DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY Course Descriptions Winter 2007

20701-20702. Introduction to African Civilization I, II. (=AFAM 20701-20702, HIST 10101-10102, HUDV 21401 [II], SOSC 22500-22600, SOCI 30305 [I]) General education social science sequence recommended. This sequence meets the general education requirement in civilization studies. The first portion of this two-quarter sequence utilizes a variety of perspectives and methodologies to throw light on the historically complex and culturally rich experience of the peoples of Ethiopia. In addition to readings listed in the syllabus and related discussions, students will have an opportunity to explore on their own - - to Ethiopian sites in the Chicago area as well as through expeditions to the library. The second quarter of the African Civilization sequence takes up the classic question of continuity and change in African societies by examining the impact of colonialism and daily life in post-colonial societies. The course is structured in terms of critical themes in the study of modern African societies. The themes that we address are: the colonial experience, with particular emphasis on the symbolic and intimate dimensions of the colonial experience, anti-colonial movements and the construction of political imaginaries, and finally the experience of everyday life in the context of neoliberal economic reform. We will focus on the countries of South and South Eastern Africa: Kenya, Zimbabwe, Zambia, South Africa and Madagascar. D. Levine, Autumn; J. Cole, Winter. MonWed 1:30-2:50

21304/42100. Modern Readings in Anthropology: Kinship and Every Day Life. Once the focus of fierce debate in anthropology and social theory, in recent years the topic of kinship seems to have given way to broader concerns, such as globalization and the politics of identity. Yet the problem of kinship often resurfaces. This course provides a critical survey of debates, old and new, in the study of kinship with an eye towards exploring their relevance to research on the reproduction and erosion of sociocultural difference. Readings range from classical treatments to recent reformulations that use kinship as a lens for exploring the dynamics of history, memory, and power. Danilyn Rutherford Wed 12:30-3:20

21309. Modern Readings in Anthropology: Culture and Crisis. Talk of crisis, disaster, and catastrophe seems ever-present and endemic these days. Why? And how do people make sense of these many crises? What does it mean for a culture to be "in crisis"? In this course we explore such questions through a series of investigations that bring ideas of culture (or integration and order) and ideas of crisis (or disintegration and disorder) into conversation with one another. Readings will include general theories of culture and crisis and particular ethnographic and historical cases, including disasters, state failure, sickness and sorcery, ecological crises, and the world humanitarian crisis. Greg Beckett. TuTh 12-1:20

21401. Practice of Anthropology: Logic and Practice of Archaeology. This course offers an overview of the concepts and practice of anthropological archaeology. We discuss the varied goals of archaeological research and consider the range of ways in which archaeologists build inferences about the past from the material record. Throughout the quarter, the more general discussion of research logic and practice is situated in the context of detailed consideration of current archaeological projects from different parts of the world. Mark Lycett. TuTh 9:00-10:20

21406/38300. The Practice of Anthropology: Celebrity and Science in Paleo¬anthropology (= HIPS 21100). A seminar to explore the balance among research, show biz, big business, and politics in the careers of Louis, Mary, and Richard Leakey; Alan Walker; Donald Johanson; Jane Goodall; Dian Fossey; and Biruté Galdikas through films, taped interviews, autobiogra¬phies, biographies, pop publications, instructor's anecdotes, and samples of their scientific writings. Russell Tuttle. MW 1:30-2:50

21414. Practice of Anthropology: Health, Wealth, and Welfare: the Anthropology of Statecraft in Europe. Violence and the state's monopoly over legitimate physical force have long been central to the social scientific study of the state. This course shifts focus by looking at the equally crucial ways through which states act or appear to be acting for the health, wealth, and welfare of nations. Focusing on Europe, we read ethnographic texts on states as particular moral orders that rely on a range of techniques of intervention, management, and control. Andrea Muehlebach. TuTh 3:00- 4:20

21501/34305. Psychological Anthropology (=HUDV 23906/33906). Timothy McCajor Hall Wed 1:30-4:20

22000/35500. Anthropology of Development (=ENST 22000). This course analyzes the contributions of anthropological understanding to development programs in "underdeveloped" and "developing" societies. Topics we will consider include: the history of development; different perspectives on development within the world system; the role of principal development agencies and their use of anthropological knowledge; the problems of ethnographic field inquiry in the context of development programs; the social organization and politics of underdevelopment; the cultural construction of "well-being"; economic, social, and political critiques of development; population, consumption and the environment; and future scenarios of development. Alan Kolata. TuTh 1:30-2:50

