2023

ANTHRO 3001 - Reading for Social Anthropology General Examination

Semester: 

Fall

Offered: 

2023

Social Anthropology Faculty 
By Arrangement

Individual reading in preparation for the General Examination for the PhD degree. It involves meetings as arranged between professor and graduate student.

Restricted to candidates for the PhD degree and ordinarily to those who have completed at least one year in residence.

ANTHRO 3000 - Supervised Reading Course

Semester: 

Fall

Offered: 

2023

Department Faculty 
By Arrangement

Special reading in selected topics under the direction of members of the Department. Individual work. Must be arranged with a professor listed under Anthropology 3000. Requires written work; it involves meetings as arranged between professor and graduate student.

ANTHRO 3000 - Supervised Reading Course

Semester: 

Fall

Offered: 

2023

Department Faculty 
By Arrangement

Special reading in selected topics under the direction of members of the Department. Individual work. Must be arranged with a professor listed under Anthropology 3000. Requires written work; it involves meetings as arranged between professor and graduate student.

ANTHRO 99A - Thesis Tutorial in Anthropology

Semester: 

Fall

Offered: 

2023

Prof. Damina Khaira
By Arrangement

This is a full year research and writing seminar limited to senior honors candidates. The course is intended to provide students with practical guidance and advice during the thesis writing process through structured assignments and peer feedback on work-in-progress. It is intended to supplement not replace faculty thesis advising (with the requirement of consulting regularly with the advisor built into the assignments) and, most importantly, allow students to share their work and experiences with other thesis writers in a collegial and...

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ANTHRO 98A - Junior Tutorial in Anthropology

Semester: 

Fall

Offered: 

2023

Prof. Damina Khaira
By Arrangement

This course is focused on preparing students to do anthropological fieldwork and develop their own research projects. Through concrete case studies and practical exercises students will be introduced to different approaches to developing research problems, conducting research, and ethnographic writing. Topics covered will include defining research questions and objects of study, situating projects within scholarly literature, and bringing together research data and analysis in different forms of anthropological writing.

The aim...

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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 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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