Anthropology
The Department of Anthropology offers courses in cultural anthropology, culture and language, the origins in human society, and human evolution.
For questions about specific courses, contact the department.
For questions about specific courses, contact the department.
Courses
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.
Course Number
ANTH1002V001Points
3 ptsFall 2024
Times/Location
Tu 10:10-11:25Th 10:10-11:25Section/Call Number
001/00004Enrollment
65 of 90Instructor
Clare CaseyCourse Number
ANTH1007V001Points
3 ptsFall 2024
Times/Location
Tu 11:40-12:55Th 11:40-12:55Section/Call Number
001/00005Enrollment
72 of 90Instructor
Camilla SturmCourse Number
ANTH1012V001Points
0 ptsFall 2024
Times/Location
Tu 12:10-13:00Section/Call Number
001/00884Enrollment
12 of 15Instructor
Phoebe WhitesideCourse Number
ANTH1012V002Points
0 ptsFall 2024
Times/Location
Th 12:10-13:00Section/Call Number
002/00888Enrollment
7 of 15Instructor
Phoebe WhitesideCourse Number
ANTH1012V003Points
0 ptsFall 2024
Times/Location
Th 16:10-17:00Section/Call Number
003/00887Enrollment
10 of 15Instructor
Rishav Kumar ThakurCourse Number
ANTH1012V004Points
0 ptsFall 2024
Times/Location
Th 17:10-18:00Section/Call Number
004/00889Enrollment
7 of 15Instructor
Rishav Kumar ThakurCourse Number
ANTH1012V005Points
0 ptsFall 2024
Times/Location
Mo 13:10-14:00Section/Call Number
005/00885Enrollment
16 of 15Instructor
Kiara HoustonCourse Number
ANTH1012V006Points
0 ptsFall 2024
Times/Location
We 15:10-16:00Section/Call Number
006/00886Enrollment
12 of 15Instructor
Kiara HoustonCourse Number
ANTH1017V001Points
0 ptsFall 2024
Times/Location
Tu 13:10-14:00Section/Call Number
001/00866Enrollment
11 of 15Instructor
Akshay RagupathyCourse Number
ANTH1017V002Points
0 ptsFall 2024
Times/Location
Th 09:10-10:00Section/Call Number
002/00867Enrollment
12 of 15Instructor
Akshay RagupathyCourse Number
ANTH1017V003Points
0 ptsFall 2024
Times/Location
We 17:10-18:00Section/Call Number
003/00868Enrollment
13 of 15Instructor
Noni StephensonCourse Number
ANTH1017V004Points
0 ptsFall 2024
Times/Location
Th 15:10-16:00Section/Call Number
004/00869Enrollment
16 of 16Instructor
Alexandra McDougleCourse Number
ANTH1017V005Points
0 ptsFall 2024
Times/Location
We 10:10-11:00Section/Call Number
005/00870Enrollment
10 of 15Instructor
Alexandra McDougleCourse Number
ANTH1017V007Points
0 ptsFall 2024
Times/Location
We 13:10-14:00Section/Call Number
007/00922Enrollment
4 of 15Instructor
Noni StephensonThis course presents students with crucial theories of society, paying particular attention at the outset to classic social theory of the early 20th century. It traces a trajectory of writings essential for an understanding of the social: from Saussure, Durkheim, Mauss, Weber, and Marx, on to the structuralist ethnographic elaboration of Claude Levi-Strauss and the historiographic reflections on modernity of Michel Foucault. We revisit periodically, reflections by Franz Boas, founder of anthropology in the United States (and of Anthropology at Columbia), for a sense of origins, an early anthropological critique of racism and cultural chauvinism, and a prescient denunciation of fascism. We turn as well, also with ever-renewed interest in these times, to the expansive critical thought of W. E. B. Du Bois. We conclude with Kathleen Stewart’s A Space on the Side of the Road--an ethnography of late-twentieth-century Appalachia and the haunted remains of coal-mining country--with its depictions of an uncanny otherness within dominant American narratives.
Course Number
ANTH2004V001Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsFall 2024
Times/Location
Mo 10:10-11:25We 10:10-11:25Section/Call Number
001/10726Enrollment
41 of 60Instructor
John PembertonRegimes of various shapes and sizes tend to criminalize associations, organizations, and social relations that these ruling powers see as anathema to the social order on which their power depends: witches, officers of toppled political orders, alleged conspirators (rebels, traitors, terrorists, and dissidents), gangsters and mafiosi, or corrupt officers and magnates. Our main goal will be to understand how and under what conditions do those with the power to do so define, investigate, criminalize and prosecute those kinds of social relations that are cast as enemies of public order. We will also pay close attention to questions of knowledge – legal, investigative, political, journalistic, and public – how doubt, certainty, suspicion and surprise shape the struggle over the relationship between the state and society.
