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| ANTH 1010 | Introduction to Anthropology (3.00) |
| Offered Fall 2013 | This is a broad introductory course covering race, language, and culture, both as intellectual concepts and as political realities. Topics include race and culture as explanations of human affairs, the relationship of language to thought, cultural diversity and cultural relativity, and cultural approaches to current crises. Course was offered Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Summer 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| ANTH 1050 | Anthropology of Globalization (3.00) |
| Offered Fall 2013 | Anthropology of Globalization Course was offered Fall 2011 |
| ANTH 1090 | Colloquia for First-Year Students (3.00) |
| Colloquium designed to give first-year students an opportunity to study an anthropological topic in depth in a small-scale, seminar format. Topics will vary; may be repeated for credit. | |
| ANTH 1401 | Your Heritage Language (3.00) |
| This course introduces students to the fields of structural linguistics, social approaches to the study of language, and language policy through a focus on the traditional languages or heritage languages spoken more or less actively within students' own families and home communities, either at present or in recent generations. Course was offered Fall 2012 | |
| ANTH 1559 | New Course in Anthropology (3.00) |
| New course in the subject of anthropology. Course was offered Fall 2012 | |
| ANTH 2153 | North American Indians (3.00) |
| Ethnological treatment of the aboriginal populations of the New World based on the findings of archaeology, ethnography, linguistics, biological anthropology, and social anthropology. | |
| ANTH 2156 | Peoples and Cultures of Africa (3.00) |
| Studies African modernity through a close reading of ethnographies, social histories, novels, and African feature films. | |
| ANTH 2190 | Desire and World Economics (3.00) |
| Offered Fall 2013 | This course offers an insight into the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services practiced by peoples ignored or unknown to classic Western economics. Its principle focus will open upon the obvious differences between cultural concepts of the self and the very notion of its desire. Such arguments as those which theorize on the "rationality" of the market and the "naturalness" of competition will be debunked. |
| ANTH 2210 | Marriage and the Family (3.00) |
| Compares domestic groups in Western and non-Western societies. Considers the kinds of sexual unions legitimized in different cultures, patterns of childrearing, causes and effects of divorce, and the changing relations between the family and society. Course was offered Fall 2011, Spring 2010 | |
| ANTH 2230 | Fantasy and Social Values (3.00) |
| Offered Fall 2013 | Examines imaginary societies, in particular those in science fiction novels, to see how they reflect the problems and tensions of real social life. Focuses on 'alternate cultures' and fictional societal models. |
| ANTH 2240 | Progress (3.00) |
| An ideal of progress has motivated Westerners since the Enlightenment, and is confirmed by rapid technological innovation. Theories of social evolution also foresaw, however, the extinction of those left behind. This course addresses the ideological roots of our notion of progress, the relation between technological and social progress, and what currently threatens our confidence in the inevitability of progress. Course was offered Spring 2011 | |
| ANTH 2250 | Nationalism, Racism, Multiculturalism (3.00) |
| Introductory course in which the concepts of culture, multiculturalism, race, racism, and nationalism are critically examined in terms of how they are used and structure social relations in American society and, by comparison, how they are defined in other cultures throughout the world. | |
| ANTH 2270 | Race, Gender, and Medical Science (3.00) |
| Explores the social and cultural dimensions of biomedical practice and experience in the United States. Focuses on practitioner and patient, asking about the ways in which race, gender, and socio-economic status contour professional identity and socialization, how such factors influence the experience, and course of, illness, and how they have shaped the structures and institutions of biomedicine over time. | |
| ANTH 2280 | Medical Anthropology (3.00) |
| Offered Fall 2013 | The course introduces medical anthropology, and contextualizes bodies, suffering, healing and health. It is organized thematically around a critical humanist approach, along with perspectives from political economy and social constructionism. The aim of the course is to provide a broad understanding of the relationship between culture, healing (including and especially the Western form of healing known as biomedicine), health and political power. |
| ANTH 2291 | Global Culture and Public Health (3.00) |
| This course considers the forces that influence the distribution of health and illness in different societies, with attention to increasing global interconnectedness. We will examine the roles of individuals, institutions, communities, corporations and states in improving public health, asking how effective public health and development efforts to improve global health have been and how they might be re-imagined. Course was offered Fall 2012, Spring 2012 | |
| ANTH 2310 | Symbol and Ritual (3.00) |
| Offered Fall 2013 | Studies the foundations of symbolism from the perspective of anthropology. Topics include signs and symbols, and the symbolism of categorical orders as expressed in cosmology, totemism, and myth. |
| ANTH 2320 | Anthropology of Religion (3.00) |
| Explores anthropological approaches to religion, in the context of this discipline's century-old project to understand peoples' conceptions of the world in which they live. | |
| ANTH 2325 | Anthropology of God (3.00) |
| How does the study of society and culture create an intellectual space for any explanation and experience of the Divine? How does anthropology deal specifically with explaining (rather than the explaining away) knowledge and understanding about divinity? Is God an American? If God has a gender and race, what are they? These and many other pertinent questions will be engaged and tackled in this cross-cultural study of the divine. Course was offered Summer 2011 | |
| ANTH 2340 | Anthropology of Birth and Death (3.00) |
| Comparative examination of beliefs, rites, and symbolism concerning birth and death in selected civilizations. | |
| ANTH 2345 | Anthropology of Reproduction: Fertility and the Future (3.00) |
| In this course, we will study human reproduction as a cultural process. Questions include how gender, class, race, and religion shape reproductive ideals and practices around the world. Ethnographic examples will come from around the world, but will emphasize South Asia and the United States. This course examines the perspectives of both men and women and situates local examples within national and global struggles to (re)produce the future. Course was offered Summer 2011 | |
