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AnthropologySpring 2016 courSe guide
anthropology at tufts
THE ANTHROPOLOGY MAJORTen courses distributed as follows:
1. One Gateway (introductory) sociocultural anthropology course (ANTH 05-39)2. One Gateway biological anthropology or archaeology course (ANTH 40-59)3. ANTH 130 - Anthropological Thought4. Seven additional Anthropology courses, at least one of which must be an area-focused course numbered below 160 (gateway or mid-level), and two of which must be upper-level seminars (160-189).
We recommend taking Anthropology 130 in the junior year.
A maximum of two cross-listed courses offered by other Tufts departments may be counted toward the Anthropology major.
Students must achieve a grade of C- or better for a course to count for credit toward the major.
DECLARING A MAJORAny full-time faculty member of the department can be your advisor. Try to meet with as many of the faculty members as possible to talk about your own goals and expectations. Select an advisor who seems most attuned to your interests. Pick up and fill out the “Declaration of Major” form from the department and have your new Anthropology advisor sign it. Take the signed form to our Staff Assistant to photocopy for our files. Deliver the signed form to the Student Services Desk in Dowling Hall. You have now officially declared a major and henceforth relevant documents (transcripts, pre-registration packets, etc.) will come to your new advisor.
DOUBLE MAJORSThe same form should be used to declare a second major. Your folder will have to go to your advisors in both departments so have the department make an additional copy for the second department.
Cover Image: Mechanics of Man: A Robot to Teach Physiology // Arthur and Fritz Kahn Collection 1889-1932
Back Image: Artistic rendering of space colony concepts // NASA Ames Research Center , 1970
spring 2016 courses
ANTH 12 Gender in World Cultures Jaysane-darr d+ TTh 10:30-11:45 AMANTH 20 Global Cities Stanton K+ MW 4:30-5:15 pMANTH 32 Introduction to the Anthropology of Science and TechnologySeaver F+ TTh 12:00-1:15 pMANTH 42 Extreme Environments: Human Adaptability to Novel Habitats Bailey e+ MW 10:30-11:45 AM ANTH 128 Mesoamerican Archaeology CLST: ARCH 128Sullivan M+ MW 6:00-7:15 pMANTH 132 Myth, Ritual and Symbol CLST: REL 134guss K+ MW 4:30-5:15 pMANTH 137 Language and Culture CLST: LING 137Sidorkina i+ MW 3:00-4:15 pMANTH 149-31 Colonialism and Decolonization CLST: ENG 92-03Bishara/Lowe g+ MW 1:30-2:45 pMANTH 149-32 Indigeneity & Techno-politics* Özden-Schilling J+ TTh 3:00-4:15 pMANTH 149-33 Forensic Anthropology Kiley Schoff L+ TTh 4:30-5:45 pMANTH 149-34 Culture & Conflict in East Africa* CLST: AFR 147-08Jaysane-darr e+ MW 10:30-11:45 AMANTH 149-35 Representing Environments Özden-Schilling n+ TTh 6:00-7:15 pMANTH 150 Human Evolution Bailey 12+ W 6:00-9:00 pMANTH 164 Media, the State & the Senses CLST: FMS 51 Bishara 6+ T 1:20-4:20 pMANTH 170 Colonizing Time CLST: CST 194-03Shaw 7 W 1:30-4:00 pMANTH 176 Advanced Topics in Medical Anthropology pinto 8 Th 1:30-4:00 pMANTH 186 Place and Placemaking guss/Stanton 5 M 1:30-4:00 pM
ANTH 198 Apprenticeship ANTH 199 Senior Honors Thesis
ANTH 99 Internship ANTH 191 Directed ReadingANTH 197 Directed Research
*starred courses count towards the Anthropology area course requirement
Co-listed with Anthropology:ANTH 39-08 Technoscience and the State STS 50-01 TBd i+ MW 3:00-4:15 pM ANTH 149-36 Gender and Sexuality in the Middle East* ARB 92-01Abowd 11 T 6:30-9:00 pMANTH 149-37 American Orientalism ARB 92-03Abowd J+ TTh 3:00-4:30 pM ANTH 155 Environment, Communication & Culture ENV 150Stein 5 M 1:30-4:00 pM
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Stephen Bailey | Associate [email protected] | Eaton Hall Room 307Biological and nutritional anthropology, growth and body composition, methodology, Latin America, China, Southwestern U.S.
