Undergraduate

Prof. Christina Warinner M W 3-4:15pm This course surveys the concept of health and the major nutritional and infectious diseases that have impacted human populations over the past ten thousand years. Special attention is paid to the methods used to...

Prof. Nicholas Harkness M W 10:30-11:45am This course introduces undergraduate students to the discipline of Sociocultural Anthropology. Lectures will develop and explain sociocultural anthropology’s central questions and discoveries, concepts and...

Dr. Elisa Tamburo M 3-5:45pm This course will enable students to acquire a knowledge and understanding of the recent history and contemporary society, culture, and politics of China through ethnographic writings. We will read contemporary ethnographies on...

Prof. Amy Clark T 12-2:45pm This course provides graduate and advanced undergraduate students an introduction to quantitative methods utilized in archaeological research. Although there will be a lecture component to this class, most of the class will be...

Prof. Malavika Reddy Th 12-2:45pm This course considers how anthropology has understood sovereignty, as theoretical object and political process. What is at stake in asking about how authority is founded and sustained? How have anthropologists posed these...

Prof. Arthur Kleinman T 12-2:45pm In this course we explore work from a variety of genres- ethnography, biography, film, and the novel- that tell us about the person and personhood more generally in historical and cultural context. The idea is to compare...

Dr. Chengrui Zhang T Th 1:30-2:45pm Description: What are the origins of Chinese civilization? What was society like before the development of the large states that would eventually merge to form the Chinese empire over 2000 years ago, essentially forming...

Profs. Amy Clark and Joe Henrich Th 9-11:45am Jointly offered as HEB 181 Humans are a cultural species. Unlike other species, we are heavily reliant on learning from others to acquire many important aspects of our behavior, and this capacity for cultural...

Dr. Damina Khaira W 3-5:45pm “Sometimes I'm right and I can be wrong My own beliefs are in my song The butcher, the banker, the drummer and then Makes no difference what group I'm in I am everyday people, yeah, yeah” “Everyday People” (1968) by Sly and...

Dr. Elisa Tamburo M 3-5:45pm The course aims at introducing students to the ethnographic study of cities and the urban environment. The course is divided into two parts: the first will introduce theoretical approaches, derived from sociology and...