworks, and media imagery. Nonini.
520 [180] LINGUISTIC PHONETICS (LING 520) (3). (See LING 520 for description.)
523 [183] PHONOLOGY I (LING 523) (3). (See LING 523 for description.)
525 [121] CULTURE AND PERSONALITY (FOLK 525) (3). Systems theory used to conceptualize relationship between cultural patterns and individual minds. Functional, dysfunctional, and therapeutic processes considered. Examples from Africa, Asia, Europe, and Native America. Lectures, films, recitations. Daniels.
537 [137] GENDER AND PERFORMANCE (FOLK 537) (WMST 438) (3). A study of the ways in which individuals constitute themselves as gendered subjects in the contemporary context of economic and cultural globalization. Sawin.
539 ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE (3). Course examining issues of race, poverty, and equity in the environmental movement. Cases include the siting of toxic incinerators in predominantly people-of-color communities to resource exploitation on indigenous lands. Holt.
541 [171] SOCIOLINGUISTICS (LING 541) (3). Prerequisite, LING 525, 400, or permission of the instructor. This topics course in sociolinguistics treats the microsociologistics of everyday interactions, dialect differences, language and sex, language and power, minority rights, and the politics of pornography.
542 [192] PIDGINS AND CREOLES (GERM 542) (LING 542) (3). Investigation of pidginization, creolization, settlers’ dialects, and interlanguage. Case studies from Afrikaans, Virgin Islands Dutch Creole, Pidgin German, Yiddish, Foreign Workers’ German, and Tok Pisin. Roberge.
545 [145] POLITICS OF CULTURE IN CHINA (ASIA 545) (3). Examines struggles to define culture and the nation in twentieth-century China in domains like popular culture, museums, traditional medicine, fiction film, ethnic group politics, and biography and autobiography.
567 [167] URBAN ANTHROPOLOGY (3). Comparative study of the political economy and cultural politics of populations in spaces and landscapes in cities in America and Third World undergoing globalization, economic restructuring, and transnational immigration.
574 [174] CHINESE WORLD VIEWS (RELI 574) (ASIA 574) (3). Explores the indigenous Chinese sciences and the cosmological ideas that informed them. Topics include astronomy, divination, medicine, feng shui, and political and literary theory. Chinese sources in translation are emphasized.
578 [178] THE CHINESE DIASPORA IN THE ASIA PACIFIC (ASIA 578) (3). Examination of the histories, social organizations, and cultures of the Chinese Diaspora in the Asia Pacific region, focusing on contemporary issues in the cultural politics and identities of “overseas Chinese.” Nonini.
581 [181] HISTORICAL AND COMPARATIVE LINGUISTICS (3). (See LING 525 for description.)
585 [185] SCIENCE AND CULTURE (3). Cultural perspectives on science and technology at a global scale, including research settings and social contexts, knowledge claims and material practice, and relations between scientific worldviews, social institutions and popular imagination.
586 [196] GARDENS OF JAPAN (ASIA 586) (3). The religious landscape and built environments of Japan. Attention to palace, courtyard, and teahouse architecture, and gardens, with emphasis on Shinto shrines and the Zen Buddhist temple and garden. Johnson.
599 EXPERIMENTAL COURSE IN ANTHROPOLOGY V (3). Examines selected topics from an anthropological perspective, generally to explore the potential for a course. Course description is available from the departmental office.
626 AFRICAN CULT DYNAMIC (3). In-depth reading of several books and articles that consider the interaction between indigenous African traditions and intrusive colonial and post-colonial forces. Emphasis on class discussion. Short papers and individual projects. Daniels.
629 [189] LANGUAGE MINORITIES (EDUC 629). (See EDUC 629 for description).
639 BEYOND THE TRAGEDY OF THE COMMONS (3). Re-examination of the “tragedy of the commons” concept in light of recent work on environmental problems, property rights, and community-based conservation. Case studies include fishery, waterway, forest, and pasture management. Holt.