Amahl Bishara | Associate Professor [email protected] | Eaton Hall Room 304 Media, human rights, the state, knowledge production, politics of place and mobility, expressive practices, Middle East
Alex Blanchette | Assistant Professor *on leave 2015-2016* [email protected] | Eaton Hall Room 309Ecology, labor, green capitalism, posthumanist theory, biotechnology, animals; modernity, alienation, determination; food politics, industrial agriculture, U.S.
Tatiana Chudakova | Assistant Professor *on leave 2015-2016* [email protected] Medical anthropology, science and technology, environment, ethnicity and indigeneity, nationalism, post-socialism; Russia; North Asia.
David Guss | Professor [email protected] | Eaton Hall Room 305Urban and aesthetic anthropology, theory, cultural performance, myth and ritual, popular culture, placemaking, Latin America
Deborah Pacini Hernandez | Professor, [email protected] Latino studies, racial and ethnic identity, popular music, globalization, transnationalism, Latino community studies
Sarah Pinto | Associate Professor [email protected] | Eaton Hall Room 308Medical anthropology, gender, reproduction, social and feminist theory, caste, political subjectivity, India, U.S.
Nick Seaver | Assistant Professor [email protected] | Eaton Hall Room 311AComputing and algorithms, sound and music, knowledge and attention, taste and classification, media technologies, science and technology studies
Rosalind Shaw | Associate Professor | Chair [email protected] | Eaton Hall Room 311BTransnational justice, the anthropology of mass violence, local and transnational practices of redress and social repair, child and youth combatants, social memory, Atlantic slave trade, ritual and religion, West Africa, Sierra Leone
Cathy Stanton | Senior [email protected] | Eaton Hall Room 309Tourism, museums, myth and ritual, cultural performance, culture-led redevelopment, mobilities, farm history/heritage
Lauren Sullivan | [email protected] | Eaton Hall Room 303Mesoamerican archaeology, Mayan archaeology, the rise and fall of complex societies, prehistory of the American Southwest, Paleoindians of North America, human evolution, cultural anthropology, ceramic analysis, Belize
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ANTH 20 Global Cities cathy Stanton K+ MW 4:30-5:15 pM
As the world continues to become more urban-ized, cities take on increasingly important roles as nodes in global flows of people, capital, and images. Using theory and case studies from anthropology and other disciplines, this course will examine how shared identities are shaped, contested, memorialized, and erased in urban spaces, and how those spaces relate to their “natural” contexts. The course will introduce students to some of the ways that social scientists have thought about issues of urban place-making, social cohesion and conflict, and mobility. We will focus on the tensions between planned and lived urban space, on the intersection of “the global” and “the local” in urban experience, and on eth-
nography as a set of methods for investigating the embodied and inherently political realities of life in cities. This course counts toward the Social Sciences distribution requirement.
ANTH 12 Gender in World CulturesAnna Jaysane-darr d+ TTh 10:30-11:45 AM
In this course, we will examine the ways individuals and societies imagine, experience, impose and challenge gender and sexuality systems in a diversity of socio-cultural settings. Specific concepts to be addressed include the place of the body and biology in theories of sex and gender; cross-cultural ideas of masculinity; gender and the division of labor in the global economy; the complex relationship between sexual and gendered identities; perspectives on queer sexualities and transgenders cross-culturally; and gendered forms of violence. This course counts toward the Social Sciences distribution requirement and the World Civilization requirement.
course descriptions
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ANTH 42 Extreme Environments: Human Adaptability to Novel Habitats Stephen Bailey E+ MW 10:30-11:45 AM
Extreme Environments considers how environments vastly different from the African parklands in which we became human impact us biologically and culturally. Our early evo-lutionary solutions to heat, aridity, and solar radiation will serve as a baseline. We will add humans’ biological, cultural, and technological adaptations to four environments once or currently viewed as at the extremes of our ability to occupy: the arctic, the high mountains, cities, and space. In each case, we will detail our biological adaptations, both short and long term, to these specific environments. Then we will turn our attention to the interplay
of those adaptations with complex cultural responses. These range from educational, mass media, and literary negotiation of the unfamiliar environments, through learned social behaviors such as optimizing energy expenditures for procuring limited resources, to technological solutions as basic as clothing or as complex as space suits. These various cultural and technological responses serve to mediate and buffer our biological adaptations, but may also introduce new stresses. This course counts toward the Natural Sciences distribu-tion requirement.
