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Department of Anthropology
Graduate Course Listings
Fall Semester 1999
This internal catalog is
updated regularly. Continue to check the Department bulletin board
outside 232 Kroeber for changes (in Bold highlights). For independent
study courses, graduate students get CCNs from the Graduate Office;
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- ADDED CLASS: CCN
02947
- ANTHRO 227:
HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY RESEARCH: "HISTORICAL MATERIALS
ANALYSIS"
- L.
Wilkie, 4 units,
M 10-12, 55 Kroeber
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- The seminar this
semester will be limited to advanced graduate student
research.
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- ADDED
CLASS: CCN 03512
- ANTHRO
228B: MULTI MEDIA AUTHORING IN ARCHAEOLOGY
- R.
Tringham, 4
units, M 1-3 and T 3-6, 2224 Piedmont (note change of room)
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- This course is designed
to provide an opportunity for graduate students to experience what
it is like to be the mediator rather than the transmitter of
archaeological knowledge to children. Through the medium of this
class you will be able to put into practice many of the themes of
multivocality and public responsibility that have recently become
important in courses on archaeological method and theory and in
the public forums on archaeology.
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- The students of this
course will participate in the recently funded ARF/Oakland
Archaeology Project. This project is designed to have University
of California, Berkeley archaeology graduate students and faculty
participate in the development of teaching archaeology and
multimedia technology to sixth graders in Roosevelt Middle School,
Oakland. It is a collaborative venture of the Interactive
University of UC Berkeley, the Oakland Unified School District,
and the Archaeological Research Facility of UC Berkeley. The
program is directed by Professor Ruth Tringham and managed by Amy
Ramsay. This course is an essential preparatory and facilitating
step in fulfilling the goals of the ARF/Oakland Archaeology
Project.
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- The ARF/Oakland
Archaeology Project is designed to bring the archaeological
experience to sixth graders through the medium of multimedia
technology--multimedia authoring, WWWeb browsing, Virtual Reality
Interactive games, etc. The graduate student participation will be
carried out as part of the normal classroom activities for the
sixth grade Core Values Social Studies curriculum. The Core Values
program is a fairly recent development in California schools. It
is interesting in that it is trying to introduce a more
"constructivist" view of history in which the multivocal
construction of the past, through documents and archaeological
research, is as important an aim as the "discovery of the past".
The sixth grade is the age at which--through the Core Values
curriculum for Ancient Civilizations--children are first
introduced to archaeology.
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- The graduate students in
this program will be expected to participate in one period per
week per class (2 periods total per student) in the partnered
schools, and with their partner teacher, guide the children
through the mass of archaeological data on the WWWeb and in their
guidebooks with the help of multimedia technology and various
activities, such as role-playing exercises and contact with actual
materials.
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- The students of
Anthropology 228B will work in close collaboration with the
Undergraduate Student Section (Anthropology 135B), in which
students will be mentoring many of the same sixth grade children
in an after-school context. The challenge for the students of
Anthro 228B is to work creatively within the constraints of the
requirements of the Core Values curriculum in terms of content.
Issues of pedagogy as well as class content will form the themes
of the class discussions.
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- Requirements:
This course is essentially a practical research/service-learning
course. An enthusiastic and energetic participation in the
teaching program of the Roosevelt School Core Values curriculum is
a required part of the course. Each student will be part of the
course term project to evaluate the introduction of multimedia
authoring and the archaeological experience to sixth-graders. You
will be expected to keep a running log/journal of your
observations. Instructions in making these observations and making
evaluations will be given during the course.
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- A stipend to cover the
expenses of travel to the Roosevelt School will be provided to
each participant.
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- Prerequisites:
Graduate students with some experience of archaeology are
preferred. Students from other departments may also apply;
bilingual students are especially encouraged to apply.
Participation is subject to the permission of the instructor. If
you have taken previous Multimedia Authoring for Archaeology
classes, this would be greatly to your advantage. Those who have
not had any multimedia technology background will be assisted in
catching up through self-paced tutorials held in the Multimedia
Authoring Center for Teaching in Anthropology (MACTIA) in 2224
Piedmont. Access to an email and Internet account are essential
prerequisites, since an important component of the course will be
frequent consultation of the Course WWWeb Site.
