Course	ANTH 101 A Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
Professor	Jeff Jurgens
CRN	18516
Schedule	Tu Th 1:00 – 2:20 Olin 305
Distribution	Social Science/ Rethinking Difference

Related interest: GISP; Gender and Sexuality Studies

During the past few decades, ‘culture’ has suddenly become pervasive in popular discourses, with phrases such as ‘internet,’ ‘fetish,’ and ‘corporate cultures’ automatically conjuring certain sets of images and assumptions. This course explores the intellectual angles through which anthropologists have engaged culture as a central, and yet often elusive concept in understanding how societies work. The analysis of culture has undergone many transformations over the past century, from arguing for the existence of integrated systems of thought and practice among so-called ‘primitives’, to scrutinizing the cultural values of colonial subjects, to attempting to decipher the anatomy of enemy minds during World War II. In recent years, anthropology has become more self-reflexive, questioning the discipline’s authority to represent other societies, and critiquing its participation in the creation of exoticized others. Thus, with our ethnographic gaze turned inward as well as outward, we will combine discussions, lectures, and films to reflect upon the construction of social identity, power, and difference in a world where cultures are undergoing rapid reification. Specific topics we will examine include the transformative roles of ritual and symbol; witchcraft and sorcery in historical and contemporary contexts; cultural constructions of gender and sexuality; and nationalism and the making of majorities/minorities in post-colonial states. On-line registration

Course	ANTH 101 B Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
Professor	Yuka Suzuki
CRN	18177
Schedule	Wed Fr 10:30 - 11:50 am Olin 202
Distribution	Social Science/ Rethinking Difference

See description above. On-line registration

Course	ANTH 208B American Anthropology: The Professionalization of Research and Theory, 1850-1970
Professor	Mario Bick
CRN	18168
Schedule	Mon Wed 9:00 - 10:20 am Olin 308
Distribution	Social Science

Cross-listed: American Studies

American anthropology to the Second World War had three central concerns: (1) the description and understanding of Native American peoples based on participant observation through residential fieldwork. This concern began in the early nineteenth century, and was mainly directed from the Smithsonian Institution. This research focus was carried on in the twentieth century by the European-influenced Boasian school of anthropology, centered at Columbia University, which was also responsible for the modernization of anthropology, and the efforts of American anthropology to (2) defeat scientific racism, and (3) to place the concept of culture at the center of anthropological thought. This course examines this history, in the Boasian centenary year, as well as the rise of sociological, psychological and neomarxist evolutionist thought in American anthropology in this period. Works by such anthropologists as Frank Cushing, James Mooney, Franz Boas, Ruth Benedict, Margaret Mead, Robert Lowie, Alfred Kroeber, Paul Radin, Melville Herskovits, Robert Redfield, Clyde Kluckhohn, Leslie White and Julian Steward will be read and discussed.

Course	ANTH 212 Historical Archaeology
Professor	Christopher Lindner
CRN	18171
Schedule	Mon Wed 1:30 -2:50 pm * Olin 306
Distribution	Social Science

Cross-listed: American Studies. Environmental Studies, History

Field trips on campus and in neighboring towns provide first-hand contact with diverse groups who left their vestiges here: Native Americans, African-Americans, German, and British settlers. The class will work with their artifacts in the lab and visit excavations after reading background material on their history, culture, and archaeological interpretation. Limited to 12, by permission of instructor. *Note that  every 3rd Wednesday, class will run from 1:30 to 5:30 with the Monday  before or after class not meeting. Contact Prof. Lindner prior to on-line registration. On-line registration

Course	ANTH 213 Anthropology of Medicine
Professor	Diana Brown
CRN	18167
Schedule	Mon Wed 1:30 -2:50 pm Olin 203
Distribution	Social Science

