Fall 2003 Anthropology Course Descriptions

Anth 100         Title: Human Nature                                                  GenEd:SBG

Instructor: Bob Paynter                  email:  rpaynter@anthro.umass.edu

Day/Time: MW     11:15-12:05          Credits: 3

Course Description: Lecture and discussion

This course introduces an anothropological approach to Human Nature to Non-Majors.  We consider three major questions: 1.) What is the range of cultural variation across all time and space?, 2.) What is the range of human physical variation across all time and space?, 3.) Why is there this range of variation?  We will look at how human animal has evolved since 5 million years ago, up to today.  We also consider how cultures changed over this long period.  Finally, we use notions of cultural and biological evolution to explain why we come in so many sizes and shapes today and do such a range of strange things.

 

Anth 102         Title: Archaeology and Prehistory                                      GenEd:SBG

Instructor: Michael Sugerman              email: sugerman@anthro.umass.edu

Day/Time: MW  2:30-3:20 PM           Credits: 3

Course Description: Lec. Disc.

Introduction to the method and theory of archaeology.  Topics include concepts of space, time and culture., preservation, stratigraphy, survey and excavation techniques, dating and the analysis and interpretation of archaeological data. The course also includes a survey of human prehistory up to the rise of complex societies.

 

Anth 102H             Title: Archaeology and Prehistory (Honors)              GenEd:SBG

Instructor: Ellen Savulis             email:  esavulis@anthro.umass.edu

Day/Time: TuTh 9:30-10:45 AM         Credits: 3

Course Description: Honors Section, must be in Honors Program
Introduction to the method and theory of archaeology.  Topics include concepts of space, time and culture., preservation, stratigraphy, survey and excavation techniques, dating and the analysis and interpretation of archaeological data. The course also includes a survey of human prehistory up to the rise of complex societies

 

Anth 103         Title: Human Origins and Variations                     GenEd:BS

Instructor: Lynnette Leidy Sievert    email: leidy@anthro.umass.edu

Day/Time: MW  10:10-11:00 AM           Credits: 3

Course Description: Lec. and discussion

The goal of this course is to achieve an understanding of human evolution and human variation.  The course will be divided into 4 major areaa: genetics, primate evolution, human evolution and bio-cultural interactions.  It is Imperative that you read the assigned materials and go to lab.

 

Anth HO6            Title: Colloquium for Anth 103                                  GenEd:

Instructor: Lynnette Leidy Sievert  email: leidy@anthro.umass.edu

Day/Time: W  12:20-1:10                       Credits: 1

Course Description: Lecture, (Honors Students Only) Registration in Anth 103 required.

 

Anth 103H      Title: Human origins and Variations                      GenEd: BS

Instructor: Alan Swedlund                          email: swedlund@anthro.umass.edu

Day/Time: TuTh  9:30-10:45 AM      Credits: 3

Course Description: Lecture, (Honors Section)

The goal of this course is to achieve an understanding of human evolution and human variation. The honors component of the course involves laboratory meetings during which we study human variation, the basics of primate and human skeletal anatomy and review the fossil records.   Restricted to first year students.

 

Anth HO7             Title: Honors Colloquim for Anth 103H                               GenEd:

Instructor: Alan Swedlund                          email: swedlund@anthro.umass.edu

Day/Time: By Arrangement                                    Credits: 1

Course Description: Extra credit for (Honors students must be enrolled in Anth 103H)

 

Anth 103X      Title: Human origins and Variations                      GenEd: BS

Instructor: Karen Pearce                          email: klp@anthro.umass.edu

Day/Time: TuTh  9:30-10:45 AM      Credits: 3

Course Description: Lecture, (RAP section)

The goal of this course is to achieve an understanding of human evolution and human variation. The honors component of the course involves laboratory meetings during which we study human variation, the basics of primate and human skeletal anatomy and review the fossil records.   Restricted to students in RAP program.

 

Anth 104             Title: Culture, Society and People                           GenEd: SBG

Instructor: Jean Forward              email: jforward@anthro.umass.edu

Day/Time: MW  11:15-12:30              Credits: 3

Course Description: Lecture, discussion section

Understaning and appreciating the diversity of human life-ways from holistic perspective. Course is organized into two lecture sessions and one discussion section which are integrated with readings, films and sometimes, outside speakers. This provides a well-informed context where the student can compare and analyze peoples life-ways in diverse societies and settings.

