Sociocultural Anthropology
ANTH V1002x The Interpretation of Culture 3 pts. The anthropological approach to the study of culture and human society. Case studies from ethnography are used in exploring the universality of cultural categories (social organization, economy, law, belief system, art, etc.) and the range of variation among human societies. Discussion Section Required.
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| Autumn 2008 :: ANTH V1002 |
ANTH
1002 |
57246
001 |
MW 10:35a - 11:50a
614 Schermerhorn Hall |
N. Panourgia |
ANTH
1002 |
002 |
TBA |
TBA |
ANTH V1009x Language and Culture 3 pts. This is an introduction to the study of the production, interpretation, and reproduction of social meanings as expressed through language. In exploring language in relation to culture and society, it focuses on how communication informs and transforms the socio-cultural environment.
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| Autumn 2008 :: ANTH V1009 |
ANTH
1009 |
04213
001 |
TuTh 2:40p - 3:55p
TBA |
P. Kockelman |
ANTH V2004x Introduction to Social and Cultural Theory 3 pts. Introduces students to theoretical works and ideas that have formed modern field of anthropology. These include classic 19th-century social theories (e.g., those of Durkheim, Weber, Marx), 20th-century interpretive approaches (for example, structuralism), and contemporary modes of socio-cultural analysis. Discussion Section Required.
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| Autumn 2008 :: ANTH V2004 |
ANTH
2004 |
67547
001 |
TuTh 10:35a - 11:50a
TBA |
J. Pemberton |
ANTH V2008x Film and Culture 3 pts. How have cultures been represented through film? This course offers a selective introduction to the past and present of ethnographic and documentary filmmaking. It also considers Hollywood depictions of "other" cultures and the growing number of films by directors working within their own communities. Film & Culture joins scholarly and filmmaking sensibilities to examine the relation of cultural identity to portrayal in film.
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| Autumn 2008 :: ANTH V2008 |
ANTH
2008 |
80280
001 |
Th 7:00p - 10:00p
TBA |
M. Vail |
ANTH V2010x Major Debates in the Study of Africa 3 pts. Major Cultures A List. This course will focus on key debates that have shaped the study of Africa in the postcolonial African academy. We will cover six key debates (a) history before external impact; (b) agency and responsibility in different kinds of slave trade; (c) State Formation (conquest, slavery, colonialism); (d) underdevelopment (colonialism and globalization); (e) nationalism and the anti-colonial struggle; (f) pan-Africanism and globalization. The approach will be multidisciplinary and readings will be illustrative of different sides in the debate. Major Cultures Requirement: African Civilization List A.
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| Autumn 2008 :: ANTH V2010 |
ANTH
2010 |
80897
001 |
MW 2:40p - 3:55p
TBA |
M. Mamdani |
ANTH V2090x The Road 3 pts. As literary, cinematic, and musical trope, the Road bears the weight of both transcendent American aspirations and banal evocations of national ethos. Engaging popular literature, film, and music, this course examines the figurative and literal Road as a medium that both reveals and constructs senses of American identity and place.
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| Autumn 2008 :: ANTH V2090 |
ANTH
2090 |
26653
001 |
MW 1:10p - 2:25p
TBA |
R. Chaney |
ANTH V2100x Muslim Societies 3 pts. Major Cultures A List. An examination of religion and society not limited to the Middle East . A series of Muslim societies of various types and locations will be approached historically and contextually to understand their family resemblances and their differences, their distinctive mechanisms of coherence and their patterns of contestation. Major Cultures Requirement: Middle Eastern Civilization List A.
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| Autumn 2008 :: ANTH V2100 |
ANTH
2100 |
29577
001 |
TuTh 1:10p - 2:25p
467 Schermerhorn Hall |
O. Erdur |
ANTH V2130x Religion in Modernity 3 pts. The course begins by examining some of the most influential attempts to define and explain religion comparatively, both within the discipline of anthropology and in the works that have influenced it (lectures 1-10). Thus students will engage the writings of Freud, Weber, Durkheim, and Marx, as well as anthropologists such as Bronislaw Malinowski, E.E. Evans-Pritchard, Mary Douglas, and Clifford Geertz. These figures are chosen not simply for historical value, but as lucid expressions of ideas that are to a great extent still with us, and which are variously sedimented as matters of common sense.
