(1-99) Primarily for Undergraduate Students

ANTH 1a Introduction to the Comparative Study of Human Societies
[ djw nw ss ]

Examines the ways human beings construct their lives in a variety of societies. Includes the study of the concept of culture, kinship, and social organization, political economy, gender and sexuality, religion and ritual, symbols and language, social inequalities and social change, and globalization. Consideration of anthropological research methods and approaches to cross-cultural analysis. Usually offered every semester.

ANTH 5a Human Origins
[ ss ]

Covers the transformation of human biological and cultural endowments through some 7 million years, from hominoids to anatomically modern humans. Topics include the human genome, evolutionary principles, our place in nature, studies of non-human primates, and the hominid fossil record. Key transformations are highlighted, such as the emergence of bipedalism, reliance on organic and stone-based technologies, the control of fire, the appearance of language and material sign systems, and the anthropogenic impacts of the global dispersal of modern humans. Usually offered every year.

ANTH 7a Archaeology and the Human Experience: An Introduction
[ nw ss ]

Introduces archaeology as the anthropological study of humans in the past. Considers foundational theories and methods in archaeology, while exploring the archaeology of economy, warfare, art, systems of power, science, and more. Delves into the ways relationships to environments changed as people domesticated plants and animals, the reasons many moved from a nomadic to settled life, and the origins of great civilizations in the ancient world--Mesopotamia, Egypt, China, Africa, the Americas, and more. Usually offered every year.

ANTH 26a Communication and Media
[ dl ss ]

A wide-ranging exploration of the human communicative capacity, starting with verbal and visual communicative modalities and culminating in the study of communication through mass and social media. Usually offered every second year.

ANTH 55a Anthropology of Development
[ nw ss ]

Examines efforts to address global poverty that are typically labeled as "development." Privileging the perspectives of ordinary people, and looking carefully at the institutions involved in development, the course relies on ethnographic case studies that will draw students into the complexity of global inequality. Broad development themes such as public health, agriculture, the environment, democracy, poverty, and entrepreneurship will be explored. Usually offered every second year.

ANTH 60a Archaeological Methods
[ ss ]

Focuses on the exploration of archaeological sites on and near campus to offer a practice-oriented introduction to field methods, including surface-survey, mapping, and excavation of archaeological features. Other topics include principles of stratigraphy and relative/chronometric dating methods. Usually offered every second year.
Charles Golden or Javier Urcid

ANTH 60b Archaeological Analysis
[ dl ss wi ]

Introduces archaeological laboratory methods and analyses, emphasizing hands-on experience and research design. Students engage in practical materials analysis and research working with genuine archaeological artifacts. Course participants will build their project management skills and consider archaeological methodologies, including artifact recovery, analysis, conservation, and eventual publication. Students will also explore vital archaeological dialogues and theoretical approaches comprising the archaeological process, such as the challenges of interpreting human behavior from material remains, the ethical quandaries of cultural heritage, and the questions of who narrates and owns the past. Usually offered every second year.

ANTH 61b Language in American Life
[ deis-us oc ss ]

Examines both language-in-use and ideas about language varieties in the United States from an anthropological perspective. Explores how language-in-use emerges from and builds relationships, social hierarchies, professional authority, religious experience, dimensions of identity such as gender and race, and more. Usually offered every second year.

ANTH 62a Archaeology in Politics, Film and Public Culture
[ oc ss ]

Examines the use of archaeology in national politics, popular culture, and continued international debates revolving around issues of cultural patrimony. After a brief look at the history of the field and its inception within colonialism, this course centers on the contemporary uses of archaeology, including archaeology in totalitarian Nazi Germany and Mussolini's Italy, nationalist projects and the establishment of nation-building narratives (such as in Israel, Egypt, China and Mexico), and portrayals of archaeology in popular films and modern hoaxes. Importantly, this course also focuses on national and international laws concerning cultural objects and sites, and the ethical dilemmas of stewardship, repatriation, and looting. Usually offered every third year.

ANTH 70a Business, Culture and Society
[ ss ]

In a diverse and rapidly changing global marketplace, it is crucial to understand local traditions, customs and cultural preferences. In this course, we adopt anthropological approaches to understand their impact on business practices, products, services, clients and ideas. Usually offered every second year.

ANTH 80a Anthropology of Religion
[ nw ss ]

Introduces the anthropological study of religious experience and practices across diverse contexts. Studies rituals, from initiation to conversion to pilgrimage, and examines the relationship between religion, society, and politics in a variety of societies. Usually offered every second year.

ANTH 81a Conducting Ethnographic Fieldwork: Methods and Practice of Anthropological Research
[ oc ss wi ]

Formerly offered as ANTH 181aj.

Examines principal issues in ethnographic fieldwork and analysis, including research design, data collection, and ethnographic representation. Students will develop a focused research question, design field research, and conduct supervised fieldwork in a variety of local settings. Usually offered every second year.

ANTH 92a Internship and Analysis

Students may take no more than one departmental internship for credit.

The department sponsors internships for junior and senior majors and minors. Internships combine off-campus and on-campus work that provides a significant anthropological learning experience and academic study supervised by a departmental faculty sponsor. Majors may substitute one internship for the ninth elective course option. Students doing summer internships register for course credit in the following fall semester. A minimum GPA of B+ in anthropology courses is required for eligibility. For additional information, see the Guidelines for Anthropology Internships, available from the undergraduate adviser. Usually offered every year.

ANTH 95a Anthropology Research Lab

Corequisite: Varies by section. See the schedule of classes. Course may be taken as a prerequisite within the past year with permission of the instructor. Yields half-course credit.

Provides firsthand experience conducting anthropology research on a topic related to the base course. Activities may include the following: participate in data collection and analysis (including fieldwork, interviewing, and digital research), conduct literature searches through the library and internet, learn analysis and data management skills, help to prepare a research report or poster for a professional meeting, journal or blog, and develop and pursue your unique research questions. May be taken concurrently with the base course or within one year after completing the base course. Usually offered every second year.

ANTH 98a Individual Readings and Research in Anthropology

Individual readings and research under the direction of a faculty supervisor. Usually offered every year.

ANTH 98b Individual Readings and Research in Anthropology

Yields half-course credit.

Individual readings and research under the direction of a faculty supervisor. Usually offered every year.

ANTH 99a Senior Research

Seniors who have a 3.5 or higher GPA in anthropology courses and who wish to be considered for honors submit a thesis proposal to the department faculty and, if accepted, enroll in this course with permission of the instructor. Usually offered every year.

