DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY Course Descriptions Spring 2008

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21106.  Classical Readings: World's Fairs. (PQ Limit 15, undergraduates only) This course will survey the growth and decline of World's Fairs as "total cultural facts."  Emphasis will be placed on the socio-economic factors giving rise to World's Fairs, beginning with the Crystal Palace Exposition in London in 1853 to the present.  Students will be encouraged to seek out primary documents to engage in original research.  R. Fogelson, TuTh 3:00-4:20.

21253. Intensive Study of a Culture: US Cities in Transition.  After decades of economic disinvestment, physical decline and social out-migration, the 1990s ushered in an era of redevelopment in major U.S. cities. How can we understand this redevelopment? What do we make of the contested claims on space, belonging and identity made by people living in, or connected to, transitioning urban neighborhoods? How should we evaluate development interventions whose end results seem to diverge from their stated intentions, and often lead to the displacement of long-time residents? This course will develop practical inroads into the transitioning American city that will both complement and complicate our common-place intuitions about the urban redevelopment we witness around us. Readings and primary material stay close to ethnographic perspectives. We will consider how focusing on the meaning and experience of everyday life in changing urban spaces can problematize civic ideals, including various forms of diversity, residential-based social connection and democratic citizenship. Additional readings will offer theoretical and methodological introductions to broader problems of multiculturalism, spatial experience and the public sphere. Taken together, readings, case studies, primary materials, discussions and a site visit will equip students with the tools to approach contemporary urban redevelopment with an anthropological lens.  Catherine Fennell. TuTh 9:00-10:20

21305/45300. Modern Readings in Anthropology: Explorations in Oral Narrative: The Folk Tale (= HUCL 45300).  This course studies the role of storytelling and narrativity in society and culture: comparison of folk tale traditions; the shift from oral to literate traditions and the impact of writing; the principal schools of analysis of narrative structure and function; and the place of narrative in the disciplines law, psychoanalysis, politics, history, philosophy, and anthropology. Story per­formance and contemporary storytelling in America are considered and encouraged. J. Fernandez. 4:30-5:50 TuTh

21420.  Ethnographic Methods.  (PQ. 3rd year anthropology majors only). Anthropology as a discipline is distinguished by its use of ethnography, the intense, intimate study of a small section of human society.  This method brings with it both advantages and challenges.  It allows anthropologists (and, by extension, their readers) to look into human motivations, concerns, hopes, and joys - in short, to see the fine detail of life behind the numbers of government reports, economic trends, opinion polls, and other statistics.  At the same time, there is an intimate relationship between researcher and researched (individuals called informants, collaborators, partners, and often friends) that does not always exist in other fields.  Often referred to as "participant observation," anthropologists usually live or spend most of their time with those they write about, seeing details of private lives that would not necessarily be revealed through formal interviews or surveys.  Because of this, anthropologists often struggle with how to organize this information, how to write it in a way meaningful to an audience unfamiliar with that society, how to maintain the privacy of those whose lives they shared - even what to leave out altogether.  Anthropological methods are constantly changing with the growing knowledge of the investigator of the specifics of the fieldsite they are interacting with.  This course will explore anthropological methods by allowing students to engage in an ethnographic project of their own.  Throughout the quarter students will engage with this site, consider what methods are best for the situation, and reconsider how they would change their methods if this were to be a long-term project.  Students will be expected to share their observations with their classmates, learning from their informants, each other, and the course readings.  The final paper will consist of an analysis of their observations, but also a serious consideration of mistakes made, methodological assumptions that changed, and thoughts on how a larger ethnographic project in the fieldsite would be conducted. Clare Sammells. TuTh 12:00-1:20

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 10:30-11:50.

22910/42900. Performance and Politics in India (=SALC 22900). With the explosion of commercial media in India during the last twenty years, much attention has been given to the relationship between political action and mass media. This seminar considers and pushes beyond such much-debated recent instances as the alleged complicity between the televised 'Ramayana' and the rise of an violently intolerant Hindu nationalism. We will consider the potentials and entailments of various forms of mediation and performance for political action on the subcontinent, from 'classical' textual sources, through 'folk' traditions and 'progressive' dramatic practice, to contemporary skirmishes over 'obscenity' in commercial films.  William Mazzarella. Thurs 9:00-11:50.

ANTH 23040. Conflict and Inequality in Latin America (= LACS 19803).  This class presents an overview of Latin America by focusing on forms of social conflict and inequality found across the region. Because this is a survey course, it is organized around the principle regional units into which Latin America has traditionally been divided. However, we will also make a point of investigating the cross-regional commonalities and sub-regional differences often obscured by this division. Throughout the course, we will explore three primary issues, considering how they unfold in the particular ethnographic context(s) examined each week. The first is what constitutes power and relations of power. The second is the construction and operation of group boundaries, particularly as they relate to conflict among ethnic groups and between them and the state. And the final is the neo-colonial role played by the United States in such phenomena as drug trafficking and international migration. As this course considers Latin America through the lens of cultural anthropology, we will also pay attention to how the issues touched on in class relate to concerns in the study of anthropology more generally.  Hilary Parsons Dick. Th 1:30-4:20pm

24511/34502  The Anthropology of Museums II (=SOSC 34600).  PQ: Open to advanced undergraduates with consent of instructors. This two-quarter seminar will examine various organizational and ideological features of museums from an anthropological perspective.  The readings -- both theoretical and ethnographic -- cover a wide range of subjects, among which are the Columbian Exposition, the Holocaust, interactive exhibitions, and the art market. In addition, the course includes visits to museums around Chicago with guest professionals as guides into the culture of museums. A fieldwork experience will be an integral part of the Spring quarter.  R. Fogelson, M. Fred. Wed 5:30-8:20 pm.

25305.  Anthropology of Food and Cuisine.  Contemporary human foodways are not only highly differentiated in cultural and social terms, but often have long and complicated histories. Anthropologists have long given attention to food - but up until quite recently, they have done so in an unsystematic, haphazard fashion. Food has figured prominently in theories of gift exchange, religious sacrifice, classificatory systems, the analysis of social structure and symbolic systems, but also political economy, cultural ecology, and applied work in famine-modeling, food security, and medical anthropology. More recently, food and eating have become the focus of an anthropology of the body, and have come to figure in attempts to theorize sensuality and the politics of pleasure and suffering. This course will explore several such themes with a view towards both the micro- and macro-politics of food by examining a range of ethnographic and historical case studies and theoretical texts. It takes the format of a seminar augmented by lectures (during the first few weeks), scheduled video screenings, and individual student presentations during the rest of the course.  S. Palmié. MonWed 11:30-12:50.

25420.  Anthropology of Policymaking.  In this course, we will use anthropological and social theories of knowledge, power, ritual, and authority to interrogate the contemporary domains of policymaking.  While anthropology has played a vital role in ascertaining the effects of the spread of capitalism at the local level, it has had comparatively little to say about the institutional structures of the contemporary geopolitical order -- the very sites through which transnational flows of money, ideas, and goods are legitimated and articulated.  This course attempts to broaden the scope of the anthropological inquiry into globalization by shifting the ethnographic emphasis from the daily practices of local actors "on the ground" to the daily practices of policymakers, government bureaucrats, and the staff of international financial agencies such as the IMF and the World Bank who are explicitly and implicitly engaged in the negotiation and mediation of capitalism at the national and international levels.  It does so by asking the following questions:  How is the hegemony of the state and specific transnational policy agendas constituted and contested by the daily practices of policymakers, bureaucrats, and international economic advisers?  How is the relationship between national and international contexts of policy making discursively constructed and coordinated?  We begin by looking at how newly emerging subfields within anthropology conceptualize the state, modes of governance, and global economic flows as ethnographic objects.  In the second half of the course, we consider how we might construct an alternative framework for analyzing policymaking dynamics within the geopolitical order.  Tara Schwegler.  Wed. 1:30-4:20.

25906.  Shamans and Epic Poets of Central Asia (=NEHC 20766/30766, EEUR 20766/30766).  This course explores the rituals, oral literature, and music associated with the nomadic cultures of Central Asia. K. Arik,  WedFri 1:30-2:50. 

ANTH 26615.  Chicago Studies: Archaeological Field Methods in Jackson Park (PQ Enrollment limited to 20.)  Students will serve as the field crew on an archaeological dig in Jackson Park.  A weekly lecture (Wed. 10:30-11:20) will provide context for and description of archaeological methods.  Students will sign up for 6 hours a week of on-site excavation time (Fri 10:00-4:30 or Sat. 10:00-4:30).  This course is set in the context of a research project investigating the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition and the history of Jackson Park through the present day.  Issues of 19th century American consumer habits, tourism, and site transformation will be introduced both through direct field experience and through weekly lecture.  Students will also be introduced to the importance of active engagement with archaeology's interested publics. Rebecca Graff. Wed 10:30-11:20 and Fri or Sat 10:00-4:30.

