ANTH W4001. The Ancient Empires. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

This course provides a comparative study of five of the world's most prominent ancient empires: Assyria, Egypt, Rome, the Aztecs, and the Inkas. The developmental histories of those polities, and their essential sociopolitical, economic, and ideological features, are examined in light of theories of the nature of early empires and methods of studying them.

ANTH W4006. Archaeology and the Archaic State. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Archaic states invite cross-cultural comparison. The elaborate political, religious, economic, and military infrastructures erected by peoples all over the globe possess many intriguing similarities as well as important differences. While the great wealth of data available from the archaeological, historical, pictorial, and ethnographic records for many of these societies has tended to discourage all but the very bold from addressing the cultural constants and variables in their comparative anatomies, a spate of exciting new research along these lines has recently appeared, and conversations between scholars of different pre-modern states are on the rise. Within the context of this seminar, we will endeavour to enter into this dialogue and to contribute to it. Our discussions will place a particular emphasis on how our understanding of ancient societies-often best known from their own written records or from those of contemporary cultures-may be furthered through the study of their material remains. Bruce Trigger's seminal study Understanding Early Civilizations-in which he compares and contrasts the socio-politicalstructure of Mesopotamian and Mayan city-states, pharaonic Egypt, Shang China, the Yoruba, the Aztec and the Inka kingdoms-will serve as the launch pad for discussions of social stratification, urbanism, bureaucracy, taxation, militarism, organized religion, and numerous other facets of state societies. Each week Trigger's investigations will be supplemented by studies on similar topics by other scholars, and the most provocative points raised within these readings will be pursued in depth during the seminar sessions.

ANTH G4029x. Holy Lands, Unholy Histories: Arch before the bible (Formerly V3007). 3 pts. Undergraduate students must get instructor approval

The Prehistory of the Near East (or the Levant - the geographical area from Lebanon in the north to the Sinai Desert in the south, and from the middle Euphrates in Syria to southern Jordan) has been constructed over the last 80 years by a number of different research traditions. The first professional archaeological research carried out in the region can be traced to the post-First World War British and French Mandates. It was not until the 1960s that indigenous researches began to make a substantial contribution to the prehistory of the region, but the colonial legacy remains influential even today. Extensive fieldwork over the last 30 years or so may have supplied a vast and rich data, base, but the fundamental categories of research have remained virtually unchanged since the establishment of the Levantine prehistoric sequence by archaeological such as Dorothy Garrod in the 1930s. Our critical approach in this course will show how the richness and quality of the data lend themselves to rigorous theoretical analysis.

ANTH G4045y. Temporalities: Archaeological Approaches to Time. 3 pts. Enrollment limit 15.

The concept of the passage of time is a foundational theoretical space which underpins all archaeological work. Over the past thirty years, the discipline of anthropology has absorbed a good deal of continental critique regarding monolithic or objective epistemologies of time, as well as critiques of the presumption of inherent teleological or progressive aspect of time. Yet there has been little emphasis on an explicit methodological survey or training for archaeological scholars seeking to orient themselves within these literatures. This has resulted in a disciplinary engagement with the past that frequently omits to chart a clear course or articulate explicitly the sorts of issues at stake in adopting one or another form of historical narrative. This course is intended as an introductory critical survey of different anthropological and philosophical approaches to temporality and will be valuable for all students-in archaeology, as well as historically inclined scholars in anthropology- who seek a more reflexive engagement with their production of the past.

ANTH G4065. Archaeology of Idols. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Explores 40,000 years of the human creation of, entanglement with, enchantment by, and violence toward idols. Case studies roam from the Paleolithic to Petra and from the Hopi to the Taliban, all the while placing the sculpted, painted, or otherwise constructed devotional objects of the past into dialogue with contemporary social theory on the problem of representation, iconoclash, fetishism and the sacred.

ANTH G4078. Clues, Signs, and Traces: Archaeology and Semiotics. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

As archaeologists living in the present we cannot engage directly with 'the past'; instead we deal with the material traces left by the practices of past people, and use these traces to create narratives, arguments and propositions about what we believe they represent. If we can know past practices at all, it is only through the signs we perceive inhering in the material evidence before us. This class will consider the different ways in which archaeologists have constructed meaning from material remains and explore how we make inferences based on these meanings. We will also consider how archaeology, forensic science and detective fiction draw upon common concepts and ideals of truth, knowledge and the human body that emerged in the 18th century and 19th centuries, and their effects on the construction of archaeological narratives, and on the development of the discipline as a whole.

ANTH W4117. Native North America. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Prehistory of native cultures north of Mexico, from the first peopling of the continent to the period of white settlement.

ANTH G4127. Archaeologies of contemporary conflict. 3 pts. Instructor's Permission required Not offered in 2009-2010.

Archaeological traces of warfare and conflict demand a sophisticated theoretical engagement, whether the context is recent mass graves or ancient battlefields. This class brings the anthropological literature on violence, ritual, and religion together with archaeological evidence of past violence, to think through archaeological involvement in present day conflicts.

ANTH G4129x. Landscape: Interpreting Place. 3 pts. Enrollment limit 15. Instructor's Permission required

Understanding how people inhabit and make sense of the physical world is fundamental to any understanding of human society. This class will explore different archaeological perspectives on the creation and inhabitation of place by reading archaeological accounts together with material from anthropology, architecture, art history, geography and social theory.

ANTH G4158. Survey of South American Archaeology. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Prehistory of the native culture from the first peopling of the continent in the period of white settlement, with emphasis on the higher cultures.

ANTH G4191. Evolution of the State In Prehistory. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Theories dealing with the origin, development, and maintenance of complex societies in prehistory as seen against the background provided by an examination of specific archaeological data.

ANTH G4210. The Ancient Andes: The Inkas and their Ancestors. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

This course explores the nature and history of Andean societies from the first human occupation through the earliest cities, states, and empires, to the advent of European contact. The social, political, ideological, economic, and military processes that were central to the emergence of early civilization are examined through archaeological and historical sources.

ANTH G4220. The Social Production of Technologies. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

The last three decades have seen profound changes in the ways in which anthropologists approach the study of past technologies and techniques of material culture production and use. At the heart of these changes is the acknowledgement that technology is a social production, with many researchers now focusing on the social agency of techniques and technologies. With explicit focus on the engendered human body as the agent of historical change, this interdisciplinary course offers a critical history of social technologies. Case studies from prehistoric periods, the Roman Empire, and medieval and modern Europe will draw upon current research in ethnology, sociology, gender studies, queer theory, human-animal relations, ethnomusicology and the history and philosophy of science.

ANTH W4230. Food and Society. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

The sociocultural and symbolic aspects of foodways. What, when, and with whom people eat; how, and by whom food is acquired; and what messages their activities convey. Emphasis on relations of gender, class, and ethnicity.

ANTH G4343. From the Ground Up: Explanation, Evidence, and Ethics In Archaeology. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. An overview of philosophical issues raised in and by archaeology. Focal topics include: debate about the scientific status of archaeology; interpretive versus explanatory goals; conceptions of evidence and standards of inference; issues of professional accountability, conservation and stewardship. (some background in archaeology and/or philosophy of science is recommended.

ANTH W4346y. Laboratory Techniques. 3 pts. $10.00 mandatory laboratory fee

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

ANTH G4360. Archaeological Field School. 4 Pts. N. Rothschild. 4 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Prerequisite: instructor's permission. Limited to eight students. Relationship between archaeological data and organization of life on the Zuni Reservation; archaeological techniques to evaluate several farming villages located near the pueblo are used; reading for background, some lectures, and a paper on one aspect of the research. Course lasts four weeks, during July.

ANTH G4470. Humans and Other Animals: Critical Perspectives on Human-animal Relations. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

In a number of academic disciplines the concern with relationships between humans and non-humans has recently resulted in a radical revision of the ways in which we think people and animals construct their social worlds. This course addresses how humans and animals enter into, and interact within, each other's worlds. It draws upon perspectives from anthropology, geography, (political) philosophy, ethics, literary theory, and the sciences, placing current debates within the context of the deep history of human-animal relations. Topics to be discussed include "wildness", domestication, classification, animal rights, biotechnology, "nature/culture", food/cooking, fabulous/mythical animals, the portrayal of animals in popular culture, and human-animal sexualities.

ANTH G4711. Historical Archaeology of North America. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Development of historical archaeology from the 1940s to the present; covering method and theory; colonial and post-colonial periods; urban, plantation, industrial, and domestic archaeology; and various regions of North America.

ANTH G6004. Economy and Society in Prehistory. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Comparative study of economic formations in prehistory. Topics include hunting and gathering and farming subsistence; non-market exchange systems; markets and money; specialized production; the social economy of consumption; and domestic and political economies in state society

ANTH G6034. Representations. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Examines the role of writing, viewing and representation in terms of ancient data as well as in the modern discipline of archaeology; various aspects of narrative, iconography and presentation of the past in archaeological discourse.

ANTH G6040. The Anthropology of Material Culture: an Archaeological Perspective. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Recently, material culture studies have become part of anthropological discourse. Explores some of the different ways in which societies use material culture. Examples from prehistoric and historical archaeology as well as socio-cultural anthropology.

ANTH G6056. Revealing Identities: Heritage, Politics and Ethics In Archaeology. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. The development of a politicized archaeology which now recognizes its active role in contemporary culture, and is enunciated through the discourses of nationalism, sociopolitics, postcolonialism, diaspora and globalism. Examples from the Caribbean, Africa, Europe, Latin America, Australia, India and the Middle East.

ANTH G6060. Archaeology of Empires: Graduate Seminar. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Prerequisites: Some background in empieres or archaeology.

Examines the formation, character, and fall of ancient empires through an archaeological lens. Among the topics compared are militarism, urbanism, representations of power and state ideology, provincial life, infrastructure, social and ethnic relations and economic interactions. Draws from both Old World and New World empires.

ANTH G6080. Global History of Archaeology. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Focus on the archaeology and anthropology of societies that have written records, many of which emerge within a framework of the development of capitalism. The availability of documents as well as a material record facilitate interpretations of subjects such as urban life, landscape, enslavement and colonialism.

ANTH G6085. Thing Theory. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

An intensified concern with thingness and materiality has emerged in the past decade as an explicitly interdisciplinary endeavor involving anthropologists, archaeologists, art historians, literary critics, and philosophers among others. The new material culture studies that has resulted inverts the longstanding study of how people make things by asking also how things make people, how objects mediate social relationships--ultimately how inanimate objects can be read as having a form of agency of their own. Readings will be drawn from foundational texts in this recent work by Daniel Miller, Alfred Gell, Bill Brown, Nicholas Thomas, and others that have situated their work at the boundaries between such things as object and subject, gift and commodity, art and artifact, the alienability and inalienability of things, as well as--at a disciplinary level--the distinction between ethnography, archaeology, and art history.

ANTH G6098. Society and Self In Archaeological Perspective. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. The relationship between theories of society and self and their application to the archaeological record from a variety of contexts: prehistoric Europe, Bronze Age Mediterranean, pharaonic Egypt and the Classical world. Theory gleaned from anthropology, sociology and the social sciences.

ANTH G6099. Object Lessons. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. The seminar examines human-object relations in the processes of world making. We revisit the classic works of Marx, Hegel, and Mauss to the classic Pacific ethnographies of exchange, circulation, alienability and fetishism, to the newly constituted material culture studies. We focus upon the broader interpretive connotations around and beyond the object, on the unstable terrain of interrelationships between sociality and materiality and the neglected area of the cultural constitution of objects. Objectification and materiality are examined through the inter-disciplinary lens of ethnography, archaeology, material culture studies and cultural studies.

