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Cultural Anthropology (CULANTH)
Professor Starn, Chair; Associate Professor Stein, Director of Undergraduate Studies; Professors Allison, Baker,
Ho, Nelson, O'Barr, Piot, Silverblatt, and Starn; Associate Professors Litzinger, Meintjes, Stein, and Subramanian;
Assistant Professors Makhulu, McIntosh, and Solomon; Professors Emeriti Apte, Ewing, Friedl, and Quinn;
Secondary Appointments: Professors Andrews (Slavic languages), Mignolo (romance studies), and Reddy (history);
Associate Professor Tetel (English) and Wilson (Women’s Studies); Assistant Professors Holsey (African and
African American Studies); Lecturer Thompson (documentary studies)
A major or minor is available in this department.
Cultural anthropology is a comparative discipline that studies the world's peoples and cultures. It extends
perspectives developed from anthropology's initial encounter with the "primitive" world to studies of complex
societies including rural and urban segments of the Global South and contemporary industrial countries, with an
emphasis on power, identity, and social justice.
Cultural anthropologists at Duke concentrate on political economy, culture, ideology, history, mass media, and
discourse, and the relations among them. These concerns lead them to such specific research and teaching interests
as: colonialism and state formation; the politics of representation and interpretation; histories of race and racism;
popular culture, music, film, and advertising; the bases of ideological persuasion and resistance; gender ideology;
language use in institutional contexts; class formation and political consciousness; war, peace-making, and human
rights, and the creation and use of ethnic and national identities. The department also offers courses that introduce
the various traditional subfields and methods of cultural anthropology, and other, integrative courses on world areas.
Faculty draw on their fieldwork in various geographic areas, with special strengths in Africa and the African
diaspora, Latin America, Middle East, Japan, China, and the United States. Students without prerequisites for a
course may ask the instructor for admission.
80S. Studies in Special Topics. SS Opportunities for first-year students to engage with a specific issue in cultural
anthropology, with emphasis on student writing. Topics vary each semester offered. Instructor: Staff. One course.
89S. First-Year Seminar. Topics vary each semester offered. Instructor: Staff. One course.
101. Introduction to Cultural Anthropology. CCI, CZ, SS Theoretical approaches to analyzing cultural beliefs
and practices cross-culturally; application of specific approaches to case material from present and/or past cultures.
Instructor: Staff. One course. C-L: International Comparative Studies 101
101D. Introduction to Cultural Anthropology. CCI, CZ, SS Same as Cultural Anthropology 101 except
instruction is provided in lecture and discussion group each week. Instructor: Staff. One course. C-L: International
Comparative Studies 101D, International Comparative Studies
105. Introduction to African Studies (B) (DS3 or DS4). ALP, CCI, CZ One course. C-L: see African and African
American Studies 103; also C-L: History 202, Political Science 270
120. Alcohol and Culture. CCI, EI, SS Examination of cultural and social dimensions of alcohol use crossculturally, with special attention to ethical issues surrounding control of alcohol use, frameworks for judging
''abuse,'' and the political and social agendas of researchers and caregivers in a range of societies. Local field
research (on and off campus). Instructor: Ewing. One course.
130. Anthropology and Film. SS The study of feature films and documentaries on issues of colonialism,
imperialism, war and peace, and cultural interaction. An introduction to critical film theory and film production in
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non-Western countries. Instructor: Allison, Jackson, or Litzinger. One course. C-L: International Comparative
Studies 104, Visual and Media Studies 243, Documentary Studies, Arts of the Moving Image
130D. Anthropology and Film. SS Same as Cultural Anthropology 130 except instruction is provided in lecture
and discussion group each week. Instructor: Litzinger. One course. C-L: Arts of the Moving Image
140. Life in America: Identity and Everyday Experience. CCI, CZ, SS How American culture shapes the
everyday lives of people in the United States. Focus on two themes: cultural differences as well as similarities within
and between ethnic groups, and the impact of history, large institutions, and global relations on all Americans.
Instructor: Baker. One course.
146. Haitian Creole for the Recovery in Haiti. CZ One course. C-L: see French 112; also C-L: Latin American
Studies 103, African and African American Studies 106, Linguistics 112
150. Fantasy, Mass Media, and Popular Culture. CCI, R, SS A cross-cultural study of how images and stories
that are mass produced affect the world view, identities, and desires of their consumers. Independent ethnographic
research on a phenomenon in mass culture required. Instructor: Allison. One course. C-L: International Comparative
Studies 105, Visual and Media Studies 244, Documentary Studies, Policy Journalism and Media, Study of
Sexualities
160. Anthropology and the Motion Picture. ALP, CCI, CZ Study of the representation of non-US cultures in the
genre of major motion pictures (as opposed to ethnographic film). Focus will be on films about Kenya, Italy, and the
South Pacific. Examination of motives for foreign travel and experiences of living abroad as depicted in films.
Consideration of how other cultures are romanticized and orientalized in movies. Films about each of the cases to be
screened. Discussions focus on critical film reviews, issues of anthropological theory and the theory of
representation, as well as students' own insights. Instructor: O'Barr. One course. C-L: Visual and Media Studies 245
160S. Anthropology and the Motion Picture. ALP, CCI, CZ Seminar version of Cultural Anthropology 160.