26715/36715. Rise of the State in the Near East (=NEAA 20030/30030) This course provides an introduction to the background and development of the first urbanized civilizations in the Near East in the period from 9000 to 2200 BC. In the first half of the course we will examine the archaeological evidence for the first domestication of plants and animals and the earliest village communities in the "fertile crescent" - the Levant, Anatolia, and Mesopotamia. The second half of the course will focus on the economic and social transformations which took place during the development from simple, village based communities to the emergence of the urbanized civilizations of the Sumerians and their neighbors in the fourth and third millennia BC.  Gil Stein. TuTh 12:00-1:20

27001-27002-27003//37001-37002-37003.  Introduction to Linguistics I, II, III (=LING 20100-20200-20300//30100-30200-30300, SOSC 21700-21800-21900). PQ: Must be taken in sequence.  This course is an introductory survey of methods, findings, and problems in areas oif major interest within linguistics 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.  Staff. TuTh 1:30-1:50

ANTH 27405. Seminar: Latinos and Language Ideology: Race, Ethnicity and Nationalism in Language-Use. (=LACS 24703).  This course considers language ideologies (the morally and politically charges ideas speakers have about the relative value of languages), examining how they shape the social construction of racial, ethnic, and national identities in the U.S. In particular, this course will examine the role language ideologies play in constructing Latino as a distinct ethno-racial group. In order to contextualize this investigation, this course will compare ideologies about Spanish and Chicano English with those about African American English. Thus, this course problematizes the classical U.S. black-white racial paradigm, while considering how the linguistic production of race and ethnicity inform population politics and nation-state building in the U.S. Hilary Parsons Dick. TuTh 10:30-11:50

28010.  Introduction to Biological Anthropology (=BIOS 13330). Biological anthropology is the study of human biology and evolution in its broadest sense, including a comprehensive understanding of primate evolution (comparative primatology) as well as specific familiarity with the fossil record of human evolution (paleoanthropology). Broad-based knowledge of primate evolution yields general principles that can be applied to interpretation of human evolution without the special pleading arising from a narrow focus on direct evidence of human evolution in isolation. This course provides a general evolutionary framework for the 360 living and 470 fossil primate species as a background to considering modern humans and their direct fossil relatives. Applications of chromosomal studies (karyology) and biomolecular comparisons (molecular phylogenetics) are also covered to establish the evolutionary framework. Other basic topics covered include: principles of classification, principles of phylogenetic reconstruction, scaling effects of body size, primates in the context of mammal evolution, diets and dentitions, locomotor morphology and behavior, morphology and function of sense organs, evolutionary aspects of the brain, reproductive biology, and social organization. Each lecture concludes with implications for human evolution.  Robert Martin.  Thurs 10:30-11:50

ANTH 28210/48210. Colonial Ecologies.  (=ENST 22100) This seminar explores the historical ecology of European colonial expansion in a comparative framework, concentrating on the production of periphery and the transformation of incorporated societies and environments. In the first half of the quarter we will consider the theoretical frameworks, sources of evidence,  and analytical strategies employed by researchers to address the conjunction of environmental and human history in colonial contexts. During the second half of the course we will explore the uses of these varied approaches and lines of evidence in relation to specific cases and trajectories of transformation since the sixteenth century. M. Lycett. TuTh 10:30-11:50

ANTH 28215.  Urban Ecology: Environmental History of the Modern City. (=ENST 22501). We typically think of the city as something detached from nature, an artificial space of impersonal concrete walls and human competitive avarice that is situated on one side of a strictly defined urban-rural divide. In this seminar, we will discuss the historical and political processes that have led to the production and naturalization of such perceived urban-rural divisions, and how these divisions are ideological constructions that have influenced the spatial and social organization of our world. Specifically, we will challenge the urban-rural model by employing a theoretical perspective that is grounded in recent theories of urban ecosystems. We will consider how the production of cities entails the transformation of immediate and distant, local and regional spaces that extend far beyond a city's formal limits. We will explore how urban and rural distinctions influence and inform political decision-making, thereby contributing to the uneven distribution of power and resources, even though the production of cities is intimately related to the production of broader socioeconomic and political landscapes. Furthermore, we will discuss how urbanization strategies oftentimes produce and perpetuate the spatial and ecological parameters of radical social inequality, both within and between cities. More particularly, we will use examples from contemporary American cities (particularly Chicago, New Orleans and Los Angeles) to discuss how the interrelationship between humans and the environment in the modern world is largely shaped by a political economy that draws sharp conceptual and physical distinctions between city and countryside, and the people that inhabit these spaces. Although the urban ecosystems theoretical perspective is relatively young, this course's overview will allow for a sufficient introduction to this intriguing analytical framework.  Moreover, by focusing on the development and transformation of the Chicago area landscape, the readings will allow you to envision the dynamic environmental history of your immediate surroundings, encourage critical thinking about and involvement in Chicago-based urban ecology initiatives, as well as perceive and experience aspects of the Chicago area landscape in a new light. Overall, we will discuss how divided urban-rural landscapes are produced relative to particular historical and political concepts of the environment. We will augment this discussion by referring to the actual empirical effects of these concepts in terms of economic inequalities, epidemiological trends, the spatiality of pollution, and uneven resource allocation.  Steven Kosiba. TuTh 3:00-4:20.

28300/38200. Comparative Primate Morphology (=EVOL 38200, HIPS 23500). This course carries 200 units of credit. Functional morphology of locomotor, alimentary, and reproductive systems in pri­mates is studied. Dissections are performed on monkeys and apes. R. Tuttle. MWF 1:30-4:20

34814.  Anthropology and Literature: World Poetry (=SCTH 32720). This course will explore fundamentals of poetry and poetics on a world basis: the music of language, theory of tropes, poetry and myth, linguistic-poetic relativism, the unique individual, sociopolitical context, the moral intention of the poet, metaphysical questions, and so forth.  The four poetic worlds to be central this year are: T'ang Chinese (e.g., Tu Fu), Russian (i.e., Pushkin), native American (e.g. Quechua, Eskimo), and three American poets (Dickenson, Frost, Hughes).  Brief introductions to other poetic worlds (e.g., Villon, Baudelaire, haiku).  Texts to be used in part:  J. Rothenburg's Technicians of the Sacred, E. Weinberger's Anthropology of Classic Chinese Poetry. P. Friedrich. Thurs 9:00-11:50.

ANTH 35915.  Death and Mourning: The Politics of Self-Sacrifice in the Middle East (=PLSC 36800). This graduate seminar explores suicide bombing, discourses of martyrdom, contestation over gravesites, practices of commemoration, and the imagery of self-sacrifice in the Middle East. Drawing on debates in political science, anthropology, and history, we shall investigate the relevance of military occupation to suicide bombing, the relationships among dying, killing, and state sovereignty, the vexed connections between obligation and consent, changing norms about violence as a mode of political struggle, and the various forms of political solidarity that notions of sacrifice exemplify. This course is theoretically oriented and historically and ethnographically grounded. In contrast to approaches that posit the politics of self-sacrifice as a "problem" in need of a solution or as a peculiarly Middle Eastern phenomenon, this course seeks to de-pathologize such practices by comparing and contrasting them to practices of violence and commemoration in other times and places. Among the authors we will read are Hannah Arendt, Talal Asad, Lara Deeb, Frantz Fanon, Engseng Ho, Thomas Laqueur, Claudio Lomnitz, Robert Pape, Roxanne Varzi, and Slavoj Zizek.  Lisa Wedeen. Wed 10:30-1:20

362. Ceramic Analysis for Archaeologists.  This course introduces students to the theoretical foundations and analytical techniques that allow archaeologists to use ceramics to make inferences about ancient societies.  Ethnographic, experimental, and physical science approaches are explored to develop a realistic, integrated understanding of the nature of ceramics as a form of material culture and to assess both the kinds of interpretations of ancient people that can plausibly be made on the basis of their pottery and which techniques and research strategies may best serve to obtain useful information.  Practical training in the use of the Ceramic Laboratories is included. Donna Nash.  Fri 11:00-1:50.  Course meets at the Field Museum.

