INTRO TO SOC & CULTURAL THEORY

SOCIAL & CULTURAL THEORY

This 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.

• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: John Pemberton
  CULPA: 15 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

Mafias and Other Dangerous Affiliations

Regimes 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.

• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Naor H Ben-Yehoyada
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

THINK LIKE AN ARCHAEOLOGIST

This course provides a comprehensive introduction to methods and theory in archaeology – by exploring how archaeologists work to create narratives about the past (and the present) on the basis on the material remains of the past. The course begins with a consideration of how archaeologists deal with the remains of the past in the present: What are archaeological sites and how do we ‘discover’ them? How do archaeologists ‘read’ or analyze sites and artifacts? From there, we will turn to the question of how archaeologists interpret these materials traces, in order to create narratives about life in the past. After a review of the historical development of theoretical approaches in archaeological interpretation, the course will consider contemporary approaches to interpreting the past.

• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Hannah Chazin
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• 4 points

THINK LIKE AN ARCHAEOLOGIST - DISC

THINK LIKE AN ARCH - DISC

Discussion section for course ANTH UN2028 THINK LIKE AN ARCHAEOLOGIST

• R 10:10 a.m.-11 a.m.
• R 2:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
• M 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• M 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Amanda Althoff
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• 0 points

INTRO-SOC/CULTURAL THEORY-DISC

• M 2:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
• W 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Asprey J Liu
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• Instructor: Amani Agbaria
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• 0 points

Mafias and Other Dangerous Affiliations

Discussion section for ANTH2017.

• W 12:10 p.m.-1 p.m.
• W 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• W 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• W 5:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• R 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• R 2:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
• Instructor: William G Odum
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• 0 points

ARCHAEOL BEFORE THE BIBLE

Please 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.

• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Brian Boyd
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 3 points

EARTH WORKS: Anthropology, Art, Extracti

This 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.

• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Rosalind Morris
  CULPA: 20 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

Politics of Recognition

This 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.

• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Elizabeth Povinelli
  CULPA: 14 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

TOXIC

It is no secret by now that we live in a toxic sea. Every day, in every place in this world, we are exposed to an unknown number of contaminants, including those in the places that we live, the air that we breathe, the foods that we eat, the water that we drink, the consumer products that we use, and in the social worlds that we navigate. While we are all exposed, the effects of these exposures are distributed in radically unequal patterns, and histories of racialization, coloniality, and gendered inequality are critical determinants of the risks to wellness that these toxic entanglements entail. Scientists use the term body burden to describe the accumulated, enduring amounts of harmful substances present in human bodies. In this course, we explore the global conditions that give rise to local body burdens, plumbing the history of toxicity as a category, the politics of toxic exposures, and the experience of toxic embodiment. Foregrounding uneven exposures and disproportionate effects, we ask how scientists and humanists, poets and political activists, have understood toxicity as a material and social phenomenon. We will turn our collective attention to the analysis of ethnographies, memoirs, maps, film, and photography, and students will also be charged with creating visual and narrative projects for representing body burden of their own.

• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Vanessa L Agard-Jones
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 4 points

Accusing Corpse-forensic trace

This 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.

• F 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Zoe Crossland
  CULPA: 9 h-index: 17 Info
• 4 points

ARCH ENGAGE: PAST IN PUB EYE

This course provides a panoramic, but intensive, inquiry into the ways that archaeology and its methods for understanding the world have been marshaled for debate in issues of public interest. It is designed to examine claims to knowledge of the past through the lenses of alternative epistemologies and a series of case-based problems that range from the academic to the political, legal, cultural, romantic, and fraudulent.

• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Terence N D'Altroy
  CULPA: 37 Info
• 4 points

ECOCRITICISM FOR THE END TIMES

Prerequisites: the instructors permission. This seminar aims to show what an anthropologically informed, ecocritical cultural studies can offer in this moment of intensifying ecological calamity. The course will not only engage significant works in anthropology, ecocriticism, philosophy, literature, politics, and aesthetics to think about the environment, it will also bring these works into engaged reflection on living in the end times (borrowing cultural critic Slavoj Zizeks phrase). The seminar will thus locate critical perspectives on the environment within the contemporary worldwide ecological crisis, emphasizing the ethnographic realities of global warming, debates on nuclear power and energy, and the place of nature. Drawing on the professors long experience in Japan and current research on the aftermath of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster, the seminar will also take care to unpack the notion of end times, with its apocalyptic implications, through close considerations of works that take on the question of ecocatastrophe in our times. North American and European perspectives, as well as international ones (particularly ones drawn from East Asia), will give the course a global reach.

• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Marilyn Ivy
  CULPA: 11 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

ANTICOLONIALISM

The age of colonialism, so it seems, is long over. Decolonization has resulted in the emergence of postcolonial polities and societies that are now, in many instances, two generations old. But is it clear that the problem of colonialism has disappeared? Almost everywhere in the postcolonial world the project of building independent polities, economies and societies have faltered, sometimes run aground. Indeed, one might say that the anti-colonial dream of emancipation has evaporated. Through a careful exploration of the conceptual argument and rhetorical style of five central anti-colonial texts—C.L.R. James’ The Black Jacobins, Mahatma Gandhi’s Hind Swaraj, Aimé Cesairé’s Discourse on Colonialism, Albert Memmi’s Colonizer and Colonized, and Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth—this course aims to inquire into the image of colonialism as a structure of dominant power, and the image of its anticipated aftermaths: What were the perceived ill-effects of colonial power? What did colonialism do to the colonized that required rectification? In what ways did the critique of colonial power (the identification of what was wrong with it) shape the longing for its anti-colonial overcoming?

• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: David Scott
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 72 Info
• 4 points

SUPERVISED INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH

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

• Instructor: Nadia Abu El-Haj
  CULPA: 13 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Lila Abu-Lughod
  CULPA: 17 Wikipedia h-index: 48 Info
• Instructor: Maria Jose de Abreu
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• Instructor: Claudio Lomnitz
  CULPA: 3 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Rosalind Morris
  CULPA: 20 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Marilyn Ivy
  CULPA: 11 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Brian Larkin
  CULPA: 16 Info
• Instructor: Catherine Fennell
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• Instructor: Elizabeth M Green
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: John Pemberton
  CULPA: 15 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Elizabeth Povinelli
  CULPA: 14 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: David Scott
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 72 Info
• Instructor: Lesley Sharp
  CULPA: 22 Info
• Instructor: Paige West
  CULPA: 41 h-index: 23 Info
• Instructor: Kaya N Williams
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• Instructor: Naor H Ben-Yehoyada
  CULPA: 5 Info
• Instructor: Severin Fowles
  CULPA: 24 Info
• Instructor: Terence N D'Altroy
  CULPA: 37 Info
• Instructor: Vanessa L Agard-Jones
  CULPA: 3 Info
• Instructor: Hannah Chazin
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• Instructor: Audra Simpson
  CULPA: 5 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Mahmood Mamdani
  CULPA: 21 Wikipedia h-index: 57 Info
• Instructor: Camilla Sturm
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Brian Boyd
  CULPA: 6 Info
• Instructor: Zoe Crossland
  CULPA: 9 h-index: 17 Info
• Instructor: Sheng Long
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• Instructor: Lashaya Howie
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• 2-6 points

