Undergraduate courses in Anthropology

(Same as ANTHRO 201.) Crosscultural anthropological perspectives on human behavior, including cultural transmission, social organization, sex and gender, culture change, technology, war, ritual, and related topics. Case studies illustrating the principles of the cultural process. Films. GER:DB-SocSci, EC-GlobalCom

5 units, Win (Kapur, C)

ANTHRO 3. Introduction to Prehistoric Archaeology

(Same as ARCHLGY 1.) Aims, methods, and data in the study of human society's development from early hunters through late prehistoric civilizations. Archaeological sites and remains characteristic of the stages of cultural development for selected geographic areas, emphasizing methods of data collection and analysis appropriate to each. GER:DB-SocSci, EC-GlobalCom

3-5 units, Aut (Rick, J)

ANTHRO 4. Language and Culture

Comparative approach, using examples from many languages. Emphasis is on generally non-Western speech communities. Topics include: the structure of language; the theory of signs; vocabulary and culture; grammar, cognition, and culture (linguistic relativism and determinism); encodability of cultural information in language; language adaptiveness to social function; the ethnography of speaking; registers; discourse (conversation, narrative, verbal art); language and power; language survival and extinction; and linguistic ideology (beliefs about language). GER:DB-SocSci

4-5 units, Aut (Fox, J)

ANTHRO 6. Human Origins

(Same as ANTHRO 206, BIO 106, HUMBIO 6.) The human fossil record from the first non-human primates in the late Cretaceous or early Paleocene, 80-65 million years ago, to the anatomically modern people in the late Pleistocene, between 100,000 to 50,000 B.C.E. Emphasis is on broad evolutionary trends and the natural selective forces behind them. GER: DB-NatSci

5 units, Win (Klein, R)

ANTHRO 7. Introduction to Forensic Anthropology

The application of anthropological and archaeological methods to forensics. Topics include the recovery and identification of individuals via skeletal and DNA analysis, reconstruction of premortem and postmortem histories of remains, analysis of mass graves, human rights issues, surveillance tape analysis, analysis of crime scene materials, and expert witness testimony. Legal and ethical dimensions. GER: DB-NatSci

4 units, Spr (DeGusta, D)

ANTHRO 8N. The Anthropology of Globalization

(F,Sem) Stanford Introductory Seminar. Preference to freshmen. Anthropological approach to how cultural change, economic restructuring, and political mobilization are bound up together in the process of globalization. GER:DB-SocSci

3-4 units, Aut (Ebron, P)

ANTHRO 13. Bioarchaeology

The study of skeletal remains from archaeological contexts. Methods of bioarchaeology including taphonomy, paleodemographics, paleopathology, and molecular approaches. Case studies illustrate issues such as health consequences of the adoption of agriculture, cannibalism, and relationships among health, violence, class, and sex in historic and prehistoric cultures. GER: DB-NatSci

3-5 units, not given this year

ANTHRO 14. Introduction to Anthropological Genetics

(Same as HUMBIO 14.) How genetic methods address anthropological questions. Examples include the evolutionary relationships between humans and the apes, the place of the Neanderthals in human evolution, the peopling of the New World, ancient DNA, the genetics of ethnicity, forensic genetics, genomics, behaviorial genetics, and hereditary diseases. GER: DB-NatSci

3-5 units, not given this year

ANTHRO 15. Sex and Gender

Commonality and diversity of gender roles in crosscultural perspective. Cultural, ecological, and evolutionary explanations for such diversity. Theory of the evolution of sex and gender, changing views about men's and women's roles in human evolution, conditions under which gender roles vary in contemporary societies, and issues surrounding gender equality, power, and politics. GER:DB-SocSci, EC-Gender

3 units, not given this year

ANTHRO 16. Native Americans in the 21st Century: Encounters, Identity, and Sovereignty in Contemporary America

What does it mean to be a Native American in the 21st century? Beyond traditional portrayals of military conquests, cultural collapse, and assimilation, the relationships between Native Americans and American society. Focus is on three themes leading to in-class moot court trials: colonial encounters and colonizing discourses; frontiers and boundaries; and sovereignty of self and nation. Topics include gender in native communities, American Indian law, readings by native authors, and Indians in film and popular culture. GER:DB-SocSci, EC-AmerCul

5 units, Spr (Wilcox, M)

ANTHRO 16N. Ethnographies of North America: An Introduction to Cultural and Social Anthropology

(F,Sem) Stanford Introductory Seminar. Preference to freshmen. Ethnographic look at human behavior, including cultural transmission, social organization, sex and gender, culture change, and related topics in N. America. Films. GER:DB-SocSci

3-4 units, Win (Wilcox, M)

ANTHRO 18N. Glimpses of Divinity

(F,Sem) Stanford Introductory Seminar. Preference to freshmen. How human beings search for and identify the presence of the divine in everyday human life.Sources include spiritual classics in the Christian, Jewish and Hindu traditions including works by Augustine, Teresa of Avila, Jonathan Edwards, the Bhagvad Gita, the Zohar, and some ethnographies of non-literate traditions.