37302. Phonology II (=LING 20900/30900). PQ: Anthro 373. The principles of generative phonology are introduced and studied in detail, emphasizing the role of formalism and abstractness in phonological analysis. The emphasis is on Sound Pattern of English theory, with brief discussion of more recent autosegmental and metrical models. Jason Riggle. TuTh 1:30-2:50

37500. Morphology (=LING 21000/31000). PQ: Anthro 373. This course deals with linguistic structure and patterning beyond the phono­logical level, primarily from a structuralist point of view. It concentrates on analysis of grammatical and formal oppositions and their structural relation­ships and interrelationships. Amy Dahlstrom. TuTh 1:30-2:50.

39001-02. Archaeological Theory/Method.  PQ: Required for first-and second-year graduate students in archaeology; open to undergraduates only with consent of instructor; this course carries 200 units of credit.  This course examines the logics of archaeological interpretation and the principles of archaeological representation.  Through an immersion in various genres of archaeological thought and writing, we will chart the historical development of the project of archaeology as it has been transformed from the the discipline's inception to today.  The course is organized into two parts.  The first, subtitled Archaeology, provides an intensive overview of the dominant position and problems of modern archaeological method and theory.  In this section of the course, we will explore the major historical movements in archaeological thought since the formalization of the discipline in the 19th century through the contemporary constellation of thematic concerns.  It is in these discussions that we will strive to bring forward the rich and subtle logics that underlie archaeological interpretation.  The second section of the course, subtitled Archaeography, centers on an exploration of archaeological representation and overlapping issues raised in the sister field of historiography.  In this section of the course we will discuss general issues in the philosophy of history as they bear upon the production of landmark archaeological monographys.  By the end of the course, students should have a thorough understanding of the theorietical frameworks that underlie contemporary archaeological research and the unique problems that follow efforts to represent the archaeological record.  Adam. Smith.  TuTh 1:30-4:20.

ANTH 40145.  Imagining the Social: Ontological Presuppositions of Social Science (=SOCI 40149). This is an experimental course which concerns itself with the following sets of problematiques. Social theorists have developed a range of modes in which they have imagined the social. In other words they have developed rather different understandings about the most fundamental parts as components of larger social wholes, their dynamic relations with each other and the interaction effects between wholes and parts (e.g.various sorts of individualisms, holisms etc). One could also say that they have built their theories on rather different kinds of social ontologies. One goal of this course is to develop a certain feel for such ontological differences and their consequencequences for research.  However, with the attack against overly scientistic understandings of societies at the end of the 19th century (for example by Wilhelm Dilthey) and the fundamental critique of the (especially Hegelian and perforce right wing (progress evolutionism) and left wing (progress revolutionism) philosophy of history (for example by Jacob Burckhardt) it became clearer that changes in social imaginations of the people at a particular time enabled and/or disabled processes of institution formation. The second goal of this course is therefore a thematization of the import of social imaginaries and the dynamics of their transformation.   If imaginaries matter, however, those developed by social theorists can no longer just be understood either as mere reflections of a particular social order (as vulgar Marxism does), nor as a timeless scientific accounts of social processes (as positivism holds), but they have to be seen as models for social life as much as models of social life (to use Geertz' felicitous rendering of Weber). Especially with the short 20th century behind us, it has become clear how various social imaginaries spawned by social theorizing and/or social science have helped to shape the institutional fabric of our time. This is not only true for the failed projects of state socialism and fascism but of course also for neo-liberal market capitalism. This is to say nothing less than that the social sciences are deeply implicated both in the glories and the miseries of what we have become. The third goal of this course is therefore to develop a sensitivity for the relationship between theoretical and popular social imaginaries (social theory as Zeitgeist, avant-garde etc) and the dialectic between social imaginaries and institutional arrangements. This dialectic raises questions about the goal, and the ethics of social scientific writing. On the other it raises a whole slew of old issues of individualism vs. holism, system vs. history, structure vs. agency, micro vs. macro, understanding vs. explaining anew.  Andreas Glaeser. Tues 4:30-7:20.

 41200.  Anthropology of History (=HIST 44901).  Anthropologists have long been concerned with the temporal dimension of human culture and sociality, but, until fairly recently (and with significant exceptions), have rarely gone beyond processual modeling. This has dramatically changed. Anthropologists have played a prominent role in the so-called "historic turn in the social sciences", acknowledging and theorizing the historical subjectivities and historical agency of the ethnographic "other", but also problematizing the historicity of the ethnographic endeavor itself. The last decades have not only seen a proliferation of empirically rich and theoretically sophisticated historical ethnographies, but also a decisive move towards ethnographies of the historical imagination. Taking its point of departure from a concise introduction to the genealogy of the trope of "historicity" in anthropological discourse, this course aims to explore the possibilities of an anthropology of historical consciousness, discourse and praxis - i.e. the ways in which human groups select, represent, give meaning to, and strategically manipulate constructions of the past. In this, our discussion will not just focus on non-western forms of historical knowledge, but include the analysis of western disciplined historiography as a culturally and historically specific form of promulgating conceptions of the past and its relation to the present. S. Palmié. Tues 12:00-2:50.

ANTH 42915. Producing Authoritative Knowledge. This graduate seminar encourages a cross-fertilization between ethnographic approaches to the study of media production and to science studies.  Both fields deal with issues of technology, epistemology, and authority, although in different ways.  Yet, rarely are these fields brought into conversation with each other.  What can be gained by emphasizing the mediated nature of scientific knowledge like brain scans or archeological artifacts?  What can be gained by examining certain kinds of media, like journalism or documentary, as forms of knowledge?  What methods might be shared between the two fields?  Topics include:  embodied knowledge production, affect and knowledge production, the authority of the visual, and expertise and global identities.  Amahl Bishara. Thurs 12:00-2:50

43700.   Weber, Veblen and Genealogies of Global Capitalism.  Two intellectual traditions have dominated discussion of the history of capitalism:  classical to neo-classical economics, and Marxism.  This course searches for other possibilities.  It focuses on critical comparative reading of Thorstein Veblen's theory of the late modern "new order" and Max Weber's comparative sociology, but will also read widely among other authors, including Simmel, Sombart, Mahan, Tolstoy and Gandhi.  Questions to engage will include: relations between capital, the state, and military force (between means of production and means of coercion); commerce in Asia before European colonialism and the rise of colonial plantations and monopoly trading companies; types of capital, the rise and spread of joint-stock companies, stock markets, and capitalist corporations; the "new order," decolonization and the nation-state.  J. Kelly. Tues 6:00-8:50.

44700.  Specters of Marx: Matter, Mind, Method.  (PQ. Limit 20).  In this seminar, we will interrogate a certain number of Marxist perspectives, and examine how/whether they can help to shed light on the relationship between ideas, material expressions, and social analysis in a post-Marxist world. While many post-mortems have been sung for Marxism, and many allegations of bankruptcy declared, there is often limited or distant engagement with the core texts from which this critique departs. Moreover, recent critical homage, such as Jacques Derridas /Specters of Marx/, seems to suggest that the force of Marx's spirit lives on not as timeless doctrine, to be sure, but as recombinant traces, orientations, and possibilities embedded in the work of writers influenced by his thought.
       Without losing sight of the historical logics of capitalism and the state, we will focus on key texts in the Marxist intellectual tradition as they relate to issues of mind, matter, and method. Starting with Marx himself, the seminar will unfold in roughly chronological and thematic progression to track how his seminal ideas have been amplified, transformed, or undermined by later generations of social theorists (Lukács, Gramsci, Adorno, Benjamin, Althusser, Debord, Lefèbvre, Ollman, Sayer, Derrida, Jameson, Eagleton, Zizek). In the process, we will critically reflect on Marxist engagements with ideas of culture, space, time, history, ideology, hegemony, modernity, and politics, to name but a few.
       Each of these topics could easily be the focus of a whole course. In this light, the seminar hopes to offer an introduction to ideas and concepts, while striving for depth of analysis. This being said, a modicum of familiarity with the broad horizon of Marxist thinking (e.g. labor, relations of production, commodity, fetishism, value, consciousness, alienation, etc.) will be useful and is strongly recommended.  François Richard. Tues 1:30-4:20.