SENIOR THESIS SEM IN ANTHROPOL

HONORS SEMINAR IN ANTHROPOLOGY

Prerequisites: The instructors permission. Students must have declared a major in Anthropology prior to registration. Students must have a 3.6 GPA in the major and a preliminary project concept in order to be considered. Interested students must communicate/meet with thesis instructor in the previous spring about the possibility of taking the course during the upcoming academic year. Additionally, expect to discuss with the instructor at the end of the fall term whether your project has progressed far enough to be completed in the spring term. If it has not, you will exit the seminar after one semester, with a grade based on the work completed during the fall term. This two-term course is a combination of a seminar and a workshop that will help you conduct research, write, and present an original senior thesis in anthropology. Students who write theses are eligible to be considered for departmental honors. The first term of this course introduces a variety of approaches used to produce anthropological knowledge and writing; encourages students to think critically about the approaches they take to researching and writing by studying model texts with an eye to the ethics, constraints, and potentials of anthropological research and writing; and gives students practice in the seminar and workshop formats that are key to collegial exchange and refinement of ideas. During the first term, students complete a few short exercises that will culminate in a substantial draft of one discrete section of their senior project (18-20 pages) plus a detailed outline of the expected work that remains to be done (5 pages). The spring sequence of the anthropology thesis seminar is a writing intensive continuation of the fall semester, in which students will have designed the research questions, prepared a full thesis proposal that will serve as a guide for the completion of the thesis and written a draft of one chapter. Only those students who expect to have completed the fall semester portion of the course are allowed to register for the spring; final enrollment is contingent upon successful completion of first semester requirements. In spring semester, weekly meetings will be devoted to the collaborative refinement of drafts, as well as working through issues of writing (evidence, voice, authority etc.). All enrolled students are required to present their project at a symposium in the late spring, and the final grade is based primarily on successful completion of the thesis/ capstone project. Note: The senior thesis seminar is open t

• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Audra Simpson
  CULPA: 5 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

THE ANCIENT EMPIRES

The principal goal of this course is to examine the nature and histories of a range of early empires in a comparative context. In the process, we will examine influential theories that have been proposed to account for the emergence and trajectories of those empires. Among the theories are the core-periphery, world-systems, territorial-hegemonic, tributary-capitalist, network, and IEMP approaches. Five regions of the world have been chosen, from the many that could provide candidates: Rome (the classic empire), New Kingdom Egypt, Qin China, Aztec Mesoamerica, and Inka South America. These empires have been chosen because they represent a cross-section of polities ranging from relatively simple and early expansionist societies to the grand empires of the Classical World, and the most powerful states of the indigenous Americas. There are no prerequisites for this course, although students who have no background in Anthropology, Archaeology, History, or Classics may find the course material somewhat more challenging than students with some knowledge of the study of early societies. There will be two lectures per week, given by the professor.

• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Terence N D'Altroy
  CULPA: 37 Info
• 3 points

ANCIENT EMPIRES-DISC

• M 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• W 2:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
• W 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• W 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• M 5:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• F 11:10 a.m.-noon
• R 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• M 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• 0 points

Mexico s Disappeared Practicum

This 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

• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Claudio Lomnitz
  CULPA: 3 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

Settler Colonialism

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.

• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Audra Simpson
  CULPA: 5 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

PRIN/APPL OF SOCIETY & CULTURE

Prerequisites: graduate standing. Introductory survey of major concepts and areas of research in social and cultural anthropology. Emphasis is on both the field as it is currently constituted and its relationship to other scholarly and professional disciplines. Required for students in Anthropology Department's master degree program and for students in the graduate programs of other departments and professional schools desiring an introduction in this field.

• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Ellen Marakowitz
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

ETHICAL ISSUES IN MUSEUMS

Ethical questions about museum activities are legion, yet they are usually only discussed when they become headlines in newspapers. At the same time, people working in museums make decisions with ethical and legal issues regularly and seldom give these judgments even little thought. In part, this is due to the fact that many of these decisions are based upon values that become second nature. This course will explore ethical issues that arise in all areas of a museum's operations from governance and management to collections acquisition, conservation, and deaccessioning. We will examine the issues that arise when the ownership of objects in a museum's are questioned; the ethical considerations involved in retention, restitution and repatriation; and what decolonization means for museums.

• F 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Sally Yerkovich
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• 3 points

MAKING ETHNOG:METHOD & WRITING

This 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.

• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Sheng Long
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• 3 points

SEMIOTIC ANTHROPOLOGY II

• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Elizabeth Povinelli
  CULPA: 14 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

IDEA OF A BL RADICAL TRADITION

This course will seek to raise and think through the following questions: What does it mean to talk today about a black radical tradition? What has it meant in the past to speak in these (or cognate) terms? And if we take the debate in part at least to inhabit a normative discursive space, an argumentative space in which to make claims on the moral-political present, what ought it to mean to talk about a black radical tradition?

• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: David Scott
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 72 Info
• 3 points

History of Archaeology Theory

This 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?

• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Severin Fowles
  CULPA: 24 Info
• 4 points

PRE-ATLANTIC SLAVERY AFRICA AND SOUT

This 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.

• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Mahmood Mamdani
  CULPA: 21 Wikipedia h-index: 57 Info
• 4 points

PERSONHOOD

This 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 heteronomous. But we will also look into forms of dissipation and/or enhancement of personhood through bodybuilding, guinea-piging and pharmo-toxicities. As a whole, the course will bring to light how the question of personhood cross-culturally relates to language, performativity, religion, technology, law, gender, race, class, care, life and death.

• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Maria Jose de Abreu
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• 3 points

MUSEUM ANTHROP:HIST & THEORY

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.

• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Brian Boyd
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 3 points

QUESTIONS-ANTHROP THRY I:TEXTS

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.

• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Rosalind Morris
  CULPA: 20 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

DARK ECOLOGIES: ECOCRITICAL THOUGHT NOW

DARK ECOL: ECOCRTICAL THOUGHT

This 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.

• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Marilyn Ivy
  CULPA: 11 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

Porous Bodies

POROUS BODIES

How are bodies in the world? How is the world in bodies? Building from these deceptively simple questions, ours will be an interdisciplinary reading seminar on how bodies (mostly human, but sometimes nonhuman) are made and remade in and through their environments and via their relationships to the material world. Privileging porosity as a rubric, we consider the ever-permeable boundaries between bodies and the other beings (be they viral, chemical, microbial or otherwise) with which they become entangled. Alongside the monographs under study, we will tackle article-length engagements with theories of new feminist/queer materialisms, decolonial and critical science studies. Further, a key aim of this course is to provide students the opportunity to hone some of the most important skills we have in our toolbox as academics, relative to our teaching, our public voice/s as critics, and to our own research.

• F 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Vanessa L Agard-Jones
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

RSCH IN SOCIAL/CULTURAL ANTHRO

Prerequisites: the instructors permission. Individual research and tutorial in social and cultural anthropology for advanced graduate students.

• Instructor: Nadia Abu El-Haj
  CULPA: 13 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Lila Abu-Lughod
  CULPA: 17 Wikipedia h-index: 48 Info
• Instructor: Vanessa L Agard-Jones
  CULPA: 3 Info
• Instructor: Naor H Ben-Yehoyada
  CULPA: 5 Info
• Instructor: Maria Jose de Abreu
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• Instructor: Catherine Fennell
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• Instructor: Elizabeth M Green
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Marilyn Ivy
  CULPA: 11 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Brian Larkin
  CULPA: 16 Info
• Instructor: Claudio Lomnitz
  CULPA: 3 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Sheng Long
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• Instructor: Mahmood Mamdani
  CULPA: 21 Wikipedia h-index: 57 Info
• Instructor: Ellen Marakowitz
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Rosalind Morris
  CULPA: 20 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: John Pemberton
  CULPA: 15 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Elizabeth Povinelli
  CULPA: 14 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: David Scott
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 72 Info
• Instructor: Paige West
  CULPA: 41 h-index: 23 Info
• Instructor: Lesley Sharp
  CULPA: 22 Info
• Instructor: Kaya N Williams
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• Instructor: Audra Simpson
  CULPA: 5 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Lashaya Howie
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• 3-9 points

RESEARCH IN ARCHAEOLOGY

RESEARCH IN PREHISTORIC ANTHR

Prerequisites: the instructors permission. Individual research and tutorial in archaeology for advanced graduate students.

• Instructor: Brian Boyd
  CULPA: 6 Info
• Instructor: Zoe Crossland
  CULPA: 9 h-index: 17 Info
• Instructor: Terence N D'Altroy
  CULPA: 37 Info
• 3-9 points

RESEARCH IN ARCHAEOLOGY

RESEARCH IN PREHISTORIC ARCH

Prerequisites: the instructors permission. Individual research and tutorial in archaeology for advanced graduate students.

• Instructor: Severin Fowles
  CULPA: 24 Info
• 3-9 points