Anthropology

A seminar-practicum on field research in New York City. Exploration of anthropological field research methods followed by supervised individual field research on selected topics in urban settings.

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 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 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

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.

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. 

This graduate seminar focuses on the relationship between international borders and social boundaries within national societies. It has as its premise a double paradox of contemporary life: the hardening of ethnic and racial boundaries at a time when goods and information flow across national borders quite freely; and the racialization of social relations at a time when racial theories lack scientific prestige, and racial categories have become conspicuously unstable. The seminar explores anthropological, historical, political and aesthetic dimensions of the relationship between national borders and social boundaries in a comparative context, and develops a conceptual foundation for analysis of the relationship between borders and boundaries.

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 class explores the intersection of economy, culture, and society from a comparative, anthropological perspective. What have anthropologists learned about the different economic systems of the societies they study? How do economic practices and processes interact with the broader sociocultural worlds in which they are pursued and elaborated? What kind of concepts and methods do anthropologists draw on in their ethnographic (and archeological) researches into the diversity of human economic life? By reading classic and contemporary works in the field of economic anthropology, this class introduce students to longstanding discussions and debates about: economic rationality as a social form; the application of economic principles and methods to non-marketized societies; the nature of exchange and value; the sociocultural dimensions of monetarization and marketization; the role of gender and class in economic production; and the paradoxes of private property in everyday lives. Anthropology and economics have maintained a long and productive, if often combative, relationship with one another, and one of the aims of the course is to explore that relationship from a number of critical perspectives.

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 first part of the course focuses on the history of the creation of the atomic bomb and the aftermath of its use during World War II. We look at the socialization of the scientists involved in the birth of the bomb; at the devastation it wrought in Hiroshima and Nagasaki; and at the physical and psychological injuries that afflicted its survivors, especially the immediate and long-term effects of radiation poisoning and trauma. The course then considers the Cold War period, examining civil defense campaigns, the cultural features of weapons laboratories, and the devastating physical and environmental contamination suffered by communities—disproportionately composed of indigenous populations—where such weapons repeatedly have been tested. The second part of the course explores the transformative cultural and psychological consequences of living with the bomb. Readings consider the evidence of spontaneous psychic adaptations to life in the nuclear age. They also examine governments’ deliberate attempts to shape citizens’ cognitive and emotional lives. How do states produce political subjects who comply with military imperatives? What role does the continual manufacture of foreign threats and enemies play in this process? While acknowledging the powerful forces that seek to control public perceptions of nuclear arms by minimizing their destructive potential, the course concludes by considering organized resistances to increasing nuclear proliferation and to militarism.

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 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 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.