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Course Criteria
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5.00 Credits
Ideas of rights at the center of contemporary politics around the world. An anthropological perspective on how rights are invoked, claimed, and translated into institutional policies in ethnographic cases. The limitations of liberal notions of rights and innovative forms of politics emerging within and against rights talk. 5 units, not given this year
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3.00 - 5.00 Credits
(Same as FRENGEN 367.) The politics of dead bodies as key issue in the humanities during recent decades that link scholars from various disciplines. Contemporary examples of reburial practices of indigenous people, exhumation of disappeared bodies in Latin America, exhibitions of human remains, representation of dead bodies in art, and recent developments in the funerary practices (LifeGem, Biopresence). Rene Girard's theory of the relationship between violence and the sacred. 3-5 units, Spr (Domanska, E)
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5.00 Credits
Reading seminar; restricted to Anthropology graduate students. The anthropology of language and semiotics. Focus is on the limits of textualism, and alternative semiotic and epistemic bases for theorizing language and representation. No linguistic anthropology course work required. 5 units, Win (Inoue, M)
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5.00 Credits
Focus is on theories of commodification, interests in tourism, national cultures as marketable objects, and how identities are constituted through production and consumption. The formation of global style and taste. 5 units, not given this year
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5.00 Credits
Current research on sexuality from perspectives including paleoanthropology, archaeology, ethnography, and linguistic anthropology. Readings paired with case studies that explore theoretical and methodological issues. 5 units, Win (Voss, B)
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5.00 - 20.40 Credits
Issues in cultural theory and methodology through research on people who have greater material and cultural resources than those usually studied by anthropologists. How ideas about ideology, hegemony, identity, power, and practice are altered in studying those considered to be agents of power rather than the subaltern. Topics: global capitalism, masculinity, white racial subjectivity. Enrollment limited to 20. 4-5 units, not given this year
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5.00 Credits
Foucault as methodological exemplar for historical and social research. His historical studies of clinical medicine, prisons, and sexuality, and on applying his methods to empirical studies of topics such as colonialism, race, and liberal governmental rationality. 5 units, not given this year
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3.00 Credits
Interdisciplinary approach to examining global cities. The concept of the global city, and the interdependent processes that help produce urban spaces. Situating the transformation of urban spaces within globalization and its differential effects; current explanatory frameworks that pay attention to multiple scales of spatial and economic articulation. Prerequisite: graduate standing. 5 units, Aut (Ebron, P)
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5.00 Credits
Multidisciplinary. Topics vary annually. Areas include Africa, S. Asia, and Latin America. 5 units, not given this year
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3.00 - 5.00 Credits
(Same as HUMBIO 117.) Theory, method, and application in anthropology. How theory in behavioral ecology developed to understand animal behavior is applied to questions about human economic decision making in ecological and evolutionary contexts. Topics include decisions about foraging and subsistence, competition and cooperation, mating, and reproduction and parenting. 3-5 units, not given this year
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