 

Anth HO4             Title: Honors Colloquim for Anth 104                                  GenEd:

Instructor: Jean Forward                email: jforward@anthro.umass.edu

Day/Time: By Arrangement                                    Credits: 1

Course Description: Extra credit for (Honors students must be enrolled in Anth 104)

Anth 104 (1)    Title: Culture, Society and People(RAP)                GenEd: SBG

Instructor: Gabriel de la luz Rodriguez  email: gad@anthro.umass.edu

Day/Time: TuTh  11:15-12:30            Credits: 3

Course Description: Lecture,. RAP students Only

Cultural anthropology is concerned with the description and analysis of people's life-ways in different societies and environments: how people make a living from their environment, how families are organized, how they settle conflicts and make political decisions.  How they view and maintain relations between women and men, what they believe about the supernatural and how they carry out religious rituals and how they cope with other groups of human beings who are culturally different from themselves.  Our most important objective in this course is to enable you to understand the diversity of human life-ways including our own and to better understand the broad range of "normal" human behaviors and ideas found around the world.

 

Anth 104 (2)             Title: Culture, Society and People (RAP)              GenEd: SBG

Instructor: Tilman Lanz                  email: tlanz@anthro.umass.edu

Day/Time: MWF  12:20-1:10           Credits: 3

Course Description: Lecture, RAP students Only

Cultural anthropology is concerned with the description and analysis of people's life-ways in different societies and environments: how people make a living from their environment, how families are organized, how they settle conflicts and make political decisions.  How they view and maintain relations between women and men, what they believe about the supernatural and how they carry out religious rituals and how they cope with other groups of human beings who are culturally different from themselves.  Our most important objective in this course is to enable you to understand the diversity of human life-ways including our own and to better understand the broad range of "normal" human behaviors and ideas found around the world.

 

Anth 104 (3)    Title: Culture, Society and People (RAP)                GenEd: SBG

Instructor: Flavia Stanely                email: flavia@anthro.umass.edu

Day/Time: TuTh 11:15-12:30             Credits: 3

Course Description: Lecture. (RAP section)

Cultural anthropology is concerned with the description and analysis of people's life-ways in different societies and environments: how people make a living from their environment, how families are organized, how they settle conflicts and make political decisions.  How they view and maintain relations between women and men, what they believe about the supernatural and how they carry out religious rituals and how they cope with other groups of human beings who are culturally different from themselves.  Our most important objective in this course is to enable you to understand the diversity of human life-ways including our own and to better understand the broad range of "normal" human behaviors and ideas found around the world.

 
Anth 104 (E)    Title: Culture, Society and People                GenEd: SBG

Instructor: Jon Zibbell               email: jonz@anthro.umass.edu

Day/Time: TuTh 9:30-10:45             Credits: 3

Course Description: Lecture.

Cultural anthropology is concerned with the description and analysis of people's life-ways in different societies and environments: how people make a living from their environment, how families are organized, how they settle conflicts and make political decisions.  How they view and maintain relations between women and men, what they believe about the supernatural and how they carry out religious rituals and how they cope with other groups of human beings who are culturally different from themselves.  Our most important objective in this course is to enable you to understand the diversity of human life-ways including our own and to better understand the broad range of "normal" human behaviors and ideas found around the world.


Anth 104 (F)    Title: Culture, Society and People                GenEd: SBG

Instructor: Leyla Keough               email: ljkeough@anthro.umass.edu

Day/Time: TuTh 1:00-2:15             Credits: 3

Course Description: Lecture.

Cultural anthropology is concerned with the description and analysis of people's life-ways in different societies and environments: how people make a living from their environment, how families are organized, how they settle conflicts and make political decisions.  How they view and maintain relations between women and men, what they believe about the supernatural and how they carry out religious rituals and how they cope with other groups of human beings who are culturally different from themselves.  Our most important objective in this course is to enable you to understand the diversity of human life-ways including our own and to better understand the broad range of "normal" human behaviors and ideas found around the world.

 

Anth 104 (G)    Title: Culture, Society and People                GenEd: SBG

Instructor: Lori Thayer               email: thayer@anthro.umass.edu

Day/Time: TuTh 11:15-12:30             Credits: 3

Course Description: Lecture.