660 [166] KINSHIP, REPRODUCTION, REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGY, AND THE NEW GENETICS (WMST 660) (3). This course focuses on the relationship between family, kinship, new reproductive technologies and the new genetics from a cross cultural perspective. Finkler.
660H [166H] (3). KINSHIP AND REPRODUCTION (WMST 660H) (3). This course focuses on the relationship between family, kinship, new reproductive technologies and the new genetics from a cross cultural perspective.
675 [175] ETHNOGRAPHIC METHOD (FOLK 675) (3). Intensive study and practice of the core research methods of cultural and social anthropology.
682 [182] CONTEMPORARY CHINESE SOCIETY (ASIA 682) (3). Presents recent anthropological research on the People’s Republic of China. In addition to social sciences sources, fictional genres are used to explore the particular modernity of Chinese society and culture.
686 [186] SCHOOLS AND DIVERSITY (3). Anthropological approaches to issues of schooling and cultural diversity including their relationship to gender, race, and class. Critical review of theory and method in the study of the (re)production of these divisions. Holland.
688 [188] INTERPRETATION OF RELIGIOUS ACTION (FOLK 688) (RELI 688) (3). Prerequisite, permission of the instructor. Exercises (including field work) in learning to read the primary modes of public action in religious traditions: e.g., sermons, testimonies, rituals, and prayers. Peacock.
691 [095] SENIOR HONORS PROJECT IN ANTHROPOLOGY (3). Open only to honors candidates. Permission of the instructor is required.
692 [096] SENIOR HONORS THESIS IN ANTHROPOLOGY (3). Open only to senior honors candidates. Permission of the instructor is required.
693 SENIOR HONORS THESIS IN ANTHROPOLOGY II (3). Open to honors candidates. Permission of the instructor is required. Writing of honors thesis based on independent research, under the direction of a faculty member of the department.
694 SENIOR HONORS THESIS IN ANTHROPOLOGY III (3). Open only to honors candidates. Permission of the instructor is required. Writing of honors thesis based on independent research, under the direction of a faculty member of the department.
695 SENIOR HONORS THESIS IN ANTHROPOLOGY IV (3). Open only to honors candidates. Permission of the instructor is required. Writing of honors thesis based on independent research, under the direction of a faculty member of the department.
697 [197] ETHNOGRAPHY AND CULTURE AFTER EMPIRE (3). Examination of cultural anthropology’s relations to global power, past and present. Critiques and revisions of key concepts (e.g., culture) and forms of knowledge (ethnography). Wiener.
699 EXPERIMENTAL COURSE IN ANTHROPOLOGY VI (3). Examines selected topics from an anthropological perspective, generally to explore the potential for a course. Course description is available from the departmental office.
700 [200] ADVANCED SURVEY OF ANTHROPOLOGY (3). Course description is available from the departmental office.
701 [201] THEORY AND ETHNOGRAPHY (3). Prerequisite, permission of the instructor. Development of a critical understanding of the anthropological study of society and culture through discussion of problems and issues expressed in classic theoretical and ethnographic literature.
702 [202] SOCIOCULTURAL THEORY AND ETHNOGRAPHY (3). Prerequisite, ANTH 701 or permission of the instructor.
703 [203] EVOLUTION AND ECOLOGY (3). Prerequisite, permission of the instructor. Development of a critical understanding of anthropological approaches to evolution and ecology in paleontological, archaeological, and present-day cross-cultural contexts through the historical and comparative study of theory, method, and content.
704 [204] EVOLUTION AND ECOLOGY (3). Prerequisite, ANTH 703 or permission of the instructor.
705 [205] ARCHAEOLOGICAL THEORY (3). Review of the recent history of archaeology and contemporary approaches to archaeological interpretation.
710 [210] WRITING AND PUBLISHING IN ANTHROPOLOGY (3). A seminar on the peer review and analysis of student writing. Training in writing for academic publication.
715 [215] FEMINISM AND SOCIETY (WMST 715) (3). Selected topics in feminist analysis of social life, with materials drawn from a global range of societies.