ANTH G6101y. Archaeology and Social Theory. 3 pts.

Designed to trace the major theoretical developments in archaeology over the past few decades from a global perspective. The relevance of the numerous strands of social theory that are commonly applied to archaeological materials. Influences from anthropological theory, feminist theory, philosophy, globalism, postmodernism, and poststructuralism.

ANTH G6103. Method and Theory in Archaeology. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

This course is a seminar on research design in anthropological archaeology. It examines the links among theory, method, and data analysis in project design and interpretation.

ANTH G6205y. Research Design in Anthropology (replaces old title. 3 pts.

ANTH G6300. Animal Alterity. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

ANTH G6302. The Archaeology of Art. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Aims to provide students with an overview of the major forms of archaeological art and their geographic and chronological distribution. This course examines how archaeologists get information from art and provides students with an overview of the major forms of archaeological art and their geographic and chronological distribution. It aims to give students an understanding of the ability of art studies to document changes in human behaviour, technology, economy and ideology, and to help students become familiar with the major techniques used in the archaeological study of art. The social, ethical and political dimensions of practising archaeology are integral to this topic, as is an understanding of the close disciplinary links between the anthropological and archaeological study of art. Case studies range from the 'meaning' of the Venus figurines of the Upper Palaelithic to the rock art of South Africa and the debates re-painting debates in Australia. Topic delivery is structured around active learning practices and includes a range of instructional strategies and tools in order to facilitate different styles of learning. The seminars are structured to develop student awareness of the limited and provisional nature of current knowledge in archaeology and to promote the development of communication, problem-solving and group-work skills. As well as gaining an overview of the major debates in the archaeological study of art, students will gain a better understanding of the ways in which archaeological data is used to support various theories.

ANTH G6350. The Archaeology of Colonial Encounters. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Examination of a series of 16th- to 19th-century colonial encounters in North America, the Pacific, and Africa, based on archaeological data, ethnohistoric and oral accounts. The variability among these encounters, and how contact situations change from inception to late stages.

ANTH G6352x. Museum Anthropology: History and Theory. 3 pts.

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.

ANTH G6353y. Exhibiting Culture: Politics and Practices of Museum Exhibitions. 3 pts.

Examines anthropological, art, and history exhibits to explore how they visualize culture and identity. Relationships between museums, audiences, and the artists, cultures, and concepts exhibited will be explored.

ANTH G8344. Seminar On South American Archaeology. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Critical examination of current problems and research in South American prehistory. Problem areas vary from year to year. (A reading knowledge of Spanish is recommended.)

ANTH G9102x and y. Research In Archaeology. 3-9 pts.

Prerequisite: instructor's permission. Individual research and tutorial in archaeology for advanced graduate students.

ANTH G9110x. Museum Anthropology Internship I. 3-9 pts.

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.

ANTH G9111y. Museum Anthropology Internship II. 3 pts.

ANTH G9112x and y. Research In Archaeological Method and Theory. 3-9 pts.

Prerequisite: instructor's permission. Individual research and tutorial in archaeological method and theory for advanced graduate students.

ANTH G9113x and y. Research In Quantitative Methods. 3-9 pts.

Prerequisite: instructor's permission. Individual research and tutorial in quantitative methods for advanced graduate students.

ANTH G9114x and y. Research In Data Processing. 3-9 pts.

Prerequisite: instructor's permission. Individual research and tutorial in data processing for advanced graduate students.

ANTH G4007. The Culture of Oedipus. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

ANTH G4008. Governing Socialist and Post-Socialist Transformation. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Examines post-Soviet transformation of the distinctive socialist project of social modernity. Beginning from a conceptual basis in the work of Michael Foucault, Alexander Gerschenkron, and Karl Polanyi, examines "transition" anthropologically, both as a secular process of transformation and as an apparatus involved in "transitioning." Investigates the process of transition as one example of what Ulrich Beck has called "reflexive modernization" involving the rationalization and reform of distinctive modern ways of life.

ANTH G4010. Philosophical Anthropology and Philosophy In Anthropology. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Iintroduces western philosophers whose writings and ideas have, explicitly or implicitly, had a significant effect on methodology and theory of human sciences. Sextus Empericus, Rene Descartes, David Hume, John Lock, Immanuel Kant, Charles Peirce, G.W.F. Hegel, Friedrich Nietzsche and Martin Heidegger. Philosophical works read in tandem with anthropological writings.

ANTH G4012. Philanthropic Anthropology. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. From its beginnings as a discipline, in the late 19th century, the field of anthropology and its practitioners, anthropologists, have played an interesting, often controversial role in colonial projects, racial debates, cultural and economic development, and military campaigns. Explores the connections between funding for research and the topics and the theoretical frames which emerged. Focuses on anthropology as it developed in the US and Britain. The term philanthropy broadly construed, to include both private foundations as well as governmental funding agencies.

ANTH W4019. Southeast Asia: War, Remembrance, Forgetting. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Vietnamese Conflict (1961-75), and its aftermath. Encompasses anti-colonial wars of Indochina, and the historical and cultural formations within which war as a privileged mode of opposition-against imperialism, colonialism, and communism was both staged and opposed in the region and in the U.S. Addresses the anthropological and theoretical questions posed by war and its survival: trauma and forgetfulness in national(ist) historiography; the relationship between violence, war, and the idea of law; spectrality and revolution; the histories of radicalism after communism; and the work of fiction in both culture and its analysis. Readings from history, anthropology, psychoanalysis, literature and literacy criticism, film and cinema studies

ANTH W4022y. Political Ecology. 3 pts.

Analyzes global, national, and local environment issues from the critical perspectives of political ecology. Explores themes like the production of nature, environmental violence, environmental justice, political decentralization, territoriality, the state, and the conservation interventions. Instructor's permission

ANTH W4024. Anthropology of Europe. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. What constitutes an anthropology of Europe? Explores the anthropological imagination of Europe as a cultural category through detailed studies of selected ethnographies and the history of anthropological research in Europe, from post-war concerns with modernization and vanishing peasants, to current debates over European identity and unity.

ANTH W4042. Language and Culture: Agent, Person, Subject, Self. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Treats the interrelated notions of agent, person, subject, and self from a semiotic and social perspective.

ANTH G4050. Popular Religion in East Asia. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

This course examines popular religious practices and beliefs in China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam. By focusing on the "popular" rather than on textual traditions such as Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism this course examines how an often common vocabulary of ritual, cosmology, ancestors, and gods is translated into different understandings and enactments in different social and historical milieus. The course considers the historical role of religion and ritual in East Asian states, the consequences of this legacy under different modernizing regimes, and includes topical coverage of contemporary practices.

ANTH G4055. Buddhism and the visionary experience: a comparative study. 3 pts. Cross list with Religion Not offered in 2009-2010.

This seminar in effect deals with issues I have been dreaming about for some time and hopefully I will derive inspiration from student presentations so that I will have a first draft of a book by the end of the semester. Following my ethnographic prejudice we will focus on specific case studies of visionaries wherever possible and elicit theoretical discussions from these studies. The main thrust of the seminar is to deal with forms of thought that by-pass the Cartesian primacy of consciousness as exemplified by his dictum, "I think, I am."

ANTH G4085. Athens Imagined: The Space of Politics and the Politics of Space. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

ANTH G4100. An Introduction To the Ethnography of South Asia. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Examines of some of the challenges involved in writing about this diverse and complex region by juxtaposing ethnographies and monographs with novels and autobiographies.

ANTH G4113. Religion, Media, Anthropology. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Classic social theory views religion as animating concepts of space, time, personhood and social collectivity yet these are precisely the same phenomena media theorists see as structured by communication technologies. In this epistemic history of media, second order realities such as religion emerge out of the techne of media. Media are not "used" by religious movements, they are the conditions of existence that make the expression of religion possible. Religions depend upon processes of mediation outside of which no religion would be able to manifest itself and make revelations communicable to its adherents. Even the divine must be encoded in material forms (breath, sounds, image) to make itself manifest to humans yet as it does so it becomes vulnerable to the technical structures of those forms. As Friedrich Kittler states it, "once the soul speaks it is no longer the soul that speaks".

ANTH G4114. Religion and Media. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

ANTH G4115. The Anthropology of the Indian Sub-continent. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

ANTH G4118y. Settler Colonialism in North America. 3 pts.

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.

ANTH G4143y. Cultures of Acussation. 3 pts.

This course examines the politics and practices of collective accusation in comparative perspective. It treats these phenomena in their relation to processes of political and economic transition, to discourses of crisis, and to the practices of rule by which the idea of exception is made the grounds for extreme claims on and for the social body?usually, but not exclusively, enacted through forms of expulsion. We will consider the various theoretical perspectives through which forms of collective accusation have been addressed, focusing on psychoanalytic, structural functional, and poststructuralist readings. In doing so, we will also investigate the difference and possible continuities between the forms and logics of accusation that operate in totalitarian as well as liberal regimes. Course readings will include both literary and critical texts.

ANTH G4151. Late Imperial China. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. May be taken separately or in conjunction with Anthropology G4165. Traditional Chinese society during the most recent Imperial period. Major emphasis on kinship, religion, local organization, stratification, and the relationship between local and national patterns of social organization

ANTH G4155. Doing 'tradition' and 'modernity' In Korea. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Introduction to Korean social structure: family, household, lineage, village, regional linkages, passage rites, and folk religion. The modern transformation of family, marriage, community life, and receptions of the past Yangban and folk ideals.

ANTH G4156x. The Korean Shaman Lens: Anthropology, Medicine, Popular Religion & Performance. 3 pts. Enrollment limited to 18. Undergraduates must get instrctor's permission

Using Korea shamans as a central case study, this course explores the multiple ways anthropologists and others have researched, written about, and filmed "Shamans" from late 19th century ethnologists and missionaries to late 20th century western "neo-shamans." Students will be introduced to a variety of scholarly approaches to the study of popular religion world-wide. We will examine why the term "shaman" is used as a comparative category and how "shamans" function as healers and performers of popular culture. We will consider histories of persecution and also instances where shamans have come to be regarded as cultural icons.

ANTH G4173. The Dead, Terminable and Interminable. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

From the Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead, to Heidegger's "authentic moment" and Derrida's aporia through Freud's "death instinct" and Lincoln's "ideology of death," death has been credited as the force of culture, resistance to civilization, organizational practice, structure of subjectivity, the ultimate signifier. We will examine some paradigmatic moments in the development of an ideology of death, particularly, but not exclusively, in what has come to be known as "the West" by reading few, fundamental texts: Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer, Jacques Derrida's The Gift of Death, Bruce Lincoln's Death, War, and Sacrifice, Nicole Loraux's Divided City, Gillian Rose's Love's Work, and Mourning Becomes the Law, and excerpts from Freud, Foucault, and the Frankfurt School.

ANTH S4185. The Anthropology of Eastern Europe: Culture and Politics. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

ANTH G4194. Oil Culture. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

ANTH G4201x. Principles and Applications of Social and Cultural Anthropology. 3 pts.

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. Prerequisite: 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.

ANTH W4204. The Anthropology of Science. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Explores theoretical issues surrounding various topics in the ethnographic study of science and technology; considers the historical and contemporary role of knowledge and technology in the West and looks at the history of French socio-epistemology along with current approaches and case studies.

ANTH S4209. Caribbean Societies and Culture. 3 pts. Summer Course spring 2007 Provides students with a general overview and understanding of the historical, political, economic, and social forces that underlie the creation and maintenance of present-day Caribbean societies and culture.