ANTH 99b Senior Thesis

Prerequisite: Satisfactory completion of ANTH 99a. Does not count toward the major in anthropology.

Seniors who wish to complete a senior honors thesis normally enroll in this course. Usually offered every year.

(100-199) For Both Undergraduate and Graduate Students

AAPI/ANT 155a Political Violence in the Philippines and Filipinx America
[ deis-us djw ss ]

Examines mass-scale political violence through an anthropological lens, with the Philippines as the main focus of study. Topics to be explored include: anthropological approaches to political violence and genocide; Spanish, Japanese, and US colonial regimes in the Philippines and Transpacific; the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos; the “war on terror” in the Philippines and President Duterte’s “war on drugs;” COVID authoritarianism and environmental political violence; and how the colonial experiences of Philippine peoples—under the Spanish, US, and Japanese empires—have impacted and informed the lives of Filipinx Americans. Sources will include anthropological ethnographies, historical and theoretical texts, novels, media sources, and art works. Special one-time offering, fall 2024.

ANTH 105a Myth and Ritual
[ nw ss ]

Studies myth and ritual as two interlocking modes of cultural symbolism. Evaluates theoretical approaches to myth by looking at creation and political myths. Examines performative, processual, and spatial models of ritual analysis through study of initiation, sacrifice, and funerals. Usually offered every second year.

ANTH 107a Value, Wealth, and Power in a World without Money
[ djw nw ss ]

Examines the relationships of value, wealth, power, and authority in the Aztec Empire, Inka Empire and Classic period Maya kingdoms of the Prehispanic Americas. In so doing it raises questions about the origins of these relationships in modern states. Usually offered every third year.

ANTH 109a Children, Parenting, and Education in Cross-Cultural Perspective
[ djw ss ]

Examines childcare techniques, beliefs about childhood and adolescence, and the objectives of school systems in different areas of the world, in order to illuminate cross-cultural similarities and differences in conceptions of personhood, identity, gender, class, race, nation, and the relationship between the individual and society. Usually offered every third year.

ANTH 110b Discipline, Rules, and Power
[ ss ]

In this course, we will consider these three key terms—discipline, rules, and power (and perhaps also violence)—by engaging thinkers across critical philosophy, anthropology, Black studies, postcolonial studies, ethnic studies, and queer-feminist studies. From prisons to schools to fashion to art, we will explore different theories of discipline, rules, and power, considering how our conception of life and death and survival are shaped by these theoretical insights. Usually offered every second year.

ANTH 111a Aging in Cross-Cultural Perspective
[ djw nw ss wi ]

Examines the meanings and social arrangements given to aging in a diversity of societies, including the U.S., India, Japan and China. Key themes include: the diverse ways people envision and organize the life course, scholarly and popular models of successful aging, the medicalization of aging in the U.S., cultural perspectives on dementia, and the ways national aging policies and laws are profoundly influenced by particular cultural models. Usually offered every second year.

ANTH 112b Bison, Berries and Banquets: The Social Archaeology of Food and Drink
[ nw ss wi ]

Some of our strongest values and beliefs -- about the cosmos, the world, other people, our culture, and ourselves -- are expressed in the ways we use, consume, think about, and talk about food. In this class, we will consider the theoretical and methodological approaches that archaeologists use to study food and eating in society from a global anthropological perspective; we will identify and analyze the material processes of food production, preparation, and consumption, the cognitive models that define our food choices, and the ways power and inequality drive global feast and famine. Usually offered every third year.

ANTH 113b Race and Ethnicity: Anthropological Perspectives
[ ss ]

Examines theories and ethnographies of race and ethnicity through three units: literary and social scientific theories of race and othering; the race system in the U.S. today; and a comparative look at the American racial system to explore ways in which America's race system varies cross-societally and cross-historically. One goal of the course is to understand changing ideas of race and ethnicity that have emerged from anthropologists and cultural critics. Usually offered every fourth year.

ANTH 114a Anthropology of the Military and Policing
[ oc ss ]

Explores cultural dimensions of military and policing organizations, including institutional, embodied, linguistic, and ritualistic instantiations of military and policing ideologies. Topics include experiences of military and police service, social and cultural dynamics in military and policing organizations, gender and LGBTQ issues, and the Human Terrain Team controversy. Usually offered every third year.

ANTH 115a Therapy, Care, and Governance: Listening and Society
[ oc ss ]

Politics, power, and even a sense of self are frequently identified with having a voice. Creating such a voice, however, is not solely up to speakers. Far from being a passive activity, listening can be evaluative and even coercive, guiding people to speak and act in certain ways. It plays a part in the creation of political ideologies and is an important tool that states use to govern people. It can also be a means to sympathetically connect to people, though such listening tends to be unequally distributed and can create burdens for listeners and speakers alike. In this class, we will critically analyze ways that listening shapes relationships between people. Using data from various parts of the world and a wide range of settings including cities, deaf communities, places of suffering, legal hearings, and prisons, we will explore the broad social effects of different ways of listening. Usually offered every fourth year.

ANTH 116a Human Osteology
[ sn ss ]

Anthropology majors have priority for enrollment. Students wishing to enroll during early registration should waitlist themselves.

Skeletal anatomy and application of forensic techniques to archaeological problems. Hands-on laboratory sessions focus on methods of estimating age at the time of death, determining sex, assessing skeletal variability, detecting instances of bone remodeling, and identifying cultural and natural modifications to bony tissue. Case studies exemplify bioarchaeological approaches. Usually offered every second year.
Javier Urcid

ANTH 117a Global Migration and Transnational Communities: Anthropological Perspectives
[ oc ss ]

Explores the profound impacts of global migration on the social, cultural, and economic landscape of societies around the world from an anthropological perspective. Centering on migrants' subjective experiences, the course explores why people move and how they navigate and interact with other individuals, diverse social networks, the state, and structural inequalities. Topics include race, ethnicity, citizenship, nationalism, transnationalism, diaspora, identity, gender, social class, labor, capitalism, globalization, violence, and memory. Usually offered every third year.

ANTH 118b Culture and Power in the Middle East
[ ss ]

Examines the peoples and societies of the Middle East from an anthropological perspective. Explores problems of cross-cultural examination, the notion of the Middle East as an area of study, and the role of anthropology in the formation of the idea of the 'Middle East.' To this end, the course is divided into sections devoted to understanding and problematizing key concepts and themes central to our understanding of the region, including tribe and state, family and kinship, gender and sexuality, honor and shame, tradition and modernity, and religion and secularism. Course materials will include critical ethnographies based on field work in the region as well as locally produced materials such as literature, music, film and other visual arts. Usually offered every fourth year.