| ANTH 2360 | Don Juan and Castaneda (3.00) |
| Analyzes the conceptual content in Castaneda's writings as an exploration of an exotic world view. Focuses on the concepts of power, transformation, and figure-ground reversal. | |
| ANTH 2365 | Art and Anthropology (3.00) |
| The course emphasizes art in small-scale (contemporary) societies (sometimes called ethnic art or "primitive art"). It includes a survey of aesthetic productions of major areas throughout the world (Australia, Africa, Oceania, Native America, Meso-America). Included are such issues as art and cultural identity, tourist arts, anonymity, authenticity, the question of universal aesthetic cannons, exhibiting cultures,and the impact of globalization. | |
| ANTH 2400 | Language and Culture (3.00) |
| Offered Fall 2013 | Introduces the interrelationships of linguistic, cultural, and social phenomena with emphasis on the importance of these interrelationships in interpreting human behavior. No prior knowledge of linguistics is required. Course was offered Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| ANTH 2410 | Sociolinguistics (3.00) |
| Reviews key findings in the study of language variation. Explores the use of language to express identity and social difference. Course was offered Spring 2012 | |
| ANTH 2420 | Language and Gender (3.00) |
| Offered Fall 2013 | Studies how differences in pronunciation, vocabulary choice, non-verbal communication, and/or communicative style serve as social markers of gender identity and differentiation in Western and non-Western cultures. Includes critical analysis of theory and methodology of social science research on gender and language. |
| ANTH 2430 | Languages of the World (3.00) |
| An introduction to the study of language relationships and linguistic structures. Topics covered the basic elements of grammatical description; genetic, areal, and typological relationships among languages; a survey of the world's major language groupings and the notable structures and grammatical categories they exhibit; and the issue of language endangerment. Prerequisite: One year of a foreign language or permission of instructor. | |
| ANTH 2440 | Language and Cinema (3.00) |
| Looks historically at speech and language in Hollywood movies, including the technological challenges and artistic theories and controversies attending the transition from silent to sound films. Focuses on the ways that gender, racial, ethnic, and national identities are constructed through the representation of speech, dialect, and accent. Introduces semiotics but requires no knowledge of linguistics, or film studies. | |
| ANTH 2470 | Reflections of Exile: Jewish Languages and their Communities (3.00) |
| Offered Fall 2013 | Covers Jewish languages Yiddish, Judeo-Arabic, Ladino, and Hebrew from historical, linguistic, and literary perspectives. Explores the relations between communities and languages, the nature of diaspora, and the death and revival of languages. No prior knowledge of these languages is required. This course is cross-listed with MEST 2470. Course was offered Spring 2012 |
| ANTH 2500 | Cultures, Regions, and Civilizations (3.00) |
| Offered Fall 2013 | Intensive studies of particular world regions, societies, cultures, and civilizations. |
| ANTH 2541 | Topics in Linguistics (3.00) |
| Topics to be announced prior to each semester, dealing with linguistics. | |
| ANTH 2557 | Culture Through Film (3.00) |
| This course introduces the diversity of human cultural worlds and the field of anthropology as presented through film. A variety of ethnographic and commercial films will be viewed and discussed in conjunction with readings. Course was offered Fall 2011, Summer 2011 | |
| ANTH 2559 | New Course in Anthropology (1.00 - 4.00) |
| New course in the subject of anthropology. | |
| ANTH 2560 | Hierarchy and Equality (3.00) |
| Provides an anthropological perspective on relations of inequality, subordination, and class in diverse societies, along with consideration of American ideas of egalitarianism, meritocracy, and individualism. Specific topics will be announced prior to each semester. | |
| ANTH 2565 | Society and Politics in Cross-Cultural Perspective (3.00) |
| Courses on the comparative anthropological study of topics announced prior to each semester. | |
| ANTH 2570 | History and Narrative (3.00) |
| This course examines how people make history through specific processes of remembering, commemoration, reenactment, story-telling, interpretation, and so on. How do the narrative genres of a particular culture influence the relationship people have to the past? | |
| ANTH 2575 | Migrants and Minorities (3.00) |
| Offered Fall 2013 | Topics to be announced prior to each semester, dealing with migration and migrants, and the experience of ethnic and racial minorities. |
| ANTH 2589 | Topics in Archaeology (3.00) |
| Topics to be announced prior to each semester, dealing with archaeology. | |
| ANTH 2590 | Social and Cultural Anthropology (3.00) |
| Topics to be announced prior to each semester, dealing with social and cultural anthropology. | |
| ANTH 2670 | How Others See Us (3.00) |
| Explores how America, the West, and the white racial mainstream are viewed by others in different parts of the world, and at home. Course was offered Spring 2010 | |
| ANTH 2800 | Introduction to Archaeology (3.00) |
| Offered Fall 2013 | Topics include alternative theories of prehistoric culture change, dating methods, excavation and survey techniques, and the reconstruction of the economy, social organization, and religion of prehistoric societies. |
| ANTH 2810 | Human Origins (3.00) |
| Offered Fall 2013 | Studies the physical and cultural evolution of humans from the initial appearance of hominids to the development of animal and plant domestication in different areas of the world. Topics include the development of biological capabilities such as bipedal walking and speech, the evolution of characteristics of human cultural systems such as economic organization and technology, and explanations for the development of domestication. |
| ANTH 2820 | The Emergence of States and Cities (3.00) |
| Surveys patterns in the development of prehistoric civilizations in different areas of the world including the Inca of Peru, the Maya, the Aztec of Mexico, and the ancient Middle East. | |
| ANTH 2850 | American Material Culture (3.00) |
| Analysis of patterns of change in American material culture from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. Consideration of how these changes reflect shifts in perception, cognition, and worldview. | |
| ANTH 2890 | Unearthing the Past (3.00) |
| An introduction to prehistory covering 4 million years of human physical evolution and 2.5 million years of human cultural evolution. Provides students with an understanding of how archaeologists reconstruct the rise and fall of ancient civilizations. Covers some major developments in prehistory such as origins of modern humans, the rise of the first complex societies & agriculture, and the emergence of ancient civilizations in North America. | |