The main part of the course is organized around six criminal investigations on mafia-related affairs that took place from the 1950s to the present (two are undergoing appeal these days) in western Sicily. After the introductory section, we will spend two weeks (four meetings) on every one of these cases. We will follow attempts to understand the Mafia and similarly criminalized organizations, and procure evidence about it. We will then expand our inquiry from Sicily to cases from all over the world, to examine questions about social relations, law, the uses of culture, and political imagination.
*Although this is a social anthropology course, no previous knowledge of anthropology is required or presumed. Classroom lectures will provide necessary disciplinary background.
Course Number
ANTH2017V001Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsFall 2024
Times/Location
Mo 10:10-11:25We 10:10-11:25Section/Call Number
001/11493Enrollment
71 of 95Instructor
Naor Ben-YehoyadaCourse Number
ANTH2028W001Format
In-PersonPoints
4 ptsFall 2024
Times/Location
Mo 10:10-11:25We 10:10-11:25Section/Call Number
001/10347Enrollment
47 of 90Instructor
Hannah ChazinCourse Number
ANTH2104V001Format
In-PersonPoints
0 ptsFall 2024
Times/Location
Mo 14:10-15:00Section/Call Number
001/18771Enrollment
0 of 30Instructor
Asprey LiuCourse Number
ANTH2104V002Format
In-PersonPoints
0 ptsFall 2024
Times/Location
We 13:10-14:00Section/Call Number
002/18772Enrollment
0 of 30Instructor
Amani AgbariaDiscussion section for ANTH2017.
Course Number
ANTH2111W001Format
In-PersonPoints
0 ptsFall 2024
Times/Location
We 12:10-13:00Section/Call Number
001/18773Enrollment
11 of 30Instructor
William OdumDiscussion section for ANTH2017.
Course Number
ANTH2111W002Format
In-PersonPoints
0 ptsFall 2024
Times/Location
We 13:10-14:00Section/Call Number
002/18774Enrollment
12 of 30Instructor
William OdumDiscussion section for ANTH2017.
Course Number
ANTH2111W003Format
In-PersonPoints
0 ptsFall 2024
Times/Location
We 16:10-17:00Section/Call Number
003/18775Enrollment
10 of 30Instructor
Zarino LanniDiscussion section for ANTH2017.
Course Number
ANTH2111W004Format
In-PersonPoints
0 ptsFall 2024
Times/Location
We 17:10-18:00Section/Call Number
004/18776Enrollment
9 of 30Instructor
Zarino LanniDiscussion section for ANTH2017.
Course Number
ANTH2111W005Format
In-PersonPoints
0 ptsFall 2024
Times/Location
Th 13:10-14:00Section/Call Number
005/21134Enrollment
11 of 30Instructor
Sean MullerDiscussion section for ANTH2017.
Course Number
ANTH2111W006Format
In-PersonPoints
0 ptsFall 2024
Times/Location
Th 14:10-15:00Section/Call Number
006/21135Enrollment
9 of 30Instructor
Sean MullerPlease note that this is not a class on “biblical archaeology”. It is a course about the politics of archaeology in the context of Israel/Palestine, and the wider southwest Asia region. This course provides a critical overview of prehistoric archaeology in southwest Asia (or the Levant - the geographical area from Lebanon in the north to the Sinai in the south, and from the middle Euphrates in Syria to southern Jordan). It has been designed to appeal to anthropologists, historians, and students interested in the Ancient Mediterranean and Middle Eastern Studies. The course is divided into two parts. First, a social and political history of archaeology, emphasizing how the nature of current theoretical and practical knowledge has been shaped and defined by previous research traditions and, second, how the current political situation in the region impinges upon archaeological practice. Themes include: the dominance of "biblical archaeology" and the implications for Palestinian archaeology, Islamic archaeology, the impact of European contact from the Crusades onwards, and the development of prehistory.
Course Number
ANTH3007V001Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsFall 2024
Times/Location
Tu 11:40-12:55Th 11:40-12:55Section/Call Number
001/10397Enrollment
13 of 35Instructor
Brian BoydCourse Number
ANTH3040W001Points
4 ptsFall 2024
Times/Location
Mo 10:10-11:25We 10:10-11:25Section/Call Number
001/00098Enrollment
29 of 35Instructor
Brian LarkinThis course centers disability in its many manifestations and meanings – as an embodied, social, and cultural experience, as an organizing discourse in local and global contexts, as an analytic framework, and as a position from which to approach, think about, and engage in the world. Together, we will seek to understand disability in diverse settings and contexts through ethnographic texts, autobiography, documentary film, and essays, drawing primarily from works in anthropology but also more broadly from the interdisciplinary traditions known as (Critical) Disability Studies.