Cultural anthropology is concerned with the description and analysis of people's life-ways in different societies and environments: how people make a living from their environment, how families are organized, how they settle conflicts and make political decisions.  How they view and maintain relations between women and men, what they believe about the supernatural and how they carry out religious rituals and how they cope with other groups of human beings who are culturally different from themselves.  Our most important objective in this course is to enable you to understand the diversity of human life-ways including our own and to better understand the broad range of "normal" human behaviors and ideas found around the world.

 

Anth 104 (H)    Title: Culture, Society and People                GenEd: SBG

Instructor: Dickie Wallace               email: dk@anthro.umass.edu

Day/Time: TuTh 2:30-3:45             Credits: 3

Course Description: Lecture.

Cultural anthropology is concerned with the description and analysis of people's life-ways in different societies and environments: how people make a living from their environment, how families are organized, how they settle conflicts and make political decisions.  How they view and maintain relations between women and men, what they believe about the supernatural and how they carry out religious rituals and how they cope with other groups of human beings who are culturally different from themselves.  Our most important objective in this course is to enable you to understand the diversity of human life-ways including our own and to better understand the broad range of "normal" human behaviors and ideas found around the world.


Anth 105         Title: Language, Culture and Communication              GenEd: SBG

Instructor: David Samuels              email:contact dept.

Day/Time: MW   11:15-12:05                     Credits: 3

Course Description: Lecture, Discussion.

Linguistic Anthropology and other communicative practices in cultural context. Topics include language-cultures, language-relationships, language and social identity, dialects & register space; socio-linguistics, acquisition of language; language origins, language ideologies, policy and nationalism, language & racism, emotions.

 

Anth 106O         Title: Culture Through Film                            GenEd: SBG

Instructor: Enoch Page                   email: hepage@anthro.umass.edu

Day/Time: W  6:30-9:30 PM                       Credits: 3

Course Description: Lecture -Orchard Hill Residents Only

Films, lectures, discussion.  Exploration of different societies and cultures, and the theories of cultural anthropology, through films.  Ethnographic, documentary, and feature  films are used to focus on a wide array of cultures and to examine such topics as ecological adaptations, sex roles, ethnicity, religion, politics and social change.  Cinema as a medium of communication and cross-cultural understanding.

 

 
Anth 106B        Title: Culture Through Film                            GenEd: SBG

Instructor: Ellen Savulis                  email: esavulis@anthro.umass.edu

Day/Time: Tu  6:30-10 PM                       Credits: 3

Course Description: Lecture

Films, lectures, discussion.  Exploration of different societies and cultures, and the theories of cultural anthropology, through films.  Ethnographic, documentary, and feature  films are used to focus on a wide array of cultures and to examine such topics as ecological adaptations, sex roles, ethnicity, religion, politics and social change.  Cinema as a medium of communication and cross-cultural understanding.


Anth 197A  Cancelled Course     Title: ST: Getting the Most out of Going Abroad              GenEd:

Instructor: Carol LeBold                email: cjl@ipo.umass.edu

Day/Time: Th  1:00-2:15                       Credits: 1

Course Description: Lecture, This is a e credit course attached to Anthropology 100 and 104.  It is designed for students  who are thinking about studying abroad, or already have plans to study abroad soon.  We will discuss some of the challenges you will face as you adapt to a new culture. We will discuss culture shock and how to deal with differences in values, and how to become more aware of our own behavior and values.  You must either register for Anthr. 100 or 104 or you must have taken in the last 3 years.

 

Anth 197B            Title: ST: Intro. To Native American Indians Studies  GenEd:

Instructor: Jean Forward                email: jforward@anthro.umass.edu

Day/Time: M 1:25-4:25 PM           Credits: 3

Course Description: Lecture,  Popular representations of Native Americans in the past and present contrasted with contemporary cultural, political and artisitc realities by Native Americans in the Northeast.

 

Anth 271            Title: Human Evolution                                  GenEd:

Instructor: Richard Wikander              email: wikander@anthro.umass.edu

Day/Time: TuTh 4:00-5:15 PM                Credits: 3

Course Description: Lecture:

The past 15 years have seen so many discoveries in the fossil record of human evolution, and in the mechanisms by which evolutionary change occurs, that they are a considerable challenge to synthesis and integrate into one coherent picture.  This class will provide an up to date introduction to the current state of knowledge regarding human evolutionary history.  Topics will include the principles and mechanisms of evolutionary change, types and formation of fossils, basic anatomy, phylogeny reconstruction, and the morphology and behavior of our evolutionary ancestors. A significant amount of this material will be new, having appeared only in the technical scientific literature or a s reports at scientific conferences.