50500.  Commodity Aesthetics: Critical Encounters.  Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno's classic writings on the relationship between cultural production, capitalism and aesthetic experience, value and embodiment are back on the anthropological agenda. Why should this be the case? What relevance does the cultural critique of the Frankfurt School hold for contemporary ethnographic projects? Although this seminar in a sense hinges on the work of Benjamin and Adorno, it is above all an attempt to locate the questions they asked in relation to a longer philosophical genealogy: broadly, German critical responses to capitalist modernity and its particular claims on the senses. Readings will include excerpts from key texts by Kant, Hegel, Marx, Lukacs, Weber, Simmel, Balasz, Kracauer, Adorno, and Benjamin. William Mazzarella.  Tues 9:00-11:50

ANTH 51035  Culture and Agency (=SSAD 50812) This seminar explores the relationship between agency and culture-that is, between the capacity to act and the dynamic systems that frame the meaning and direction of that action. Readings and discussions are geared toward understanding key scholarly formulations of agency-from the familiar notion that agency is a property of individual actors to the idea that agency exists as a kind of opportunity in time and space.  While the course focuses on reading primary texts in cultural and social theory, we will also examine a number of empirical studies which demonstrate how different groups of people, across an array of cultural and historical settings, have thought about how and under what circumstances it is possible to act.  Throughout the course, we will think critically about the ethical and political consequences of such popular and scholarly notions.  For example, we will inquire into how certain formulations of agency intersect with neoliberal projects (e.g. globalization, multiculturalism) and discourses (e.g. "learned helplessness," "dependency") that are familiar to contemporary, American social work.  Students concerned with issues of political mobilization may also have special interest in this course, as we grapple with how human agency both reproduces and transforms cultural systems.  E. Summerson Carr. Thurs 1:30-4:20

52200.   Proposal Preparation.  (PQ: Open only to anthropology graduate students preparing for field work) This is a required course for (primarily third-year) graduate students who are preparing field work grant applications and dissertation proposal during the current academic year.  The course is taken pass/fail and provides each student the opportunity to present a pre-circulated draft research proposal for discussion and critique.  The course focuses on preparation and discussion of students' draft proposals.  Michael Silverstein. ARR.

52210.  Archaeological Research Design. This a practicum course for archaeology graduate students (typically in their third or fourth year) to prepare the dissertation research proposal and dissertation grant applications.  The focus of the course will be the intellectual as well as the pragmatic issues involved in developing a strong archaeological research design.  Issues related to professional development will also be incorporated.  Steady work on proposal writing is expected.  Most of the required work will consist of weekly writing and critique exercises.  Alan Kolata.  ARR.

53315.  Rethinking Travel and Migration (=CRPC 52215). Migration and travel are unusual themes in the social sciences, humanities, and even policy studies areas.  These themes, for a variety of reasons, have been taken up by each of the disciplines in these fields; but rarely do writers from these disciplines engage each other.  Consequently, we have amassed an enormous literature on travel-related topics that has no center/core and few points of connection.  This seminar is about identifying some points of connection from the discipline of anthropology.  We will identify problem spots that have emerged through various approaches to the study of travel (and political/economic migrations in particular) and then address how a selection of ethnographies have worked to bind concepts of travel to broader socio-cultural themes.  Kesha Fikes. Mon 8:30-11:20.

54100.  Professionalization Seminar. (PQ: Anthropology post-field graduate students only)  Course covers a number of topics of interest to post-field students who either are or are soon to be on the job market:  construction of job letters & CV's, "AAA" & on-campus job interviews/talks, negotiating with prospective employers, publication (journal articles, first book), first job and advancement to tenure,  etc. M. Silverstein.  ARR

55020.   Anthropological Readings on Contemporary Islam.  Hussein Agrama.  Wed 1:30-4:20.

DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY Course Descriptions Winter 2008

[For Course Descriptions for prior quarters, see the links at the bottom of the page.]

20701-20702.  Introduction to African Civilization I, II (=AFAM 20701-20702, HIST 10101-10102, SOSC 22500-22600).  PQ:General education social science sequence recommended.  This sequence meets the general education requirment in civilization studies.   African Civilization introdues students to African history in a two-quarter sequence. Part One shows how literary, oral, and archaeological courses can be used to investigate African societies and states from the early iron age through the emergence of the Atlantic World: case studies include the empires of Ghana and Mali, and Great Zimbabwe.  The course also treats the diffusion of Islam, the origins and effects of European contact, and the trans-Atlantic slave trade.  Part Two of the sequence surveys 1800 through the 1990s and examines processes of colonization, transformations in Africa in the period of colonial rule, decolonization, and society and cutlure in contemporary Africa.  Sources include historical documents, novels, and film and music.  Themes of study include government and society under colonial rule; gender, sexuality, and family; nationalism and independence; urbanization; youth and popular culture; and civil society and conflict in contemporary Africa.  Regional cases to be studied include Mali, Zimbabwe, Ghana, Tanzania, Sengal, Rwanda, and South Africa.  Aut. Emily Osborn, Win. Rachel Jean-Baptiste. MonWed 1:20-2:50.

21102/38400. Classical Readings in Anthropology: History and Theory of Human Evolution (=EVOL 38400, HIPS 23600). A seminar on racial, sexual and class bias in the classic theoretic writings, autobiographies, and biographies of Darwin, Huxley, Haeckel, Keith, Osborn, Jones, Gregory, Morton, Broom, Black, Dart, Weidenreich, Robinson, Leakey, LeGros-Clark, Schultz, Straus, Hooton, Washburn, Coon, Dobzhansky, Simpson, and Gould. R. Tuttle. MonWed 1:30-2:50

21249. Intensive Study of a Culture: The Inkas. The first part of the course analyzes current empirical evidence and theoretical perspectives of how the Inkas produced and imagined their state throughout both the Inka Imperial and Spanish Colonial periods. The second part of the course considers how Colonial and modern narratives have also produced and reproduced politicized images of the Inkas. Lectures and discussion provide an intensive introduction to the Inkas, while allowing for the assessment of broader anthropological theories regarding the state, the politicization of the past, and the social production of history. S. Kosiba. TuTh, 3:00-4:20

21303. Making the Natural World: Foundations of Human Ecology. (ENST 21301). Required of all ENST majors. In this course we consider the conceptual underpinnings of contemporary Western notions of ecology, environment, and balance, and also examine several specific historical trajectories of anthropogenic landscape change. We approach these issues from the vantage of several different disciplinary traditions including environmental history, philosophy, ecological anthropology, and paleoecology. M. Lycett. MonWed 1:30-2:50

21419. The Practice of Anthropology: The Anthropology of Islam. This course provides a historically grounded, ethnographic introduction to Islam. In addition to introducing students to the contextual diversity of Muslim communities, reading across the ethnographic archive will allow us to theoretically probe the limits and possibilities of anthropological analysis. The first half of the course will examine various efforts at defining an anthropology of Islam. As a discipline that has historically focused on local manifestations of transregional phenomena, anthropology is particularly well suited to contribute to an understanding of Islam. Yet in studying local contexts, anthropologists of Islam also confront seemingly unchanging doctrinal matters that command the studied interest of local informants. The tension between contextual specificity and the textual authority of scripture raises questions about the categories of anthropological study: what is the relationship between doctrine and ritual practice, scripture and piety, tradition and history? In the second half of the course, we turn to ethnographic case studies in South Asia, Turkey, and France, which will allow us to explore these conceptual questions with greater contextual detail. Kabir Tambar. TuTh 9:00-10:20.

22603/33103. Native North American Ethnography. (=CHDV 33103). R. Rogelson. TuTh 3:00-4:20.

23101-23102-23103. Introduction to Latin American Civilization I, II, III. (=HIST 16101-16102-16103, LTAM 16100-16200-16300, LCAS 34600-34700-34800, SOSC 26100-26200-26300) PQ: May be taken in sequence or individually. This sequence meets the general education requirement in civilization studies. This course introduces the history and cultures of Latin America (e.g., Mexico, Central America, South America, Caribbean Islands). Autumn Quarter examines the origins of civilizations in Latin America with a focus on the political, social, and cultural features of the major pre-Columbian civilizations of the Maya, Inca, and Aztec. The quarter concludes with consideration of the Spanish and Portuguese conquest and the construction of colonial societies in Latin America. Winter Quarter addresses the evolution of colonial societies, the wars of independence, and the emergence of Latin American nation-states in the changing international context of the nineteenth century. Spring Quarter focuses on the twentieth century, with special emphasis on the challenges of economic, political, and social development in the region. Winter: Mauricio Tenorio. MWF 1:30-2:20.

