Anthropology
Anthropology Courses
ANTH 101 Cultural Anthropology (1 Credit)
An introduction to the study of a wide variety of social and cultural phenomena. The argument that the reality we inhabit is a cultural construct is explored by examining concepts of race and gender, kinship and religion, the individual life cycle, and the nature of community. Course materials consider societies throughout the world against the background of the emerging global system and the movement of refugees and immigrants.
Modes of Inquiry: [AC], [HS]
Writing Credit: None
GEC(s): GEC C026, GEC C037, GEC C083
Department/Program Attribute(s): None
Class Restriction: None
Cross-listed Course(s): None
Instructor: Josh Rubin
ANTH 107 Sensory Anthropology: The Politics and Poetics of Our Senses in the World (1 Credit)
This course considers the senses and sensory perception from a sociocultural perspective. How do our senses help us to order and organize our world? How are our senses themselves ordered and organized? In what ways might our senses be intertwined with the world in which we live? This course considers these questions in a range of different contexts, and it challenges students to think about the senses as socially and culturally constructed pathways between bodies and worlds. In doing so, the course directs our attention to the politics of the senses: namely, how worlds of perception and experience are opened for us, closed to us, and shaped by forces beyond our immediate control.
Modes of Inquiry: [AC], [HS]
Writing Credit: None
GEC(s): GEC C036
Department/Program Attribute(s): None
Class Restriction: None
Cross-listed Course(s): None
Instructor: Josh Rubin
ANTH 108 Medical Anthropology (1 Credit)
This course introduces students to medical anthropology, an interdisciplinary approach exploring how humans differently define and experience life, death, illness, wellness, health, sex, and pain throughout the world and over time. The course begins with classic texts in medical anthropology and ethnomedicine and shifts to more contemporary work in critical medical anthropology. There is a special focus in the course on global inequalities in health and medicine, on cross-cultural perspectives on pain and suffering, and on understanding biomedicine as a cultural system.
Modes of Inquiry: [AC], [HS]
Writing Credit: None
GEC(s): GEC C065
Department/Program Attribute(s): None
Class Restriction: None
Cross-listed Course(s): None
Instructor: Jennifer Hamilton
ANTH 114 Introduction to Classical Archaeology (1 Credit)
Physical remains from the ancient world are important for reconstructing daily life in past societies. The goal of the course is to familiarize you with the archaeology of the ancient Mediterranean world and the social contexts that gave rise to important sites, monuments, and objects. We will use archaeology and material culture as a lens to explore Roman values, political and religious institutions. We will examine critically how ancient sites and monuments have been appropriated over the centuries by different groups and why these sites continue to fascinate archaeologists, collectors, and the general public millennia later.
Modes of Inquiry: [AC], [HS]
Writing Credit: None
GEC(s): GEC C054
Department/Program Attribute(s): (AVC: History and Criticism), (History: Europe), (History: Premodern)
Class Restriction: None
Instructor: Liana Brent
ANTH 125 Critical Perspectives on Sport and Society (1 Credit)
This course explores the connections between sports and a broad range of anthropological concerns, including colonialism, resistance and domination, race, and gender. Students consider questions such as: Why do we play the sports we do? Why are sporting performances socially significant, and how have groups and political regimes used this significance to suit their needs? What can teams, players, and brands tell us about how we (and others) see the world? Addressing topics from cricket in the Caribbean to boxing in Chicago, students reappraise conventional sporting narratives and use sports to analyze the social and historical conditions in which they occur. In doing so, students think critically about their own sporting experiences and develop a deeper and subtler understanding of the ways that societies make sports and sports make societies.
Modes of Inquiry: [AC], [HS]
Writing Credit: None
GEC(s): GEC C026
Department/Program Attribute(s): None
Class Restriction: None
Cross-listed Course(s): AMST 125
Instructor: Josh Rubin
ANTH 167 Culture in the Americas (1 Credit)
This course provides an overview of the history and cultures of the Americas. There is a multitude of complex distinctions and similarities between North, Central, and South America, including the Caribbean and Latina/o/xs living in the United States—or what we will refer to simply as “the Americas.” Exploring distinct cultural norms of music, food, language, dress, religion, political ideology, as well as racial and ethnic identities pushes students to reconsider a perspective outside or other than their own. Contrasting perspectives also arise from images, films and texts drawn from distinct locales throughout the region’s peoples, histories, and contemporary challenges. Of particular concern are the ways legacies of colonialism shape both the Americas and the production of knowledge. Additional topics of interest include indigenous and Afro-Latinx resistance and expression; immigration, transnationalism, and deportation; and gender and sexual orientations.
