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  • ANTH 5000: Building Alliances across Differences

    3.00 Credits
    California Institute of Integral Studies

    Class members participate in supportive experiential exercises and discussions that facilitate the unlearning of racism, sexism, class oppression, religious persecution, heterosexism, adultism, anti-Semitism, and other conditionings that separate people. How can we become more effective at building alliances that facilitate social justice What processes foster solidarity and affirm diversity How do systems of social oppression, dynamics of internalized oppression, and strategies of resistance organize space of constraint and possibility In this course, we practice community building through examining the differences and shared concerns that are present among us, and link to larger histories and global dynamics with present effects.
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  • ANTH 5017: Scholar's Toolkit

    2.00 - 3.00 Credits
    California Institute of Integral Studies

    This course will unlock the mysteries of academic literature research, for a term paper or a dissertation literature review. It covers not only "consuming" research (how to identify, find, and evaluate other scholars' writings) but also "producing" research (strategies for getting yown work published). These skills will be grounded in discussions of labyrinth learning, learning styles, and other pedagogic theories, with discursions into using technology efficiently, recent politics and economics of the information industry and intellectual property, and strategies for academic success.
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  • ANTH 5100: Critical History of the Human Sciences

    3.00 Credits
    California Institute of Integral Studies

    Through an exploration of the works of major historical figures from traditions of European thought such as Rousseau, Marx, Boas, Mead, Lévi- Strauss, Weber, and contemporary global, postcolonial critique, this course examines forms of reflection and thinking that developed in the West from the 16th century to the present, as shaped by the European encounter with indigenous peoples. How do these systems of knowledge reflect the legacies of Christianity, colonialism, nation-state formation, and biopower How might we enhance our abilities to intervene in the present through a rigorous inquiry into the cultural traditions of truth that frame the human sciences
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  • ANTH 5200: Language and Culture

    2.00 - 3.00 Credits
    California Institute of Integral Studies

    Graduate seminar in the structure and power of language as it manifests in culture, community, personality, knowledge, and social reality. Through analysis of everyday conversations and language data, this course encompasses the study of language from perspectives of phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax, pragmatics, and discourse. Through a combination of direct fieldwork, discussion, in-class exercises, and journal work, we inquire into critical issues of human communication. This course provides students with techniques of linguistic analysis, which help refine their ability to critically examine written and spoken texts.
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  • ANTH 5525: The Holocaust and Disability:Legacies of Nazi Persecution

    3.00 Credits
    California Institute of Integral Studies

    Knowledge about the Nazi campaigns to systematically persecute and murder people with disabilities during and after World War II has not permeated the dominant cultural consciousness to any appreciable degree. While these crimes do not represent new information, the field of Holocaust studies often shows a lack of clarity as to the cause of these particular crimes and their place in the Nazis' social construction of reality. This class will critically engage materials from Holocaust and disability studies. By reading texts as cultural artifacts, current understandings of the Holocaust and the crimes against people with disabilities will be deepened and reconfigured.
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  • ANTH 6000: Reading and Writing Culture

    3.00 Credits
    California Institute of Integral Studies

    This course engages the study and practice of classical and experimental anthropological writing, focusing on the relation between language, writing style, and the presentation of cultural "others," as dealt with historically, theoretically, and in anthropological literature. How is authorityestablished in texts What forms of expression are possible in contemporary anthropology How can we be sensitive to power relations in knowledge production and in writing in ways that produce knowledge with emancipatory effects, and bring our voice(s) into dialogue with spaces and communities of research
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  • ANTH 6001: Documentary Filmmaking

    2.00 - 3.00 Credits
    California Institute of Integral Studies

    This course will explore film and the craft of filmmaking as interrogation of history and the present. We will explore indigenous struggles for survival within modern nation states, and relate this to grassroots movements against systemic global oppression. We will look at immigration laws in relation to empire, resistance, and race; and gender, immigration, law, and state. Relying on film and filmmaking to pose questions of ourselves and others and the legacies that shape us in relation to landscape, memory, absence, the archive, the course will link the filmmaker's work with the work of students in the course to explore possibilities for solidarities, invigorate dialogue, and challenge structures of oppression.
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  • ANTH 6002: Academic Writing

    2.00 - 3.00 Credits
    California Institute of Integral Studies

    In this course, we shall approach two tasks simultaneously: how to approach a set of historical narratives and how to produce a historical analysis. More specifically, we shall attempt to generate a history of the work of the amateur anthropologist Maurice Vidal Portman, who worked among the indigenous population of the Andaman Islands in the 19th century. We will begin with some introductory exercises, using the Davidson & Lytle textbook on historical methods. We will then do some background reading on the British colony in the Andaman Islands, and generally on colonial anthropology. Students will be expected to choose a specific topic and write a 10-page analytical paper.
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  • ANTH 6003: Middle East:Culture,History,Politics

    2.00 - 3.00 Credits
    California Institute of Integral Studies

    Through readings, discussions, films, documentaries, and lectures, the course aims to discuss the making and remaking of the region, and will cover central issues in the region's history, society, politics, and culture since the late 19th century, which have ramifications for the current situation in the region. Among the issues that will be discussed: gender, colonialism, imperialism, Orientalism, and political, social, and cultural identities.
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  • ANTH 6590: Music and Healing:African Traditions in Global Perspectives

    1.00 - 3.00 Credits
    California Institute of Integral Studies

    This course examines the relation between music and healing in diverse traditions of Africa and the African Diaspora. How is music at once a social ritual, medium for community building, source of resistance to oppression, and spiritual force We will utilize multiple learning modalities to explore these issues, including analyses of case studies and the experience of music making and dance. Through affirmative relations to intellect, body, soul, earth, and world, creativity will be expressed and shared among participants, including students, teachers, and local musicians and artists.
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