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  • ANTH 3215: China, Africa, and Globalization

    4.00 Credits
    New College of Florida

    China and Africa are moving ever closer. The extensive exchange of personnel, goods and technologies between the "Middle Kingdom" and the "Dark Continent" invites us to trace a new trajectory of globalization, distinct from its West-centered manifestation. These developments are of theoretical as well as practical significance. This course takes a broad look at historical and current patterns in China-Africa relations, and explores the multi-faceted development of this linkage over the centuries. How do Africans engage the Chinese at different levels and in different registers? What insights can be gained from the past into the future of China-Africa relations, and what implications does this connection have for the world at large? This course will also explore key anthropological concepts, such as gifts, kinship, sociality, globalization and infrastructure, and scholars' use of these concepts in their analysis of China-Africa relations. Enrollment is limited to 20.
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  • ANTH 3220: Anthropology and Development

    4.00 Credits
    New College of Florida

    Given the nature and history of anthropological fieldwork, it is no surprise that anthropology has long been entwined with the practice of "Development." This relationship, however, has rarely been simple. This course will examine the complex engagement between anthropology and development. It will consider the historic role of anthropology in development as well as emerging theories of indigenous or alternative development. We will use specific issues within development to explore a "bottom-up" view of development that focuses on the experiences of those people who are development's supposed beneficiaries and to query the role of anthropologists as both participants and critics. Topics examined will include conservation and development, faith-based development, "compassionate consumption," and health and human rights.
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  • ANTH 3250: Urban Anthropology: Past, Present, and Future

    4.00 Credits
    New College of Florida

    Anthropologists have developed a variety of approaches to the study of urbanism, a fundamental part of the human experience in recent millenia. Through a survey of cases, from Sumer to Mexico City, we will explore a range of techniques and theoretical approaches and evaluate their contribution to our understanding of the nature and culture of the city. The seminar will focus on several themes, including the origin of cities, conflict in relation to class, ethnicity and racialized constructions, urban change, and urban planning. Enrollment limited to 20 with prior work in Anthropology and/or Urban Studies preferred.
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  • ANTH 3300: Ancient North America

    4.00 Credits
    New College of Florida

    What do you know about the Indigenous history of Turtle Island, of North America? And how do you know it. This course offers a post-colonial perspective on the construction of history and continuities of heritage across the continent. As a survey focused on the archaeology (broadly defined) of a continent, the major archaeological debates and the significant heritage sites will be presented, discussed, and assessed. Primarily attention will be given to the Southeastern part of the continent, including Florida. Topics include the peopling of the Americas, the origins of agriculture and the rise of social complexity, the Mississippian societies, the impact of European contact and conquest, and indigenous rights. Survivance will be woven through the analysis of the archaeological research into North America. Background in Anthropology recommended but not required.
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  • ANTH 3320: Conservation and Indigenous Knowledge

    4.00 Credits
    New College of Florida

    This seminar focuses on the ways local and indigenous understandings of the environment compliment, complicate, and conflict with goals of conservation. Students will examine the idea of "indigeneity," compare multiple forms and definitions of "traditional ecological knowledge," and consider the multifaceted processes of knowledge production involved in creating cultural and environmental systems of understanding. Course reading will also study the relationship between "indigenous" and "scientific" knowledge, the challenges of community-based conservation paradigms, the on-going debates over indigenous intellectual property rights, and contemporary indigenous environmental rights movements. This hybrid class has a required in-person component, so it is not open to fully remote students.
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  • ANTH 3330: Colonial Encounters

    4.00 Credits
    New College of Florida

    Colonialism as a formal system of governance has retreated but the uneven power relations, particularly as related to intellectual and policy endeavors, continues. From the later Middle Ages onward, diverse, mostly traumatic, cultural encounters accompanied European expansion across the world, which legitimated understandings of peoples across the Americas, Africa, and Asia generated by colonialism. Historically and geographically wide ranging, this course explores how the asymmetric patterns of interactions then imposed are sustained in the present, including by globalization and tourism. Theory on the development of the modern world, recognition of the intersection of colonialism and ecology, ethnographies on social identity under colonialism, and debates on colonial legacies will be discussed and assessed. Case studies include Native North America, sub-Saharan Africa, and the South Pacific. No prerequisites though background in Anthropology will be helpful.
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  • ANTH 3350: Myth and Ritual: Anthropological Approaches to the Study of Religion

    4.00 Credits
    New College of Florida

    This course presents an overview of anthropological approaches to the study of myth, ritual, world view and concepts of the self. Ethnographic material will be drawn from a variety of cultures. Students will be encouraged to trace theoretical ideas in philosophical and political context, from 19th century models that situated the spiritual beliefs and religious artifacts of colonized peoples within evolutionary schema to contemporary writings about utopian movements, shamanism, and popular musical expression. Prerequisite: Introductory course in Anthropology or Religious Studies preferred but not required.
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  • ANTH 3385: Anthropology and the Law

    4.00 Credits
    New College of Florida

    This team-taught seminar will combine anthropological and legal perspectives to explore the role of the law in everyday life. Students will be guided to interrogate intersections of law, race, gender, sexual orientation, class, and politics in an effort to understand how legal systems affect individuals and social groups. Course readings and assigned films will be supplemented by remote class dialogues with Returning Citizens, law enforcement, prosecutors, public defenders, plaintiffs and defendants. Using an ethnographic approach that seeks to situate the whole person in social context and drawing on cases primarily from the United States, students will examine the realities of people who face a range of challenges including eviction, efforts to expunge criminal records, escaping domestic violence, returning to society after incarceration, and engaging in activism The idea of civil liberties will be traced as a fluid cultural construction that touches lives disproportionately at different locations and times.
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  • ANTH 3400: Race and Ethnicity in Global Perspective

    4.00 Credits
    New College of Florida

    Race haunts the USA. Racism, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, ethnic conflicts, xenophobia, and other social divides seem on the rise and seem to have much in common. This course explores the intellectual history for Race and offers anthropological perspectives on human differences, with and without inequalities. We will consider the historical development of the race concept, models for ethnic identity and ethnic interactions, and explanations for social relations around the globe. The first half of the course focuses on North America and in the second half; we will survey the globe, focusing on southern Africa, the eastern Mediterranean, East Asia, and Western Europe. The implications of our understandings of race and ethnicity in conjunction with the implications of the divisions will be explored via ethnographic texts. Recommended: prior coursework in anthropology.
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  • ANTH 3420: Landscapes: Past and Present

    4.00 Credits
    New College of Florida

    Our landscapes are changing, due to rising sea levels and expanding human populations; archaeology offers perspectives on past settings, the origins of contemporary places, and offers insights into potential future landscapes. Landscape archaeology opens up consideration of the multiple ways people shape the land around them, consciously or unconsciously. A holistic form of archaeological study, the framework includes techniques from geoarchaeology, data organization from GIS, and symbolic analyzes. For this course, topics within landscape archaeology that relate to core principles of Anthropology will be covered including methods of investigation of the physical and symbolic aspects of the cultural landscape, interpretation and modeling of results from archaeology, historical investigations and oral histories; archaeological ethics and cooperative interactions with local and descendant communities concerned with the heritage of the landscapes under study; and strategies for protecting the cultural resources manifest in those landscapes. Examples will range widely over all human periods, from the Paleolithic to the modern era and beyond, and geographically from local Florida landscapes to those across North America and in the eastern Mediterranean, Western Europe, southern Africa, Australia, and South America. No perquisites but background in archaeology will be helpful.
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