Department of Anthropology
PAUL LESLIE, Chair
Professors
Carole L. Crumley (22) Historical Ecology, State Societies, Complex Systems Theory, Global Environmental Change, Ethnography, Ethnohistory, and Archaeology of Europe
Arturo Escobar (53) 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 L. 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, Photography and Visual Anthropology, Religion and Nature, Japan
Paul W. Leslie (37) Human Ecology, Biological Anthropology, Demography, Population Genetics, Reproduction, East Africa
Patricia Mcanany (75) Archaeology, Ritual Practice, Ancestor Veneration, Cultural Heritage, Economic Organization, Lithic Technology, Quantitative Methods, Mesoamerica
Donald Nonini (34) Urban Anthropology; Alternative Economic Systems; Political Anthropology; Cultural Politics of Ethnicity and Race; Globalization and Diasporas; Chinese Populations in Asia-Pacific; 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
Associate Professors
Brian Billman (42) Archaeology of Political Organizations, Political Economy, and Human Violence; Settlement Pattern Analysis, Household Archaeology, Heritage Preservation, Andes, and Southwestern United States
Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld (76) Sociocultural Anthropology; Latin America; Economic and Social Change in Indigenous Communities in the Ecuadorian Andes; Indigenous Political Movements; Material Culture and Social Process
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
Valerie Lambert (58) 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
Peter Redfield (54) Anthropology of Science and Technology, Colonial History, Ethics, Humanitarianism and Human Rights, NGOs and Transnational Experts, Europe, French Guiana, Uganda
Michele Rivkin-Fish (73) Medical Anthropology, Gender, Reproductive Politics, Health Care, Postsocialisms, Anthropology and Demography, Medical Education, Russia, Poland
Patricia Sawin (44) 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
Silvia Tomaskova (59) Archaeology, Paleolithic Europe, Archaeological Method and Theory, History of Science, Gender and Science, Hunter-Gatherer and Forager Studies
Margaret Wiener (47) Politics of Knowledge, History and Memory, Colonial Societies, Science Studies, Translation, Material Culture, Indonesia, Southeast Asia
Assistant Professors
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
Adjunct Professors
Jonathan Boyarin, Jewish Ethnography, Politics of Memory, Comparative Diasporas, Ethnography of Reading, Law, Temporality and the Future
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, 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
John Pickles, Globalization, Modernity, Geographies of Social Change
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
Adjunct Associate Professors
Lorraine Aragon (71), Religion and States, Arts and Intellectual Property Rights, Land Use and Ownership, Migration, Violence and Displacement, Language, Southeast Asia, Indonesia
Michael C. Lambert (51) Political Anthropology, Economic Anthropology, Africa
Barry Saunders (72) Anthropology of Biomedicine, Technologies, and Embodiment
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
Adjunct Assistant Professors
Kia Caldwell, Gender, Race, and Citizenship in The African Diaspora; Race, Culture, and Politics in Brazil; Health and Human Rights.
Nilanjana Chatterjee (66) Political and Historical Anthropology, Migration, Gender, Postcolonial Issues, South Asia, Diaspora
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
Sandy Smith-Nonini (74) 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
Beverly Sizemore, Cultural Anthropology, Anthropology and Education, Literacy, Anthropology and Law, Iceland, Eritrea
Laurie C. Steponaitis (39) Archaeology, Hunter-Gatherers, Regional Survey, Settlement Patterns, Coastal Adaptations, Shellfish Analysis, Eastern North America
Research Professor
M. Jean Black, Ethnohistory, Cultural Ecology, Ethnography, North America
Research Associate Professors
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
Lecturer
Charles Haines, South Asia, Muslim World, Globalization
Professors Emeriti
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 Ph.D. degree. A master's degree may be taken as part of the program leading to the Ph.D. degree; however, a master's degree is not an essential part of the doctoral program.
Incoming graduate students are required to complete two 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 Ph.D. degree requires specialization in a defined area of study and the completion of an acceptable dissertation treating some problem within this area. The Ph.D. program is quite flexible; any area and problem can be selected for study, provided they meet the approval of the adviser, the Ph.D. committee and the faculty. Part of the training of a professional anthropologist in many circumstances should include undertaking research within a culture significantly different from the candidate's own, although the department is increasingly open to ‘native' or indigenous anthropology carried out critically in one's own cultural setting.
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 Center for Global Initiatives, the Institute for the Study of the Americas, 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: anthropology.unc.edu.
Courses for Graduates and Advanced Undergraduates
400 [179] INTRODUCTION TO GENERAL LINGUISTICS (LING 400) (3). An introduction to the scientific study of language. The nature of language structure. How languages are alike and how they differ.
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 nonhuman primates—including behaviors, tools and bodies of monkeys, apes and human hunters and gatherers—evolutionary theory and paleoanthropological methods. Hutchinson.
413 [111A] ARCHAEOBOTANY LAB METHODS (3). Prerequisite, any course in archaeology or permission of the instructor. Scarry.
