Courses

• GRS AM 903: Ds Hist Pres
  
• GRS AM 904: Ds Hist Pres
  
• GRS AM 945: Practicum
  Course credit for internship.
• GRS AM 946: Practicum
  Course credit for internship.
• GRS AN 699: Teaching College Anthropology I
  The goals, contents, and methods of instruction in anthropology. General teaching-learning issues. Required of all teaching fellows.
• GRS AN 703: Proseminar: Ethnography and the History of Social Theory in Anthropology
  Intensive introduction focusing on classic works of ethnography, social theory, and the history of the discipline from the mid-19th to the mid-20th century. Required of first-year graduate students and open to students in related disciplines with the consent of the instructor.
• GRS AN 704: Proseminar: Contemporary Anthropological Theory
  Examination of major theoretical trends and debates in anthropological theory from the 1960s to present.
• GRS AN 705: Graduate Proseminar in Anthropology: the Biological and Historical Past
  Examination of major contributions and debates in biological anthropology focusing on humanity's place in the natural world. Topics include evolutionary theory, fossil and living primates, human evolution, historical demography, human life histories, and the relationship between biology and culture.
• GRS AN 706: comparative Family Systems in Asia (Area)
  A comparative examination of family, concentrating on marriage, reproduction, power, and relations with kin. Three Asian societies are treated: Japan, India, and the People's Republic of China. Ethnographic materials are used and lectures provide a theoreical focus.
• GRS AN 707: Turkey & Middle East Perspective (Area)
  Social and cultural diversity of the modern Middle East with particular attention to Turkey. Focus on the interplay of traditions and socio-economic changes that have occurred during the 20th century and their implications for the future.
• GRS AN 708: Food, Culture, and Society
  Study of foodways, culinary social history, diet and food ecology with special attention to Asian societies and Boston's food culture. Examines the use of food and cuisine as a focus for identity, national development, and social change.
• GRS AN 710: N Amer Indians
  This course description is currently under construction.
• GRS AN 711: Civil Society and the State
  Focuses on the civil society-state nexus. Features an interdisciplinary critical analysis of the civil society contruct, including its value for understanding democratization and liberalization in developing areas, as well as its role in mature democracies.
• GRS AN 712: Studies in African Ethnography (Area)
  Survey of the continent with attention to ethnohistory, traditional cultures, and cultural change.
• GRS AN 717: Power and Society in the Middle East
  Peoples and cultures of the Middle East from Afghanistan to Morocco and from the Caucasus to Yemen. Focuses on social organization, family structure, the relationship between the sexes, and the development and maintenance of authority
• GRS AN 718: Southeast Asia: Tradition and Development
  Provides an in-depth introduction to the cultural traditions and contemporary development of Southeast Asia. Examines the contemporary society and culture through the optic of political and cultural history, so as to understand the "imaginative revolutions" that have shaped this region and are transforming it still today.
• GRS AN 719: Muslim Cultures
  This course description is currently under construction.
• GRS AN 720: Muslim Women
  This course description is currently under construction.
• GRS AN 726: Oral Tradition as Verbal Art
  Exploration of religious and secular poetry worldwide with emphasis on the ethnography of communication. A focus on performance in oral tradition and its consequences for literary form, as well as the impact of mass media and literacy on orality.
• GRS AN 731: Human Origins
  Introduction to human paleontology and methods for reconstructing the ancestry, structure, diet and behavior of fossil primates and humans. Survey of primate and hominid fossils, priimate comparative anatomy, radioactive dating, modlecular and structural phylogenies, climactic analyses, and comparative behavioral ecology.

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