Graduate

Focuses on human dentition, exploring development, morphology, identification of teeth and tooth fragments and thin-section microanatomy. Dental anomalies and pathology will be reviewed. The archaeological and forensic context for interpretation of information from the dentition will be addressed.

Provides training in techniques used in identifying biological profile from the skeleton, assessing the trauma, and estimating time since death. Impact of legal context in which these assessments are made paramount to this course.

Graduate-level advanced seminar in ethnographic practice. Practice and critique of ethnographic research methods; analysis of how research sites are constructed. Topics and themes change yearly. Requirements include ethnographic fieldwork and writing. Will be offered in the 2004–05 academic year.

Examines biological and social markers of infant to mature and aged adult stages through life history. Compares and discusses timing and pattern of life history in humans across species, with examples from contemporary and historical societies.

Comparative and evolutionary anatomy of human performance examines locomotor systems and their underlying structure and evolution through videos, skeletons, and dissection in a variety of mammals, primates, and humans with applications to the fossil record. Will be taught in 2010–11 academic year.

Examines the production of ethnographies in the colonial period through critical interpretations of the structure of colonial authority, imagination, and communities built on asymmetries of race, class, gender, and sexuality. The role of nationalism in shaping the postcolonial response to this literature is also examined.

Seminar analyzing life history narratives in anthropology. Requires students to collect life history materials through fieldwork. Constructions of concepts in the history of anthropology, such as individual, self, person, subjectivity, and identity are discussed.

Explores classic and contemporary works on Mexicans in the U.S. and Mexico by putting into dialogue scholars on both sidees of the border. Examines other approaches to culture including feminist and cultural studies. Ability to read in Spanish highly desirable.

This seminar examines various approaches to narrative culture—myths, metanarratives, narrative fields, cultural narratives, stories, storytelling, and narrative enactments—from anthropology, cultural studies, and literary studies. Will be offered in the 2004–05 academic year.

This course traces an ongoing dialogue between poststructuralist theories and texts and the disciplines of anthropology. The course will pay particular attention to the philosophy of Michel Foucault; in addition, the influences of Derrida, Levinas, Barthes, and Bourdieu will be discussed. Will be offered in the 2005–06 academic year.

Seminar examines ethnography as a genre of writing and as a workshop of cultural production. Looks at changes in the anthropological genre of ethnography over the last 100 years and compares the anthropological genre with related genres.

Engages in critical studies of medicine, science, and technology from an anthropological perspective. Recent ethnographic research will examine configurations of knowledge and practice with special attention to social justice, community interventions, and the study up of institutions. Will be offered in the 2006–07 academic year.

Examines theoretical intersections of anthropology and psychology. Topics include psychoanalytic and cognitive approaches to culture theory, the psychic unity debate, language and cognition, cultural models, and current controversies in psychological anthropology. Will be offered in the 2005–06 academic year.

Trains students in the use of electronic and photographic media for the acquisition of field data. Through lectures, demonstrations, field exercises, and review of students' media exercises, students will learn the fundamentals of photography, video production, and audio recordings in the field.

Course devoted entirely to the process of writing a dissertation. Students work on their dissertations, post-fieldwork, at various stages, ranging from beginning stages of making an outline to middle stages of drafting chapters to final stages of revision. Emphasis placed upon initial stages of organizing field materials into themes for chapters. Will be offered in the 2004–05 academic year.

Explores theoretical and ethnographic analysis of globalization and transnationalism as processes that shape conditions of struggle around livelihood, culture, and identity in the Americas. Focuses on key themes of production, consumption, transnationalism, and social movements. Will be offered in the 2006–07 academic year.

Explores theoretical and methodological issues in the field of international development, with an emphasis on ethnographic analysis. Topics include hierarchies of value, altruism and philanthropy, geographies of dependency and responsibility, ethics of compassion, and public anthropology. Will be offered in 2011–12 academic year.

What makes the anthropology of science particular? To pose this question and seek answers, course considers early and contemporary ethnographies of science, medicine, and technology alongside contributions by philosophers of science. Will be offered in 2011–12 academic year.

Cross-disciplinary examination of death and the dead person in various cultures, past and present. Topics include cultural constructions of death, dead bodies and dead persons in contemporary and archaeological perspectives, rights pertaining to dead bodies in the U.S. legal system, use of cadavers in education, forensics of dead persons in mass disasters and human rights cases, indigenous rights and repatriation. Will be offered in the 2006–07 academic year.