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- ANTHRO
229-A: ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH STRATEGIES
- M.
Conkey/L.
Wilkie, 4 units,
W 2-5, rm. 101, 2251 College
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- 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.
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- ANTHRO
230-1: SPECIAL TOPICS IN ARCHAEOLOGY:
"GEOARCHAELOLOGY"
- P.
Kirch, 4 units, W
10-12, rm. 101, 2251 College
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- CANCELLED.
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- ANTHRO
230-2: SPECIAL TOPICS IN ARCHAEOLOGY: "ARCHAEOLOGICAL STUDY OF
COMPLEX HUNTER GATHERERS: SUBSISTENCE, SETTLEMENT AND SOCIAL
INEQUALITY"
- J.
Habu, 4 units, Th
12-2, rm. 101, 2251 College
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- One of the main foci of
recent prehistoric archaeology is the study of hunter-gatherer
sedentism and its relation to the development of social
inequality. The goal of this seminar, therefore, is to review
current theoretical and methodological issues in the
archaeological research of hunter-gatherer sedentism and cultural
complexity. The seminar will be considering relations between
subsistence strategies, settlement patterns, population growth and
social stratification among hunter-gatherers. The seminar will
also discuss methodological problems in identifying the degree of
sedentism using archaeological data. Case studies to be discussed
will include those from the Northwest Coast of North America,
California, the Arctic, Europe and Asia.
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- Requirements:
Course requirements include oral presentations and a final
paper.
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- Readings: Weekly
readings will be assigned on thematic topics.
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- ANTHRO
240A: FUNDAMENTALS OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL THEORY
- L.
Cohen/
P.
Rabinow, 5 units, T 11-2 in 101, 2251 College and Th 12-2
in 122 Barrows (Note changes.)
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- This seminar deals with
central issues in socio-cultural anthropology: the
conceptualization of culture and society, concepts and
controversies associated with fieldwork and
ethnography, the dimensions of time, space
and history, issues of power and knowledge
and the meaning of comparison in anthropology. These issues
are explored within various traditions: evolutionary, historical,
structural-functional, materialist, symbolic, etc. mainly in U.S.
and European traditions. The course ends just short of the current
and continuing debates in the field which will be taken up in the
240B graduate seminar in spring semester.
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- 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.
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- ANTHRO
250A: PSYCHOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY: "FREUD, BENJAMIN AND
ANTHROPOLOGY"
- S.
Pandolfo, 4
units, M 12-2, rm. 101, 2251 College
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- Description not
available.
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- ANTHRO
250C: TRANSNATIONALISM
- A.
Ong, 4 units. M
12-2, rm. 15, 115 Kroeber (note change of room)
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- It makes sense to review
theories on nationalism and transnationalism together, since they
are related phenomena, and our understanding of one shapes our
understanding of the other. This seminar will interrogate and
assess the universalizing theories of modernity, nationalism, and
globalization, and to consider what kinds of interventions
anthropologists can make in the conversation, especially from
locations and cultures that take counter-positions to naturalizing
and universalizing categories based on Enlightenment assumptions.
The goal is to provincialize Europe and its universalizing
theories.
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- Studies of nationalism
and transnationalism represent the latest attempt within
anthropology to a) reconcile the split between symbolic and
materialist formulations, and b) to intervene, through a mix of
political economy and cultural politics, in the discussion of
globalization. They also explore and creatively rethink Marxist
theory, Foucaultian analytic and cultural analysis in order to
produce a model of complexity, articulation, uneven development,
and multiple determinations in worlds that are at once local and
inescapably global.
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- Requirements:
Priority is given to graduate students in Berkeley
anthropology. Students are expected to make class presentations
and to write a research paper (which can be based on research
already under way). No incompletes accepted.
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- ANTHRO
250G-1: SOCIAL ISSUES AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL ETHICS: "ETHICS AFTER
HUMANISM: FOCAULT AND HEIDEGGER"
- P.