717 [217] ADVANCED STUDIES IN ART AND ARCHITECTURE (3). Prerequisites, ANTH 334 (FOLK 334) or permission of the instructor. Intensive study of selected topics and issues in the analysis and interpretation of prehistoric and cross-cultural art, architecture, and other aesthetic forms. Johnson.
723 [223] SEMINAR IN ANTHROPOLOGICAL LINGUISTICS (LING 723) (3). Selected topics from general linguistics and sociolinguistics, special emphasis on methods and problems involved in analysis and description of semantic structure of language and its relation to the rest of culture. Holland.
724 [224] SEMINAR IN ANTHROPOLOGY AND CYBERNETICS (3). Examination of systems theory, or cybernetics; evaluation of previous applications of cybernetic models in anthropology; and original analysis of anthropological data in these terms by students. Daniels.
725 [225] QUANTITATIVE METHODS IN ANTHROPOLOGY (3). Survey of standardized data-gathering techniques, problems in research design, and methods of quantitative analysis encountered in anthropological research. Holland.
726 [226] QUANTITATIVE METHODS IN ARCHAEOLOGY (3). Introduction to quantitative and computer methods in archaeology. The course stresses exploratory data analysis and graphical pattern recognition techniques. V. Steponaitis.
727 ARCHAEOLOGY OF NORTH AMERICA (3). The history of American Indian cultures from 10,000 BC to the time of the European colonization as reconstructed by archaeological research. Special emphasis on the eastern and southwestern United States. V. Steponaitis.
728 SEMINAR IN AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGY (3). This seminar covers current research topics in North American archaeology, with an emphasis on the eastern or southwestern United States. Specific topics may vary from year to year. V. Steponaitis.
733 [233] ADVANCED SEMINAR IN CARIBBEAN STUDIES (3). Prerequisite, permission of the instructor. Survey of Caribbean cultural development for students with some knowledge or experience in the area. Particular attention is given to current problems and recent theoretical issues.
740 [240] POWER (3). Theories of power within anthropology, from Marxism, poststructuralism, feminist studies, studies in race relations, cultural studies, others. Nonini.
744 [244] SEMINAR IN ETHNICITY AND CULTURAL BOUNDARIES (3). Investigation of recent theoretical approaches to ethnic phenomena; consideration of cases ranging from tribal organization to complex industrial nations; analysis of particular ethnographic and ethnohistorical situations by individual students. Daniels.
749 [249] CULTURAL PRODUCTION (3). Critical examination of theories of social and cultural (re)production (e.g., Bourdieu’s practice theory, cultural studies, and resistance theory) applied to enduring issues (e.g., the relations between power and gender, race, and class). Holland.
750 [250] SEMINAR IN MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY (3). Specially designed for, but not restricted to, students who are specializing in medical anthropology. Medicine as part of culture; medicine and social structure viewed cross-culturally; medicine in the perspective of anthropological theory; research methods. A special purpose is to help students plan their own research projects, theses, and dissertations. Finkler.
751 [251] SEMINAR ON THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL CONTRIBUTION TO THE UNDERSTANDING OF MEDICAL SYSTEMS (3). Anthropological contributions to the understanding of medical systems, sickness, and public health. Attention is given to the ways in which medical anthropology illuminates social processes, beliefs, and ideologies. Finkler.
752 [252] TRANSCULTURAL PSYCHIATRY (3). Prerequisite, ANTH 525, 470, or permission of the instructor. Considers cross-cultural variations in the perception, definition of, and reaction to course and treatment of deviant behavior - especially mental disorders.
753 [253] GENDER, SICKNESS, AND SOCIETY (WMST 753) (3). This seminar deals in depth and cross-culturally with the nature of gender and the ways in which social comprehension of gender, gender status, and gender relationships impinge upon differential experience of health and sickness of men and women from a historical and contemporary perspective. Finkler.
754 [254] PHENOMENOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY (3). Prerequisite, permission of the instructor. The course aims to apply the theories and methods of phenomenology to the practice of anthropology. Evens.