| ANTH 2900 | The Cultural Politics of American Family Values (3.00) |
| This course provides a broad, introductory survey of the range of cultural understandings, economic structures, and political and legal constraints that shape both dominant and alternative forms of kinship and family in the United States. | |
| ANTH 3010 | Theory and History of Anthropology (4.00) |
| Offered Fall 2013 | Overview of the major theoretical positions which have structured anthropological thought over the past century. Course was offered Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| ANTH 3020 | Using Anthropology in the Contemporary World (4.00) |
| The theoretical, methodological and ethical practice of an engaged anthropology is the subject of this course, We begin with a history of applied anthropology. We then examine case studies that demonstrate the unique practices of contemporary sociocultural, linguistic, archaeological and bioanthropological anthropology in the areas of policy and civic engagement. | |
| ANTH 3129 | Marriage, Mortality, Fertility (3.00) |
| Explores the ways that culturally formed systems of values and family organization affect population processes in a variety of cultures. | |
| ANTH 3130 | Disease, Epidemics and Society (3.00) |
| Offered Fall 2013 | Topics covered in this course will include emerging diseases and leading killers in the twenty-first century, disease ecology, disease history and mortality transitions, the sociology of epidemics, the role of epidemiology in the mobilization of public health resources to confront epidemics, and the social processes by which the groups become stigmatized during disease outbreaks. Prerequisite: introductory anth or soc course |
| ANTH 3152 | Amazonian Peoples (3.00) |
| Offered Fall 2013 | Analyzes ethnographies on the cultures and the societies of the South American rain forest peoples, and evaluates the scholarly ways in which anthropology has produced, engaged, interpreted, and presented its knowledge of the 'Amerindian.' |
| ANTH 3154 | Indians of the American Southwest (3.00) |
| Ethnographic coverage of the Apaches, Pueblos, Pimans, and Shoshoneans of Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, and Northwestern Mexico. Topics include prehistory, socio-cultural patterns, and historical development. | |
| ANTH 3155 | Anthropology of Everyday American Life (3.00) |
| Offered Fall 2013 | Provides an anthropological perspective of modern American society. Traces the development of individualism through American historical and institutional development, using as primary sources of data religious movements, mythology as conveyed in historical writings, novels, and the cinema, and the creation of modern American urban life. Prerequisite: ANTH 1010 or instructor permission. |
| ANTH 3157 | Caribbean Perspectives (3.00) |
| Explores the histories and politics that have shaped the nations and dependencies that are geographically and politically defined as Caribbean, including French, English, and Spanish. Takes a regional and a national perspective on the patterns of family and kinship; community and household structures; political economy, ethnicity and ethnic relations; religious and social institutions; and relations between Caribbeans abroad and at home. Prerequisite: ANTH 1010 or instructor permission. | |
| ANTH 3170 | Anthropology of Media (3.00) |
| Explores the cultural life of media and the mediation of cultural life through photography, radio, television, advertising, the Internet, and other technologies. Course was offered Spring 2013 | |
| ANTH 3175 | Native American Art: The Astor Collection (3.00) |
| This is an upper-level anthropology course which is intended to engage students in the study of Native American art as well as the history and current debate over the representation of Native American culture and history in American museums. After a thorough review of the literature on those topics, the class focuses specifically on the Astor collection owned by the University of Virginia. Course was offered Spring 2012, Spring 2010 | |
| ANTH 3180 | Social History of Commodities (3.00) |
| Introduces the anthropological study of production, exchange, consumption, and globalization by exploring the cultural life-cycle of particular commodities in different places and times. | |
| ANTH 3200 | Marriage, Gender, Political Economy (3.00) |
| Cross-cultural comparison of marriage and domestic groups, analyzed as a point of intersection between cultural conceptions of gender and a larger political economy. | |
| ANTH 3210 | Kinship and Social Organization (3.00) |
| Cross-cultural analysis and comparison of systems of kinship and marriage from Australian aborigines to the citizens of Yankee city. Covers classic and contemporary theoretical and methodological approaches. Prerequisite: ANTH 1010 or instructor permission. | |
| ANTH 3220 | Economic Anthropology (3.00) |
| Comparative analysis of different forms of production, circulation, and consumption in primitive and modern societies. Exploration of the applicability of modern economic theory developed for modern societies to primitive societies and to those societies being forced into the modern world system. | |
| ANTH 3230 | Legal Anthropology (3.00) |
| Comparative survey of the philosophy and practice of law in various societies. Includes a critical analysis of principles of contemporary jurisprudence and their application. Prerequisite: ANTH 1010 or instructor permission. | |
| ANTH 3240 | The Anthropology of Food (3.00) |
| Offered Fall 2013 | By exploring food and eating in relationship to such topics as taboo, sexuality, bodies, ritual, kinship, beauty, and temperance and excess, this course will help students to investigate the way the foods people eat--or don't eat--hold meaning for people within multiple cultural contexts. Course was offered Spring 2012, Summer 2011 |
| ANTH 3260 | Globalization and Development (3.00) |
| Explores how globalization and development affect the lives of people in different parts of the world. Topics include poverty, inequality, and the role of governments and international agencies. Course was offered Spring 2012, Fall 2010 | |
| ANTH 3270 | Anthropology of Politics (3.00) |
| Reviews the variety of political systems found outside the Western world. Examines the major approaches and results of anthropological theory in trying to understand how radically different politics work. Prerequisite: ANTH 1010 or instructor permission. | |
| ANTH 3272 | Anthropology of Dissent (3.00) |
| This course will investigate various processes of opposition, resistance, and revolution. The first half of the course will survey foundational works of revolutionary theory, while the second half will examine political practice from an ethnographic perspective, with an eye towards the lived experience of political participation and the formation (and transformation) of resisting subjects. Course was offered Spring 2011 | |
