Anthropology
51 Hillhouse, Rm 2A, 432.3665
M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.
Chair
Andrew Hill
Director of Graduate Studies
Helen Siu [F] (Rm 4, 158 Whitney Avenue, 432.3680)
Kathryn Dudley (Acting [Sp]) (Rm 2, 158 Whitney Avenue, 432.7664)
Professors
Arjun Appadurai, Richard Burger, Michael Dove (Forestry &
Environmental Studies), Kathryn Dudley, J. Joseph Errington,
Andrew Hill, Frank Hole, William Kelly, Enrique Mayer, Harold
Scheffler, James Scott (Political Science), Helen Siu, John
Szwed, David Watts, Harvey Weiss (Near Eastern Languages &
Civilizations)
Associate Professors
Nora Groce (Epidemiology & Public Health), Patricia Pessar
(Adjunct, American Studies), Linda-Anne Rebhun, Eric Worby
Assistant Professors
J. Bernard Bate, Richard Bribiescas, Marcello Canuto, Kamari
Maxine Clarke, David Graeber, Eric Sargis, Thomas Tartaron
Lecturers
Carol Carpenter (Forestry & Environmental Studies), Ilana
Gershon, Christina Katsougiannopoulou Ewald (Classics; History
of Art), Vyjayanthi Rao, Katherine Rupp, Iman Saca
Fields of Study
The department has four subfields. Archaeology focuses
on ritual complexes and writing, ceramic analysis, warfare,
ancient civilizations, origins of agriculture, and museum
studies. Sociocultural anthropology provides a range of courses:
classics in ethnography and social theory, religion, myth
and ritual, kinship and descent, historical anthropology,
culture and political economy, agrarian studies, ecology,
environment and social change, medical anthropology, emotions,
public health, sexual meanings and gender, postcolonial development,
ethnicity, identity politics and diaspora, urban anthropology,
global mass culture, and alternate modernity. Linguistic anthropology
includes language, nationalism, and ideology, structuralism
and semiotics, feminist discourse. Physical anthropology focuses
on paleoanthropology, evolutionary theory, human functional
anatomy, race and human biological diversity, primate ecology.
There is strong geographical coverage in Africa, the Caribbean,
East Asia (China and Japan), Latin America and South America,
Southeast Asia (Indonesia), South Asia and the Indian Ocean,
the Near East, Europe, and the United States.
Special Requirements for the Ph.D. Degree
Although there are a few required courses or seminars
for each subfield, more than three-fourths of a student’s
program consists of electives, including course work in other
departments. Admission to candidacy requires: (1) completion
of two years of course work (sixteen term courses); (2) independent
study and research; (3) satisfactory performance on qualifying
examinations; and (4) a dissertation research proposal submitted
and approved before the end of the third year. Qualifying
examinations, normally taken at the end of the second year,
consist of eight hours written (four hours on one of the subfields,
four hours on the student’s special interest), and two
hours oral. Dissertations are normally based on field or laboratory
research.
Combined Ph.D. Programs
The Anthropology department also offers a combined
Ph.D. in Anthropology and Forestry & Environmental Studies
in conjunction with the School of Forestry & Environmental
Studies, and a combined Ph.D. in Anthropology and African
American Studies in conjunction with the Department of African
American Studies. These combined programs are ideal for students
who intend to concentrate in, and to write dissertations on,
thematic and theoretical issues centrally concerned with anthropology
and one of these other areas of study. Students in the combined
degree programs will be subject to the combined supervision
of faculty members in the Anthropology department and in the
respective department or school.
Admission into the combined degree program in Anthropology
and African American Studies is based on mutual agreement
between these two departments. Individual students will develop
courses of study in consultation with their academic advisers
and with the directors of graduate study for both departments.