24303/34303. Topics in Psychological Anthropology: Ethnopsychology. R. Fogelson. TuTh 3:00-4:20

24510-11/ 34501-02. The Anthropology of Museums I, II (=SOSC 34500-01, MAPS 34500-01, HUDV 34501-02). Using anthropological theories and methodology as a conceptual framework, this seminar will explore the organizational and ideological aspects of museum culture(s). The course includes visits to museums with guest museum professionals as guides into the culture of museums. The seminar continues in the Spring quarter, when students will conduct ethnographic fieldwork in a Chicago-area museum. (NOTE: Winter quarter is a prerequisite for participation in Spring Quarter.) R. Fogelson, M. Fred. Wed 5:30-8:20 pm.

25401/35401. Consumption (=SOCI 20150/30150). The modern period was associated with industrial production, class society, rationalization, disenchantment, the welfare state, and the belief in salvation by society. Current societies are characterized by a culture of consumption; consumption is central to lifestyles and identity, it is instantiated in our technological reality and the complex of advertising media, structures of wanting and shopping. Starting from the question "why do we want things" we will discuss theories and empirical studies that focus on consumption and identity formation; on shopping and the consumption of symbolic signs; on consumption as linked to the re-enchantment of modernity; as a way to create differences between groups; as a process of the globalization of frames; and as related to time and information. The course is built around approaches that complement the "productionist" focus of the social sciences. Karin Knorr Cetina.Mon 12:30-3:20

25910/35910. Media and Popular Culture of the Middle East. What can we learn about the Middle East by examining practices of mediation and popular culture? We will begin this course with a brief look at the politics of U.S. media on the Middle East, and then turn to an examination of various ethnographies of Middle East media that elucidate key issues of identity, selfhood, and social organization. How do practices of media production, circulation, and consumption constitute fields of the nation, tradition, and religion in the Middle East? To what extent do media like television, music, or graffiti strengthen or contest concepts of national identity, local attachments to place, or regional solidarity? How do media like fine art or journalism help people of the Middle East imagine their places in the world? We will also analyze how smaller media can both play a role in political change and be a vehicle for self re-imagining. Students will analyze how anthropologists have studied media, view/hear key media texts, and engage in a participatory project on Middle Eastern media. Amahl Bishara. MW 1:30-2:50

26100/46500. Ancient Celtic Societies (=ANST 24700). This course explores the prehistoric societies of Iron Age "Celtic" Europe and their relationship to modern communities claiming Celtic ancestry. The course aims to impart an understanding of (1) the kinds of evidence available for investigating these ancient societies and how archaeologists interpret these data, (2) processes of change in culture and society during the Iron Age, and (3) how the legacy of Celtic societies has both persisted and been reinvented and manipulated in the modern world. Issues include the relationship between language, material culture, and society; colonial interaction; urbanization; art and religion; gender roles; and cultural identity in the construction of tradition. Michael Dietler. TuTh 10:30-11:50

26600/48600. Artifacts of Modernity. (PQ: Consent of instructor needed for undergraduates) This is an intensive methods course which serves as an introduction to the material culture of the modern era (post 1450). Course readings and seminar discussions will address the production, consumption, distribution, and meaning of artifacts within the context of colonialism, capitalism, industrialization, and mass consumption. Laboratory lectures and exercises will focus on the identification and analysis of different artifact classes such as ceramics, container glass, architectural materials, industrial by-products, pipe stems, weapons, buttons, doll heads, etc. Students will receive hands-on training with recently excavated materials. Course meetings will be split between seminar and lab. Shannon Dawdy. Wed 12:30-3:20

26711/36711. Ancient Landscapes-2 (=NEAA 20062/30062; GEOG 25800/35800; ANST 22601). (PQ: Ancient Landscapes I or the consent of the instructor.) This course follows on from Ancient Landscapes I, taught last quarter. The sequence is designed to expose you to both numerous spatial theories underlying Landscape Archaeology as well as to the methodologies and tools used to collect and analyze spatial data within the landscape. They are relevant to anyone who may need to conduct an archaeological survey one day or who wishes to analyze the locations of archaeological data, or in textual data, within their spatial contexts. As with the first course, this one is comprised of both a classroom and a laboratory component. Additional laboratory exercises during this second quarter will allow you to get hands on experience in areas such as Spatial Statistics, Simulation and Virtual Reality modeling. In addition a large portion of the class will revolve around working individually or in small groups on the actual implementation of some of the projects you designed during Ancient Landscapes I. Scott Branting. TuTh 10:30-11:50.