ANTH 32 Introduction to the Anthropology of Science and Technology nick Seaver F+ TTh 12:00-1:15 pM
This course introduces students to the sociocultural study of science and technology. Popular understandings of science and technology suggest that they work independently from their social and cultural contexts; this course surveys work demonstrating the various ways that this is untrue. Texts will be drawn from across the history of anthropology and from science and technology studies. We will cover major theories about the relationship between science, technology, society and culture such as technological determinism and social construction. We will investigate how facts are made and how sociocultural contexts shape technologies, from Papuan eel traps to music recommender systems. Potential topics include the relationship between magic, technology, science, and religion; how Western science has and has not recognized “other knowledges” from around the world; cyborg feminism; the rituals of laboratory science; genetics and new kinship studies; and the social life of algorithms. This course counts toward the Social Sciences distribution requirement and the new Science, Technology, and Society major.
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ANTH 128 Mesoamerican Archaeology CLST: ARCH 128Lauren Sullivan M+ MW 6:00-7:15 pm
This course is an introduction to the archaeology of the pre-Columbian cultures of Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico. The cultures of Mesoamerica have been studied since the Spanish arrived and this course will examine the history of archaeological research in the region as well as the latest finds and interpretations. The Olmec, the Maya, the Zapotec, and the Aztec will be studied through artifacts, architecture, murals, inscribed monuments, hieroglyphs, and codices. We will begin the semester by examining the transition from hunting and gathering to early agriculture and the origins of village life across the region. The focus will then turn to the development of social complexity and the emergence of elites examining their use of ritual and religion in creating and maintaining social inequality. After discussing the rise of the state and the various structures associated with state level society (e.g., political organization, subsistence strategies, different levels of social hierarchies), we will turn to culture collapse and assess some of the latest theories on why/ how these great societies declined. This course counts toward the Social Sciences or Arts distribution requirement, the World Civilization requirement, and the Native American Culture and Hispanic Cultures & Diasporas culture options.
ANTH 132 Myth, Ritual and Symbol CLST: REL 134David Guss K+ MW 4:30-5:15 PM Prerequisites: Sophomore standing
Myth, ritual, and symbol exist in all human societies and play key roles in helping people to comprehend, function within, and re-shape their worlds. This course will explore some of the specific ways in which myths, rituals, and symbols serve to organize societies, integrate individuals, facilitate change, and explain and maintain our connection to the world. Along the way, we will examine some of the ways in which anthropologists and others have explained myth, ritual, and symbol, including functionalist, historical, geographic,
psychoanalytical, feminist, discursive, semiotic, and ecological approaches. Drawing on the work of Victor Turner and Carl Jung among others, we will investigate liminality, shamanism, initiation, dreams, fairy tales and performance. We will also ask how myths and rituals become located in bodies and landscapes, and, recognizing their generative power, how they can also challenge the status quo, negotiating and affecting change. This course counts towards the Social Sciences or Humanities distribution requirement and the World Civilization requirement.
