Classes

    ANTHRO 2250B - Proseminar in Archaeology

    Semester: 

    Fall

    Offered: 

    2021

    Prof. Jason Ur
    Thurs. 9:00 AM - 11:45 AM
    Peabody 12

    This graduate seminar reviews critical issues in archaeological approaches to the study of complex societies, including writing, trade, craft specialization, technology, landscape, urbanism, and political organization.

    ANTHRO 2643 - Paperwork: What Does Paper Do for Social Life?

    Semester: 

    Fall

    Offered: 

    2021

    Prof. Malavika Reddy
    Thurs. 9:00 AM - 11:45 AM
    Tozzer 203

    How does paper work in contemporary life? This course approaches this question by focusing on the paperwork, files, and record keeping practices of three organizational forms – bureaucracy, the corporation, and the nation-state. The aim of the class is for students to develop, in relation to their research sites and questions, a media theory of paperwork, a conceptual toolkit to make visible and to theorize an often-overlooked form. Tacking among ethnography, history and social theory, this course examines how paperwork – from forms, reports and memoranda to identity papers, receipts and business cards – mediate and materialize the collective projects that produce them. What is the relation of power and paper, and how might this question help us locate and understand the mundane materiality of social life?   

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    ANTHRO 2656 - Introduction to Feminist Science Studies

    Semester: 

    Fall

    Offered: 

    2021

    Prof. Anna Jabloner
    Wed. 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
    Peabody 12

    This seminar is an introduction to the interdisciplinary field of feminist science studies. As the feminist movements of the 1970s began to change the American political landscape, academic feminists began inquiries into the marginalization of women in science a debate philosopher Harding called the woman question in science. Feminist scientists began to examine sex, gender and race bias in their own disciplines.

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    ANTHRO 2738 - Remaking Life and Death

    Semester: 

    Spring

    Offered: 

    2024

    Prof. Anya Bernstein
    T 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
     

    This course is a critical reading graduate seminar focusing on how defining the boundaries between life and death became a matter of profound political, cultural, and scientific debate. Guided by the concepts of bio- and necropolitics, we will explore the shifting relations between body and person, human and time, and technology and biology while attending to the changing political, biomedical and religious contexts. The course includes readings from a number of anthropological subfields, including medical anthropology...

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    ANTHRO 2797 - Theory and Practice of Social Medicine

    Semester: 

    Fall

    Offered: 

    2023

    Profs. Salmaan Keshavjee, David Jones, Mercedes Becerra, and Lindsey Zeve
    Mon. 12:00 PM - 2:45 PM
     

    Social medicine is a field of study and practice that uses insights from the social sciences to improve medical theory and the delivery of health care in communities and global health. This course will explore the historical foundations of social medicine in the 19th and 20th centuries in Europe, Latin America, Asia, Africa, and North America. It will then examine case studies of social medicine in the contemporary world that confront the challenges of post-...

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    ANTHRO 2812 - Space and Power

    Semester: 

    Fall

    Offered: 

    2021

    Prof. Ajantha Subramanian
    Tues. 9:45 AM - 11:45 AM
    Tozzer 203

    This course considers space as a structuring principle of social life and as a product of political activity. It treats space as a dynamic force animating human existence rather than as its static backdrop.

    ANTHRO 2900 - Genealogies of Social Anthropology at Harvard

    Semester: 

    Fall

    Offered: 

    2023

    Prof. Byron Good
    Thurs. 12:00 - 2:45 PM
    Tozzer 102

     

    This course is designed for students beginning graduate study in social and cultural anthropology and is required for all first-year Social Anthropology graduate students. It is intended to provide critical skills for reading in and contributing to social and cultural theory. It offers a selective overview of theoretical and empirical trends in the discipline of anthropology, focusing on intellectual connections between writing and research of faculty members at Harvard and different theoretical...

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    ANTHRO 3626 - Research Design/Proposal Writing

    Semester: 

    Fall

    Offered: 

    2023

    Prof. Gabriella Coleman
    W 3:00 PM - 5:45 PM

    This course is part seminar, part practicum. Its purpose is to help students conceptualize and design a research project, to craft effective research and grant proposals, and to prepare for ethnographic and archival work. The first and longest part of the course will focus on formulating a researchable project, in all its various elements; how to write a statement of problem, to frame arguments/theses, to situate work in the appropriate anthropological literature/s, to develop a methodological approach, and...

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