Throughout the semester, we will move between considering disability in more and less specific and categorical terms. We will ask what the stakes are – intellectually, socially, politically - for different ways of doing, thinking, and representing disability. What becomes apparent when we consider, say, the experiences of deaf young adults in India working together to learn Indian Sign Language, or physically disabled adults in the United States whose disabilities must be situated within histories of racialized poverty and urban neglect? What happens – what are the resonances and the tensions – when we put these settings into conversation? Through our engagements with materials analyzing these and many other instances, we will think together about what it means to study and think with disability from different disciplinary perspectives, different methods, and different media.
Course Number
ANTH3091W001Points
4 ptsFall 2024
Times/Location
Tu 14:10-16:00Section/Call Number
001/00099Enrollment
14 of 14Instructor
Elizabeth GreenAs an introduction to the field of medical anthropology, this seminar addresses themes of health, affliction, and healing across sociocultural domains. Concerns include critiques of biomedical, epidemiological and other models of disease and suffering; the entwinement of religion and healing; technocratic interventions in healthcare; and the sociomoral underpinnings of human life, death, and survival. A 1000 level course in Anthropology is recommended as a prerequisite, although not required. Enrollment limited to 30. 4 units
Course Number
ANTH3160V001Points
4 ptsFall 2024
Times/Location
Fr 11:00-12:50Section/Call Number
001/00101Enrollment
12 of 16Instructor
Gina JaeThis undergraduate seminar is offered to students interested in the anthropological analysis of extractive economies and the social and political forms associated with them, as well as the arts through which they have been made the object of both investment and resistance. The course this semester will be focused on mining, and is organized along three axes: 1) mineral object; 2) socioeconomic form; and 3) aesthetics, with the latter including the arts of artisanal extraction, and literary, visual and media artistic practice.
Course Number
ANTH3356W001Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsFall 2024
Times/Location
Th 16:10-18:00Section/Call Number
001/10302Enrollment
8 of 25Instructor
Rosalind MorrisPrerequisites: None Humans don’t just eat to live. The ways we prepare, eat, and share our food is a complex reflection of our histories, environments, and ideologies. Whether we prefer coffee or tea, cornbread or challah, chicken breast or chicken feet, our tastes are expressive of social ties and social boundaries, and are linked to ideas of family and of foreignness. How did eating become such a profoundly cultural experience? This seminar takes an archaeological approach to two broad issues central to eating: First, what drives human food choices both today and in the past? Second, how have social forces shaped practices of food acquisition, preparation, and consumption (and how, in turn, has food shaped society)? We will explore these questions from various evolutionary, physiological, and cultural viewpoints, highlighted by information from the best archaeological and historic case studies. Topics that will be covered include the nature of the first cooking, beer-brewing and feasting, writing of the early recipes, gender roles and ‘domestic’ life, and how a national cuisine takes shape. Through the course of the semester we will explore food practices from Pleistocene Spain to historic Monticello, with particular emphasis on the earliest cuisines of China, Mesoamerica, and the Mediterranean.
Course Number
ANTH3663W001Points
4 ptsFall 2024
Times/Location
We 12:10-14:00Section/Call Number
001/00100Enrollment
15 of 15Instructor
Camilla SturmCourse Number
ANTH3723V001Points
4 ptsFall 2024
Times/Location
Tu 14:40-15:55Th 14:40-15:55Section/Call Number
001/00096Enrollment
21 of 24Instructor
Severin FowlesThis course examines the contemporary history of struggles for recognition, reform and revolution as articulated around the politics of recognition. The course is genealogical in spirit, beginning with a set of texts that have provided the touchstone for contemporary theory and practices of politics and then moving to more recent engagements with the same.
Course Number
ANTH3725W001Format
In-PersonPoints
4 ptsFall 2024
Times/Location
Tu 14:10-16:00Section/Call Number
001/10329Enrollment
17 of 25Instructor
Elizabeth PovinelliCourse Number
ANTH3811V001Format
In-PersonPoints
4 ptsFall 2024
Times/Location
We 10:10-12:00Section/Call Number
001/10693Enrollment
13 of 14Instructor
Vanessa Agard-JonesThis colloqium explores the history of forensic anthropology, and the ways in which it produces the body as evidence. We will consider how truth claims are made based on the evidence of the dead body and follow the ways in which the evidence of the dead is explained and delineated for peers and for different publics by forensic anthropologists. The course will also trace the history and background to forensic anthropology and explore the assumptions around race and ancestry that were folded into its methods and which remain a part of forensic anthropological practice today.
