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New York University Department of Anthropology Graduate Courses Spring 2009 New York University / Department of Anthropology GRADUATE COURSES—SPRING 2009 MONDAY 2:00-4:45pm G14. 3393 RAPP Culutres of Biomedicine Room 612 G14.3394 DiFIORE NYCEP Behavior Core Room 706 G14.3391 GEISMAR Museum Anthropology 240 Greene Street, Room 410 5:00-7:35pm G14.3397 WHITE/ TRYON TS: Arch Modern Hum. Origins Room 706 (open to advanced undergraduates) TUESDAY 9:00-12:00 G14.1219, VAIL Video Production II **SPECIAL TIME: 9.30 – 12:30pm** ROOM 502 2:00-4:45pm G14.1636 MYERS History of Anthropology Conference Room G14.2700 ROGERS Ethnographic Methods Room 612 6:00-9:00pm G14.1216 GANTI Culture and Media II Kriser Room WEDNESDAY 2:00-4:45pm G14.3396 ABERCROMBIE Hauntings: Contested Memory After State Violence KJCC 404W G14.3395 KHAN/ SIU Comparative Diasporas Conference Room G14.3392 DISOTELL Phylogenetic Methods Room 706 5:00-7:35pm G14.1330 GINSBURG Constructing America Conference Room THURSDAY 2:00-4:45pm Video Production Lab **SPECIAL TIME: 2.00 – 4.00pm** Room 612 G14.1040, SCHIEFFELIN Linguistic Anthropology Room 706 5:00-7:35pm G14.1212 CRABTREE Faunal Analysis for Arch Room 706 (open to advanced undergraduates) G14.3398 MARTIN Public Anthropology 28 Mercer, 10th Floor Conference Room Classes held at 25 Waverly Place unless otherwise noted. All classes are reserved for Anthropology students only, unless otherwise noted. Outside students require instructor permission. Spring 2009 G14.1040 G14.1212 G14.1216 G14.1219 G14.1330 G14.1636 G14.2700 G14.3391 G14.3392 G14.3393 G14.3394 G14.3395 G14.3396 G14.3397 G14. 3398 Linguistic Anthropology Faunal Analysis for Arch Culture and Media II Video Production II Constructing America History of Anthropology Ethnographic Methods Museum Anthropology Phylogenetic Methods Cultures of Biomedicine Behavior, Ecology, and Conservation Comparative Diasporas Hauntings: Contested Memory... TS: Arch Modern Human Origins Public Anthropology G47.4747—Maintaining Matriculation Section 001 (MA Students): 30538 Schieffelin Crabtree Ganti Vail Ginsburg Myers Rogers Geismar Disotell Rapp DiFiore Khan/ Siu Abercrombie White/Tryon Martin CALL # 30055 31357 30057 30058 30060 30062 31294 31354 31356 31358 31352 31293 31355 31353 31468 Section 004 (PhD Students): 30541 G14.1040: Linguistic Anthropology: Schieffelin Thursday, 2:00-4:45pm In this course we explore the ways in which the study of language and the study of culture have mutually influenced each other in terms of theories, methods and substantive issues. Topics include the relationship among language, thought and culture, including: the role of language in social interaction, language and speech in ethnographic perspective, language ideology, language genesis, maintenance and change, and the acquisition of linguistic and social knowledge. G14.1212: Faunal Analysis for Arch: Crabtree Thursday, 5:00-7:35pm Faunal analysis or zooarchaeology is the study of animal bones recovered from archaeological sites. The goals of faunal analysis include the reconstruction of past hunting, scavenging, and animal husbandry practices, as well as the study of site formation processes. The faunal analysis course will cover the identification and analysis of archaeological animal bone remains. The course will also examine some of the ways in which faunal data have been used in archaeological interpretation. This course is also open to qualified undergraduates with the permission of the instructor. G14.1216: Culture and Media II: Ganti Tuesday, 6:00-9:00pm In the last decade, a new field -- the ethnography of media -- has emerged as an exciting new arena of research. While claims about media in peoples lives are made on a daily basis, surprisingly little research has actually attempted to look at how media is part of the naturally occurring lived realities of people's lives. In the last decade, anthropologists and media scholars interested in film, television, and video have been turning their attention increasingly beyond the text and empiricist notions of audiences, (stereotypically associated with the ethnography of media), to consider, ethnographically, the complex social worlds in which media is produced, circulated and consumed, at home and elsewhere. This work theorizes media studies from the point of view of cross-cultural ethnographic realities and anthropology from the perspective of new spaces of communication focusing on the social, economic and political life of media and how it makes a difference in the daily lives of people as a practice, whether in production, reception, or circulation. After some introductory session on precursors to the current research during and after World War II and the new scholarship on the broad historical and ideological context that shaped early ethnographic film, the class will be organized around case studies that interrogate broader