ANTH 119a Conquests, Resistance, and Cultural Transformation in Mexico and Central America
[ djw nw ss wi ]

Examines the continuing negotiation of identity and power that were at the heart of tragedy and triumph for indigenous peoples in colonial Mexico and Central America, and which continue in the modern states of Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and Honduras. Usually offered every second year.

ANTH 120b Ecology and Society in the Middle East and the Arabian Peninsula
[ ss ]

Examines how humans interact with the world around them. The course covers the main theories of the relationship between ecology and society, and explores issues related to the environment and agriculture in the Middle East, with a focus on the Arabian Peninsula. Usually offered every third year.

ANTH 121b Archaeology and Environment
[ dl nw ss ]

Provides an introduction to archaeological approaches to the environment. Explores how human history and prehistory have been defined by moments when political, cultural, economics, and ecological systems collide. Topics include climate change, food systems, plant and animal relations, and natural resources. Usually offered every second year.

ANTH 122a Chinese Diaspora: Anthropological Perspectives
[ djw oc ss ]

Provides an anthropological perspective into understanding the global Chinese diaspora. It explores diasporic Chinese and their communities within a holistic framework that takes into consideration complex historical, economic, socio-political, and cultural contexts. Through the lens of the Chinese diaspora, the course is aimed at engaging with broader contemporary themes and debates including identity politics, race and ethnicity, gender, nationalism and transnationalism, colonialism, capitalism, and globalization. Usually offered every fourth year.

ANTH 123b Lost Voices: The Historical Archaeology of Oppression and Exploitation
[ djw ss wi ]

Historical archaeology utilizes written records and oral traditions to contextualize places, things (cultural materials), and critical dialogues, past and present. This course introduces the primary tools and techniques historical archaeology uses to analyze past histories and material culture through a social lens, connecting archaeology with an exploration of the complex relationships between colonialism, consumerism, capitalism, slavery, race and freedom, structural racism, and the past, present, and future. Usually offered every three years.

ANTH 124a Maritime Archaeology: The Salty Relationship Between Society and The Sea
[ dl ss ]

Provides an introduction to maritime archaeology, exploring the entangled relationships between human history, society, and the sea. Utilizing theoretical and technical methods from maritime, nautical and marine/underwater archaeology, this class will provide a practical approach to examining maritime archaeology methods and topics such as trade, boat and ship development and construction, navigation, submerged landscapes, maritime culture, climate and climate change, and legislative issues regarding underwater and coastal heritage. Usually offered every third year.

ANTH 125a Abnormality in Medicine
[ deis-us ss wi ]

Prerequisite: Open to sophomores and above.

Focuses on how societal values shape desires and norms around the body. Students will engage with work from across the humanities and social sciences that highlights how social differences like race/ethnicity, gender, and dis/ability shape possibilities and aspirations for a good or a normal life. Usually offered every second year.

ANTH 126a U.S. Policing in Context: Past, Present, Future
[ deis-us ss ]

An interdisciplinary analysis of policing in the United States, which considers policing narratives, training, culture, representation, and technology. Case studies include Black Lives Matter protests and the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol. Theoretical frameworks utilized include anthropology of power, critical race theory, and criminal justice. Usually offered every third year.

ANTH 127a Medicine, Body, and Culture
[ djw nw ss ]

Examines main areas of inquiry in medical anthropology, including medicine as a sociocultural construct, political and economic dimensions of suffering and health, patients and healers in comparative medical systems. Usually offered every year.

ANTH 128a Meaning and Material Culture
[ ss ]

Whether indexing identities, exchange valuables, or representations of cultural meanings, objects are seen as means to mediate social interaction and practices. This course focuses on how materials that express culturally coded meanings (whether contextual, formal, or conventional) can be adequately studied in the relative absence of indigenous interpretation. The course has a hands-on component based on the artifact collection in the department's Material Culture Research Center. Usually offered every second year.

ANTH 129a Culture in 3D: Theory, Method, and Ethics for Scanning and Printing the World
[ dl ss ]

Designed to train students in the methods needed for the successful application of 3D modeling and printing for the documentation, conservation, and dissemination of cultural patrimony. Students will acquire the technical skills and engage in the ethical debates surrounding ownership and reproduction of such patrimony. Usually offered every second year.
Charles Golden and Ian Roy

ANTH 130a Filming Culture: Ethnographic and Documentary Filmmaking
[ djw dl nw ss ]

Introduces the history, theory and production of ethnographic and documentary filmmaking. This course traces how ethnographic and culturally-inflected filmmakers have sought to depict cultural difference, social organization, and lived experiences. Students will learn the basics of non-fiction film production. Usually offered every second year.

ANTH 130b Visuality and Culture
[ dl ss ]

Introduces students to the study of visual, aural, and artistic media through an ethnographic lens. Course combines written and creative assignments to understand how culture shapes how we make meaning out of images and develop media literacy. Topics include ethnographic/documentary film, advertising, popular culture, viral videos and special effects, photography, art worlds, and the technological development of scientific images. Usually offered every second year.

ANTH 131b Latin America in Ethnographic Perspective
[ djw ss wi ]

Anthropology and LACLS majors and minors have priority for enrollment.

Examines issues in contemporary Latin America and the Spanish Caribbean from the perspective of sociocultural anthropology, based primarily on books and articles drawing on long-term ethnographic research. Topics may include: the Zapatista Rebellion in Mexico; tin mining and religion in Bolivia; mortuary cannibalism in the Amazon; the role of the Virgin of Guadalupe in Mexican national identity; love and marriage among young migrants from Mexico and the United States; weaving, beauty pageants, and jokes in Guatemala; and daily life in revolutionary Cuba. Usually offered every second year.

ANTH 134a Contemporary South Asia
[ djw ss ]

Explores contemporary life in a region called South Asia (including India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Nepal) through divergent histories, cultures, and concepts. Explores not just the region’s histories and cultures, but also a string of concepts and debates that simultaneously make and unmake the region as both a stable object of study as well as place on a map—including caste, Partition, ethnic conflict, religion, nationalism, gender, kinship, liberalization, postcoloniality, development, diaspora, and queerness. Usually offered every third year.