ANTH W4222. Music Technologies and Culture. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

This course explores the relationship of technologies to the boundaries, discourses, and practices of diverse musical cultures, examining their role in: the mediation of notions of agency, authenticity, musicianship, and identity; and the rearticulation of socio-cultural relations and hierarchies. These are addressed through readings and discussions on various topics (e.g., "democratization", globalization, hybridization, and appropriation) from a comparative ethnographic perspective.

ANTH W4225. Black Movements In The U.S.. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Black movements in the U.S. examines historical and contemporary struggles of freedom, justice and equality. Lectures and readings explore how black communities struggled for power, dealt with internal tensions, and profoundly shaped American politics and culture. Topics include labor, civil rights, radical feminism, socialism, reparations, black nationalism and hip hop culture.

ANTH G4244y. Arab Society and Culture. 3 pts.

ANTH G4250. Carnal Subjectivities. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Examines how constructions on the body are informed by historical and metaphysical structures, bear on the understandings of modernity, and create a dialectical space upon which the experience of the body can be read.

ANTH S4252. North American Indians: Religion, Myth, and Culture. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Comparative survey of religious beliefs and practices of North American Indians; the interrelationships between religion and other aspects of culture. Topics include: analysis of ritual (purposes, behaviors, meanings), rites of passage, healing rituals, and individuals and community ceremonies; mythology and folklore; ideology and symbolism; impact of change and the development of revivalistic religious movements (e.g., Handsome Lake, Ghost Dance, Peyote).

ANTH W4277. Topics in Anthropology of the Middle East. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor.

In this class, we will read historical and ethnographic studies in order to examine questions of the state and the boundaries of group membership in polity, (national-)culture and society in the modern Middle East. The first part of the class considers ethnographies of the state, discussing issues of authority, violence, complicity, culture, and modernity as they have been analyzed in relation to the formation or structures of colonial and national states. In the second part, we will examine the relationship between citizenship and (full) membership in the nation-state, first through a consideration of the character of the Israeli state-its parameters of citizenship and membership, and its territorial limits and second, through discussions of religious political and piety movements and their relationship to the contemporary nation-state. Limited to seniors (with permission) and graduate students.

ANTH W4282y. Islamic Law. 3 pts.

An introductory survey of the history and contents of the Shari'a combined with a critical review of Orientalist and contemporary scholarship on Islamic law. In addition to models for the ritual life, we will examine a number of social, economic and political constructs contained in Shari`a doctrine, including the concept of an Islamic state, and we also will consider the structure of litigation in courts. Seminar paper.

ANTH G4284y. Islam and Theory.

ANTH W4289y. Women in Post-Socialist Transformations: Ukraine, Russia and Poland in Focus. 3 pts.

This course will introduce students to the post-socialist transformations in Eastern Europe from the gender perspective. Focusing on Ukraine, Russia and Poland, and it examines the complex impact of radical political, social, economic and cultural changes onto women's lives.

ANTH G4290. Masculinities. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. This course examines how masculinities are constructed, performed and inhabitied. Key foci include theorization of the masculine subject in both psychodynamic and political terms within colonial and modernizing discursive contexts; the role of scholarship and the media in constituting hegemonic, subaltern, ethnic and stigmatized masculinities; and the issue of genered citizenship.

ANTH G4300. Ethnographic Film. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. How the traditions and cultural practices of non-Western socieites have been variously documented using the visual medium of film. Overview of the background and objectivity versus the ethnographic film projects, the debates concerning the objectivity versus the aesthetics of ethnographic film material, and the current uses of film/video by people from non-Western societies to record their own cultures.

ANTH W4315. The Law of Violence. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

The Law of Violence is an intensive introduction to the key theoretical texts that can inform a nuanced understanding of the controversial yet crucial nexus between law and violence. What is the relationship between law and violence? Are they mutually exclusive forms of human action? Is it a paradox that law employs violence in claiming to prevent the latter? Is it a contradiction that violence is often the means to establish the law? We will consider these questions in the historical contexts of the nation-state and the global legal order. The case of refugees, often caught "outside" or "in between" the law, will also be considered. Authors to be studied include Arendt, Agamben, Negri, Benjamin, Derrida, Foucault, Anghie and Schmitt.

ANTH G4325y. The Linguistic Anthropology of Artificial Languages. 3 pts.

his course is about artificial languages through the frame of linguistics and anthropology, with a focus on the digital and computational mediation of meaning. In some sense, it is about human-based significance in relation to machine-based sieving. Our focus will be on the poetics and pragmatics of programming languages (e.g. Assembly, LISP, C), mathematical notations (e.g. Gödel numbers, Boolean algebra), conversion codes (e.g. ASCII, Unicode, Huffman), algorithmic processes (e.g. regular expressions, context-free grammars, Turing machines), and design solutions (e.g. machine learning, evolutionary algorithms). There are three parts: 1) information and meaning (or code and channel); 2) computation and interpretation (or sieving and significance); 3) life-forms and forms-of-life (or nature and artifice).

ANTH W4340y. Cinemas of the Maghreb (Morocco, Alegira, Tunisia). 3 pts.

ANTH W4358. Ireland. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

ANTH G4372y. The Public and Publics. 3 pts. Enrollment limit 15

This course investigates the related concepts of "the public" and "publics" as discursive, semiotic and political formations. We will situate the problem of "the public" within contemporary understandings of democracy and democratic practice, as well as in anthropological and ethnographic relief. Particular attention will be paid to the to the forms of rationality, sociality and materiality undergirding these related concepts.

ANTH G4380x. Dangerous Citizens. 3 pts. Enrollment limit 10. Instructor's Permission required

Anthropology has been concerned from its inception with the question of social cohesion and the role that "culture" plays in this formation. Theories of social cohesion and repair abound in anthropological theory, from Durkheim onwards. What happens, though, in cases where cohesion is contested and repair appears impossible? What are the processes by which the various formulations of the social, within the context of its Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment materializations as the capitalist state, engages in the systematic and systemic redrawing of the contours of the social and excepts increasingly large segments of its population as dangerous and undesirable. In this course we will concern ourselves with theories of social cohesion and cases of states of exception. Readings: Emile Durkheim, Hanna Arendt, Cornelius Castoriadis, Michel Foucault, James Boon, Deborah Poole, Gil Anidjar, Begona Aretxaga.

ANTH S4400. Multiculturalism and Anthropology. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. The multiculturalism debate through the lens of national cultural policies toward contemporary issues of power including ethnicity and national identity, the feminist agenda, including reproductive strategies, and language and political representation. Anthropological writings as well as literary and popular media sources. Intersection of cultural politics and multicultural frames in a range of national contexts.

ANTH S4420. Culture, Tourism and Development. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Potential of tourism as an equitable and sustainable development strategy. How tourism influences gender relations; class formations; allocation of resources; cultural construction/cultural authenticity; indigenous peoples and their relation to state processes; and state-based discourse in the arena of global politics.

ANTH W4440. Conflict Talk and the Legal Process. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Examines conflict talk and conflict-solving mechanisms in various communicative environments. Through a review of the most significant studies in legal anthropology and conflict talk, explores issues such as the public nature of conflict talk, its referentiality, the structural practices involved in this process, and the roles played by power and by communicative performances to reach a judgement and carry out a sentence.

ANTH W4444. Cultures of Terror: Anthropological Perspective On Political Violence. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

ANTH S4448. Languag, Culture and Gender. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. How cultural patterns of gender distinction are reflected in linguistic form and usage, and expressed in conversational styles and discourse systems.

ANTH W4450. Of Mimicry and Membership: Eastern Europe of Postcolonialism. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. This course addresses social and cultural processes currently taking place in the formerly socialist Eastern Europe focusing on how postsocialist lives are defined, experienced and understood by those living them. Among the topics discussed are emerging forms of nationalism, gender relations, language use, production and consumption, identification with place, and emigration and diaspora.

ANTH W4480x. Critical Native and Indigenous Studies. 3 pts.

This course is an interdisciplinary survey of the literature and issues that comprise Native American and Indigenous Studies. Readings for this course are organized around the concepts of indigeneity, coloniality, power and "resistance" and concomitantly interrogate these concepts for social and cultural analysis. The syllabus is derived from some of the "classic" and canonical works in Native American Studies such as Custer Died for Your Sins but will also require an engagement with less canonical works such as Red Man's Appeal to Justice in addition to historical, ethnographic and theoretical contributions from scholars that work outside of Native American and Indigenous Studies. This course is open to graduate students and advanced undergraduates.

ANTH G4520. Race and the Articulation of Difference. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Interrelation of race, gender and nation in the formation of hierarchical social systems and their legitimating ideologies. Situates the process of racialization within the wider problematic of political subjectivity and direct attention to the symbolic and structural organization of modern, hierarchical social systems.

ANTH G4526. Gift and Fetish. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Ethnographic and philosophic comparison of gift and fetish using Mauss, Marx, Derrida, Benjamin, and Bataille.

ANTH G4552. Magic of the State. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Inquiry into the assumption that (modern) stately power owes much to an aura composed at the intersection of reason and violence. Assumes that authority has mystical foundations. The famous arbitrariness of power (Kafka). How to write/represent such arbitrariness. Genet, Weber, Ben Anderson, Bataille, Foucault, Kafka, Miguel Angel Asturias, Nietzsche, Jean Franco.

ANTH G4620. Women, Power and the State In East Asian Society. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. The varied and changing circumstances of women's lives in China, Korea, Japan, and Taiwan in light of common traditionalist discourses concerning women as well as the varied social, economic, political, and symbolic structures that inform women's lives in East Asia today. Topics include Asian women perceived, women and modernity, family and state, marriage, work, sexuality, and resistance.

ANTH W4625. Anthropology and Film. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Use of film by anthropologists as a means of documentation of culturally patterned behavior and as a research tool. Analysis of films as cultural texts.

ANTH G4631y. Brazilian Feminism, National Politics and International propositions. 3 pts.

This course is a contribution for an anthropological study of the historical, social and cultural context of the development of feminism in Brazil since the seventies. At the same time, it is a contribution for a comparative study of feminist movements as women's movements centered on "women's issues" and "gender issues". The focus is on a Brazilian feminist movement that can be considered, depending on the perspective, as a feminism movement in a "Third World" society, a "south" society, a society in development or, as a Western feminist women's movement. We will problematize and challenge this terminology beyond the north/south' gap on economic development and social inequality thus reinforcing the idea of the possible proximity of these movements as effects arising from the same "new political values" given by the social movements to national cultural, color and ethnic diversity, and as effects derived from the historical constitution of some consensus on the agenda of the international feminist movement in order to fight the "new" conservative (fundamentalist) forces against feminism internationally articulated. From another angle, we will pay attention to all differences on traditional cultures that permit us to see the peculiar and different ways of national feminisms and their forms of struggle and organization strategies. The hegemonic institutionalized traditional culture in Brazil and Hispanic Latin America is the result of Iberian institutional cultures, with effects on judicial and legal institutions.

ANTH W4636. Animals, Transformation, Secrecy. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

ANTH W4638. Anthropology of Media. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

ANTH G4643. Politics, Culture and Identity in Contemporary Taiwan. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

It is virtually impossible to approach Taiwanese society without encountering on this path actions, discourses and representations closely connected to identity issues, whether they be of a national, local, ethnic or cultural order. This course will examine through different aspects of Taiwan's social life, ranging from electoral culture, social networking, cultural policies, ritual and place, history and memories, nature and imagined territories, the fluid expressions and complex stakes of identity.