Modes of Inquiry: [AC], [HS]
Writing Credit: None
GEC(s): GEC C014, GEC C026, GEC C037, GEC C041, GEC C059
Department/Program Attribute(s): None
Class Restriction: None
Cross-listed Course(s): LALS 167
Instructor: Benoit Vallee
ANTH 210 Ethnographic Methods (1 Credit)
This course is designed to introduce students to ethnographic research methods and ethics. Student begin with a review of early ethnographic "fieldwork" methods-a defining feature of anthropology that includes conducting research in situ to create an in-depth and complex understanding of cultural practices, social processes, and the human condition. While drawing on a variety of interdisciplinary sources, students critically examine cultural anthropology’s primary methods: participant observation, qualitative interviewing, archival research, writing fieldnotes, visual media (photography, drawing, film) and apply some of these tools to ethnographic projects over the course of the semester. This course also builds from decolonial methods from a wide-range of historically marginalized perspectives and, as such, will interrogate the politics of knowledge production, which include research collection, analysis, and representation. Throughout the course, students reflect on the ethical dimensions of conducting research with human subjects, considering how social issues impact a diversity of communities within and outside of the U.S., as well as how communities make sense of and develop responses to social issues. Ultimately, this course seeks not just to provide students with a toolkit of ethnographic methods, but also to enable them to think expansively about the politics of those methods and the conditions in which those methods are used.
Modes of Inquiry: [AC], [HS]
Writing Credit: None
GEC(s): GEC C026, GEC C091
Department/Program Attribute(s): None
Class Restriction: None
Cross-listed Course(s): None
Instructor: Josh Rubin
ANTH 211 Anthropology and Indigenous Peoples (1 Credit)
This course will introduce students to the histories of anthropology and its various encounters with Indigenous peoples with a special focus on Maine and the Northeast. Through critical readings, films, case studies, and guest speakers, students will engage with questions about the role of anthropology in understanding and representing Indigenous peoples. The course also challenges students to reflect on the ethical considerations of conducting research with Indigenous communities, highlighting the importance of decolonizing methodologies and collaborative approaches. Students will undertake semester-long collaborative research focused on Bates College and its histories with Wabanaki peoples.
Modes of Inquiry: [AC], [HS]
Writing Credit: None
GEC(s): None
Department/Program Attribute(s): None
Class Restriction: None
Cross-listed Course(s): None
Instructor: Jennifer Hamilton
ANTH 212 How Music Performs Culture: Introduction to Ethnomusicology (1 Credit)
An introduction to the field of ethnomusicology, the study of "music as culture." Emphasis is on the interdisciplinary character of the field, and the diverse analytical approaches to music making undertaken by ethnomusicologists over time. The centrality of fieldwork and ethnography to the discipline is also a core concept of the course. Through readings, multimedia, and discussion, students examine relationships among ethnomusicology, musicology, anthropology, and world music, and consider the implications of globalization to the field as a whole. Students explore applied music learning as well as performance as a research technique through participation in several hands-on workshops with the Bates Gamelan Ensemble.
Modes of Inquiry: [AC], [HS]
Writing Credit: [W2]
GEC(s): GEC C026, GEC C059, GEC C080
Department/Program Attribute(s): None
Class Restriction: None
Cross-listed Course(s): MUS 212
Instructor: Gina Fatone
ANTH 215 Death and Burial in Ancient Rome (1 Credit)
This course will examine the historical and archaeological aspects of death and burial in the Roman world from c. 150 BCE – 300 CE, in order to understand how the Romans cared for, disposed of, and commemorated the dead. We will explore culturally-specific attitudes to death, grief, mourning and funerals, alongside the physical monuments that commemorate the deceased. Geographically, we will focus on Italy, although case studies will span the Mediterranean world. Together, we will investigate Roman funerary rituals and follow the body on its journey from the world of the living to that of the dead, while exploring new narratives about death in different classes of ancient (and modern) society.
