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Anthropology Department
Summer Course Descriptions
Prof. Ellen Marakowitz, Department Representative
468 Schermerhorn Ext.
phone: (212) 854-8268
email: em8@columbia.edu
Summer Term 2008
D Session (first 6-week session): May 27-July 3
ANTH S1002D (Section 1). The Interpretation of Culture. 3 pts. 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.
Course
Number |
Call Number/
Section |
Days & Times/
Location |
Instructor |
ANTH
1002 |
76646
001 |
MW 2:00p - 5:10p
963 Schermerhorn Hall |
O. Erdur |
ANTH S3338D. Globalization and Diaspora. 3 pts.
Course
Number |
Call Number/
Section |
Days & Times/
Location |
Instructor |
ANTH
3338 |
76998
001 |
TuTh 6:00p - 9:10p
467 Schermerhorn Hall |
N. Latif |
ANTH S4109D. Political Economy of Latin America. 3 pts. 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.
Course
Number |
Call Number/
Section |
Days & Times/
Location |
Instructor |
ANTH
4109 |
14691
001 |
MW 5:30p - 8:40p
467 Schermerhorn Hall |
B. Price |
ANTH S4209D. Caribbean Societies & Cultures. 3 pts. A general overview and understanding of the historical, political, economic and social forces that underlie the creation and maintenance of present-day Caribbean societies and culture.
Course
Number |
Call Number/
Section |
Days & Times/
Location |
Instructor |
ANTH
4209 |
40996
001 |
TuTh 6:00p - 9:10p
963 Schermerhorn Hall |
N. Savishinsky |
ANTH S4252D. North American Indians. 3 pts. This course examines Native American religious beliefs, practices and philosophies. It begins with discussion of indigenous concepts of the spirit world and its relationship to human life and experience. Succeeding topics include beliefs about personal contact with the spirit realm, rites of passage, earth and resource renewal, healing, and methods of achieving visionary experience. The causes, contents and outcomes of Native revitalization movements will also be discussed. And we will consider the effects of missionaries on aboriginal belief systems and Native conversions to Christianity. Texts include anthropological, historical and life-history accounts.
Course
Number |
Call Number/
Section |
Days & Times/
Location |
Instructor |
ANTH
4252 |
45946
001 |
MW 9:00a - 12:10p
467 Schermerhorn Hall |
N. Bonvillain
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Of Related Interest
MUSI S3418D. Anthropologies of Sound. 3 pts. This course will examine a range of approaches toward the sensorial and conceptual realm of sound for humans - a realm that is approached through the limited bias of audio defined strictly as "music" by musicologists (without benefit of the methodology or techniques of social science), and one that is oft-neglected by social science. Critical factors of technology, of ritual, and of commerce and industry will come into play, taken up through a survey of written texts about various auditory phenomena and human understandings of them. Demonstration and explication will be accomplished as well through the experiencing of a range of manifestations of sound by itself and in combination with other senses, and in combination with other media (e.g., movement - not just dance literature, and film). No prerequisites are necessary to take this course, though a strong interest in either sound culture defined most broadly and/or cultural anthropology are understood as fundamental.
Course
Number |
Call Number/
Section |
Days & Times/
Location |
Instructor |
MUSI
3418 |
74693
001 |
MW 9:30a - 12:40p
TBA |
B. Karl |
* Friday, May 30 replaces the Memorial Day Holiday, Monday May 26.
Q Session (second 6-week session): July 7-August 15
ANTH S1002Q (Section 2). The Interpretation of Culture. 3 pts. 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.
Course
Number |
Call Number/
Section |
Days & Times/
Location |
Instructor |
ANTH
1002 |
97046
002 |
MW 2:00p - 5:10p
963 Schermerhorn Hall |
L. Plourde |
ANTH S3009Q. The Anthropology of Islam in the Contemporary Middle East. 3 pts. 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.
Course
Number |
Call Number/
Section |
Days & Times/
Location |
Instructor |
ANTH
3009 |
76997
001 |
TuTh 2:00p - 5:10p
467 Schermerhorn Hall |
N. Guessous |
ANTH S3989Q. The Ethnographic Street: Studies in Urban Anthropology. 3 pts. Street language; street clothes; street fights; street gangs; street smarts; street cred; street price; street walkers; (man) on the street; Main Street; backstreets…this list of idiomatic expressions only begins to suggest the prominence, as well as importance, of the street in everyday life while intimating at a host of long-term socio-cultural issues and conflicts. As an ethnographic object, the street is not only a key site for the observation of public practice and culture, but also an instrument to understand systems of control, order and governance. As such, the specificity of such a locale capably reflects the contours of much larger social, political and economic dynamics. In order to trace these dynamics, this course will rely on perspectives derived from anthropological, sociological, and urban studies approaches to the street as urban form, event and context. Principal theoretical concerns to be explored during the course will include: Security/Danger; Space/Place; Public/Private; Consumption/Production; Gender/Sexuality; Race/Ethnicity; Urbanization; Immigration.
Course
Number |
Call Number/
Section |
Days & Times/
Location |
Instructor |
ANTH
3989 |
91696
001 |
TuTh 2:00p - 5:10p
TBA |
R. Collins
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ANTH S4187Q. Ethnography of South Asia. 3 pts. Early anthropologists of South Asia set out to discover a singular and coherent essence of its several civilizations, working on the structure of religions, caste groups, and village- and kin-based communities with respect to creation of social coherence and meaning for the different peoples across the subcontinent. We will consider these early studies before turning to the more recent work of historical anthropologists, which focuses on the ways colonial interventions and structures of power have worked to order social networks and alliances and to shape self-image in these communities: that is, the lived meaning of ideas about politics, justice, nation, and modernity in colonial and postcolonial South Asia.
Course
Number |
Call Number/
Section |
Days & Times/
Location |
Instructor |
ANTH
4187 |
99779
001 |
MW 6:00p - 9:10p
467 Schermerhorn Hall |
Y. Chandrani |
ANTH S4420Q. Beyond Sex and Sand: The Anthropologies of Tourism. 3 pts. Tourism, typically evoking images of relaxation, leisure and self-indulgence, shapes notions of both local and global others. It is a potent force in the construction of national identities and historical mythologies. As a global economic activity tourism is often the lynchpin of development strategy. By representing the past in the present, tourism arenas articulate and reinforce myths of authenticity, gender, race, and class. Through case studies and ethnographies this course examines the multiple meanings and uses of tourism in crafting identity, economic development policy, and global politics.
Course
Number |
Call Number/
Section |
Days & Times/
Location |
Instructor |
ANTH
4420 |
85529
001 |
MW 2:00p - 5:10p
467 Schermerhorn Hall |
M. Weisgrau |
ANTH S4448Q. Language, Culture, and Gender. 3 pts. 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.
Course
Number |
Call Number/
Section |
Days & Times/
Location |
Instructor |
ANTH
4448 |
10279
001 |
TuTh 5:30p - 8:40p
467 Schermerhorn Hall |
N. Reiss |
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