- 130a Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
- The exploration of similarities and differences in the cultural
patterning of human experience. The comparative analysis of economic,
political, religious and family structures, with examples from Africa,
the Americas, India and Oceania. The impact of the modern world on
traditional societies. Several ethnographic films are viewed in
coordination with descriptive case studies.
Elliot Fratkin, MWF 10-10:50 am
Patricia Erikson, TTh 10:30-11:50 am
Ravina Aggarwal, TTh 3-4:50 pm
- 130b Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
- A repetition of 130a.
Donald Joralemon, MW 11 am -12:10 pm
Patricia Erikson, TTh 10:30-11:50 am
- 131b Perspectives on Human Behavior and Evolution
- The physiological, social and ecological premises of human behavior
and their basis in primate social and communication systems. Our
biological development as hominids and its behavioral correlates. The
uniqueness of language and technology as human adaptations. Contemporary
political implications of the agricultural revolution and the rise of the
early city and early state. Will our late 20th century commitment to
modern technology and global communication prove to be a vision or a
trap?
Elizabeth Hopkins, Lecture MW 2:40-4 pm.
Discussion sections as follows:
Th 1-1:50 pm
Th 3-3:50 pm
- 232a Third World Politics: Anthropological
Perspectives
- The nature of political behavior and the political process. The biology of determination. Survey of traditional political systems from the hunting band to the pre-industrial state. The continuing vitality of traditional values and strategies in the colonial and contemporary arena. Christianity, prophetic sects and Muslim fundamentalism as intruments of political action. The implications of urbanizations, ethnicity and global communication on Third World politics. Forging a national identity: ideology and reality. Special emphasis will be place on postcolonial Africa and its traditional base.
Elizabeth Hopkins, MW 2:40-4 pm
- 236a Economy, Ecology, and Society
- What distinguishes tribal from state societies? What happens to indigenous peoples under a global economic system? This course introduces materialist approaches in anthropology including human ecology, cultural evolution and political economy. Through readings, films and discussion, this course compares different production and exchange systems, contrasts differences between subsistence and market economies, and discusses the emergence and domination of a global capitalist system over tribal and tributary societies in the past 500 years.
Elliot Fratkin, TTh 10:30-11:50 am
- 237b Native South Americans: Conquest and Resistance
- The differential impact of European conquest on tropical forest, Andean and sub-Andean Indian societies. How native cosmologies can contribute to either cultural survival or extinction as Indians respond to economic and ideological domination.
Donald Joralemon, MW 2:40-4 pm
- 240a Anthropology of Museums
- This course analyzes museums as actors in producing knowledge and meaning in modern societies. Museums' relations to colonialism, nationalism, ethnic resistance and positivism are explored. Projects entail describing and critiquing exhibit paradigms and technologies.
Patricia Pierce Erikson, TTh 9-10:20 am
- 243b Colloquium in Political Ecology
- This course is an introduction to the study of those factors implicated in the creationa dn perpetuation of the current ecological crisis. The course is structured around three categories: gender, knowledge and culture. While not exhaustive, they have been chosen as promising entry points into the study of those practices inimical or favorable to ecological health. This course will integrate community-based learning into its requirements. Students will be encouraged to volunteer in local environmental organizations or movements and test there the theoretical learning done in the course. Prerequisite: 130 or WST 250 or the permission of the instructor.
Frederique Apffel-Margalin, TTh 10:30-11:50 am
- 246b Women and Social Change in China
- An examination of the experience of Chinese women, especially in modern times, as expressed in documents ranging from oral history and ethnography to fiction and film. While taking into consideration regional, ethnic, and socioeconomic diversity, we will analyze the impact of cultural ideologies, state policies and market forces on women's lives, and investigate the ways in which women have sought to manipulate and resist these forces. Topics include family, work and sexuality.
Beth Notar, MWF 10-10:50 am
- 248a Medical Anthropology
- The cultural construction of illness through an examination of systems of diagnosis, classification, and therapy in both non-Western and Western societies. Special attention given to the role of the traditional healer. The anthropological contribution to international health care and to the training of physicians in the United States.
Donald Joralemon, MW 1:10-2:30
- 250b Native Peoples of North America
- Historical and contemporary experiences of Native peoples in the United States and Canada, including missionization, boarding schools, political resistance, artistry and spirituality. Notionsl of "Native" and "anthropological" voice will be explored through enthnographies, oral histories, and historical documents.
Patricia Pierce Erikson, TTh 9-10:20
- 330a History of Anthropological Theory
- A survey of anthropological ideas and practices from the 19th century to the present. Topics include social evolutionism, French and British structuralism, cultural materialism, symbolic anthropology, the politics and poetics of fieldwork and ethnography, and experimental ethnography (feminist, indigenous and self-reflective ethnography). Open only to junior and senior majors or minors.
Ravina Aggarwal, TTh 10:30-11:50 am
SEMINARS
- 340b The Politics of Development: Identity, Autonomy and Resistance in the Third World
- The dynamics of contemporary Third World politics. What factors define the transformation or continuing vitality of traditional institutions and values under pressures of modernization, urbanization and late 20th century global technology and communications? Topics will include gender politics and gender options; Christianity, sectarian protest and Muslim fundamentalism as strategies of secular resistance and identity; ethnicity and privilege in the national arena. Permission of the instructor is required.
Elizabeth Hopkins, T 3-4:50
- 342b Topics in Anthropology
- Topic: Objects, Others, and Selves: The Anthropology of Material Culture. Anthropological approaches to material culture using museum collections. Each student will research an object: its role in crossing cultural contexts and its history in arriving in the collection. Special attention to processes of identity formation and their intersection with economics of material culture.
Patricia Erikson, Th 3-4:30 pm
- 343b Travel, Tourism and Anthropology
- This course explores travel as a way of knowing the world. Through a survey of ethnographies, travelogues, films, tourist brochures and guides, we examine the transforming role that travel plays in the representation of other places and peoples. We condiser the impact of tourism on the family and gender statuses of both hosts and guests by examining the consequences of global and economic pressures and indigenous counter-developmental measures. Prerequisite: ANT 130 or the permission of the instructor.
Ravina Aggarwal, T 1-2:50 pm - The nature of political behavior and the political process. The biology of determination. Survey of traditional political systems from the hunting band to the pre-industrial state. The continuing vitality of traditional values and strategies in the colonial and contemporary arena. Christianity, prophetic sects and Muslim fundamentalism as intruments of political action. The implications of urbanizations, ethnicity and global communication on Third World politics. Forging a national identity: ideology and reality. Special emphasis will be place on postcolonial Africa and its traditional base.
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