Modes of Inquiry: [HS]
Writing Credit: None
GEC(s): GEC C054
Department/Program Attribute(s): (AVC: History and Criticism), (History: Europe), (History: Premodern)
Class Restriction: None
Instructor: Liana Brent
ANTH 217 Indigenous Arts (1 Credit)
This course examines traditional and contemporary Indigenous artistic production, and investigates the multiple webs of meaning and social worlds within which native practitioners and their creative productions exist. A diverse range of contemporary art practices –- including painting, photography, film, music, performance, fashion, and new media -– are considered in relation to key aspects of cultural, political, and social lives of Indigenous peoples. Students analyze, among other things, art as particular expressions of Indigenous cosmologies, the entanglement of Primitivism and modernity, art and native sovereignty, capitalism and Indigenous cultural futures, art and value in the marketplace, tourist art and the value of authenticity, art and national identity, and colonial and postcolonial art. Additionally, students engage with recent scholarship on decolonization and Indigenous studies, and current events related to the theme of the course.
Modes of Inquiry: [AC], [HS]
Writing Credit: None
GEC(s): None
Department/Program Attribute(s): None
Class Restriction: None
Cross-listed Course(s): None
Instructor: April Strickland
ANTH 225 Rituals, Sentiments, and Gods: Religion in Ancient Greece (1 Credit)
An anthropological approach to ancient Greek religion in which archeological, literary, and art-historical sources are examined to gain an understanding of religion in ancient Greek society. Topics explored include cosmology, polytheism, mystery cults, civic religion, ecstasy, sacrifice, pollution, dreams, and funerary customs.
Modes of Inquiry: [AC], [HS]
Writing Credit: None
GEC(s): GEC C054
Department/Program Attribute(s): None
Class Restriction: None
Instructor: Lisa Maurizio
ANTH 226 Ethnographic Film (1 Credit)
This course looks at the development of ethnographic film from an anthropological lens and from international perspectives. Starting with the advent of the documentary and concluding with ethnographic new media, we will investigate how, why, and to what end film has been used as a tool by anthropologists and the communities that they work with to expand discussions about the modern world. Topics include filmmaking as a methodology for social scientists, the connections between ethnographic film and self-determination efforts in minority communities, and critical examinations of media making practices, onscreen and off, and the global impact these factors have had.
Modes of Inquiry: [AC], [HS]
Writing Credit: None
GEC(s): None
Department/Program Attribute(s): None
Class Restriction: None
Cross-listed Course(s): None
Instructor: Jennifer Hamilton
ANTH 229 The Anthropology of Media (1 Credit)
This course examines the social and political life of media and how it makes a difference in the daily lives of people as a practice—in production, reception, and/or circulation. It introduces some key concepts in social theory, such as ideology, hegemony, the public sphere, and the nation, which have been critical to the study of media across disciplines. This class provides an overview of the increasing theoretical attention paid to the mass media by anthropologists, and focuses on concrete ethnographic examples. It examines cross-culturally how mass media have become the primary means for the circulation of symbolic forms across time and space, as well as how these forms are crucial to the constitution of subjectivities, collectivities, and histories in the contemporary world. Prerequisite(s): any course in Anthropology.
Modes of Inquiry: [AC], [HS]
Writing Credit: [W2]
GEC(s): None
Department/Program Attribute(s): None
Class Restriction: None
Cross-listed Course(s): None
Instructor: April Strickland
ANTH 231 Money and Magic: Anthropological Exploration of Contemporary Capitalism (1 Credit)
This course examines the more magical and relational aspects of contemporary economy, markets, and capitalism. First, students examine ideas often taken for granted about nature, humans, and nonhumans that shape cultural understandings of "economy" in American capitalism. Then they explore economic practices, ideal subjects, and the production of economic "others" in contemporary capitalism(s) around the world, past and present. Through readings and use of various media (film, TikTok, Twitter, etc.) students explore how economy is cultural, relational, and ultimately a bit "magical." Prerequisite(s): one course between ECON 150-199.
Modes of Inquiry: [AC], [HS]
Writing Credit: None
GEC(s): None
Department/Program Attribute(s): None
Class Restriction: Not open to: First Year students
Cross-listed Course(s): ECON 231
Instructor: Jen Hughes
ANTH 237 Indigeneity Today: Comparative Indigenous Identities in the US and Russia (1 Credit)
Indigenous movements for land, rights, and cultural preservation have spread to and originated in all corners of the world. However, the global nature of these movements at times obscures ways of being Indigenous in differing contexts. This course analyzes Indigeneity in both the United States and Russia today. Through reading and analyzing ethnography, theory, and literature, it focuses on Indigenous peoples in a comparative context. Rather than prioritizing concern with Indigenous peoples emerging from the US, it attempts to demonstrate what Indigeneity has been in both the United States and Russia and what it is and means today. It asks the following questions: what is Indigeneity and who is Indigenous; how is Indigenous identity constructed and by whom? Topics include: Indigeneity and the State, Revitalization and Resurgence, Indigenous People and Nature Protection, and Hemispheric and Global Indigeneities.