Instructor: O'Barr. One course.
170. Advertising and Society: Global Perspective (DS4). CCI, SS History and development of commercial
advertising; advertising as a reflector and/or creator of social and cultural values; advertisements as cultural myths;
effects on children, women, and ethnic minorities; advertising and language; relation to political and economic
structure; and advertising and world culture. Emphasis on American society complemented by case studies of
advertising in Canada, Japan, Mexico, Russia, Western Europe, and selected other countries. Instructor: O'Barr. One
course. C-L: Sociology 360, Linguistics 170, Visual and Media Studies 246, Canadian Studies, International
Comparative Studies, Arts of the Moving Image, Markets and Management Studies, Policy Journalism and Media,
Women's Studies
170D. Advertising and Society: Global Perspective (DS4). CCI, SS Same as Cultural Anthropology 170 except
instruction is provided in lecture and discussion group each week. Instructor: O'Barr. One course. C-L: Sociology
360D, Linguistics 170D, Visual and Media Studies 246D, Markets and Management Studies
190A. Duke-Administered Study Abroad: Introductory Special Topics in Cultural Anthropology. CCI Topics
differ by section. Instructor: Staff. One course.
190FS. Special Topics in Focus. Selected topics vary each semester. Open only to students in the Focus Program.
Instructor consent required. Instructor: Staff. One course.
195. Comparative Approaches to Global Issues. CCI, CZ, SS One course. C-L: see International Comparative
Studies 195; also C-L: History 103, Political Science 178, Religion 195, Sociology 195
202. Languages of the World. CCI, SS One course. C-L: see Linguistics 202; also C-L: Russian 362, International
Comparative Studies 210
203. Marxism and Society. CZ, EI, SS One course. C-L: see Literature 470; also C-L: Education 239, Sociology
339, International Comparative Studies
204. Self and Society (P). CCI, SS The nature of human social identities, the contexts in which they are shaped, and
the processes by which they change. May include an optional service-learning component. Instructor: Ewing. One
course. C-L: Psychology 224, Women's Studies
205. The Law and Language. CCI, CZ, EI, SS One course. C-L: see Linguistics 205
206. Anthropology of Law. CCI, EI, SS Comparative approach to jurisprudence and legal practice, dispute
resolution, law-making institutions and processes, and the relation of law to politics, culture, and values. Instructor:
O'Barr. One course.
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207. Anthropology of Sports. CCI, CZ, SS The role of sports in different cultures in the contemporary world.
Dynamics of race, gender, sexuality, fantasy and desire, mythmaking and the culture of celebrity, commercial and
mass media. Instructor: Starn. One course.
208. The Anthropology of Race. CCI, EI, SS Human variation and the historical development of concepts of race;
science and scientific racism; folk-concepts of race; and the political and economic causes of racism; ethics of
racism. Instructor: Staff. One course. C-L: African and African American Studies 251
208FS. The Anthropology of Race. CCI, EI, SS Same as Cultural Anthropology 208 but taught as part of the
FOCUS program. Instructor: Baker. One course.
209. Sport As Performance. ALP, CCI, EI, SS One course. C-L: see Theater Studies 201; also C-L: Sociology
201
210. Global Culture. CCI, SS Globalization examined through some of its dominant cultural forms—the marketing
of pop music, the globalization of TV culture, the spread of markets and commodities, the export of political
ideologies. Special focus given to the way in which these forms both affect and are transformed by local cultures in
Africa, South Asia, East Asia, and Latin America. Instructor: Allison, Litzinger, Piot, or Starn. One course. C-L:
Visual and Media Studies 247, International Comparative Studies
211. Religious Movements. CCI, CZ, SS Religious responses to modernity and colonialism. Religion and social
change in complex societies. The psychology and politics of conversion. Instructor: Ewing. One course. C-L:
Religion 280
212. Language and Society. CCI, SS One course. C-L: see English 395; also C-L: Linguistics 451, Slavic and
Eurasian Studies 385
213. Cyborgs. CCI, SS, STS, W Philosophical, cross-cultural, historical, mass media, and political assumptions
about what it means to be human that serve as the foundation for technological development. Instructor: Nelson.
