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Anthropology and Archaeology

Not all courses are available to SSP students. For example, some courses are offered only for graduate credit. Note especially any listed prerequisites.

ANTH S-1095 Study Abroad in Sweden: The History and Archaeology of the Viking Age (31953)
(Print version)
Stephen A. Mitchell and Neil Price
Limited enrollment.
June 25-August 3. Study abroad programs are restricted to students 18 years of age or older.

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ANTH S-1178 The Archaeology Field School at San José de Moro, Peru: Methods, Techniques, and Andean Prehistory (32124)
(Print version)
Jeffrey Quilter and Luis Jaime Castillo Butters
Limited enrollment.
June 30-August 3. Study abroad programs are restricted to students 18 years of age or older.

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ANTH S-1600 Introduction to Social Anthropology (31819)
(Website) (Print version)
Theodore Macdonald, Jr.
(4 credits: UN, GR, NC) T,Th 12:30-3 pm, William James Hall, Room 105. Eight-week session. Tuition $2,275.

The course explores anthropological approaches to society, culture, history, and current events. Themes include social organization, ideology, religion, exchange, subsistence, gender, land use, ethnicity, ethnic conflict, and local/global interrelations. The themes are illustrated through detailed studies of women in North Africa, ethnicity in Bosnia, ritual exchange in the South Pacific, and political organization in Southeast Asia. The instructor also reviews his current applied research on contemporary indigenous responses to political, economic, and ecological changes in Latin America, with special emphasis on the Amazon Basin. Students are asked to grapple with anthropologists' past and present intellectual and ethical challenges.

ANTH S-1725 Anthropology and Film (32155)
(Syllabus) (Print version)
Jayasinhji Jhala
(4 credits: UN, GR, NC) T,Th 9:30 am-noon, Sever Hall, Room 107. Eight-week session. Tuition $2,275.

This course offers a deep immersion into anthropological film and is recommended for all students interested in visual anthropology and documentary film. Its objective is to provide a substantial understanding of the nature of anthropological film as a whole, and to enable students to take part in a specific discourse that is related to social relationships that are articulated in filmic texts. The course has a topical approach in a historical context; the theoretical overview is grounded in a perspective that applies concepts of culture to processes of visual communication. Examples of anthropological film are taken from the tradition of ethnographic filmmaking, indigenous film, dramatic fiction film, and minority film. Classical works and the contribution of major ethnographic filmmakers are studied, alongside the work of other filmmakers. Discussion and coursework review and use theories, methods, and topics presented in the films shown.

ANTH S-1741 Anthropology and Education (31975)
(Website) (Print version)
Catalina Laserna
(4 credits: UN, GR, NC) M-Th 9:30 am-noon, Maxwell Dworkin, Room G135. Short session I. Required sections to be arranged. Tuition $2,275.

This course explores the intersection between anthropological and educational research and theory building. Topics include the comparative ethnographic studies of educational forms (including craft apprenticeship and formal schooling), socio-cultural theories of cognitive and linguistic development, and varieties of literacy. In conclusion, the course explores how anthropological knowledge can inform the design of culturally responsive learning environments.

ANTH S-1825 Study Abroad in Tokyo (Waseda): Ethnography and Experience—Exploration and Anthropology in Tokyo (32107)
(Print version)
Stephen Nussbaum
Limited enrollment.
June 18-July 20. Study abroad programs are restricted to students 18 years of age or older.

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ANTH S-1835 Introduction to Psychiatric Anthropology: Society and Mental Illness (31928)
(Print version)
(4 credits: UN, GR, NC) Short session II. Tuition $2,275.

*** ANTH S-1835 has been CANCELED.***

ANTH S-1882 Study Abroad in Venice: Cultural Studies—China and the West (32131)
(Print version)
Marco Ceresa
Limited enrollment.
June 21-August 3. Study abroad programs are restricted to students 18 years of age or older.

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