| ANTH 3300 | Tournaments and Athletes (3.00) |
| A cross-cultural study of sport and competitive games. Prerequisite: ANTH 101 or instructor permission. Course was offered Spring 2011 | |
| ANTH 3320 | Shamanism, Healing, and Ritual (3.00) |
| Offered Fall 2013 | Examines the characteristics of these nonmedical practices as they occur in different culture areas, relating them to the consciousness of spirits and powers and to concepts of energy. Prerequisite: At least a 2000-level ANTH course, or instructor permission. |
| ANTH 3340 | Ecology and Society: An Introduction to the New Ecological Anthropology (3.00) |
| Forges a synthesis between culture theory and historical ecology to provide new insights on how human cultures fashion, and are fashioned by, their environment. Prerequisite: ANTH 1010 or significant/relevant exposure to courses in EVSC, BIOL, CHEM, or HIST (which tie in to concerns of this course), or instructor permission. | |
| ANTH 3360 | Fieldwork, Ethnographic Methods, and the Field Experience (3.00) |
| Introduction to ethnographic methods of research. This course combines practical exercises in participant observation with readings that illuminate the field experience, its politics, ethics, limitations, and possibilities. | |
| ANTH 3370 | Power and the Body (3.00) |
| Studying the cultural representations and interpretations of the body in society. Prerequisite: ANTH 1010 or permission of the instructor. Course was offered Spring 2012, Spring 2010 | |
| ANTH 3440 | Language and Emotion (3.00) |
| This course explores emotion from the perspectives of cultural anthropology and sociolinguistics. Topics include: emotion in the natural vs. social sciences; cross-cultural conceptions of emotion; historical change in emotion discourses; emotion as a theory of the self; the grammatical encoding of emotion in language; (mis-) communication of emotion; and emotion in the construction of racialized and gendered identities. | |
| ANTH 3450 | Native American Languages (3.00) |
| Introduces the native languages of North America and the methods that linguists and anthropologists use to record and analyze them. Examines the use of grammars, texts and dictionaries of individual languages and affords insight into the diversity among the languages. | |
| ANTH 3470 | Language and Culture in the Middle East (3.00) |
| Introduction to peoples, languages, cultures and histories of the Middle East. Focuses on Israel/Palestine as a microcosm of important social processes-such as colonialism, nationalism, religious fundamentalism, and modernization-that affect the region as a whole. This course is cross-listed with MEST 3470. Prerequisite: Previous course in anthropology, linguistics, Middle East Studies or permission of instructor. Course was offered Fall 2009 | |
| ANTH 3480 | Language and Prehistory (3.00) |
| This course covers the basic principles of diachronic linguistics and discusses the uses of linguistic data in the reconstruction of prehistory. | |
| ANTH 3490 | Language and Thought (3.00) |
| Language and Thought Course was offered Spring 2013, Spring 2010 | |
| ANTH 3541 | Topics in Linguistics (3.00) |
| Topics to be announced prior to each semester, dealing with linguistics. Course was offered Fall 2012, Spring 2012 | |
| ANTH 3550 | Ethnography (3.00) |
| Close reading of several ethnographies, primarily concerned with non-Western cultures. | |
| ANTH 3559 | New Course in Anthropology (1.00 - 4.00) |
| Offered Fall 2013 | New course in the subject of Anthropology. |
| ANTH 3560 | The Museum in Modern Culture (3.00) |
| Topics include the politics of cultural representation in history, anthropology, and fine arts museums; and the museum as a bureaucratic organization, as an educational institution, and as a nonprofit corporation. | |
| ANTH 3580 | Science and Culture (3.00) |
| Seminar on the the role of science in culture, and on the culture of science and scientists. Topics may include different national traditions in science, the relation between scientific authority and social hierarchy, the cultural history of science, and the relationship between scientific and popular culture ideas. | |
| ANTH 3589 | Topics in Archaeology (3.00) |
| Topics to be announced prior to each semester, dealing with archaeology. | |
| ANTH 3590 | Social and Cultural Anthropology (3.00) |
| Offered Fall 2013 | Topics to be announced prior to each semester, dealing with social and cultural anthropology. |
| ANTH 3600 | Sex, Gender, and Culture (3.00) |
| Examines the manner in which ideas about sexuality and gender are constructed differently cross-culturally and how these ideas give shape to other social phenomena, relationships, and practices. | |
| ANTH 3603 | Archaeological Approaches to Atlantic Slavery (3.00) |
| Offered Fall 2013 | This course explores how archaeological and architectural evidence can be used to enhance our understanding of the slave societies that evolved in the early-modern Atlantic world. The primary focus is the Chesapeake and the British Caribbean, the later exemplified by Jamaica and Nevis. The course is structured around a series of data-analysis projects that draw on the Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery (http://www.daacs.org). Course was offered Fall 2010 |
| ANTH 3630 | Chinese Family and Religion (3.00) |
| Offered Fall 2013 | Analyzes various features of traditional Chinese social organization as it existed in the late imperial period. Includes the late imperial state; Chinese family and marriage; lineages; ancestor worship; popular religion; village social structure; regional systems; and rebellion. |
| ANTH 3660 | China: Empire and Nationalities (3.00) |
| Explores the distant and recent history of Han and non-Han nationalities in the Chinese empire and nation-state. Examines the reaction of minority nationalities to Chinese predominance and the bases of Chinese rule and cultural hegemony. Prerequisite: ANTH 1010 or equivalent, a course in Chinese history, or instructor permission. | |
| ANTH 3680 | Australian Aboriginal Art and Culture (3.00) |
| Offered Fall 2013 | This class studies the intersection of anthropology, art and material culture focusing on Australian Aboriginal art. We examine how Aboriginal art has moved from relative obscurity to global recognition over the past thirty years. Topics include the historical and cultural contexts of invention, production, marketing and appropriation of Aboriginal art. Students will conduct object-based research using the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection. Prerequisite: ANTH 1010 or instructor permission. |
| ANTH 3685 | Austronesia: World of Islands (3.00) |
| Languages of the Austronesian faily are found from Madagascar through the archipelago of Southeast Asia, and across the vast Pacific. It is a world of islands. Being part of no continent, Austronesia is all but invisible. We approach this hidden world by seeing oceans instead of continents. In doing so, we learn about the migrations of its people, their diverse historical experiences, and the resulting extraordinary range of cultures. | |