One course. C-L: Women's Studies 215
214S. Shamanism and Spirit Possession. CCI, CZ, EI, R, SS One course. C-L: see Religion 213S; also C-L:
History 215S
215S. Indian Civilization. CCI, CZ, EI, SS, W One course. C-L: see History 219S
216S. African Mbira Music: An Experiential Learning Class. ALP, CCI, CZ One course. C-L: see Music 133S;
also C-L: African and African American Studies 221S
220. World Music: Aesthetic and Anthropological Approaches. ALP, CCI, CZ One course. C-L: see Music 130;
also C-L: International Comparative Studies, Documentary Studies
221. Music, Social Life, and Scenes. ALP, CCI, CZ, R, W One course. C-L: see Music 137; also C-L:
Documentary Studies
225. Magical Modernities. CCI, SS One course. C-L: see African and African American Studies 356
226. Espionage, Cryptology, Psyops. SS, STS One course. C-L: see Information Science and Information Studies
235
230D. The History of Emotions. CCI, CZ, R, W One course. C-L: see History 264D
231D. The History of Romantic Love. ALP, CCI, CZ, EI, W One course. C-L: see History 263D
232. Gender and Language (DS4). CCI, R, SS One course. C-L: see Russian 364; also C-L: International
Comparative Studies 207, Women's Studies 232, Linguistics 364
233S. Documenting Religion. CCI, CZ One course. C-L: see Documentary Studies 338S; also C-L: Religion 251S,
Visual and Media Studies 210S
234S. Anthropology and Education. CCI, EI, SS One course. C-L: see Education 234S
235S. Human Rights Activism. CCI, EI, R, SS Introduction to the foundations and development of the human
rights movement. Explore themes related to mass violence and social conflict, U.S. foreign policy and international
humanitarian law, and the challenges of justice and reconciliation around the world. Emphasis on the changing
nature of human rights work and the expanding, contested boundaries of the struggle to protect basic human dignity
both at home and abroad. Required participation in service learning. Instructor: Kirk. One course. C-L: Political
Science 279S, Public Policy Studies 230S
236S. Farmworkers in North Carolina: Roots of Poverty, Roots of Change. CCI, SS One course. C-L: see
Documentary Studies 332S; also C-L: Latino/a Studies in the Global South
237. Psychological Anthropology (C, D, P). CCI, SS Examines how culture is learned and expressed, and comes
to be more or less compelling for individuals and more or less widely shared by them. Applies theory from
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psychoanalysis, child development studies, cognitive science, and psychological anthropology to cross-cultural
ethnographic evidence. Considers, from a comparative perspective, topics including child rearing, the self and
personality, emotion and motivation, gender and sexuality, language and thought, individualism versus collectivism,
human universals and cultural variation. Prerequisites: none. Instructor: Ewing or Quinn. One course. C-L:
Psychology 260, Early Childhood Education
238S. Politics of Food: Land, Labor, Health, and Economics. ALP, CCI, EI, R One course. C-L: see
Documentary Studies 341S; also C-L: Public Policy Studies 380
239S. Who Cares and Why: Social Activism and its Motivations. CCI, R, SS, W One course. C-L: see
Documentary Studies 335S
240S. The Anthropology of Hinduism: From Encounter to Engagement. ALP, CCI, CZ, R One course. C-L:
see Religion 310S; also C-L: Documentary Studies, Ethics
241. Culture and Politics in China. CCI, CZ, SS Introduction to the study of contemporary China, including
Taiwan and the Chinese Diaspora. Key themes include family and kinship, sex and gender, regional diversity, ethnic
minority relations, the politics of modernity, revolution, and reform, and the representation of Chinese identity
through popular media, film, and travel. Instructor: Litzinger. One course. C-L: International Comparative Studies
242. Culture and Politics in Africa. CCI, CZ, SS One course. C-L: see African and African American Studies
340; also C-L: Visual and Media Studies 229, International Comparative Studies
243. Culture and Politics in Latin America. CCI, CZ, EI, SS Key themes in Latin American societies, including
art, literature, history, violence and human rights, economic development, and rebellion and revolution. Instructor:
Nelson or Starn. One course. C-L: International Comparative Studies 325, Documentary Studies
245. Culture and Politics of South Asia. CCI, CZ, SS Explores the politics, history, cultures, art, and literature of
societies and nation-states across the South Asian continent. Focus on issues such as urbanization; internal/external
migration; linguistic, religious, and ethnic identities and conflicts; the impact of colonialism, development, and
globalization. Instructor: Ewing. One course. C-L: Asian & Middle Eastern Studies 455
246S. Civil/Human Rights Activism: In the Spirit of Pauli Murray. ALP, CCI, CZ, R One course. C-L: see
Documentary Studies 347S; also C-L: African and African American Studies 236S
247. Indigenous Medicine and Global Health. CCI, SS One course. C-L: see Global Health Certificate 301
248. The Arts and Human Rights. ALP, EI, SS Investigate multiple relationships between arts and human rights
discourse and practice. Instructor: Admay/Meintjes. One course. C-L: Study of Ethics 261, Music 238, Political
Science 237, Public Policy Studies 252
249. Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Human Development: A View From Modern Day Japan and Asia (C,D).
CCI, SS One course. C-L: see Psychology 241; also C-L: International Comparative Studies 213
250. Muslim World: Transformations and Continuities. CCI, SS The diversity of social practices within the
community of Islam. Particular emphasis on gender relations, religious movements, diaspora communities, and
social change. Instructor: Ewing. One course. C-L: Religion 380, International Comparative Studies 170, Women's
Studies
251. Representing the Middle East. CCI, CZ, SS Diverse representations of the Middle East by communities
inside and outside the region. Travelogues, films, photography, literature, newspapers/media and memoir from the
late nineteenth-century Ottoman context to the modern Middle East. Readings on identity, orientalism, violence,
gender, and (post) colonialism. Instructors: Goknar and Stein. One course. C-L: Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
345, History 213, Turkish 372, International Comparative Studies 362, Visual and Media Studies 250, Islamic
Studies
252. Muslims in the West. CCI, CZ, SS The varieties of Muslim experience in Europe and North America, with
particular attention to local debates and controversies focused on Muslims, especially post 9-11. How the various
situations of Muslim minorities can contribute to anthropological understandings of identity, ethnicity, and diaspora.