23320/33320. Immigrant Experiences (=LACS 29102/39102). This course will examine the causes and consequences of international immigration through a comparison of immigration to the U.S., especially from Mexico, and to Europe, especially from its former colonies. What factors induce and perpetuate immigration? How does immigration affect sending and receiving societies? In answering these questions, the course will consider some of the major economic and political factors that shape immigration patterns, placing contemporary immigrations in their historical contexts. The main goal of the class, however, is to investigate how socio-cultural beliefs and practices inform who immigrates, how they immigrate, and why they immigrate. Through this investigation we will consider a range of immigrant experiences, including labor migration, sex slavery, and undocumented border-crossing. We will also consider the intellectual history of immigration scholarship, comparing different theories of the causes and consequences of immigration. Hilary Parsons Dick. Wed 1:30-4:20.

24001-24002-24003. Colonizations I, II, III (=SOSC 24002-24002-24003, CRPC 24001-24002-24003; HIST 18301-18302-18303) Must be taken in sequence. This sequence meets the general education requirement in civilization studies. This three-quarter sequence approaches the concept of civilization from an emphasis on cross-cultural/societal connection and exchange. We explore the dynamics of conquest, slavery, colonialism, and their reciprocal relationships with concepts such as resistance, freedom, and independence, with an eye toward understanding their interlocking role in the making of the modern world. Themes of slavery, colonization, and the making of the Atlantic world are covered in the first quarter. Modern European and Japanese colonialism in Asia and the Pacific is the theme of the second quarter. The third quarter considers the processes and consequences of decolonization both in the newly independent nations and the former colonial powers.

24101-24102. Introduction to the Civilization of South Asia, I, II (= SALC 20100-20200, HIST 10800-10900, SASC 2000-20100, SOSC 23000-23100). Must be taken in sequence. This course meets the general education requirement in civilization studies. This sequence introduces core themes in the formation of culture and society in South Asia before colonialism. The Winter Quarter focuses on Islam in South Asia, Hindu-Muslim interaction, Mughal political and literary traditions, and South Asia's early encounters with Europe. The Spring Quarter analyzes the colonial period (i.e., reform movements, the rise of nationalism, communalism, caste, and other identity movements) up to the independence and partition of India. M. Alam. MW 1:30-2:50.

24510-11/ 34501-02. The Anthropology of Museums I, II (=SOSC 34500-01, MAPS 34500-01, CHDV 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.

25416/35416. Economies of Sex and Gender (=GNDR 25402). This course offers an anthropological examination of sex, gender, and economic life at their intersection. We read ethnography and social theory to explore the economic dimensions of gender and sex as they are experienced and organized. Simultaneously, we question how key aspects of "economy" (e.g., money and production) are themselves sexed and gendered in theory and practice. Topics include kinship, sex and exchange; work; gendered currencies; and colonialism and development. J. Cattelino. TuTh 1:30-2:50.

26710-26711/36710-36711. Ancient Landscapes I, II (=NEAA 20061-20062/30061-30062; GEOG 25700-25800/35700/35800). The landscape of the Near East contains a detailed and subtle record of environmental, social and economic processes that have obtained over thousands of years. Landscape analysis is therefore proving to be fundamental to an understanding of the processes that underpinned the development of ancient Near Eastern society. This class provides and overview of the ancient cultural landscapes of this heartland of early civilization from the early stages of complex societies in the fifth and sixth millennia B.C to the close of the Early Islamic period around the tenth century A.D. S. Branting. TuTh 10:30-11:50.

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.

26820/46820. Social Life of Things (And Beyond): Objects, People, Value. Twenty years ago, Arjun Appadurai published a seminal collection on The Social Life of Things, marking a watershed in anthropological understandings of consumption, circulation, and production, and the role of objects in mediating between cultural sensibilities and economic flows. This work has stimulated a wealth of interest in materiality, and over the years, research has sought to expand the insights of Appadurai's collection to shed greater light on the relationship between mind, matter, and subjectivity. Drawing on these recent developments, this course aims to explore the material dimensions of cultural life and cultural production. As we engage with contemporary and classic writings in cultural anthropology, archaeology, philosophy, and social theory, we will grapple with several key issues: the boundaries between objects and subjects; the agency of persons and things; the relationship between objects and meaning, between experience and imagination; and the production of sociality in the actions/transactions linking people to their material world. The question of value is crucially implicated in these processes, and will require particular attention. And because material transactions are embedded in overlapping fields of power and politics, we will remain attentive to the ways in which objects make/mark/transgress difference, inequalities, and social boundaries. While we will discuss theories of materiality per se, our focus will rest mostly in theorizing how things work in and through concrete social and historical contexts. In this light, ethnographic studies will provide precious resources in helping us outline the logics, terrains, and lineaments of material and cultural production. Indeed, a central goal of this course is to examine how we can mobilize ethnographic insights on object worlds to reframe or expand archaeological inquiries and possibilities, and how, in turn, archaeological imaginations may help to enhance anthropological understandings of materiality. This course complements the seminar on 'Material Cultures' taught by Adam Smith in Autumn 2007. Prior familiarity with archaeological literature is advisable but not required. F. Richard. Wed. 2:30-5:20

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. John Goldsmith. 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. V. Friedman. TuTh 10:30-11:50

27916/37916. Talk Radio and Discourses of the American Right (=LING 27320). Talk radio -- traditionally associated with a conservative political message -- has received much attention as a "new medium" that plays a major role in American politics and the tenor of public discourse. Rather than a critique of conservative political philosophy, this seminar course is designed to enable students to bridge fine-grained analyses of radio broadcasts with the macro-level concerns of political groups. A major focus of the class will be on "hands-on" analysis of talk radio data and examination of communicative practices found there. Students will be responsible for collecting and transcribing the talk radio broadcasts that will make up the material for class analysis and discussion. The rigorous focus on data collection and analysis will provide students with a basic training in discourse analytic methods, while the nature of the material allows examination of political discourse as an ethnographic object. Larger questions to be considered include whether or not there is a unified rhetorical style associated with the American Right; the nature of the relationship between a message, its form and persuasion; and how moral stances are taken in political contexts. R. Shoaps. TuTh 9:00-10:20; Lab sections Tues 1:30-2:20 or 3:00-3:50.

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.

28410/38810. Zooarchaeology. (=NEAA 20035/30035) PQ: Any introductory course in archaeology. This course provides undergraduates and graduate students with an introduction to the use of animal bones in archaeological research. Students will gain hands-on experience analyzing faunal remains from an archaeological site in the Near East. The class will also address some of the major theoretical and methodological issues involved in the use of animal bones as a source of information about prehistoric societies. The course will consist of lectures, laboratory sessions, and original research projects using collections of animal bone from the archaeological excavations at Hacnebi, Turkey. Topics to be covered include: 1) identifying, ageing and sexing animal bones; 2) zooarchaeological sampling, measurement, quantification, and problems of taphonomy; 3) computer analysis of animal bone data; 4) reconstructing prehistoric hunting and pastoral economies, especially: animal domestication, hunting strategies, herding systems, seasonality, and pastoral production in complex societies. G.Stein. ARR.

29910. BA Essay Seminar. (Limited to students writing BA papers in Anthropology). Gregory Beckett. 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 "modern" and "postmodern" 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

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. MonWed 1:30-2:50.

37802. Syntax-2 (=Ling 20500/30500). PQ. Part 1. Jason Merchant. TuTh 12:00-1:20.

42000. Anthropological Methods. (PQ: Required of 2nd year social/cultural/linguistic anthropology graduate students. Others only with consent of the instructor.) This course provides a critical introduction to the methods of anthropology, paying special attention to topic formation, deployment of theoretical resources, techniques of engagement in "fields," and the politics and ethics of fieldwork and ethnographic knowledge production. Our approach will combine readings in critical anthropology relevant to methodological practice with workshop-style demonstrations of particular techniques for gathering and analyzing field material. The limits and powers of ethnography (broadly construed) will be explored through exploratory engagement with students' ongoing projects and a few examples of anthropological writing. This course is intended to help students develop the tools needed to develop their own research objects and strategies while reflecting critically on anthropology as a practice. J. Cattelino. Fri 1:30-3:20

42410. Liminal Beings: Vampires and Others (=HREL 48400). Bruce Lincoln. TuTh 10:30-11:50.

47300. Historical Linguistics (=LING 21300/31300). Staff. TuTh 10:30-11:50.

54305. Empires in Asia (=HIST 52401). This course seeks to consider the Ottoman, Russian, Qing, Persian and British empires in comparative perspective. The focus will be on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and will consider geo-political and geo-strategic influences on patterns of empire-building, administrative structures, and socio-cultural policies of each of the empires. Special attention will be given to Central Asia as a meeting point of the five empires, and with the role the khanates of Central Asia played in the expansion or contraction of each of the empires. Attention will also be given to the kinds of questions historians ask when dealing with one or another of the empires; and to the forms of historical narratives constructed as a result of these questions. J. Hevia. Tues 3:30-6:20.

DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY Course Descriptions Autumn 2007

[For Course Descriptions for prior quarters, see the links at the bottom of the page.]

20405/30405. Anthropology of Dis/ability (=MAPS 36900, SOSC 36900, HUDV 30405) This seminar undertakes to explore "dis/ability" from an anthropological perspective that recognizes it as a socially constructed concept with implications for our understanding of fundamental issues about culture, society, and individual differences. The course will explore a wide range of theoretical, legal, ethical and policy issues as they relate to the experiences of persons with disabilities, their families, and advocates. At the conclusion of the course, participants will make presentation on fieldwork projects conducted during the quarter. M. Fred. Thurs 3:00-5:50

20701-20702. Introduction to African Civilization I, II. (=AFAM 20701-20702, HIST 10101-10102, HUDV 21401 [II], SOSC 22500-22600]) General education social science sequence recommended. This sequence meets the general education requirement in civilization studies. African Civilization introduces students to African history in a two-quarter sequence. Part One shows how literary, oral, and archeological sources can be used to investigate African societies and states from the early iron age through the emergence of the Atlantic World: cases studies include the empires of Ghana and Mali, and Great Zimbabwe. The course also treats the diffusion of Islam, the origins and effects of European contact, and the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Part Two of the sequence surveys 1800 through the 1990s and examines processes of colonization, transformations in Africa in the period of colonial rule, decolonization, and society and culture in contemporary Africa. Sources include historical documents, novels, and film and music. Themes of study include government and society under colonial rule; gender, sexuality, and family; nationalism and independence; urbanization; youth and popular culture; and civil society and conflict in contemporary Africa. Regional cases to be studied include Mali, Zimbabwe, Ghana, Tanzania, Senegal, Rwanda and South Africa. Aut. Emily Osborn, Win. Rachel Jean-Baptiste. MW 1:30-2:50

21418. Practice of Anthropology: Anthropological Perspectives on Governance and the State. The government, the state and the law are often taken to be relatively straightforward empirical entities. Yet social theorists and researchers have long disagreed about what the state is, how political power operates in people's lives, and how this all should best be studies. With the rise of transnational forms of governance and the "War on Terror" these questions have taken on a new salience and many conventional theories of governance have come up for new scrutiny. Engaging both classic and more recent ethnographic and theoretical writing, this course offers an introduction to the anthropology of modern and contemporary states and forms of governance. What relationships exist or can exist between the state, civil society, and citizens in different parts of the world? How is political power tied to violence, to resistance, to ethnic and other divisions, to culture, to economic forms, and to the consciousness of rulers and ruled? How are contemporary forms of governance different from earlier forms and how might governance transform in the future? How can we study ethnographically and speak meaningfully and comparatively about governance across enormous cultural and political divides? While not providing a definitive answer to any of the above questions, through a thorough introduction to the anthropological literature on contemporary forms of governance and the state, this course will enable students to consider them from a critical and informed perspective. Sean Mitchell. TuTh 12:00-1:20

21421. Practice of Anthropology: Anthropology of Media. Anthropologists have been relative latecomers to the study of mass media in society. Yet research of the last twenty years has demonstrated that anthropology has much to contribute to academic understandings of media practices. What happens when peoples who were typically the object of the camera lens begin to produce their own media representations? Which understandings of "culture" are in play during the production of media? How do media circulate and what sorts of meanings do they generate? This course draws from ethnographic accounts of the production and consumption of media to address classic anthropological issues of representation, cultural production, social change, and circulation. We will begin with an introduction to the language and theoretical approaches of how we might envision an anthropology of media and the ways that media production both reflects and produces culture. We will then turn our attention to ethnographies of media practices in television, advertising, radio, and film to explore the use of media in producing spaces, national identity, and idealized audiences and consumers. Jayson Beaster-Jones TuTh 1:30-2:50

21510/35110 Cultural Psychology (=HUDV 21000/31000, PSYC 2300/33000, HDCP 41050) There is a substantial portion of the psychological nature of human beings that is neither homogeneous nor fixed across time and space. At the heart of the discipline of cultural psychology is the tenet of psychological pluralism, which states that the study of "normal" psychology is the study of multiple psychologies and not just the study of a single or uniform fundamental psychology for all peoples of the world. Research findings in cultural psychology thus raise provocative questions about the integrity and value of alternative forms of subjectivity across cultural groups. In this course we analyze the concept of "culture" and examine ethnic and cross-cultural variations in mental functioning with special attention to the cultural psychology of emotions, self, moral judgment, categorization and reasoning. R. Shweder. TuTh 3:00-4:20

23101-23102-23103. Introduction to Latin American Civilization I, II, III. (=HIST 16101-16102-16103, LTAM 16100-16200-16300, LCAS 34600-34700-34800, SOSC 26100-26200-26300) PQ: May be taken in sequence or individually. This sequence meets the general education requirement in civilization studies. This course introduces the history and cultures of Latin America (e.g., Mexico, Central America, South America, Caribbean Islands). Autumn Quarter examines the origins of civilizations in Latin America with a focus on the political, social, and cultural features of the major pre-Columbian civilizations of the Maya, Inca, and Aztec. The quarter concludes with consideration of the Spanish and Portuguese conquest and the construction of colonial societies in Latin America. Winter Quarter addresses the evolution of colonial societies, the wars of independence, and the emergence of Latin American nation-states in the changing international context of the nineteenth century. Spring Quarter focuses on the twentieth century, with special emphasis on the challenges of economic, political, and social development in the region. Autumn, Alan Kolata/Dain Borges. MWF 1:30-2:20.

23315. Tourist Encounters, Tourist Spaces. (=INST 28100). The course examines tourism as a complex social setting in which a variety of encounters and exchanges occur. Using case materials from Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, Europe and the US, we will examine tourism through the lenses of culture, economics and the natural and built environments. The course is organized to include both lecture and discussion formats and students will be expected to prepare course readings in advance and to engage course materials during class sessions. Among the topics we will consider are: tourism as a strategy for economic development; tourism in the context of local and global economic transformations; eco-tourism; new approaches to community-planned and alternative tourism; guided tours as competing efforts at place- and space-making; tourism as a context for cultural destruction or revitalization; and international art expos as a new context for tourism. Johanna Schoss, TuTh 9:00-10:20 

24300/40300. Medicine and Culture (=HiPSS 273). Class limited to fifty undergraduates, 15 graduate students. Diverse systems of thought and practice concerning health, illness, and the management of the body and person in everyday and ritual contexts are examined. This course seeks to develop a framework for studying the cultural and historical constitution of healing practices, especially the evolu¬tion of Western biomedicine. Jean Comaroff. TuTh 10:30-11:50

25710/35710. Global Society and Global Culture: Paradigms of Social and Cultural Analysis (=SOCI 20169/30169). This course will introduce students to major theories of globalization and to core approaches to global society and global culture. We will discuss micro- and macroglobalization, cultural approaches to globalization, systems theory, discourse approaches and the strong program in globalization studies. Topics include a section on the ethnography of the global, empirical studies that illustrate the
interest and feasibility of globalization studies and critical studies of dimensions of globalization. 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

26405/46405. The Archaeology of Households. Households constitute a fundamental building block of societies; they represent basic units in which "everyday" activities are carried out and negotiated. This course introduces a broad range of issues and analytical perspectives concerning the archaeology of households. The emphasis is on theoretical approaches and case studies more than particular methods, although the latter will receive some attention. While intrasite studies will be emphasized, some regional analysis will also be discussed. The course covers topics such as anthropology of houses, household production and consumption, social stratification, gender issues, symbolism of space, households as "houses" and habitus, communities, and households in a regional perspective. Antonio Curet. Wed 9:30-12:20

26710/36710. Ancient Landscapes-1: GIS and Landscapes (=NEAA 20061/30061; GEOG 25400/35400; ANST 22600). This course, along with Ancient Landscapes II in the Winter Quarter, will expose students to numerous spatial theories underlying studies of ancient and historical landscapes. It will also provide students with practical experience in the methodologies and GIS tools that can be used to collect and analyze spatial data within these landscapes. As such it is relevant to anyone who wishes to analyze data about and within the landscape in their spatial and temporal contexts. The course has both a classroom and a laboratory component. The classroom component consists of lectures and discussions while the laboratory component will allow students to get involved applying the concepts discussed in class through the hands on use of GIS software. That said, the course is not a simple introduction to GIS, but rather enables students to use GIS software for advanced analysis of landscapes. Scott Branting. TuTh 10:30-11:50.