3 units, Win (Luhrmann, T)

ANTHRO 22. Archaeology of North America

Why and how people of N. America developed. Issues and processes that dominate or shape developments during particular periods considering the effects of history and interactions with physical and social environment. Topics include the peopling of the New World, explaining subsequent diversity in substance and settlement adaptations, the development of social complexity, and the impact of European contact. GER:DB-SocSci, EC-AmerCul

3-5 units, Aut (Truncer, J)

ANTHRO 22N. Maya Hieroglyphic Writing

(F,Sem) Stanford Introductory Seminar. Preference to freshmen. Decipherment of classic Maya writing. Principles of archaeological decipherment. Maya calendrical, astronomical, historical, mythological, and political texts on stone, wood, bone, shell, murals, ceramics, and books (screenfold codices). Archaeology and ethnohistory of Maya scribal practice and literacy. Related Mesoamerican writing systems. The evolution of writing and the relevance of writing to theories of culture and civilization. GER:DB-SocSci, EC-GlobalCom

4 units, Spr (Fox, J)

ANTHRO 28. Indigenous Australia

The prehistory and ethnology of New Guinea and Australia. Regional climate, environment, and pre-European history. Ethnography of the contact period focusing on theoretical problems central to the development of anthropological theory. Contemporary sociopolitical issues. Films. GER:DB-SocSci

4 units, Win (Bird, D)

ANTHRO 71. Linguistic Field Methods

Practical training in the collection and analysis of linguistic data from native speakers of a language largely unknown to the investigator. Documentation of endangered languages. Research goals, field trip preparation, ethics (including human subjects, cooperation with local investigators, and governmental permits), working in the community, technical equipment, and analytical strategies. Emphasis is on the use of recording devices and computers in collection and analysis. Prerequisite: introductory course in linguistics.

4-5 units, Spr (Fox, J)

ANTHRO 71. Field Methods I

(Same as LINGUIST 174, LINGUIST 274A.) Hands-on. The methods by which linguists gather raw linguistic data about a language and begin analyzing its structure. Working with a speaker of a language not previously studied by class participants, students develop a description of key aspects of its grammar and examine methodologies for obtaining, storing, and manipulating data.

2-4 units, not given this year

ANTHRO 74A. Public Culture: Anthropological Approaches to Media and Popular Culture

How to think about media through its producers, audiences, and unexpected uses. Reception studies and the idea of a public as a self-aware audience or crowd. Social and textual analyses of popular culture.

3-5 units, Spr (Ahmad, T)

ANTHRO 77. Japanese Society and Culture

(Same as ANTHRO 277A.) Focus is on power, identity, and the politics of knowledge production. How transnational interactions influence Japanese identity. How anthropological knowledge has contributed to understanding Japanese culture and society. Gender, race and class; contemporary ethnographies. Modernity and globalization. Cultural politics, domestic work, labor management, city planning, ad images, anime, martial art, fashion, theater, leisure, and tourism. GER:DB-SocSci, EC-GlobalCom

5 units, not given this year

ANTHRO 82. Medical Anthropology

(Same as ANTHRO 282.) Emphasis is on how health, illness, and healing are understood, experienced, and constructed in social, cultural, and historical contexts. Topics: biopower and body politics, gender and reproductive technologies, illness experiences, medical diversity and social suffering, and the interface between medicine and science. GER:DB-SocSci, EC-GlobalCom

4-5 units, Win (Kohrman, M)

ANTHRO 88. Theories in Race and Ethnicity

Concepts and theories of race and ethnicity in the social sciences and cultural studies. U.S. based definitions, ideas, and problems of race and ethnicity are compared to those that have emerged in other areas of the world. GER:DB-SocSci

5 units, Win (Yanagisako, S)

ANTHRO 90A. History of Archaeological Thought

(Same as ARCHLGY 103.) Introduction to the history of archaeology and the forms that the discipline takes today, emphasizing developments and debates over the past five decades. Historical overview of culture, historical, processual and post-processual archaeology, and topics that illustrate the differences and similarities in these theoretical approaches. WIM

5 units, Win (Aldrich, C)

ANTHRO 90B. Theory of Cultural and Social Anthropology

Preference to Anthropology majors. Anthropological interpretations of other societies contain assumptions about Western societies. How underlying assumptions and implicit categories have influenced the presentation of data in major anthropological monographs. Emphasis is on Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, and anthropological analyses of non-Western societies. GER:DB-SocSci, WIM

5 units, Win (Ebron, P)

ANTHRO 90C. Theory of Ecological and Environmental Anthropology

(Same as HUMBIO 118.) Dynamics of culturally inherited human behavior and its relationship to social and physical environments. Topics include a history of ecological approaches in anthropology, subsistence ecology, sharing, risk management, territoriality, warfare, and resource conservation and management. Case studies from Australia, Melanesia, Africa, and S. America. GER:DB-SocSci, WIM

3-5 units, Win (Bird, R)

ANTHRO 90D. Social Theory in the Anthropological Sciences

Required of majors. Foundational course in the history of social theory in anthropology from the late 19th century to the present. Major approaches to human culture and society: symbolic, social, material, and psychological. Questions about the role of theory in anthropology and how it can be applied to human issues. (HEF IV) GER:DB-SocSci, WIM

5 units, Aut (Burce, A)

ANTHRO 91A. Archaeological Methods

(Same as ARCHLGY 102.) Methodological issues related to the investigation of archaeological sites and objects. Aims and techniques of archaeologists including: location and excavation of sites; dating of places and objects; analysis of artifacts and technology and the study of ancient people, plants, and animals. How these methods are employed to answer the discipline's larger research questions.