| ANTH 3700 | Globalizing India: Society, Bazaars and Cultural Politics (3.00) |
| Offered Fall 2013 | A study of selected interrelated major cultural, religious and political changes for comprehending India after independence. The course will focus on major urban centers for explicating changing family, marriage and caste relationships; middle class Indians; status of women and Dalits; and rising religious/ethnic violence, including Hindu religious politics and religious nationalism. Prerequisite: One course in Anthropology or permission of instructor. |
| ANTH 3810 | Field Methods in Archaeology (3.00 - 6.00) |
| Provides a comprehensive training in archaeological field techniques through participation in research projects currently in progress under the direction of the archaeology faculty. The emphasis is on learning, in an actual field situation, how the collection of archaeological data is carried out in both survey and excavation. Students become familiar with field recording systems, excavation techniques, survey methods, sampling theory in archaeology, and artifact processing and analysis. (Field methods courses outside anthropology or offered at other universities may be substituted for ANTH 3810 with the prior approval of the student's advisor.) Supporting Courses. The following list includes additional courses which have been approved for the major program. Other courses can be added, depending on the student's area of concentration, with the approval of an advisor. | |
| ANTH 3820 | Field Methods in Historical Archaeology (3.00) |
| Introduces the basic field methods used in conducting archaeological investigations of historic sites. Surveying, excavation, mapping, and recording are all treated. | |
| ANTH 3830 | North American Archaeology (3.00) |
| Surveys the prehistoric occupations of several areas of North America emphasizing the eastern United States, the Plains, California, and the Southwest. Topics include the date of human migration into the New World, the economy and organization of early Paleo-Indian populations, and the evolution of organization and exchange systems. | |
| ANTH 3840 | Archaeology of the Middle East (3.00) |
| This course is an introduction to the prehistory/early history of the Middle East (Egypt, Mesopotamia, the Levant and southeast Anatolia) from 10,000 to 4,000 BP. | |
| ANTH 3850 | Historical Archaeology (3.00) |
| Historical archaeology is the archaeological study of the continental and transoceanic human migrations that began in the fifteenth century, their effects on native peoples, and historical trajectories of the societies that they created. This course offers an introduction to the field. It emphasizes how theoretical models, analytical methods, and archaeological data can be combined to make and evaluate credible inferences about the past. | |
| ANTH 3870 | Archaeology of Virginia (3.00) |
| Reviews the current state of archaeological and ethnohistoric research in Virginia. Emphasizes the history and culture of Native Americans in Virginia from the earliest paleoindian cultures to the period of European colonization. | |
| ANTH 3880 | African Archaeology (3.00) |
| Surveys transformations in Africa from four million years ago to the present, known chiefly through archaeology, and focusing on Stone and Iron Age societies in the last 150,000 years. Prerequisite: ANTH 2800 or instructor permission. Course was offered Spring 2012, Fall 2009 | |
| ANTH 3885 | Archaeology of Europe (3.00) |
| A survey of European archaeology beginning with the Neanderthal debate, and including interpretations of Upper Paleolithic cave painting, the spread village farming from the Near East, the role of megalithic monuments, the interaction of Rome and the `Barbarians', the growth of urban centers, the Iron Age, and the Viking expansion. | |
| ANTH 3890 | Archaeology of the American Southwest (3.00) |
| The northern section of the American Southwest offers one of the best contexts for examining the evolution of local and regional organization from the prehistoric to the historic period. Readings and discussion focus on both archaeological and ethnographic studies of the desert (Hohokam), mountain (Mogollon), and plateau (Anasazi/Pueblo) cultures. Course was offered Spring 2013, Spring 2012 | |
| ANTH 3930 | Kinship and the New Reproductive Technologies (3.00) |
| The course explores the manner in which cultural understandings of kinship relations both give shape to and are transformed by the new reproductive technologies-including surrogacy, in vitro fertilization, pre-implantation diagnosis, cloning and amniocentesis. Prerequisite: ANTH 2900 or permission of instructor. | |
| ANTH 4060 | People, Culture and Environment of Southern Africa (3.00) |
| Focusing on the intersection between peoples, cultures, and environments of southern Africa, this summer study abroad course details the continuities and contrasts between life in rural, marginalized and under-served regions of South Africa and Mozambique. Emphasis will be placed on understanding the community role in education and sustainable development - both developmental and anthropogenic impacts on the environment but also environmental. | |
| ANTH 4559 | New Course in Anthropology (1.00 - 4.00) |
| New Course in the subject of Anthropology. Course was offered Spring 2013, Spring 2010 | |
| ANTH 4590 | Social & Cultural Anthropology (3.00) |
| Topics to be announced prior to each semester, dealing with social and cultural anthropology. Course was offered Spring 2011 | |
| ANTH 4591 | Senior Seminar in Anthropology (3.00) |
| Offered Fall 2013 | Integrates the major subdivisions of anthropology, emphasizing selected theoretical topics and primary sources. Primarily for majors in their final year. |
| ANTH 4630 | Eastern European Societies (3.00) |
| This course explores Eastern European societies through an examination of the practices of everyday social life. Topics include the changing cultural meanings of work and consumption, the nature of property rights and relations, family and gender, ethnicity and nationalism, religion and ritual. Cross Listed with SOC 4630. Prerequisite: one course in anthropology, sociology, or permission of the instructor. | |
| ANTH 4840 | Quantitative Analysis in Anthropology I (3.00) |
| Examines the quantitative analytical techniques used in archaeology. Includes seriation, regression analysis, measures of diversity, and classification. Course was offered Spring 2011 | |
| ANTH 4841 | Quantitative Analysis II (3.00) |
| This course offers training in statistical models and methods that will be useful for students in multiple fields, including archaeology, anthropology, and environmental science. The goal is to equip students with statistical skills useful in systematically describing and analyzing empirical variation, deciphering links to the environmental and historical contexts in which that variation occurs, and using the results to advance science. Prerequisites: ANTH 4840 Quantitative Analysis I. | |