issues that are particularly endemic to questions of cross-cultural media including debates over cultural imperialism vs. the autonomy of local producers/consumers, the instability and stratification of reception, the shift from national to transnational circuits of production and consumption, the increasing complicity of researchers with their subjects over representations of culture. These concerns are addressed in a variety of locations, from the complex circulation of films, photos, and lithographs demonstrates the historically and culturally contingent ways in which images are read and used; to the ever increasing range of televisual culture, from state sponsored melodramas, religious epics and soap operas, to varieties of public television; to the activist use of video, radio, the Internet, and small media. G14.1219: Video Production II: Vail Tuesday, 9:30am – 12:30 pm This is the second part of the year-long video production seminar and concentrates on the production and completion of the independent video projects begun in the fall part of the course. This semester will consist of continued work on the projects and production meetings to present and discuss the works in progress. The course concludes with a public screening of finished projects in early May. G14.1330: Constructing America: Ginsburg Wednesday, 5:00-7:35pm Ethnographic research in and about North America is relatively new in the history of anthropology, although it now has a robust foundation, sometimes called the anthropology of North America. This seminar will take a sociology of knowledge approach to the field. The first few weeks will address the creation of North America culture as an ethnographic object in the context of the development of anthropology and related fields, as these projects have been negotiated in relation to more broadly articulated concerns that shape and reorder the cultural landscape. Organized chronologically and topically, it will explore both how anthropologists and fellow travelers study American culture and, in that process, how we as well as our subjects are simultaneously engaged in constructing it. After the first four weeks, we will be reading an ethnography every week, covering a range of issues, from social movements to science/medicine and media, indigeneity to immigration, religion to regionalism The course is designed for graduate students in Anthropology and American Studies who are involved in research in/about North America. Anyone who does not fit that description must have permission of the instructor to take the course. Students are expected to keep up with the readings, contribute to seminar discussions, and make class presentations. Formal work includes two critical book reviews with oral and written presentations (8-10pp.); and a term paper (15-20pp.) which can be submitted in the form of a research proposal. G14.1636: History of Anthropology: Myers Tuesday, 2:00-4:45pm This course is meant to provide tools for situating contemporary anthropological thought within the historical development of the discipline. It will treat selected themes and scholars in British and American anthropology from the late 19th century through the 1970s. We will be concerned not only with key texts in the history of the field -- a conventional intellectual history of the development of some of the significant debates defining the field over time -but also with some critical history of the development of the field within larger contexts that have shaped the changing conditions of the production of anthropological thought. The scope is necessarily selective rather than comprehensive, and aims to provide students with the means to fill in missing chapters through their independent work for this and other courses. G14.2700: Ethnographic Methods: Rogers Tuesday, 2:00-4:45pm In this course we will explore theories and methods of ethnographic research, drawing from both epistemological discussions and monographic examples to examine the links between the research questions asked and the kinds of data sought, as well as between the data sought and data-collection techniques. Over the semester, each student will pursue a mini-fieldwork project in NYC as a context for practicing an array of ethnographic methods. G14.3391: Museum Anthropology: Geismar Monday, 2:00-4:45pm This course takes as its starting point the importance of museums and collecting in the foundational period of the discipline of anthropology and traces the role that ‘cultural objects’ have had in thinking about cultural difference, and within cultural analysis. We will also examine the role of museums as sites of fieldwork and as generators of research methodologies focused on material culture. The ways in which museums consolidate emergent theories of material culture will be elicited through a series of workshops at the American Museum of Natural History. Students will investigate the history and nature of the