ANTH 135b Culture and Horticulture: Gardens and Worldmaking
[ oc ss wi ]

Explores anthropological and historical perspectives on gardening and horticulture, with an emphasis on how gardening occasions forms of self-fashioning and world-making in diverse contexts. Topics include gardening and cosmologies in small-scale societies, divinity in microcosm; gardens, capitalism, and modernity; and gardens from the margins, including gardening in utopian communities, displaced persons’ gardens in military topographies, and homeless persons’ gardens in their places of abode. Usually offered every third year.

ANTH 136a Archaeology of Power: Authority, Prestige, and Inequality in the Past
[ nw ss ]

Anthropological and archaeological research and theory provide a unique, long-term perspective on the development of inequality and rise of hierarchical societies, including the earliest ancient states such as the Moche, Maya, China, Sumerians, Egyptians, and others through 5000 years of human history. A comparative, multidisciplinary seminar examining the dynamics of authority, prestige, and power in the past, and the implications for understanding the present. Usually offered every second year.

ANTH 137a GIS: Mapping Culture from Land, Air and Space
[ dl ss ]

An introduction to the Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and Remote Sense (RS) technologies that are fundamental for mapping and analyzing spatial data. This course is grounded in archaeological applications, but provides training and research pathways for exploring urban landscapes, environmental dynamics, and more in modern settings. No previous knowledge of GIS or RS is required. Usually offered every third year.

ANTH 138a Digital Cultures
[ dl ss ]

Examines the complex and often fraught relationships between digital technologies and human cultures. By thinking through digital technology’s relationships to structures like race, gender, sexuality, class, and ability, this course helps us explore the human components in the creation, circulation, and experience of digital technologies. What this class spotlights is that though digital technologies may seem materially new and technically innovative, they are built on longstanding power relations that structure both their construction and their circulation. Involves participatory research projects and group work. Usually offered every third year.

ANTH 139b Language, Ethnicity, and Nationalism
[ ss ]

Explores the relationships between communication and community, and the ways language helps to shape social categories such as ethnic group, tribe, race, and nation. What role does language play in producing experiences of belonging and difference? A key component of this course will be exploring the relationship between language and culture. This course will consider a range of global cases, from large-scale projects like language standardization to smaller-scale community practices like code-switching, inflection, and slang to investigate the relationship between how we speak, who we are, and where we feel we belong. Usually offered every third year.

ANTH 140a Human Rights in Global Perspective
[ djw ss wi ]

Explores a range of debates about human rights as a concept as well as the practice of human rights work. The human rights movement seeks the recognition of universal norms that transcend political and cultural difference while anthropology seeks to explore and analyze the great diversity of human life. To what extent can these two goals--advocating for universal norms and respecting cultural difference--be reconciled? The course examines cases from various parts of the world concerning: indigenous peoples, environment, health, gender, genocide/violence/nation-states and globalization. Usually offered every third year.

ANTH 140b Critical Perspectives in Global Health
[ deis-us djw nw ss ]

What value systems and other sociocultural factors underlie global public health policy? How can anthropology shed light on debates about the best ways to improve health outcomes? This course examines issues from malaria to HIV/AIDS, from tobacco cessation to immunization. Usually offered every third year.

ANTH 141a Islamic Movements
[ ss ]

Examines the social and cultural dimensions of contemporary Islamic movements from an anthropological perspective. It starts by critically engaging with such fundamental concepts as Orientalism, colonialism, and nationalism. Topics to be discussed include the difference between the Muslim Brotherhood and Salafism, Islamist feminism, Islamic public arguments, Al-Qaeda and ISIS, victimization and martyrdom, and the relationship between humanitarianism and terrorism. Usually offered every second year.

ANTH 142b Global Pandemics: History, Society, and Policy
[ djw nw oc ss ]

Takes a biosocial approach to pandemics like HIV/AIDS, SARS, Ebola, and COVID-19 as shaped by culture, economics, politics, and history. Discussion focuses on how gender, sexuality, religion, and folk practices shape pandemic situations. Usually offered every fourth year.

ANTH 144a The Anthropology of Gender
[ djw nw ss wi ]

Anthropology majors have priority for enrollment.

Explores gender, sexuality, and cultural systems from a comparative perspective. Topics may include rituals of masculinity and femininity, the vexing question of the universality of women's subordination, culturally-specific classifications of sexual orientation and gender identity, transnational feminisms, sex work, migrant labor, reproductive rights, and much more. Usually offered every year.

ANTH 145a Anthropology of the Body
[ dl ss ]

Explores a range of theories that use the body to understand society, culture, and gender. Topics include how social values and hierarchies are written in, on, and through the body; the relationship between body and gender identity; and experiences and images of the body cross-culturally. Usually offered every third year.

ANTH 147b Archaeology of Indigenous Mesoamerica
[ djw nw ss ]

Traces the development of social complexity in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, from initial colonization in the Late Pleistocene to the Spanish conquest in the sixteenth century. Reviews major societal transformations like food production, the role of competitive generosity and warfare in promoting social inequalities, and the rise of urban societies. It also examines indigenous social movements against Spanish colonialism, and considers the legacies and role of indigenous peoples in the contemporary nations of Middle America. Usually offered every third year.

ANTH 150a Environmental Justice in Global Perspective
[ djw ss ]

Explores anthropological and humanistic approaches to understanding human-environment interactions, the global climate crisis, and environmental justice and climate justice movements highlighting how ecological crises have disproportionately impacted the poor, women and children, and Black, Indigenous, and other people of color. Key themes include: cultural understandings of “nature” and the “environment;” the cultural politics of race, indigeneity, and nature; militarism, empire, and the environment; feminist, queer and decolonial ecologies; Asian American and Pacific Islander environmental justice movements; and perspectives on the global climate crisis and the Anthropocene from the Global South. Usually offered every second year.

ANTH 151b Nature, Culture, Power: Anthropology of the Environment
[ ss ]

Examines the relationships among human and natural worlds. Topics include: the politics of food insecurity and famine, forest, hurricanes and disaster capitalism, forest fires and theories of degradation, climate injustice, and environmental justice/racism. Ethnographies based on research in the United States, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia will enable students to explore how anthropology offers insight into the pressing environmental issues of today. Usually offered every second year.

ANTH 152a The Social Fabric: An Anthropology of Fashion
[ dl ss ]

An ethnographic exploration of fashion as industry and cultural practice. This course addresses how fashion shapes our gendered, ethnic and individual identities. Understanding how much seemingly personal processes unfold within larger economic structures illuminates the linkage between power, modernity, and capitalism. Usually offered every second year.