755 [255] SEMINAR IN ECOLOGY AND POPULATION (3). Mutual relationships of environment, social structure, mortality, and natality, reviewed in an evolutionary framework. Leslie.
756 [256] THE EVOLUTION OF HUMAN COGNITION (3). Prerequisite, permission of the instructor. A critical exploration of contemporary evidence on the evolution of human cognition and consciousness, including phylogenetic, comparative (interspecific), ontogenetic, and cross-cultural perspectives. Holland.
759 [259] IDENTITY AND AGENCY (3). Sociogenic theories of identity, agency, and human consciousness - the works of Mikhail Bakhtin, Pierre Bourdieu, and others - examined ethnographically and cross-culturally in selected fields of social activity. Holland.
760 [260] SEMINAR IN HUMAN EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY (3). Prerequisite, permission of the instructor for undergraduates. Examination of evolutionary ecology concepts with existing or potential uses in human adaptation research including adaptation and optimization, effective environmental properties, foraging strategies, niche, competitive exclusion, life history tactics, and biogeography.
765 [265] SEMINAR IN THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF LAW (3). Prerequisite, permission of the instructor. Drawing upon recent work of social anthropologists, this course analyzes the nature of law and conceptions of authority in various Asian, African, and American preliterate societies. The course relates law with the economy, social organization, religious ideology, and political instruments of each society. Underlying theories of social cohesion and process are examined in detail. Conley.
766 [266] SEMINAR IN ETHNOBOTANY (3). Prerequisite, permission of the instructor. The focus is on economic plants and primitive technology, ecological relationships between man and plants, and analysis and interpretation of archaeological plant remains. Some laboratory work is expected. Scarry.
770 [270] SEMINAR ON ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON LATIN AMERICA (3). The seminar focuses on the interaction of five major issues in Latin America: class, ethnicity, gender, religion, and health. Finkler.
788 [288] OBSERVATION AND INTERPRETATION OF RELIGIOUS ACTION (3). Explores religious action through field work as a way of studying method and theory. Peacock.
790 [290] DIALECTOLOGY (LING 750) (3). (See LING 790 for description.)
793 [293] LINGUISTIC FIELD WORK I (LING 793) (3). (See LING 793 for description.)
794 [294] LINGUISTIC FIELD WORK II (LING 794) (3). (See LING 794 for description.)
810 [310] SEMINAR IN THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF MEANING (1). Ongoing seminar for students and faculty participating in the Anthropology of Meaning concentration.
817 [317] THE CONCEPT OF TEACHING OF GENERAL ANTHROPOLOGY (3). Prerequisite, permission of associate chair. Directed course preparation and review of teaching techniques, films, and other aids.
818 [318] TRAINING IN THE TEACHING OF ANTHROPOLOGY (3). Prerequisites, ANTH 817 and permission of associate chair. The trainee teaches a small class in general anthropology under supervision.
860 [297] ART OF ETHNOGRAPHY (FOLK 860) (3). A field-based exploration of the pragmatic, ethical, and theoretical dimensions of ethnographic research, addressing issues of experience, aesthetics, and worldview through the lens of cultural encounter. Field research is required. Hinson.
897 [327] SEMINAR IN SELECTED TOPICS (1 to 4).
898 [328] SEMINAR IN SELECTED TOPICS (1 to 4).
901 [301] READING AND RESEARCH (1 to 4). Registration with permission of professor.
902 [302] READING AND RESEARCH (1 to 4). Registration with permission of professor.
915 [315] READING AND RESEARCH IN METHODOLOGY (1 to 4). Registration with permission of professor.
916 [316] READING AND RESEARCH IN METHODOLOGY (1 to 4). Registration with permission of professor.
921 [321] FIELD RESEARCH (3). Registration with permission of the professor. Fall and spring.
922 [322] FIELD RESEARCH (3). Registration with permission of the professor.
993 [393] MASTER’S THESIS (3 or more). Individual research in a special field under the direction of a member of the department.
994 [394] DOCTORAL DISSERTATION (3 or more). Individual research in a special field under the direction of a member of the department.