| ANTH 4993 | Independent Study in Anthropology (1.00 - 6.00) |
| Offered Fall 2013 | Independent study conducted by the student under the supervision of an instructor of his or her choice. Course was offered Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Summer 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Summer 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Summer 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| ANTH 4998 | Distinguished Majors Thesis Research (3.00) |
| Offered Fall 2013 | Independent research, under the supervision of the faculty DMP thesis readers, toward the DMP thesis. Prerequisite: Admission to the Distinguished Majors Program in Anthropology. Course was offered Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| ANTH 4999 | Distinguished Majors Thesis Writing (3.00) |
| Offered Fall 2013 | Writing of a thesis of approximately 50 pages, under the supervision of the faculty DMP thesis readers. Prerequisite: ANTH 4998. Course was offered Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| ANTH 5200 | History of Kinship Studies (3.00) |
| Critical assessment of major theoretical approaches to the study of kinship and marriage (from the 19th century to the present) and of the central role of kinship studies in the development of anthropological theory. Course was offered Fall 2012, Spring 2010 | |
| ANTH 5210 | Reconfiguring Kinship Studies (3.00) |
| Examines the ways in which the forms of kinship have been reconfigured in contemporary societies, and the ways in which traditional kinship studies have been reconfigured by their intersection with culture theory, feminist theory, gender studies, postmodern theory, gay and lesbian studies, and cultural studies of science and medicine. Prerequisite: ANTH 5200 or instructor permission. Course was offered Spring 2013 | |
| ANTH 5220 | Economic Anthropology (3.00) |
| Considers Western economic theories and their relevance to non-Western societies. Includes a comparative analysis of different forms of production, consumption, and circulation. Course was offered Spring 2012 | |
| ANTH 5360 | World Mental Health (3.00) |
| This course will examine mental health issues from the perspectives of biomedicine and anthropology, emphasizing local traditions of illness and healing as well as evidence from epidemiology and neurobiology. Included topics will be psychosis, depression, PTSD, Culture Bound Syndromes, and suicide. We will also examine the role of pharmaceutical companies in the spread of western based mental health care and culturally sensitive treatment. | |
| ANTH 5395 | Mythodology (3.00) |
| A hands-on seminar in myth interpretation designed to acquaint the student with the concept and techniques of obviation. Prerequisites: Upper division undergraduate or graduate student. | |
| ANTH 5401 | Linguistic Field Methods (3.00) |
| Investigates the grammatical structure of non-European language on the basis of data collected in class from a native speaker. A different language is the focus of study each year. Course was offered Spring 2012, Spring 2011 | |
| ANTH 5410 | Phonology (3.00) |
| An introduction to the theory and analysis of linguistic sound systems. Covers the essential units of speech sound that lexical and grammatical elements are composed of, how those units are organized at multiple levels of representation, and the principles governing the relation between levels. Course was offered Spring 2013, Fall 2009 | |
| ANTH 5420 | Theories of Language (3.00) |
| Offered Fall 2013 | Survey of modern schools of linguistics, both American and European, discussing each approach in terms of historical and intellectual context, analytical goals, assumptions about the nature of language, and relation between theory and methodology. |
| ANTH 5430 | African Languages (3.00) |
| Introduces the major phonological and grammatical features of the languages of sub-Saharan Africa, with attention to issues in language classification, the use of linguistic evidence for prehistoric reconstruction, and sociolinguistic issues of relevance to Africa. Course was offered Spring 2010 | |
| ANTH 5440 | Morphology (3.00) |
| An overview of morphological theory within the generative paradigm. Covers notions of the morpheme, theories of the phonology-syntax interface (e.g., lexical phonology, prosodic morphology, optimality theory), and approaches to issues arising at the morphology-syntax interface (e.g., inflection, agreement, incorporation, compounding). Course was offered Spring 2011 | |
| ANTH 5470 | Language and Identity (3.00) |
| Explores the view that language is central in the construction, negotiation, and expression of social identities by juxtaposing and critically appraising social, theoretic, and linguistic treatments of identity. Course was offered Spring 2010 | |
| ANTH 5490 | Speech Play and Verbal Art (3.00) |
| This graduate-level seminar seeks to understand variation in language (and its significance for social relations and social hierarchies) by focusing on forms of language that are aesthetically valued (whether as powerful or as poetic) in particular communities. The course assumes some familiarity both with technical analysis of language and anthropological perspectives on social formations. Course was offered Fall 2012 | |
| ANTH 5510 | Topics in Ethnography (3.00) |
| Seminars on topics announced prior to each semester. Course was offered Fall 2011 | |
| ANTH 5528 | Topics in Race Theory (3.00) |
| This course examines theories and practices of race and otherness, in order to analyze and interpret constructions, deconstructions and reconstructions of race from the late 18th to the 21st centuries. The focus varies from year to year, and may include 'race, 'progress and the West,' 'gender, race and power,' and 'white supremacy.' The consistent theme is that race is neither a biological nor a cultural category, but a method and theory of social organization, an alibi for inequality, and a strategy for resistance. Cross listed as AAS 5528. Prerequisite: ANTH 1010, 3010, or other introductory or middle-level social science or humanities course Course was offered Spring 2011, Fall 2009 | |
| ANTH 5541 | Topics in Linguistics (3.00) |
| Topics to be announced prior to each semester, dealing with linguistics. | |
| ANTH 5549 | Topics in Theoretical Linguistics and Linguistic Anthropology (3.00) |
| Offered Fall 2013 | Seminars in topics of specific interest to faculty and advanced students will be announced prior to each semester. |
| ANTH 5559 | New Course in Anthropology (1.00 - 4.00) |
| Offered Fall 2013 | New course in the subject of anthropology. Course was offered Fall 2010, Spring 2010 |
| ANTH 5589 | Selected Topics in Archaeology (3.00) |
| Seminars in topics announced prior to each semester. | |
| ANTH 5590 | Topics in Social and Cultural Anthropology (3.00) |
| Offered Fall 2013 | Topics to be announced prior to each semester, dealing with social and cultural anthropology. |