ANHS W4650. Political Identity, Civil Wars, and State Reform In Africa. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Investigation of civil war situations in post-independence Africa as background against which to understand changing definitions of political identities forged during the colonial period. Focus on the subject of rights, and not just the content; in other words, whose rights? And not just, which rights?

ANTH G4701. Exiles-Enclosures-Dystopias. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Used as punishment since antiquity for the political and social dissidents, exile, penal colonies, concentration camps, and prisons have been produced as conceptual and concrete spaces where constructions of the body politic have been contested. How does the experience of the spatialized body produce social and political subjectivities, especially with the employment of discourses of inclusion and exclusion, of grafting and excising onto and from the body politic? In this seminar we will explore these questions especially as they pertain to the instrumentalities that seek to erect rhetorics and narratives of utopias within the enclosures of specific dystopic spaces. Graduate seminar. Limit: 10 students

ANTH G4995. Contemporary Japan: Aesthetics, Politics, Technology. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Designed for graduate students who want to deepen their knowledge of contemporary Japan. Topics may include mass culture and everyday life; the resurgence of neonationalism; World War II in fantasy and memory; education and children; new aesthetic forms in architecture, photography, music and the graphic arts; religion and spirituality; crime and terrorism. Centers on close readings of texts and provides ample time for students to pursue specialized projects developed in consultation with the professor.

ANTH G6000. History of Anthropological Thought and Practice. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Examines a selection of key texts in the history of anthropology and the conditions in which they (1) once had but no longer do have much significance in the discipline and (2) once were and still are significant for this field of study.

ANTH G6001-G6002. The Production of the Past I - II. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Guest lecturers and pre- and post-doctoral fellows. Seminar investigates different genres and histories of history, to take history as the primary text of modern life, and the foundational basis for state and nation, society and community. From old regime at the time of the French Revolution to the former Soviet Empire, from the postcolonial nations of Africa and India to Japan, from national histories to histories of resistance, from questions concerning the transformation of history in an age of globalization to the enduring, and always troubled, relationship between history and atrocity.

ANTH G6003. Nietzsche and the Shaman's Body. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Beginning with an exploration of the shaman's body in ethnographyand its relation to seeing, to knowing, and to changing the world,this course aims to study Nietzsche with a view to understandingunderstanding and its relation to the body--of the person and ofthe world.

ANTH G6003. Nietzsche and the Shaman's Body. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Beginning with an exploration of the shaman's body in ethnography and its relation to seeing, to knowing, and to changing the world, this course aims to study Nietzsche with a view to understanding understanding and its relation to the body--of the person and of the world.

ANTH G6005. The Anthropology of the Subject. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. The construction of persons as subjects in and agents of culture and history. Theories of culture personhood (subjection, agency, individuality, etc.), persons as cultural critics, and the relationship between personhood and cultural transformation.

ANTH G6007. Colonial Encounters and the Powers of Writing. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Relationship between writing and power under colonial and postcolonial conditions. The politics of translation, religious interpretation, prophecy and historiography, ethnographic voice, nationalism and narration, and shifts in conventions of representation and literary production.

ANTH G6012. The Anthropology of Violence. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

ANTH G6013. Philosophical Reflections of Anthropology. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

ANTH G6013. Biography and Autobiography: A Portrait of South African Intellectuals. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Portraits are created to represent the likeness of a chosen subject. The writing of biographies and autobiographies has long been the preferred method through which South African intellectuals have written about their or others' political, intellectual, personal or notorious lives. This course is an examination of how the practice of biographical and autobiographical writing emerged and solidified in South African literature in part to compensate for the paucity of biographical writing but also as a substitute for a nuanced or critical engagement with the chequered and complex history of the country's intellectual and cultural inheritance. In particular, the course will consider the mediatory role of the biographer who, in the case of South Africa, often constructed a biographical subject through an ethnographic method of interviewing, translating and then representing the subject.

ANTH G6014. Preemptive Apocalyptic Thought. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Like inoculation, this graduate seminar is meant to use apocalytpic fiction, film, and history, so as to ward off and better understand the temptation to indulge in apocalyptic fantasies at this scary time of global crisis. What truth is there in Fredric Jameson's statement that it is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism?

ANTH G6015. Anthropologies and Photographies. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Attempts to negotiate a path between ontological and historical theories of photography in order to understand the documentary impulse in anthropology and its relationship to the magicality of photography. A wide variety of historical texts, supplemented by visual documents.

ANTH G6016x. Ideologies/Mytholodies. 3 pts.

ANTH G6017. Specular Economies: Anthropology of Late Capitalism. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

The politics of representation in ethnographically particular contexts in order to understand how contemporary economic forms are informed by more general logics of visibility. Materials from Southeast Asia on the ways the forms of occulted economies change over time and how the values of transparency have come to dominate the discourses of political value.

ANTH G6019. Recording Angels. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Traces connections between machineries of the modern and fields or cultural production. Crisscrossing late-19th/early-20th century technologies (in colonial sugar refineries, electricity, railways, silent cinema, radio, the gramophone) and cultural concerns (sacrifice, theater, exorcism, narration, music, religion), pursues shadows of an emergent modern subject.

ANTH G6020. Social Poetics of Circulation. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

ANTH G6023. Power and Hegemony. 3 pts. N.B. Dirks co-teacher. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Gramsci's Prison Notebooks and selected texts by Foucault including Discipline and Punish; The History of Sexuality; The Archaeology of Knowledge; and the later articles and lectures on governmentality. Representative readings of both Gramacian and Foucauldian analysis of power in societies. The productive oppositions and convergences in their approaches to the question of power.

ANTH G6025. The Ethnographic Field: Sexuality and Text. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. This course will examine the dialogue between articulations of gender and sexuality and anthropological knowledge as manufactured through fieldwork and the texts that emerge from that anthropological journey. Explores the nature of the postmodern 'other' in anthropological texts, and traces the role of gender and sexuality in that production.

ANTH G6027. Imagining Otherness In Operatic Dramas. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Enrollment limited to 15 students. Through the analytical works of Said, Levin, Heidegger and McClary, looks at some of the ways that opera, in expansionary post-1850s Western Europe, becomes a site imagining others as a signifier of a surrogate self (sexual and cultural). Explore the kinds of looking and the configurations of collectivity and personhood that three operas--Turandot, Aida, Carmen--help elaborate, the fora in which they are presented, and whether back talk is possible within them.

ANTH G6030. Transnational Perspectives On Race and Ethnicity. Not offered in 2009-2010. The political, social and cultural consequences of thinking about the concepts of race and ethnicity outside the U.S. and the borders that these ideas continually traverse. Asks historical questions about how the meaning of race, the construction of ethnicity and the constitution of nationality have changed over time and have varied through categories such a "diaspora," "exile," "cosmopolitanism," and "migration." Resituates a number of works outside their own geographical boundaries, imagines a difference scenario of displacement, and reexamines single disciplinary knowledges of anthropology, history and literary criticism.

ANTH G6030. Philosophical Reflections of Anthropology. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

ANTH G6032. Gender, Sexuality, and Embodiment. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Examines ancient data in terms of evidence for culturally specific notions of genders, constructed categories of sexuality as well as the experience of embodiment. Sexuality is analyzed in a similar way, drawing on evidence from ancient Egypt to the Americas, viewed other ways of being in specific ancient contexts.

ANTH G6036x. Ethnography of the Nation State. 3 pts.

Enrollment limited to 15 and Instructor's permission. Through a close analysis of anthropological works, this seminar examines possible ways of doing ethnography in and of "the nation." Readings include ethnographies of ethnicity and race; cultural production, including media and museums; and nationalist narratives and memory.

ANTH G6037. Biography & Autobiography: A Portrait of South African Intellectuals. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Portraits are created to represent the likeness of a chosen subject. The writing of biographies and autobiographies has long been the preferred method through which South African intellectuals have written about their or others' political, intellectual, personal or notorious lives. This course is an examination of how the practice of biographical and autobiographical writing emerged and solidified in South African literature in part to compensate for the paucity of biographical writing but also as a substitute for a nuanced or critical engagement with the chequered and complex history of the country's intellectual and cultural inheritance. In particular, the course will consider the mediatory role of the biographer who, in the case of South Africa, often constructed a biographical subject through an ethnographic method of interviewing, translating and then representing the subject.

ANTH G6038. Place, Space and Nature. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

ANTH G6042. The Social Practice of Media. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Electronic media are crucial to the ways that symbolic forms circulate in the contemporary world creating new modes of belonging and imagining and new forms of political action and publicness. Overview of the intensifying theoretical engagement between anthropology and media.

ANTH G6044. The Production of Space. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Explores the proposition that space must be apprehended as a social relation in itself, which must therefore, be produced and reproduced, as well as reformulated and transformed. Differences and inequality produced across various spatial scales, e.g., urban, regional, national, and transnational, and heuristic but ideologically burdened oppositions of scale, e.g., rural-urban, center-periphery, and global-local.

ANTH G6045. Foundations in Social Inequality. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Inequality is, arguably, the major research problem of both anthropology and sociology. Whether one is interested in power, complexity, ethnicity, class, caste, gender, colonialism, the state, identity, economics, politics, religion, or some other such phenomenon, the propensity of humans to draw lines of division between groups and assign different moral evaluations to these groups is a fundamental issue with which one must contend. In this seminar, we will explore a variety of socially constructed systems of inequality (economic, moral, political, religious, etc.), and the variable processes by which they were curtailed, constructed, naturalized and/or dismantled. While the state may be viewed as exhibiting the most extreme human manifestations of inequality, our focus will be on non-state and pre-state contexts in an attempt to understand the early genealogies of marginalization and dominance. Particular attention will be paid to the so-called egalitarian societies that have been used by generations of scholars as evidence of a natural default mode that would-be leaders struggled to overcome. In the course of these investigations, we will grapple with core questions such as: Is egalitarianism a natural or original condition for human groups or an evolutionary aberration? How did gender inequalities develop in small-scale societies, and how was their development related to inequalities in the political sphere? Did the institutionalization of religiously based inequities precede or serve as a model for systems of economic dominance? Were some inequalities propelled by the aggrandizing machinations of would-be exploiters? Were others the unanticipated consequences of short-term actions compounded over the long term? Why do subalterns accept their positions, or what, at least, keeps them from open rebellion? How might we understand systems of power and inequality that are not based upon traditional hierarchical models? Readings include a selection of classic and contemporary readings drawn from cultural anthropology, archaeology, sociology, and biological anthropology.

ANTH G6048. Political Economy and Social Relations. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Examines the classical critique of the categories and overall problematic of political economy. What precisely constitutes the political in political economy? Examines some questions of political theory a posited from Marxist and feminist standpoints. Seeks to situate the methodological protocols and representational techniques of socio-cultural anthropology in terms of their own conditions of possibility within unequal relations of wealth and power in the modern world system.

ANTH G6050. Detection and Inscription: Ethnographies of Crime. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. The place of crime and criminality in anthropologies of modernity. A consideration of how logics of detection, forms of representation, and technologies of inscription are linked to modern everydayness and urban mystery in varying national-cultural ocations. Narratives of detection (Edgar Allan Poe and Edogawa Rampo, most centrally), reportage on criminal events, film, and photography analyzed through a range of theoretical and ethnographically analytic companion readings. Criteria: background in anthropology and social theory.

