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4.00 - 5.00 Credits
(Same as ANTHRO 216A, ARCHLGY 110, ARCHLGY 310.) How human beings make sense of their worlds. The naturalness of ideas, human relations to the natural and supernatural, and dichotomies of West and other, sacred and secular, and faith and skepticism. The material-historical constitution of different of modes of thought. Sources include classic and contemporary theoretical readings in archaeology, anthropology and science studies. Archaeological and ethnographic case studies from different world regions and historical periods. 4-5 units, Aut (Aldrich, C)
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3.00 Credits
(Same as LINGUIST 160.) Principles of historical linguistics:, the nature of language change. Kinds and causes of change, variation and diffusion of changes through populations, differentiation of dialects and languages, determination and classification of historical relationships among languages, rates of change, the reconstruction of ancestral languages and intermediate changes, parallels with cultural and genetic evolutionary theory, and implications of variation and change for the description and explanation of language in general. Prerequisite: introductory course in linguistics or evolutionary theory. GER:DB-SocSci 4-5 units, Aut (Fox, J)
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3.00 Credits
(Same as HUMBIO 187.) The diversity and distribution of human language and its implications for the origin and evolution of the human species. The origin of existing languages and the people who speak them. Where did current world languages come from and how can this diversity be used to study human prehistory Evidence from related fields such as archaeology and human genetics. Topics: the origin of the Indo-European languages, the peopling of the Americas, and evidence that all human languages share a common origin. GER:DB-SocSci, EC-GlobalCom 3 units, Spr (Ruhlen, M)
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5.00 Credits
(Same as URBANST 114.) Core course for Urban Studies majors. The city as interdisciplinary object. Discourses about cities such as the projects, practices, plans, representations, and sensibilities that combine to create what people know about urban spaces. Local, national, and transnational spatial scales. Conversations across regional boundaries; geographies of difference. Case studies. GER:DB-SocSci 5 units, Aut (Inoue, M)
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5.00 Credits
Anthropological approach to the investigation of cities in postsocialist societies. How the cities designed and built by socialist urban planners have changed since the 90s. City planning and architecture, politics of public space, and urban sociality. How the cities have been planned; how people inhabit and change cities in their daily lives. 5 units, Win (Staff)
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5.00 Credits
How do people experience modern cities and urban public cultures through auditory channels How does sound mediate and constitute urban space How to listen to and write about culture through sound. Students carry out narrative interviews and sound fieldwork in the Bay Area. Readings include urban anthropology, semiotics, art history, social studies of science and technology, media studies, and musicology. 5 units, not given this year
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3.00 Credits
(Same as MUSIC 152.) The ethnography of sound; challenges and opportunities in representing and interpreting the music, noise, and silence of human cultures. Readings include work that avoids, engages with, distorts, and celebrates sound. Goal is for the students to develop critical theories and techniques. Guest lecturer is MacArthur Fellow Steven Feld. Fieldwork includes making recordings; final project. 5 units, Win (Diehl, K)
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3.00 - 5.00 Credits
Interdisciplinary. What an anthropological approach demonstrates about labor migration and its impact on migrant workers, the nation state, and globalization processes. Issues of globalization, economics, nationalism, statehood, bureaucracy, class, and race. 3-5 units, Aut (Korczyn, O)
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3.00 Credits
Recent studies by anthropologists and scholars in related disciplines on global production chains and consumption practices. Theories and methods for integrating analysis of the cultural processes that shape the transnational production of commodities with analysis of the cultural practices that shape their consumption. Transnational production, distribution, and consumption of commodities. Sources include literature on the cultural production of commodities and their consumption. Prerequisite: course work in cultural anthropology. Recommended: ANTHRO 90. 4-5 units, Spr (Yanagisako, S)
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3.00 - 5.00 Credits
The study of skeletal remains from archaeological contexts. Methods of bioarchaeology including taphonomy, paleodemographics, paleopathology, and molecular approaches. Case studies illustrate issues such as health consequences of the adoption of agriculture, cannibalism, and relationships among health, violence, class, and sex in historic and prehistoric cultures. GER:DB-NatSci 3-5 units, not given this year
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