 

Anth 297A      Title: ST: Cultural Politics                                                  GenEd:

Instructor: Betsy Krause                  email: ekrause@anthro.umass.edu

Day/Time: TuTh  1:00-2:15                   Credits: 3

Course Description: Lecture

How is anthropology, which once focused on the lives of "primitive" cultures, relevant in the new millennium? Many of the social theories developed during anthropology's colonialist heyday have been examined, cross-examined, and reworked. This course investigates anthropological issues related to evidence, representation, globalization, science, and populations. Particular emphasis will be placed on the body as a site for normalization. Students will 1) explore materialist and symbolic approaches to understanding cultural politics; 2) learn to make sense of theory; and 3) apply anthropological theory to contemporary issues and social life.

 

 

Anth 297B             Title: Intercultural Living                                       GenEd:

Instructor: Carol Lebold                email: cjl@ipo.umass.edu

Day/Time: TBA                              Credits: 1

Course Description: Seminar: Lewis International Hall residents only

This course includes activities that encourage cross-cultural sharing through simulations, movies, guest lectures, discussions, dinners and celebrations. Program participants gain the skills of cross-cultural communication and international understanding, both across and within nations around the world.

 

Anth 297H             Title: ST: The Good Society                                                  GenEd:

Instructor: Art Keene                email: keene@anthro.umass.edu

Day/Time: TuTh    11:15-12:30          Credits: 3

Course Description: Lecture.  (Honors students only, by permission of Instructor) In conjuction with Community Service Learning.

 

Anth 306             Title: Visual Anthropology                                      GenEd:

Instructor: Jackie Urla                    email: jurla@anthro.umass.edu

Day/Time: TuTh  11:15-12:30            Credits: 3

Course Description: Lecture.

This course examines the politics and poetics of visual representation in the field of anthropology, focusing primarily, but not exclusively on the moving image. In this class, we will be critically examining how information about cultural diversity is conveyed through visual images and the historical contexts and theoretical frameworks that have shaped the various ways in which human cultures have been represented visually. Students will be asked to examine a variety of documentary, observational, and experimental styles in both ethnographic film and "indigenous media", and to consider how relations of power and authority are embodied in both form and content.

           

Anth 306 (Lab)    Title: Visual Anthropology Lab                  GenEd:

Instructor: Jackie Urla                     email: jurla@anthro.umass.edu

Day/Time: W 6:30-8:30 PM             Credits:

Course Description: Lab for Anth 306 (required)

 

Anth HO8            Title: Visual Anthropology Honors Colloquium            GenEd:

Instructor: Jackie Urla                   email: jurla@anthro.umass.edu

Day/Time: Th 4:00-5:15 PM              Credits:

Course Description: Honors Lab Section for Anth 306

 

Anth 317         Title: Primate Behavior                                                GenEd:

Instructor: Laurie Godfrey                          email: lgodfrey@anthro.umass.edu

Day/Time: TuTh    1:00-2:15                   Credits: 3

Course Description: Lecture

By Studying primates in their natural environment, we will address some of the key issues in the evolutionary biology and ecology of primates: (1) dietary, positional and reproductive adaptations to environments; variation in social grouping patterns, dominance structure, group cohesion, mating structure, parenting strategies, ontogeny's, life histories, and predator avoidance strategies; (2) how primates behave as members of whole communities of organisms; (3) how industrialization, deforestation and desertification are threatening the survival of primates species; and, how primates think--how primates use their cognitive skills in forming friendships and power alliances in natural communities.

 

Anth 320            Title: Research Techniques in Physical Anthropology  GenEd:

Instructor: Alan Swedlund                          email: swedlund@anthro.umass.edu

Day/Time: Th   2:30-5:15 PM                     Credits: 4

Course Description: Lecture. Anthro Majors Only, Prereq. of Anth 103 or permission of instructor.  

 Study of human skeletal anatomy from a bioanthropological perspective.  Students will learn all of the bones and their major features and landmarks.  Emphasis on how the human skeleton features in research in anthropology.  Important bioarchaeological studies; centrality to archaeological interpretation of research on population and health issues in the past.  Ways in which comparative anatomy with non-human primates and fossil hominids is important to understanding the history of human evolution; the role of human osteology in forensic anthropology.  Considerable emphasis on the importance of ethics in the study of human remains.  The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act; protocols for research in collaboration with descendents of studied groups.

