Anthropology

This course begins by exploring domains where magic and possession are classically articulated: animistic beliefs, theories of magic, ritual practices, scenes of spirit mediumship, states of trance, and so on. The course then moves to bring into creative conversation these ethnographic texts on magic and possession with accounts of performance (theatrical, musical, dance), works of art (visual, cinematographic, sonic), acts of writing (literary, ethnographic, autobiographical), and, most fundamentally, reflections on the everyday. Pursued are issues of subjectivity--particularly, the conjuring and displacement of self in the form of the first-person singular "I"--and the twin forces of repetition and coincidence. Retraced throughout the course are thus the shadows of a modern subject and its uncanny powers of imagination.

This course examines technological body interventions as framed by sociality and subjectivity. Of special interest are pre- and post-human contexts that generate technological nostalgia, desire, anxiety, or fear. Topics include transformative surgeries; cyborgs and other hybrids; the militarized body and the nation; and body economies.

In this class, we will think about the various ways in which philosophers, social theorists, historians and anthropologists have thought about war. More specifically, the course focuses on a set of key themes and questions that have been central to such writings: the nature of violence and the question of responsibility or accountability, shifting technologies of warfare (including, technologies of representation), and the phenomenology and aftermath of warfare, for civilians and for combatants. The questions that drive this seminar are theoretical and historical, as well as ethical and political. For example, how do shifting understandings of the trauma of soldiers shape ethical questions and political conversations regarding "perpetration" and the question of responsibility? Or, when we think warfare through new technologies (cinematic, action at a distance) from whose perspective are we theorizing or trying to understand the "experience of" war? How might we analyze the very different affective responses that different forms of violence-or of "perpetration" -elicit?

This course will consider museums as reflectors of social priorities which store important objects and display them in ways that present significant cultural messages. Students visit several New York museums to learn how a museum functions.

Fieldwork is what defines anthropology yet is rarely, if ever, discussed. Why? Why so invisible? Is it an art or a science or what, and what happens between f/w and the published text? What is the literary work of the f/w diary?

Presents students with critical theories of society, paying particular attention to classic continental social theory of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. We will trace a trajectory through important French and German writings essential for any understanding of the modern discipline of anthropology: from Saussure through Durkheim and Mauss, Marx, Weber, and on to the structuralist elaboration of these theoretical perspectives in Claude Lévi-Strauss, always bearing in mind the relationship of these theories to contemporary anthropology. We come last to Foucault and affiliated theorists as successors both to French structuralism and to German social theory and its concerns with modernity, rationality, and power. Throughout the readings, we will give special care to questions of signification as they inform anthropological inquiry, and we will be alert to the historical contexts that situate the discipline of anthropology today.

Selected themes in the analysis of Chinese society during late imperial and modern times.

Individual research and tutorial in social and cultural anthropology for advanced graduate students.

Individual research and tutorial in social and cultural anthropology for advanced graduate students.

Individual research and tutorial in social and cultural anthropology for advanced graduate students.

Individual research and tutorial in social and cultural anthropology for advanced graduate students.

Individual research and tutorial in social and cultural anthropology for advanced graduate students.

Individual research and tutorial in social and cultural anthropology for advanced graduate students.

Individual research and tutorial in social and cultural anthropology for advanced graduate students.

Individual research and tutorial in social and cultural anthropology for advanced graduate students.

Individual research and tutorial in social and cultural anthropology for advanced graduate students.

Individual research and tutorial in social and cultural anthropology for advanced graduate students.

Individual research and tutorial in social and cultural anthropology for advanced graduate students.

Individual research and tutorial in social and cultural anthropology for advanced graduate students.

Individual research and tutorial in social and cultural anthropology for advanced graduate students.

Individual research and tutorial in social and cultural anthropology for advanced graduate students.

Individual research and tutorial in social and cultural anthropology for advanced graduate students.

Individual research and tutorial in social and cultural anthropology for advanced graduate students.

Individual research and tutorial in social and cultural anthropology for advanced graduate students.

Individual research and tutorial in social and cultural anthropology for advanced graduate students.

Individual research and tutorial in social and cultural anthropology for advanced graduate students.

Individual research and tutorial in social and cultural anthropology for advanced graduate students.

Individual research and tutorial in social and cultural anthropology for advanced graduate students.