How Muslim practices can affect Western common, unexamined understandings of religion, secularism, and the
nature of human rights. Includes visits to local mosques. Instructor: Ewing. One course. C-L: Religion 385
253. Palestine, Israel, Arab-Israeli Conflict. CCI, EI, SS Introduction to Israeli and Palestinian culture, politics,
and society and the central historical events of the Israel/Palestinian conflict. From early Zionist settlement in
Palestine in the late nineteenth century and concluding with the 'Peace Process' of the 1990s, the second Palestinian
uprising (Intifada), and the Israeli military reoccupation of the Palestinian territories. Ethics of both the Israeli
occupation and the Palestinian resistance struggles against occupation. Instructor: Stein. One course. C-L: Asian &
Middle Eastern Studies 319, Jewish Studies 283, Islamic Studies
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256. Islamic Civilization I. CCI, CZ, EI One course. C-L: see Religion 375; also C-L: History 210, Medieval and
Renaissance Studies 268, Ethics, Information Science and Information Studies
257. Islamic Civilization II. CCI, CZ, EI One course. C-L: see Religion 376; also C-L: History 211, Medieval and
Renaissance Studies 269, International Comparative Studies, Ethics
258S. Our Culinary Cultures. ALP, CCI, W One course. C-L: see Documentary Studies 344S
260S. Africa and the Slave Trade. CCI, EI, SS One course. C-L: see African and African American Studies 313S
262S. Documenting Black Experiences. ALP, CCI One course. C-L: see Documentary Studies 350S; also C-L:
African and African American Studies 225S, Arts of the Moving Image 214S, Public Policy Studies 387S
263. Black Europe: Race, Ethnicity and Diaspora in Contemproary Europe. CCI, CZ, EI, SS Exploration of
the historical and contemporary presence and impact of the African diaspora throughout Europe. Course engages an
anthropological examination of ethnographic texts, including examples of biography, film and visual culture.
Instructor: McIntosh. One course. C-L: African and African American Studies 263
265. Culture and Politics in Contemporary Europe: Citizenship, Migration, and National Belonging. CCI,
CZ, EI, SS Critically examine current scholarship on the anthropology of Europe, and social and political theories
concerning perplexities of identities, citizenship, nationalism, and national identity formation, with focus on related
ethical questions and dilemmas. Instructor: McIntosh. One course. C-L: International Comparative Studies 236
269. Black Gods and Kings: Priests and Practices of the Afro-Atlantic Religions. CCI, CZ, EI, SS C-L: see
Religion 270; also C-L: African and African American Studies 269
271. Gender and Culture. CCI, SS Explanation of differing beliefs about gender cross-culturally, by comparison
with dominant themes about gender in our own cultural history and contemporary ideological struggles. Instructor:
Allison or Silverblatt. One course. C-L: International Comparative Studies 203, Women's Studies 217, Study of
Sexualities, Women's Studies
272S. Advertising and Masculinity. CCI, SS Gender representations in advertising, focusing on masculinity.
Consideration also given to representations of femininity in advertising, to the nature and complexity of gender, and
to the history and place of advertising in society and culture. Case materials drawn primarily from contemporary
American advertising, with examples from other time periods and other national advertising traditions. Consent of
instructor required. Instructor: O'Barr. One course. C-L: Markets and Management Studies, Policy Journalism and
Media, Women's Studies
274D. Global France. ALP, CCI, CZ, EI One course. C-L: see French 480D; also C-L: History 274D
275. Culture and Politics in Native America. CCI, CZ, EI Past and contemporary conditions of American Indian
life, with an emphasis on North America. Social and political organization, gender relations, changing economic
patterns, cultural themes and variations, spirituality, the effects of anti-Indian wars, policies, and prejudice, and the
emergence of movements for self-determination. Instructor: Starn. One course.
290. Current Issues in Anthropology. Selected topics in methodology, theory, or area. Instructor: Staff. One
course.
290A. Duke-Administered Study Abroad: Special Topics in Cultural Anthropology. CCI Topics differ by
section. Instructor: Staff. One course.
290S. Current Issues in Anthropology. Same as Cultural Anthropology 290 except instruction is provided in
seminar format. Instructor: Staff. One course.
291. Independent Study. Individual non-research directed study in a field of special interest on a previously
approved topic, under the supervision of a faculty member, resulting in an academic product. With consent of
instructor and director of undergraduate studies. One course. Instructor: Staff. One course.
293. Research Independent Study. R Individual research in a field of special interest under the supervision of a
faculty member, the central goal of which is a substantive paper or written report containing significant analysis and
interpretation of a previously approved topic. With consent of instructor and director of undergraduate studies.