Rabinow, 4 units,
W 2-5, 56 Barrows
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- CANCELLED.
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- ANTHRO
250G-2: "SOCIAL ISSUES AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL ETHICS: "ETHICS AND
RESPONSIBILITY IN CONTEMPORARY ANTHROPOLOGY"
- G.
Berreman, 4
units, Th 10-12, rm. 15, 2224 Piedmont
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- This year the seminar
will address the issues of ETHICS AND RESPONSIBILITY IN
ANTHROPOLOGY, in their contemporary manifestations and their
historical dimension. Special attention will be paid to
anthropology and anthropologists as they relate to: colonialism
and neo-colonialism; the third world; national, transnational and
multi-national corporations; the United States' CIA, AID, State
Department, Defense Department, Information Agency, etc.; sources
of funding public and private, foreign and domestic; United
Nations; religious and secular charitable and public interest
organizations; American Anthropological Assn., especially its
Committee on Ethics; ethical controversies in anthropology;
Practicing and Applied Anthropology; Protection of Human Subjects
requirements; Statement of Professional Responsibility, its
enforcement proposals for its revision; public interest
anthropology and who does it (Anthropology Resource Center,
Cultural Survival, Survival International, International Work
Group on Indigenous Affairs, etc.); indigenous responses to
research; anthropologists as advisers to indigenous peoples; the
politics of research. Specific examples of ethical issues,
dilemmas and transgressions will be studied and discussed. Two or
three short papers will be required. The primary work of the
seminar will be discussion of readings.
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- A xeroxed reader may be
available. Some of the books we are likely to use as resources
(but not as required purchases) are: Thomas Weaver, To See
Ourselves: Anthropology and Modern Social Issues; John Bodley,
Victims of Progress, and Anthropology and Contemporary
Human Problems; Shelton Davis, Victims of the Miracle;
Dell Hymes (ed.), Reinventing Anthropology; Gerald
Berreman, The Politics of Truth: Essays in Critical
Anthropology; Ralph Beals, Politics of Social Research;
Talal Asad, Anthropology and the Colonial Encounter; John
A. Barnes, Who Should Know What? Social Science, Privacy and
Ethics; Edward Diener & Rick Crandall, Ethics in Social
and Behavioral Research; Robert Bower & Priscilla de
Gasparis, Ethics in Social Research: Protecting the Interests
of Human Subjects; Myron Glazer, The Research Adventure:
Promise and Problems of Research; C.W. Mills, The
Sociological Imagination.
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- Serial publications that
will be consulted include: IWGIA Documents series; Anthropology
Resource Center publications; Practicing Anthropology; Human
Organization, etc., etc. Many of the Xeroxed readings will be
drawn from various of the above-cited books and
serials.
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- ANTHRO
250S: MATERIAL CULTURE
- M.
Ferme 4 units M
12-2 122 Barrows
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- This seminar will focus
on the production and negotiation of value, which, as Simmel
pointed out in The Philosophy of Money, is always at once
economic and aesthetic. Value is produced by social labor of
different kinds, which have multiplied in the current world
system, characterized by disjunctures in the global flows of
people and objects in the absence of stable "centers" and
"peripheries" (Appadurai). Thus social labor is no longer limited
to the forms discussed by Marx in Capital, but in contemporary
settings also takes, among others, imaginary forms.
- One of the seminar's
main themes will be the articulation of value with currencies and
commodities. Another will be the relationship between
commoditization and resistance to it, particular historical and
socio-political contexts, do commodities become gifts, and vice
versa? In addition to objects, how do human beings mediating
particular social relations become "commodities," or gifts of
sorts (for example, the commoditization of people in the slave
trade, or the "giving" of women in Lévi-Strauss's exchange
model of marriage)?
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- Requirements:
Seminar participants should be prepared to attend regularly, be
responsible for leading one session, and write a final research
paper. The presentations and writing project should take the
seminar readings as points of departure, but should also contain
original research material on historical and/or contemporary cases
illustrating the social processes analyzed in theoretical terms
through the literature.
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- Readings: In
addition to the authors mentioned above, readings will include
books by Nancy Munn, Marilyn Strathern, Marcel Mauss, C.A.