Students in the program must take core courses in Anthropology
and in African American Studies, plus related courses in both
departments approved by their advisory committees. In addition,
they must successfully complete the African American Studies
third-year Research Workshop. Oral and written qualifying
examinations must include two topics in the field of African
American Studies and two topics in Anthropology. The examination
committee must include at least one faculty member from each
department. The dissertation prospectus must be submitted
to the directors of graduate study of both departments and
approved by the faculty of both. The thesis readers committee
must also include at least one faculty member from each department,
and the faculties of both departments must approve its composition.
Master's Degrees
M.Phil. See Graduate
School requirements.
M.A. This degree is intended for students not continuing
in the Ph.D. program. Requirement is satisfactory completion
of at least one year in that program. Special attention is
given to the quality of papers submitted in course work. Applications
for a terminal master's degree are not accepted.
Program materials are available upon request to the Director
of Graduate Studies, Department of Anthropology, Yale University,
PO Box 208277, New Haven CT 06520-8277; fax, 203.432.3669;
e-mail, anthropology@yale.edu;
Web site, http://www.yale.edu/anthropology/.
Courses
ANTH 500a, Seminar in Social and Cultural Anthropology. Harold
Scheffler. W 10–11.50
The major theoretical orientations in social and cultural
anthropology (especially in the United States and Europe),
their historical development and importance, their relation
to one another and to other disciplines.
ANTH 500b, Seminar in Sociocultural Anthropology II. Arjun
Appadurai, William Kelly. T 10–11.50
This seminar continues the themes of ANTH 500a, with
special emphasis on the characteristics of anthropology as
a discipline and as a profession and on the historical trajectory
of sociocultural anthropology from the late nineteenth century
to the 1970s. The seminar is reserved for first-year doctoral
students in Anthropology, and students are presumed to have
taken ANTH 500a.
ANTH 501a, Field Methods and Research Design. Kathryn
Dudley. W 1.30–3.20
The course offers critical evaluation of the nature of
ethnographic research. Research design includes the rethinking
of site, voice, and ethnographic authority. Also AMST
748a.
ANTH 502au, Anthropological Perspectives on Emotion. Linda-Anne
Rebhun. W 1.30–3.20
This seminar focuses on cross-cultural meanings of emotional
experiences. Topics include the relations among emotion, cognition,
and other psychological experiences in various cultural settings,
vocabularies of emotion in different languages, gender issues
in emotion, and the interconnections among emotion, sickness,
religion, and healing. Also WGST 710a.
ANTH 505bu, Kinship, Descent, and Alliance. Harold
Scheffler. T 1.30–3.20
The role of kinship in the organization of social life,
with emphasis on tribal societies. Topics include regulation
of sexual behavior and marriage, varieties of group organization,
modes of kin classification and their social significance,
and so on.
ANTH 511b, Globalization, Religious Nationalism, and
Rethinking Human Rights. Kamari Clarke. M 1.30–3.20
Anthropology has neither traditionally addressed issues
related to state formation nor has it paid attention to the
growing significance of the post-WWII proliferation of nongovernmental
organizations, especially in the third world. However, given
that increasing numbers of transnational studies have critiqued
the absence of the complex analysis of interrelationships
between the local and the global in anthropology, this course
is an attempt to critically engage the turn in anthropology.
In an overview of anthropological approaches to globalization,
we explore the politics of religious nationalism and the role
of state and nonstate actors in shaping and changing networks
of transnational interaction, in order to provide a theoretical
and practical approach to socially significant transformations.
Also AFAM 657b, AFST 511b.
ANTH 513bu, Language, Culture, and Ideology. J.
Joseph Errington. Th 1.30–3.20
Influential anthropological theories of culture are reviewed
with critical reference to theories of language that inspired
or informed them. Topics include American and European structuralism,
cognitivist and interpretivist approaches to cultural description,
work of Bakhtin, Bourdieu, and various “critical theorists.”
ANTH 520b, Anthropology of Knowledge. Ilana
Gershon. M 10–12
In this course we explore and compare the local epistemologies,
focusing on the principles behind knowledge circulation in
various cultures. We look at a range of ethnographic examples—from
craft apprentices and seasoned skilled manual workers to schoolchildren
and laboratory scientists. We pay particular attention to
the embodiment, inculcation, and transmission of practical
knowledge, and to the roles institutions and social organization
play in shaping knowledge.
