Graduate course listings -- fall 2001


This internal catalog is updated regularly. Continue to check the Department bulletin board outside 232 Kroeber for changes (in Bold). For independent study courses, graduate students get CCNs from the Graduate Office; undergraduates obtain the CCN by filling out and returning a signed application with the Undergraduate Office (209 Kroeber).

Many graduate seminars are open to qualified undergraduates.

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ANTHRO 219: SPECIAL TOPICS IN MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY: "ALCOHOL AND CULTURE"
S. Brandes, 4 units, Th: 10-12


CANCELLED


ANTHRO 228: METHOD: "METHOD AND THEORY IN LITHIC TECHNOLOGY"
M. Shackley 4 units, Tu: 10-12, 16, Hearst Gym


Seminar level overview of current method and theory in prehistoric lithic technology. The geographic focus will be worldwide, although the emphasis will be topical. Major topics of discussion will include archaeometric methods in the service of lithic technology (NAA, XRF in raw material studies; ESEM in utilization studies), procurement and production, debitage analysis, style, ethnicity and gender studies, experimental technology (replication studies), use-wear studies, ethnoarchaeology, critical examination of various theoretical approaches to stone tool analysis. Additional class time (depending on weather) will be devoted to flintknapping practice including replication. This seminar does not assume any previous knowledge other than post-graduate background in archaeological method and theory.

Weekly reading on topics will provide the basis for seminar discussion. All students are expected to read assigned material and participate in discussions.

Requirements: Graduate students only. Classroom participation and a term paper. No exams. Term paper should focus on one or more of the topics discussed in class.


ANTHRO 229A: ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH STRATEGIES
K. Lightfoot/R. Tringham 4 units, W: 2-5, 2547 Channing


This graduate seminar is REQUIRED for all first and second-year graduate students in archaeology. It is open to other students in anthropology and in other departments who are interested in the history and theory of archaeological practice. Particular attention in the seminar will be given to the Anglo-American tradition of archaeological practice, although other intellectual regions will be considered, depending upon the areas of student interest and research. In particular we shall focus on the emergence and specification of the so-called "ecological-evolutionary"paradigm: how and why it came to take the form(s) that it did, what issues and approaches were precluded or marginalized, what "gains" it has achieved, and how and why it set the stage for the various "post-processualist" types or archaeology that have emerged recently. There will be regular discussions and extensive reading. Students are expected to attend all classes, to participate and to be prepared. In addition, one major research paper (20-25 pages long) and probably a few debate presentations will be required during the course of the semester.



ANTHRO 230-1: SPECIAL TOPICS IN ARCHAEOLOGY: "ZOOARCHAEOLOGY"
L. Scheiber 4 units, M: 10-12, 2547 Channing


This seminar is designed for advanced undergraduate or graduate students interested in using zooarchaeology in their own work. Like the undergraduate methods class, this seminar will address various topics within the subfield, such as recording data, methods of quantification, taphonomy, and the uses of faunal analyses for interpretating past social practices. This course is intended to teach students how to create appropriate research designs around the interpretation of animal remains and to incorporate these research designs into their own work. Students will explore these issues through readings, lectures, discussions, and laboratory analyses. Coursework will focus on literature review, lab methodology, quantification, and report preparation.



ANTHRO 230-2: SPECIAL TOPICS IN ARCHAEOLOGY: "FOOD"
C. Hastorf 4 units, W: 10-12, 2547 Channing


Description not available.



ANTHRO 240A: FUNDAMENTALS OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL THEORY
L. Cohen 5 units, TTh: 2-5, Rm. 15, 2224 Piedmont


This seminar is required of all first-year graduate students in social cultural anthropology. It will focus on major ideas in social cultural anthropology. The course is restricted to graduate students in anthropology, medical anthropology, and demography.



ANTHRO 250R: ANALYSIS OF FIELD DATA: "DISSERTATION WRITING"
S. Brandes 4 units, Th: 12:30-2:30, 309 Kroeber


Description not available.



ANTHRO 250X-1: SPECIAL TOPICS IN SOCIAL/CULTURAL: "PRACTICE"
W. Hanks and X. Liu 4 units, W: 3-6, 155 Kroeber (Note change of room. Room change takes effect on 9/12/01.)

Description not available.



ANTHRO 250X-2: SPECIAL TOPICS IN SOCIAL/CULTURAL: "HISTORY OF DISCOURSE"
W. Hanks 4 units, Tu: 11-2, Rm. 15, 2224 Piedmont


CANCELLED.



ANTHRO 250X-3: SPECIAL TOPICS IN SOCIAL/CULTURAL: "FROM SOCIALISM TO POST-SOCIALISM: FORMER SOVIET UNION, EASTERN EUROPE, CHINA"
A. Yurchak 4 units, W: 10-1, Rm. 15, 2224 Piedmont


Description not available.