Gregory, as well as a set of secondary articles relating to the
major themes treated by these authors.
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- ANTHRO
250X-1: SPECIAL TOPICS IN SOCIAL/CULTURAL: "ORIENTALISM,
OCCIDENTALISMS AND CONTROL"
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L. Nader, 4 units, W
12-2, rm. 15, 2224 Piedmont
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- This seminar will
explore the ways in which East and West define each other to
create their own special identity. Topics include the use of
gender, development, modernization, religion, law,
science/technology as categories crucial to a critical
understanding of both "orientalism" and "occidentalism" in
relation to hierarchy and control.
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- During the first part of
the seminar readings will be discussed in seminar time and
different participants will be designated to lead the discussions.
Possible topics for papers should emerge from these discussions.
The latter part of the seminar will include presentations of
student research papers. The seminar will be structured by means
of four topics: 1) the critique of the study of others; 2) the
ubiquitous interest in other peoples that was part of the human
experience long before there were social sciences; 3) 20th century
views of the peoples of other civilizations--western, Islamic,
Indian, Chinese, Japanese; and 4) the reactions and consequences
of the present global interaction between civilizations of
differing power positions.
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- Readings:
- E. Said,
Orientalism.
- J. Abu-lughod, Before
Pre-European Hegemony.
- A. Maalouf, The
Crusades through Arab Eyes.
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- ANTHRO
250X-2: SPECIAL TOPICS IN SOCIAL/CULTURAL:
- "VIOLENCE,
GENOCIDE AND SOCIAL SUFFERING"
- N.
Scheper-Hughes, 4
units, T 2-4, rm. 15, 2224 Piedmont (Note time
change.)
- P. Bourgois; UCSF
Medical Anthropology Program
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- This seminar is designed
as an advanced study group for a select group of graduate students
(particularly in medical and socio-cultural anthropology)
whose doctoral research concerns social and political violence.
Admission by permission of instructor. The instructor will set an
initial agenda for readings and discussion, but seminar
participants may intervene with alternative and additional
suggested readings. The last three meetings will be devoted to
research design and proposal writing related to the topic of
violence. The seminar will continually juxtapose the routine, the
ordinary, the expected violence of everyday life ("terror as
usual") against the sudden eruption of unexpected, extraordinary,
"expressive" or "gratuitous" violence: genocide, state violence in
the form of 'dirty wars' against citizens; vigilante and organized
criminal violence. Seminar will explore various social theories of
explanation and will explore relations between political and
criminal violence; between state violence and revolutionary
violence, between 'organized' and 'mob' violence; race violence,
sexual, and gender violence and the links between individual and
state violence. The seminar will conclude with readings on remorse
and reparation, truth and justice commissions, and on other forums
established promote recovery and healing from violence, torture,
and political trauma.
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- Requirements:
Active participation in discussions and submission of critical
reaction papers responding to the week's readings. A research
paper or a field statement or a research proposal related to the
anthropology of violence, social suffering and/or
genocide.
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- Readings:
Readings will include books and essays by, among others Hannah
Arendt, Anton Blok, F. Fanon, Walter Benjamin, Z. Bauman, Daniel
Goldhagen, Primo Levi, P. Gorevitch, Michael Ignattieff, David
Reiff, Claudia Koonz, C. Enloe, Stanley Tambiah, Michael Taussig,
D. Rejali, Lisa Malkki, Bruce Kapferer, Veena Das, W. Churchill,
James Gilligan, Rian Milan, Lawrence Weschler, Albie Sachs, M.
Feitlowitz, etc.
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- ANTHRO
250X-3: SPECIAL TOPICS IN SOCIAL/CULTURAL:
- "RACE,
NATURE, AND THE POLITICS OF DIFFERENCE"
- D.