 

Anth 325             Title: Analysis of Material Culture                                     GenEd:

Instructor: Bob Paynter                 email:rpaynter@anthro.umass.edu

Day/Time: Tu  2:30-5:15                       Credits: 3

Course Description: Lab.  (Anthro "Doing" course) Pre-Req. of Anth 577 or consent of instructor.    Methods and lab techniques for the analysis of material culture.  Relations of material culture to other aspects of cultural systems--economic, technological, and social.  Hands-on experience with materials from regional archaeological sites.  Consent of instructor required.

 

Anth 364             Title: Problems In Anthropology                            GenEd:

Instructor: Betsy Krause                 email: ekrause@anthro.umass.edu

Day/Time: TuTh  9:30-10:20 AM            Credits: 3

Course Description: Lecture & disc, Anthro Majors (Jr Year Writing Requirement)

Introduction to major issues in anthropological theory.  Focus on key concepts in the discipline, important authors, and development of and debates over theoretical issues.

 

Anth 369            Title: North American Archaeology                              GenEd:HSU

Instructor: Elizabeth Chilton              email: echilton@anthro.umass.edu

Day/Time: TuTh   2:30-3:45                  Credits: 3

Course Description: Lecture.  Pre-req. of Anth 102 or instructor consent.

This course is a survey of the archaeological evidence for pre-Contact Native American history in North America. We will focus on some of the key issues of the region., including the peopling of the New World more than 12,000 years ago, evidence of Native American subsistence, settlement, and ceremonial practices, the origins of agriculture, models of social complexity, and the consequences of European Colonization.

 

Anth 397B     Cancelled        Title: ST: Reflections on Study Abroad                        GenEd:

Instructor: Carol Lebold                 email: cjl@ipo.umass.edu

Day/Time: Th 4:00-5:15 PM                                     Credits: 1

Course Description: Seminar: Lewis International Hall residents only

This course includes activities that encourage cross-cultural sharing through simulations, movies, guest lectures, discussions, dinners and celebrations. Program participants gain the skills of cross-cultural communication and international understanding, both across and within nations around the world.

 

Anth 397I        Title: ST: Afro-American Anthropology              GenEd:

Instructor: Enoch Page                   email: hepage@anthro.umass.edu

Day/Time: TuTh    1:00-2:15                    Credits: 3

Course Description: Lecture.

African American Anthropology is designed to explore the diasporic sociogenesis of Black American culture and society.  We will read, discuss and write about studies from various periods that indicate how the formation of African American culture has been shaped not simply by racial oppression, but most importantly by the agency of black resistance or some variation thereof.  Some social science background is required or get permission of the instructor.

 

Anth 397J        Title: ST: Archaeology of Us                                GenEd:

Instructor: Martin Wobst                email: wobst@anthro.umass.edu

Day/Time: TuTh 1:00-2:15 PM          Credits: 3

Course Description: "Doing" Course. Lecture

How do artifacts help to constitute society? In a society that is as materialistic as the contemporary American one, archaeology is the only field of science that is concerned with this question. The course helps to answer this question in a format somewhere between a lecture course, a workshop and a seminar. We will begin looking at how University material culture helps to create students, define professors, and imagine administrators, service personnel, students and the public as being different. We will look at the communities of the valley and how artifacts are used to construct people as individuals and as members of groups. The course will have a number of field trips, to look at classrooms, restrooms, and fonrt yard decorations, among others. Students are expected to do mini-fieldwork projects and complete a semester long project on a topic of their choice that relates local artifacts to the construction of individuals and social groups.

 

Anth 397L       Title: Leadership and Activism                                   GenEd:

Instructor: Art Keene               email: keene@anthro.umass.edu

Day/Time: Su/  TBA                             Credits: 3

Course Description: "Doing" Course. Instructor permission required.

 

Anth 397S       Title: ST: Community Service Learning                       GenEd:

Instructor: Art Keene                          email: keene@anthro.umass.edu

Day/Time: TBA                             Credits: 1-2

Course Description: Lecture: Permission of Instructor Required

 

Anth  597A Title: ST: Native Peoples of the Pioneer Valley: Archaeology and Ethnohistory 

Instructor: Elizabeth Chilton             email: echilton@anthro.umass.edu

Day/Time: TuTh  11:15-12:30                 Credits: 3

Course Description: Lecture. Prereq. Of Anth 369, 577 or permission of instructor.