ANTH 532b, Direct Action and Radical Social Theory. David
Graeber. T 1.30–3.20
This course is meant to explore some of the recent directions
of radical social theory within, and around, the emergence
of the globalization movement and the politics of direct action.
The course begins with a famous example of direct action,
the shut-down of Seattle meetings of the WTO in November 1999,
and examines some of the history of the ideas (anarchism,
direct action, direct democracy, primitivism) which inspired
it. It then proceeds to trace the influences of Situationism
and related branches of revolutionary theory on the present,
and ends with a series of particular case studies from the
current “global uprising” which provide revealing
conjunctures of new theory and radical practice.
ANTH 533bu, Bilingualism in Social Context. J.
Joseph Errington. T 1.30–3.20
The linguistic phenomenon of bilingualism is presented
through broad issues in social description inseparably linked
to it: growth and change in bilingual communities; bilingual
usage, social identity, and allegiance; interactional significances
of bilingual speech repertoire use.
ANTH 541a, Agrarian Societies: Culture, Society, History,
and Development. Robert Harms, James Scott, Michael
Dove, Paul Freedman. M 1.30–5.20
An interdisciplinary examination of agrarian
societies, contemporary and historical, Western and non-Western.
Major analytical perspectives from anthropology, economics,
history, political science, and environmental studies are
used to develop a meaning-centered and historically grounded
account of the transformations of rural society. Team taught.
Also F&ES 753a, HIST 965a, PLSC 779a.
ANTH 548bu, Gender and Media in India. Bernard
Bate. T 1.30–3.20
Examination of narratives of gender in India. Folkloristic
and anthropological approaches to gendered performance in
story, song, and theater. Recent feminist examinations of
television, film, advertising, and literature. Topics include
classical epic (Ramayana, Shilapathigaram),
stories of gods and goddesses in film and television, and
the gendering of politics.
ANTH 569bu, Economic Anthropology. Enrique
Mayer. Th 1.30–3.20
Introduction to understanding economic systems in other
cultures and societies. How work and leisure is organized,
who gets what and how, and how economic concerns tie into
other aspects of social life. Major debates and controversies
examined, and examples from different parts of the world are
presented. No prior training in economics or anthropology
necessary.
ANTH 580au, Language and Political Practice. Bernard
Bate. T 1.30–3.20
An exploration of the relationship between language and
politics in a number of societies. The course examines how
language use, as both mode of social practice and object of
ideology and political organization, is constitutive of political
relations and social organization generally. Topics include
the relationship of ideologies and aesthetics of language
to broader political economies; speech genre and the performance
of self and social organization; and oratory and its relationship
to the constitution of the social field as an integral element
of political praxis.
ANTH 581a, Society and Environment: Introduction to Theory
and Method. Michael Dove. Th 2.30–5.20
Critical issues in the analysis of relations between
society and environment. Topics include: (1) the identification
of environmental “problems,” focusing on the rationale
of development intervention and failure, and the study of
environmental discourse; (2) conceptual boundaries in resource-use
systems and in conceptions of nature and culture; (3) conceptual
boundaries in environmental relations between center and periphery
and between the local and the global; (4) the sociology of
science of environmental relations, encompassing views of
indigenous knowledge, objective distance, scientific “forgetfulness,”
and relations between the natural and social sciences; and
(5) the implications of the foregoing for current critiques
of science. Also F&ES 747a.
ANTH 590a, Ethnic Violence in South Asia. Arjun
Appadurai. W 10–12
This course focuses on large-scale ethnic violence in
South Asia, especially in the last fifteen years. Major emphasis
is placed on Hindu-Muslim conflicts in India, but some comparative
attention is also paid to violence against various ethnic
minorities in Sri Lanka and Pakistan. The purpose of the course
is to explore the relationship between large-scale identities,
new religious movements, and changes in regional politics
and economy linked to globalization. Limited to fifteen students.
