Anthropology
The Anthropology Department is the oldest department of anthropology in the United States. The summer course offerings focus on various socio-cultural aspects of anthropology, taking into consideration cross-cultural interpretation, global socio-political concepts, and a markedly interdisciplinary approach.
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Courses
THE INTERPRETATION OF CULTURE
ANTH1002S001 3 points.
The anthropological approach to the study of culture and human society. Using ethnographic case studies, the course explores the universality of cultural categories (social organization, economy, law, belief systems, arts, etc.) and the range of variation among human societies.
Course Number | Section/Call Number | Session | Times/Location | |
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ANTH1002S001 | 001/10225 | Session A |
Mo 05:30 PM–08:40 PM We 05:30 PM–08:40 PM |
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Instructor | Points | Enrollment | Method of Instruction | |
Neil Savishinsky |
3 |
Closed for Online Registration (no Adds or Drops) |
In-Person |
THE INTERPRETATION OF CULTURE
ANTH1002S002 3 points.
The anthropological approach to the study of culture and human society. Using ethnographic case studies, the course explores the universality of cultural categories (social organization, economy, law, belief systems, arts, etc.) and the range of variation among human societies.
Course Number | Section/Call Number | Session | Times/Location | |
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ANTH1002S002 | 002/10226 | Session B |
Mo 01:00 PM–04:10 PM We 01:00 PM–04:10 PM |
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Instructor | Points | Enrollment | Method of Instruction | |
Maxine Weisgrau |
3 |
Open for Enrollment (auto-fill Wait List) |
In-Person |
Personhood
ANTH3751W001 4 points.
This seminar seeks to engage with materials that question personhood. Drawing on both fictional and non-fictional accounts, we will be involved with textual and visual documents as well institutional contexts in order to revisit such notion under contemporary capitalism. We will cover topics like rites of passage and life cycle, the role of the nation state and local communities in defining a person, the relation between self and non-self, between the living and the dead. We will likewise address vicarious forms of personhood through the prosthetic, the avatar or the heteronomous. But we will also look into forms of dissipation and/or enhancement of personhood through bodybuilding, guinea-piging and pharmo-toxicities. As a whole, the course will bring to light how the question of personhood cross-culturally relates to language, performativity, religion, technology, law, gender, race, class, care, life and death.
Course Number | Section/Call Number | Session | Times/Location | |
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ANTH3751W001 | 001/10228 | Session A |
Tu 01:00 PM–04:10 PM Th 01:00 PM–04:10 PM |
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Instructor | Points | Enrollment | Method of Instruction | |
Maria Jose de Abreu |
4 |
Closed for Online Registration (no Adds or Drops) |
In-Person |
MUSEUM ANTHROPOL INTERNSHIP I
ANTH9110S001 6 points.
Course Number | Section/Call Number | Session | Times/Location | |
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ANTH9110S001 | 001/13100 | Session B |
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Instructor | Points | Enrollment | Method of Instruction | |
Brian Boyd |
6 |
Open for Enrollment (auto-fill Wait List) |
In-Person |