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ANTHRO 2020 - GIS & Spatial Analysis In Archaeology

Semester: 

Spring

Offered: 

2024
Canvas Site

Prof. Jason Ur
Tues. and Thurs. 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM

An introduction to the GIS and remote sensing methods used by archaeologists to document and analyze datasets at the scale of the site and the region.

This class will involve the hands-on use of printed maps, aerial photography, satellite imagery, digital terrain models, GPS-based observations, and UAV (drone) photogrammetry to approach archaeological research questions. Students will gain competence in creating spatial data for fieldwork, print publication, and online visualization (web maps and 3D modeling),...

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ANTHRO 2738 - Remaking Life and Death

Semester: 

Spring

Offered: 

2024
Course Site

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 2690 - Middle East Ethnography

Semester: 

N/A

Offered: 

2023
Canvas Site

Prof. Steven C. Caton

Th 12:00 PM - 2:45 PM

The discursive construction of culture and its complex politics are examined in a wide range of ethnographies that have been written recently on countries in the Middle East, including Lebanon, Jordan, Israel/Palestine, Egypt, Morocco, Yemen, and Iran. Among the theoretical topics to be considered are orientalism, colonialism and post-colonialism, nationalism, self, gender, and tribalism.

ANTHRO 3626 - Research Design/Proposal Writing

Semester: 

Fall

Offered: 

2023
Canvas Site

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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ANTHRO 2900 - Genealogies of Social Anthropology at Harvard

Semester: 

Fall

Offered: 

2023
Course Site

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 2797 - Theory and Practice of Social Medicine

Semester: 

Fall

Offered: 

2023
Course Site

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 2910 - Theories of the Social

Semester: 

Spring

Offered: 

2023
Canvas Site

Prof. Ajantha Subramanian

Th 9:00 AM - 11:45 AM

This required seminar offers an overview of theoretical trends in social anthropology from approximately the 1960s and situates these trends within longer genealogies of social thought. The central animating concept guiding our foray into social theoretical and anthropological work is "Power." Our analysis of the social workings of power will be structured by four conceptual rubrics: political economy, institutions, knowledge, and space.

Course Notes:

Required of candidates for the PhD in...

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ANTHRO 2725/HISTORY 2725 - Anthropology and History

Semester: 

Spring

Offered: 

2023
Canvas Site

Profs. Ajantha Subramanian and Vincent Brown

W 9:45 AM - 11:45 AM

Explores exchanges between the disciplines of History and Anthropology, emphasizing overlaps and distinctions in the treatment of mutual concerns such as the representation of time and space, the conceptualization of power, and the making of the subject.

Course Notes:

This course is equivalent to Anthropology 2725 . Credit may be earned for either History 2725 or Anthropology 2725, but not both.

Jointly Offered with:

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ANTHRO 2689 - Image making in the Jewish imagination: drawing trauma, home and the diasporic condition

Semester: 

Spring

Offered: 

2023
Canvas Site

Prof. Ruth Mandel

W 6:00 PM - 8:45 PM

What can we learn from alternative, multimodal forms of knowledge production? This course applies anthropological approaches to Jewish graphic narratives. We will explore the ways Jewish authors grapple with complex experiences of trauma, migration, displacement, and identity, through the use of graphic media.  Some of the works we will read include Spiegelman, Chabon, Kurzweil, Krimstein, and others.

ANTHRO 3070 - Professionalization in Archaeology

Semester: 

Spring

Offered: 

2023
Canvas Site

Prof. Christina Warinner

T/Th 6:00 PM - 7:15 PM

All good research begins with a strong foundation. This course is aimed at providing you with the foundational knowledge and basic tools you need to succeed as a professional archaeologist. Aided in part by guest speakers from within and beyond Harvard, this course emphasizes collaborative research, presentation, publication, grant proposal writing, conflict resolution, and other skills to help you complete your PhD and to be competitive on the job market afterwards, and to navigate the complex intellectual, social,...

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