anthropology collections, as well as thinking through the forms of knowledge engendered by artifacts. Working in the Science galleries, we will examine the status of anthropology as a natural science and consider the public representation and materialization of science - students will be required to undertake their own mini-ethnography in the museum. Other topics will include global trends in the emergence of new museums of culture, cultures of dealing and collection, and the place of anthropological collections in art museums. Please note that many classes will meet at the AMNH and a significant amount of assignment research will take place at the museum. G14.3392: Phylogenetic Methods: Disotell Wednesday, 2:00-4:45pm This course will focus on both the theoretical aspects of phylogenetic reconstruction and the practical aspects of inferring phylogenies using a variety of analytical approaches and computer software packages. Distance techniques, maximum parsimony, and likelihood methods, along with network and Bayesian approaches will be compared, contrasted, and implemented. While the primary emphasis will be on the analysis of molecular data, most approaches will be applicable to other types of systematic data. G14.3393: Cultures of Biomedicine: Rapp Monday, 2:00-4:45pm Over the last 100 years, biomedicine as a sphere of ideas and practices has made increasingly powerful claims to define the conditions of human life and death. In this process, scientific authority has moved to the fore. How did medical expertise-as-science get established? What keeps it in place, and how are contests about it mounted? This seminar will look at the many historical processes through which biomedical power is constituted by addressing topics such as: the discovery/invention of bodies, systems, populations; public health and governance; the material culture of scientific medicine; the emergence of diagnostic categories and pharmacologies; the role of biostatistics. The history, sociology, and ethnography of medicine provide our content. While much scholarship has been generated on Western/ cosmopolitan science and medicine, interacting civilizational and subaltern traditions drawn from colonial/ post-colonial regions of the globe are central to our work, as well. This course is located at the intersection where science studies and anthropological approaches to biomedicine meet. G14.3394: Behavior, Ecology, and Conservation : DiFiore Monday, 2:00-4:45pm This graduate core course for the NYCEP program provides an overview of the ecology, behavior, and social systems of nonhuman primates and examines variation in these aspects of primate biology from the perspectives afforded by evolutionary ecology and socioecological theory. The course first provides an introduction to the grouping patterns, mating systems, foraging ecology, and individual behavioral strategies that characterize taxa from the major groups of primates, then covers the fundamental theoretical perspectives that modern primatologists employ to study and understand the variation in primate social systems including the theory of evolution by natural selection, the concepts of reproductive success, inclusive fitness, and kin selection, and the basic principles of primate population ecology and socioecology. With this background, we then use these core principles to examine the various survival, mating, and parenting strategies seen in primates and to explore how ecological factors differentially affect the dispersal decisions and the nature of social relationships - both competitive and cooperative - of male and female primates. The final weeks of the class are devoted to a consideration of the roles that primates play in their natural ecosystems and to the conservation of nonhuman primates. G14.3395: Comparative Diasporas: Khan/ Siu Wednesday, 2:00-4:45pm This is a graduate seminar that explores the theoretical and methodological issues in the study of comparative diasporas. Diaspora conventionally has described the process by which immigrants and their descendants create home, community, and identity as they sustain cultural and social ties with their homeland (real or imagined), place of residence, and other co-"ethnics" living elsewhere. In the past two decades, diaspora has reemerged as a provocative and highly contested analytical concept across both the humanities and social sciences. Why has diaspora drawn so much attention? What makes it such a seductive yet controversial concept? Must "diaspora" necessarily be linked to immigrants and immigration? What are the analytical possibilities and limitations of the concept of diaspora? This seminar will address these questions, among others, by evaluating the current uses of the concept and debates about it. Through close examination of several case studies, we will discuss diaspora as both an analytical concept and an empirical process. Students will explore the political-economic