Individual research and tutorial in social and cultural anthropology for advanced graduate students.

Individual research and tutorial in social and cultural anthropology for advanced graduate students.

Individual research and tutorial in social and cultural anthropology for advanced graduate students.

Individual research and tutorial in social and cultural anthropology for advanced graduate students.

Individual research and tutorial in social and cultural anthropology for advanced graduate students.

Individual research and tutorial in social and cultural anthropology for advanced graduate students.

Individual research and tutorial in social and cultural anthropology for advanced graduate students.

Individual research and tutorial in social and cultural anthropology for advanced graduate students.

Individual research and tutorial in social and cultural anthropology for advanced graduate students.

Individual research and tutorial in social and cultural anthropology for advanced graduate students.

Individual research and tutorial in social and cultural anthropology for advanced graduate students.

Individual research and tutorial in social and cultural anthropology for advanced graduate students.

Individual research and tutorial in social and cultural anthropology for advanced graduate students.

Individual research and tutorial in social and cultural anthropology for advanced graduate students.

Individual research and tutorial in social and cultural anthropology for advanced graduate students.

Individual research and tutorial in social and cultural anthropology for advanced graduate students.

Individual research and tutorial in social and cultural anthropology for advanced graduate students.

Individual research and tutorial in social and cultural anthropology for advanced graduate students.

Individual research and tutorial in social and cultural anthropology for advanced graduate students.

Individual research and tutorial in social and cultural anthropology for advanced graduate students.

Individual research and tutorial in social and cultural anthropology for advanced graduate students.

Individual research and tutorial in social and cultural anthropology for advanced graduate students.

Individual research and tutorial in social and cultural anthropology for advanced graduate students.

Individual research and tutorial in social and cultural anthropology for advanced graduate students.

Individual research and tutorial in social and cultural anthropology for advanced graduate students.

Individual research and tutorial in social and cultural anthropology for advanced graduate students.

Individual research and tutorial in social and cultural anthropology for advanced graduate students.

Individual research and tutorial in social and cultural anthropology for advanced graduate students.

Individual research and tutorial in social and cultural anthropology for advanced graduate students.

Individual research and tutorial in social and cultural anthropology for advanced graduate students.

Individual research and tutorial in social and cultural anthropology for advanced graduate students.

Individual research and tutorial in social and cultural anthropology for advanced graduate students.

Individual research and tutorial in social and cultural anthropology for advanced graduate students.

Individual research and tutorial in archaeology for advanced graduate students.

Individual research and tutorial in archaeology for advanced graduate students.

Individual research and tutorial in archaeology for advanced graduate students.

Individual research and tutorial in archaeology for advanced graduate students.

Individual research and tutorial in archaeology for advanced graduate students.

Individual research and tutorial in archaeology for advanced graduate students.

Individual research and tutorial in archaeology for advanced graduate students.

Individual research and tutorial in archaeology for advanced graduate students.

Individual research and tutorial in archaeology for advanced graduate students.

Individual research and tutorial in archaeology for advanced graduate students.

Individual research and tutorial in archaeology for advanced graduate students.

Individual research and tutorial in archaeology for advanced graduate students.

Individual research and tutorial in physical anthropology for advanced graduate students.

Individual research and tutorial in physical anthropology for advanced graduate students.

Individual research in all divisions of anthropology and in allied fields for advanced graduate students

Individual research in all divisions of anthropology and in allied fields for advanced graduate students

Individual research in all divisions of anthropology and in allied fields for advanced graduate students

Individual research in all divisions of anthropology and in allied fields for advanced graduate students

Individual research in all divisions of anthropology and in allied fields for advanced graduate students

Individual research in all divisions of anthropology and in allied fields for advanced graduate students

Individual research in all divisions of anthropology and in allied fields for advanced graduate students

Individual research in all divisions of anthropology and in allied fields for advanced graduate students

Individual research in all divisions of anthropology and in allied fields for advanced graduate students

Individual research in all divisions of anthropology and in allied fields for advanced graduate students

Individual research in all divisions of anthropology and in allied fields for advanced graduate students

Individual research in all divisions of anthropology and in allied fields for advanced graduate students

Individual research in all divisions of anthropology and in allied fields for advanced graduate students

Individual research in all divisions of anthropology and in allied fields for advanced graduate students

Individual research in all divisions of anthropology and in allied fields for advanced graduate students