ANTH G6052. Globalization and Transnational Processes. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. This course aims to critically interrogate the contemporary ideological currency of the category of "globalization," while nonetheless sustaining a central question concerned with a contemporary acceleration of the global mobility of capital and labor, as well as a proliferation of social processes that are constituted as transnational in scale and scope. The course begins from the multiplex proposition that one cannot adequately comprehend the "postcolonial" without reference to colonialism, that one cannot sufficiently approach the "transnational" without consideration of nationalism, and finally, that one cannot apprehend this configuration of "globalization" without situating it in relation to other, prior configurations of globalization. In short, "globalization" must be located in some working relation to imperialism, as well as the enduring albeit reconfigured salience of national states. All of these antecedents, of course, have provided, in some definitive sense, the horizons of the discipline of Anthropology as we have inherited it. They will supply an indispensable framework through which to conceive of the possibility of anthropological critique in the wake of the accelerated processes of globalization that we must confront and struggle to comprehend in the present.

ANTH G6054. Ethnography, Epistemology and Politics. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Examines the classical critique of the categories and overall problematic of political economy. What precisely constitutes the political in political economy? Examines some questions of political theory as posited from Marxist and feminist standpoints. Seeks to situate the methodological protocols and representational techniques of socio-cultural anthropology in terms of their own conditions of possibility within unequal relations of wealth and power in the modern world system.

ANTH G6057y. Governmentality, Citizenship and Indigenous Political Critique. 3 pts.

This seminar explores the ways in which Indigenous peoples have theorized, deployed, critiqued notions of 'nationhood', 'citizenship' and 'sovereignty' in order to articulate and claim rights to territory, to jurisdiction and to the past. Our aim is to interrogate what these critical concepts mean in the literature of anthropology, political theory and Native American Studies as well as to examine the ways in which Indigenous peoples understand and critique state practices, maintain and construct their own modes of governance and mobilize politically to achieve their ends. This course is comparative in scope; literature and cases will be drawn from various sites but will dwell largely within Native North America. This course is open to advanced level undergraduates and graduate students.

ANTH G6058. Culture, Politics, Ethics. 3 pts. Enrollment limit to 20 students. Course open to PhD students only. no MAs Not offered in 2009-2010.

Through a reading of texts in anthropology, political theory, and philosophy, this course aims to explore the place of culture in adjudicating ethical claims about the good and political claims about community.

ANTH G6059. Dependency as a Cultural System. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

. In the 1960s and 70s, Latin American intellectuals-many of them writing in exile-developed a theory of imperialism that they called "Dependency Theory." The condition of "dependency" was thought to be a particular modality of capitalist development-rather than a lack of development. This theory of 'dependency' was, therefore, written against 'development theories,' a fact that distinguishes it both from early theories of imperialism (Lenin, Luxembourg) and from more recent theories (Hardt and Negri, Retort, Naomi Klein). Dependent countries were thought to be providers of resources and of perennial clients for imperial powers. Analysis of dependency was later rejected, reformed and transformed, both in "World Systems Theory" and, more subtly and with greater ramifications, in Subaltern Studies. Dependency theory is also an indirect object of critique in Achille Mbembe's more Hegelian approach to 'the post-colony.' At the same time, dependency theory was also criticized by political economists who were critical of theories of "unequal exchange," including institutionalist economic historians, who questioned the economic fundamentals invoked in dependency theorists' characterization of the "dependent condition," often with substantial empirical support. This seminar has two aims: first, to inspect theories of imperialism from their inception to the present, and to place dependency theory within that broad interpretative tradition; and, second, to rethink "dependency" as an historical condition, by specifying and differentiating between various "post-colonial conditions." The seminar seeks to interrogate the relationship between "dependency" and other approaches to the post-colony.

ANTH G6062. Savages In Theory. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Seminar examines how various constructions of alterity play a constitutive role in a variety of foundational works of European social theory, prior to the institutionalization of the discipline of Anthropology as the preeminent intellectual project devoted to a study of the Other. Maps a genealogy of philosophical inquiries and debates that prefigure the emergence of anthropology as a discipline.

ANTH G6064. Empire: Imagining the New World. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

ANTH G6068. Technologies of the Body. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Designed to explore the cultural constructions surrounding the idea of the flesh and the body. How do we, as cultural subjects, perceive the body and what meanings do we assign to it? How do we decode these meanings by and through everyday and ritual practices (ritual and non-ritual tattoo, body modifications, religious formulations)? How are gender/power/knowledge inscribed on the body and how do we index them through the experience of the flesh (circumcision and kleitoridectomies, homoeroticism, drug addiction, torture)?

ANTH G6069x. TechnoBody. 3 pts. Enrollment limit to 20

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

ANTH G6070. Questions In Social and Cultural Theory. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Prerequisite: at least one prior semester of Social/Cultural theory. Focuses on current theoretical questions in anthropology. How social beings who are made by society and culture and at the same time manage to change society and culture. Different approaches to subjects and to social practices (everything from the practices of everyday life to major social movements) will be examined. Discussion Section Required.

ANTH G6072. Death and the Automobile. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Weapon of mass destruction, the automobile has yet to receive the anthropological attention for shaping the 20th century . What is the relation of the car to the poetics of place and speed? Why is Car-Talk the favorite NPR program? And cars the leading cause of death.

ANTH G6074. Culture and Consumption. 3 pts. Enrollment limit to 15 students and instructor's permission. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Over the past five centuries the ideology and practice of the consumption of things and goods as both a source of well being and as the central organizing metaphor for social life has begun to expand to every place on the planet. This culture of consumption is rife with intrinsic contradictions. This course will explore these contradictions. This course will also ask about the kinds of social relations of exchange that existed before this change and how they have been worked and reworked by capitalist transitions. We will address these issues theoretically and methodologically. Our questions will include: What are the theories of consumption and exchange that will allow us to understand modern consumptive practices? How do things become commodities? What is the social history of the production of "the consumer"? How does consumption make bodies? How is social identity configured through the lenses of commodities and consumption? In what ways do nation states promote consumption? In what ways does consumption promote nation states? How do global businesses make consumers? What does social activism against consumption look like? How is the use of nature in places far from reaches of global capital different than other places? How and why have the social relations of production associated with capitalism become taken-for-granted and seen as natural?

ANTH G6076. The Enigma of the Social. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. How does one account for mysterious sway of the social? Reconsiders a series of now-classic, theoretically engaged texts concerned with social forces, powers of signification, and the strangely ineluctable emergence of a modern subject. Works by Saussure, Durkheim, Mauss, Marx, Weber, Freud, Boas, Canetti, Benjamin, Levi-Strauss, Foucault, Benveniste, and Derrida.

ANTH G6082. Reading the Global City. 3 pts. Enrollment limited to 10 students. Not offered in 2009-2010.

This course looks at the global city as a "practiced place": inhabited, represented, translated and traveled. We shall consider how the city--broadly conceived--has been invested with meaning, and how particular cities conjure forth encounters with history. In contemplating the relationships that emerge from urban geographies, between world views, between and across "cultures," and between the text and the subject, we necessarily enter into discussions of the possibilities for community.

ANTH G6084. Science and Theory. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Examines debates in the history and sociology of science and their significance for an anthropology of science. It engages methodological questions and theoretical debates concerning the significance of social interests, material agency, laboratory and social practices, and "culture(s)" in the making of scientific knowledge and in shaping social and cultural others.

ANTH G6086. Performing Subjectivity In the Age of Revolution. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Begins with classical works on ritual theory (Evans-Pritchard, Turner, Geertz) as it applies to prominent rituals in Western Europe and the kind of worldviews they generate; The Renaissance re-invention of the western theatrical stage and the transformations in frame space that such a shift augured, using opera as the representative anecdote.

ANTH G6088y. Experimental Ethnographies. 3 pts.

What has become known as "the linguistic turn" in the humanities and the social sciences has engendered a position that stands critically not only towards the content of analysis but, equally importantly, has enabled new forms of writings. In this course we will read a limited number of fundamental texts that inaugurated this new writing in ethnography along with a good number of experimental ethnographies. Some of the authors that we will consider are Bateson, Boon, Clifford, Crapanzano, Geertz, Marcus, Nelson, Seremetakis, Tyler, Wafer.

ANTH G6092. Gender and Postcolonial Theory. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Traces the relationship between feminism, colonial histories, and their postcolonial presents in the Middle East and South Asia. Convergences between gendered identities, religious formations during the late 19th and 20th centuries, feminisms in the Middle East and South Asia today. Ethnographic and historical approach. Orientalism translation; pedagogy, widowhood; violence and memory; honor and the state; nationalism and citizenship; secularism and law; Islamic feminism; women's labor, and pleasure.

ANTH G6094. Anthropologies of Radicalism: Marx and Others. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. The Marxian legacy in translation, as it moved out of Europe and into East and especially Southeast Asia. Traces the questions of colonialism, imperialism and nationalism as they were formulated from within radical discourse at various moments in the 20th century. Marx, Engels, Ho Chi Minh, Mao, Senghor, Adorno, Horkheimer, Derrida, Spivak, and Kasian.

ANTH G6100x. Semiotic Anthropology I. 3 pts.

Semiotic is the study of the activity of signs. What is the relationship between reality and representation? In what different ways can this relationship be theorized? What are the consequences of holding that reality, including the reality of culture, is a system of representations or of signs? These questions will be explored with reference to several recent anthropological texts as well as the writings of some key "non-anthropological" thinkers drawn from the following list: C.S. Peirce, Ferdinand de Saussure, Mikhail Bakhtin, Roland Barthes, A.J. Greimas, Michel Foucault,Jacques Derrida, Umberto Eco, and Julia Kristeva.

ANTH G6102y. Semiotic Anthropology II: Doing Anthropology on Power, Violence and the State. 3 pts.

ANTH G6105. Seminar in Law and Culture. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

This course examines the conjuncture between the materialities of the archive and theories of evidence across a set of disciplinary practices. The course begins with readings that examine the problem of memory and its material capture and consider questions of truth and authority, disciplinarity and evidence. Authors include, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Reinhart Kosselleck, Lawrence Lessig, Ann Stoler, Ranajit Guha and Rolph Trouillot. The class then turns to examine these problems as they are played out in specific disciplines and social domains including the new genetics, digitalization, cultural heritage, and subalternity.

ANTH G6111. Anthropological Imagination In William Burroughs and Elias Canetti. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Designed to bring some freshness of insight and even naivete back into the study and writing of history and society by engaging with the exceedingly curious anthropological eye of two fiction writers famous for their obsessions with the spirits of the dead, animal-human transformation, paranoia, power, sex, secrecy, magic, and the state. Works of Burroughs and Canetti and early ethnography.

ANTH G6113. Sacrilege and Defacement. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Prerequisite: instructor's permission. What does defacement tell us about the role of the face in cultural production and the ethics therein, and why is sacrilege, as a form of defacement, a dominant source of the sacred, let alone of critique, in modernity? Readings include Bataille, Nietzsche, Levinas, ethnography of unmaking and physiognomics.

ANTH G6115. Nation: Before and Beyond. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. The course will look at the historical particularities of the nation-state in early modern Europe and ask how far these have framed the nation-form in the rest of the world. The course will also examine recent arguments about the end of the nation-state and the rise of postnational political formations.