Instructor: Staff. One course.
301. Theoretical Foundations of Cultural Anthropology. CCI, SS Major schools and theories of cultural
anthropology. Open to seniors and juniors. Sophomores by permission only. Instructor: Staff. One course. C-L:
International Comparative Studies
302. Fieldwork Methods: Cultural Analysis and Interpretation. EI, R, SS, W Anthropology as a discipline (a
field of study) and the site where anthropologists work: the field. Combines theories of anthropological fieldwork
methods with practice, including participation, observation, and interviews. Students undertake original research in a
local fieldsite of their choice and produce their own mini-ethnography. This requirement may also be satisfied by
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taking Cultural Anthropology 290A Duke in Ghana Anthropological Field Research. Instructor: Staff. One course.
C-L: Global Health
307. Development and Africa. CCI, CZ, SS One course. C-L: see African and African American Studies 307; also
C-L: Public Policy Studies 207, International Comparative Studies
308T. BorderWork(s): At Home/On the Wall: between Belfast and Durham. CCI, CZ, R, W One course. C-L:
see International Comparative Studies 395T
311S. Gender and Sexuality in Africa. CCI, SS One course. C-L: see African and African American Studies 311S;
also C-L: Women's Studies 288S
314. Representing Slavery. ALP, CCI, EI, SS One course. C-L: see African and African American Studies 314;
also C-L: Visual and Media Studies 326, International Comparative Studies 212
321. African American Intellectual History, Twentieth Century. CCI, CZ, W Ideas about race, culture, and
identity still shape strategies for African American empowerment and securing the ideals of democracy in the
United States. ''Classic'' texts from each decade of the twentieth century. Explore the location of the authors' work
within its historical and political contexts. Attention given to the texture of (debates within) the African American
intellectual community. Instructor: Baker. One course. C-L: African and African American Studies 281, History 350
333S. The Wire. CCI, EI, SS One course. C-L: see African and African American Studies 333S
334. Traffic in Women: Cultural Perspectives on Prostitution in Modern China. ALP, CCI, SS One course. CL: see Asian & Middle Eastern Studies 333; also C-L: Women's Studies 233, Study of Sexualities 233, Arts of the
Moving Image 270
340. Anthropology and Public Policy. CZ, EI, SS Explore legacy of anthropological policy research to get a sense
of its conflicts and contributions, since the end of the 19th century to the present. Survey anthropological inquiry
into development, migration, global agriculture, indigenous peoples’ advocacy, public health, gender, human rights,
and bioethics. Ethnographically examine how policy makers construct policy problems to be solved in particular
ways, and discuss and critique anthropological approaches to understanding these problems. Instructor: McIntosh.
One course. C-L: Public Policy Studies 226
341. Survival in Precarious Times. CCI, CZ, EI, SS Examines contemporary conditions(economic,
environmental, militaristic, social) of risk in the world today, the differential effects this has on segments of the
population, and various strategies people adopt to survive. Explores these issues in terms of real-life subjectsmigration , homelessness, addiction, wartime, cancer, joblessness in cross- cultural comparison: W. Africa, Japan,
the U.S., India, China. Instructor: Allison. One course.
343A. Themes in Chinese Culture and History. CCI, CZ, SS An interdisciplinary approach to explore political,
social, and cultural issues, both historical and contemporary, in China. (Taught in China) Instructor: Staff. One
course. C-L: History 224, Political Science 206A, International Comparative Studies
355S. Documentary Film/Video Theory and Practice (DS4). ALP One course. C-L: see Arts of the Moving
Image 330S; also C-L: Visual and Media Studies 273S, Documentary Studies
356S. The Documentary Experience: A Video Approach (A). ALP, R, SS One course. C-L: see Documentary
Studies 105S; also C-L: Arts of the Moving Image 331S, History 354S, Political Science 278S, Public Policy
Studies 378S, Visual and Media Studies 205S
365. The World of Japanese Pop Culture. ALP, CCI, CZ One course. C-L: see Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
365
366. Trauma and Space in Asia. ALP, CCI, CZ One course. C-L: see Asian & Middle Eastern Studies 410
367D. Mayas, Aztecs and Incas: The World According to the Indigenous People of Latin America. CZ, EI, R
One course. C-L: see Spanish 412D; also C-L: International Comparative Studies 460D, Latino/a Studies in the
Global South 412D
367S. Mayas, Aztecs, and Incas: The World According to the Indigenous People of Latin America. CZ, EI,
FL, R One course. C-L: see Spanish 412S; also C-L: International Comparative Studies 460S, Latino/a Studies in
the Global South 412S
388S. Back in the U.S.S.R.: Everyday Soviet Culture, 1956-1989. ALP, CCI, CZ One course. C-L: see Russian
388S
393A-1. Research Independent Study on Contemporary China. R Research and field studies culminating in a
paper approved and supervised by the resident director of the Duke in China Program. Includes field trips on cultural
and societal changes in contemporary China. Offered only in the Duke in China Program. Instructor: Staff. One
course.