Course Number
ANTH3812W001Format
In-PersonPoints
4 ptsFall 2024
Times/Location
Fr 12:10-14:00Section/Call Number
001/13515Enrollment
11 of 15Instructor
Zoe CrosslandCourse Number
ANTH3823W001Format
In-PersonPoints
4 ptsFall 2024
Times/Location
Tu 16:10-18:00Section/Call Number
001/10515Enrollment
7 of 15Instructor
Terence D'AltroyCourse Number
ANTH3871X001Points
4 ptsFall 2024
Times/Location
Mo 16:10-18:00Section/Call Number
001/00097Enrollment
30 of 35Instructor
Elizabeth GreenGina JaeFern ThompsettCamilla SturmClare CaseyCourse Number
ANTH3888V001Format
In-PersonPoints
4 ptsFall 2024
Times/Location
Mo 14:10-16:00Section/Call Number
001/10728Enrollment
11 of 15Instructor
Marilyn IvyCourse Number
ANTH3921V001Format
In-PersonPoints
4 ptsFall 2024
Times/Location
We 10:10-12:00Section/Call Number
001/10327Enrollment
13 of 15Instructor
David ScottThis course examines specific debates in the history and philosophy of science, and in science and technology studies (STS), with a view towards exploring the relationships among science, technology and society. The first half of the course engages methodological questions and theoretical debates concerning the nature of epistemology, and the significance of social interests, material agency, laboratory and social practices, and “culture(s)” in the making of scientific knowledge. The second half delves more specifically into the ways in which sciences and technologies are both embedded in and shape contemporary social and political practices and imaginaries
Course Number
ANTH3976V001Points
4 ptsFall 2024
Times/Location
Th 12:10-14:00Section/Call Number
001/00102Enrollment
6 of 16Instructor
Gina JaeCourse Number
ANTH3997W001Format
In-PersonPoints
6 ptsFall 2024
Section/Call Number
001/10165Enrollment
0 of 5Instructor
Nadia Abu El-HajCourse Number
ANTH3997W002Format
In-PersonPoints
6 ptsFall 2024
Section/Call Number
002/10166Enrollment
0 of 5Instructor
Lila Abu-LughodCourse Number
ANTH3997W003Format
In-PersonPoints
6 ptsFall 2024
Section/Call Number
003/10167Enrollment
0 of 5Instructor
Maria Jose de AbreuCourse Number
ANTH3997W004Format
In-PersonPoints
6 ptsFall 2024
Section/Call Number
004/10168Enrollment
0 of 5Instructor
Claudio LomnitzCourse Number
ANTH3997W005Format
In-PersonPoints
6 ptsFall 2024
Section/Call Number
005/10169Enrollment
1 of 5Instructor
Rosalind MorrisCourse Number
ANTH3997W006Format
In-PersonPoints
6 ptsFall 2024
Section/Call Number
006/10170Enrollment
0 of 5Instructor
Marilyn IvyCourse Number
ANTH3997W007Format
In-PersonPoints
6 ptsFall 2024
Section/Call Number
007/10171Enrollment
0 of 5Instructor
Brian LarkinCourse Number
ANTH3997W008Format
In-PersonPoints
6 ptsFall 2024
Section/Call Number
008/10172Enrollment
0 of 5Instructor
Catherine FennellCourse Number
ANTH3997W009Format
In-PersonPoints
6 ptsFall 2024
Section/Call Number
009/10173Enrollment
0 of 5Instructor
Elizabeth GreenCourse Number
ANTH3997W010Format
In-PersonPoints
6 ptsFall 2024
Section/Call Number
010/10174Enrollment
0 of 5Instructor
John PembertonCourse Number
ANTH3997W011Format
In-PersonPoints
6 ptsFall 2024
Section/Call Number
011/10175Enrollment
0 of 5Instructor
Elizabeth PovinelliCourse Number
ANTH3997W012Format
In-PersonPoints
6 ptsFall 2024
Section/Call Number
012/10176Enrollment
0 of 5Instructor
David ScottCourse Number
ANTH3997W013Format
In-PersonPoints
6 ptsFall 2024
Section/Call Number
013/10177Enrollment
0 of 5Instructor
Lesley SharpCourse Number
ANTH3997W014Format
In-PersonPoints
6 ptsFall 2024
Section/Call Number
014/10178Enrollment
0 of 5Instructor
Paige WestCourse Number
ANTH3997W015Format
In-PersonPoints
6 ptsFall 2024
Section/Call Number
015/10179Enrollment
0 of 5Instructor
Kaya WilliamsCourse Number
ANTH3997W017Format
In-PersonPoints
6 ptsFall 2024
Section/Call Number
017/10180Enrollment
1 of 5Instructor
Naor Ben-YehoyadaCourse Number
ANTH3997W018Format
In-PersonPoints
6 ptsFall 2024
Section/Call Number
018/10181Enrollment
0 of 5Instructor
Severin FowlesCourse Number
ANTH3997W019Format
In-PersonPoints
6 ptsFall 2024
Section/Call Number
019/10182Enrollment
0 of 5Instructor
Terence D'AltroyCourse Number
ANTH3997W020Format