Also PLSC 728a.
ANTH 592a, Anthropology and Classical Social Theory. David
Graeber. W 1.30–3.20
The course is meant not only to introduce anthropology
students to the founding works of Western social theory—the
big names like Marx, Weber, and Durkheim—but also to
place these authors in the context of the Western intellectual
and cultural tradition from which they emerged and to discuss
their ongoing relevance to anthropological thought. A central
goal of the seminar is to identify ways of disarticulating
the production of gender by examining how these roles are
both naturalized and disrupted in local and global spheres.
ANTH 597b, Sustainable Development and Conservation:
Introduction to Social Aspects. Carol Carpenter.
This course provides a fundamental understanding of the
social aspects involved in implementing sustainable development
and conservation projects. Social science has two things to
contribute to the practice of development and conservation.
First, it provides ways of thinking about, researching, and
working with social groupings—including rural households
and communities, but also development and conservation institutions,
states, and NGOs. Second, social science tackles the analysis
of the knowledge systems that implicitly shape development
and conservation policy and impinge on practice. The goal
of the course is to stimulate students to apply informed and
critical thinking to whatever roles they play in sustainable
development and conservation, in order to move toward more
environmentally and socially sustainable projects and policies.
A prerequisite for F&ES 752b and F&ES 759b. Three
hours lecture/seminar. Also F&ES 757b.
ANTH 603au, Women’s Lives in the Eastern Mediterranean.
Christina Katsougiannopoulou Ewald. Th 3.30–5.20
The course focuses on women’s roles in Byzantine
and modern Greek society (from the fourth century A.D. to
the present), and it explores the lives of women in the larger
Mediterranean and Balkan context.
ANTH 604b, American Communities. Kathryn
Dudley. W 1.30–3.20
Consideration of the concept of community and an examination
of various kinds of communities—ranging from those defined
by social proximity to those defined by a common experience
or ideology—that are part of the American experience,
in order to understand the value Americans place on community
itself and the ways in which the pull of individualism exacts
a toll on that commitment.
ANTH 607b, Gender and Sexuality in Latin America. Linda-Anne
Rebhun. W 1.30–3.20
Issues such as machismo, marianismo, gender identity,
and sexual behavior have been studied in Latin America and
among Latinos. This course examines the literature on gender
and sexuality, considering cultural, economic, and religious
aspects of gender, sexuality, and gender identity in Latin
America.
ANTH 610b, Society and Environment: Advanced Readings
in Social Theory. Michael Dove, Carol Carpenter.
This is an advanced seminar on the relationship between
society and environment, examining key theoretical developments
and current issues in social, political, and historical ecology
and ecological anthropology. The course explores the wider
conceptual and institutional contexts of resource use and
environmental relations. It focuses on discourses and debates
about nature and culture, and examines the paradigm shift
from modernity to postmodernity in theorizing about the environment.
The relationship between society and the environment is examined
through both contemporary theory and ethnographic examples.
The course is an opportunity for students to plumb critical
issues, place their work in a wider theoretical context, and
develop their own research and writing. Prerequisite: F&ES
747a, F&ES 757b, or F&ES 756b. Team-taught. Limited
enrollment. Three hours lecture/seminar. Taught alternate
years. Also F&ES 752b.
ANTH 620au, Anthropology of Science. Ilana
Gershon. M 3.30–5.20
This course looks at science from an anthropological
perspective, viewing scientific practices as fortuitous sites
for examining Euro-American epistemological assumptions. Students
learn how to analyze the ways in which knowledge circulates
to forge certain types of truth in Euro-American contexts.
Particular emphasis is placed on how boundaries are fashioned
and overcome in a variety of senses; students examine how
science is a discourse for constructing selves, genders, Others,
and disciplinary boundaries, and how it articulates with other
institutions, both national and international.