| ANTH 5620 | The Middle East in Ethnographic Perspective (3.00) |
| Survey of the anthropological literature on the Middle East & N. Africa. Begins historically with traditional writing on the Middle East and proceeds to critiques of this tradition and attempts at new ways of constructing knowledge of this world region. Readings juxtapose theoretical and descriptive work toward critically appraising modern writers' success in overcoming the critiques leveled against their predecessors. Course was offered Spring 2013 | |
| ANTH 5808 | Method and Theory in Archaeology (3.00) |
| Offered Fall 2013 | Investigates current theory, models, and research methods in anthropological archaeology. Course was offered Fall 2010 |
| ANTH 5840 | Archaeology of Complex Societies (3.00) |
| Examines archaeological approaches to the study of complex societies using case studies from both the Old and New Worlds. Course was offered Fall 2009 | |
| ANTH 5870 | Archaeozoology (3.00) |
| Laboratory training in techniques and methods used in analyzing animal bones recovered from archaeological sites. Include field collection, data analysis, and the use of zooarchaeological materials in reconstructing economic and social systems. Course was offered Fall 2010 | |
| ANTH 5880 | Gender in Archaeology (3.00) |
| Explores the range of case studies and theoretical literature associated with the emergence of gender as a framework for research in archaeology. Course was offered Fall 2009 | |
| ANTH 5885 | Archaeology of Colonial Expansions (3.00) |
| Exploration of the archaeology of frontiers, expansions and colonization, focusing on European expansion into Africa and the Americas while using other archaeologically-known examples (e.g., Roman, Bantu) as comparative studies. Prerequisite: For undergraduates, ANTH 4591 senior seminar or instructor permission. Course was offered Spring 2011 | |
| ANTH 7010 | History of Anthropological Theory I (3.00) |
| Offered Fall 2013 | Explores the diverse intellectual roots of the discipline, showing how they converged into a unitary program in the late nineteenth century, and how this program was criticized and revised in the first half of the 20th century. |
| ANTH 7020 | History of Anthropological Theory II (3.00) |
| Analyzes the main schools of anthropological thought since World War II, a half century during which separate English, French, and American traditions have influenced each other to produce a broad and subtle international discipline. | |
| ANTH 7030 | Anthropological Monographs (3.00) |
| Critical reading of selected monographs that use the data and methods of each of the three subdisciplines of socio-cultural, archaeological and linguistic anthropology. Explores the relationship between theory and data through readings selected from different historical periods, theoretical perspectives, and geographical areas. | |
| ANTH 7040 | Ethnographic Research Design and Methods (3.00) |
| Offered Fall 2013 | Seminar on ethnographic methods and research design in the qualitative tradition. Surveys the literature on ethnographic methods and explores relations among theory, research design, and appropriate methodologies. Students participate in methodological exercises and design a summer pilot research project. Prerequisite: Second year graduate in anthropology or instructor permission. Course was offered Spring 2011 |
| ANTH 7050 | Ethnographic Data Analysis and Writing (3.00) |
| A seminar and writing workshop exploring methods of qualitative data analysis, styles of ethnographic description, and problems of research design. Students apply these techniques to the results of field research. Prerequisite: ANTH 7040 or instructor permission. Course was offered Spring 2013 | |
| ANTH 7060 | Dissertation Research Proposal Workshop (3.00) |
| A workshop for graduates preparing dissertation proposals and writing grant applications. Each student prepares several drafts of a proposal, revising it at each stage in response to the criticisms of classmates and the instructor. | |
| ANTH 7129 | Marriage, Mortality, Fertility (3.00) |
| Explores the ways that culturally formed systems of values and family organization affect population processes in a variety of cultures. Readings are drawn from comparative anthropology and historical demography. Cross-listed as ANTH 3129. | |
| ANTH 7130 | Disease, Epidemics and Society (3.00) |
| Offered Fall 2013 | Topics covered in this course will include emerging diseases and leading killers in the twenty-first century, disease ecology, disease history and mortality transitions, the sociology of epidemics, the role of epidemiology in the mobilization of public health resources to confront epidemics, and the social processes by which the groups become stigmatized during disease outbreaks. Prerequisites: previous ANTH or SOC course |
| ANTH 7153 | Anthropology of Eastern Europe (3.00) |
| This course explores Eastern European societies through an examination of the practices of everyday social life. Topics include the changing cultural meanings of work and consumption, the nature of property rights and relations, family and gender, ethnicity and nationalism, religion and ritual. Prerequisite: one course in anthropology or permission of the instructor. | |
| ANTH 7210 | Anthropology of the State (3.00) |
| This course explores the anthropology of modern political and government institutions with an eye towards the methodological and analytical tools necessary for investigating the bundle of relationships subsumed under the heading of "the state". The first half of the course will focus on theories of the nation-state, its nature, and "effects". The second half will examine ethnographic analysis of encouters with the state and it institutions. Course was offered Fall 2010 | |
| ANTH 7290 | Nationalism and the Politics of Culture (3.00) |
| Analyzes the ways in which a spirit of national or ethic solidarity is mobilized and utilized. | |
| ANTH 7340 | Anthropology and History (3.00) |
| This course explores the mutuality of the disciplines of anthropology and history, as well as the differences in their approaches and methods, in order to reassert the epistemology and subject matter common to the two disciplines, and to bring strength to disciplinary analysis. We will read works of scholars who traverse the two disciplines, paying close attentions to their methodological approaches. Course was offered Fall 2010 | |
| ANTH 7370 | Power and the Body (3.00) |
| Study of the cultural representations and interpretations of the body in society. Course was offered Spring 2012, Spring 2010 | |
| ANTH 7400 | Linguistic Anthropology (3.00) |
