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ANTHRO 1038 - Game of Stones: The Archaeology of Europe from Handaxes to Stonehenge

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Prof. Amy Clark Buried beneath modern cities, Roman amphitheaters, and Medieval churches lie subtle traces of Europes earlier occupants: campsites littered stone tools and animal bones, human bodies preserved in bogs and frozen in ice, and cave walls...

ANTHRO 1058/2058 - Bias in Archaeology

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Prof. Rowan Flad and Jess Beck Weds. 9:00 AM - 11:45 AM Peabody 561 This seminar will focus broadly on bias in archaeology, covering issues of bias in authorship, citations, accessibility, popular media coverage, fieldwork, training and education, hiring...

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

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Dr. Diana Loren W 12:00-2:45pm Harvard’s museum collections have often been used to interrogate the world outside of “us”: peoples, events, places, and things. In this course we will reverse that gaze and ask what the collections and the processes of...

ANTHRO 1679 - Punishment Culture

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Prof. Kaya Williams Thurs. 9:00 AM -11:45 AM Tozzer 203 What is punishment, and what might attention to punitive practices teach us about the cultures in which they are used? Modern American culture is so saturated with punishment that it is difficult to...

ANTHRO 1716 - Neoliberalism: Empire, Extraction, and the Making of the Global Social Order

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Prof. Salmaan Keshavjee W 12:00 PM - 2:45pm This seminar course is designed primarily for advanced undergraduates and graduate students who are interested in the relationship between neoliberalism, the global social order, and inequities in health and...

ANTHRO 1826 - Medical Anthropology: Advanced Topics

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Prof. Arthur Kleinman T 12:00-2:45pm Open to advanced undergraduates with some background in social sciences or humanities (regardless of concentration), and to graduate and professional students. Spring 2025: Future of Medical Anthropology This course...

ANTHRO 1883 - Where Science Meets Society: Introduction to STS

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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...

ANTHRO 3628 - Anthropological Research Methods

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TBA This course offers a conceptual overview of research methods used by anthropologists. We will hear from faculty members their experience of doing fieldwork—from formulating a research question, choosing a site, entering the field to ethical issues...

FYSEMR 44J - Clash of Titans, Seats of Empire: The Aztecs, Toltecs, and Race of Giants in Ancient Mexico

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Prof. Bill Fash Wed. 9:45AM - 11:45AM The film "Clash of Titans" was a British extravaganza dedicated to exploring the ancient Greeks' concepts of the interactions between humans and their gods. In Ancient Mexico, the tale of Topiltzin Quetzalcóatl...

GENED 1128 - The Conduct of Life in Western and Eastern Philosophy

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Prof. Michael Puett Thurs. 9:30 AM - 11:30 AM A study of approaches in the philosophical traditions of the West and the East to the conduct of life. Philosophical ethics has often been understood as meta-ethics: the development of a method of moral...

ANTHRO 1781 - What Is Latin America?: Politics, Culture, Identity

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Prof. Julia Fierman Th 12:00-2:45pm This seminar explores the anthropology of Latin America in the context of capitalism and late capitalism to understand the political, economic, and cultural consequences of particular modes of production and the social...

ANTHRO 1617 - The Price of Solidarity: Value, Sacrifice, Capital

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Prof. Julia Fierman Weds. 3:00 PM - 5:45 PM This seminar in social anthropology presents value and the exchange of value as the foundations of economic, social, moral, and political life. The authors we read will argue that the exchange of value(s)...