Credits: 4
Duration: 14 Weeks
Dates: Tue
Duration: 14 Weeks
Dates: Tue
Anthropology (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks
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Anthropology of and as Media (ANTH-UH 1102)
How do media representations reflect and affect communities? How do people exploit old and new forms of communication? How do technological mediation channel and reshape social relations? This course reviews ethnographic literature on a wide range of media including print, photography, film, television, radio, cell phones, and internet-based social networks. Each week, we explore how media use redefines a central anthropological concern, such as kinship, colonialism, mobility, religion, or violence. We continuously interrogate the diverse effects of technology, infrastructure, reception, sensation, and interaction. Engaging with both “live” and “virtual” communities, we revisit the methods and ethics of studying mediated relations. Students deliver an initial critical auto-ethnography of their own media consumption, a detailed assessment of a debate in the field, and a final project investigating a specific media community using original ethnographic research. Throughout the course, we collaboratively develop our own experimental virtual community based on the priorities and interests of the class participants. Innovative integrations of art and interactivity will be encouraged.
Anthropology (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Last Hunters-First Farmers (ANTH-UA 608)
The transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture and animal husbandry is often called the Agricultural Revolution. This change in human subsistence strategies led to changes in many other aspects of human life, including settlement patterns, demography, social organization, and religious practices. It also provided the economic basis for the development of complex urban societies in many regions of the world. Examines the archaeological evidence for the transition from foraging to farming on a worldwide basis.
Anthropology (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Fall 2020)
ANTH-UA 608-000 (18677)09/02/2020 – 12/13/2020 Tue,Thu9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Crabtree, Pam
Gender, Violence, and The Law (ANTH-UA 330)
Examines the global prevalence of gender violence and the varied meanings of violence against women and changes in terminology over time. Examines ways of theorizing gender and violence including performative ideas of gender. The creation of gender violence as a social problem is a product of social movements in the United States, Europe, India, and many other parts of the world. It is now understood globally as an important human rights violation. Also examines the forms of intervention that have been developed in the United States and globally for diminishing violence against women, including policing, prosecution, and punishment.
Anthropology (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Religion and Media (ANTH-UA 220)
This course introduces the long-standing and complex connection between religious practices and various media. We’ll analyze how human hearing, vision, and the performing body have been used historically to express and maintain religious life through music, voice, images, words, and rituals. Time will then be spent on more recent electronic media such as radio, film, television, video, and the Internet. An anthropological/ historical perspective on studying religion is pursued.
Anthropology (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2020)
ANTH-UA 220-000 (20043)01/27/2020 – 05/11/2020 Tue,Thu11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Zito, Angela · Momin, Shayan
Prehistoric Hunters and Gatherers (ANTH-UA 210)
Although they are no longer the dominant form of human sociality or adaptation, hunter-gatherers continue to play a pivotal role in anthropological theory. But who are hunter-gatherers? Some argue that the problem with trying to pigeon-hole hunter-gatherers is that this taxonomic unit holds little practical or evolutionary legitimacy. Others contend that people have evidently lived off the land without agriculture or animal husbandry, so at some level, hunter-gatherer is a meaningful category. Yet, few of the qualities assigned to hunter-gatherers hold up to detailed cross-cultural investigation. For example, hunter-gatherer subsistence is not inherently linked to peaceful coexistence, affluence, small group sizes or settlement mobility. Moreover, hunter-gatherer populations commonly thought to be deeply entrenched in evolutionary time are now known to result from complex historical processes of globalization and colonial expansion. This course will explore the diversity of lifeways subsumed under the banner of the hunter-gatherer. Drawing on a wide range of cross-cultural datasets, the course will unpack hunter-gatherer behavioral variability across broad topics, not paradigms. We will examine variations in hunter-gatherer subsistence, mobility, social organization, belief systems, landscape use, and material culture. Finally, we will ask to what degree the concept of the hunter-gatherer and the study of modern hunter-gatherers can help anthropologists understand and explore human behavior in the deeper past.
Anthropology (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks
Sections (Fall 2019)
ANTH-UA 210-000 (19127)09/03/2019 – 12/13/2019 Mon,Wed9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Pargeter, Justin
Media, Culture, and Society (ANTH-UA 123)
This course examines the social and political life of media and how it makes a difference in the daily lives of people as a practice – in production, reception, or circulation. It is organized around the following key questions: What is media? What role do media play in producing or shaping our sense of reality? What is the relationship between media and culture? How are media implicated in social change? It provides an overview of the increasing theoretical attention paid to the mass media by anthropologists, and focuses on concrete ethnographic examples.
Anthropology (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks
Sections (Fall 2019)
ANTH-UA 123-000 (19130)09/03/2019 – 12/13/2019 Tue,Thu9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Ganti, Tejaswini
Topical Seminar in Biological Anthropology I (ANTH-UA 511)
Only open to majors in anthropology who have the permission of the director of undergraduate studies or the instructor. This seminar explores, theoretically and methodologically, selected key current issues and problems in biological anthropology. See the department?s internal catalog.
Anthropology (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2019)
ANTH-UA 511-000 (18726)01/28/2019 – 05/13/2019 Tue,Thu9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by
Surveys of Regional Prehistory II: (ANTH-UA 216)
Anthropology (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2019)
ANTH-UA 216-000 (18731)01/28/2019 – 05/13/2019 Thu2:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by
Human Ecology (ANTH-UA 90)
This course seeks to assess the degree to which variations in human biology and culture can be understood as adaptations to varying external conditions. We examine the relationship of human systems of action and the natural world in order to understand the various forms of human adaptation. Case studies of several living peoples, contemporary and past biological communities, and prehistoric cultures provide the material for interpretation and evaluation of theoretical positions.
Anthropology (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2019)
ANTH-UA 90-000 (22566)01/28/2019 – 05/13/2019 Tue,Thu3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by
Archaeology: Early Societies & Culture (ANTH-UA 3)
Introduces contemporary archaeology, its theories, practices, and early societies and cultures. Examines current methodological and theoretical viewpoints of archaeological scholarship within the discipline of anthropology. Focuses on key transformations in cultural evolution, such as the origins of modern humans, the emergence of food production, and the development of complex societies, urbanism, and early states. Explores gender roles, landscapes and settlements, technologies, art, cognitive systems, urbanism, and state formation.
Anthropology (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2019)
ANTH-UA 3-000 (7811)01/28/2019 – 05/13/2019 Mon,Wed11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by
ANTH-UA 3-000 (7812)01/28/2019 – 05/13/2019 Thu9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by
ANTH-UA 3-000 (7813)01/28/2019 – 05/13/2019 Thu11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by
Belief and Social Life in China (ANTH-UA 351)
The Chinese word for ?religion? means ?teaching.? Explores what Chinese people ?taught? themselves about the person, society, and the natural world and thus how social life was constructed and maintained. Examines in historical perspective the classic texts of the Taoist and Confucian canon and their synthesis; Buddhist, especially Ch?an (Zen). Discusses the practices of filiality in Buddhism, Confucian orthodoxy, and in folk religion.
Anthropology (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Evolutionary Medicine (ANTH-UA 55)
Examines human health and disease within an ecological framework, exploring the interactions of environmental, genetic, physiological, and cultural factors in the expression and distribution of human diseases. Develops pathology profiles for nonhuman primates; prehistoric human populations; and hunting and gathering, agricultural, and industrial groups, with emphasis on the expression of infectious disease in human history and newly (re-) emerging diseases.
Anthropology (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Fall 2022)
ANTH-UA 55-000 (23015)09/01/2022 – 12/14/2022 Fri11:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by DeCasien, Alex · Hernandez Burgos, Saine
Anthropology of Indigenous Australia (ANTH-UA 9037)
Credits: 4
Duration: 14 Weeks
Dates: Mon
Duration: 14 Weeks
Dates: Mon
Anthropology (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks
Topical Seminar in Social and Cultural Anthropology II (ANTH-UA 321)
Anthropology (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 6 Weeks
Barbarian Europe (ANTH-UA 217)
Between the end of the Ice Age and the expansion of the Roman Empire, temperate Europe witnessed a series of social and economic transformations that represented a transition from a hunting and gathering way of life to urban chiefdoms. Along the way, these hunter-gatherers became agriculturalists and stockherders, learned to use metals, and developed social structures as complex as any found in Old World civilizations. Examines changes in later prehistoric Europe from about 8000 B.C. to the arrival of the Romans.
Anthropology (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2022)
ANTH-UA 217-000 (20428)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Mon,Wed12:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Crabtree, Pam
Medical Anthropology (ANTH-UA 35)
Analyzes medical beliefs and practices in African, Asian, and Latin American societies. Studies the coexistence of different kinds of medical specialists (e.g., shamans, herbalists, bonesetters, midwives, physicians trained in indigenous and cosmopolitan medicine), with particular reference to the structures of health resources available to laymen and problems of improving health care.
Anthropology (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Primate Behavioral Ecology (ANTH-UA 54)
Why do some primates live in large social groups while others are solitary and yet others live in pairs or cooperatively breeding families? Why are strong social hierarchies seen in some primate taxa but not in others? How do multiple species of primates often manage to coexist in the same habitat? Why are social relationships in some primate species characterized by strong bonds among females while such bonds are absent in other primates societies? Why do some species of primates show marked geographic variability in behavior and social structure? The answers to these and other questions lie in understanding the relationships between each species and its ecological and social setting and in understanding each species? phylogenetic history. In this course, students explore the diversity of primate social systems and the evolutionary relationships among the primates, and we discuss many of the general ecological laws that have been proposed by evolutionary biologists as the keys to understanding important features of primate behavior and ecology.
Anthropology (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Evolution and Human Variation (ANTH-UA 51)
Humans are the most wide-ranging of all of the species on earth. Our evolutionary history and our ability to adapt to such a broad range of environments is dependent on the results in the patterns of human variability we see today. New techniques have been developed that allow us to explore the different levels of human variation. This course focuses on new data and methodologies, including molecular genetic techniques, and the hypotheses and controversies generated by these new perspectives.
Anthropology (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Language, Culture, and Society (ANTH-UA 17)
Explores the role of language in culture and society by focusing on gender, ethnicity, social class, verbal genres, literacy, and worldview.
Anthropology (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2022)
ANTH-UA 17-000 (7778)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Mon,Wed9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Das, Sonia
ANTH-UA 17-000 (9543)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Wed12:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Li, Shuting
ANTH-UA 17-000 (7779)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Wed3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Li, Shuting
ANTH-UA 17-000 (24440)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Fri2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Franco, Pedro