In-PersonPoints
6 ptsFall 2024
Section/Call Number
020/10183Enrollment
0 of 5Instructor
Vanessa Agard-JonesCourse Number
ANTH3997W021Format
In-PersonPoints
6 ptsFall 2024
Section/Call Number
021/10184Enrollment
0 of 5Instructor
Hannah ChazinCourse Number
ANTH3997W022Format
In-PersonPoints
6 ptsFall 2024
Section/Call Number
022/10185Enrollment
0 of 5Instructor
Audra SimpsonCourse Number
ANTH3997W023Format
In-PersonPoints
6 ptsFall 2024
Section/Call Number
023/10186Enrollment
0 of 5Instructor
Mahmood MamdaniCourse Number
ANTH3997W024Format
In-PersonPoints
6 ptsFall 2024
Section/Call Number
024/10426Enrollment
0 of 5Instructor
Camilla SturmCourse Number
ANTH3997W025Format
In-PersonPoints
6 ptsFall 2024
Section/Call Number
025/10427Enrollment
1 of 5Instructor
Brian BoydCourse Number
ANTH3997W026Format
In-PersonPoints
6 ptsFall 2024
Section/Call Number
026/10428Enrollment
0 of 5Instructor
Zoe CrosslandCourse Number
ANTH3997W027Format
In-PersonPoints
6 ptsFall 2024
Section/Call Number
027/10429Enrollment
0 of 5Instructor
Sheng LongCourse Number
ANTH3997W028Format
In-PersonPoints
6 ptsFall 2024
Section/Call Number
028/10430Enrollment
0 of 5Instructor
LaShaya HowieCourse Number
ANTH3999V001Format
In-PersonPoints
4 ptsFall 2024
Times/Location
Mo 16:10-18:00Section/Call Number
001/10188Enrollment
7 of 15Instructor
Audra SimpsonThis practicum is an exercise in engaged pedagogy. The academic work we do will be conducted for the benefit of the cause of Mexico's now over 110,000 disappeared persons. Students will be engaged in a sustained research effort to development a "context analysis" of disappearances in the state of Zacatecas (Mexico)-- an exercise in social study that focuses on the economic, political, social, and criminological context in which disappearances occur. Research is done in coordination with Mexico's National Commission for the Search of the Disappeared. Alongside the practical, real-world, objective, this Practicum is designed to perfect research skills in the social sciences
PREREQUISITE: Spanish language comprehension is compulsory for 60% of those enrolled
Course Number
ANTH4196W001Format
In-PersonPoints
4 ptsFall 2024
Times/Location
Mo 14:10-16:00Section/Call Number
001/10794Enrollment
16 of 18Instructor
Claudio LomnitzThis 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.
Course Number
ANTH5116G001Format
In-PersonPoints
4 ptsFall 2024
Times/Location
Tu 16:10-18:00Section/Call Number
001/10537Enrollment
17 of 15Instructor
Audra SimpsonCourse Number
ANTH5201G001Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsFall 2024
Times/Location
Th 12:10-14:00Section/Call Number
001/10415Enrollment
16 of 20Instructor
Ellen MarakowitzCourse Number
ANTH5361G001Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsFall 2024
Times/Location
Fr 14:10-16:00Section/Call Number
001/10303Enrollment
16 of 16Instructor
Sally YerkovichThis course begins with two central and related epistemological problems in conducting ethnographic research: first, the notion that objects of scientific research are ‘made’ through adopting a particular relational stance and asking certain kinds of questions. From framing a research problem and choosing a ‘research context’ story to tell, to the kinds of methods one selects to probe such a problem, the ‘how’ and ‘what’ – or means and content – are inextricably intertwined. A second epistemological problem concerns the artifice of reality, and the nebulous distinction between truth and fiction, no less than the question of where or with whom one locates such truth.
With these issues framing the course, we will work through some key themes and debates in anthropology from the perspective of methodology, ranging from subject/object liminality to incommensurability and radical alterity to the politics of representation. Students will design an ethnographic project of their choosing and conduct research throughout the term, applying different methodological approaches popular in anthropology and the social sciences more generally, such as participant observation, semi-structured interview, diary-keeping and note-taking.