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395AS. Environment, Health, and Development in China. CCI, EI, SS, STS Critical overview and investigation
of the culture, politics, and political economy of environment, health, and development issues in contemporary
China, with special attention to case studies exploring a range of issues from public health panics, HIV and AIDS,
sex work, migrant workers, the Beijing Olympics, water politics, earthquake relief, and environmental protest.
Includes readings across disciplines, and engagement with the work of government, academic, multilateral and nongovernmental groups. Instructor consent required. Course taught in China as part of the Global Study Abroad
Program. Instructor: Litzinger. One course. C-L: Global Health Certificate 383AS, Political Science 214AS, Ethics
396AS. Health Policy in Transition: Challenges for China. CCI, EI, SS, STS Critical introduction to the
dynamics and challenges of health policy in China, from the early twentieth century to the present, with a particular
focus on the reform period. Topics to be addressed: health care and economic development, state responsibility and
welfare systems, privatization, and disparities in access to health services; history of state policy on regional health
planning, community health services, rural health provisions in poverty areas, and the developments in public health
infrastructure urban and rural settings. Instructor consent required. Course taught in China as part of the Global
Study Abroad Program. Instructor: Guo. One course. C-L: Global Health
397S. Language in Immigrant America. ALP, CCI, R One course. C-L: see English 396S; also C-L: Linguistics
396S, Slavic and Eurasian Studies 396S
399S. Global Russia. CCI, CZ, EI, SS One course. C-L: see Russian 399S; also C-L: Public Policy Studies 201S
403S. Politics and Obligations of Memory. CCI, CZ, EI, SS Explores political contexts, and often competing
visions, surrounding construction and reproduction of public memory. Asks how sites of memory, presenting an
image of the past, express understandings, desires, and conflicts of the present. Particular focus on how times of
crisis and trauma are commemorated, challenged, or hidden. Open only to juniors and seniors. Instructor: Silverblatt.
One course. C-L: History 395S
404. Asians in the United States. CCI, EI, SS Exploration of contours of Asian migration to the U.S. against the
backdrop of the social and political transformations in American society from the mid-19th century to the present.
Considers how Asian Americans have been constituted by world-historical processes and have constituted
themselves as social and political actors. Instructor: Subramanian. One course.
405. Religion and Social Transformation in South Asia. CCI, EI, SS Considers the making of religious identity
in colonial and postcolonial South Asia and contemporary debates over secularism, conversion, and citizenship.
Some key issues: the relationship between religious identity and state formation; the role of religion in the modern
public sphere; the relationship between religious community and democratic participation. Instructor: Subramanian.
One course. C-L: Religion 225
416S. Capstone Seminar: Imperialism and Islamism. CZ, R, SS One course. C-L: see History 416S
417S. The Middle East in Popular Culture. CCI, CZ, SS Popular culture in the Middle East and images of the
Middle East in United States' popular culture, covering a variety of cultural forms, including film, music, and comic
books. How cultural forms relate to political and historical processes. Wars and political conflicts; gender, race,
sexuality, and ethnicity. Instructor: Stein. One course. C-L: Asian & Middle Eastern Studies 215S 418. American
Marriage: A Cultural Approach. R, SS Americans' cultural understandings of marriage and its central place in
American life and relation to American ideas about fulfillment, commitment, autonomy, love, and gender roles.
Interdisciplinary readings; individually designed research project involving conduct and analysis of interviews about
marriage. Instructor: Quinn. One course.
419S. Global Environmentalism and the Politics of Nature. CCI, CZ, SS, STS Exploration of several themes:
how local, national, and transnational organizations manage the environment, discuss it, study it, protect and defend
it; who speaks for nature and to what ends; the differences between capitalist and socialist approaches to the
environment; how relations among natures, nations, social movements, individuals, and institutions have changed
over time. Case studies from Africa, East and Southeast Asia, India, Latin America, and the United States; study of
new theoretical writing on the relationship between humans, technology, capital, and nature. Instructor: Litzinger.
One course. C-L: Information Science and Information Studies
420S. The Inca Empire and Colonial Legacies. CCI, CZ, SS Focus on the history of the Inca empire, its complex
economic organization, ecologically sensitive use of environmental resources, sophisticated political and religious
structures, and magnificent architecture and material culture. How the empire's descendents accommodated and
challenged the forces of Spanish colonialism. Instructor: Silverblatt. One course. C-L: History 325S
421. The African Diaspora. CCI, CZ, SS One course. C-L: see African and African American Studies 305; also CL: International Comparative Studies
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422. Myth, Ritual, Symbol. CCI, CZ, SS, W Cross cultural examination of roles of myths, rituals, and symbols in
meaning-making, creation of identity, reproduction of cultural forms and challenges to the construction of "normal."
Draws on ethnography, classical anthropological theory, film and participant-observation. Explores functionalist,
psychoanalytic, structuralist, and feminist modes of analysis. Culture areas include Ndembu of Zambia, Maya of
Guatemala, Turkish village life, Nazi Germany, and present-day United States. Instructor: Nelson. One course.