ANTH 153a Writing Systems and Scribal Traditions
[ nw ss ]

Explores the ways in which writing has been conceptualized in social anthropology, linguistics and archaeology. A comparative study of various forms of visual communication, both non-glottic and glottic systems, is undertaken to better understand the nature of pristine and contemporary phonetic scripts around the world and to consider alternative models to explain their origin, prestige, and obsolescence. The course pays particular attention to the social functions of early writing systems, the linkage of literacy and political power, and the production of historical memory. Usually offered every second year.

ANTH 154a Culture and Mental Illness
[ ss wi ]

Without underestimating the importance of biological causes and treatments, this course challenges the hegemony of bio-medical models in psychiatry by seeking to conceptualize emotional problems and mental illness as historically situated and culturally constructed. Examines how factors related to political circumstances, social institutions, religious belief systems, socio-economic status, and ethnic background participate in shaping forms of distress and the ways they are dealt with in various socio-cultural settings. The course will also consider alternative therapies such as art therapy, community-based treatments, and culturally specific approaches to emotional healing and accommodation. Usually offered every third year.

ANTH 155b Psychological Anthropology
[ djw ss ]

An examination of the relationship between sociocultural systems and individual psychological processes with a critical evaluation of selected theories and studies bearing on this problem. Usually offered every second year.

ANTH 156a Power and Violence: The Anthropology of Political Systems
[ deis-us dl nw ss ]

Political orders are established and maintained by varying combinations of overt violence and the more subtle workings of ideas. The course examines the relationship of coercion and consensus, and forms of resistance, in historical and contemporary settings. Usually offered every second year.

ANTH 158a Urban Worlds
[ dl ss ]

Explores some of the essential concepts of urban theory and conducts an in-depth study of urban experiences around the world. Topics include the city and marginality, urban modernity, gender and public space, gentrification, suburbanization, transportation, transgression, and urban nature. Case studies may be from cities such as Mumbai, Lagos, New York, Paris, Dubai, and Rio de Janeiro. Usually offered every second year.

ANTH 159a Museums and Public Memory
[ oc ss ]

Explores the social and political organization of public memory, including museums, cultural villages, and memorial sites. Who has the right to determine the content and form of such institutions? Working with local community members, students will develop a collaborative exhibition project. Usually offered every second year.

ANTH 161a Anthropology of Infrastructure
[ dl ss ]

There's a problem with infrastructure--electricity networks, water supply systems, pipelines, ports, roads, and railroads. Most of us would agree that infrastructure should be a public thing, serve society, and allow for better life, communication, and activity. Yet infrastructures are often hidden, subterranean, and therefore prone to exploitation and hijacking. The anthropology of infrastructure aims in part at making it more visible and at deciphering the complex interaction between things, society, and politics. But anthropologists end up unearthing more than utility networks and urbanism plans. They stumble upon the very power of inanimate things to orient our experiences, from the most intimate (having sex) to the least material of them (browsing the internet). From politics to ethics and back, this course will explore our relationship to infrastructure. Usually offered every second year.

ANTH 163a Work and Labor in Global Context
[ djw nw ss ]

Takes an ethnographic approach to the study of work and labor in the context of the global economy. By looking at various industries and work cultures, we will explore the changing nature of labor and unpack how global processes affect workers in different economic sectors and regions of the world. Usually offered every second year.

ANTH 163b Economies and Culture
[ djw nw ss ]

Prerequisite: ANTH 1a, ECON 2a, ECON 10a, or permission of the instructor.

We read in newspapers and books and hear in everyday discussion about "the economy," an identifiably separate sphere of human life with its own rules and principles and its own scholarly discipline (economics). The class starts with the premise that this "common sense" idea of the economy is only one among a number of possible perspectives on the ways people use resources to meet their basic and not-so-basic human needs. In the course, we draw on cross-cultural examples, and take a look at the cultural aspects of finance, corporations, and markets. Usually offered every second year.

ANTH 164a Medicine and Religion
[ djw nw ss ]

Considers the convergence of two cultural spheres that are normally treated as separate: medicine and religion. The course will examine their overlap, such as in healing and dying, as well as points of contention through historical and contemporary global ethnographies. Usually offered every second year.

ANTH 164b Cancer and Community
[ djw oc ss ]

Addresses the biophysical and sociocultural dimensions of cancer: how can this dreaded disease be both alienating and associated with new forms of solidarity and social connection? We also consider how vulnerability to cancer is mediated by structures of social inequality. Usually offered every second year.

ANTH 165b Anthropology of Death and Dying
[ djw nw ss wi ]

Explores how different societies, including our own, conceptualize death and dying. Topics include the cultural construction of death, the effects of death on the social fabric, mourning and bereavement, and medical issues relating to the end of life. Usually offered every second year.

ANTH 166b Queer Anthropology: Sexualities and Genders in Cross-Cultural Perspective
[ djw oc ss ]

When held together, “Queer Anthropology” might name something akin to a systematic way of cross-culturally studying human sexuality, gender, and desire that runs against the grain of dominant, socially held beliefs of normalcy (or what we now call normative/heteronormative). Sitting with this definition, we will chart the different worlds that Queer Anthropology might enable us to see and imagine. From transfeminine women who claim to experience pregnancy to sex between straight white Frat brothers to lesbian women finding community through anonymous love letters, this course moves between different scales and registers for talking about sexuality, gender, bodies, and difference. Together, we will trace Queer Anthropology's origins, examine its present moments, and speculate on its potential futures. Usually offered every second year.

ANTH 167a Sports and Society
[ oc ss ]

Examines sports from an anthropological perspective. Students will study sports cultures globally and historically. Topics include: sports and colonialism, doping controversies, gender, nationalism, spectacle, pain and ideas of the body. This course also emphasizes hands-on research and documentation of diverse sports cultures through writing and film. Usually offered every second year.

ANTH 169a Museum Practices
[ dl ss ]

Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

Intended to give students experience in the core set of museum practices, both in the domains of collection management and curation. It is a hands-on, experiential internship that uses the extensive archaeological and ethnographic collections of the Anthropology Department (some 5000 objects) in order to train students in the proper handling and transport of artifacts, design and preparation of adequate storage conditions, maintenance of records and databases, inventorying of un-accessioned objects, photographic documentation, 3D scanning, and computerized illustration of artefacts, virtual reconstruction of fragmented objects, research on individual or sets of related objects, and the exhibition of researched materials. Usually offered every third year.