Course Number
ANTH6070G001Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsFall 2024
Times/Location
Th 14:10-16:00Section/Call Number
001/10824Enrollment
15 of 16Instructor
Sheng LongCourse Number
ANTH6102G001Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsFall 2024
Times/Location
Tu 16:10-18:00Section/Call Number
001/10328Enrollment
7 of 25Instructor
Elizabeth PovinelliCourse Number
ANTH6157G001Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsFall 2024
Times/Location
Tu 10:10-12:00Section/Call Number
001/10326Enrollment
17 of 17Instructor
David ScottThis seminar examines the history of archaeological thought from its antiquarian beginnings in the 19th century, through archaeology’s professionalization and redefinition as an anthropological science during the mid-20th century, to the emergence of archaeology as a critically self-reflexive discipline during the late-20th century, defined by complicated intellectual ties across the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Our driving questions are epistemological. How have archaeologists understood the project of interpretation? How have they articulated their relationship to data? What has come to count as evidence and what has not? How have archaeologists organized material remains in the present to make claims about the past? What questions have been posed about past cultures, and how were these “cultures” constructed as objects of study in the first place? Is archaeology best understood as a generalizing science, a historically oriented humanity, or both—and how and why has the discipline’s answer to this question evolved over time? How do the situated positions of archaeologists within contemporary society impact the claims they make about the past?
Course Number
ANTH6168G001Format
In-PersonPoints
4 ptsFall 2024
Times/Location
Mo 14:10-16:00Section/Call Number
001/18760Enrollment
6 of 15Instructor
Severin FowlesThis seminar on pre-Atlantic Slavery in Africa and Asia will focus on the history of captivity and bondage in modern and the premodern Africa. Conceptually, what is the difference between a captive and a slave? How has captivity been central to the history of social difference and state formation in premodern Africa? By introducing the student to the history of trade in captives within Africa and across the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean, the student will be encouraged to rethink premodern Africa as central to premodern world history rather than marginal to it.
Course Number
ANTH6171G001Format
In-PersonPoints
4 ptsFall 2024
Times/Location
Tu 14:10-16:00Section/Call Number
001/10878Enrollment
3 of 15Instructor
Mahmood MamdaniThis seminar seeks to engage with materials that question personhood. Drawing on both fictional and non-fictional accounts, we will be involved with textual and visual documents as well institutional contexts in order to revisit such notion under contemporary capitalism. We will cover topics like rites of passage and life cycle, the role of the nation state and local communities in defining a person, the relation between self and non-self, between the living and the dead. We will likewise address vicarious forms of personhood through the prosthetic, the avatar or the anonymous. But we will also look into forms of dissipation of personhood and unreliable agency where subjects become more like a medium through which to think rhythms and ongoing infrastructures of the living. As a whole, the course will bring to light how the question of personhood cross-culturally relates to language, performativity, religion, law, gender, race, class, care, life and death.
Course Number
ANTH6245G002Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsFall 2024
Times/Location
Mo 14:10-16:00Section/Call Number
002/18853Enrollment
14 of 18Instructor
Maria Jose de AbreuThis 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.
Course Number
ANTH6352G001Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsFall 2024
Times/Location
Tu 14:10-16:00Section/Call Number
001/10390Enrollment
14 of 15Instructor
Brian BoydCourse Number
ANTH6601G001Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsFall 2024
Times/Location
Tu 14:10-16:00Section/Call Number
001/10187Enrollment
7 of 8Instructor
Rosalind MorrisThis seminar aims to disclose what an anthropologically informed, ecocritical cultural studies can offer in this moment of intensifying ecological calamity. With global warming and associated crises of pollution, habitat and species extinction, new forms of disease, and the ongoing issue of the nuclear, there is a pervasive anxiety about the fate of the earth and, with it, life itself. How can ecocritical thought grapple with this “great unraveling,” as ecotheorist Joanna Macy has put it? This seminar will engage significant works in anthropology, ecocriticism, philosophy, literature, political thought, and art to help us think about this central question. Readings will include works by Morton, Bonneuil and Fressoz, Bennett, Zizek, Kohn, Descola, Stengers, Haraway, Latour, Macy, and others. Enrollment limit is 15 and the instructor's permission is required.