423. Sex and Money. CCI, SS Sexual practices that involve transactions of money in different cultural and
historical settings, including "regular" marriage practices that involve exchanges of money and goods as well as
extramarital practices where one party is selling bodily acts. Examination of the ethics and politics of these
exchanges questioning who benefits from them (and who not) and how to also assess other bodily transactions
including prostitution and surrogacy. Reading materials on sexual practices in different cultural contexts (including
Tonga, Thailand, Brazil, India, Ghana, China, Japan, Russia, Turkey, Indonesia). Comparisons made in terms of
culture, religion, ethical systems, politics, and economy. Instructor: Allison. One course.
424. Medical Anthropology. EI, SS, STS, W Same as Cultural Anthropology 424T except taught in writing
intensive manner. Instructor: Nelson. One course. C-L: Global Health Certificate 321
424T. Medical Anthropology. CCI, EI, SS, STS Cross cultural experiences and understanding of health and
illness, the body and non-biological aspects of medicine. Culture-specific sickness (like envidia, running amok,
attention deficit disorder). Class, race, and gender inflected experiences of health. Various societies' organization of
health care specialists, including biomedical doctors, voudon priestesses, and shamans. Instructor: Davis. One
course. C-L: Global Health Certificate 330
425. Globalization and Anti-Globalization. CCI, CZ, SS The politics and process of globalization in light of the
responses, ideologies, and practices of the anti-globalization movement. Focus on the interrelationship between the
analysis of globalization and policy formulation on such topics as social justice, labor, migration, poverty, natural
resource management, and citizenship. Case studies from the United States, Latin America, South and East Asia,
Africa, and Europe. Instructor: Litzinger. One course. C-L: International Comparative Studies 204
426S. Anthropology of Space. CCI, SS Explores relationship between space and culture; ways in which
communities make and negotiate space; space both a locus of control and a tool of resistance, as well as other issues.
Interdisciplinary readings include scholarship from anthropology, geography, critical theory, history, and literary
studies. Topics include identity formation, globalization, migration, popular culture, race and racism, gender and
sexuality with attention to the ways that space and place intersect with these issues. Instructor: Stein. One course. CL: Literature 235S, Women's Studies 280S
427S. The Invention of Ethnography. CCI, SS Focus on Bronislaw Malinowski and his role in the invention of
the ethnographic method through his fieldwork in the Trobriand Islands in the early decades of the 20th century.
Malinowski's publications examined in the light of the tradition of ethnography they spawned. Malinowski's
biography, field notes, and diaries will be considered as will more recent criticisms of Malinowski and the
ethnographic method itself. Instructor: O'Barr. One course.
428S. Doing Good: Anthropological Perspectives on Development. CCI, EI, R, SS Course will move through
the evaluation of the impact of development projects to consider the role of development as a global phenomenon
that affects both what it means to be American and how the `other' is constructed. Instructor: Mathers. One course.
C-L: International Comparative Studies 201S, Public Policy Studies 210S
429. Gender and Sexuality in Latin America. CCI, CZ, SS Gender and sexuality as strands within complex
fabrics of identification. Anthropological case studies, including ethnography, film, and theoretical analyses, drawn
from Latin America; the possibility of specific gender formations in that geographical region. Relations among men,
women, "cochones," "machos," "virgenes," Malinches, "mestizos," "mujeres Mayas," "travestis," revolutionaries,
gringos and gringas, throughout the whole continent of the Americas. How gender and sexuality affect and are
affected by other forms of identification such as race and ethnicity, class, colonialism, nationalism, and
globalization. The role of stereotypes. Instructor: Nelson. One course. C-L: Women's Studies 289, International
Comparative Studies 326, Latin American Studies, Study of Sexualities
430S. Travel, Gender, and Power. CCI, SS Nineteenth-century travel and imperialism; contemporary tourism; the
relationship between leisure and power, globalization and consumption, the role of gender, sex and exploitation.
Instructor: Stein. One course. C-L: Asian & Middle Eastern Studies 305S, Women's Studies 281S
431. Diasporic South Asia. CCI, SS Explores histories of migration from South Asia and the cultural politics of
identity and rights in a variety of host societies including, Malaysia, South Africa, Fiji, Trinidad, Uganda, United
Kingdom, and the United States. Instructor: Subramanian.
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432S. Gender, Sex and Citizenship. CCI, EI, SS Explore current issues and debates relating to the relationship
between gender, sexuality and global flows of people, labor, capital and ideas. Consider feminist analyses of the
citizen-subject and foundational questions central to this area of study relationship between cultural representation,
queer subjectivities, and sexual citizenship. Examine scholarship on gendered vulnerability and the welfare state; the
politics of `terror’, security, and stereotyped masculinities; domestic labor and contemporary slavery; and the
controversial debates about the connections between sex tourism, human trafficking and commercial sex work.