ANTH G6118. Optic Theory. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

This course examines the emergence, in the mid-twentieth century, of a body of theory dominated by what we shall call optic rhetoric and organized by a conception of social processes as being determined by the logic of the gaze?of being seen, of giving to be seen, and of aspiring to oversight. The course explores the linkage between the rise of optic rhetoric and the corollary rise of a number of distinct but related theoretical models that can be described as structuralist and poststructuralist. Through intensive readings of select works, it encourages students to differentiate among different theorizations of the gaze, to examine the historical coincidence of optic theory and the many forms of structuralism, and to question the relationship between structuralism?s demise and those technological developments which have culminated in what might be described as an apotheosis of the gaze in the emergence of surveillance society. Readings of primary texts shall include the works of Althusser, Fanon, Foucault, Lacan, Levi-Strauss, Merleau-Ponty, Sartre and Virilio. Additionally, we will consider works by Deleuze, Martin Jay, and Jeffrey Mehlman, among others.

ANTH G6119. Language and Power. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. On the relationship between language and technopolitical devices of cultural hegemony. The political economy of talk; the sharpening and broadening of a sociopolitical notion of context; symmetrical discourse in public spheres; the politics of multivocality; and the troubling linkages of power/control/dominance/authority.

ANTH G6120. Africa and the Politics of Culture. 4 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Explores how identity is experienced, imposed, imagined, and contested in Africa. The deconstruction of ethnicity gender, class and nation provide a foundation; subsequent investigations will problematize the politics of culture, addressing conquest and civil war; schooling; labor and migration; ecological imperialism; and embodied religious expression.

ANTH G6122. South African Intellectual History. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

The course is an introductory survey of the main political ideas, traditions and thinking that have defined South Africa's intellectual and political history. South Africa is currently defined as a post-colonial and a post-apartheid society and both terms suggest a historical moment or event that has been transcended or come to an end and yet the reality is that South Africa's political and intellectual past continues to define contemporary thought. The course's general approach is therefore both historical and thematic since the objective is to understand the historical context of South Africa's political traditions as well as their contemporary relevance. The reading material for the course will consist of both primary and secondary sources.

ANTH G6125. Language, Culture and Power. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

This course examines structuralist and pragmatic, post-structuralist and metapragmatic approaches to language and culture and their relevance and availability to the critical analysis of social power.

ANTH G6129. Economy, Society, and Value. Not offered in 2009-2010.

This course is about economy and society, as seen through the lens of two classic works: Marx's Capital (volume 1) and Evans-Pritchard's Nuer (books 1 and 2). It has several overarching goals. First, to give students the opportunity to read, compare, and discuss two classic works in social theory-works that are often read in a piece-meal and rushed fashion, or presupposed as general canon. Second, to introduce students to key categories in British social anthropology, and Marxist and substantivist economics-and to provide a genealogy of these categories. To sketch an alternative metalanguage for examining social relations vis-à-vis the economy-one which is grounded in American Pragmatism and Boasian (Linguistic) Anthropology. And finally, in light of this genealogy and metalanguage, to reconsider a key set of disjunctures in the theoretical imaginary: householding to moneymaking, status to contract, community to society, quality to quantity, use-value to exchange-value, concrete domination to abstract domination, private to public, punishment to discipline, and so forth.

ANTH G6150. Anthropology & Taiwan. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

This course undertakes a dual examination-of the cultural history of Taiwan through works of Anthropology and of the ways in which Anthropology has been mobilized in the contentious discourse about culture in Taiwan. It is the latter, the inquiry into the role of Anthropology in cultural and historiographic discourse in and about Taiwan, that will constitute the principal focus of the course. In both domains under examination, we will draw upon a range of texts.In our study of Taiwan's cultural history, we will avail ourselves of works addressing the archaeological record of settlement, and studies of various domains of cultural practice. In the examination of the Anthropology as a highly-charged mode of discursive practice,we will sample ethnographic works from key moments in the on-going discourse about the cultural history of Taiwan. We will begin with works by North Atlantic scholars in the Cold War era, when Anthropologists presented rural Taiwan as an instantiation of authentic Chinese culture of the late-imperial period, proceeding to the emergence of an Anthropology specifically of Taiwan, and,finally, turning our attention to the explosion of interest in ethnography in the Taiwan of the 1990s and early 2000s. In this current period, ethnography has assumed a central position in the construction of distinctive cultural identities for various groups in Taiwan and in the politically-charged debates about Taiwan's future. Ethnography also affords us a critical purchase upon the myriad forms of sociality in present-day Taiwan, which it is the principal objective of this course to explore, through a sampling of recent ethnographic works, in class discussions and through the independent works of students.

ANTH G6150. Anthropology & Taiwan. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

This course undertakes a dual examination of the Anthropology of Taiwan from the middle 20th century to the present. On one level, it examines the cultural history of Taiwan, from earliest times to the present. At the same time, it also examines the ways in whichAnthropology has been mobilized in popular and academic discourse about culture and history in Taiwan-the role that ethnographic works have come to play in the construction of distinctive cultural identities for various groups in Taiwan and in thepolitically-charged debates about Taiwan's future.

ANTH G6150. Anthropology & Taiwan. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

This course undertakes a dual examination of the Anthropology of Taiwan from the middle 20th century to the present. On one level, it examines the cultural history of Taiwan, from earliest times to the present. At the same time, it also examines the ways in whichAnthropology has been mobilized in popular and academic discourse about culture and history in Taiwan-the role that ethnographic works have come to play in the construction of distinctive cultural identities for various groups in Taiwan and in thepolitically-charged debates about Taiwan's future.

ANTH G6155x. Righting Wrongs: Trauma, Memory, and the Politics of Repair. 3 pts. (Enrollment 15 and GSAS graduate students only)

"Righting Wrongs" locates its concerns in the post-Cold War thinking about the repair of historical wrongs. It is concerned with the turn to "memory," the thematization of trauma, and the politics of reconciliation. The question of restorative justice, in short, is what we are concerned with. What is its conceptual domain? What are the nature of harms and injuries it considers? What is the notion of time that organizes its idea of the continuing obligation to repair historical wrongs? What conceptions of the self and generation and memory shape its ideas about historical entitlements? These are some of the many questions that we will approach in the course of our readings and discussions.

ANTH G6159. Race and the secular Self. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

ANTH G6161. Culture and Change In the Middle East. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Introduction to the peoples and cultures of the Middle East with an emphasis on Arabs and Islam. Examination of the interaction of socio-cultural and political-economic variables in the construction of reality.

ANTH G6165. Civil Wars, Citizenship and State Reform In Africa. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Focus on five civil war situations in post-independence Africa as background: Sudan, Rwanda, the Banyarwanda Diaspora in the Great Lakes Region, Nigeria, and South Africa. Assessment of received notions of rights and citizenship, the form and crisis of the state and the experience of its reform. Focus on both the content and the subject of rights: not just which rights, but also whose rights.

ANTH G6166. Religion in Chinese Society. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

ANTH G6167. Modern China. 3 pts. Formerly G4165 Not offered in 2009-2010.

Change and continuity in Chinese society during the 20th century, both before and after the establishment of the People's Republic.

ANTH G6169. Culture, Ecology and History in China. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

This course examines the social ecology of the state in China, with particular emphasis on the cultural frameworks and behavior patterns of human interaction with the environment and its ecological consequences. It begins with an exploration of environmental histories of the imperial era, then turns to ecological and environmental issues relating to China's modern development.

ANTH G6170. Law, History and Anthropology. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. The study of legal institutions, the utilization of case materials, and the critical analysis of legal texts. Recent social historical and ethnographic work on trial procedures, evidence regimes, legal writing, interpretation, and disciplinary systems. Non-Western, premodern and colonial materials shed comparative light on Western notions of law, truth and justice.

ANTH G6172. Written Culture. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

In recent years, critical reflection has centered on ethnographic writing by anthropologists, but now attention is turning to what James Clifford called the "scratching of other pens." Forms of writing and reading as cultural and historical phenomena. In turn-of-the century anthropology, writing was considered the evolutionary hallmark of civilization, and a later, comparative approach claimed that the advent of writing transformed human consciousness. Varying relations with the spoken or recited word, diverse textual communities, and transformations of written form associated with print and with cyberspace.

ANTH G6178. Anthropology and Ethnography of Post-Socialism. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Survey of anthropological and ethnographic approaches to post-socialism, including: (1) ethnographic approaches to institutional transformation, including Verdery, Humphries, Burawoy, Woodruff; (2) postsocialist social modernity, including some of instructor's work, Lucan Way, Jowitt, Linda Cook; (3) post-Soviet man, including some more culturological work like Yurchak, Kharakhordin, possibly Boym.

ANTH G6180. Topics In the Anthropology: Theories and Ethnographies of Japan. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Seminar analyzes modern Japan through contemporary work. Topics over the years: neonationalism, youth, culture, changing gender roles, aesthetics and politics, literature and history, urban space and architecture, Japanese philosophy, ethnographies of everyday life, and Japan in a globalized world.

ANTH G6182. African Urban Culture. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Examines the production of African urban space as built form and as social experiences. Conceptualizing urban space: the role of speed and technology in producing urban experience; built space of African cities; infrastructural networks that link Africans up into religious and economic networks in and out of Africa; the cultural styles through which the urban is performed and experienced; and the transformations in economy that shape African urban life.

ANTH G6184. Question In Identity. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Designed to be both theoretical and empirical, clarifying concepts such as "identity" and "subjectivity" while also exploring various approaches to questions of political identification and self-understanding. We shall look at authors who approach questions of identity and subjectivity philosophically as well as historically. Some of the readings will be explicitly devoted to conceptual conundrums and theories of the self. Others will engage the question of political identification and analyze the practices of self-fashioning and subject formation as central social and political phenomena in particular contexts.

ANTH G6186x. Performing Community and Subjectivity in Opera. 3 pts. Instructor's permission via email to mec3@columbia.edu. Enrollment limit to 20

Explores shifting visions of community and subjectivity that circulate in 1780s-1790s revolutionary moment in western Europe by interviewing readings from Enlightenment scholars and attention to three Mozart operas, public performances, that highlight very particular "Enlightenment" visions of persons and community.

ANTH G6190. Critical Theories of Space, Time and Encounter. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Through Michel de Certeau's the practice of everyday life, explores a range of theoretical approaches to questions of space, time, and encounter. Reading specific productions of meaning--what we might understand as a major aim of ethnography--is to identify geographical and temporal coordinates. Considers how social theorists, of Marxism, historical geography, poststructuralism and feminism have attempted to bring together those concerns associated more formally with either history of anthropology. Marx, Benjamin, Habermas, DeLeuze and Guattari, Foucault, Haraway, Virilio, and Harvey.

ANTH G6200. Anthropology of History: the Nature of Historical Analysis, and Cultural Formations. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Emergence of modern forms of historical consciousness and writing, both in the history of philosophy and in various practical engagements with the problems of the past: Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Dilthey, Collingwood, Foucault, White, Kosselich, Derrida; modern historians, anthropologists, and others who attempt critical and reflexible forms of historical narration: E.P. Thompson, Joan Scott, Carlo Ginsberg, Natalie Davis, Marshall Sahlins, Ranajit Guha, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Greg Dening, Clifford Geertz, Bernard Cohn. Also addresses the question of the archive: the nature of historical evidence and the institutional character of the state monuments that select and preserve the primary sources of historical analysis.

ANTH G6205. Analytical Methods in Anthropology. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

This course is a seminar on research design in anthropological archaeology. It examines the links among theory, method, and data analysis in project design and interpretation.

ANTH G6206. Profame Illumination I. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. At the modern, urban crossroads of Jewish and Christian mysticism, Marxism, Surrealism, and love, stands Walter Benjamin's concept of profane illumination. This seminar explores the ramifications of the paradox entailed by such profanation, especially in relation to writing culture by means of the dialectical image as bodied impulse.