ANTH 632au, Politics of Language. J. Joseph
Errington. M 1.30–3.20
This course centers on aspects of language difference
and inequality as often neglected but crucial shapers of the
political dynamics and social change in plural societies.
The first part of the course involves broad comparative and
theoretical approaches to the politics of sociolinguistic
difference. The second part is devoted to case studies which
foreground specific issues: “problems” of substandard
languages, bilingual identities, globalization and language
shift, language death, and others.
ANTH 634a, Anthropology of the Postcolonial State. Eric
Worby. Th 1.30–3.20
Ethnographic and interpretive approaches to the postcolonial
state and the forms of public culture to which it gives rise.
Topics include the formation of state structures and citizen
subjects; nationalism in relation to discourses of gender,
race, marginality, modernity; corruption, and moral discourse
on the public sphere; ritual and aesthetic dimensions of rule
and resistance; tensions between popular, civic, and global
culture. Also AFST 634a.
ANTH 670bu, Yoruba Communities in National and Transnational
Perspectives. Kamari Clarke. M 3.30–5.20
This is a survey of the literature on the history and
development of Yoruba communities in West Africa and throughout
its diaspora. Attention is paid to communities in Nigeria,
Benin, Cuba, the United States, Brazil, and Trinidad. Also
AFAM 639bu, AFST 670bu.
ANTH 701au, Foundations of Modern Archaeology. Frank
Hole. W 1.30–3.20
Discusses how method, theory, and social policy have
influenced the development of archaeology as a set of methods,
an academic discipline, and a political tool. This course
assumes a background in the basics of archaeology equivalent
to one of the introductory courses. Also ARCG 701au.
ANTH 705Lbu, Archaeology Laboratory II. Marcello
Canuto. W 1–4
Practical experience in preparation, analysis, and interpretation
of artifacts and nonartificial archaeological data. Students
undertake term projects. Also ARCG 705Lbu.
ANTH 710au, Maya Art and Archaeology of Copan and Quirigua. Mary
Miller, Marcello Canuto. M 1.30–3.20
This seminar addresses the art, archaeology, and history
of the southeastern Maya region, particularly the cultural
production and developments at the Classic Maya centers of
Copan, Honduras, and Quirigua, Guatemala. Among the particular
topics for discussion and research are areas in which the
study of art, archaeology, and anthropology converge to develop
interdisciplinary interpretations of this region’s importance
and role in Classic Maya civilization. Open to advanced undergraduates
with appropriate course preparation. Also ARCG 710au,
HSAR 747a.
ANTH 716au, Neanderthals and Wise Men. Iman
Saca. TTh 11.30–12.45
Examines popular and scientific views concerning the
archaic hominids known as neanderthals and their role in the
cultural and biological evolution of modern Homo sapiens.
Also ARCG 716au.
ANTH 721au, Archaeological Approaches to Architecture. Richard
Burger. T 9.30–11.20
The archaeological study of architectural remains is
considered from a historic and theoretical perspective. Particular
attention is given to the way in which contrasting theoretical
orientations have shaped excavation and analytical strategies.
The geographical focus of this seminar is comparative and
includes both Old World and New World cases. Also ARCG
721au.
ANTH 722bu, The Archaeology of Ethnicity. Marcello
Canuto. T 1.30–3.20
In this seminar the difficult questions involving the
recognition, delineation, definition, and interpretation of
“ethnicity” in the archaeological record are discussed.
This course begins with a theoretical and methodological discussion
of this concept and its utility to archaeological investigation.
In the second half of the course, a cross-cultural approach
is used to apply the theoretical and methodological issues
in relation to distinct case studies. Open to advanced undergraduates
with appropriate course preparation. Also ARCG 722bu.
ANTH 731au, Near Eastern Prehistory. Iman
Saca. MW 11.30–12.45
A review of the archaeology of the Near East from the
time of early hominids to the establishment of agricultural
villages and towns. Also ARCG 731au.
