A concentrated study of specific problem areas reflecting the research interests of members of the department. Prerequisites Permission of the...
This course explores the use of audio-visual recording techniques in ethnographic fieldwork, the documentary representation of social groups and...
(Cross-listed as SY333.) Notes 3 lecture hours
Topics will include myth, folklore, life histories, jokes, riddles and other forms of oral narrative. The place of folklore and myth studies in the...
This course introduces students to the major contemporary approaches to the study of politics and power in anthropology. Topics to be addressed...
An introduction to contemporary society and cultures of India, with a focus on issues related to such cultural phenomena as globalization, caste...
An introduction to the anthropological study of kinship, marriage and gender, and patterns of social organization. Prerequisites AN101; Year 3...
An examination of pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial African cultures. Prerequisites AN101; Year 3 or Year 4 Anthropology program OR...
An introduction to Latin American culture and society through an analysis of the relations of power that cut across the socio-political landscape in...
An exploration of issues arising from writing about the experience and interpretation of ethnographic fieldwork. Aspects of representation such as...
This course explores the dramatic social and cultural transformations occurring in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union in the aftermath of the...
This course deals with contemporary anthropological thinking on the ways local and global flows of peoples, goods and ideas inform cultural practices...
This course introduces anthropological approaches to technology and science. It questions strictly technical perspectives by raising issues of power,...
This course introduces anthropological approaches to studying the experience, imagination, and social production of space and place. It will consider...
This course examines a wide range of anthropological perspectives on violence and terrorism. Topics explored include everyday violence, genocide and...
A survey of the methods of cultural anthropological inquiry including such issues as the relationship between theory and research, research design and...
Selected studies in contemporary theory and ethnography. Prerequisites AN200 and AN202. Notes 3 lecture hours
Through close reading of major ethnographic classics this course explores the historical connections between the rise of anthropological fieldwork and...
A concentrated study of specific problem areas reflecting the research interests of members of the department. Prerequisites Registration...
This course examines how cultural anthropologists apply their theories, methods and insights to the solution of practical problems. The historical...