27001-27002-27003//37001-37002-37003. Introduction to Linguistics I, II, III (= Ling 201-202-203/301-302-303, SocSci 217-218-219). PQ: Must be taken in sequence. This course is an introductory survey of methods, findings, and problems in areas of major interest within lin¬guistics and of the relationship of linguistics to other disciplines. Topics include the biological basis of language, basic notions of syntax, semantics, pragmatics, basic syntactic typology of language, phonetics, phonology, morphology, language acquisition, linguistic variation, and linguistic change. Jason Riggle. TuTh 1:30-2:50.

27400/37400. Language, Power, and Identity in Southeastern Europe: A Linguistics View of the Balkan Crisis (=SLAV 23000/33000, HUMA 27400, LING 27200/37200). Language is a key issue in the articulation of ethnicity and the struggle for power in Southeastern Europe. This course familiarizes students with the linguistic histories and structures that have served as bases for the formation of modern Balkan ethnic identities that are being manipulated to shape current and future events. The course is informed by the instructor's thirty years of linguistic research in the Balkans as well as his experience as an adviser for the United Nations Protection Forces in Former Yugoslavia and as a consultant to the Council on Foreign Relations, the International Crisis Group, and other organizations. Course content may vary in response to on-going current events. Victor Friedman. TuTh 10:30-11:50

27500/47500. Semiotics of Culture. Semiotics is the study of the varieties of ‘sign' phenomena (the adjective corresponding to the noun sign being semiotic). This course introduces a contemporary approach to understanding ‘culture' as what is precipitated via socially organized semiotic processes, that is, seeing culture as a property of social life among humans as this is mediated by sign phenomena in all modalities of experience. In passing, we want to understand the two moments of analysis of such sign phenomena, the ‘semantically' influenced (via concepts of how signs in a representing ‘code' stand for what is represented), and the ‘pragmatically' influenced (via concepts of appropriate/effective-practice-in-context regimented by - and regimenting - the structural orders it invokes/performs). We explore the anthropological concept of ‘culture' semiotically by considering various artifacts, sites, institutionalizations, and networks of contemporary high and popular "Culture." (Many approaches to such matters overly influenced by the analysis of the semantics of verbal language have been highly problematic, rather than useful, e.g., misplaced "structuralism" or "performative theory.") We illustrate the semiotic study of culture by focusing on such things as bodies and their sartorial artifacts and associated "lifestyle" - identity-constru(ct)ing - commodities, on musical genres, on explicitly and implicitly ritual occasions, on spaces/places, and on broadcast genres, all exemplary of culturalized semiosis. Michael Silverstein. WedFri 9:30-11:20

27705/47905. Language & Globalization (=LING 27500/37500, BPRO 24500). PQ: Third- or fourth-year standing for undergraduates. Globalization has been a buzz word in our lives over the past few decades. It is also one of those terms whose varying meanings have become more and more challenging to characterize in a uniform way. The phenomena it names have been associated with important transformations in our cultures, including the languages we speak. Distinguishing myths from facts, this course will articulate the different meanings of globalization, anchor them in a long history of socio-economic colonization, and highlight the specific ways in which the phenomena it names have affected the structures and vitalities of languages around the world. We will learn about the dynamics of population contact in class and their impact on the evolution of languages. S. Mufwene, W. Wimsatt.
MW 1:30-2:50

28400/38800. Bioarchaeology and the Human Skeleton. This course is designed to provide students in archaeology with a thorough understanding of bioanthropological and osteological methods used in the interpretation of pre-historic societies. The integration of archaeology and human biology has been an especially dynamic area of anthropological endeavor during the past two decades, giving archaeologists important data on the genetic identity, health and diet of ancient societies. When combined with contextual data on mortuary treatment and cemetery structure, bioanthropology has been a critical part of the technical arsenal of modern archaeologists. The goal of this course will be to introduce students to bioanthropological methods and theory. In particular, laboratory instruction will stress hands-on experience in analyzing the human skeleton; whereas, seminar classes will integrate bioanthropological theory and application to specific cases throughout the world. There will be one laboratory class and one seminar-format class per week. M.C. Lozada. TuTh 1:30-3:20 BSLC 402.