ANTH 732au and 733Lau, Archaeological Field Techniques
and Archaeology Lab I. Marcello Canuto. MW 9–10.15,
Lab SA 9–5
An introduction to the practice and techniques of modern
archaeology, including methods of excavation, recording, mapping,
dating, and ecological analysis. The lab offers instruction
in the field at an archaeological site in Connecticut in stratigraphy,
mapping, artifact recovery, and excavation strategy. The courses
must be taken concurrently and are counted together as 1 credit.
Also ARCG 732au and ARCG 733Lau.
ANTH 734bu, Archaeology and the Modern World. Iman
Saca. W 9.30–11.20
Throughout the centuries, the science of archaeology
has been used as a means to justify political, cultural, and
religious claims through declaring ownership of the past.
Through the use of case studies, this seminar tracks some
of the perceptions, uses, and abuses of archaeology and our
cultural past, and how this constructed past is used to strengthen
religious, national, and ethnic loyalties. We examine how
countries use their archeological/cultural heritage to present
themselves to their population and to the outside world. We
also consider the social and political construction of cultural
heritage values, and the role that international organizations
play in the development, protection, and promotion of the
cultural heritage of developing countries. Also ARCG 734bu.
ANTH 736bu, Environmental History of the Near East. Harvey
Weiss. Th 9.30–11.20
Natural and anthropogenic climate and environmental changes
of the Holocene studied in the lake, marine, and terrestrial
records of West Asia. Periodic adaptations to these changes
through the modern period within regional habitat-tracking,
agricultural innovation and pastoralism, political expansion
and disintegration, and ideological reformulation. Also
ARCG 736bu, NELC 587bu.
ANTH 748b, Contemporary Archaeological Theory. Richard
Burger. W 1.30–3.20
This seminar explores contemporary theory in all of its
diversity. The course begins with an examination of multiple
critiques of New Archaeology and the remaining legacy of this
approach. It then focuses on the diversity of competing approaches,
sometimes grouped as post-processualist, that are currently
employed in the United States and the United Kingdom, including
critical archaeology, the archaeology of gender, structuralist
approaches, various Marxist and neo-Marxist formulations of
archaeological theory, and applications of evolutionary theory.
The differing trajectory of distinctive archaeological approaches
outside the English-speaking world is also explored. Also
ARCG 748b.
ANTH 753au, Early Prehistory. Frank Hole.
TTh 9–10.15
A study of the formation of complex societies in the
Near East during the fourth–third millennia B.C. The
focus is on the Tigris-Euphrates watershed, including Iraq,
Syria, and parts of Turkey and Iran. Topics include the development
of religion, monumental architecture, craft production, writing,
and trade, both within and outside the region. Also ARCG
753au.
ANTH 758bu, Chavín and the Origins of Peruvian
Civilization. Richard Burger. T 9.30–11.20
The development of early complex society in Peru during
the Early Horizon is examined along with its antecedents during
the Preceramic and Initial periods. This seminar focuses on
the problems of elucidating the sociopolitical organization
of these societies and the factors responsible for their transformation.
General theories of the origins of complex society are critically
reviewed in light of the Peruvian case. Also ARCG 758bu.
ANTH 773bu, Civilizations and Collapse. Harvey
Weiss. Th 2.30–4.20
Collapse documented in the archaeological and early historical
records of the Old and New Worlds, including Mesopotamia,
Mesoamerica, the Andes, and Europe. Analysis of politicoeconomic
vulnerabilities, resiliencies, and adaptations in the face
of abrupt climate change, anthropogenic environmental degradation,
resource depletion, “barbarian” incursions, or
class conflict. Also ARCG 773bu, NELC 588bu.
ANTH 803b, Reproductive Ecology of Humans and Nonhuman
Primates. Richard Bribiescas. T 1.30–3.20
Survey of the current understanding of the physiology
of reproductive function within the control of evolutionary
and life history theory. Emphasis on population variation
in female and male reproductive endocrinology as well as the
sources of that variation.