413L ARCHAEOBOTANY LAB (1). Prerequisite, any course in archaeology or permission of the instructor. This is a required one-hour laboratory section to be taken in conjunction with ANTH 413. Scarry.
414 LABORATORY METHODS: 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). Must be taken concurrently with ANTH 414. The laboratory analysis of human skeletal materials with an emphasis on basic identification, age and sex estimation, and quantitative analysis. 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). Prerequisite, an archaeological course or permission of instructor; corequisite, ANTH 415. Examination of identification techniques, quantitative methods, and interpretive frameworks used to analyze animal remains recovered from archaeological sites. 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] LABORATORY METHODS: LITHIC SEMINAR (3). Laboratory techniques in stone tool research and experimental practice. Tomaskova.
417L LITHIC ANALYSIS LAB (1). Prerequisite, any course in archaeology or permission of instructor. This is a required one-hour laboratory section to be taken in conjunction with ANTH 417. Tomaskova.
418 LABORATORY 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). Permission of the instructor. 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. Field trips to three or more sites are conducted; written reports on geological aspects of the sites required.
422 [322] ANTHROPOLOGY AND HUMAN RIGHTS. An examination of human rights issues from an anthropological perspective, addressing the historical formation of rights, their crosscultural contest and the emergence of humanitarian and human rights organizations on a global scale.
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 (CMPL 435, FOLK 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.
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. Tomaskova.
438 [138] RELIGION, NATURE, AND ENVIRONMENT (RELI 438) (3). A seminar on 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] CONCEPTS OF NATURE (RELI 438H) (3). An interdisciplinary seminar exploring conceptions of nature within selected sociocultural traditions. Emphasis on aspects of nature such as water, trees and forests, fractal patterns and celestial phenomena such as stars. 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). Crosscultural comparison of gender roles through the life of a person, comparison to students' 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 crosscultural perspective. Finkler.
442 HEALTH AND GENDER AFTER SOCIALISM (3). This course examines postsocialist experiences of the relationship between political, economic, social and cultural transitions, and challenges in public health and gender relations.
443 CULTURES AND POLITICS OF REPRODUCTION (3). This course takes a crosscultural approach to understanding how reproduction and associated phenomena become arenas where political debates get played out, and where global and local social relations get contested.
444 MEDICINE, POLITICS AND JUSTICE (3). This course brings an anthropological approach to understanding the intersections between medicine, politics and public health.
447 [147] THE 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.
450 [150] ARCHAEOLOGY OF NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS (3). The history of American Indian cultures from 10,000 BCE to the time of the European colonization as reconstructed by archaeological research. Special emphasis on the eastern and southwestern United States.
451 [151] FIELD SCHOOL IN NORTH AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGY (6). 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, and the present in the past; a crosscultural examination of ways of connecting the present and the past.
453 [153] FIELD SCHOOL IN SOUTH AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGY (6). Intensive study of archaeological field and laboratory methods and prehistory of the Andes through excavation and analysis of materials from archaeological sites 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 for ethnohistoric data and practice in obtaining and evaluating information. Pertinent theoretical concepts will be explored. Crumley.
456 [156] ARCHAEOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY OF 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 crosscultural examination of ways of knowing about past human behavior. Scarry.
459 [139] ECOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY. Examines how human-environmental adaptations shape the economic, social and cultural lives of hunter-gatherers, pastoralists and agriculturalists. Approaches include optimal foraging theory, political ecology and subsistence risk.
460 [160] HISTORICAL ECOLOGY (ENST 460) (3). Historical ecology is a 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 OF SPACE AND POWER (3). Crosscultural 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 exchange, production and consumption of commodities in modern capitalist societies.
466 ALTERNATIVE ECONOMIC SYSTEMS (3). An investigation of economic systems that are sustainable alternatives to the prevailing economic order. Topics include markets, the commons, cooperatives, local trading systems and social movements working to achieve alternatives.
468 [168] STATE FORMATION (3). The course examines the state, from its initial appearance 5,000 years ago to newly established nation-states, exploring the concepts of ethnicity, class, race and history in state formation and maintenance. 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). 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] DISCOURSE AND DIALOGUE IN ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH (FOLK 484, LING 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). An introduction to the study of creativity and aesthetic expression in everyday life, considering both traditional genres and contemporary innovations in the material, verbal and musical arts.
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.
499H 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). Introduction to the general principles of linguistic phonetics; anatomy of vocal tract, physiology of speech production, universal phonetic theory. Practice in the recognition and transcription of speech sounds.
523 PHONOLOGICAL THEORY I (LING 523) (3). Prerequisite, LING 521 or equivalent. Introduction to the principles of modern generative phonology. Methods and theory of phonological analysis. Not normally open to those who have taken LING 200, unless permission of the instructor is given.
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 IN PRACTICE (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 citing of toxic incinerators in predominantly people-of-color communities to resource exploitation on indigenous lands.