29910. BA Essay Seminar. (Limited to students writing BA papers in Anthropology). Alison Kohn. Mon 3:00-5:50.

34201, 34202. Development of Social and Cultural Theory II: The Making of Modern Anthropology (200 units). PQ: Open only to first-year Anthropology graduate students. The second quarter of "Systems" explores the interplay of theory and ethnography, professional practice and historical context, in the development of anthropology as Amodern@ and Apostmodern@ discipline. Rather than offer an overview of contemporary theoretical and methodological discourses, we shall examine, in depth, the relations among several major orientations that have shaped the history of Anglo-American anthropology this century. In so doing, we shall be concerned with (i) the historical roots and philosophical foundations of particular perspectives and (ii) its significance for modern theoretical concerns and critical approaches in the social sciences at large. M. Carneiro da Cunha. TuTh, 1:30-4:20 Haskell 315

36725. The Ubaid Horizon (=NEAA 30161). PQ: Introductory course in archaeology. Open to undergraduates with permission of instructor. The Ubaid period (6th-5th millennia BC) saw the earliest agricultural settlement of the south Mesopotamian alluvium, the beginnings of social complexity, innovations in craft technology, and the coalescence of an interaction system that extended from southeast Anatolia to the western littoral of the Persian gulf. Ubaid developments formed the foundation for the emergence of the first cities and states in the Uruk period. This seminar examines the Ubaid horizon from several perspectives a close examination of key Ubaid sites, and a consideration of the main theoretical issues involved in understanding inter-regional variation in the social, economic, and political organization of this period. Gil Stein. TuTh 3:00-4:20

37202. Language in Culture II (=Ling 31200, PSYC 47002). PQ: Must be taken in sequence. This is the second part of a two-quarter sequence about the role of language in culture. Building on the first quarter's discussions of the interactional order, this quarter's class explores the semiotics of sociocultural differentiation in institutions such as schools, nations, colonial projects and liberal polities, and the simultaneous construction of those very institutions through modes of linguistic interaction. The more general aim is to investigate the constitutive role of language and semiotic figuration in sociopolitical processes.  We start with the notion of "ideology" and specifically language ideology, within the scholarly tradition of ideological critique. Language ideologies shape understandings of language and interaction by users -- both professional and non-expert -- and shape assumptions about the supposedly "natural" indexicality of linguistic forms. Language ideologies are both embedded in practices and reflexive of them; they are pervaded by the moral and political positions within a social field. To study language ideologies is to explore the nexus of language, culture and politics. We thus examine the repesentations - implicit and explicit - that create language's role in a social and cultural world, and that are themselves acts within it. The metapragmatic/ ideological regimentation of language in use gives rise to forms of shifting "subjectivity" or inhabitable identities. The course therefore takes up the processes by which identities are produced, and critically examines a number of concepts that have been the traditional subject matter of sociolinguistics, such as: "language" "dialect" "register" "speech community" "code" and "standardization." We treat these as normative cultural constructs -- folk concepts as well as scientific ones. How are these implicated in nation-building, state-making, colonialism, and other aspects of "modernity" as a discursive project? The course also explores "boundary practices": multilingualism, translation, register-formation, and codeswitching. These require some understanding of circulation (interdiscursivity) and "locality" as part of global capitalist flows. We end with a look at historical change in linguistic norms, integrating the synchronic and diachronic in real-time interactions and institutions. What is the role of linguists' own ideologies in these processes? Susan Gal. TuTh 10:30-11:50

37301. Phonology I (=Ling 20800/30800). PQ: Ling 201, 202, 203, 206, or equivalent. This is an introduction to general principles of phonology, with emphasis on nongenerative theory. Jason Riggle. MW 1:30-2:50.

37802. Syntax-2 (=Ling 20500/30500). PQ. Part 1. Jason Merchant. TuTh 10:30-11:50.

39205. Landscape History and Place Making. This course is a critical examination of the uses of landscape and place in anthropological archaeology and allied disciplines. Landscapes have been treated as a basis for theoretical projects, as analytical frameworks, and as historical phenomena. Beginning from a consideration of situated histories (depositional, occupational, and embodied), we will discuss approaches to place-making, the formation of social geographies, the production of social memory, historical ecologies, and monumentality and commemoration. In every case, we will pay close attention to the sources of historical knowledge and the methods by which these sources are used to construct knowledge claims about the past. Mark Lycett MW 10:30-11:50.