ANTH 178b Culture, Gender and Power in East Asia
[ nw ss wi ]

Examines the role of culture in changing gender power relations in East Asia by exploring how the historical legacy of Confucianism in the region influences the impact of changes such as the constitutional proclamation of gender equality and rapid industrialization. Usually offered every third year.

ANTH 180b Playing Human: Persons, Objects, Imagination
[ ss ]

Examines how people interact with material artifacts that are decidedly not human and yet which, paradoxically, deepen and extend experiences of being human. Theories of fetishism; masking and ritual objects across cultures; play and childhood experience; and objects of imagination, memory and trauma. Usually offered every second year.

ANTH 182b Applied Anthropology
[ oc ss ]

This course is about using anthropology to solve real-world problems. We will explore how anthropological research and approaches are used to address practical issues related to the environment, urban planning, government services, healthcare, cultural heritage, and user experience in industry. The course gives students the skills in using anthropological concepts and theories in a variety of settings, an understanding of the ethics of applied qualitative research and hands-on experience doing ethnographic research oriented towards solving problems. Usually offered every second year.

ANTH 184b Art in the Ancient World
[ djw nw ss ]

A cross-cultural and diachronic exploration of art, focusing on the communicative aspects of visual aesthetics. The survey takes a broad view of how human societies deploy images and objects to foster identities, lure into consumption, generate political propaganda, engage in ritual, render sacred propositions tangible, and chart the character of the cosmos. Usually offered every second year.

ANTH 185a Archaeological Science
[ ss ]

Prerequisites: One year of college-level chemistry, biology, and physics, or the equivalent. Signature of the Brandeis liaison, required. Topics vary from year to year. May be repeated for credit.

A lecture course in which leading experts from the faculty of the seven major Boston-area universities and the Museum of Fine Arts that comprise the Center for Materials Research in Archaeology and Ethnology (CMRAE) consortium discuss how they apply scientific technology and engineering methods to archaeological analysis. Deals with topics such as radioactive and other methods of age determination, archaeological site formation and soil micromorphology, and the study of materials used in ancient building construction. Usually offered every second year.

ANTH 186b Language and Culture: Linguistic Anthropology
[ ss ]

Explores the foundational relationship between language and culture by introducing students to linguistic anthropology. Explores how language both reflects and creates thought, culture, identity, and power relations. Topics include the study of linguistic meaning in context, the construction of social relationships through language, language and politics, language and religion, and our own experiences with language in everyday life. Usually offered every second year.

ANTH 187a Materials Research in Archaeology, I
[ ss ]

Enrollment limited to advanced undergraduate and graduate students. Topics vary from year to year, and the course may be repeated for credit.

A series of courses, each focusing on a specific topic, such as archaeological analysis of animal or plant remains; the analysis of lithic materials, pottery, or metals; GIS; and statistical analysis. Courses are offered each semester, taught by faculty from the Center for Materials Research in Archaeology and Ethnology, a consortium that includes Brandeis, Boston University, Harvard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Museum of Fine Arts, Tufts, University of Massachusetts, Boston, and Wellesley College. Usually offered every year.

ANTH 188b Materials Research in Archaeology, II
[ ss ]

Enrollment limited to advanced undergraduate and graduate students. Topics vary from year to year, and the course may be repeated for credit.

See ANTH 187a for course description. Usually offered every year.

ANTH/WGS 176a Queer/Trans Theories from Elsewhere
[ deis-us djw ss ]

Centers the notion of 'elsewhere' in relationship to studies of gender, sexuality, power, and desire. 'Elsewhere' refers not only to place, but also to body and method. While terms like 'queer' and 'transgender' have become useful analytics for exploring gender, sexuality, feeling, space, place, relationality, and time, the academic theories that focus on these categories have remained mostly within white, US- and European academic spaces. We invite students to trouble these analytics - that is, the categories themselves, the bodies that these analytics center, and the methods deployed in relation to these analytics - by reading diverse approaches to gender and sexuality. The semester's engagement with 'elsewhere' is divided into three units: body, place, and method. Our objective is to teach students to cultivate new ways of seeing and ultimately new theories of gender and sexuality through engaging with non-canonical perspectives. Usually offered every third year.

(200 and above) Primarily for Graduate Students

ANTH 201a History of Anthropological Thought
[ ss ]

A historical examination of major ideas and perennial problems in social thought that have led to the development of contemporary theory and method in anthropology. Usually offered every second year.

ANTH 202b Advanced Ethnographic Research Methods

An intensive study of anthropological research and ethnographic practice, with particular attention to topic formation, field notes and evocative writing. Combines discussions of ethnography with writing workshops. Readings include essays on research methodology and critiques of ethnographic practice, as well as ethnographic monographs that demonstrate sophisticated fieldwork practices. Writing workshops cover issues such as taking notes in the field and describing scenes, speech in action, characters, language and affect. Usually offered every second year.

ANTH 203b Contemporary Anthropological Theory
[ ss ]

Intensive survey of the major theoretical trends in contemporary anthropology. Examination of comparative, semiotic, materialist, Marxist, feminist, poststructuralist, post-colonial and phenomenological approaches, as well as core concepts: culture, social change, practice, power, materiality, personhood, and other themes of contemporary importance. Usually offered every year.

ANTH 206b Anthropology Graduate Writing Seminar

Designed to be a writing seminar for graduate students at both the MA and PhD levels, this course will provide graduate students with guided academic writing instruction in order to help students to cultivate the necessary writing skills to develop their research agendas, complete key steps towards completion of their degree program, and to produce strong academic writing samples. Throughout our time together, we will focus on learning the genres and styles of academic social science writing. Through weekly opportunities to write together, writing check-ins, comprehensive goal setting, and a consistent peer review process, students will also get a chance to solidify their research interests and to practice sharing those interests with a wider audience. Usually offered every year.

ANTH 208a Documenting Culture: Visual and Multimodal Ethnography

Introduces graduate students to methods and theories central to carrying out visual and multimodal ethnographic fieldwork. We will consider the roles of various forms of media as methodological and analytic tools, and products of research. Graduate students will be introduced to the theory and history informing documentary approaches in ethnography. Throughout the semester students will become learn diverse non-textual methods, familiarizing themselves with how non-textual methods become part of research design, data collection, analytic processes, and ethnographic representation. Class is designed as an intensive theory-practice graduate seminar where students will both think through theories of representation, the particularities of media forms, and the relationship between non-textual methods and analytic approaches while developing hands-on production skills for a variety of multimodal tools encompassing but not limited to film, audio, digital media, photography, installation, archival material, etc. Usually offered every third year.