541 [171] SOCIOLINGUISTICS (LING 541) (3). Prerequisite, LING 101, 400, or permission of the instructor. Introduction to the study of language in relation to society; variation as it correlates with socioeconomic status, region, gender; the social motivation of change; language and equality; language maintenance, planning, shift.
542 [192] PIDGINS AND CREOLES (GERM 542, LING 542) (3). Prerequisite, LING 101, 101H, or equivalent, or permission of the instructor. Examination of the linguistic features of pidgin and Creole languages, the sociohistorical context of their development, and their import for current theoretical issues (acquisition, universals, language change). Roberge.
545 [145] THE POLITICS OF CULTURE IN EAST ASIA (ASIA 545) (3). Examines struggles to define culture and the nation in 20th-century China in domains like popular culture, museums, traditional medicine, fiction film, ethnic group politics, and biography and autobiography.
559 HISTORY IN PERSON (3). Extends anthropological approaches to identity in social life. Examines social position, power and cultural imagination; the personal and collective dynamics of sociocultural change; and the concept of agency.
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 (ASIA 574, RELI 574) (3). Explores the indigenous Chinese sciences and the cosmological ideas that informed them. Topics include astronomy, divination, medicine, fengshui, and political and literary theory. Chinese sources in translation are emphasized.
578 [178] CHINESE DIASPORA IN THE ASIA PACIFIC (ASIA 578) (3). Examination of the histories, social organization and cultures of the Chinese Diasporas 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). Theories and methods of historical and comparative linguistics, with emphasis upon the Indo-European family.
585 [185] ANTHROPOLOGY OF SCIENCE (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] THE GARDENS, SHRINES AND TEMPLES 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 CULTURAL DYNAMICS (3). In-depth reading of several books and articles that consider the interaction between indigenous African traditions and intrusive colonial and postcolonial forces. Emphasis on class discussion. Short papers and individual projects. Daniels.
629 [189] LANGUAGE MINORITY STUDENTS: ISSUES FOR PRACTITIONERS (EDUC 629) (3). Prerequisite, permission of the instructor. Explores issues of culture and language associated with teaching English as a second language. Kubota, Villalva.
639 BEYOND THE TRAGEDY OF THE COMMONS (3). Reexamination 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.
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 crosscultural 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 crosscultural 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] SCHOOLING AND DIVERSITY: ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES (3). Anthropological approaches to schooling and cultural diversity in the United States, including their relationship to gender, race and class. Critical review of research on responses to diversity. Holland.
688 [188] OBSERVATION AND INTERPRETATION OF RELIGIOUS ACTION (FOLK 688, RELI 688) (3). 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.
691H [095] SENIORS HONORS PROJECT IN ANTHROPOLOGY (3). Open only to honors candidates. Permission of the instructor is required.
692H [096] SENIOR HONORS THESIS IN ANTHROPOLOGY (3). Open only to senior honors candidates. Permission of the instructor is required.
693H SENIOR HONORS THESIS IN ANTHROPOLOGY II (3). Open only to honors candidates. Permission of the instructor is required. Writing of an honors thesis based on independent research under the direction of a faculty member of the department.
694H SENIOR HONORS THESIS IN ANTHROPOLOGY III (3). Open only to honors candidates. Permission of the instructor is required. Writing of an honors thesis based on independent research under the direction of a faculty member of the department.
695H SENIOR HONORS THESIS IN ANTHROPOLOGY IV (3). Open only to honors candidates. Permission of the instructor is required. Writing of an 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.
Courses for Graduates
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 crosscultural 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. Continuation of topics covered in 703, with an emphasis on ecological and evolutionary perspectives on contemporary human biology and behavior.
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 crosscultural 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 crossculturally; 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 470, 525 or permission of the instructor. Considers crosscultural 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 crossculturally 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 crosscultural 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 crossculturally in selected fields of social activity. Holland.
760 [260] SEMINAR IN HUMAN EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY (3). Prerequisite for undergraduates, permission of the instructor. 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 790) (3). Principles and methods of areal linguistics and social dialectology. (On demand.)
793 [293] LINGUISTIC FIELD WORK I (LING 793) (3). Analysis and description of a language unknown to the class from data solicited from a native informant. (Alternate years.)
794 [294] LINGUISTIC FIELD WORK II (LING 794) (3).
809 ETHNOGRAPHIC METHODS (3).
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 the 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 the 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 (1–4).
898 [328] SEMINAR IN SELECTED TOPICS (1–4).
901 [301] READING AND RESEARCH (1–4). Registration with permission of professor.
902 [302] READING AND RESEARCH (1–4). Registration with permission of professor.
915 [315] READING AND RESEARCH IN METHODOLOGY (1–4). Registration with permission of professor.
916 [316] READING AND RESEARCH IN METHODOLOGY (1–4). Registration with permission of professor.
921 [321] FIELD RESEARCH (3). Registration with permission of the
professor.
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.