40144. Sociology of Knowledge (=SOCI 40144). At the heart of the Marx and Nietzsche inspired sociology of knowledge lies the question how social life and the knowledge about it shape each other. From the beginning its main concern was political and economic rather than scientific knowledge. After a brief bloom in Weimar Germany, however, the sociology of knowledge came to be overshadowed first by the sociology of science (in its Mertonian and later its Wittgenstein inspired practice-centric forms), and second the Foucauldian projects of "archaeologies" and "genealogies" of knowledge. With the former's most recent turn to the analysis of markets and the latter's later interest in "governmentality" and "biopolitics" the question now emerges what if anything the post WW II knowledge literature stands to learn from the earlier sociology of knowledge. Readings include texts by John Dewey, Karl Mannheim, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Alfred Schtz, Michel Foucault, James Scott, Luc Boltanski, Laurent Thevenot, Niklas Rose, Bruno Latour and Donald Mackenzie. Andreas Glaeser. Tues 4:30-7:20

42405. On Religious Civil Wars (=HREL 42301). Bruce Lincoln. TuTh 3:00-4:20.

45400. Markets and Money (=SOCI 40146). 'If you are so smart, why aren't you rich?' is a question economists have been asked in the past. Why isn't it easy to make money in financial areas even if one knows what economists know about money, markets and the economy? Perhaps the answer is that real markets and economies are complex social and cultural institutions to which many factors contribute, including social and economic variables and patterns. The course provides an introduction to the social and cultural dimensions of markets, money and economic behaviour. We will address the structural and cultural embeddedness of economic behaviour, the different constructions and interpretations of market aspects, the rituals participants pursue, the many meanings of money, the global microstructures of financial markets. Karin Knorr Cetina Tues 9:00-11:50.

45600. When Cultures Collide: The Moral Challenge in Cultural Migration (=HUDV 45600, HMTR 35600, PSYC 45300). Coming to terms with diversity in an increasingly multicultural world has become one of the most pressing public policy projects for liberal democracies in the early 21st century. One way to come to terms with diversity is to try to understand the scope and limits of toleration for variety at different national sites where immigration from foreign lands has complicated the cultural landscape. This seminar examines a series of legal and moral questions about the proper response to norm conflict between mainstream populations and cultural minority groups (including old and new immigrants), with special reference to court cases that have arisen in the recent history of the United States. Richard Shweder. Wed 9:30-11:50.

46600. Economic Archaeology. This seminar is an exploration of approaches to the study of ancient economic systems. Readings and discussions are structured so as to: 1) give the participants a grounding in the theoretical framework of, and intellectual background to, this domain of inquiry, 2) critically explore major current research issues and methods, and 3) furnish a comparative perspective on the role of economy in society and history. This course is an exploration of how to think about economic issues in ways that may lead to productive research strategies and insights about past societies. The course will begin with a discussion of definitions of "economy" and a comparison of different approaches to the subject both within and outside the discipline of anthropology. The place of economic archaeology in relation to the subfields of economic anthropology and economic history will be evaluated, and the special methodological and theoretical problems of economic archaeology in this context, and its potential contribution, will be emphasized. Michael Dietler. Wed 10:30-1:20

55400. Utopia. Some claim that utopian thought was a casualty of the late twentieth century, and that we now live in a post-utopian age. This seminar calls this claim into question by exploring the various ways in which utopianism (and its dark twin, dystopianism) continue to structure our lives. We will ask what utopianism implies as social critique, as imaginary practice, and as political-cultural ideology. Departing from a series of classic utopian texts, we move into detailed engagements with Marxist utopias, modernist architectural utopias, anti-colonial utopias, totalitarian utopias, consumerist utopias and technological and/or virtual utopias. Joseph Masco, William Mazzarella. Wed 9:30-12:20