ANTH 149-32 Indigeneity & Techno-politics* Tom Özden-Schilling J+ TTh 3:00-4:15 pM
How have biodiversity protection measures, cultural heritage NGOs, genomic science, and transnational media altered the lives of Indigenous groups in North America in the twenty-first century? Who gets to count as an “Indigenous expert,” anyway? This course will introduce students to a growing body of literature at the intersection of science and technology studies (STS) and the cultural anthropology of contemporary Indigenous politics and experience. Focusing on late-twentieth- and early-twenty-first-century developments
ANTH 149-31 Colonialism and Decolonization CLST: ENG 92-03 Amahl Bishara & Lisa Lowe g+ MW 1:30-2:45 pM
In this co-taught course (with Prof. Lisa Lowe, English), we will consider historical and ongoing colonialisms and empire, examining the political economy, discourse, biopolitics, military, and cultural practices of colonial rule, as well as modes of resis-tance, and the intellectual and political responses of the colonized. Various units will focus on settler colonialism and indigenous critique, slavery and antislavery revolts, and militarism and resistance, in North America, the Caribbean, the Middle
East, and South Asia. Readings will include works by Marx, Fanon, Mamdani, Hall, Ileto, Chakrabarty, Mohanty, James, Du Bois, Mbembe, Simpson, Byrd, Goldstein, Roy, and others. This course counts toward the Social Sciences distribution requirement.
ANTH 137 Language and Culture CLST: LING 137 Maria Sidorkina i+ MW 3:00-4:15 pM
This course will introduce students to the study of the intersections of language, culture and power. We will examine a number of interrelated questions: for example, how does intra-language difference (e.g. ways of speaking particular to sub-groups of people) and inter-language diversity (e.g. the historical and geographic distribution of languages) relate to political, ethnic, economic, gender, and cultural differ-ences? What do we mean by ‘meaning,’ and how is meaning essential to being human? How does linguistic structure (e.g., grammar) relate to language use (e.g., what ends people use language as a means for) and linguistic ideology (e.g. speakers’ understandings of their own usage)? Discussion focuses on specific case studies and ethnographic examples. Throughout the course we will collect transcript data from public, online interactions to illustrate the theories we will be engaging with in lecture and discussion. Some specific questions we will consider include: Why do we learn to discriminate between “better” and “worse” speech? How do ways of talking differ along gender lines, and what are the implica-tions of this difference for thinking about gender as a received social category? How do hierarchies of language articulate with hierarchies of people categorized by race, ethnicity and social class? This course counts toward the Social Sciences distribution requirement.
ANTH 149-33 Forensic Anthropology Sarah Kiley Schoff L+ TTh 4:30-5:45 pMPrerequisites: Sophomore standing
Forensic anthropology is an applied field of biological anthropology. This course is designed to introduce the theoretical and methodological approaches of biological anthropology employed during the medico-legal investigation of death. Forensic anthro-pological techniques used to determine forensic significance, personal identity, and to recreate the circumstances immediately surrounding death will be examined. These topics along with human skeletal identification in mass disasters and human rights investiga-
tions will be presented and analyzed using a holistic approach. This course counts toward the Natural Sciences distribution requirement.
ANTH 149-34 Culture & Conflict in East Africa* CLST: AFR 147-08Anna Jaysane-darr e+ MW 10:30-11:45 AM
This course brings an anthropological perspective to the study of East Africa through a diverse examination of social history and contemporary life in the region and some of its diasporic groups. The goal of this course is to scrutinize the experience and legacy of colonialism, war, and displacement in the East African region and, in doing so, upend existing perceptions of “modernity,” “development,” and “Africa.” Units in the course include the impact of perpetual war; indigeneity and ethnic-ity; development projects; and cultural productions. This course counts toward the Social Sciences distribution require-ment and the Anthropology area course requirement.
in Canada and the United States, we will explore the historical contexts behind new contests over resource rights, land claims, and environmental disputes, as well as the evolution of new spaces and technologies of Indigenous politics. Readings will survey debates over the status of Indigenous knowledges in legal and academic venues; the embedding of market capitalism within other systems of value; political strategies of environmental and cultural conservation; and new experiments in Indigenous-scientific collaborative governance. This course counts toward the Social Sci-ences distribution requirement and the Anthropology area course requirement.
‘Natural Resource Management’, Bunky Echo-Hawk (2006)
ANTH 150 Human Evolution Stephen Bailey 12+ W 6:00-9:00 pMPrerequisites: ANTH 40, ANTH 42, or introductory biology course
Detailed examination of the human evolutionary record from Australopithecus through contemporary populations. Emphasis on theory and the analysis of functional morphology. Particular problems are stressed, including the interplay of early social organi-zation, ecological systems, and bipedalism; origins of modern human populations; the impact of technology and language on cognitive evolution, and the coevolu-tion of immune responses and pathogens. This course counts toward the Natural Sciences distribution requirement.