Modes of Inquiry: [AC], [HS]
Writing Credit: None
GEC(s): None
Department/Program Attribute(s): None
Class Restriction: None
ANTH 251 Peoples of the Sea: Sailors, Pirates, Fishers, and More (1 Credit)
The vast oceans of the planet Earth are not an empty space of monolithic seawater. The seas have been peopled by a diversity of social groups such as fishers, rig workers, scientific investigators, pirates, coast guards, migrants, refugees, islanders, passengers, tourists, merchant mariners, and Indigenous seafarers. This anthropological course engages with the materiality and social construction of the oceans; it presents and discusses ethnographic studies of peoples at sea, how their modes of navigating and habituating generate particular temporalities, spatialities, socialites, and cosmologies. This course will enhance your understanding of the relationship between humanity and the sea, and broaden your horizon of cultural diversity and complexity while addressing important social issues and current affairs. This course will also enhance your analytical and critical thinking and writing, in-depth case study, comprehension, communication, teamwork, and time management skills.
Modes of Inquiry: [AC], [HS]
Writing Credit: None
GEC(s): GEC C037
Department/Program Attribute(s): None
Class Restriction: None
Cross-listed Course(s): None
Instructor: Liang Wu
ANTH 278 At the Cross-Roads: Art & Migration (1 Credit)
This course examines entanglements between artistic expression and the movement of people, ideas, and capital across the globe between the 19th and 21st centuries. Addressing visual culture’s relationships to these forms of movement, it focuses on the relationship between art and migration. The realities of which have de-linked art history from the nation-state and allowed for a recalibration between center and periphery. Drawing on interdisciplinary debates, this class explores current trends in artistic and cultural analysis, migration theory, and the politics of mobility through frameworks of decolonization and questions of identity. By looking at the circulation of material culture, ideas, and peoples, students consider art in relation to border, home, exile, and resistance. They analyze the multiple temporalities created by migration and intersections of visual culture, politics, migration, and the environment, examining how migratory movements have reshaped art, culture, and publics in recent decades.
Modes of Inquiry: [AC], [CP]
Writing Credit: None
GEC(s): None
Department/Program Attribute(s): (AVC: Non-Western Canon), (AVC: Power and Privilege)
Class Restriction: None
Cross-listed Course(s): AVC 278
ANTH 280 Ethnographic Explorations (Special Topics in Anthropology) (1 Credit)
Through the critical reading and analysis of ethnographic materials including books and articles, film and video, and other forms of representation, students will explore contemporary anthropological work in a particular area of interest. Students will also build a methodological toolkit for investigating complex social problems from an anthropological perspective. Special topic for Winter 2025: The Anthropology of Food and Eating. Prerequisite(s): ANTH 101.
Modes of Inquiry: [AC], [HS]
Writing Credit: None
GEC(s): None
Department/Program Attribute(s): None
Class Restriction: Not open to: First Year students
Cross-listed Course(s): None
Instructor: Jennifer Hamilton
ANTH 289 After Deportation Ethnographies from Latin America and the Caribbean (1 Credit)
Studies on deportation have mostly focused on the pathways to the criminal justice system, prison experience, and deportation processes to highlight the conditions in which individuals are criminalized and removed. This course builds on a growing literature paying attention to what happens to individuals after they are being deported to their so-called “countries of origin”, specifically those who are deported from the United States to Latin American and Caribbean nation-states. While students learn about the historical context and hegemonic narratives shaping the design of ever-growing migration policies affecting BILPOC immigrant communities in the US, the course centers the voices of deportees to analyze the different strategies they use to deal with the traumas and stigma of deportation in “origin” societies that often portray them as de-facto criminals. The course emphasizes the socio-cultural capital deportees use to find ways to belong in receiving societies.
Modes of Inquiry: [AC], [HS]
Writing Credit: None
GEC(s): GEC C008, GEC C014, GEC C037, GEC C041
Department/Program Attribute(s): None
Class Restriction: None
Instructor: Benoit Vallee
ANTH 312 Language Death and Revitalization (1 Credit)
Language Death and Revitalization explores linguistic diversity among the world’s 7,000 languages, one of which dies every two weeks. The course addresses the question of what is lost in terms of bodies of knowledge, world view, and identification of the limits of variability among human languages when languages die out. The local and global causes of extinctions are explored, including genocide, natural disaster, dislocation and population absorption and language shift, or linguistic suicide. Planning strategies for revitalization at local, national, and international levels are studied. Strategies for successful revitalization movements are deduced throughout the course of the semester. Recommended background: prior coursework in anthropology.
