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COURSES OFFERED FALL 2008
Barnard Courses
Columbia Courses
BARNARD COURSES
| ANTH V1002y |
The Interpretation of Culture
The anthropological approach to the study of culture and
human society. Using case studies from ethnography, the
course explores the universality of cultural categories
(social organization, economy, law, belief system, art,
etc.) and the range of variation among human societies.
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A. Heo |
TR 4:10p-5:25p |
TBA |
| ANTH V1007x |
The Origins of Human Society
Examines the grand sweep of human development from our first
bipedal steps some six million years ago, to the earliest
evidence of art and symbolism, and on to the emergence of
the first agricultural villages. Given the immensity of time
under consideration, emphasis is placed on those heightened
periods of change commonly described as "revolutions".
Participants will become familiar with the fossil and/or
archaeological records or those revolutions and the
competing theories of why they occurred.
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S. Fowles |
TR 2:40p-3:55p |
TBA |
| ANTH V1009x |
Introduction to Language & Culture
Introduction to the study of the production, interpretation,
and reproduction of social meanings as expressed through
language. In exploring language in relation to culture and
society, the focus is on how communication informs and
transforms the sociocultural environment
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P. Kockelman |
TR 10:35-11:50 |
TBA |
| ANTH V3040x |
Anthropology Theory I
The first of a two semester sequence intended to introduce
departmental majors to key readings in social theory that have been
constitutive of the rise and contemporary practice of modern
anthropology. The goal is to understand historical and current
intellectual debates within the discipline. |
L. Sharp |
TR 10:35-11:50 |
TBA |
| ANTH V3043y |
Anthrop of Religion & Society
General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL).
3 points |
A. Heo |
MW 9:10-10:25 |
TBA |
| ANTH BC3871x |
Senior Thesis Seminar I: Problems in
Anthropological Research
Discussion of research methods and planning and writing of a
Senior Essay in Anthropology will accompany research on problems of
interest to students, culminating in the writing of individual
Senior Essays. The advisory system requires periodic consultation
and discussion between the student and her adviser as well as the
meeting of specific deadlines set by the department each semester. |
N. Haj |
M 4:10p-6:00p |
TBA |
| ANTH V3950x |
Anthropology Consumption
Examines theories and ethnographies of consumption as well as
the political economy of production and consumption. Compares
historic and current consumptive practices, compares exchange based
economies with post-Fordist economies. Engages the work of Mauss,
Marx, Godelier, Baudrillard, Appadurai, and Douglas among others. |
P. West |
R 2:10p-4;00p |
TBA |
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COLUMBIA COURSES
| ANTH V1002y |
The Interpretation of Culture
The anthropological approach to the study of culture and
human society. Using case studies from ethnography, the
course explores the universality of cultural categories
(social organization, economy, law, belief system, art,
etc.) and the range of variation among human societies.
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N. Panourgia |
MW10:35-11:50 |
614 Schermerhorn |
| ANTH V2004y |
Introduction to Social and Cultural Theory
Introduces students to theoretical works and ideas that have
formed the modern field of anthropology. These include classic 19th
century social theories (e.g., those of Durkheim, Weber, Marx), 20th
century interpretive approaches (for example, structuralism), and
contemporary modes of sociocultural analysis. |
J. Pemberton |
TR 10:35-11:50 |
614 Schermerhorn |
| ANTH V2008y |
Film and Culture
How have cultures
been represented through film? This course offers a selective
introduction to the past and present of ethnographic and documentary
filmmaking. Film & Culture joins scholarly and filmmaking
sensibilities to examine the relation of cultural identity to
portrayal in film.
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M. Vail |
R 7:00p-10:00p |
TBA |
| ANTH V2010x |
Major Debates-Studies of Africa
This
course will focus on key debates that have shaped the study of
Africa in the postcolonial African academy. The
approach will be multidisciplinary and readings will be illustrative
of different sides in the debate.