Tutorial on archaeology of Africa, from 2.5 million years ago to emergence of African pastoralism and farming. Weekly examination of disciplinary models and assumptions in historic context, emphasizing overarching themes in prehistoric archaeology. Students cannot receive credit for this course and course 175A. (Formerly Tutorial on African Archaeology.)

Graduate tutorial on African diaspora archaeology. Focuses on the cultural, social, economic, and political lives of Africans and their descendants in the New World and West Africa from the 15th through 19th centuries. Students cannot receive credit for this course and course 175C. Will be offered in the 2009–2010 academic year.

Advanced readings and discussion in Africanist archaeology. Focus to be guided by the needs of advanced students. This course does not replace the 275-series and should only be taken by students who have successfully completed at least one of these courses. Will be offered in the 2009–2010 academic year.

Using a multidisciplinary approach, examines physical geology, paleoenvironment, human biology, linguistics, and culture history of Americas at end of last Ice Age. Particular emphasis on reconstructing timing, routes, and context of first peopling of the American continents. Taught in conjunction with Earth Sciences 276. Students cannot receive credit for both courses.

Uses ethnographic, archaeological, and historical sources to examine clash of cultures between Native Americans and Europeans during the 15th through 19th centuries. Emphasizes critical analyses of social, political, and demographic impacts of contact on Native American societies. Will be offered in the 2009–2010 academic year.

Seminar on research design in zooarchaeology using archaeological monographs and clusters of related research papers. Students produce a research design in the form of a draft NSF research proposal based on the use of archaeofaunal materials. Will be offered in 2011–12 academic year.

Seminar on the use of concepts of gender, sex, and sexuality in archaeological analysis and sociopolitics, reviewing antecedents in the general anthropological literature, the first critiques of androcentrism, and more recent research incorporating gender in analysis, as well as the impacts of archaeological sociopolitics on persons of different genders and sexual preferences. Will be offered in the 2008–2009 academic year.

Worshop on writing styles in anthropological sciences, including specialized, general anthropological, and mainstream scientific journals, monographs, and public education pieces. Cultivates flexible writing skill through comparative analysis of data presentation and rhetoric, with drafts in different formats. Will be taught in 2010–11 academic year.

Tropical forest ecology with emphases on plant-life history variation and patterns of diversity. Topics include: photosynthesis, competition, and plant-animal interactions, such as pollination, herbivory, and seed dispersal. Special focus on neotropical forests and adaptations to life in humid environments. Students cannot receive credit for this course and course 190A. Competitive selection based on application and interview during previous fall quarter. Will be offered in 2011–12 academic year. Enrollment restricted to graduate students. Concurrent enrollment in courses 290B and 290C required.

Field-oriented course in primate behavioral ecology. Combines lectures on approaches and methodologies with practical field studies. Students complete field project in primate ecology and behavior and learn natural history of the plants and animals of Costa Rica. Students cannot receive credit for this course and course 190B. Competitive selection based on application and interview during previous fall quarter. Will be offered in 2011–12 academic year. Enrollment restricted to graduate students. Concurrent enrollment in courses 290A and 290C required. Students are billed a materials fee.

Students carry out substantial field projects at two locations in Costa Rica under the supervision of course instructors. Students develop research proposals, analyze data, and prepare final research papers and oral presentations. Students cannot receive credit for this course and course 190C. Competitive selection based on application and interview during previous fall quarter. Will be offered in 2011–12 academic year. Enrollment restricted to graduate students. Concurrent enrollment in courses 290A and 290B required.

History of ideas about evolution as a process, with a focus on human evolution from Darwin's methods and contributions through genetics, paleontology, and the modern evolutionary synthesis, concluding with the impact of molecular data on understanding of evolution today. Students cannot receive credit for this course and course 194A. Will be offered in the 2008–2009 academic year.

Advanced overview of Native cultures in the American Southwest from Paleo-Indian times through early European contact. Completion of undergraduate course in North American archaeology is strongly recommended. Students cannot receive credit for this course and course 194L. Will be offered in the 2008–2009 academic year.

Focuses on origins, diversity, and accuity of primate senses with emphasis on field techniques, primate evolution and morphology, and cultural innovations in modern human society. Students cannot receive credit for this course and course 194W.

Covers the first 2.49 million years of the archaeological evidence for hominid life in Africa and Eurasia, emphasizing archaeological data as indirect evidence for the ecological and social context of hominid evolution. Students cannot receive credit for this course and course 194Y.