ANTH G6207. Profane Illumination II. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

At the modern, urban crossroads of Jewish and Christian mysticism, Marxism, Surrealism, and love, stands Walter Benjamin's concept of profane illumination. This seminar explores the ramifications of the paradox entailed by such profanation, especially in relation to writing culture by means of the dialectical image as bodied impulse.

ANTH G6212y. Seminar: Principles and Applications in Social and Cultural Anthropology. 3 pts. Prerequisites:G4201. Principles and Applications of Social and Cultural Anthropology and instructor's permission.

Focus on research and writing for the Master's level thesis, including research design, bibliography and background literature development, and writing.

ANTH G6220. Seminar On Class and Culture. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Study of class in America, and what is happening to class today: how the idea of class, and reality of class, is being transformed by the revolution of the rich and the challenge of multiculturalism since the 1970s.

ANTH G6224. Bakhtin, Anthropology and Performance. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

ANTH G6226. The Making of the African Diaspora. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. This course introduces students to anthropological and historical scholarship on the African diaspora. We will explore, among other things, the development of diasporic identifications rooted in culture and politics; the role of capitalism and imperialism in the formation of the African diaspora; Pan-African and black internationalist political movements; the continual reinvention of Africa and the diaspora through cultural work and movements of people, ideas and capital.

ANTH G6230. Media and Technology. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

This course examines how different theorists have examined the cultural logics of media technologies. It focuses on the relation between the materiality of technologies and the forms of social relations and political rule they encode and produce.

ANTH G6235. The Third World: After Sovereignty?. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

It is increasingly being asserted today that the concept of sovereignty no longer constitutes a plausible way of organizing our thinking about power and legitimacy in contemporary global politics. The state, so it is sometimes said, as the pre-eminent source and adjudicator of political identity within territorially bounded nation-states a well as between sovereign states, is being fundamentally challenged. What does this mean for our understanding of the Third World which came into being precisely as part of the project of the universalization of sovereignty? What are the new conceptual and political conditions in which the problem of sovereignty arises in - and for- the Third World? Through a variety of literature this course engages these questions.

ANTH G6240. Parks and Politics: The Social Effects of Protected Areas. 3 pts. Instructor's permission. Enrollment limit is 15 Not offered in 2009-2010.

Examines the social effects of parks and protected areas in order to understand both the politics of conservation and the politics of academic disciplines "speaking for" nature and culture.

ANTH G6242. The Imperial Present. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

ANTH G6245. Issues In Development: an Anthropological Perspective. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Reviews and evaluates issues of international development from an anthropological perspective. Case studies used to introduce critical issues in development, including the gap between local demands for social welfare and national principles of economic growth, the human costs of development and the rights of indigenous peoples, and the impact of urbanization, ethnicity, and the changing role of women.

ANTH G6246. Documentary, anthropology realism. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

This class will examine the relationship of film to time and to culture, and trace the ways that ideas of realism come out of that encounter. It explores the relation between film and the archive, the ontology of ethnography, and the social life of images. Andre Bazin famously wrote that 'film embalms time' saving it from corruption and disappearance. But it can only do this by storing it on a medium that itself is on its own journey of corruption and degradation. This class will examine the relationship of film to time and to culture, and trace the ways that ideas of realism come out of that encounter. While privileging documentary, the class starts with the assumption that filming is an inherently ethnographic process in both content and form. The aim of the class is to examine the relationship of the film medium to realism, beginning with early cinema and ending with emerging digital media. It does so by considering the poetics of documentary, defined widely. Topics include, film and the archive, the ontology of ethnography, remediation, the social life of images, materiality of film, materiality of culture.

ANTH G6250x. Women Writing Africa. 3 pts. Enrollment limited to 20

Enrollment limit to 20. The intellectual and literary lives of women are often written about or thought of as separate from the intellectual lives of their male counterparts. Due to sexist exclusion and/or social, legal and political restrictions women's literary and intellectual production has often emerged and taken shape as a counterforce and vindication against these limitations.

The course is an exploration of women as writers and thinkers. It especially looks at the work of those women who wrote from 'outside' the epicenters of Enlightenment civility: women on the road, women in bondage, women on the frontier and women in prison. It examines the myriad ways in which women have used literacy and writing as tools to carve out a place for themselves in the often masculine 'republic of letters'.

ANTH G6255. Film and Performativity. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Prerequisite: instructor's permission. In conversation with Walter Benjamin, a consideration of performance in relation and in opposition to the image. The impact of image technologies on performance: Is the modern concept of performativity itself a flight from the mechanically reproduced image?

ANTH G6271. Research Methods In Anthropology. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Overview of research methods in anthropology with particular emphasis on field research methodology and its various aspects.

ANTH G6285y. Islam, Women and the State. 3 pts.

ANTH G6290. Histories and Cultures of the Indian Diaspora. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. A study of the Indian diaspora from the middle of the 19th century to the present, through various occasions of cultural formation. British, North American, African, and Caribbean experiences of migration; postcolonial formed around music, generation and politics; nationalist and/or postcolonial renderings of community. Interdisciplinary approach to these and other issues.

ANTH G6304. Seminar: Ghosts of Modernity. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Modernity is often described as the post-Enlightenment disenchantment of the world, in which instrumental rationality dominates the increasingly quantified relations of social life. Taking this description as a point of departure, seminar aims to show modernity through the figure of the ghost in modern ethnography, critical theory, and literature.

ANTH G6305. Beyond Sublime: Affects in Late Modernity. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

A central concern of modern theory and philosophy is the place of the aesthetic and its relationship to feelings and politics. How are feelings articulated with aesthetic judgments? How do different aesthetic apprehensions shade into different affective experiences? What are the political implications of these aesthetico-affective complexes, particularly under conditions of advanced capitalism, virtualization, and mass mediation? Starting with Longinus's On the Sublime and Kant's philosophy of the beautiful and the sublime, the course will consider aesthetico-affective experiences left out of formal philosophy but important in everyday life. Minor aesthetic concepts like the uncanny, the grotesque, and the cute will be intermixed with consideration of affects like anxiety, stupefaction, and hopefulness. Examples, cases, and inspiration are drawn from life in the United States (and elsewhere), from fiction, music, art, and film; disciplinary approaches are taken from literary criticism, anthropology, psychoanalysis, and philosophy. Theoretical readings include works by Kant, Hegel, Freud, Lyotard, Gasché, Derrida, Lacan, Deleuze, and others.

ANTH G6306. History of Modern South Asia. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Surveys the major issues, debates, and literatures in the historiography of modern South Asia, from the late Mughal period to the present. The history and effects of British colonial rule, around the formation of the state, the political economy of imperialism, the cultural forms of domination, the rise of nationalism, and the postcolonial legacies of the past. The history of anthropological representations of South Asia, from Marx and Weber, through Risley and Ghyurye, to Dumont and Das.

ANTH G6309. Ethnographies of South Asia. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

ANTH G6310. The Ethnography of Sense. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Prerequisites: One year of graduate education or instructor's permission. The relationship between the two senses, the sense of phenomenal experience and the sense of the meaning in ethnographic representation and knowing. Insofar as representation is an act of remembrance, the course is also concerned with the relationship between sense and memory.

ANTH G6345y. Poetics and Politics of Infrastructure. 3 pts. Instructor's Permission Required

Infrastructures are the material forms that allow for the possibility of exchange over space, invisible conduits that comprise the technical architecture that allow urban spaces to form and creates grounds for the circulation that ties those spaces to larger grids. But bodies of recent scholarship have come to interrogate the ways in which infrastructures comprise the conditions of existence for social experience, political action and economic order. This class seeks to examine what an analysis of infrastructure might add to anthropological analysis. Drawing from anthropology, science studies, media theory and history we will analyze the technical conditions of infrastructures, the legal regulations they give rise to , the political action they generate and the forms of everyday life they enable.

ANTH G6366. Other Tribes: Constructions of Alterity In European Thought. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Early constructions of alterity before anthropology became the study of the Other, when anthropology was still the discourse on the human. Critical theory and the discipline of anthropology. The Bible with Freud, Plato with Irigarary, Montaigne with Boas with Boon, Rousseau with Levi-Strauss, Kant with Rousseau, Kant with Foucault, Hume with Lenin, Hegel with Butler, Mill with Said, Marx with Mauss and C.L.R. James, Castoriadis with others.

ANTH G6400y. Problem of Emancipation. 3 pts.

Taking as its point of departure the emancipation of slaves in the British Caribbean as a "triumph" of liberalism, this course examines some aspects of the relation between power, freedom, race, and modernity.

ANTH G6406y. The Modern State and the Colonial Subject. 3 pts. Enrolment limited to 15 plus instructor permission or after the first meeting of class.

On the development of legal thought on the colonial subject. Focus on the American Indian in the New World, and subjugated peoples in the Ottoman Empire, in British India and in tropical and southern Africa.

ANTH G6410. Prehistory: Between Land and Sea. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. The ethnography of origins in so-called primitive societies (Australian dreamtime or Kwakiutal animals emerging from the sea or out of the earth to remove their masks and become human) overlaps with Walter Benjamin's theory of mimesis. Deep Econology, Plato's and Julia Kristeva's chora, Deleuze and Guattari's becoming animal, Benjamin's Medusan gaze with his allegorical fossil of the dialectical image, Neitzsche's prehistory and eternal recurrence, Heidegger's Being, Mauss' mana, and Bataille's abject.

ANTH G6412. Major Debates In the Study of Africa. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

ANTH G6414. The Postcolonial Subject. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. How do we understand the explosion of politics of identity in the postcolonial period? Comparative study of postcolonial entitlement in India and Africa, race and ethnic-based mobilizations in Africa, and religion and caste-based movements in India. When do otherwise contradictory mobilizations - whether state-based or popular - tend to reproduce colonially crafted identities in the name of postcolonial justice? When does the pursuit of justice turn into revenge, and that of reconciliation into an embrace of evil? When do they lead to similar outcomes, reproducing political identities crafted under colonialism?

ANTH G6430x. Recognition, Espionnage, Camouflage. 3 pts.

This course examines the politics of recognition from the perspective of the security state. Not long ago, scholars and public intellectuals were ringing the death knell of the strong nation-state and celebrating the emergence of a new multicultural, postcolonial world. We were living at the end of history. The sovereign right to kill was being replaced by the governmentalism of neoliberalism and a new kind of racism. The mobility of post-Fordist capital and the new media were thought to have created a qualitatively new mode of global cultural and social commerce fostering hybrid forms of social being and practice. Governmentality was not oriented to killing, but to constituting populations and their vitalities; to making live and letting die. Western states were busy performing shame and apologizing for past colonial practices. Suddenly things are not so clear-perhaps they never were. The post 9/11 world seems to have reorganized the logic and relations of recognition and civilization, the sovereign and neoliberal state. Pundits praised the "prescience" of Samuel Huntington's Clash of Civilizations. Scholars rushed to embrace Agamben's state of exception. Politicians in democracies sought to reclaim strong executive powers, the right to designate enemies, to kill, to suspend constitutional rights, and to rely on nondemocratic regimes to torture for truth. Civilization reemerged in an unapologetic form-a mode of differentiating the world in social and historical terms. Recognition was no longer merely about tolerance but about camouflage and espionage. This course seeks to understand whether and in what way the politics of recognition has mutated within the techniques of state security.

ANTH G6500. The Art of Fieldwork. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

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?