Individual research in all divisions of anthropology and in allied fields for advanced graduate students

Individual research in all divisions of anthropology and in allied fields for advanced graduate students

Individual research in all divisions of anthropology and in allied fields for advanced graduate students

Individual research in all divisions of anthropology and in allied fields for advanced graduate students

Individual research in all divisions of anthropology and in allied fields for advanced graduate students

Individual research in all divisions of anthropology and in allied fields for advanced graduate students

Individual research in all divisions of anthropology and in allied fields for advanced graduate students

Individual research in all divisions of anthropology and in allied fields for advanced graduate students

Individual research in all divisions of anthropology and in allied fields for advanced graduate students

Individual research in all divisions of anthropology and in allied fields for advanced graduate students

Individual research in all divisions of anthropology and in allied fields for advanced graduate students

Individual research in all divisions of anthropology and in allied fields for advanced graduate students

Individual research in all divisions of anthropology and in allied fields for advanced graduate students

Individual research in all divisions of anthropology and in allied fields for advanced graduate students

Individual research in all divisions of anthropology and in allied fields for advanced graduate students

Individual research in all divisions of anthropology and in allied fields for advanced graduate students

Individual research in all divisions of anthropology and in allied fields for advanced graduate students

Individual research in all divisions of anthropology and in allied fields for advanced graduate students

Individual research in all divisions of anthropology and in allied fields for advanced graduate students

Individual research in all divisions of anthropology and in allied fields for advanced graduate students

Individual research in all divisions of anthropology and in allied fields for advanced graduate students

Individual research in all divisions of anthropology and in allied fields for advanced graduate students

Individual research in all divisions of anthropology and in allied fields for advanced graduate students

Individual research in all divisions of anthropology and in allied fields for advanced graduate students

Individual research in all divisions of anthropology and in allied fields for advanced graduate students

Individual research in all divisions of anthropology and in allied fields for advanced graduate students

Individual research in all divisions of anthropology and in allied fields for advanced graduate students

Individual research in all divisions of anthropology and in allied fields for advanced graduate students

Individual research in all divisions of anthropology and in allied fields for advanced graduate students

Individual research in all divisions of anthropology and in allied fields for advanced graduate students

Individual research in all divisions of anthropology and in allied fields for advanced graduate students

Individual research in all divisions of anthropology and in allied fields for advanced graduate students

Individual research in all divisions of anthropology and in allied fields for advanced graduate students

Individual research in all divisions of anthropology and in allied fields for advanced graduate students

Individual research in all divisions of anthropology and in allied fields for advanced graduate students

Individual research in all divisions of anthropology and in allied fields for advanced graduate students

Individual research in all divisions of anthropology and in allied fields for advanced graduate students

Individual research in all divisions of anthropology and in allied fields for advanced graduate students

Individual research in all divisions of anthropology and in allied fields for advanced graduate students

Individual research in all divisions of anthropology and in allied fields for advanced graduate students

Individual research in all divisions of anthropology and in allied fields for advanced graduate students

An internship arranged through the Museum Anthropology program of 10 hrs/week (for 3 credits) or 20 hrs/week (for 6). Involves "meaningful" work, requires keeping a journal and writing a paper at the completion of the semester. Not to be taken without permission of the program directors, usually after completing the Museum Anthropology core courses.

An internship arranged through the Museum Anthropology program of 10 hrs/week (for 3 credits) or 20 hrs/week (for 6). Involves "meaningful" work, requires keeping a journal and writing a paper at the completion of the semester. Not to be taken without permission of the program directors, usually after completing the Museum Anthropology core courses.

    An internship arranged through the Museum Anthropology program of 10 hrs/week (for 3 credits) or 20 hrs/week (for 6). Involves "meaningful" work, requires keeping a journal and writing a paper at the completion of the semester. Not to be taken without permission of the program directors, usually after completing the Museum Anthropology core courses.

    An internship arranged through the Museum Anthropology program of 10 hrs/week (for 3 credits) or 20 hrs/week (for 6). Involves "meaningful" work, requires keeping a journal and writing a paper at the completion of the semester. Not to be taken without permission of the program directors, usually after completing the Museum Anthropology core courses.

Individual research and tutorial in archaeological method and theory for advanced graduate students.

Individual research and tutorial in archaeological method and theory for advanced graduate students.

