Courses

• GRS AN 755: Religious Fundamentalism in Anthropological Perspective
  Anthropological study of the global phenomenon of religious fundamentalism. A product of the modern world, fundamentalism is perceived as counter-cultural and anti-nationalist. Cases drawn from North America and Islamic Middle East, with special attention to women's interpretation of religion. 4 cr., 2nd sem.
• GRS AN 771: Political Anthropology of the Modern World
  Examines the concepts of political anthropology and applies them to the analysis of the origins and development of the modern political world. Special attention to nations and nationalism, the state and modern development, comparative political culture, and urban and agrarian political change.
• GRS AN 772: Psych Anthro
  This course description is currently under construction.
• GRS AN 784: Anthropological Study of Religion
  An introduction to the anthropological study of myth, ritual, and religious experience across cultures. Special attention to the problem of religious symbolism and meaning, religious conversion and revitalization, contrasts between traditional and world religions, and the relation of religious knowledge to science, magic, and ideology.
• GRS AN 970: Seminar: Dissertation Research
  
• GRS AR 699: Teaching College Archaeology I
  The goals, contents, and methods of instruction in archaeology. General teaching-learning issues. Required of all teaching fellows.
• GRS AR 701: The Intellectual History of Archaeology
  The historical development of archaeological methods and theory from the Renaissance to the present day, including comparison of major developments in Western Europe and the Americas with developments in other regions. Basic concepts in archaeological record and society.
• GRS AR 702: Contemporary Theory in Archaeology
  Explores aspects of contemporary theory in archaeology, including post-modern critiques of contemporary practice, new approaches to archaeology of ritual, personhood, identity, and the body; indigenous and public archaeology; and politics and archaeology.
• GRS AR 703: Seminar: Materials in Ancient Society
  Topic to be announced. Offered through the Center for Materials Research in Archaeology and Ethnology.
• GRS AR 704: Seminar: Materials in Ancient Society
  Topic to be announced. Offered through the Center for Materials Research in Archaeology and Ethnology.
• GRS AR 705: Pre-urban Development
  Cultural development from the origins of humankind through the establishment of food production, with emphasis on models for reconstructing successive changes in adaptation among early populations.
• GRS AR 706: Archaeology of Complex Societies
  Core concepts of archaeological research on the formation, cultural development, and decay of complex societies, as well as their introduction into other cultures. Coverage emphasizes research design rather than simple survey.
• GRS AR 708: Processes in the formation of Archaeological Sites.
  Considers in detail geological, biological and anthropogenic depositional and post-depositional processes that result in formation of archaeological sites. Initial focus on basic principles/processes, then their application to site-evaluation in New and Old World. Field trips in area.
• GRS AR 709: Research Methods in Geoarchaeology
  Topics concerned with the earth and archaeological sciences. Such themes are related to quaternary environments; methods of studying archaeological sediments and materials; and scientific methods in the study of archaeological sites.
• GRS AR 712: Sem Ow Prehist
  This course description is currently under construction.
• GRS AR 727: Archaeology and Colonialism
  Theoretical and methodological approaches to the comparative archaeology of colonialism in ancient and early modern worlds. Considers case studies from ancient Greece, Roman Empire, and European colonial projects in South Africa, Australia, and the Americas.
• GRS AR 730: Fall 2005: Seminar:Archaeology of Late Antiquity Spring 2006: Seminar: Old World Historical Archaeology
  Fall 2005 Interdisciplinary overview of Europe and Mediterranean World in 4th-6th centuries A.D. based on archaeological record and material culture (including art), history, and literature. Topics include: rise of Christianity; urban change; trade; villas; rural life; interactions with "barbarians." Spring 2006 Topic: Survey and Landscape Archaeology in the Mediterranean This semester will trace the development of survey and landscape archaeology in the Mediterranean basin and their impact on understandings of the social, political, economic, and religios environments of Mediterranean cultures. With specific focus on case studies from Spain, Italy, Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, and the Levant, weekly presentations will include a sample of methodological and interpretive approaches covering such topics and survey methodology and cross-comparability, trends in settlement pattern studies and site-catchment analysis, environmental and landscape reconstruction, GIS, models of survey data interpretations, ancient perceptions of landscape, and landscape evolution and temporality.
• GRS AR 734: Semiinar: Archaeology of the Roman Provinces. Topic: Romans and Natives in the Western Provinces.
  The seminar will focus on the interaction of Romans and native peoples in the Hispanic and Gallic provinces and Britannia from the 3rd century B.C. to 5th century A.D. Topics include agriculture, trade, crafts/industry, the military, acculturation, frontier zones, and provincial and minicipal administration.
• GRS AR 741: Seminar: Archaeology of Mesopotamia
  Studies this core area of the ancient Near East, from the introduction of agriculture to the Hellenistic era. Examines the genesis of the first urban society and its transformation under the Sumerians, Babylonians, Assyrians, and Persians.
• GRS AR 742: Syro-Palestinian Archaeology
  A survey of the archaeology of ancient Israel, Lebanon, and Syria from the Stone Age to the late Roman Empire, with emphasis on the material remains of the second and first millennia BC.

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