Moore, 4 units,
Th 4-7, rm. 101, 2251 College
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- Notions of race, nature,
and cultural difference are constitutive foundations of modern
nations, publics, and populations, yet rarely are their complex
articulations fully mapped. This graduate seminar explores these
contentious cultural politics, attending to historically specific
processes of racialization and naturalization. How have cultural
differences and social inequalities become understood to inhere in
racial essences and fixed nature? What notions of race, nature,
and difference have operated to secure, legitimate, or challenge
prevailing formations? What are the political implications of the
racialized traffic between nature and culture? We address these
questions through historical and ethnographic material, as well as
prominent theoretical approaches, with special attention to
anthropology's complicities, as well as critical interventions,
within these politics of difference.
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- Course themes include:
Racial Taxonomies and the Enlightenment; Bodies, Flesh, and Masks
of Difference; From Savage to Negro (Anthropology's Racial
Imaginary); Blood, Disease, and Identity; Visual Economies of
Race; Race, Nature, and Gender; Ecofeminist Natures; Whiteness;
Mestizaje and Race Mixture; Body Politics and Differences that
Matter; Nations and Naturalization; Indigeneity and the Savage
Slot; Wild Tribes and Untamed Nature.
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- Readings will include
writings by, among others: Ann Stoler, Sander Gilman, Immanuel
Kant, Frantz Fanon, Stuart Hall, Donna Haraway, Hortense Spillers,
Lee Baker, Paul Gilroy, Peter Wade, Brackette Williams, Diane
Nelson, Alcida Ramos, Ajay Skaria, Kamala Visweswaran, Lisa Lowe,
Melbourne Tapper, Keith Wailoo, Saul Dubow, Noel Sturgeon, Diana
Fuss, Ruth Frankenburg, Robert Gordon, and Hazel
Carby.
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- ANTHRO
250X-4: SPECIAL TOPICS IN SOCIAL/CULTURAL:
- "HISTORY
AND ETHNOGRAPHIC IMAGINATION"
- X.
Liu, 4 units, W
2-4, rm. 15, 2224 Piedmont (Note time change.)
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- The idea of history,
understood in a general sense, is not alien to anthropologists.
However, several dominant models of anthropological inquiry
developed in this century presupposed an unquestionable
"ethnographic present," i.e., the presence of an Other in space as
a trace of the past of the West (see J. Fabian 1983). Theoretical
debates in the past two decades have not only posed the question
of the relationship of power between the subject of writing and
the writing subject, but also challenged any static conception of
other societies or cultures. It is in such a context that the
question of ethnographic imagination of history has been raised.
One must also note that, in the general spirit of
poststructuralist inquiry, the notion of history itself has become
a site of theoretical debates. The purpose of this seminar is to
focus on what anthropologists have done in recent years in trying
to understand cultural production in and as historical processes.
By closely reading a number of what may be called historical
ethnography, this seminar tries to achieve three goals: first, to
look into anthropological discussions of encountering experiences
between cultures or societies, particularly between, to adopt a
phrase from Eric Wolf, "Europe and the people without history;"
second, to examine the problem of subjectivity and agency, in
order to relate our discussion to a wider scope of theoretical
debates on the nature of history; third, to trace the changes that
have taken place in the discipline of anthropology in the past two
decades.
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- Readings:
- Sahlins, M. 1985.
Islands of history. Chicago University Press.
- Obeyesekere, G. 1992.
The apotheosis of Captain Cook--European myth making in the
Pacific. Princeton University Press.
- Comaroff, J. and J. L.
Comaroff. 1991. Of revelation and revolution--Christianity,
colonialism and consciousness in South Africa. University of
Chicago Press.
- Comaroff, J. L. and J.
Comaroff. 1997. Of revelation and revolution--the dialectics of
modernity on a South African frontier. University of Chicago
Press.
- Mintz, S. W. 1985.
Sweetness and power: the place of sugar in modern history.
Penguin.
- Asad, T. 1993.
Genealogies of religion --discipline and reasons of power in
Christianity and Islam. The Johns Hopkins University
Press.
- Rosaldo, R. 1980.
Ilongot headhunting, 1883-1974: a study in society and
history. Stanford University Press.
- Dirks, N. 1987. The
hollow crown: ethnohistory of an Indian kingdom. Cambridge
University Press.
- Taussig, M. 1987.
Shamanism, colonialism and the wild man: a study in terror and
healing. Chicago University Press.
