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ANTHR 64404 credits R 2:40-4:35Instructor: Marina WelkerThis seminar focuses on preparing a full-scale proposal for anthropological fieldwork for a dissertation. Topics include identifying of appropriate funding sources; defining a researchable problem; selecting and justifying a particular fieldwork site; situating the...
/news/proposal-developmentANTHR 60256 credits W 4:30-7:30Munasinghe, ViranjiniThis course explores advanced topics in anthropological theory and practice. It builds on the history of the discipline that students will have examined in the preceding course Anthr 6020, and seeks to immerse students in major contemporary theoretical developments and debates and...
/news/proseminar-anthropologyANTHR 47253creditsT 2:40-4:35Instructor: Paul NadasdyThe relationship between North American Indian peoples and the states of Canada and the US is in many ways unique, a product of centuries of trade compacts, treaties, legislation, warfare, land claim negotiations, and Supreme Court decisions. Apparently straightforward concepts...
/news/american-indian-lands-sovereigntiesANTHR 4520Participation in the NFLC, Kotagiri India Program required.3 credits Instructor: Andrew WillfordExplores the interpretive and analytic tools made available through the ethnographic analysis of the societies within the Nilgiris Biosphere Reserve. Through anthropological understandings of culture as the primary human...
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ANTHR 44784 creditsR 12:25-2:20Instructor: Magnus FiskesjoThis course is an in-depth introduction to the study of taboo, dirt, and cleanliness. The core concern is the relation between taboo and subjectivity, the making of persons and communities. We'll examine a range of actual examples from around the world, including taboos...
/news/taboo-pollutionANTHR 44374 creditsM 2:40-4:35Instructor: Marina WelkerThis seminar develops an ethnographic approach to projects aiming to improve the human condition. Our object of study – development, humanitarianism, and the will to improve – is defined capaciously to allow for the study of projects ranging in orientation from politically...
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ANTHR 4401Must have completed a Documentary Production Fundamentals or Introduction to Documentary Course and/or have acquired basic documentary4 creditsM 1:30-4:30Instructor: Natasha RahejaThis production seminar is for students with basic documentary filmmaking skills who want to work with previously collected footage and/or...
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ANTHR 4264Anthr/Arkeo 4263. Permission of instructor only.4 creditsMW 2:45-4:00Instructor: Nerissa RussellThis course follows from last semester's Zooarchaeological Method. We will shift our emphasis here from basic skills to interpretation, although you will continue to work with archaeological bones. We will begin by examining...
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ANTHR 42504 creditsF 9:05-11:00Instructor: Adam T. SmithThis studio-style seminar provides an in-depth examination of the principles and practices of archaeological research design. We will examine all aspects of the research process, from concept formation, to methodology, to ethical practice and data management. Over the course...
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ANTHR 42404 credits M 11:20-1:15Instructor: Frederic GleachEthnographic and archaeological objects are widely collected, by individuals and by institutions. This course will explore the history and processes of museums and collecting, and issues around working with collections. We will work with materials in the Anthropology...
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