ANTH G6505. The Commodified body. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Sites of medical practice will dominate interrogations of embodied forms of commodification. Key foci include exploitative labor practices; the marketing of the human body and its parts; and the mechanization of human bodies in contexts ranging from quotidian experiences, to cybernetic contexts, to futuristic visions involving cyborgs and other hybrid human forms. Limited to 20 students.

ANTH G6565. Kafkaesque Anthropology. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Reading all of Kafka's writings including diaries and commentaries by Benjamin and Delueze with aim of rethinking ethnographic writing especially in relation to law, the state, fathers, prehistory, animals, and the social conventions which allow absurdity, hypocrisy, and injustice appear as normal.

ANTH G6601x. Questions in Anthropological Theory I: Texts. 3 pts.

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.

ANTH G6602y. Questions In Anthropological Theory II: Texts. 3 pts.

This course surveys the historical relationships between anthropological thought and its generic inscription in the form of ethnography. Readings of key ethnographic texts will be used to chart the evolving paradigms and problematics through which the disciplines practitioners have conceptualized their objects and the discipline itself. The course focuses on serveral key questions, including: the modernity of anthropology and the value of primitivism; the relationship betweeen history and eventfulness in the representation of social order, and related to this, the question of anti-sociality (in crime, witchcraft, warfare, and other kinds of violence); the idea of a cultural world view; voice, language, and translation; and the relationship between the form and content of a text. Assignments include weekly readings and reviews of texts, and a substantial piece of ethnographic writing.

ANTH G6606. The Metaphysics of Antiterrorism. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

ANTH G6616. Colonial Madness: Gold and Africa. 3 pts. Permission granted only after the first class. Not offered in 2009-2010. This course considers two histories of Africa and European colonialism on the continent. The first is that of the fetish of gold, which both propelled the European frenzy of land acquisition and exploitation in West Africa and especially along the Guinea Coast and in South Africa, and generated a theoretical paradigm for understanding Africanity. The second is the development of 'natural resource'-extraction based economies, grounded in a libidinized fantasy of value that both repressed the fact of labor and legitimated its organization through displacement. In undertaking an anthropological reading of these two historical trajectories, this course is broken into two main sections. In the first half of the course, we engage the literature on fetishism that emerged at the nexus of comparative religion, philosophy and anthropology, as well as the historical literature on colonialism associated with precious metals (and the responses to that history in literature), focusing on the Guinea Coast. In the second part, we undertake a reading of the transformation of the gold rush into the particular form of migrant labor that it assumed throughout the latter nineteenth and twentieth century, emphasizing the experience of southern Africa.

ANTH G6640. Seminar: Late 20th-Century Japan. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

ANTH G6642. No Alternative: Modernity and Critical Theory. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

In recent years, theories of "alternative modernity" have arisen in anthropology and the other social sciences. Produced out of a concern with non-western difference and shaped by writings on globalization, such theories often betray a lack of sustained understanding of the aporias of modernity as theorized by critical theorists of the Frankfurt school and others. This seminar will work to critique the notion of alternative modernity by engaging critical theoretical works on "uneven development," the dilemmas of otherness, aesthetics and politics, and mass culture. It will do so in tandem with a consideration of what might be thought of as modernities elsewhere (with some emphasis on Japan as a key exemplar of so-called "nonwestern modernity").

ANTH G6650. Psychoanalytic Trajectories: Narrative and Ethnos. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

This course pairs classic works in psychoanalysis with narrative texts, both literary andethnographic. The class will consist of close readings of key psychoanalytic texts by Freud and Lacan, with secondary readings authored by Slavoj Zizek, Jeffrey Mehlman, Jacques Derrida, Samuel Weber, and others. Narrative works include Hoffman's "The Sandman" and Henry James's The Turn of the Screw and ethnographic writings by James Siegel and Claude Lévi-Strauss.

ANTH G6666. Ethnography As Avant Garde Art Form. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. A course aimed at combining artistic practice with anthropology.

ANTH G6668. Flashback: Experience and Memory In Proust. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Intended mainly as a chance to read Proust in a group, this seminar dwells on his dazzling and unique contributions to the arts of memory in relation to language, the senses, and unacknowledged gay sexuality. With Proust we have to confront the apparent decay with modernity in our ability to experience the world, the postmodern sense of fractured selves, and the exquisitely modulated ethnography of class and caste hierarchies-all of which speaks to the world of cultural analysis as well as joyous writing.

ANTH G8003. Research Design and Methods. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Focus on preparing research proposals for dissertation-level research, from framing research questions and selecting appropriate methodologies to writing finished proposals.

ANTH G8007. Gender, Sexuality and Culture. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Gender and sexuality refer to theoretically distinct yet culturally entwined systems of meaningful (not natural) practices. Emphasis on feminist theory and gay/lesbian studies. Surveys contemporary theory regarding gender/sexuality; focus on a comparative and critical political economy of the body.

ANTH G8009. Ethnographic Surrealism. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Blurring fact and fiction, art and science, seminar aims at creating new forms of depicting the social world.

ANTH G8010. Advanced Topics In Feminist Theory: Crimes of Intimacy. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Prerequisites: Instructor's permission A genealogy of intimacy and its criminalization in the history of modernity, the dissemination of these related discourses and procedures in colonial contexts. The rise of the discourse of sexuality in European contexts; historical sources for an understanding of how modern institutionalized forms of homosociality (such as those found in the modern school and the professionalized military) came to be invested with the risk of homosexuality.

ANTH G8011y. Gender, Feminism and Cultural Diversity. 3 pts.

This research seminar will prepare students to conduct research and write a paper on the intersections of feminism, social movements, human rights, social-science research on gender, and studies of cultural diversity. Cultural diversity is termed as a human right in the Vienna Conference. In the Preamble to the 31st Session of the UNESCO General Conference in Paris, 2001, the concept of cultural diversity implies tolerance, dialogue and cooperation within a climate of trust, able in so doing to guarantee peace and international security. Human unity does not supersede cultural diversity.

ANHS G8014x. Advanced Studies In South Asian History, Culture, and Society. 3 pts. Prerequisites: Previous graduate course on South Asia or background in South Asian studies.

ANTH G8019. Advanced Topics In American Culture. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

ANTH G8376. The Ritual Process. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. The role of rituals in the construction of history and culture. Emphasizes recent studies on ritual and colonial assault and popular resistance. Examples drawn from South African tribesmen, Madagascan peasants, Moroccan monarchy, Bolivian tin miners

ANTH G8494. Seminar On Late Imperial China. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

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

ANTH G8498. Modern China. Not offered in 2009-2010.

ANTH G8534. Power, Opposition, and Aesthetics of Memory. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Theoretical and ethnographic examination of interplay of centers of political domination and foci of opposition. Multiple levels of this interplay, ways in which domination and opposition can intersect as well as diverge, and exploration of multiple media through which the interaction can take place (rituals, songs, storytelling, television, architecture, newspapers, official government edicts, military confrontations). Cases drawn from France, Morocco, and India.

ANTH G8545. Anthropology of Affliction. 3 pts. Enrollment limit is 15 Not offered in 2009-2010. Prerequisites: Instructor's permission

Contemporary medical anthropology focusing on such issues as embodiment, medical power and praxis, the commodification of the body and healing, social constructions of suffering, and the cultural significance of medical technologies.

ANTH G9999x and y. Weekly Seminar. 3 pts.

All anthropology students are required to attend. Reports ongoing research are presented by faculty members, students and special guests.

ANTH G4001. Data Analysis In Physical Anthropology. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Prerequisite: Instructor's permission. Hands-on production and elementary statistical analyses of the data sets assigned; individual data sets involving the full spectrum of techniques learned during the semester. Basic concepts, techniques and proper comparisons.

ANTH G4002y. Controversial Topics in Human Evolution I. 3 pts. Enrollment limit 15. Instructor's Permission required

ANTH G4003x. Controversial Topics in Human Evolution: Genetics and Behavior II. 3 pts. Enrollment limit 15.

ANEB G4124. Peoples and Their Environment: Ecological and Anthropological Interactions. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

ANTH G4147x and y-G4148y (Section 001). Human Skeletal Biology, I and II. 3 pts. Enrollment limited to 15 students and instructor's permission required

Recommended for archaeology, physical anthropology, premedical, and biology students interested in the human skeletal system. Intensive study of human skeletal materials, using anatomical and anthropological landmarks to assess sex, age, and ethnicity of the bones. Other primate skeletal material and fossil casts are used for comparative study.

ANTH G4200. Fossil Evidence of Human Evolution. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Prerequisites:ANEB V1010 or the equivalent, and permission of the instructor.

Enrollment limited to 12. Intended for advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students who are interested in paleoanthropology. Provides a closer look at what comprises the fossil evidence for human evolution from the australopithecines of 4 million years ago to the fully modern human species of 25,000 years ago. Involves hands-on examination of the departmental casts.

ANEB W4700. Race: The Tangled History of Biology. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Intended for graduate and advanced undergraduate students. From Aristotle to the 2010 U.S. Census, this course examines the history of race as a biological concept. Explores the complex relationship between the scientific study of biological differences-real, imagined, or invented-and the historical and cultural factors involved in the development and expression of "racial ideas."

ANEB G6140. Evolutionary Genetics of Nonhuman Primates. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

ANEB G6142. The Biology, Systematics, and Evolutionary History of the Apes. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

ANTH G6145. Human Genetics and Variations. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

ANTH G6146. Human Evolution. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. The fossil data bearing on human evolution, with a survey of other lines of evidence from archaeology, the neurological sciences, and evolutionary biology.

ANTH G6148. Primate Behavior. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Broad coverage of the fundamentals and recent developments in the field of primate behavior. An evolutionary perspective in the study of behavior is stressed, but is not limited to questions of evolutionary function. Constraints on evolutionary design inherent in the casual mechanisms underlying behavior (e.g. limits on cognition).

ANEB G8005. Seminar In Evolutionary Biology of the Primates. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. The mode and tempo of primate macroevolution, the biological bases of different primate social organizations, major ecological adaptations seen among living primates, and macroevolutionary changes in the genetic structure of primate populations.

ANEB G8416. Research Methods In Primate Behavior. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. How to formulate research hypotheses, choose a design, and collect, analyze and present data. Students undertake individual projects on local primates.

ANEB G8418. Special Topics In Primate Behavior and Ecology. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Prerequisites: A general course in primate behavior Advanced seminar in primate socioecology with emphasis on detailed, critical readings of recent literature. Topics change year to year.

ANEB G8418. Special Topics In Primate Socioecology. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Prerequisite: a general course in primate behavior. Advanced seminar in primate socioecology with emphasis on detailed, critical readings of recent literature. Topics change year to year.

ANTH G9103x and y. Research In Physical Anthropology. 3-9 pts.

Prerequisite: instructor's permission. Individual research and tutorial in physical anthropology for advanced graduate students.

ANTH G9101. Research In Social and Cultural Anthropology. 3-9 pts. Prerequisite: instructor's permission. Individual research and tutorial in social and cultural anthropology for advanced graduate students.

ANTH G9105. Research In Special Fields. 3-9 pts. Prerequisite: instructor's permission. Individual research in all divisions of anthropology and in allied fields for advanced graduate students

ANEB G9106x and y. Research In Special Fields. 3-9 pts.

Prerequisite: instructor's permission. Individual research in all divisions of anthropology and allied fields for advanced graduate students

ANEB G9106x and y. Research In Special Fields. 3-9 pts. Prerequisites: Instructor's permission

ANTH G9999x and y. Weekly Seminar.

All anthropology graduate students are required to attend. Reports of ongoing research are presented by staff members, students, and special guests.