- Ohnuki-Tierney, E. 1993.
Rice as self: Japanese identities through time. Princeton
University Press.
- Pemberton, J. 1994.
On the subject of "Java." Cornell University
Press.
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- ANTHRO 260:
PROBLEMS IN FOLKLORE: "FOOD AND CULTURE"
- J. Michael, 4 units, W
10-12, 180 Barrows
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- From Thanksgiving dinner
to Breakfast at Tiffany's, food events, implements, beliefs, and
images pervade and structure human lives. Food communicates and
symbolizes, structures social relationships, and provides rich
opportunities for artistic expression and improvisation. We use
food to think about, express, and control our various identities
(ethnic, regional, religious, personal) to link ourselves with
those like us, and to define those we consider unlike. Food may
serve as weapon or gift, instrument of power, token of exchange,
ritual offering or mode of performance. Drawing on examples from
diverse cultural settings, this course will examine some of the
ways in which aspects of our material, social and cultural worlds
converge in food. Possible topics include: material culture of
food, table manners, festivity and ritual, food as performance,
eating disorders, diets and nutrition, cookbooks, culinary
tourism, and the erotics of eating.
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- ANTHRO
280X: SPECIAL TOPICS IN AREA STUDIES: "CULTURE, POWER, AND
IDENTITY AFTER SOCIALISM: SOCIAL AND CULTURAL TRANSFORMATION IN
POST-SOCIALIST EASTERN EUROPE AND THE FORMER SOVIET
UNION"
- A.
Yurchak, 4 units,
F 12-2, rm. 15, 2224 Piedmont
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- The course will focus on
the countries of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union that
until recently constituted the socialist bloc. We will explore the
transformations of social and cultural logics, power relations,
and people's understandings, aspirations, and practices since the
end of state socialism. The 14 weeks are divided into several
topics, each offering a different perspective on the shifting
categories in socialist and post-socialist societies (e.g.,
transition, state, nation, nationalism, civil society, market and
money, wealth and poverty, corruption and the mafia,"cultural
production and consumption," gender and sexuality). The idea is to
concentrate on these topics not only as an analytical exercise but
also as a means for exploring the questions and methods for your
future ethnographic research in this part of the world. The
readings in the course draw on theories and studies from the
disciplines of socio-cultural anthropology, sociology, political
science, and cultural studies.
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- ANTHRO 290:
SURVEY OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCH
- C.
Hastorf, 4 units,
M 4-6, 160 Kroeber
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- 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.
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- ANTHRO
301-9: PEDAGOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY: PRAGMATICS, POLITICS,
PHILOSOPHY
- Graduate student
coordinator: Moira Perez, 2 units, Tu 4-6, 101, 2251
College
- Faculty sponsor: Donald
Moore
- (CCN 03359)
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- Meeting time: every
other Tuesday, 4-6; begins August 24th.
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- This seminar provides a
space for exploring the practical and ethical aspects of pedagogy
in anthropology. It responds to an expressed desire among graduate
students to engage in critical reflection on teaching as both a
craft and a cultural practice. We will consider education as a
process rooted in specific historical contexts and situated within
fields of culture and power. An important goal of the seminar is
to address issues immediately relevant to the experience of its
participants, especially those graduate students involved in
teaching for the first time. Through close readings, a series of
exercises, discussion, and an engagement with our own learning and
teaching biographies, we will critically reflect upon what takes
place inside our classrooms and develop working philosophies of
teaching.
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- The politics of
difference, teaching in the present, pedagogical philosophies,
academic futures, course design, and teaching styles are among the
topics that will serve as focus points for the seminar. Readings
include works by Pierre Bourdieu, Jane Gallop, Henry Giroux, bell
hooks, Peter McLaren, Richard Miller, Mary Louise Pratt, and Paul
Rabinow.
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- RELATED
COURSES IN OTHER DEPARTMENTS
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- FOLKLORE
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- FOLK 250A:
FOLKLORE THEORY AND TECHNIQUES
- A.
Dundes, 4 units,
W 4-6, 332 Giannini
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- 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.
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- Prerequisites:
Consent of the instructor.
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