Cross-listed: Gender Studies; GISP; Human Rights; Science, Technology & Society

From an ethnomedical perspective, all notions of health and illness and forms of treatment are taken as socioculturally constructed, embedded within global systems of knowledge and power and hierarchies of gender, class and race. This course will explore medical knowledge and practice in a variety of healing systems including that of western biomedicine, focusing on the human body as the site where illness is experienced, and upon which social meanings and political actions are inscribed. We will be concerned with how political economic systems, and the inequalities they engender--poverty, violence, discrimination--affect human well-being. Readings and films will represent different ethnographic perspectives on embodied experiences of illness and bodily imagery and treatment within widely differing sociopolitical systems. Topics will include biomedical constructs and body imagery, non-biomedical illnesses and healing systems including those in contemporary American society, the shaping of epidemic diseases such as malaria, TB and AIDS, colonial and post-colonial constructions of diseased bodies, cosmetic medical interventions, and new medical technologies.

Course	ANTH / HR 233 Problems in Human Rights
Professor	John Ryle
CRN	18172
Schedule	Mon Wed 12:00 -1:20 pm Olin 203
Distribution	Social Science

Cross-listed: Africana Studies, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Human Rights (core course)

This course approaches a set of practical and ethical human rights issues through the study of historical and contemporary campaigns, starting with the British anti-slavery movement of the 18th and 19th centuries.  The emphasis is on practical questions of strategy and organization and their resultant problems. What challenges did these early campaigners face?  What alliances of interest did they confront? What coalitions did they form to combat them?  The course also considers how human rights campaigners have engaged with - and been part of - wider political, religious and economic changes. It continues with examinations of the landmine ban campaign; female genital modification; child soldiers; and the ideological challenges these issues present to the international regime of human rights. When, if ever, are indigenous values more important than universal principles? What is the relation of human rights to religious values?  Is human rights itself a quasi-religious belief system? Finally the course considers some contemporary challenges facing the human rights movement: the return of slavery and slave-like practices, the question of genocide in Darfur and the rights of animals. On-line registration

Course	ANTH 248 Colonials in Africa
Professor	Mario Bick
CRN	18169
Schedule	TuTh 9:00 - 10:20 am Olin 107
Distribution	Humanities/ Rethinking Difference

Cross-listed: Africana Studies; Human Rights

This course will focus on the British African colonies of the early 20^th century to explore the social political and ideological everyday lives of colonists. These “outsiders” will be studied through history, biography, fiction and film, as well as through the responses of Africans. Hypocrisy/idealism, brutality/bravery, racism/humanism, asceticism/corruption, repression/sexuality, sobriety/addiction will be among the realities encountered. The course seeks to develop an ethnographic portrayal of the rulers and the cultures they created in these colonial spaces; not British, not African, but something very much “other”.

Course	ANTH 263 Language and Mass Media
Professor	Jesse Shipley
CRN	18174
Schedule	TuTh 4:00 -5:20 pm Olin 202
Distribution	Humanities/ Rethinking Difference

Cross-listed: Africana Studies

20^th century politics and culture were intimately linked to the rapid development of radio, television, and film. These electronic media have creatively engaged with local cultural practices around the world in reshaping the nature of artistic expression, national and racial difference, and political power. This course uses anthropological notions of language to examine cultures of electronic media around the globe. We will look at radio, video/film, television, the internet, and mobile phone technologies as forms of social mediation. Mass media will be considered in relation to the formation of new types of embodiment, value, production, and consumption. In particular we will trace how actor-centered performance approaches to language, reference, and authority give insight into the making of contemporary, electronically-mediated ways of understanding the world. Topics will include: radio and state power in Africa, mobile phones and political change in east Asia, South African television and internet, mass media and the Rwandan genocide, video/film industry on west Africa, television and radio in the Soviet Union. This class is intended for students with some anthropological or linguistics background. On-line registration

Course	ANTH 268 War, Culture, and Politics in Sudan
Professor	John Ryle
CRN	18483
Schedule	Mon Wed 3:00 -4:20 pm Olin 204
Distribution	Social Science