5 units, Spr (Hodder, I)

ANTHRO 91B. Method and Evidence in Sociocultural Anthropology

Characteristic ways of collecting evidence and supporting arguments in sociocultural anthropology. How to evaluate ethnographic claims. Research activities such as interviewing, participant observation, tracking extended cases, inspecting archives, and reading popular culture.

5 units, Win (Ferguson, J)

ANTHRO 91C. Anthropological Methods in Ecology, Environment, Evolution

The methodological and practical aspects of conducting anthropological investigation into human-environmental interactions. Tools for developing, asking, and evaluating anthropological questions in a systematic way. What can constitute an important question, how to frame a question that facilitates investigation, how to design a research project to begin investigating a question, hypothesis development, and experimental design. Approaches to ethnographic, behavioral, and ecological data collection, sampling strategies, observational methods, recording techniques and presentation style.

5 units, Spr (Bird, D)

ANTHRO 92. Undergraduate Research Proposal Writing Workshop

Practicum. Students develop independent research projects and write research proposals. How to formulate a research question; how to integrate theory and field site; and step-by-step proposal writing.

1-3 units, Aut (Beliso-DeJesus, A), Win (Beliso-DeJesus, A)

ANTHRO 93. Prefield Research Seminar

For Anthropology majors only; non-majors register for 93B. Preparation for anthropological field research in other societies and the U.S. Data collection techniques include participant observation, interviewing, surveys, sampling procedures, life histories, ethnohistory, and the use of documentary materials. Strategies of successful entry into the community, research ethics, interpersonal dynamics, and the reflexive aspects of fieldwork. Prerequisites: two ANTHRO courses or consent of instructor.

5 units, Spr (Inoue, M)

ANTHRO 93B. Prefield Research Seminar: Non-Majors

Preparation for anthropological field research in other societies and the U.S. Data collection techniques include participant observation, interviewing, surveys, sampling procedures, life histories, ethnohistory, and the use of documentary materials. Strategies for successful entry into the community, research ethics, interpersonal dynamics, and the reflexive aspects of fieldwork.

5 units, Spr (Staff)

ANTHRO 94. Postfield Research Seminar

Goal is to produce an ethnographic report based on original field research gathered during summer fieldwork, emphasizing writing and revising as steps in analysis and composition. Students critique classmates' work and revise their own writing in light of others' comments. Ethical issues in fieldwork and ethnographic writing, setting research write-up concerns within broader contexts.

5 units, Aut (Ahmad, T)

ANTHRO 95A. Research in Anthropology

Independent research conducted under faculty supervision, normally taken junior or senior year in pursuit of a senior paper or an honors project. May be repeated for credit.

1-10 units, Aut (Staff), Win (Staff), Spr (Staff), Sum (Staff)

ANTHRO 95B. Senior Paper

Taken in the final quarter before graduation. Independent study and work on senior paper for students admitted to the program. Prerequisite: consent of program adviser and instructor.

1-10 units, Aut (Staff), Win (Staff), Spr (Staff), Sum (Staff)

ANTHRO 96. Directed Individual Study

Prerequisite: consent of instructor.

1-15 units, Aut (Staff), Win (Staff), Spr (Staff), Sum (Staff)

ANTHRO 98. Museum Method

Individually directed work on anthropology collections. Introduction to the computerized storage and retrieval system, cataloging, exhibit techniques. May be taken for one or two quarters by arrangement with instructor.

1-4 units, Aut (Staff), Spr (Staff), Sum (Staff)

ANTHRO 98B. Digital Methods in Archaeology

(Same as ANTHRO 298B.) Hands-on. Topics include: data capture, digital survey, and mapping instruments; GPS; digital video and photography; 3-D scanning; data analysis; CAD; GIS; panoramic virtual reality; and photogrammetry. GER:DB-EngrAppSci

3-5 units, not given this year

ANTHRO 100A. India's Forgotten Empire: The Rise and Fall of Indus Civilization

How and why cities with public baths, long-distance trade, sophisticated technologies, and writing emerged, maintained themselves, and collapsed in the deserts of present-day Pakistan and India from 2500 to 1900 B.C. GER:DB-SocSci, EC-GlobalCom

3 units, Win (Truncer)

ANTHRO 100C. ChavÃn de Huantar Research Seminar

For participants in fieldwork at ChavÃn de Huantar. Archaeological research techniques, especially as applied at this site. Students work on data from the previous field season to produce synthetic written materials. Maybe repeated for credit.