Course Number
ANTH6649G001Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsFall 2024
Times/Location
Tu 12:10-14:00Section/Call Number
001/10795Enrollment
12 of 15Instructor
Marilyn IvyCourse Number
ANTH6653G001Format
In-PersonPoints
3 ptsFall 2024
Times/Location
Fr 12:10-14:00Section/Call Number
001/10696Enrollment
17 of 14Instructor
Vanessa Agard-JonesCourse Number
ANTH9101G001Format
In-PersonPoints
9 ptsFall 2024
Section/Call Number
001/10304Enrollment
0 of 5Instructor
Nadia Abu El-HajCourse Number
ANTH9101G002Format
In-PersonPoints
9 ptsFall 2024
Section/Call Number
002/10305Enrollment
0 of 5Instructor
Lila Abu-LughodCourse Number
ANTH9101G003Format
In-PersonPoints
9 ptsFall 2024
Section/Call Number
003/10306Enrollment
0 of 5Instructor
Vanessa Agard-JonesCourse Number
ANTH9101G004Format
In-PersonPoints
9 ptsFall 2024
Section/Call Number
004/10307Enrollment
0 of 5Instructor
Naor Ben-YehoyadaCourse Number
ANTH9101G005Format
In-PersonPoints
9 ptsFall 2024
Section/Call Number
005/10308Enrollment
0 of 5Instructor
Maria Jose de AbreuCourse Number
ANTH9101G006Format
In-PersonPoints
9 ptsFall 2024
Section/Call Number
006/10309Enrollment
0 of 5Instructor
Catherine FennellCourse Number
ANTH9101G007Format
In-PersonPoints
9 ptsFall 2024
Section/Call Number
007/10310Enrollment
0 of 5Instructor
Elizabeth GreenCourse Number
ANTH9101G008Format
In-PersonPoints
9 ptsFall 2024
Section/Call Number
008/10311Enrollment
0 of 5Instructor
Marilyn IvyCourse Number
ANTH9101G009Format
In-PersonPoints
9 ptsFall 2024
Section/Call Number
009/10312Enrollment
0 of 5Instructor
Brian LarkinCourse Number
ANTH9101G010Format
In-PersonPoints
9 ptsFall 2024
Section/Call Number
010/10313Enrollment
0 of 5Instructor
Claudio LomnitzCourse Number
ANTH9101G011Format
In-PersonPoints
9 ptsFall 2024
Section/Call Number
011/10314Enrollment
0 of 5Instructor
Sheng LongCourse Number
ANTH9101G012Format
In-PersonPoints
9 ptsFall 2024
Section/Call Number
012/10315Enrollment
0 of 5Instructor
Mahmood MamdaniCourse Number
ANTH9101G013Format
In-PersonPoints
9 ptsFall 2024
Section/Call Number
013/10316Enrollment
2 of 5Instructor
Ellen MarakowitzCourse Number
ANTH9101G014Format
In-PersonPoints
9 ptsFall 2024
Section/Call Number
014/10317Enrollment
1 of 5Instructor
Rosalind MorrisCourse Number
ANTH9101G015Format
In-PersonPoints
9 ptsFall 2024
Section/Call Number
015/10318Enrollment
0 of 5Instructor
John PembertonCourse Number
ANTH9101G016Format
In-PersonPoints
9 ptsFall 2024
Section/Call Number
016/10319Enrollment
0 of 5Instructor
Elizabeth PovinelliCourse Number
ANTH9101G017Format
In-PersonPoints
9 ptsFall 2024
Section/Call Number
017/10414Enrollment
0 of 5Instructor
David ScottCourse Number
ANTH9101G018Format
In-PersonPoints
9 ptsFall 2024
Section/Call Number
018/10416Enrollment
0 of 5Instructor
Paige WestCourse Number
ANTH9101G019Format
In-PersonPoints
9 ptsFall 2024
Section/Call Number
019/10417Enrollment
0 of 5Instructor
Lesley SharpCourse Number
ANTH9101G020Format
In-PersonPoints
9 ptsFall 2024
Section/Call Number
020/10418Enrollment
0 of 5Instructor
Kaya WilliamsCourse Number
ANTH9101G021Format
In-PersonPoints
9 ptsFall 2024
Section/Call Number
021/10419Enrollment
0 of 5Instructor
Audra SimpsonCourse Number
ANTH9101G022Format
In-PersonPoints
9 ptsFall 2024
Section/Call Number
022/10431Enrollment
0 of 5Instructor
LaShaya HowiePrerequisites: the instructors permission. Individual research and tutorial in archaeology for advanced graduate students.
Course Number
ANTH9102G001Format
In-PersonPoints
9 ptsFall 2024
Section/Call Number
001/10420Enrollment
0 of 5Instructor
Brian BoydPrerequisites: the instructors permission. Individual research and tutorial in archaeology for advanced graduate students.
Course Number
ANTH9102G002Format
In-PersonPoints
9 ptsFall 2024
Section/Call Number
002/10421Enrollment
0 of 5Instructor
Zoe CrosslandPrerequisites: the instructors permission. Individual research and tutorial in archaeology for advanced graduate students.
Course Number
ANTH9102G003Format
In-PersonPoints
9 ptsFall 2024
Section/Call Number
003/10422Enrollment
0 of 5Instructor
Terence D'AltroyPrerequisites: the instructors permission. Individual research and tutorial in archaeology for advanced graduate students.
Course Number
ANTH9102G004Format
In-PersonPoints
9 ptsFall 2024
Section/Call Number
004/10423Enrollment
0 of 5Instructor
Severin FowlesPrerequisites: the instructors permission. Individual research and tutorial in archaeology for advanced graduate students.