Individual research and tutorial in archaeological method and theory for advanced graduate students.

Individual research and tutorial in archaeological method and theory for advanced graduate students.

Individual research and tutorial in archaeological method and theory for advanced graduate students.

Individual research and tutorial in archaeological method and theory for advanced graduate students.

Individual research and tutorial in archaeological method and theory for advanced graduate students.

Individual research and tutorial in archaeological method and theory for advanced graduate students.

Individual research and tutorial in archaeological method and theory for advanced graduate students.

Individual research and tutorial in archaeological method and theory for advanced graduate students.

Individual research and tutorial in archaeological method and theory for advanced graduate students.

This course examines the relationship between colonialism, settlement and anthropology and the specific ways in which these processes have been engaged in the broader literature and locally in North America. We aim to understand colonialism as a theory of political legitimacy, as a set of governmental practices and as a subject of inquiry. Thus we will re-imagine North America in light of the colonial project and its ?technologies of rule? such as education, law and policy that worked to transform Indigenous notions of gender, property and territory. Our case studies will dwell in several specific areas of inquiry, among them: the Indian Act in Canada and its transformations of gender relations, governance and property; the residential and boarding school systems in the US and Canada, the murdered and missing women in Juarez and Canada and the politics of allotment in the US. Although this course will be comparative in scope, it will be grounded heavily within the literature from Native North America.

Training in general archaeological methods. Data recording techniques, preparation of reports and illustration, etc. 

Chinese popular religion and ritual during the late traditional period and in modern times. Popular beliefs and practices concerning the cosmos, the gods, and the ancestors; the role in popular religion of Buddhism, Taoism, and the Imperial State Cult; popular religion, social change, and the modern assault on "superstition.

This course focuses on the political ecology of the Anthropocene. As multiple publics become increasingly aware of the extensive and accelerated rate of current global environmental change, and the presence of anthropogenesis in ever expanding circumstances, we need to critically analyze the categories of thought and action being developed in order to carefully approach this change. Our concern is thus not so much the Anthropocene as an immutable fact, inevitable event, or definitive period of time (significant though these are), but rather for the political, social, and intellectual consequences of this important idea. Thus we seek to understand the creativity of "The Anthropocene" as a political, rhetorical, and social category. We also aim to examine the networks of capital and power that have given rise to the current state of planetary change, the strategies for ameliorating those changes, and how these are simultaneously implicated in the rhetorical creation of "The Anthropocene".

The transgression of taboos is the basis of crime, sex, and religion in any society. As "the labor of the negative", transgression is also a critical element in thought itself. Working through anthropology of sacrifice and obscenity, as well as relevant work by Bataille, Foucault, and Freud, this course aims at understanding why taboos exist and why they must be broken.

The ‘Ethnography of the Everyday’ offers students an opportunity to engage the discipline’s methods and genres, and the ethico-philosophical questions about representativeness and exemplarity that subtend them.The course will consider the everyday as an alternative concept to ‘culture’ and habitus,’ while looking at the ethnographic works that were informed by those ideas. Students will undertake weekly writing assignments as part of an investigation not only of method, but of aesthetics, expression, and representation in general.

This seminar is an introduction to the theory and methods that have been developed by anthropologists to study contemporary cities and urban cultures. Although anthropology has historically focused on the study of non-Western and largely rural societies, since the 1960s, anthropologists have increasingly directed attention to cities and urban cultures. During the course of the semester, we will examine such topics as: the politics of urban planning, development and land use; race, class, gender and urban inequality; urban migration and transnational communities; the symbolic economies of urban space; and street life. Readings will include the works of Jane Jacobs, Sharon Zukin, and Henri Lefebvre.

Prerequisite: the written permission of the staff member under whose supervision the research will be conducted.

Prerequisite: the written permission of the staff member under whose supervision the research will be conducted.

Prerequisite: the written permission of the staff member under whose supervision the research will be conducted.

Prerequisite: the written permission of the staff member under whose supervision the research will be conducted.

Prerequisite: the written permission of the staff member under whose supervision the research will be conducted.

Prerequisite: the written permission of the staff member under whose supervision the research will be conducted.

Prerequisite: the written permission of the staff member under whose supervision the research will be conducted.

Prerequisite: the written permission of the staff member under whose supervision the research will be conducted.

Prerequisite: the written permission of the staff member under whose supervision the research will be conducted.