2-5 units, Aut (Rick, J)

ANTHRO 101. The Aztecs and Their Ancestors: Introduction to Mesoamerican Archaeology

The prehispanic cultures of Mesoamerica through archaeology and ethnohistory, from the archaic period to the Spanish conquest in the 16th century. GER:DB-SocSci, EC-GlobalCom

3-5 units, Win (Robertson, I)

ANTHRO 101A. Archaeology as a Profession

(Same as ARCHLGY 107A.) Academic, contract, government, field, laboratory, museum, and heritage aspects of the profession.

5 units, Aut (Contreras, D)

ANTHRO 103. The Archaeology of Modern Urbanism

(Same as ANTHRO 203.) Seminar. Urbanism as a defining feature of modern life. The perspective of archaeology on the history and development of urban cultures. Case studies are from around the globe; emphasis is on the San Francisco Bay Area megalopolis. Cities as cultural sites where economic, ethnic, and sexual differences are produced and transformed; spatial, material, and consumption practices; and the archaeology of communities and neighborhoods. GER:DB-SocSci

5 units, Spr (Voss, B)

ANTHRO 103A. Past Human Environments

(Same as ANTHRO 203A, ARCHLGY 101B, ARCHLGY 301B.) Perspectives, methods, and data that archaeology brings to human/environment interaction issues such as environmental variability and change, sustainability, and human impacts. How to use paleoenvironmental data in archaeological research; how to recover and analyze such data to reconstruct human/environment interactions in prehistory.

3-5 units, Spr (Contreras, D)

ANTHRO 105. Ancient Cities in the New World

(Same as ANTHRO 205.) Preindustrial urbanism as exemplified by prehispanic New World societies. Case studies: the central and southern highlands of Mesoamerica, and the Maya region. Comparative material from highland S. America.

3-5 units, Win (Robertson, I)

ANTHRO 105A. Indigenous Peoples of South America and the Politics of Ethnicity

(Same as ANTHRO 205A.) Recent developments showing a growing empowerment of Indigenous peoples and increased participation in the construction of democratic processes. Challenges to traditional state institutions; new worldviews based on cultural identity and ethnicity. Recent debates about special rights regarding territoriality and natural resources and other claims formulated by indigenous organizations to improve governance and implement a new type of citizen based on self-determination and the reorganization of the actual nation states.

3-5 units, Spr (Karp-Toledo, E)

ANTHRO 107A. Ethnohistory in the Andean World: Inca State, Rebellions, and Resistance

(Same as ANTHRO 207A.) The formation and expansion of the Inca state as a large multiethnic confederation, interrupted by the arrival of the Spaniards. Negotiations and adaptations during the colonial period; the proliferation of survival strategies allowing indigenous peoples to maintain their social organization; indigenous rebellions to recuperate land, local spiritual values, and central government. Emphasis is on the indigenous perspective. Ethnographic and ethnohistoric documents and findings that reflect events and thoughts from the conquest to the 20th century.

3-5 units, Win (Karp-Toledo, E)

ANTHRO 109. Archaeology: World Cultural Heritage

(Same as ANTHRO 209.) Focus is on issues dealing with rights to land and the past on a global scale including conflicts and ethnic purges in the Middle East, the Balkans, Afghanistan, India, Australia, and the Americas. How should world cultural heritage be managed? Who defines what past and which sites and monuments should be saved and protected? Are existing international agreements adequate? How can tourism be balanced against indigenous rights and the protection of the past? GER:DB-SocSci

5 units, not given this year

ANTHRO 111A. Cultural Heritage in Post-Socialist Europe

(Same as ARCHLGY 111.) How the fall of the Berlin wall transformed everyday life culturally, politically, and economically through transitions to capitalism and democracy. Interdisciplinary writing in anthropology, archaeology, urban studies, cultural studies, and media commentary on cultural heritage, memory and identity in the post-socialist Europe. How intervention into these spaces by contemporary artists and architects offers alternatives to think about the past?

3 units, Spr (Bezic, A)

ANTHRO 113. Fanual Analysis: Animal Remains for the Archaeologist

(Same as ANTHRO 213, BIO 166, BIO 266.) The analysis of fossil animal bones and shells to illuminate the behavior and ecology of prehistoric collectors, especially ancient humans. Theoretical and methodoloigcal issues. The identification, counting, and measuring of fossil bones and shells. Labs. Methods of numerical analysis.

5 units, Spr (Klein, R)

ANTHRO 114. Prehistoric Stone Tools: Technology and Analysis

(Same as ANTHRO 214.) Archaeologists rely on an understanding of stone tools to trace much of what we know about prehistoric societies. How to make, illustrate, and analyze stone tools, revealing the method and theory intrinsic to these artifacts. Prerequisites: 3 or 6 or other instructor-approved archaeology course work. GER:DB-SocSci

5 units, Spr (Rick, J; Robertson, I)

ANTHRO 115A. Long-Term Human Interaction with Environment

(Same as HUMBIO 115.) The effects and consequences of long-term human interaction with the environment. How and why past societies adapted, or failed to adapt, to changing environmental conditions and relevance to current environmental problems. Demographic, archaeological, and environmental data assessed using case studies from around the world since the late Pleistocene. Development of agriculture, societal collapse, sustainability, and policy response. Prerequisite: Human Biology core or equivalent or consent of instructor.