26805/46805. Material Cultures. (Primarily a graduate course) This course explores recent efforts to theorize the materiality of human social, political, and cultural life. We will draw broadly from contemporary works in archaeology, socio-cultural anthropology, art, social thought, media studies, and literary theory to piece together a sense of the analytic possibilities afforded by analytical engagement with the world of things. We will take historical materialism and anthropological investigations of exchange as our points of departure, broadening our perspective to take in contemporary arguments for objects as constitutive elements of mind, affect, and order. The goal of the course is to juxtapose the experience, perception, and imagination of materiality in order to re-structure critical anthropological problems. As such, we will attempt to forge a more archaeological sense of anthropology and plot new possibilities for anthropological archaeology. Prior experience with archaeological theory will be helpful. AT Smith. Wed 2:00-4:50

27001-27002-27003//37001-37002-37003. Introduction to Linguistics I, II, III (= LING 20100-20200-20300/30100-30200-30300, SOSC 21700-21800-21900). 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. Jerrold Sadock. TuTh 1:30-2:50

27130. America: Society, Polity, Speech Community (=LING 27130). We explore the place of languages and of discourses about languages in the history and present condition of how American mass society stands in relation to the political structures of the North American (nation-)states and to American speech communities. We address plurilingualisms of several different origins (indigenous; immigrant) that have bee incorporated into the contemporary American speech community; the social stratification of English in a regime of standardization that draws speakers up into a system of linguistic "register"; and how language itself has become an issue-focus of American political struggles In the past and contemporaneously. M. Silverstein. WedFri 9:30-11:20

27605/37605. Language, Culture and Thought (=HUDV 21901/31900, PSYC 21950/31900). This is a survey course exploring the role of natural language in shaping human thought. The topic will be taken up at three levels: semiotic-evolutionary (the role of natural language in enabling distinctively human forms of thinking - the rise of true concepts and self-consciousness), structural-comparative (the role of specific language codes in shaping habitual thought - the "linguistic relativity" of experience), and functional-discursive (the role of specialized discursive practices and linguistic ideologies in cultivating specialized forms of thought - the pragmatics, politics, and aesthetics of reason and expression). Readings will be drawn from many disciplines but will emphasize developmental, cultural and critical approaches. John Lucy. TuTh 1:30-2:50.

28705/48307. Indian Ocean: Trade and Interactions. This course offers a multi-disciplinary approach to studying one of the oldest forums for inter-continental trade and interactions: The Indian Ocean. This geographical entity has linked peoples of Africa, Europe and Asia through the exchange of technology, ideas, goods and peoples from the dawn of the first systematic inter-continental trade between the Bronze Age polities of Egypt, Mesopotamia and India-Pakistan, ca (4th millennium BC) to the present era. The class has two objectives: a) to understand the nature of trade and exchange mechanisms in the Indian Ocean world from both temporal and spatial perspectives and, b) to underscore the interdependency between trade/exchange and political-economy, climate, society and history. The required readings include works from various disciplines, including economics, history, political sciences, and geography as well as archaeology and cultural anthropology. Students will be encouraged to add to the broader understanding of Indian Ocean trade provided by the course by undertaking a comparative research project that examines two periods, two areas or two processes within this larger interaction complex.
The course is structured as a seminar rather than a lecture so you will be expected to come to class prepared to critique, argue, discuss and synthesize the material. Though this topic is my particular research interest, many of the readings are recent, which means that I will be reading along with you. My goal is to guide the ongoing discussion, to situate the discussion in a larger historical and/or anthropological context. C. Kusimba. Thurs. 1:00-3:50 p.m., Haskell Mezz 102.

29700. Readings in Anthropology. PQ: Consent of instructor and program chairman. Students are required to submit the College Reading and Research Course Form. At the discretion of the instructor, this course is available for either Pass or letter grading. Staff. Autumn, Winter, Spring.

29900. Preparation of Bachelor's Essay. PQ: Consent of instructor and program chairman. Students are required to submit the College Reading and Research Course Form. At the discretion of the instructor, this course is available for either Pass or letter grading. For honors requirements, consult the honors section under Program Requirements. Staff. Autumn, Winter, Spring.

33101-33102. Native Peoples of North America I, II (=CHDV 33101). Must be taken in sequence. This course is a comprehensive review of Native American cultural history, including consideration of intellectual context, prehistory, ethnology, history, and the contemporary situation. The last half of the third quarter is devoted to a mutually agreed-on topic in which stu¬dents pursue individual research, the results of which are presented in semi¬nar format. R. Fogelson. TuTh 10:30-11:50

34000. Introduction to Chicago Anthropology. PQ: Open only to first-year Anthropology graduate students. An introduction to the current faculty of the Department of Anthropology, their intellectual genealogies, and their current work. Staff. WedFri+some Mondays 12-1:20. Haskell 315.

34101-02. Development of Social/Cultural Theory-I (200 units). PQ: Open only to first-year Anthropology graduate students. The task of an anthropologist is arguably quite straightforward: (1) be interested in what the people one is studying are interested in, (2) contextualize, and (3) take nothing for granted, including context. But when one realizes that what one must contextualize, and not take for granted, are the very lenses through which one perceives and analyzes the world, this task becomes considerably more daunting. In this course, we will take some first steps towards an exploration of some of the equipment anthropologists have used, more or less self-consciously, in their efforts to understand socio-cultural universes of varying scales and sorts. We will be taking as our focus a central problem in the prehistory of contemporary anthropology, as well as our current global predicament: the relationship between theology and social theory, and religious and secular perspectives, more generally. Calling into question conventional accounts of the Enlightenment as a sheer break from a bad old religious past, we will track social theory's debts and deviations from theological accounts of central themes in our discipline. Our goal is not simply to gain an awareness of the genealogy of some of anthropology's key presumptions, as they came into being in opposition to and in dialogue with religious standpoints, but also to develop new tools and ethical standpoints for anthropological analysis at a time when both religion and secularism have become problematic terms. D. Rutherford. TuTh 1:30-4:20. Haskell 315.

34814. Anthropology and Literature: World Poetry (=SCTH 32720). This course will explore fundamentals of poetry and poetics on a world basis: the music of language, theory of tropes, poetry and myth, linguistic-poetic relativism, the unique individual, sociopolitical context, the moral intention of the poet, metaphysical questions, and so forth. The four poetic worlds to be central this year are: T'ang Chinese (e.g., Tu Fu), Russian (i.e., Pushkin), native American (e.g. Quechua, Eskimo), and three American poets (Dickenson, Frost, Hughes). Brief introductions to other poetic worlds (e.g., Villon, Baudelaire, haiku). Texts to be used in part: J. Rothenburg's Technicians of the Sacred, E. Weinberger's Anthropology of Classic Chinese Poetry. P. Friedrich. Thurs 9:30-12:20. Open to undergraduates.

34816. Anthropology and Literature: Pushkin and Eugene Onegin (=SCTH 32920). Eugene Onegin, the masterpiece by Russia's great poet, Aleksander Pushkin, weaves together many diverse strands, including folklore and high society, dreams and dance, two love stories, jealousy and loss, ethnography and psychology (female and male), questions of aesthetics and poetic form, and basic values (e.g., honor and shame) -- all integrated with classic symmetry and Romantic élan. Eugene Onegin inspired Tchaikovsky's opera (which we will sample) and is a subtext in Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace. One book per week with some consideration of Russian society and politics in Pushkin's time, of his major contemporaries (e.g., Lermontov), of foreign connections, and of the universalist issues named above. A mix of lectures and discussion. Reading knowledge of Russian would be helpful but is not necessary; we will use the translations by W. Arndt, J. Falen, and V. Nabokov. P. Friedrich. Tues 9:30-12:20. Open to undergraduates.

37201. Language in Culture I (LING 3110, Psych 47001). Must be taken in sequence. This is the first part of a two-quarter sequence that introduces some of the central theoretical issues involved in the semiotic study of language in its contexts of communicative use. This course will provide students with key analytic tools for approaching empirical data about language-in-context. The material introduced -- an overview of diverse theoretical approaches to linguistic anthropology -- is designed to situate contextualized language use as the medium by which culture concepts are brought to life and recursively constituted. Several general themes will be addressed: 1) The orderliness of real-time interaction as a product of language as a semiotic system; 2) The role of and properties of language-in-use as the preeminent field of social interaction and the creation of cultural concepts; 3) The role of discourse as a dialectic mediator of "cultural" concepts and knowledge that social actors may share with others and the role such mediated knowledge plays in group formation. Central questions that will be addressed, via elaboration of these themes include how language makes meaning, how language participates in semiotic processes and how we can study them.. Robin Shoaps. TuTh 10:30-11:50.

