Courses

• GRS AN 735: The Ape Within: Chimpanzees and the Evolution of Human Behavior
  Introduction to primate social behavior, focusing on the apes. Examines how chimpanzee behavior can be used to understand human behavior. What is unique about humans, and how did we evolve? Topics include diet, social relationships, sexual behavior, aggression, culture, cognition.
• GRS AN 744: Modern Japanese Society: Family, School, and Workplace (Area)
  Meets with AN 344. Approaches contemporary japanese society through a focus on family, school and workplace. the readings and lectures treat these institutions historically and in terms of the contexts they provide for the individual.
• GRS AN 745: Moving Experiences: Cultures of Tourism and Travel
  The movement of people across national boundaries as a cultural, economic and political phenomenon. Examines voluntary border-crossing in its various cultural and historical meanings as well as in the representations of journals and contemporary accounts.
• GRS AN 747: Afghanistan
  Ethnographic and historical examination of Afghanistan's traditional social and political organization, ecology and economy, and relationship among ethnic groups. Civil wars and foreign interventions over the last thirty years, the current situation in Afghanistan, and prospects for the country's future.
• GRS AN 750: Asians in America (Area)
  Meets with AN 350. A cultural history of Asian immigrants in the United States from the 1850's to the present, focusing on family structure, gender, generational differences, religion and education. The implications of the Asian experience for understanding mainstream American culture.
• GRS AN 751: Graduate Study in Language, Culture, and Society
  Introduction to basic concepts, problems, and methods used by anthropologists in the investigation of relationships among language, culture, and society. Topics include language and conceptual systems, language and role, language and social context, and language and thought.
• 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 761: Ethnography and Anthropological Theory I
  Discussion and analysis of major concepts, methods, and theories in social anthropology, using case studies in ritual, politics, leadership, social control, and kinship belief.
• 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: Psychological Anthropology
  Introduces students to some key theoretical perspectives and controversies in the cross-cultural study of psychology. Readings from classic texts and cross-cultural studies of emotion, sexuality, concepts of the person, national character, consciousness, authority, and religion.
• GRS AN 775: Culture, Society, and Religion in South Asia
  Ethnographic and historical introduction to the Indian subcontinent with a focus on the impact of religion on cultural practices and social institutions.
• GRS AN 782: Wealth, Poverty, and Culture
  Explores vital cultural dimensions of production, exchange, and consumption in varied settings. Asks how social ties relate to property, wealth, and poverty. Examines how people classify, control, and allocate resources, and how resources in turn influence people.
• 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 797: Anthropological Film and Photography
  Considers the history and development of anthropological, ethnographic, and transcultural filmmaking. In-depth examination of important anthropological films in terms of methodologies, techniques, and strategies of expression; story, editing, narration, themes, style, content, art, and aesthetics.
• GRS AN 901: Directed Study in Anthropology
  
• GRS AN 902: Directed Study in Anthropology
  
• 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.

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