New course in the subject of Anthropology.
Topics to be announced prior to each semester, dealing with social and cultural anthropology.
This course introduces students to research methodology in medical anthropology by participating in a faculty member's ongoing research project. It will include: formulating research questions, ethical review and IRB approval, …
The majors seminars in anthropology offer majors and minors an opportunity to engage deeply with a topic of anthropological concern. Through these courses anthropology students gain experience in doing an …
Independent study conducted by the student under the supervision of an instructor of his or her choice.
Writing of a thesis of approximately 50 pages, under the supervision of the faculty DMP thesis readers. Prerequisite: ANTH 4998.
This seminar will explore the norms, embodied practices, material artifacts, and forms of reasoning which shape processes of care and abandonment across a range of contemporary cases. We will explore …
Students build knowledge and practice of analysis of peoples' joint-engagement in embodied interactions. How does action weave together multiple sensory modalities into semiotic webs linking interactions with more durative institutions …
Topics to be announced prior to each semester, dealing with linguistics.
Laboratory training in techniques and methods used in analyzing animal bones recovered from archaeological sites. Include field collection, data analysis, and the use of zooarchaeological materials in reconstructing economic and …
Exploration of the archaeology of frontiers, expansions and colonization, focusing on European expansion into Africa and the Americas while using other archaeologically-known examples (e.g., Roman, Bantu) as comparative studies. Prerequisite: …
Explores the major recent theoretical approaches in current anthropology, with attention to their histories and to their political contexts and implications.
Anarchy - organizing society through horizontal relations of free association - has a modern European history contemporary with Anthropology and has Indigenous histories in many places where people decided together …
Analyzes particular aspects of language structure and use. Topics vary from year to year.
New course in the subject of anthropology.
For master's research, taken before a thesis director has been selected.
For master's thesis, taken under the supervision of a thesis director.
Directed Readings
Directed Readings
Research Practicum