conditions that engender diasporic formations, the particular cultural-social dimensions that facilitate their reproduction, and the symbolic significance of “diaspora” to the communities involved. These foci will help us examine ?issues of identity and subjectivity as well as their construction and representation, while analyzing the histories and cultural formation of diasporic communities. G14.3396: Hauntings: Contested Memory after State Violence Wednesday, 2:00-4:45pm The course examines how memory relates to history and politics, developing a concept of history that goes beyond the empirical, taking into account subjectivity, affect, and the afterlife of the past in the present. A central theme is the relation of memory to citizen action and sovereignty, through notions of political and social engagement based on patrimony, inheritance and generational transmission. The concept of transindividual personhood (filiative, social, corporate, and juridical) will be explored throughout. Central to the course will be a critique of liberal modernity’s view of emancipation as a rupture with the past and neo-liberal late modernity’s compulsory obsolescence, both of which discredit memory as reactionary or, at best, irrelevant. A key issue will be the role of memory in democratizing societies with a violent past, recognizing that memories can be divisive as well as reparative, and are always subject to contestation. We will be concerned with social memory as a transindividual phenomenon, and with historical memory as the expression of demands for transitional justice. A particular interest will be the role of (often enforced) forgetting in creating phantoms which return to demand reparation. This course bridges the disciplines of ethnography and urban history (Abercrombie) and textual criticism and cultural studies (Labanyi). The course will assume that interdisciplinarity does not mean ironing out disciplinary differences, but working through the productive tensions between them. Students will be encouraged to reflect on these differences, by being exposed to unfamiliar materials, methodologies, and reading, while sharing with their fellow students their respective disciplinary strengths. The course will bring together case studies from Spanish America and Spain, rarely done beyond the colonial period. The materials studied will include commemorative events, folkloric performances, reenactments, museums, monuments, legislation, political and historical debates, citizen groups, web sites, testimonies, film, fiction, photography, comics, video games. We will be concerned particularly with the role of narrative in giving form to concepts of transindividual and transgenerational personhood; other expressive modes to be explored are embodiment, visuality and materiality. The concept of material memories – embedded in landscapes and objects – will be of considerable importance. The course will be accompanied by a lecture series, held at the King Juan Carlos Center and open to the public. G14.3397: TS: Arch Modern Human Origins:White/Tyron Monday, 5:00-7:35pm One of the key areas of debate in paleoanthropology today is the emergence and dispersal of biologically and culturally modern humans. The goal of the seminar is provide students with the scientific foundation to contribute to this debate and to understand its significance in a broader anthropological context. Using readings, discussion, and student-driven presentations, this seminar will examine various dimensions of this hotly debated issue, including the history of investigation, relevant methodological, interpretive and epistemological issues, and a detailed survey of the empirical data from our African roots to the subsequent global dispersal and replacement of hominin populations that included the Neanderthals. G14.3398: Public Anthropology: Martin Thursday, 5:00-7:35 pm This course will focus on critical examination of classic and contemporary works that shed light on anthropology's changing place in the public sphere. Readings will draw from Gramsci, Fanon, Bourdieu, Mills, Freire, Mead, Graeber, Scheper-Hughes, Rabinow, Bourgois, Taussig, Farmer, Nader, Eriksen, Lutkehaus, Abu-Lughod, Bunzel, for example. With the help of practicing journalists, we will explore how and why the place of anthropology in the public sphere has changed since the time of Boas and Margaret Mead. In conjunction with these readings and visiting writers, the course will involve several workshops devoted to developing practical ways of extending the insights of cultural anthropology beyond the academy. In the light of the newly emerging public faces of anthropology and allied disciplines (Anthropology Now, Contexts, Terrain), we will collaboratively develop works in such genres as podcasts, interactive web sites, photo essays, and short articles. The course can be taken for various amounts of credit and the workload will be adjusted accordingly.