Course Number
ANTH9102G005Format
In-PersonPoints
9 ptsFall 2024
Section/Call Number
005/10424Enrollment
0 of 5Instructor
Hannah ChazinPrerequisites: the instructors permission. Individual research and tutorial in archaeology for advanced graduate students.
Course Number
ANTH9102G006Format
In-PersonPoints
9 ptsFall 2024
Section/Call Number
006/10425Enrollment
0 of 5Instructor
Camilla SturmCourse Number
ANTH9105G001Format
In-PersonPoints
9 ptsFall 2024
Section/Call Number
001/10432Enrollment
0 of 5Instructor
Naor Ben-YehoyadaCourse Number
ANTH9105G002Format
In-PersonPoints
9 ptsFall 2024
Section/Call Number
002/10433Enrollment
0 of 5Instructor
John PembertonCourse Number
ANTH9105G003Format
In-PersonPoints
9 ptsFall 2024
Section/Call Number
003/10434Enrollment
0 of 5Instructor
Lila Abu-LughodCourse Number
ANTH9105G004Format
In-PersonPoints
9 ptsFall 2024
Section/Call Number
004/10435Enrollment
1 of 5Instructor
Marilyn IvyCourse Number
ANTH9105G005Format
In-PersonPoints
9 ptsFall 2024
Section/Call Number
005/10436Enrollment
0 of 5Instructor
Claudio LomnitzCourse Number
ANTH9105G006Format
In-PersonPoints
9 ptsFall 2024
Section/Call Number
006/10437Enrollment
0 of 5Instructor
Elizabeth PovinelliCourse Number
ANTH9105G007Format
In-PersonPoints
9 ptsFall 2024
Section/Call Number
007/10438Enrollment
0 of 5Instructor
Ellen MarakowitzCourse Number
ANTH9105G008Format
In-PersonPoints
9 ptsFall 2024
Section/Call Number
008/10439Enrollment
0 of 5Instructor
Paige WestCourse Number
ANTH9105G009Format
In-PersonPoints
9 ptsFall 2024
Section/Call Number
009/10440Enrollment
0 of 5Instructor
Lesley SharpCourse Number
ANTH9105G010Format
In-PersonPoints
9 ptsFall 2024
Section/Call Number
010/10441Enrollment
0 of 5Instructor
Kaya WilliamsCourse Number
ANTH9105G011Format
In-PersonPoints
9 ptsFall 2024
Section/Call Number
011/10442Enrollment
0 of 5Instructor
Brian LarkinCourse Number
ANTH9105G012Format
In-PersonPoints
9 ptsFall 2024
Section/Call Number
012/10443Enrollment
0 of 5Instructor
Sheng LongCourse Number
ANTH9105G013Format
In-PersonPoints
9 ptsFall 2024
Section/Call Number
013/10444Enrollment
0 of 5Instructor
David ScottCourse Number
ANTH9105G014Format
In-PersonPoints
9 ptsFall 2024
Section/Call Number
014/10445Enrollment
0 of 5Instructor
Mahmood MamdaniCourse Number
ANTH9105G015Format
In-PersonPoints
9 ptsFall 2024
Section/Call Number
015/10446Enrollment
0 of 5Instructor
Vanessa Agard-JonesCourse Number
ANTH9105G016Format
In-PersonPoints
9 ptsFall 2024
Section/Call Number
016/10447Enrollment
0 of 5Instructor
Maria Jose de AbreuCourse Number
ANTH9105G017Format
In-PersonPoints
9 ptsFall 2024
Section/Call Number
017/10448Enrollment
0 of 5Instructor
Catherine FennellCourse Number
ANTH9105G018Format
In-PersonPoints
9 ptsFall 2024
Section/Call Number
018/10449Enrollment
0 of 5Instructor
LaShaya HowieCourse Number
ANTH9105G019Format
In-PersonPoints
9 ptsFall 2024
Section/Call Number
019/10450Enrollment
0 of 5Instructor
Nadia Abu El-HajCourse Number
ANTH9105G020Format
In-PersonPoints
9 ptsFall 2024
Section/Call Number
020/10451Enrollment
0 of 5Instructor
Elizabeth GreenCourse Number
ANTH9110G001Format
In-PersonPoints
9 ptsFall 2024
Section/Call Number
001/10163Enrollment
0 of 15Instructor
Brian BoydCourse Number
ANTH9111G001Format
In-PersonPoints
9 ptsFall 2024
Section/Call Number
001/10164Enrollment
0 of 15Instructor
Brian BoydAll anthropology graduate students are required to attend. Reports of ongoing research are presented by staff members, students, and special guests.