Cross-listed: Africana Studies; GISP; Human Rights

Africa's largest country embodies many of the challenges that confront the continent as a whole. This course examines the current political and humanitarian crisis in Sudan from the perspectives of history, anthropology, geography and political economy. It looks at the natural environment of the region, its wealth of indigenous languages and ways of life and the history of Sudanese state formation from ancient times to the present.  How did this vast and culturally diverse country come to be? What was Sudan's experience of colonialism?  In the post-colonial period what has been the role of the western powers?  And what has been the effect of the rise of political Islam?  What does it mean to be Sudanese today?  Particular attention will be given to Sudan's civil wars in Darfur and in Southern Sudan. Are these best understood as resource conflicts, as the consequence of unequal economic development, or as the result of cultural and religious difference? Is oil exploitation a help or hindrance?  Do Sudan's recurrent conflicts mean that the country is destined to break up into more than one political entity, as other countries in the region (such as Somalia and Ethiopia) have already done?  The course will use historical texts, contemporary reportage, ethnographic monographs, documentary video, and music and literature from Sudan to develop an understanding of the complexities of the country and its borderlands. Prerequisite: one course in Anthropology or Africana Studies. On-line registration

Course	ANTH 337 Cultural Politics of Animals
Professor	Yuka Suzuki
CRN	18176
Schedule	Th 1:30 -3:50 pm RKC 200
Distribution	Social Science/ Rethinking Difference

Cross-listed: Africana Studies, Human Rights

Human ideas about animals have metamorphosed throughout history, giving rise to a wide spectrum of attitudes across cultures. The past century in particular has witnessed a radical reconceptualization in the nature of human-animal relations, emerging in tandem with the modern environmentalist movement. Everywhere we turn, animals have captured the popular imagination, with dinosaurs crowned as the cultural icon of the 1990s, Shamu representing the fulfillment of our romantic vision of cetaceans, and Winnie the Pooh constituting a social universe in which children are taught morality and kindness. Beneath the centrality of animals in our social, economic, and physical worlds, moreover, lies their deep implication within human cultural politics. Some of the questions we will investigate throughout the semester include: how, and by whom, is the line between humans and animal drawn? What are the politics of taxonomy and classification? How do animal subjectivities contribute to the formation of human identities? Do animals exercise agency? Where are they positioned on the moral landscapes of cultures? We will explore these shifting terrains through the angle of ‘animal geography,’ a new field that focuses on how animals have been socially defined, labeled, and ordered in cultural worldviews. On-line registration

Course	ANTH 343 Middle Eastern Modernities
Professor	Jeffrey Jurgens
CRN	18170
Schedule	Mon 9:30 - 11:50 am Olin 307
Distribution	Social Science/ Rethinking Difference

Cross-listed: GISP, Human Rights, Middle Eastern Studies

What does it mean to be ‘modern’ in the Middle East in the aftermath of colonialism and in the face of continuing Euro-American efforts to reform the region’s social, economic, and political life? Does modernity require the abandonment of tribal affiliations, cousin marriages, and the headscarf, among other putatively ‘traditional’ social forms and practices? Or does it involve more complex, creative negotiations of existing constraints and available resources? Indeed, is there more than one way to be ‘modern’? This course will examine these and other questions through intensive reading of recent anthropological and other social scientific literature, critical analysis of popular cultural artifacts, and focused film viewing. In the process, we will primarily concentrate on twentieth- and twenty-first-century transformations in Middle Eastern national identities, state practices, and public spheres, especially as they have been affected by the introduction of compulsory education, mass literacy, and the mass media. At the same time, we will investigate what influences these larger cultural-political processes have exerted on the production and consumption of commodities and on more intimate practices of kinship, gender, and sexuality. Finally, we will consider recent efforts to manage the relationship between religion and secular-liberal life. This last theme, in particular, will require us to examine Islam, but we will not approach the faith as a fixed, unitary system of principles with a single meaning. Instead, we will treat it as a discursive tradition that individuals and institutions have interpreted, invoked, and used in multiple ways and for a variety of purposes. On-line registration

Course	MUS / ANTH 368 Applied Ethnomusicology
Professor	Mercedes Dujunco
CRN	18419
Schedule	Wed 1:30 -3:50 pm Blum N210
Distribution	Social Science / Rethinking Difference

See Music section for description.