ANTH 806b, Research Methods in Biological Anthropology. Eric
Sargis. Th 11.30–3.20
This seminar introduces students to methods and approaches
for developing and carrying out research projects in biological
anthropology. Each student develops a project, writes and
presents a proposal of the project, and presents the results
in both oral and written form. Discussion topics include the
distinctions between inductive and predictive science, integrity
in science, research design, data collection methods, communicating
in science, and an intro-duction to biostatistical analysis.
Focus is on how scientific research projects are successfully
presented and communicated.
ANTH 825b, Hunters and Gatherers. David Watts.
Societies in which people subsist or subsisted mostly
or entirely on foraging for wild resources, or “Hunter-Gatherer”
societies, have long evoked great anthropological interest
and debate. The implicit or explicit assumption that hunting
and gathering more or less like that documented ethnographically
was the subsistence mode during most of our species’s
history has given research on foraging societies an important
place in the study of human evolution. More recently, research
on contemporary foragers has assumed great importance in the
study of human behavioral ecology. However, the assumptions
behind, and conclusions derived from, such research have inspired
considerable controversy. This course reviews some of the
ethnographic record concerning foraging societies and some
of the theory behind, and empirical results of, research inspired
by evolutionary ecology and life history theory (e.g., research
based on optimal foraging theory). We examine the debate about
possible misinterpretations of the socioecology and history
of modern hunter-gatherers and about the difficulties inherent
in arguments about the human “environment of evolutionary
adaptedness.” We also examine a series of related issues,
such as the question whether indigenous people are “conservationists”
and the situation of modern foragers in relation to nation
states and human rights.
ANTH 851a, Topics and Issues in Evolutionary Theory. Eric
Sargis, Richard Bribiescas. T 1.30–3.20
Focus on current literature in theoretical evolutionary
biology, intended to give new graduate students intensive
training in critical analysis of theoretical models and in
scientific writing.
ANTH 856au, Reconstructing Human Evolution: An Ecological
Approach. Andrew Hill. Th 1.30–3.20
If human evolutionary change has been determined or affected
by ecological factors, like changes in climate, competition
with other animals, availability and kinds of food supply,
then it is important to determine ecological and environmental
information about the regions and time period in which human
evolution has occurred. An examination of methods of obtaining
data relevant to this, by evaluating the techniques and results
of such other fields as geology, paleobotany, and paleozoology.
It also surveys ethnographic, primatological, and other biological
models of early human behavior.
ANTH 875au, Topics and Issues in Primate Behavioral
Ecology. David Watts. M 2.30–4.20
Includes kinship and dominance as organizing principles
of primate social groups; feeding competition and risk of
predation as determinants of group size; mating strategies
and sexual dimorphism; dispersal, transfer, and the permeability
of social boundaries; the structure of primate communities;
the role of primates in ecological community function.
ANTH 941a and b, Research Seminar in Japan Anthropology. William
Kelly. HTBA
This seminar offers professional preparation for doctoral
students in Japan anthropology through systematic readings
and analysis of the anthropological literature, in English
and in Japanese. Open only by permission of the instructor.
ANTH 942a, Research Seminar in South Asia Anthropology. Bernard
Bate. F 3–5
This ongoing research seminar explores critical texts
in the anthropology (and anthropography) of South Asia. The
fall 2003 seminar covers the production of South Asia as a
disciplinary site in anthropology, including key texts and
debates on caste, class, community, and gender. Based on student
suggestions and interests, future semesters will focus on
particular issues (caste, race, community, gender, language,
postcoloniality, politics, etc.) and/or regions. The seminar
is designed for doctoral students specializing in some aspect
of South Asia. Others with appropriate backgrounds and interests
may be admitted in consultation with the instructor.
ANTH 951a or b, Directed Research in Ethnology and Social
Anthropology.
By arrangement with faculty.
ANTH 952a or b, Directed Research in Linguistics.
By arrangement with faculty.
ANTH 953a or b, Directed Research in Archaeology and
Prehistory.
By arrangement with faculty.
ANTH 954a or b, Directed Research in Physical Anthropology.
By arrangement with faculty.
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