ANTHRO 250X-4: SPECIAL TOPICS IN SOCIAL/CULTURAL: "RACE AND GOVERNMENTALITY"
D. Moore 4 units, W: 3-6, Rm. 15, 2224 Piedmont


This graduate seminar examines historically specific political technologies of power that have used "race" as a critical marker of identity, difference, and exclusion. Michel Foucault proposed the analytic of governmentality as a means to conceive of modern assemblages of power that targeted subjects of rule; sought to manage, discipline, and regulate individuals, populations, and social spaces; and produced political subjectivities by shaping, guiding, and encouraging specific modes of conduct. We seek to clarify the political and analytical stakes of emphasizing "governmentality" rather than the liberal language of "governance" or structural theories of "the state," foregrounding the micro-practices through which modalities of power work as well as the kinds of subjects they interpellate. We also provincialize Foucault's Europe, stressing the imperial routes of race and their contemporary legacies within and beyond the West.

Conceiving of race as a constitutive feature of modern power, the course traces the genealogies of Enlightenment formations that entangled race within modernity's keywords of nation, empire, and improvement. Yet this shared historical backdrop does not, as Stuart Hall and others have argued, account for the concrete work that different forms of racism accomplish in culturally, historically, and geographically diverse contexts. Governmentality offers a means to explore how technologies of rule racialized bodies, populations, and landscapes within a common project yet with distinct and varied effects. In turn, we ask how race articulates with other forms of difference and inequality, shaping lived experiences and political subjectivation. In so doing, we necessarily encounter the cultural politics of gender, class, ethnicity, and nationalism, among other salient themes. By closely engaging ethnographic perspectives on the micro-practices of power as well as conceptual cartographies of race, the course seeks to fuse critical perspectives on both race and governmentality, using each to illuminate the other.

Required texts:
Marisol de la Cadena, Indigenous Mestizos (2000)
Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality (1978)
Paul Gilroy, Against Race (2000)
Steven Gregory, Black Corona (1998)
John Hartigan, Racial Situations (1999)
Mahmood Mamdani, When Victims Become Killers (2001)
Achille Mbembe, On the Postcolony (2001)
Ann Laura Stoler, Race and the Education of Desire (1995)

A range of historical and contemporary readings will also draw from the writings of, among others: Hannah Arendt, Clive Barnett, Frantz Fanon, David Theo Goldberg, Stuart Hall, Matthew Hannah, Barnor Hesse, Uday Mehta, Diane Nelson, Gyan Prakash, Nikolas Rose, David Scott, Nancy Leys Stepan, Verena Stolcke, Michael Taussig, Keith Wailoo, Vron Ware.



ANTHRO 260: PROBLEMS IN FOLKLORE: "FAIRY TALES, MYTHOLOGY, AND RITUAL"
F. Vaz da Silva 4 units, M: 2-4, Rm. 15, 2224 Piedmont


This graduate seminar will examine the thematic and structural rapports of European fairy tales, taken as a whole, to mythology on the one hand and to ritual on the other hand. After a preliminary work of clarification of terms, a recurrent scheme at the heart of European fairy tales will be compared to a basic ritual-mythic pattern defined on the basis of the works of widely different authors such as Maurice Bloch, Ananda Coomaraswamy, Claude Levi-Strauss, Vladimir Propp, and others. The seminar will provide a forum for students interested in exploring the interface of folklore and anthropology. Grades will be based on classroom participation, including at least one presentation in class, and a term research paper.



ANTHRO 280C: SOUTH ASIA
L. Cohen 4 units


CANCELLED.



ANTHRO 290: SURVEY OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCH
C. Hastorf 1 unit, M: 4-6, 160 Kroeber


The departmental seminar, which is held on alternate Mondays from 4-6 p.m. in 160 Kroeber throughout each semester, presents a range of speakers on current topics in anthropology. Speakers and topics are announced prior to the event on the glassed-in bulletin board opposite the main office (232 Kroeber). All students are invited; however, enrollment is strictly limited to and required of all Anthropology, Medical Anthropology, and Demography graduate students who have not been advanced to candidacy.



Related courses in other departments: folklore


FOLK 250A: FOLKLORE THEORY AND TECHNIQUES
A. Dundes 4 units, W: 4-6, 332 Giannini


This seminar, the first semester of a two-semester sequence, is a survey of the history of Folkloristic Theory and method worldwide. Assignment includes the compilation of an annotated bibliography on some folkloristic topic, the bibliography to be the basis of a research paper in the second semester of the year-long seminar.


Prerequisites: Consent of the instructor.