Modes of Inquiry: [HS]
Writing Credit: [W2]
GEC(s): None
Department/Program Attribute(s): None
Class Restriction: None
Instructor: Joyce Bennett
ANTH 333 Culture and Interpretation (1 Credit)
Beginning with a consideration of symbolic anthropology as it developed in the 1960s and 1970s, this course surveys critiques of the symbolic turn in anthropology and its use of the culture concept. Emphasis is given to history, political economy, and transnational social currents. Prerequisite(s): prior course work in anthropology.
Modes of Inquiry: None
Writing Credit: [W2]
GEC(s): GEC C026, GEC C091
Department/Program Attribute(s): None
Class Restriction: Not open to: First Year students
Cross-listed Course(s): None
ANTH 360 Independent Study (1 Credit)
Students, in consultation with a faculty advisor, individually design and plan a course of study or research not offered in the curriculum. Course work includes a reflective component, evaluation, and completion of an agreed-upon product. Sponsorship by a faculty member in the program/department, a course prospectus, and permission of the chair are required. Students may register for no more than one independent study per semester.
Modes of Inquiry: None
Writing Credit: None
GEC(s): None
Department/Program Attribute(s): None
Class Restriction: None
Cross-listed Course(s): None
ANTH 371 Indigenous Women's Social Movements in Latin America (1 Credit)
This course examines Indigenous women’s movements in Latin America. Comparing Indigenous movements throughout Abiyayala (the Americas) requires investigating ethnographic, political, and socio-economic contexts in which Indigenous women’s movements develop, thrive, and sometimes fail. The course pays particular attention to Indigenous women’s responses to marginalization and oppression in the 20th and 21st centuries and entails an applied project through community engaged learning. Recommended background: Prior coursework in the social sciences.
Modes of Inquiry: [AC], [HS]
Writing Credit: None
GEC(s): None
Department/Program Attribute(s): None
Class Restriction: None
Instructor: Joyce Bennett
ANTH 441 History of Anthropological Theory (1 Credit)
A consideration of some of the major theories in the development of the field of anthropology, with an emphasis on the fundamental issues of orientation and definition that have shaped and continue to influence anthropological thought. Topics include cultural evolution, the relationship between the individual and culture, the nature-nurture debate, British social anthropology, feminist anthropology, and anthropology as cultural critique.
Modes of Inquiry: [AC], [HS]
Writing Credit: None
GEC(s): None
Department/Program Attribute(s): None
Class Restriction: Not open to: First Year students
Cross-listed Course(s): None
ANTH 457 Senior Thesis (1 Credit)
Students participate in individual and group conferences in connection with the writing of the senior thesis. Majors writing an honors thesis register for ANTH 457 in the fall semester and 458 in the winter semester. Prerequisite(s): approval by the department of a thesis prospectus prior to registration.
Modes of Inquiry: None
Writing Credit: [W3]
GEC(s): None
Department/Program Attribute(s): None
Class Restriction: Not open to: First Year, Sophomore, or Junior students
Cross-listed Course(s): None
ANTH 458 Senior Thesis (1 Credit)
Individual and group conferences in connection with the writing of the senior thesis. Majors writing an honors thesis register for both ANTH 457 in the fall semester and 458 in the winter semester. One course credit is given for each registration. Majors writing a one semester thesis normally register for ANTH 458. Prerequisite(s): approval by the department of a thesis prospectus prior to registration.
Modes of Inquiry: None
Writing Credit: [W3]
GEC(s): None
Department/Program Attribute(s): None
Class Restriction: Not open to: First Year, Sophomore, or Junior students
Cross-listed Course(s): None
ANTH S12 Race, Gender, and the Practices and Politics That Move Videogames From Imagination to Reality (0.5 Credits)
Before videogames reach the market, levels must be designed, characters drawn, narratives written, and mechanics coded. Before that, videogames must be imagined, tested, and pitched. This course is designed to allow students to experience for themselves those earliest stages of videogame development, when games move from idea to collaborative project. After working through some of the most influential scholarship on the politics of videogames and their design, and hearing from several industry experts about their experiences in the field, students form groups and work collaboratively to develop pitch materials for an imagined game. Groups pitch these ideas to each other at the end of the term, and each student submits an autoethnographic account of their experiences on their "development team." Whether the pitched games strike students as viable or not, they leave the course with a deepened understanding of the complexities of game design and the politics that infuse the process.
