First-Year Courses in Cultural Anthropology These pages are no longer maintained. Consult the new Course Guide at: http://www.lsa.umich.edu/lsa/cg_subjectlist/0,2030,8,00.html?show=20&termArray=f_04_1510&cgtype=ug This page was created at 1:01 PM on Wed, May 5, 2004. Fall Academic Term, 2004 (September 7 - December 23) Search Only the First-Year LS&A Course Guide (Advanced Search Page) Search the Full LS&A Course Guide (Advanced Search Page) Anthropology Waitlist/Override Procedures For courses that are closed and do not maintain waitlists on wolverine access: If the course has discussions sections, attend the first class meeting and ask for an override If the course does not have discussion sections, contact the instructor. ANTHRCUL 101. Introduction to Anthropology. Introductory Courses Section 001. Instructor(s): Andrew J Shryock (ashryock@umich.edu) Prerequisites & Distribution: Primarily for first- and second-year students. (4). (SS). (R&E). May not be repeated for credit. Does not count toward anthropology concentration requirements. Credits: (4). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This introductory course exposes and explores the structures of inquiry characteristic of anthropology and surveys the field's four subdisciplines (biological, archaeological, cultural, and linguistic anthropology), providing a first glimpse of the field's overall context, history, present status, and importance. The principal aim of the course is to help students develop a coherent view of the essential concepts and methods that typify the discipline. It stresses unifying principles that link the subdisciplines and thereby create anthropology's comprehensive, holistic world view. It teaches students various ways of learning and thinking about the world's many designs for living in time and space. It prepares them to integrate and interpret information, to evaluate conflicting claims about human nature and diversity, and to think critically. Topics covered include: the nature of culture; human genetics, evolution and the fossil record; the concept of race; primate (monkey and ape) behavior; language and culture; systems of marriage, kinship and family organization; sex-gender roles; economics, politics, and religion in global perspective; the cultural dimension of economic development and contemporary social change, and the emergence of a world system. Required readings come from one introductory text and additional paperbacks. Lectures and discussion-recitation. Two objective exams (multiple choice and true or false questions) cover the two halves of the course. The second exam is given on the last day of class. There is no final exam and no term paper. Section leaders require quizzes and a short paper. Check Times, Location, and Availability Cost: 2 Waitlist Code: 4 ANTHRCUL 101. Introduction to Anthropology. Introductory Courses Section 026. Instructor(s): Holly Peters-Golden (hollypet@umich.edu) Prerequisites & Distribution: Primarily for first- and second-year students. (4). (SS). (R&E). May not be repeated for credit. Does not count toward anthropology concentration requirements. Credits: (4). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This introductory course surveys the field's four subdisciplines (biological, archaeological, cultural, and linguistic anthropology), providing a first glimpse of the field's overall context, history, present status, and importance. The principal aim of the course is to help students develop a coherent view of the essential concepts, structures, and intellectual methods that typify the discipline. It stresses unifying principles that link the subdisciplines and thereby create anthropology's comprehensive, holistic world view. It teaches students various ways of learning and thinking about the world's many designs for living in time and space. It prepares them to integrate and interpret information, to evaluate conflicting claims about human nature and diversity, and to think critically. Topics covered include: the nature of culture; human genetics, evolution and the fossil record; the concept of race; primate (monkey and ape) behavior; language and culture; systems of marriage, kinship and family organization; sex-gender roles; economics, politics, and religion in global perspective; the arts; and medicine. Required readings come from one introductory text, a case studies book and additional paperbacks. Lectures and discussion-recitation. Three multiple choice exams each cover one-third of the course. The third exam is given on the last day of class. There will be several quizzes and short writing assignments due in section. Check Times, Location, and Availability Cost: 3 Waitlist Code: 4 ANTHRCUL 158. First Year Seminar in Cultural Anthropology. Introductory Courses Section 001 — Bodies and their Meanings: Anthropological Perspectives. Instructor(s): Alaina M Lemon (amlemon@umich.edu) Prerequisites & Distribution: Only first-year students, including those with sophomore standing, may pre-register for First-Year Seminars. All others need permission of instructor. (3). (SS). May not be repeated for credit. May not be included in an anthropology concentration. First-Year Seminar Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This seminar explores ways various world communities make meaning of bodies. It treats the body as a medium of communication, expressive culture, and habitual action. Topics will include: gesture and movement; facial expression; body decoration and beauty; gender; bodily etiquette; the body in performance; spatial design; sports/martial arts and others. Students are expected to participate in class discussions and to prepare rigorously for them (completing each reading twice and keeping a diary). Requirements: writing assignments and term paper. Check Times, Location, and Availability Cost: 2 Waitlist Code: 3 ANTHRCUL 158. First Year Seminar in Cultural Anthropology. Introductory Courses Section 002 — Ecotourism and Trophy Hunting. Instructor(s): Rebecca Hardin (rdhardin@umich.edu) Prerequisites & Distribution: Only first-year students, including those with sophomore standing, may pre-register for First-Year Seminars. All others need permission of instructor. (3). (SS). May not be repeated for credit. May not be included in an anthropology concentration. First-Year Seminar Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course will consider the precolonial and colonial historical roots of today's rapidly changing nature and cultural tourism industries. We will review relevant theories and methods for the analysis of a wide range of tourism-related phenomena such as monetisation of local economies, new performative contexts for ritual practice, practices of consumption by tourists, and power dynamics of tourist/local encounters. The last phase of the seminar entails reading ethnographic monographs about these forms of tourism, each of which integrates history, social theory and political-economic analysis. Students will produce two papers for the course. Check Times, Location, and Availability Cost: No Data Given. Waitlist Code: 3 ANTHRCUL 232. Genes, Genealogies, Identities: Anthropological Perspectives. Ethnology-Topical Courses Section 001. Instructor(s): Jennifer E Robertson (jennyrob@umich.edu) Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (SS). May not be repeated for credit. Credits: (4). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This interdisciplinary, multi-media course hightlights, from anthropological, historical, and ethical perspectives, the various ways in which various people around the world have connected genes (and genetics) with genealogies and identities. The main focus is on how knowledge about genes and genetics, and ideas about ancestry and genealogical beliefs, contribute to ongoing processes of identification rather than to the fixing of "permanent" identities. How and to what end genetic knowledge has been mapped onto dominant or "common sense" concepts of race, ethnicity, sexuality, and kinship is critically analyzed. The ethical dilemmas posed by the intersections of genetics, racism or ethnocentrism, identity politics, and the market economy are debated, and the various images of genetics in the global mass media, advertising, and popular genealogy websites are surveyed. Check Times, Location, and Availability Cost: 2 Waitlist Code: 3 ANTHRCUL 298. Topics in Cultural Anthropology. Introductory Courses Section 002. Instructor(s): Prerequisites & Distribution: (3). (SS). May be elected for a maximum of 12 credits. May be elected more than once in the same term. Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. No Description Provided. Contact the Department. Check Times, Location, and Availability Cost: No Data Given. Waitlist Code: No Data Given. These pages are no longer maintained. Consult the new Course Guide at: http://www.lsa.umich.edu/lsa/cg_subjectlist/0,2030,8,00.html?show=20&termArray=f_04_1510&cgtype=ug This page was created at 1:01 PM on Wed, May 5, 2004. 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