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ANTHRO 1060/2061 - Intro to Archaeological Science

Semester: 

Spring

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2023
Canvas Site

Profs. Christina Warinner and Kristine Richter

T/TH 1:30 PM - 2:45 PM

This course offers an introduction to eight major areas of archaeological science: (1) relative and absolute dating, (2) human osteology, (3) paleoethnobotany and micro remains, (4) stable isotopes, (5) organic residue analysis, (6) zooarchaeology and ZooMS, (7) proteomics, and (8) paleogenomics. Students will gain an understanding of the history of the field and its future directions, the method and theory behind how different tools and techniques work, and how archaeological science is...

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ANTHRO 1898 - Digital Ethnographic Methods

Semester: 

Spring

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2023
Canvas Site

Prof. Joyhanna Garza
M 9:00am - 11:45am

The abrupt physical closures of 2020 continuing into the present moment have brought into sharp relief the urgency of taking the digital seriously as a mode by which sociality – however constrained – is created and maintained. Rather than posit a singular method of digital ethnography, this course is designed to expose students to different methods and theoretical entry points into ethnography in order to enable students to identify the methods which work best for their present and future research purposes.

Hence, the...

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ANTHRO 2653 - Feminism and Anthropology

Semester: 

Spring

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2023
Canvas Site

Prof. Anna Jabloner
Thurs. 12:45 PM - 2:45 PM
 

This course considers the relationship between feminism (as activist realm, as theoretical field, in its institutionalized form as gender studies) and anthropology. We will begin with early ethnographic writing by women and about women, and analyze some of the interventions feminists hope to make in anthropology. We will then examine the relationship between feminism and anthropology through two topics: kinship and politics. Our course will consider how feminist anthropologists have connected the study of kinship,...

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GENED 1099 - Pyramid Schemes: What Can Ancient Egyptian Civilization Teach Us?

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Spring

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2023
Canvas Site

Prof. Peter Der Manuelian
Mon. and Wed. 1:30 PM - 2:45 PM
 

How does ancient Egypt enlighten our times about what defines a civilization, and were those ancient humans, with their pyramids, hieroglyphs, and pharaohs, exactly like or nothing like us?

How much of your impression of the ancient world was put there by Hollywood, music videos, or orientalist musings out of the West? How accurate are these depictions? Does it matter? This course examines the quintessential example of the “exotic, mysterious ancient world” – Ancient Egypt – to...

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ANTHRO 1883 - Where Science Meets Society: Introduction to STS

Semester: 

Spring

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2023
Canvas Site

Prof. Anna Jabloner
Weds. 9:45 AM - 11:45 AM
 

The German word for science literally means “knowledge made.” In line with this meaning, STS approaches science as practice. The interdisciplinary field asks empirically and methodologically how knowledge is made, how truths become truths, and how matters come to matter and to be matters of fact.

This course serves as basic introduction to STS, highlighting key political interventions, theoretical contributions, and the field’s recent ascent into a burgeoning academic inter-discipline.

ANTHRO 1826 - Medical Anthropology: Advanced Topics

Semester: 

Spring

Offered: 

2023
Canvas Site

Prof. Arthur Kleinman
Weds. 3:00 PM - 5:45 PM
 

 

A review of the latest and most advanced contributions to theory, methods, especially ethnography, findings, as well as policy contributions in medical anthropology.

Open to advanced undergraduates with some background in social sciences or humanities (regardless of concentration), and to graduate and professional students. Because of the extent of the readings and the intensity of the analysis, the course will be limited to 25 students.

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ANTHRO 1435 - Challenging Collections: Critical Reflections on Collecting Through Harvard’s History

Semester: 

Spring

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2023
Canvas Site

Profs. Diana Loren
Mon. 9:00 AM - 11:45 AM 
 

Harvard’s museum collections have often been used to interrogate the world outside of “us”: peoples, events, places, and things. This course reverses that gaze and asks what the collections and the processes of collecting reveal about the history of Harvard and its institutional identity as “the” place of learning.... Read more about ANTHRO 1435 - Challenging Collections: Critical Reflections on Collecting Through Harvard’s History

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