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Anthropology Department
Summer Courses 2012
Prof. Ellen Marakowitz, Department Representative
468 Schermerhorn Ext.
phone: (212) 854-8268
email: em8@columbia.edu
For times and classrooms, please refer to http://www.columbia.edu/cu/bulletin/uwb/
Summer Session D (First 6-Week Session): May 21 - June 29
Anthropology S1002D. The interpretation of Culture. 3 pts. Maxine Weisgrau. The anthropological approach to the study of culture and human society. Using ethnographic case studies, the course explores the universality of cultural categories (social organization, economy, law, belief systems, arts, etc.) and the range of variation among human societies.
Anthropology S4109D. Political Economy of Latin America. 3 pts. Barbara Price. Local-level political economies in an increasingly globalized process of production, distribution, and exchange, and within complex international divisions of labor. Issues of differential development; stratification and ethnicity; nationalism, conflict, and resistance; intra- and international capital flows; and labor migration.
Anthropology S4209D. Caribbean Societies and Cultures. 3 pts. N. Savishinsky. This course is designed to provide the student with a general overview and under¬standing of the hist¬orical, political, economic and social forces that under¬lie the creation and maintenance of present-day Caribbean societies and cultures. The first half of the course will deal exclusively with the historical background of the region, focusing on such seminal processes as the trans¬atlantic slave trade; European mercantilism and coloniz¬ation; New World slavery and plantation societies; and the evolution of national poli¬ties, insti¬tutions and identities in the English, Spanish and French-speaking Caribbean. The second half of the course will deal with issues of a more contempor¬ary, anthro¬pological nature—things like race, class & ethnicity; gender relations; Afro-Caribbean religious systems; migra¬tion; and popular culture.
Summer Session Q (Second 6-Week Session): (July 2 - August 10)
Anthropology S3009Q. Anthropology of Contemporary Islam in the Middle East. 3 pts. Joel Lee. What does it mean to be a pious or secular Muslim in the Middle East today? How is this complex identity inhabited, embodied, expressed, nurtured, redefined, contested and debated in the contemporary Middle East? What kinds of ongoing debates about shari'a and authority are constitutive of Islam as a discursive tradition? Through what forms of embodied practices and dispositions do women involved in a mosque movement in Cairo seek to become pious subjects? What does it mean to be secular in Turkey? Or a young person born after the revolution in Iran? How does a Moroccan anthropologists teaching at Princeton University experience and reflect on his pilgrimage to Mecca? We will think about these and other related questions through a series of recent anthropological texts that deal with questions of piety, secularity, modernity and subjectivity among Muslims in the contemporary Middle East.
Anthropology S3722Q. The Anthropology of Violence: Suffering, Rights, and the Politics of Humanitarianism Anth of Violence. Sonia Ahsan. Suffering is everywhere in today's globalized world. As true as it seems, this truism requires greater scrutiny: When and how do people suffer, and how do we respond to it? This course examines the tense and complex relationship between modern violence and practices of humanitarianism. It asks: What is the social and historical place of violence in the making of humanity? Who is the 'human' in human rights and humanitarian actions? Through a series of ethnographic cases and debates, we consider the following key topics: bureaucratic rule and discipline in colonial encounters; ethnicity and political violence; refugee camps and the management of displaced populations; incarceration; everyday and structural violence; human rights and gender violence; the biopolitics of medical humanitarianism; genocide and military interventions. Readings examine a range of local and global contexts, with particular attention on South Asia, Africa, Europe and the United States. We also explore these topics through films, new media, and the cultural resources and everyday settings of New York City.
Anthropology S4187Q. Ethnography of South Asia. 3 pts. Carole Henderson. Early anthropologists of South Asia set out to discover a singular and coherent understanding of its civilizational ‘essence.’ They were preoccupied with the structure of religious and caste groups and village and kin based communities in their quest to understand social coherence and what gave ‘meaning’ to modes of life of different sets of people across the subcontinent. We will consider these early works, and then turn to the more recent writings of historical anthropologists. These later writings show how colonial interventions and structures of power have worked to both order social networks and alliances, as well as shape ideas and opinions that communities hold about themselves. The lived meaning of terms such as politics, justice, nation and modernity in colonial and postcolonial South Asia will be the focus of the latter half of the course.
Anthropology S4448Q. Language, culture, and gender. 3 pts. Nira Reiss. Examines the relationship between gender and language, the ways in which the articulation of gender in language and discourse provides clues to the gendered nature of power relations. Focuses on the ways that modes of speaking may offer ways of resisting and transcending power structures. Explorations of cross-cultural differences in gendered language, with an emphasis on ethnographic, sociolinguistic, and film materials from the U.S.
OFFICIAL MAKEUP DATES FOR UNIVERSITY HOLIDAYS
June 3, replaces the Memorial Day holiday.
July 8, replaces the Independence Day holiday
UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE RESEARCH COURSES IN ANTHROPOLOGY
SUMMER SESSION “D” AND “Q” SESSIONS
(Please choose an instructor in Anthropology with whom you would like to work. In order to register for the course, you must first obtain the instructor’s permission.)
STAFF W3997D&Q SUPERVISED INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH HTBA
STAFF W3998 D&Q SUPERVISED INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH HTBA
STAFF G9101 D&Q RESEARCH IN SOCIAL CULTURAL ANTH HTBA
STAFF G9102 D&Q RESEARCH IN ARCH. HTBA
STAFF G9103 D&Q RESEARCH IN PHYSICAL ANTH HTBA
STAFF G9105 D&Q RESEARCH IN SPECIAL FIELDS HTBA
STAFF G9106 D&Q RESEARCH IN SPECIAL FIELDS HTBA
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