3 units, Spr (Truncer, J)

ANTHRO 116A. Magic, Science, and Religion: Archaeological Perspectives

(Same as ANTHRO 216A, ARCHLGY 110, ARCHLGY 310.) How human beings make sense of their worlds. The naturalness of ideas, human relations to the natural and supernatural, and dichotomies of West and other, sacred and secular, and faith and skepticism. The material-historical constitution of different of modes of thought. Sources include classic and contemporary theoretical readings in archaeology, anthropology and science studies. Archaeological and ethnographic case studies from different world regions and historical periods.

4-5 units, Aut (Aldrich, C)

ANTHRO 120. Introduction to Language Change

(Same as LINGUIST 160.) Principles of historical linguistics:, the nature of language change. Kinds and causes of change, variation and diffusion of changes through populations, differentiation of dialects and languages, determination and classification of historical relationships among languages, rates of change, the reconstruction of ancestral languages and intermediate changes, parallels with cultural and genetic evolutionary theory, and implications of variation and change for the description and explanation of language in general. Prerequisite: introductory course in linguistics or evolutionary theory. GER:DB-SocSci

4-5 units, Aut (Fox, J)

ANTHRO 123A. Human Diversity: A Linguistic Perspective

(Same as HUMBIO 187.) The diversity and distribution of human language and its implications for the origin and evolution of the human species. The origin of existing languages and the people who speak them. Where did current world languages come from and how can this diversity be used to study human prehistory? Evidence from related fields such as archaeology and human genetics. Topics: the origin of the Indo-European languages, the peopling of the Americas, and evidence that all human languages share a common origin. GER:DB-SocSci, EC-GlobalCom

3 units, Spr (Ruhlen, M)

ANTHRO 126. Cities in Comparative Perspective

(Same as URBANST 114.) Core course for Urban Studies majors. The city as interdisciplinary object. Discourses about cities such as the projects, practices, plans, representations, and sensibilities that combine to create what people know about urban spaces. Local, national, and transnational spatial scales. Conversations across regional boundaries; geographies of difference. Case studies. GER:DB-SocSci

5 units, Aut (Inoue, M)

ANTHRO 126A. Post-Socialist CIty

Anthropological approach to the investigation of cities in post-socialist societies. How the cities designed and built by socialist urban planners have changed since the 90s. City planning and architecture, politics of public space, and urban sociality. How the cities have been planned; how people inhabit and change cities in their daily lives.

5 units, Win (Staff)

ANTHRO 127. City and Sounds

How do people experience modern cities and urban public cultures through auditory channels? How does sound mediate and constitute urban space? How to listen to and write about culture through sound. Students carry out narrative interviews and sound fieldwork in the Bay Area. Readings include urban anthropology, semiotics, art history, social studies of science and technology, media studies, and musicology.

5 units, not given this year

ANTHRO 127A. Anthropology of Sound, Identity, and Place

(Same as MUSIC 152.) The ethnography of sound; challenges and opportunities in representing and interpreting the music, noise, and silence of human cultures. Readings include work that avoids, engages with, distorts, and celebrates sound. Goal is for the students to develop critical theories and techniques. Guest lecturer is MacArthur Fellow Steven Feld. Fieldwork includes making recordings; final project.

5 units, Win (Diehl, K)

ANTHRO 128A. Undesired Bodies: Labor Migration, the Nation State, and Globalization

Interdisciplinary. What an anthropological approach demonstrates about labor migration and its impact on migrant workers, the nation state, and globalization processes. Issues of globalization, economics, nationalism, statehood, bureaucracy, class, and race.

3-5 units, Aut (Korczyn, O)

ANTHRO 129. The Anthropology of Production and Consumption

Recent studies by anthropologists and scholars in related disciplines on global production chains and consumption practices. Theories and methods for integrating analysis of the cultural processes that shape the transnational production of commodities with analysis of the cultural practices that shape their consumption. Transnational production, distribution, and consumption of commodities. Sources include literature on the cultural production of commodities and their consumption. Prerequisite: course work in cultural anthropology. Recommended: ANTHRO 90.

4-5 units, Spr (Yanagisako, S)

ANTHRO 130A. Interpreting Space and Place: An Introduction to Mapmaking

How mapmaking, geographical information systems (GIS), and spatial tools can be applied in social research. Qualitative and quantitative approaches in the use of geospatial information. Methodologies and case examples.

5 units, not given this year

ANTHRO 130B. Introduction to GIS in Anthropology

(Same as ANTHRO 230B.) How GIS and spatial tools can be applied in social research. Case studies and student projects address questions of social and cultural relevance using real data sets, including the collection of geospatial data and building of spatial evidence. Analytical approaches and how they can shape a social and cultural interpretation of space and place.