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| Autumn 2008 :: ANTH V2130 |
ANTH
2130 |
96998
001 |
MW 1:10p - 2:25p
TBA |
N. Roberts |
ANTH V2300x Anthropology of Estrangement 3 pts. To examine anthropological explanation as a passage from the known to the unknown that problematizes the known as well as leaving some kernel of the strange, the exotic, and the unfamiliar a mystery and does not reduce everything to an explanation. How might we master the need for mastery? What happens after we have problematized the known? Readings : accounts of fieldwork, select ethnography, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Brecht, Benjamin, Bataille.
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| Autumn 2008 :: ANTH V2300 |
ANTH
2300 |
95996
001 |
TuTh 4:10p - 5:25p
717 Hamilton Hall |
M. Taussig |
ANTH V3014x East Asian Societies and Cultures 3 pts. Introduction to the contemporary societies of China, Japan , and Korean, with special attention to social institutions and cultural patterns that shape hierarchy, egalitarianism, and inequality as reflected in family patterns, community life, religion, and economic behavior of social change. Major Cultures Requirement: East Asian Civilization List B.
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| Autumn 2008 :: ANTH V3014 |
ANTH
3014 |
82747
001 |
TuTh 2:40p - 3:55p
TBA |
M. Cohen |
ANTH V3040x Anthropological Theory I 4 pts. Formerly: V3011 - Social Relations: Living in Society. Prerequisite: an introductory course in anthropology. Institutions of social life. Kinship and locality in the structuring of society. Monographs dealing with both literate and non-literate societies will be discussed in the context of anthropological fieldwork methods.
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| Autumn 2008 :: ANTH V3040 |
ANTH
3040 |
09257
001 |
TuTh 10:35a - 11:50a
TBA |
L. Sharp |
ANTH V3660x Gender, Culture, and Human Rights 4 pts. Enrollment limited to 25 students plus instructor's permission. This course will explore what anthropology, both in terms of its theories of culture and its ethnographies of particular communities, can contribute to our thinking about the relationship between gender, culture, and human rights. While appreciating the instrumental power and emancipatory possibilities of human rights discourses and legal regimes in the sphere of gender issues, whether around gender inequality or violence against women, it is important to explore more carefully the challenges to this framework that anthropologists and those with deep knowledge of particular regions and cultural or religious traditions might offer.
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| Autumn 2008 :: ANTH V3660 |
ANTH
3660 |
54279
001 |
Th 11:00a - 12:50p
963 Schermerhorn Hall |
L. Abu-Lughod |
LATS W3917x Social Theory & Radical Critique in Ethnic Studies 4 pts.
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| Autumn 2008 :: LATS W3917 |
LATS
3917 |
001 |
Tu 11:00a - 12:50P
TBAl |
N. DeGenova |
ANTH V3916x Psychological Anthropology 4 pts. Enrollment limited to 25 students plus instructor's permission. This course explores the origins and contemporary practice of psychological anthropology, focusing on anthropologists' appropriation of psychological theories, methods and concepts, on prior collaborations between anthropologists and psychologists, and on their varying conceptions of the links between individual psychological phenomena and societal structures and conventions. The course begins by tracing the history of this interdisciplinary subfield by looking at its foundational texts, with special attention to studies by the Culture and Personality School . It then examines impact of psychoanalysis on anthropology, and considers psychoanalytic interpretations of social and cultural practices. After looking at shifting notions and representations of the self and memory in psychological anthropology, it turns to the topic of doctor-patient relationships, which raise questions as to the social and cultural bases of emotion, suffering, and healing. These issues are further explored in the final weeks of the course, which address current research in the emergent area of cross-cultural psychiatry.