Modes of Inquiry: [CP], [HS]
Writing Credit: None
GEC(s): None
Department/Program Attribute(s): None
Class Restriction: None
Cross-listed Course(s): None
Instructor: Josh Rubin
ANTH S20 The Anthropology of Plants and Fungi (0.5 Credits)
What kinds of social lives do plants and fungi lead in relation to humans, and humans in relation to plants and fungi? How do humans, plants, and fungi communicate? This course brings anthropological perspectives to these questions, and considers how language mediates this relationality. This course also examines how the category of plant––and increasingly the fungi––carries a political charge, as well as new multispecies collaborative potentials. Topics include traditional Indigenous knowledge and intellectual property; biodiversity and conservation; colonization and sovereignty; language, personhood, and the construction of human/more-than-human social identities. Particular attention is paid to contemporary issues around plant and fungi use in Maine.
Modes of Inquiry: [AC], [HS]
Writing Credit: None
GEC(s): None
Department/Program Attribute(s): None
Class Restriction: None
Cross-listed Course(s): None
Instructor: April Strickland
ANTH S23 Indigeneity in the Dominican Republic: Ethnographic Perspectives (0.5 Credits)
The course offers students a practical experience in ethnographic research in the context of indigenous culture in the Dominican Republic. Based on a set of various activities ranging from an archeological field camp, participant observation in handcrafted workshops, to the study of the museography of the on-site partner institution, Museo Maguá - a community-led and autonomous Taino museum located in the Hermanas Mirabal province in northern Dominican Republic - students will practically delve into the growing cultural and educational politics of Indigeneity in the Dominican Republic. Through this course, students will also expand their knowledge of indigenous history and culture in the Caribbean context. Eventually students will be introduced and/or sharpen their research methods skills in an interdisciplinary setting. Recommended background: Prior coursework in Anthropology, particularly in Ethnographic methods; intermediate level in Spanish.
Modes of Inquiry: [AC], [CP]
Writing Credit: None
GEC(s): None
Department/Program Attribute(s): None
Class Restriction: None
Cross-listed Course(s): LALS S23
Instructor: Benoit Vallee
ANTH S25 Global Capitalism and the Sea: Society, Economy, and Environment (0.5 Credits)
From international seafood trade to global supply chain and offshore drilling, the sea is integral to the development of global capitalism. This course examines the international economy in relation to the sea, its transoceanic organization of lives and ecologies, unevenly distributed social and environmental ramifications, as well as advocacies for a just and sustainable future in the face of climate change and inequalities. Topics include the Maritime Silk Road and transatlantic trade to whaling, industrial fishing, container shipping, waterfront gentrification, marine biotechnology, underwater oil and gas extraction, submarine cables, and deep-sea mining. Focus on social and historical contexts of these developments, the role of power, and the human stories and environmental politics and dynamics involved.
Modes of Inquiry: [AC], [HS]
Writing Credit: None
GEC(s): GEC C037
Department/Program Attribute(s): None
Class Restriction: None
Cross-listed Course(s): None
Instructor: Liang Wu
ANTH S31 Landscape Ethnography (0.5 Credits)
Environmental anthropologists, geographers and political ecologists have long been preoccupied with understanding the ways in which seemingly “natural” landscapes are actually the result of complex social histories. Landscape ethnography is the approach we take in this class to understand the entangled human and ecological histories of place, and challenge dichotomies of nature and culture. Informed by multispecies, interspecies and more-than-human perspectives across the social sciences and humanities, this class enables students an explorative and creative space to produce a landscape ethnography.
Modes of Inquiry: [CP], [HS]
Writing Credit: None
GEC(s): None
Department/Program Attribute(s): None
Class Restriction: None
Cross-listed Course(s): ENVR S31
Instructor: Jamie Haverkamp
ANTH S50 Independent Study (0.5 Credits)
Students, in consultation with a faculty advisor, individually design and plan a course of study or research not offered in the curriculum. Course work includes a reflective component, evaluation, and completion of an agreed-upon product. Sponsorship by a faculty member in the program/department, a course prospectus, and permission of the chair are required. Students may register for no more than one independent study during a Short Term.
Modes of Inquiry: None
Writing Credit: None
GEC(s): None
Department/Program Attribute(s): None
Class Restriction: None
Cross-listed Course(s): None