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GENED 1177 - Language in Culture and Society

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Prof. Nicholas Harkness M W 10:30-11:45am How is verbal art -- from story-telling to poetry and from hip hop to church song -- created from linguistic and musical form, and how does its performance mediate social relations as well as construct cultural...

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The Department of Anthropology offers support for a variety of research opportunities.

GENED 1044 - Deep History

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Profs. Matthew Liebmann and Daniel Smail T Th 12:00-1:15pm Who are we, how did we get here... and how far back in time do we have to go to start asking the question? When does history begin? To judge by the typical history textbook, the answer is...

GENED 1148 Moctezuma’s Mexico Then and Now: Ancient Empires, Race Mixture, and Finding LatinX

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Profs. Davíd Carrasco and Bill Fash M W 10:30-11:45am How does Mexico's rich cultural past shape contemporary Mexico and the US in the face of today's pandemics, protests and other challenges of the borderlands? This course provides students with the...

Joan A. Kleinman Travel & Language Grant: Eana Meng (2018)

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The Joan Andrea Kleinman Travel and Language Grant is made in memory of Joan A. Kleinman, a scholar of Chinese language and literature and co-researcher with Dr. Arthur Kleinman of projects in medical anthropology. Joan Andrea Kleinman was committed to...

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Special Event, April 28-29 | Cultural Threads: Weavers' Memories from the Peruvian and Bolivian Andes

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This event will be in-person and held in Spanish. The event includes two days of educational presentations on the practices and ancestral knowledge of the art of Andean textile production, shared directly by the voices of skilled artisans from Peru and...

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Anya Bernstein

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Research and Teaching Interests

Speculative Futures; Science and Technology; Religion and Secularism; Death and Immortality; The Body; Time and Temporality; Human-Animal Relations; Environment and Climate Change; Visual Ethnography; Russia, Inner Asia...

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

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Prof. Peter 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...

GENED 1105 - Can We Know Our Past?

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Prof. Jason Ur M W 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM In a time when histories are being contested, monuments removed, and alternative facts compete with established orthodoxy, how do we evaluate competing narratives about what really happened in the past? What happened...

In Memoriam: Professor Sally Falk Moore

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Obituary for Professor Sally Falk Moore Harvard Gazette article about Sally Falk Moore's career and contributions HLS Symposium Celebrates the Writing and Teaching of Sally Falk Moore Tributes to her life and work: I was an appellate litigator happy in...