55800. Sovereignty and Suffering. This highly exploratory seminar aims to look into how some of the felt paradoxes of sovereignty arise from the sensibilities about pain and suffering constituted within liberal traditions. The elimination of cruelty and suffering is a hallmark of liberal notions of progress and development. However, it might be more apt to see liberal political and legal traditions as a set of ongoing concepts and practices that work not to eliminate cruelty but to prescribe and create an acceptable distribution of pain and suffering in the world. Yet contemporary liberal sensibilities on suffering, cruelty and pain are quite contradictory. Thus, torture is unacceptable - as a deep violation of one's humanity, its practice is a scandal. Forcing an ill person to live out the last days of life in great pain and debilitation is no such violation, no such scandal. Ending that life, however, is - hence the heated debated over euthanasia. And while individual torture is unacceptable, collateral damage in war - often much more massive and severe - is both acceptable and legal. Is your humanity violated if you've been collaterally damaged or killed? But more, economic sanctions and structural adjustment policies, whether in peace or war, are typically legal and acceptable despite the widespread (and equally widely acknowledged) suffering they cause. Self inflicted pain for sport and even sometimes art is often embraced and admired. But self-inflicted pain for religious reasons often disturbs the same set of observers - despite their commitment to religious toleration and their acknowledgment of the importance of spirituality to so many people. Suicide bombing is repugnant. But the prospect of suicidal war and mutually assured destruction is and has long been countenanced in politics and law. Except for those who do not value life in the evidently strange ways that contemporary liberals do. Despite how strange these sensibilities are, little systematic exploration of them has been done. That would be a worthwhile endeavor, not just for its own sake, but also because it helps tell us how liberal legal and political traditions conceptualize the limits of "the human." Especially as it has come to be conceived increasingly in juridical and legal terms, as the growing salience of notions of "human rights" and "crimes against humanity" after WW2 attests. What's interesting about this is that "the human" comes to be increasingly thought of in legal and juridical terms partly as a response and remedy to some of the problems entailed in sovereignty. And so there is a relationship between the problems of sovereignty, the definition and limits of what is human, and sensibilities about suffering, within liberal traditions; a relationship that warrants exploration. To that end, we will read widely, from ethnography, history, philosophy and legal theory. Hussein Agrama. Wed 12:30-3:20

56010. The City in History. This seminar will be in intensive examination of the origins, structure and cultural experience of city life. Lectures, discussion and participant presentations will be framed around an examination of theories of urban genesis, function, and meaning with special reference to the economic, sociological and ideological bases of city development. The seminar is broadly comparative in perspective and will consider the nature of the city in a variety of regional and temporal contexts with an emphasis on social theories of the city that will take us into the spectrum of preindustrial/industrial/post-industrial cities. The seminar will consist of initial orienting lectures, discussion of selected texts concerned with social theories of the city, and presentation of research projects by class participants. Alan Kolata. Wed 3:30-6:20

57710. LingAnthSem: Translation and Textual Circulation: Communicative Aspects of Transnational Processes (=LING 57710). This seminar investigates communicative dimensions of globalization. How are movements of people, objects and texts mediated by semiotic processes and by linguistic practices. Some questions concern form: How are texts and text artifacts transformed in the process of moving across national spaces regimented by different standard languages? How does this movement change the national spaces? Is "movement" the apt characterization of this process, or rather imitation, citation, iteration? The political economy of literary and technical translation in this conventional sense is our starting point in the seminar. But denotational codes (named languages) are only one of the sites at which various transformations occur in the apparent movements of texts and practices. The goal of the seminar is to examine "translation" as also a pragmatic process, worked across systems of indexicality, across differently situated discursive formations. Ethnography itself has often been characterized as a discipline of translation in this sense. How and when are commensurabilities established not only between languages but among different registers and discourses (e.g. medical to legal to commonsense)? What social roles and institutions create and mediate commensurabilities or ruptures in specific ethnographic and political contexts? How can we study the nodes of control and conflict? Of censorship, stoppage and obstruction? More generally, what limits are imposed on cultural forms as the condition of their circulation across various types of institutions? How are cultural forms - texts, practices - made transportable and transposable? When are boundaries between cultural, ethnic, linguistic, social units created, contested or erased through such transposition. Starting with notions of entextualization, recontextualization, language ideology and interdiscursivity as developed in recent linguistic anthropology, the seminar aims to read critically across current ethnographic literature on topics such as: "cultural translation," "cultures of circulation," "publics," "translation studies," "trading zones," and "semiotics of global flows." Susan Gal  Fri 10:00-12:50, Haskell 101