In 1704 the French and Native Peoples from a variety of Northeast communities attacked the English settlement at Deerfield, MA. Historians and archaeologists have yet to come to terms with the complex social and political contexts of this event, and the larger context of Native-European interactions of the Contact period. In this seminar, we will explore these complexities and contexts. Student projects will focus on one specific aspect of the event and/or commemoration of the event, which may include oral histories, public interpretation, archaeological research design for the 2004 Summer Field School.

 

Anth 597J        Title: ST: Evolutionary Theory & the Fossil Record  GenEd:

Instructor: Laurie Godfrey                          email: lgodfrey@anthro.umass.edu

Day/Time: W  12:20-3:20                      Credits: 3

Course Description: Lecture.

 

Anth 660             Title: Seminar in European Anthropology I             GenEd:

Instructor: Betsy Krause                 email: ekrause@anthro.umass.edu

Day/Time: M 12:20-3:20                        Credits: 3

Course Description: Lecture

Theory and method for students preparing to participate in the Field Training Program in Europe for the Spring semester.

 

Anth 685         Title: Seminar in European Anthropology II           GenEd:

Instructor: Jackie Urla                   email: jurla@anthro.umass.edu

Day/Time: Tu  4:40-6:30 PM                       Credits: 3

Course Description: Follow-up seminar for students returning from anthropological field work in Europe.  See also Anth 660. Consent from instructor is required.

 

Anth 691A             Title: Pro-seminar in Linguistic Anthropology              GenEd:

Instructor: David Samuels              email: contact dept.

Day/Time: Tu  1:00-3:45                       Credits: 3

Course Description: Seminar

 This course is a graduate-level introduction to the intellectual roots and current themes of linguistic anthropology. It also introduces students to the methodological foundations in the study of discourse and culture. Topics discusses will include anthropological, linguistic, philosophical, psychological, and sociological contributions to the understanding of human symbolic practices as contextualized social productions. No prior training in anthropology or linguistics is presupposed. Graduate standing necessary.

 

Anth 697G            Title: ST: Professional Anthropology     GenEd:

Instructor: Martin Wobst & Laurie Godfrey  

 email: wobst@anthro.umass.edu  lgodfrey@anthro.umass.edu

Day/Time: F   9:05-12:05                      Credits: 3

Course Description: Seminar

This course is designed to help graduate students clarify their (area) of interest within the discipline, to identify their training and education needs; to find out how to drum up good will and financial support and a job; to formulate research questions, strategic goals and tasks.

 

Anth 697J            Title: ST: Anthropology of Consciousness  GenEd:

Instructor: Enoch Page                   email: hepage@anthro.umass.edu

Day/Time: W  12:20-3:20                      Credits: 3

Course Description: Lecture
Graduate seminar offering a theoretical investigation into these reflexive questions: what constitutes consciousness, and how, and/or what consciousness constitutes, and how? This course operates on the premise that anthropology had paid a lot of attention to ideology, subjectivity, identity, relationship, ritual, religion, hierarchy, hegemony and discourse, but has paid so little attention to the nature of consiousness itself. This seminar will survey the anthropological interest in, and concern with, this topics and will assess failed and promising efforts to explore the problem.
No underclassmen will be enrolled. Graduate students of all disciplines are welcome as well as 5 College seniors and honors seniors.

 

Anth 697K            Title ST: The History of Anthropology            GenEd:

Instructor: Lynnette Leidy Sievert  email: leidy@anthro.umass.edu

Day/Time: M 12:20-3:20                      Credits: 3

Course Description: The History of Anthropology is a course strongly recommended for all incoming graduate students.  We will review the personalities, theories, and cultural contexts that shaped the field from the mid-nineteenth century until the early 1980's

 

Anth 697L       Title: ST: Visual Anthropology at the Crossroads  GenEd:

Instructor: Jackie Urla                    email: jurla@anthro.umass.edu

Day/Time: F  12:20-3:20                         Credits: 3

Course Description: Seminar

This seminar will examine the debates surrounding the politics and poetics of visual representation in the field of Anthropology, focusing primarily, but not exclusively on the moving image. We'll being with the hybrid roots of visual anthropology (photography and film) and move on to ethnographic film making observational to experimental styles.  Students will be asked to participate actively in class discussion of films and readings, to prepare critical syntheses of assigned readings and films.  Final paper and visual project are required.