ANTH 209b Linguistic Anthropology for Ethnographers

This graduate-level seminar is designed to introduce budding practitioners of sociocultural anthropology to select tools and theories from linguistic and semiotic anthropology that they can readily draw on to enhance their scholarship. Some classic linguistic anthropological concepts will be included, but a portion of the syllabus readings will be selected in response to students’ interests and research agendas. Final presentations and papers will allow students to apply tools from linguistic anthropology to their sociocultural projects. Usually offered every third year.

ANTH 210a Power, Bodies, and Biopolitics

Explores the connections between power and the body, specifically the ways power extends into and is operationalized across a range of institutions, such as courts, prisons, families, and medicine. It also considers the ordinary and spectacular forms that power might take. The course encourages students to closely investigate the arbitrary ways in which state and non-state actors negotiate with, challenge, and co-opt power in areas such as law and politics, but also the family, medicine, and even pleasure. Usually offered every second year.

ANTH 212a Personhood, Self, and Identity

Explores the diverse ways anthropologists have engaged with ideas about persons and personhood (and related concepts of self, identity, subjectivity, and embodiment) in theory, research, and writing. Offers a broad understanding of key anthropological debates about personhood, its social implications, and the relationship between the embodied self and collective identities. Usually offered every third year.

ANTH 213a Advanced Topics in Medical Anthropology

Examines recent theoretical debates and disciplinary conversations in medical anthropology. Topics include the cultural authority and construction of medical knowledge; biopolitics; citizenship, and sovereignty; the ontological turn; and birth and death. Students will develop their own research projects. Usually offered every third year.

ANTH 214a Citizenship and Belonging

Explores citizenship as experience and claim, focusing on how it articulates with aspects of identity (gender, race, class and sexuality) and is produced through encounters with place, law, and language. Is citizenship a fact of legal recognition or belonging in a community of value? Is it a condition of being unmarked in social space? How is the framework of citizenship challenged through practices of mobility and the valorization of the global? Usually offered every third year.

ANTH 215b Practical Ethnography

Students will learn how to do ethnographic research and writing in applied contexts. Students will learn about the life of anthropological research outside of academia, gain experience using advanced ethnographic and qualitative research methods geared towards solving problems, and learn how to translate the skills and theory of anthropology and related disciplines in a variety of professional contexts (including industry, medical/public health contexts, non-profits, and city government). The teaching methodology for this course emphasizes practical, hands-on work, collaboration and real world examples. Throughout the semester, students will work as a team doing research for a specific "client." They will learn how to understand the client's needs and context, refine the problem through a participatory design model, use the appropriate research methodology, and visually represent or write the results in a way that is useful for the client. The course emphasizes the acquisition of concrete skills that show the power of ethnography to solve problems, enable organizations to achieve their goals and improve people’s lives. Usually offered every year.

ANTH 216a Black Anthropological Thought

Intensive seminar designed to expand students’ knowledge of Black anthropologists’ extensive influence on sociocultural anthropology throughout the history of the discipline, particularly in relation to critiques of anthropology and the development of theories of Blackness and anti-blackness. Topics explored include ethnographic writing and practice, the history of anthropology, Black feminist methodologies, local and global Black geographies, kinship, foodways, violence, sovereignty, and antiblack racism. Usually offered every third year.

ANTH 219a Readings and Research in Anthropology

Staff

ANTH 239a "Burning Questions:" The Work of Michel-Rolph Trouillot

Explores the anthropology and theory of the Caribbean, political economy, and history, power and epistemology through the work of acclaimed anthropologist Michel-Rolph Trouillot and those whom he influenced. Usually offered every second year.

ANTH 244a Gender and Sexuality Seminar

Examines gender constructs, sexuality, and cultural systems from a comparative perspective, and major theoretical trends in feminist and queer anthropology. Usually offered every second year.

ANTH 257b Cosmologies of Capital: Political Economy in Anthropology

If we define 'success' as growth, power and longevity, capitalism is the world's most successful economic system. It has spread across the planet and drawn multiple other economies and polities into its logics. Yet it is not the same everywhere, nor has it erased geographically distributed differences. This course examines how capital and capitalisms are both shaped by and help to shape the cosmologies and lifeways of particular places and people. We will explore how the cosmologies of capital and its institutions of plantations, mines and markets link the world in particular ways and provoke historically-conditioned ecologies, political formations, forms of difference (such as race, caste, gender, and class), and movements of resistance or interruption. Usually offered every third year.

ANTH 297a Internship

ANTH 300a Directed Research for MA Students: Master's Paper

Does not count toward 8 course requirement for degree.

Semester-long research project culminating in a Master's paper. Students select a specific research topic in consultation with the adviser. Usually offered every semester.

ANTH 340a Anthropology Graduate Proseminar

A bi-weekly seminar focusing on professional development and presentations of new research by invited scholars, faculty, and students. MA and PhD students enroll in this required non-credit course during their coursework phase. Offered every year.

ANTH 398a Pre-Dissertation Research

Specific sections for individual faculty member as requested. Usually offered every semester.

ANTH 399a Comprehensive Exam

An independent study class for doctoral students focusing on the preparation and execution of the comprehensive exam. Specific sections for individual faculty members as requested. Usually offered every semester.

ANTH 399b Dissertation Proposal

An independent study class for doctoral students focusing on the preparation and execution of the dissertation proposal. Specific sections for individual faculty members as requested. Usually offered every semester.

ANTH 400d Dissertation Research

Specific sections for individual faculty member as requested. Usually offered every semester.

GSAS 360c Article Publication Workshop

Full year course. Yields two credits per semester. Offered exclusively on a credit/no credit basis. May be repeated for credit. Students should check with their departments about whether or not the course will fulfill any degree requirements.

Open to PhD, including ABD, and MA students in all Humanities, Arts, and Humanistic Social Sciences graduate programs.

This proseminar/workshop will meet every other week and introduce graduate students to the larger philosophy, as well as the nuts and bolts, of academic publication. Each student should come to the class with an academic journal article project in mind and aim to send out the article to a journal by the end of the year (or earlier!). We will workshop the papers in class, and peer review will be an essential component of coursework. Discussions will be general as well as field-specific.