ANTH 164 Media, the State & the Senses Amahl Bishara 6+ T 1:20-4:20 pMPrerequisites: Sophomore standing
This upper level seminar examines the social practices of media production, circulation, and reception. Media are both the products of and means for social, cultural, and political trans-formation. In studying media, we will examine their relationship to transformations of space-time perceptions, the shaping of political identities, and the constitution of complex (social, political, economic, institutional, and/or creative) connections among people and groups. How are media mobilized by states to consolidate powers? How do people challenge these authori-
ties’ attempts? Media also work on the senses, even as individuals and institutions seek to shape how they do so. In this class, we will attend to the possibilities and limitations offered by different media, due to their material forms, institutional structures, and perceptual forms. Students will have the opportunity to conduct brief media ethnographies. This course counts toward the Social Sciences distribution requirement.
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ANTH 149-35 Representing Environments Tom Özden-Schilling n+ TTh 6:00-7:15 pM
How do maps, images, and other representations of environments shape the ways we live and think? How can we use anthropology to explore these influences, or design “counter-
mapping” projects to push back on the systems of exclusion these media produce? Visual media provide a common ground for environmental poli-tics, framing collective imaginaries of “nature” and “culture” while normalizing the ways we talk about space and scale. And yet, these media have also been used as tools of imperial domination, Indig-enous politics, and coercive conservation. Surveying approaches from political ecology, environmental history, geography, and the history of science, this course will expose students to a range of strategies
for incorporating media analysis into ethnographic fieldwork. Drawing on specific scenes of environmental conflict, we will examine how the technical production and public interpreta-tion of maps and other visual media influences struggles over resources, political power, and public health. This course counts toward the Social Sciences distribution requirement.
ANTH 176 Advanced Topics in Medical AnthropologySarah pinto 8 Th 1:30-4:00 pMPrerequisites: Medical Anthropology (ANTH 148) or instructor permission
This course examines advanced concepts in medical anthropology, using ethnographic texts beyond the introductory level to explore new directions in theory. This semester, we will focus on new ethnographic writing in medical anthropology, with a focus on ethnographies addressing subjectivity and bodily life and practice. This course counts toward the Social Sciences distribution requirement.
ANTH 170 Colonizing Time CLST: CST 194-03rosalind Shaw 7 W 1:30-4:00 pMPrerequisites: Junior standing + one sociocultural anthropology course or instructor permission
How does time become socially meaningful? Why were (and are) ideas of modern time pivotal to colonization, representations of racial and cultural difference, and the develop-ment of capitalism? How do people project themselves into the future, and how does this
shape the present? In this small, discussion-based seminar, we explore the relationship among valuations of time, forms of power and social difference, and ways of experiencing the world—and ourselves. We will interweave anthropological studies of time and futures with postcolonial, indigenous, queer, and feminist critiques of temporality. Our topics will include colonial and Christian cultures of time in South Africa and Aus-tralia; temporalities of family and kinship; work and the structure of time (24-hour schedules; unemploy-ment; the gig economy); anticipation as social practice
(forecasting; peacemaking; space travel and colonization); and the exploration of alternative temporalities through postcolonial critique and indigenous futurism in literature and film. This course counts toward the Social Sciences distribution requirement.
ANTH 186 Place and Placemaking david guss & cathy Stanton 5 M 1:30-4:00 pMPrerequisites: Junior standing or instructor permission
How do places mean? What is “sense of place” and how is it constructed? In this project-oriented seminar, we will examine the social production of place and its role in creating a sense of inclusion or exclusion at local, national, and other levels of belonging. Readings, discus-sions, and field trips will explore the symbolic meanings and charged activities enabled by specific kinds of built environments--for example, college campuses, parks, theaters, monuments, and markets. Students will complete individual fieldwork projects based on original ethno-graphic fieldwork. This course counts toward the Social Sciences distribution requirement.
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