4 units, Win (Engel, C)

ANTHRO 134. Object Lessons

(Same as ANTHRO 234.) Human-object relations in the processes of world making. Objectification and materiality through ethnography, archaeology, material culture studies, and cultural studies. Interpretive connotations around and beyond the object, the unstable terrain of interrelationships between sociality and materiality, and the cultural constitution of objects. Sources include: works by Marx, Hegel, and Mauss; classic Pacific ethnographies of exchange, circulation, alienability, and fetishism; and material culture studies.

3-5 units, Aut (Meskell, L)

ANTHRO 135H. CSRE House Seminar: Race and Ethnicity at Stanford

Not open to freshmen. Race, ethnicity, gender, and religion using the tools, analytical skills and concepts developed by anthropologists.

3-6 units, Aut (Wilcox, M)

ANTHRO 139. Ethnography of Africa

(Same as ANTHRO 239.) The politics of producing knowledge in and about Africa through the genre of ethnography, from the colonial era to the present. The politics of writing and the ethics of social imagination. Sources include novels juxtaposed to ethnographies. GER:DB-SocSci

5 units, Win (Malkki, L)

ANTHRO 143A. Coming of Age; Youth, Power, and Public Culture in the Middle East

The lived experiences of Middle Eastern youth. The role of everyday practices in the production of society, culture, and politics. Focus is on public spaces of collectivity and sociality such as shopping areas, checkpoints, border crossings, and streetscapes. The negotiation and exertion of power at different scales. Topics such as militarism, migration, labor, gender, and family.

3-5 units, Aut (Monroe, K)

ANTHRO 145A. Poetics and Politics of Caribbean Women's Literature

(Same as CSRE 145A.) Mid 20th-century to the present. How historical, economic, and political conditions in Haiti, Cuba, Jamaica, Antigua, and Guadeloupe affected women. How Francophone, Anglophone, and Hispanophone women novelists, poets, and short story writers respond to similar issues and pose related questions. Caribbean literary identity within a multicultural and diasporic context; the place of the oral in the written feminine text; family and sexuality; translation of European master texts; history, memory, and myth; and responses to slave history, colonialism, neocolonialism, and globalization. GER:DB-SocSci, DB-SocSci, EC-Gender

5 units, Win (Duffey, C)

ANTHRO 146A. Border Crossings and American Identities

(Same as AMSTUD 183.) How novelists, filmmakers, and poets perceive racial, ethnic, gender, sexual preference, and class borders in the context of a national discussion about the place of Americans in the world. How Anna Deavere Smith, Sherman Alexie, or Michael Moore consider redrawing such lines so that center and margin, or self and other, do not remain fixed and divided. How linguistic borderlines within multilingual literature by Caribbean, Arab, and Asian Americans function. Can AnzaldÃºa's conception of borderlands be constructed through the matrix of language, dreams, music, and cultural memories in these American narratives? Course includes examining one's own identity. GER:DB-Hum, EC-AmerCul

5 units, Aut (Duffey, C)

ANTHRO 147. Nature, Culture, Heritage

(Same as ANTHRO 247.) Seminar. Shared histories of natural and cultural heritage and their subsequent trajectories into the present. How thought about archaeological sites and natural landscapes have undergone transformations due to factors including indigenous rights, green politics, and international tourism. The development of key ideas including conservation, wilderness, sustainability, indigenous knowledge, non-renewability and diversity. Case studies draw on cultural and natural sites from Africa, the Americas and Australia.

5 units, Win (Meskell, L)

ANTHRO 147A. Folklore, Mythology, and Islam in Central Asia

Central Asian cults, myths, and beliefs from ancient time to modernity. Life crisis rites, magic ceremonies, songs, tales, narratives, taboos associated with childbirth, marriage, folk medicine, and calendrical transitions. The nature and the place of the shaman in the region. Sources include music from the fieldwork of the instructor and the Kyrgyz epoch Manas. The cultural universe of Central Asian peoples as a symbol of their modern outlook. GER:DB-SocSci

3-5 units, Spr (Kunanbaeva, A)

ANTHRO 148A. Nomads of Eurasia: Culture in Transition

(Same as ANTHRO 248A.) Traditional peoples of Central and Inner Asia; their lifestyles and cultural history. Modern research approaches and recent fieldwork data published mainly in Russian and Central Asian languages. Audio-visual materials.

5 units, Win (Kunanbaeva, A)

ANTHRO 151. Women, Fertility, and Work

(Same as ANTHRO 251.) Is gender culturally or biologically determined or both? The arguments for sociobiological and cultural determinist explanations of the differences between women and men are compared, emphasizing their intersection in work. Case studies: hunter/gatherer, horticultural (Melanesian), southern Chinese, and Anglo American societies. (HEF I, IV; DA-A) GER:DB-SocSci, EC-Gender

5 units, given next year

ANTHRO 160. Paleoanthropology Seminar

(Same as ANTHRO 260.) Aspects of human evolution through primary literature and fossils. Topics vary to fit the interests of participants. May be repeated for credit. (HEF II; DA-B) GER: DB-NatSci

3-4 units, not given this year

ANTHRO 161A. Ecology, Nature, and Society: Principle in Human Ecology

(Same as ANTHRO 261A.) Interdisciplinary. The study of diversity and change in human societies, using frameworks including anthropology, evolutionary ecology, history, archaeology, and economics. Focus is on population dynamics, family organization, disease, economics, warfare, politics, and resource conservation.

4 units, Aut (Glover, S)

ANTHRO 162. Indigenous Peoples and Environmental Problems

(Same as ANTHRO 262.) The social and cultural consequences of contemporary environmental problems. The impact of market economies, development efforts, and conservation projects on indigenous peoples, emphasizing Latin America. The role of indigenous grass roots organizations in combating environmental destruction and degradation of homeland areas. GER:DB-Hum, EC-GlobalCom

3-5 units, Spr (Durham, W)

ANTHRO 162C. Current Issues in Paleoanthropology

(Same as ANTHRO 262C, BIO 130.) Current issues in fossil, archaeological, and genetic evidence for human evolution. Topics chosen by participants. May be repeated for credit.

1 unit, Aut (DeGusta, D), Win (DeGusta, D), Spr (DeGusta, D)

ANTHRO 163D. Darwin's Legacy

(Same as HUMBIO 184.) New understandings that have followed on Darwinian principles; remaining frontiers of research; areas of controversy.His legacy in anthropology, biology, religion, medicine, psychology, philosophy, and literature. 3 units requires discussion section and term paper.

1-3 units, Aut (Durham, W; Boggs, C; Dirzo, R; Siegel, R)

ANTHRO 165. Parks and Peoples: The Benefits and Costs of Protected Area Conservation

Seminar. Emphasis is on the social impact of parks and reserves. Integrated conservation and development projects (ICDPs) based on protected areas; alternative ways to derive local social benefits from them. Cases include Yellowstone, Manu, GalÃ¡pagos, Ngorongoro, and Guanacaste.

5 units, Spr (Durham, W)

ANTHRO 166A. Indigenous Forest Management

(Same as ANTHRO 266A.) Seminar. History, techniques and impacts, institutions for forest management, challenges to maintain indigenous resource bases in a globalizing world, policy framework, and emerging conservation and development alternatives. (HEF IV) GER:DB-SocSci

5 units, Spr (Irvine, D)

ANTHRO 169. Communicating Science: Proposals, Talks, Articles

(Same as ANTHRO 269.) (Graduate students register for 269.) The principles and practice of effective communication in science. Grant proposals, conference presentations, and scientific journal articles. Focus is on writing and speaking skills in professional contexts. GER:DB-SocSci

4-5 units, Win (DeGusta, D)

ANTHRO 171. The Biology and Evolution of Language

(Same as ANTHRO 271.) Language as an evolutionary adaptation of humans. Comparison of communicative behavior in humans and animals, and the inference of evolutionary stages. Structure, linguistic functions, and the evolution of the vocal tract, ear, and brain, with associated disorders (stuttering, dyslexia, autism, schizophrenia) and therapies. Controversies over language centers in the brain and the innateness of language acquisition. Vision, color terminology, and biological explanation in linguistic theory. GER: DB-NatSci

4-5 units, not given this year

ANTHRO 175. Human Osteology

(Same as ANTHRO 275, HUMBIO 180.) The human skeleton. Focus is on identification of fragmentary human skeletal remains. Analytical methods include forensic techniques, archaeological analysis, paleopathology, and age/sex estimation. Students work independently in the laboratory with the skeletal collection. GER: DB-NatSci

5 units, Win (DeGusta, D)

ANTHRO 175B. Advanced Human Osteology

(Same as ANTHRO 275B.) Skeletal analytical methods such as paleopathology, taphonomy, osteometry, and functional and evolutionary morphology. Strategies for osteological research. Students conduct independent projects in their area of interest. GER: DB-NatSci

5 units, Spr (DeGusta, D)

ANTHRO 177. Environmental Change and Emerging Infectious Diseases

(Same as ANTHRO 277, HUMBIO 114.) The changing epidemiological environment. How human-induced environmental changes, such as global warming, deforestation and land-use conversion, urbanization, international commerce, and human migration, are altering the ecology of infectious disease transmission, and promoting their re-emergence as a global public health threat. Case studies of malaria, cholera, hantavirus, plague, and HIV. (HEF III; DA-C) GER:DB-SocSci

3-5 units, not given this year

ANTHRO 178. Introduction to Anthropological Genetics

For upper division undergraduates. The extent and pattern of variation among human genomes, the origin of these patterns in human evolution, and the social and medical impact of recent discoveries. Topics include: the Human Genome Project; human origins; ancient DNA; genetic, behavioral, linguistic, cultural, and racial diversity; the role of disease in shaping genetic diversity; DNA forensics; genes and reproductive technology. GER: DB-NatSci

5 units, Spr (Jobin, M)

ANTHRO 179. Cultures of Disease: Cancer

History, politics, science, and anthropology of cancer; political and economic issues of disease and health care in the U.S., including the ethics and economics of health care provision, the pharmaceutical industry, carcinogen production, and research priorities.

5 units, Win (Jain, S)

ANTHRO 180. Science, Technology, and Gender

Why is engineering often seen as a masculine profession? What have women's experiences been in entering fields of science and technology? How has gender been defined by scientists? Issues: the struggles of women in science to negotiate misogyny and cultural expectation (marriage, children), reproductive issues (surrogate motherhood, visual representations of the fetus, fetal surgery, breast feeding, childbirth practices), how the household became a site of consumerism and technology, and the cultural issues at stake as women join the ranks of scientists. GER:DB-SocSci, EC-Gender

3-5 units, Aut (Jain, S)

ANTHRO 180A. Biological and Evolutionary Perspectives on Gender and Sexuality

(Same as ANTHRO 280A.) Human sexuality, gender, and reproductive behavior using evolutionary and crosscultural framework. Themes such as the potential biases scientists bring to the study of sexuality, how findings are portrayed by the popular media, and the implications biological findings should or should not have on how contemporary society approaches gender issues.

4 units, Win (Glover, S)

ANTHRO 181. Culture and Mental Illness

(Same as HUMBIO 146.) Interdisciplinary. Culture and social context on the identification, course, and outcome of psychiatric illness. What is known from psychiatry about the nature of illness as a biomedical process and from anthropology about the life course of illness within particular settings. Prerequisite: Human Biology core or equivalent or consent of instructor.

3 units, Spr (Luhrmann, T)

ANTHRO 182. An Anthropology of Annihilation: Tobacco at the Turn of the Millenium

The cigarette as the world's greatest weapon of mass destruction: 100 million dead worldwide from cigarettes during the 20th century, one billion expected to die in the 21st century. How to understand this toll, its production, management, politicization, and depoliticization? What can anthropological and allied perspectives disclose? How does the catastrophe challenge key precepts within anthropology and other branches of the academy?

3-5 units, Spr (Kohrman, M)

ANTHRO 183A. Bodies in Pain: Anthropological Perspectives on Suffering and Distress

How do people know of and about the pain of others? How do liberal traditions of what it means to be human inform ideas of pain and suffering? What are the ethical, political, medical and legal potentialities and limitations of the relationships among language, narrative, distress, and pain? Sources include anthropologically-informed modalities such as phenomenology, critical theories in medical anthropology, philosophical approaches to skepticism, and ethnographic engagements with suffering in everyday life.

3-5 units, Spr (Chua, J)

ANTHRO 184A. Family Matters: Gender, Reproduction, and Making Family

Kinship structure. The history of kinship studies. Recent interventions in the study of family. New forms of family making in America such as transnational adoption and assisted reproduction. Readings primarily anthropological, but include science studies, gender theory, queer theory, and critical race studies.

5 units, Win (Romain, T)

ANTHRO 185A. Race and Biomedicine

(Same as ASNAMST 185A.) Race, identity, culture, biology, and political power in biomedicine. Biological theories of racial ordering, sexuality and the medicalization of group difference. Sources include ethnography, film, and biomedical literature. Topics include colonial history and medicine, the politics of racial categorization in biomedical research, the protection of human subjects and research ethics, immigration health and citizenship, race-based models in health disparities research and policy, and recent developments in human genetic variation research.

3-5 units, Win (Lee, S)

ANTHRO 186. Kinship and Gender in South Asia

(Same as ANTHRO 286.) Focus is on current research of guest lecturers. Topics this year include prehistoric impacts of El NiÃ±o, human sacrifice in prehispanic Peru, and mortuary archaeology on the north coast of Peru. Prerequisite: 142/242 or equivalent or consent of instructor.

1-3 units, not given this year

ANTHRO 191C. Anthropological Sciences Capstone Core Seminar

See 291 for description. Required of undergraduate majors who are not in the honors program. Must be taken in the senior year, or by petition in the junior year.

1-3 units, Aut (Staff)

ANTHRO 196B. Senior Honors Seminar

Techniques for interpreting data, organizing bibliographic material, writing, editing, and revising. Preparation of papers for conferences and publications in anthropology.

5 units, Aut (Staff)

ANTHRO 197. Internship in Anthropological Sciences

Opportunity for students to pursue their specialization in an institutional setting such as a laboratory, clinic, research institute, or government agency. May be repeated for credit

4-5 units, Aut (Staff), Win (Staff), Spr (Staff), Sum (Staff)

ANTHRO 199. Senior and Master's Thesis Writing Workshop

(Same as ANTHRO 299.) Techniques of interpreting data, organizing bibliographic materials, writing, editing and revising. Preparation of papers for conferences and publications in anthropology. Seniors register for 199; master's students register for 299.

1-2 units, not given this year

ANTHRO 201X. Readings in Science, Technology, and Society

Focus is on anthropological approaches and contributions to the field.

5 units, not given this year

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