ANTH Digital Literacy

ANTH 26a Communication and Media
[ dl ss ]

A wide-ranging exploration of the human communicative capacity, starting with verbal and visual communicative modalities and culminating in the study of communication through mass and social media. Usually offered every second year.

ANTH 60b Archaeological Analysis
[ dl ss wi ]

Introduces archaeological laboratory methods and analyses, emphasizing hands-on experience and research design. Students engage in practical materials analysis and research working with genuine archaeological artifacts. Course participants will build their project management skills and consider archaeological methodologies, including artifact recovery, analysis, conservation, and eventual publication. Students will also explore vital archaeological dialogues and theoretical approaches comprising the archaeological process, such as the challenges of interpreting human behavior from material remains, the ethical quandaries of cultural heritage, and the questions of who narrates and owns the past. Usually offered every second year.

ANTH 121b Archaeology and Environment
[ dl nw ss ]

Provides an introduction to archaeological approaches to the environment. Explores how human history and prehistory have been defined by moments when political, cultural, economics, and ecological systems collide. Topics include climate change, food systems, plant and animal relations, and natural resources. Usually offered every second year.

ANTH 124a Maritime Archaeology: The Salty Relationship Between Society and The Sea
[ dl ss ]

Provides an introduction to maritime archaeology, exploring the entangled relationships between human history, society, and the sea. Utilizing theoretical and technical methods from maritime, nautical and marine/underwater archaeology, this class will provide a practical approach to examining maritime archaeology methods and topics such as trade, boat and ship development and construction, navigation, submerged landscapes, maritime culture, climate and climate change, and legislative issues regarding underwater and coastal heritage. Usually offered every third year.

ANTH 129a Culture in 3D: Theory, Method, and Ethics for Scanning and Printing the World
[ dl ss ]

Designed to train students in the methods needed for the successful application of 3D modeling and printing for the documentation, conservation, and dissemination of cultural patrimony. Students will acquire the technical skills and engage in the ethical debates surrounding ownership and reproduction of such patrimony. Usually offered every second year.
Charles Golden and Ian Roy

ANTH 130a Filming Culture: Ethnographic and Documentary Filmmaking
[ djw dl nw ss ]

Introduces the history, theory and production of ethnographic and documentary filmmaking. This course traces how ethnographic and culturally-inflected filmmakers have sought to depict cultural difference, social organization, and lived experiences. Students will learn the basics of non-fiction film production. Usually offered every second year.

ANTH 130b Visuality and Culture
[ dl ss ]

Introduces students to the study of visual, aural, and artistic media through an ethnographic lens. Course combines written and creative assignments to understand how culture shapes how we make meaning out of images and develop media literacy. Topics include ethnographic/documentary film, advertising, popular culture, viral videos and special effects, photography, art worlds, and the technological development of scientific images. Usually offered every second year.

ANTH 137a GIS: Mapping Culture from Land, Air and Space
[ dl ss ]

An introduction to the Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and Remote Sense (RS) technologies that are fundamental for mapping and analyzing spatial data. This course is grounded in archaeological applications, but provides training and research pathways for exploring urban landscapes, environmental dynamics, and more in modern settings. No previous knowledge of GIS or RS is required. Usually offered every third year.

ANTH 138a Digital Cultures
[ dl ss ]

Examines the complex and often fraught relationships between digital technologies and human cultures. By thinking through digital technology’s relationships to structures like race, gender, sexuality, class, and ability, this course helps us explore the human components in the creation, circulation, and experience of digital technologies. What this class spotlights is that though digital technologies may seem materially new and technically innovative, they are built on longstanding power relations that structure both their construction and their circulation. Involves participatory research projects and group work. Usually offered every third year.

ANTH 145a Anthropology of the Body
[ dl ss ]

Explores a range of theories that use the body to understand society, culture, and gender. Topics include how social values and hierarchies are written in, on, and through the body; the relationship between body and gender identity; and experiences and images of the body cross-culturally. Usually offered every third year.

ANTH 152a The Social Fabric: An Anthropology of Fashion
[ dl ss ]

An ethnographic exploration of fashion as industry and cultural practice. This course addresses how fashion shapes our gendered, ethnic and individual identities. Understanding how much seemingly personal processes unfold within larger economic structures illuminates the linkage between power, modernity, and capitalism. Usually offered every second year.

ANTH 156a Power and Violence: The Anthropology of Political Systems
[ deis-us dl nw ss ]

Political orders are established and maintained by varying combinations of overt violence and the more subtle workings of ideas. The course examines the relationship of coercion and consensus, and forms of resistance, in historical and contemporary settings. Usually offered every second year.

ANTH 158a Urban Worlds
[ dl ss ]

Explores some of the essential concepts of urban theory and conducts an in-depth study of urban experiences around the world. Topics include the city and marginality, urban modernity, gender and public space, gentrification, suburbanization, transportation, transgression, and urban nature. Case studies may be from cities such as Mumbai, Lagos, New York, Paris, Dubai, and Rio de Janeiro. Usually offered every second year.

ANTH 161a Anthropology of Infrastructure
[ dl ss ]

There's a problem with infrastructure--electricity networks, water supply systems, pipelines, ports, roads, and railroads. Most of us would agree that infrastructure should be a public thing, serve society, and allow for better life, communication, and activity. Yet infrastructures are often hidden, subterranean, and therefore prone to exploitation and hijacking. The anthropology of infrastructure aims in part at making it more visible and at deciphering the complex interaction between things, society, and politics. But anthropologists end up unearthing more than utility networks and urbanism plans. They stumble upon the very power of inanimate things to orient our experiences, from the most intimate (having sex) to the least material of them (browsing the internet). From politics to ethics and back, this course will explore our relationship to infrastructure. Usually offered every second year.

ANTH 169a Museum Practices
[ dl ss ]

Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

Intended to give students experience in the core set of museum practices, both in the domains of collection management and curation. It is a hands-on, experiential internship that uses the extensive archaeological and ethnographic collections of the Anthropology Department (some 5000 objects) in order to train students in the proper handling and transport of artifacts, design and preparation of adequate storage conditions, maintenance of records and databases, inventorying of un-accessioned objects, photographic documentation, 3D scanning, and computerized illustration of artefacts, virtual reconstruction of fragmented objects, research on individual or sets of related objects, and the exhibition of researched materials. Usually offered every third year.

ANTH Oral Communication