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M. Mamdani |
MW2:40p-3:55p |
301-Pupin Laboratories |
| ANTH V2020x |
Chinese Strategies
This course will
examine major elements of Chinese culture historically and in the
present-day. Through the study of
several recent ethnographies of conditions in rural and urban China,
we will explore the ways in which the cultural conventions of the
past have informed the strategies Chinese have devised in their
negotiations with the global commercial economy and with an often
predatory state. |
D. Hopkins |
TR 1:10p-2:25p |
414-Pupin Laboratories |
| ANTH V2100x |
Muslim Societies
Examination of religion and society not limited to the Middle
East. A series of Muslim societies of various types and locations
will be approached historically and contextually to understand their
family resemblances and their differences, their distinctive
mechanisms of coherence and their patterns of contestation. |
O. Erdur |
TR 1:10p-2:25p |
602 Hamilton |
| ANTH V2300x |
Anthropology of Estrangement
To examine anthropological explanation as a passage from the
known to the unknown that problematizes the known as well as leaving
some kernel of the strange, the exotic, and the unfamiliar a mystery
and does not reduce everything to an explanation. |
M. Taussing |
TR 4:10p-5:25p |
717 Hamilton |
| ANTH V3064x |
Death and the Body
This class explores the ways in which archaeologists use the
dead body to explore past beliefs and social practices, critically
assessing these approaches from the broader perspective of
anthropological and sociological theories of the body's production
and constitution. |
Z. Crossland |
MW10:35-11:50 |
503 Hamilton |
| ANTH V3660x |
Gender, Culture, and Human Rights
This
course will explore what anthropology, both in terms of its theories
of culture and its ethnographies of particular communities, can
contribute to our thinking about the relationship between gender,
culture, and human rights. |
L. Lughod |
R 11:00-12:50p |
951 Schermerhorn |
| ANTH V3911x |
Ethnography of the Image
The course will investigate visuality as a dominant form of
cultural production in the twentieth and twenty-first century. In
this light, we will survey visuality's engagements with
modernization, radical politics, utopianism, magic and sorcery, new
technologies, and other significant aspects of recent history and
human practice. |
TBA |
T 11:00-12:50p |
963 Schermerhorn |
| ANTH V3916x |
Psychological Anthropology
This course
explores the origins and contemporary practice of psychological
anthropology, focusing on anthropologists' appropriation of
psychological theories, methods and concepts, on prior
collaborations between anthropologists and psychologists, and on
their varying conceptions of the links between individual
psychological phenomena and societal structures and conventions. |
K.Seeley |
T 9:00-11:00 |
467 Schermerhorn |
| ANTH V3921x |
Anticolonialism
This course aims to
inquire into the construction of the image of colonialism and its
projected aftermaths established in anti-colonial discourse. |
D. Scott |
W 2:10p-4:00p |
467 Schermerhorn |
| ANTH V3922x |
The Emergence of State Society
This
course examines major theories proposed to account for that process,
including population pressure, warfare, urbanism, class conflict,
technological innovation, resource management, political conflict
and cooperation, economic specialization and exchange, religion/
ideology, and information processing |
T. D'Altroy |
R 11:00-12:50p |
951 Schermerhorn |
| ANTH V3937x |
Mass-Mediations of Modernity
Explores the force of media technology, its relationship to
transnational forms of capital, to the development of new
subjectivities, and to the rise of new networks of power and social
relations. |
R. Morris |
M 11:00-12:50p |
963 Schermerhorn |
| ANTH V3939x |
Millennial Futures: Culture/Japan
Addresses mass culture and its relationship to Japan at the end of
the 20th century. Approaches the themes of millennial anxiety and
wishfulness in such domains as everyday life, technology,
criminality, gender and sexuality, and consumption. |
M. Ivy |
R 2:10p-4:00p |
467 Schermerhorn |
| ANTH V3970x |
Biological Basis of Human Variation
Biological evidence for the modern human diversity at the molecular,
phenotypical, and behavioral levels, as distributed geographically. |
R. Holoway |
R 4:10p-6:00p |
467 Schermerhorn |
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