| An advanced introduction to the study of language from an anthropological point of view. No prior coursework in linguistics is expected, but the course is aimed at graduate students who will use what they learn in their own anthropologically-oriented research. Topics include an introduction to such basic concepts in linguistic anthropology as language in world-view, the nature of symbolic meaning, language and nationalism, universals and particulars in language, language in history and prehistory, the ethnography of speaking, the nature of everyday conversation, and the study of poetic language. The course is required for all Anthropology graduate students. It also counts toward the Theory requirement for the M.A. in Linguistics. | |
| ANTH 7440 | Language and Emotion (3.00) |
| This course explores emotion from the perspectives of cultural anthropology and sociolinguistics. Topics include: emotion in the natural vs. social sciences; cross-cultural conceptions of emotion; historical change in emotion discourses; emotion as a theory of the self; the grammatical encoding of emotion in language; (mis-) communication of emotion; and emotion in the construction of racialized and gendered identities. | |
| ANTH 7450 | Native American Languages (3.00) |
| Surveys the classification and typological characteristics of Native American languages and the history of their study, with intensive work on one language by each student. Some linguistics background is helpful. | |
| ANTH 7470 | Language and Culture in the Middle East (3.00) |
| Language and Culture in the Middle East Course was offered Fall 2009 | |
| ANTH 7480 | Language and Prehistory (3.00) |
| This course covers the basic principles of diachronic linguistics (the study of how languages change over time) and the uses of linguistic data in the reconstruction of prehistory. Considered is the use of linguistic evidence in tracing prehistoric population movements in demonstrating contact among prehistoric groups and in the reconstruction of daily life. To the extent that the literature permits, examples and case studies will be drawn from the Mayan language area of Central America, and will include discussion of the pre-Columbian Mayan writing system and its ongoing decipherment. Fulfills the comparative-historical requirement for Linguistics graduate students. | |
| ANTH 7541 | Topics in Sociolinguistics (3.00) |
| Analyzes particular aspects of the social use of language. Topics vary from year to year. | |
| ANTH 7559 | New Course in Anthropology (1.00 - 4.00) |
| New course in the subject of anthropology. | |
| ANTH 7589 | Topics in Archaeology (3.00) |
| Offered Fall 2013 | Topics to be announced prior to each semester, dealing with archaeology. Course was offered Spring 2013, Fall 2011 |
| ANTH 7590 | Topics in Social and Cultural Anthropology (3.00) |
| Topics to be announced prior to each semester, dealing with social and cultural anthropology. | |
| ANTH 7603 | Archaeological Aproaches to Atlantic Slavery (3.00) |
| Offered Fall 2013 | This course explores how archaeological and architectural evidence can be used to enhance our understanding of the slave societies that evolved in the early-modern Atlantic world. The primary focus is the Chesapeake and the British Caribbean, the later exemplified by Jamaica and Nevis. The course is structured around a series of data-analysis projects that draw on the Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery (http://www.daacs.org). Course was offered Fall 2010 |
| ANTH 7630 | Chinese Family and Religion (3.00) |
| Offered Fall 2013 | Analyzes various features of traditional Chinese social organization as it existed in the late imperial period. Includes the late imperial state; Chinese family and marriage; lineages; ancestor worship; popular religion; village social structure; regional systems; and rebellion. |
| ANTH 7700 | Social Production of Health and Disease (3.00) |
| The seminar explores health and disease in socio-cultural, political-economic, and historic contexts, with a particular focus on health disparities. The course is interdisciplinary (including anthropology, sociology, nursing and public health). Course was offered Fall 2009 | |
| ANTH 7808 | Advanced Method and Theory in Archaeology (3.00) |
| Seminar in current methodological and theoretical issues in archaeology. In some years the common course requirement in archaeological anthropology may be fulfilled by ANTH 7810. | |
| ANTH 7840 | Quantitative Analysis in Anthropology I (3.00) |
| This course examines the quantitative analytical techniques used in anthropology and archaeology. Topics include seriation, regression analysis, measures of diversity, and classification. Course was offered Spring 2011 | |
| ANTH 7855 | Historical Archaeology (3.00) |
| Historical archaeology is the archaeological study of the continental and transoceanic human migrations that began in the fifteenth century, their effects on native peoples, and historical trajectories of the societies that they created. This course offers an introduction to the field. It emphasizes how theoretical models, analytical methods, and archaeological data can be combined to make and evlaluate credible inferences about the past. | |
| ANTH 7870 | Advanced Topics in African Archaeology (3.00) |
| An intensive examination of recent and important works pertaining to African archaeology, both in theory and in practice. Course was offered Fall 2009 | |
| ANTH 7880 | African Archaeology (3.00) |
| Surveys transformations in Africa from four million years ago to the present, known chiefly through archeology, and focusing on Stone and Iron Age societies in the last 150,000 years. Course was offered Fall 2009 | |
| ANTH 7890 | Current Issues in Archaeology (3.00) |
| Advanced seminar dealing with issues of current interest in archaeology. Topics are announced prior to each semester. | |
| ANTH 8998 | Non-Topical Research, Preparation for Research (1.00 - 12.00) |
| Offered Fall 2013 | For master's research, taken before a thesis director has been selected. Course was offered Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| ANTH 8999 | Non-Topical Research (1.00 - 12.00) |
| Offered Fall 2013 | For master's thesis, taken under the supervision of a thesis director. Course was offered Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| ANTH 9010 | Directed Readings (1.00 - 12.00) |
| Offered Fall 2013 | Directed Readings Course was offered Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| ANTH 9020 | Directed Readings (1.00 - 12.00) |
| Offered Fall 2013 | Directed Readings Course was offered Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| ANTH 9050 | Research Practicum (1.00 - 12.00) |
| Research Practicum | |
| ANTH 9998 | Non-Topical Research, Preparation for Doctoral Research (1.00 - 12.00) |
| Offered Fall 2013 | For doctoral research, taken before a dissertation director has been selected. Course was offered Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| ANTH 9999 | Non-Topical Research (1.00 - 12.00) |
| Offered Fall 2013 | For doctoral dissertation, taken under the supervision of a dissertation director. Course was offered Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Summer 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Summer 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Summer 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |