Dr. Prieto The sacrifice of men, women and children is one of the most controversial acts in ancient societies. Practiced around the world, this act is imbued in intricate rituals that explain the essence of human nature. This course explore human sacrificial practices around the world and its social, political and economic implications, as well […]
Dr. Kernaghan This course asks how prohibition-infused social types and things (but also events, terrains and times) can be approached ethnographically. It asks how an ethnographer’s need for extended durations of proximity to what she or he studies can be made adequate to social worlds that depend upon secrecy and aggressively defend the perceived boundaries […]
Professor A. Johnson As more and more social practices and processes move online, anthropologists are moving their research online, too. This course introduces the theory, methods, and applications of Digital Anthropology, with a focus on research and production. Course texts include ethnographies of online social worlds, as well as the offline assemblages that support them […]
Professor A. Johnson How are digital technologies reshaping social worlds? Does constant communication change our experience of community? How does social media affect our sense of self? This course explores “the digital” in cross-cultural context, using the tools of anthropology to chart the range of impacts information technologies are having around the world. Students […]
Dr. Sassaman Southeastern Archaeology is a graduate seminar on the interpretation of 13,000 years of human history in the southeastern United States. The region boasts a rich and fascinating array of ancient cultural traditions, ranging from the thriving founding populations of the late Pleistocene, to the precocious moundbuilders of the mid-Holocene, to the experimental farmers […]
Dr. Stephanie Bogart and Dr. Saul Schwartz Sexuality is at the center of many social debates and political controversies related to gender and orientation discrimination, sexual violence, sex work, and sexually transmitted infections (STIs), but people often make decisions and policies based on incomplete information, emotions, stereotypes, and poor or fake research and media. Those […]
Dr. Gillespie Principles of Archaeology is a 3-credit course providing comprehensive coverage of 21st century archaeological principles and concepts. Course content includes fundamentals of archaeological research, field and laboratory methods,and interpretation. Two weekly lectures are accompanied by a 50-minute lab period providing practical experience in map-reading, interpreting field drawings, classification, artifact analysis, experimental archaeology, and […]
Dr. Gillespie HISTORICITIES is a 3-credit reading-intensive seminar focused on the twinned phenomena of the “historical turn” in anthropology: non-Western “historicities” and historical processes. Historicities, also referred to as “modes of historical consciousness,” “ethno-ethnohistories,” and “ideologies of history,” are dynamic processes involving the “continuous, creative bringing into being and crafting of the past in the […]
Dr. Gillespie Principles of Archaeology is a 3-credit course designed for MA students in anthropology (all subfields) and graduate students in History, Classics, or other disciplines in which a basic knowledge of archaeological research and methods is relevant. It is a useful preparation for students planning to take ANG 6110 Archaeological Theory. This course explains […]
Dr. Kernaghan In this course we examine how the material specificity of physical terrains affects legal phenomena as they come to be expressed, sensed and practiced. We observe and track how the enforcement of particular laws often varies across distinct topographies and topological formations: for instance, between cities, towns, rural areas or roads; seas with […]