37701. Phonetics (= LING 20600/30600). PQ: Ling 201, 202, or 203; or consent of instructor. This is an introduction to the study of speech sounds. Speech sounds are described with respect to their articulatory, acoustic, and perceptual structures. There are lab exercises both in phonetic transcription and in the acoustic analysis of speech sounds. A. Yu. MW 1:30-2:50.

37801. Syntax I (=LING 20400/30400). PQ: Ling 201, 202, or 203; or equivalent. This course is devoted to detailed study of the major syntactic phenomena of English, combined with exposition and critical evaluation of the principal accounts of phenomena proposed by transformational gram¬marians and the theoretical frameworks within which those accounts are developed. Class discussion focuses on ideas advanced in or arising out of transformational grammar with regard to the relation between syntax and semantics and the psychological status of linguistic analyses. J. Merchant. TuTh 10:30-11:50

42500. Anthropology of the Afro-Atlantic World. Although originally pioneered, more than three generations ago, by scholars and critics such as C.L.R. James, Eric Williams, W.E.B. DuBois, or Walter Rodney, conceptions of an "Atlantic World" have only recently come to prominence in Anthropology. In the past decade, however, students of Africa and the Americas have increasingly begun to phrase their inquiries in terms transcending entrenched geographical divisions of labor within the social sciences, aiming to include Africa, the Americas, and, to a certain extent, Europe into a single analytic field. Parts of this course will be devoted to a concise introduction to some of the major theoretical positions within, and controversies surrounding the new "Atlantic" anthropology of Africa and its New World diasporas. After this, we will examine a number of recent monographs and/or major articles exemplifying the promises and pitfalls of theoretical conceptions and methodological procedures that attempt to go beyond mere transregional comparison or linear historical narratives about "African influences", and aim at analytically situating specific ethnographic or historical scenarios within integrated perspectives on an "Afro-Atlantic World". S. Palmié. Tues 12:00-2:50

43405. Global Ethnography (=SOCI 40150). PQ Introduction to ethnography or qualitative methods. Ethnography has long been successfully applied to local cultures and communities, to microsocial situations and even at times to national settings. In this class, we start from the global; we explore how ethnography can be extended to global structures, processes, sites and questions. We will first examine and discuss the kind of structures and elements that "belong to" global society and global culture. Course work will then be built around studies that focus on particular domains in which these structures and elements are exhibited. In the process, we review different ethnography-based methodological perspectives such as grounded theory, ethnomethodology, discourse analysis, phenomenological ethnography and performance ethnography. Students with a strong interest in theories of globalization may consider to also take the class on Global Society and Global Culture: Paradigms of Social and Cultural Analysis (F 07).  Karin Knorr Cetina. Tues 9:00-11:50

43600. Locating the Anthropology of the US. PQ Open to anthropology graduate students; others may enroll with permission of instructor. This seminar focuses on recent and classical ethnographies, along with reflections on the field, to query anthropological analysis of the United States. In doing so, we explore the epistemological and cultural geographical foundations and possible futures of the discipline. This course is designed for students with active ethnographic research interests. J. Cattelino. Wed 1:30-4:20

48100. Advanced Problems in Paleoanthropology (=EVOL 48100). This course includes tutorial museum, laboratory, and field studies on the hom¬inoid fossil record and contextual information relevant to its interpretation. R. Tuttle. Autumn, Winter, Spring. Annually.

48500. Advanced Problems in Primate Locomotion and Comparative Morphology (=EVOL 48500). This course is a seminar and/or laboratory study of the morphological and behavioral adaptations of selected primates and implications for primate phylogeny. R. Tuttle. Autumn, Winter, Spring. Annually.

52200. Proposal Preparation. (PQ: Open only to anthropology graduate students preparing for field work.) This is a required course for (primarily third-year) graduate students who are preparing field work grant applications and dissertation proposal during the current academic year. The course is taken pass/fail and provides each student the opportunity to present a pre-circulated draft research proposal for discussion and critique. The course focuses on preparation and discussion of students' draft proposals. Susan Gal. Thurs. 1:30-4:20

52500. Interpretation of Ritual. (=HREL 41600, AASR 41600). B. Lincoln. TuTh 1:30-2:50

52805. Colloquium: Gender in Europe (=Hist 53301, GNDR 53300). The seminar will discuss current theories of gender as they illuminate and are challenged by contemporary and historical visions of gender relations and gender politics across the European continent. Topics to be covered include: Practices and regulation of sexuality and reproduction (gay marriage, marriage as migration strategy, birth control, abortion, medically-assisted reproduction, adoption); the gendering of politics (national and supranational governmental institutions, NGOs, grass-roots organizations); religion; and, changes in labor force participation and the structuring of the workplace. In all the cases the implications of post-coloniality and the expanding European union for gender will be considered. Comparisons, circulations and contrasts along an east/west and north/south axis will be of continuing interest; we will focus on material as well as discursive cultural practices. S. Gal, L. Auslander. Tues 9:00-11:50. 

53701. The 21st Century: Law and Disorder in the Postcolony. A course sponsored by the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory. (Limit: 25 graduate students, no auditors.) Preference for students from doctoral departments) Postcolonial and post-totalitarian polities across the world appear to be caught in a pervasive paradox. On one hand, they manifest a pronounced faith in the law, in the capacity of the constitution and litigation, to produce social order amidst radical economic, political, and ideological change. Indeed, it might be argued that political processes are increasingly being displaced into the legal arena. On the other hand, postocolonial polities are haunted by a metaphysics of disorder: by the collapse of the Weberian ideal of the state in the face of apparently uncontrollable violence and unpoliceable crime and by the sheer difficulty of imagining a politics adequate to the present global moment. How might we understand the co-presence of these two things, the fetishism of the law and the metaphysics of disorder? And why has the growth of democratic institutions across the world been accompanied by a dramatic expansion of more-or-less organized, increasingly violent crime? What general theoretical issues do these questions raise for an understanding of the Twenty-first Century?  Jean & John Comaroff. Tues. 3:00-5:50. Wilder House.

57712. LingAnthSem: Ethnographic Lexicography (=LING 57712.  Conceptual Dramatis Personae:  From the grammarian's point of view, the lexicon, as L. Bloomfield pointed out, "is really an appendix of the grammar, a list of basic irregularities" (1933:274). Yet folk intuition as well as lexicographic practice locate the essential meaningfulness of language in words and expressions as these are encountered in discursive co(n)texts; immanent in this the grammarian's lexical forms seem to occur in constructional arrangements via their organization into form-classes. Several lines of theorizing and research in the last decades have reemphasized the multiplex character of anything one might wish to term the "meaning" of lexical forms/words/expressions, a convergence, in particular, of notions of various cognitive linguistic, philosophical, and linguistic anthropological trends. New distinctions have emerged, for example of prototypy or stereotypy vs. concept or conceptual category, while other distinctions, on which formalist theories have relied, have been called sharply into question, for example those of meaning vs. use; lexicon or dictionary vs. encyclopedia; etc.
From the anthropological perspective, we can start with the notion that ‘culture' is a mostly implicit but normatively informing, contextually relative and relevant structure of valuated cognitive distinctions indexically manifest in-and-by interaction. Given that ‘stereotypes = "cultural" concepts' are associated with at least a component of the "meaning" of words and expressions, how can we go about using the descriptive analysis of words and expressions - in grammar, in discourse, in social context - to investigate culture? How have words and expressions been treated in previous ethnographic work? How have people looked upon normatively invocable ‘cultural' representations, especially through the lens of words and expressions, their uses and uses? How can one in fact go about investigating culture through words and expressions by attempting to determine and describe their meanings? On the one hand, lexicography seems to be unavoidably "ethnographic"; on the other hand, the ethnographic cannot be analytically grasped save through, in essence, "lexicography."
Seminar Participation:  A proposable or in-progress ethnographic or lexical semantic project that can be presented, approached as above, would be useful, though a presentation from theoretical or methological literature would also be acceptable. Willingness to see sociocultural anthropology/ethnography and its object of investigation through some of the current issues in cognitive sciences, philosophy of mind/science/language, etc.
Proposed First Meeting: Thursday, 27 September, 2.00 PM in Haskell 313.   Please contact instructor (m-silverstein@uchicago.edu ) if you are intend participating, with your temporal parameters of availability in respect of finding a 2-3 hour interval in which to meet weekly. Michael Silverstein.

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