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| Autumn 2008 :: ANTH V3916 |
ANTH
3916 |
90997
001 |
Tu 9:00a - 10:50a 467 Schermerhorn Hall |
K. Seeley |
ANTH V3921x Anticolonialism 3 pts. Enrollment limited to 20 students. Through a careful exploration of the argument and style of three vivid anticolonial texts, C.L.R. James' The Black Jacobins, Aimé Césaire's Discourse on Colonialism, Albert Memmi's Colonizer and Colonized, and Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth, this course aims to inquire into the construction of the image of colonialism and its projected aftermaths established in anti-colonial discourse.
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| Autumn 2008 :: ANTH V3921 |
ANTH
3921 |
83099
001 |
W 2:10p - 4:00p
467 Schermerhorn Hall |
D. Scott |
ANTH V3937x Mass Mediated Cultures 4 pts. Prerequisites: at least one course in anthropology or social theory. How do new media technologies affect social worlds? What is the relationship between mass mediation and modernity? Explores the force of media technology, its relationship to transnational forms of capital, to the development of new subjectivities, and to the rise of new networks of power and social relations.
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| Autumn 2008 :: ANTH V3937 |
ANTH
3937 |
55041
001 |
M 11:00-12:50 467 Schermerhorn Hall |
R. Morris |
ANTH V3939x Millennial Futures: Mass Culture and Japan 4 pts. Instructor's Permission Required. Addresses mass culture and its relationship to Japan at the end of the 20th century. Approaches the themes of millennial anxiety and wishfulness in such domains as everyday life, technology, criminality, gender and sexuality, and consumption. Major Cultures Requirement: East Asian Civilization List B.
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| Autumn 2008 :: ANTH V3939 |
ANTH
3939 |
56280
001 |
Th 2:10p - 4:00p
TBA |
M. Ivy |
ANTH V3950x Anthropology of Consumption 4 pts. Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 25 students. Examines theories and ethnographies of consumption as well as the political economy of production and consumption. Compares historic and current consumptive practices, compares exchange based economies with post-Fordist economies. Engages the work of Mauss, Marx, Godelier, Baudrillard, Appadurai, and Douglas among others.
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| Autumn 2008 :: ANTH V3950 |
ANTH
3950 |
00789
001 |
Th 2:10p - 4:00p
TBA |
P. West |
ANTH W3997x Supervised Individual Research Course In Anthropology 2-6 pts. Prerequisite: the written permission of the staff member under whose supervision the research will be conducted. This permission is to be filed with the College secretary in room 452 Schermerhorn Extension.
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Location |
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| Autumn 2008 :: ANTH W3997 |
ANTH
3997 |
61404
002 |
TBA |
L. Abu-Lughod |
ANTH
3997 |
62501
003 |
TBA |
A. Alland |
ANTH
3997 |
66755
004 |
TBA |
B. Boyd |
ANTH
3997 |
67254
005 |
TBA |
P. Chatterjee |
ANTH
3997 |
67654
006 |
TBA |
M. Cohen |
ANTH
3997 |
68654
007 |
TBA |
M. Combs-Schilling |
ANTH
3997 |
73356
008 |
TBA |
Z. Crossland |
ANTH
3997 |
91653
009 |
TBA |
T. D'Altroy |
ANTH
3997 |
92114
010 |
TBA |
E. Daniel |
ANTH
3997 |
97701
011 |
TBA |
N. De Genova |
ANTH
3997 |
16649
012 |
TBA |
N. Dirks |
ANTH
3997 |
98155
014 |
TBA |
S. Gregory |
ANTH
3997 |
98502
015 |
TBA |
R. Holloway |
ANTH
3997 |
92753
017 |
TBA |
M. Ivy |
ANTH
3997 |
53289
019 |
TBA |
C. Lomnitz |
ANTH
3997 |
55538
020 |
TBA |
M. Mamdani |
ANTH
3997 |
57536
021 |
TBA |
E. Marakowitz |
ANTH
3997 |
60034
022 |
TBA |
B. Messick |
ANTH
3997 |
62036
023 |
TBA |
H. Mokoena |
ANTH
3997 |
40900
024 |
TBA |
R. Morris |
ANTH
3997 |
41350
025 |
TBA |
N. Panourgia |
ANTH
3997 |
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