Prerequisite: the written permission of the staff member under whose supervision the research will be conducted.

Prerequisite: the written permission of the staff member under whose supervision the research will be conducted.

Prerequisite: the written permission of the staff member under whose supervision the research will be conducted.

Prerequisite: the written permission of the staff member under whose supervision the research will be conducted.

Prerequisite: the written permission of the staff member under whose supervision the research will be conducted.

Prerequisite: the written permission of the staff member under whose supervision the research will be conducted.

Prerequisite: the written permission of the staff member under whose supervision the research will be conducted.

Prerequisite: the written permission of the staff member under whose supervision the research will be conducted.

Prerequisite: the written permission of the staff member under whose supervision the research will be conducted.

Prerequisite: the written permission of the staff member under whose supervision the research will be conducted.

Prerequisite: the written permission of the staff member under whose supervision the research will be conducted.

Prerequisite: the written permission of the staff member under whose supervision the research will be conducted.

Prerequisite: the written permission of the staff member under whose supervision the research will be conducted.

Prerequisite: the written permission of the staff member under whose supervision the research will be conducted.

Prerequisite: the written permission of the staff member under whose supervision the research will be conducted.

Prerequisite: the written permission of the staff member under whose supervision the research will be conducted.

Prerequisite: the written permission of the staff member under whose supervision the research will be conducted.

Prerequisite: the written permission of the staff member under whose supervision the research will be conducted.

Prerequisite: the written permission of the staff member under whose supervision the research will be conducted.

Prerequisite: the written permission of the staff member under whose supervision the research will be conducted.

Prerequisite: the written permission of the staff member under whose supervision the research will be conducted.

Prerequisite: the written permission of the staff member under whose supervision the research will be conducted.

Prerequisite: the written permission of the staff member under whose supervision the research will be conducted.

Prerequisite: the written permission of the staff member under whose supervision the research will be conducted.

Prerequisite: the written permission of the staff member under whose supervision the research will be conducted.

Prerequisite: the written permission of the staff member under whose supervision the research will be conducted.

Prerequisite: the written permission of the staff member under whose supervision the research will be conducted.

Prerequisite: the written permission of the staff member under whose supervision the research will be conducted.

Prerequisite: the written permission of the staff member under whose supervision the research will be conducted.

Prerequisite: the written permission of the staff member under whose supervision the research will be conducted.

Prerequisite: the written permission of the staff member under whose supervision the research will be conducted.

Prerequisite: the written permission of the staff member under whose supervision the research will be conducted.

Prerequisite: the written permission of the staff member under whose supervision the research will be conducted.

Prerequisite: the written permission of the staff member under whose supervision the research will be conducted.

Prerequisite: the written permission of the staff member under whose supervision the research will be conducted.

Prerequisite: the written permission of the staff member under whose supervision the research will be conducted.

Prerequisite: the written permission of the staff member under whose supervision the research will be conducted.

Prerequisite: the written permission of the staff member under whose supervision the research will be conducted.

Prerequisite: the written permission of the staff member under whose supervision the research will be conducted.

Prerequisite: the written permission of the staff member under whose supervision the research will be conducted.

Prerequisite: the written permission of the staff member under whose supervision the research will be conducted.

Prerequisite: the written permission of the staff member under whose supervision the research will be conducted.

Prerequisite: the written permission of the staff member under whose supervision the research will be conducted.

Prerequisite: the written permission of the staff member under whose supervision the research will be conducted.

Prerequisite: the written permission of the staff member under whose supervision the research will be conducted.

Prerequisite: the written permission of the staff member under whose supervision the research will be conducted.

Prerequisite: the written permission of the staff member under whose supervision the research will be conducted.

Prerequisite: the written permission of the staff member under whose supervision the research will be conducted.

Prerequisite: the written permission of the staff member under whose supervision the research will be conducted.

Prerequisite: the written permission of the staff member under whose supervision the research will be conducted.

Prerequisite: the written permission of the staff member under whose supervision the research will be conducted.

Prerequisite: the written permission of the staff member under whose supervision the research will be conducted.

Prerequisite: the written permission of the staff member under whose supervision the research will be conducted.

Prerequisite: the written permission of the staff member under whose supervision the research will be conducted.

Prerequisite: the written permission of the staff member under whose supervision the research will be conducted.