Spring 2022

Conservation & Indigenous Peoples in Tanzania (Arusha, Tanzania)

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Conservation & Indigenous Peoples in Tanzania (Arusha, Tanzania) Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 01/28/2022 - 11:29

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ANTH 1155 - Explorations in Global Cultural Diversity- Introduction to the Anthropology of Japan

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ANTH 1155 - Explorations in Global Cultural Diversity- Introduction to the Anthropology of Japan Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 10/15/2021 - 10:27

This course offers you a broad sample of cutting-edge contemporary social science explorations of Japan, featuring Friday guest lectures. You will meet many of the scholars whose work we will read, giving you the opportunity to ask questions about their research process.

A core theme running through the course is the question of what “Japanese identity” means. The nation is around 98% ethnically Japanese and popular narratives frame the country as “homogenous,” but at the same time, “multiculturalism” and “internationalization” are key words in public discourse and policy narratives. Further, many sorts of people constitute Japan, including Indigenous Ainu and the Ryukyuan people of Okinawa, people whose ethnic origins come from outside Japan or who are mixed-race, gender minorities, and people with disabilities. What might it be like to live in a nation framed as “homogenous,” when the human experience is inherently diverse?

We will consider core methodological and theoretical issues in anthropology more broadly, and the anthropology of Japan, specifically. Assignments will give you the opportunity to explore topics of your own interest.

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ANTH 4020/5020: Disaster and Culture

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ANTH 4020/5020: Disaster and Culture Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 04/21/2021 - 07:51

In this class, we study disasters from a broad anthropological perspective questions the false dichotomy between nature and society, and has put front and center the role of human agency in the creation of disasters. This perspective argues that disasters occur within the context of archaeologically/historically created patterns of vulnerability.

Professor Geraldo Gutiérrez

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ANTH 2100 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

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ANTH 2100 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 02/26/2018 - 10:39

What does it mean to think anthropologically? This course will provide an overview of the history and foundations of anthropological thought, with a special focus on the key method of anthropology: ethnography. Drawing on both classical and contemporary anthropological texts from a broad range of international settings, we will analyze the meaning of the categories we use to organize our experiences and social relationships. Topics will include: the "culture" concept, particularly in relation to ideas of difference, relativism, translation, and individual and group identity; the role of language, narrative, and interpretation in the constitution of the self and the social world; symbols, metaphors, and ideologies as forms of power and vehicles for social transformation; ethnographic methods, ethics, and techniques of anthropological research and fieldwork; and cross-cultural comparisons of systems of kinship, gender/sex/sexuality, labor and economic exchange.

See the University Catalog for specifics, recommendations, and prerequisites.

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ANTH 2200 The Archaeology of Human History

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ANTH 2200 The Archaeology of Human History Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 02/26/2018 - 10:30

Where did human beings come from?

How did we come to inhabit the world?

Why don’t we eat wild foods anymore?

How did complex urban societies rise and fall?

All this and more…..

Professor Douglas Bamforth

See the University Catalog for specifics, recommendations, and prerequisites.

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ANTH 4700 / 5700 Practicing Anthropology: Applying Ethnographic Theory and Methods

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ANTH 4700 / 5700 Practicing Anthropology: Applying Ethnographic Theory and Methods Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 02/26/2018 - 08:59

In this hands-on ethnographic research course, advanced anthropology students will learn how to use anthropological methodologies to collaboratively investigate social problems and positively impact society. We will develop a model of ethnographic research oriented toward facilitating dialogue between student ethnographers and research interlocutors (community members, policy makers, elected representatives, scientists). Readings will give students background in research methods as well as a theoretical framework for applied, engaged, and activist anthropology and community-based research. Students will disseminate research findings in publicly accessible, multi-media formats: photography exhibits, podcasts, story maps, videos. This course may be especially of interest to third-year majors considering an honors thesis in their fourth year, fourth-year majors wanting a “capstone” experience, and MA students.

Professor Kathryn Goldfarb

See the University Catalog for specifics, recommendations, and prerequisites.

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