Prereq: Previous gender studies course or consent of the instructor.Instructor: McIntosh. One course. C-L: Study of
Sexualities 304S, Women's Studies 304S
433S. Childhood in Theory and Practice. CCI, EI, SS Critical examination of childhood as both a social
construction and a diversely lived experience linked to notions of race, class, gender and national identity. In
addition to examining how they function as objects of moral panics and political projects, we will also approach
children as agents of change. We will consider topics such as education, human rights, child labor, consumerism,
media, and adoption. Instructor: Campoamor. One course.
434S. Cultures of New Media. ALP, SS, STS Anthropological look at `new media’ - their varied forms and
histories, how they are used and understood, and their meanings and effects within different communities of users.
Charts a number of technologies deemed `new’ in their day and the social meanings and communities that such
technologies generated. Explores new media in domains of art and literature, as well as issues of race, gender,
sexuality and how other indices of difference come to bear on new media and its use. Grounded in anthropology,
readings will also draw on media studies, visual studies, cultural studies and critical theory, queer and gender theory,
history and geography. Instructor: Stein. One course. C-L: Literature 412S, Visual and Media Studies 388S
498S. Senior Seminar Distinction Program Sequence. R No credit for Cultural Anthropology 498S without
satisfactory completion of Cultural Anthropology 499S. Consent of director of undergraduate studies required.
Instructor: Staff. One course.
499S. Senior Seminar Distinction Program Sequence. W Continuation of Cultural Anthropology 498S, and
required for credit for 498S. Consent of director of undergraduate studies required. Instructor: Staff. One course.
501S. Anthropology and History. SS Recent scholarship that combines anthropology and history, including
culture history, ethnohistory, the study of mentalité, structural history, and cultural biography. The value of the
concept of culture to history and the concepts of duration and event for anthropology. Prerequisite: major in history,
one of the social sciences, or comparative area studies; or graduate standing. Instructor: Reddy. One course. C-L:
History 572S
520S. Anthropology and Psychology (C, P). CCI, SS Cross-cultural approaches to the psyche, including
applications of social psychology, psychoanalysis, and trans-cultural psychiatry to anthropological questions such as
culturally expressed psychic conflicts and pathologies, gender and sexuality, communication, rationality, affect, and
motivations. Instructor: Staff. One course. C-L: Psychology 628S
530S. Millennial Capitalisms: Global Perspectives. CCI, CZ, R, SS Critical examination of the problematic of
capital from the late nineteenth century until the present moment. Anthropological frameworks and related
disciplinary approaches to the multiple cultural productions and lived experiences under divergent forms of
capitalism in the new millennium. Focus on East Asia. Theories of capitalism, globalization and anti-globalization
movements, "imaginaries" and fantasies, nature and the virtual, consumption, and disciplinary practices of the body.
Instructors: Allison and Litzinger. One course. C-L: International Comparative Studies 545S
535S. Race, Racism, and Democracy. CCI, SS, W The paradox of racial inequality in societies that articulate
principles of equality, democratic freedom, and justice for all. Instructor: Baker. One course. C-L: African and
African American Studies 545S
540S. Masculinities. CCI, CZ, R, SS How masculinities are constructed, performed and inhabited. Theorization of
the masculine subject in sociocultural, political and psychodynamic terms within colonial and modernizing contexts.
Issues of gendered citizenship. Role of scholarship and the media in constituting hegemonic, subaltern, ethnic,
female, and stigmatized masculinities. Instructor: Ewing. One course. C-L: Women's Studies 581S
545S. Transnationalism and Public Culture. CCI, SS Critical examination of issues in transnational studies in
anthropology and beyond. Tracking the theories of contemporary scholars of the global, and examining new
multisited strategies of method, we explore the emerging ethnographic landscape of the global and the role
transnational studies is playing in a revitalized anthropology of the twenty-first century. Instructor: Piot. One course.
555S. Development, Modernity, and Social Movements. CCI, SS Modernization and ideologies of progress and
nationalism; social movements, revolution, and political protest in the United States and around the world. Some
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prior background in cultural anthropology or social theory preferred. Consent of instructor required for
undergraduate students. Instructor: Starn. One course.
560S. African Modernities. CCI, SS One course. C-L: see African and African American Studies 645S; also C-L:
International Comparative Studies
565. The World of Japanese Pop Culture. ALP, CCI, CZ, R One course. C-L: see Asian & Middle Eastern
Studies 565; also C-L: International Comparative Studies
570S. Ethnohistory of Latin America. CCI, CZ, R, SS Analysis of what can be known about nonwestern cultures
described in texts written by European colonizers. Focus on native peoples whose lives were transformed by Spanish
colonialism, with particular attention to post-Inca Andean Societies. Instructor: Silverblatt. One course. C-L: History
540S, Literature 573S
590. Selected Topics. Special topics in methodology, theory, or area. Instructor: Staff. One course.
590S. Seminar in Selected Topics. Same as Cultural Anthropology 590 except instruction provided in seminar
format. Instructor: Staff. One course.
594S. Cultural (Con)Fusions of Asians and Africans. CCI, CZ, SS One course. C-L: see African and African
American Studies 594S; also C-L: Latin American Studies 594S, Sociology 594S
605. East Asian Cultural Studies. ALP, CCI, CZ, R One course. C-L: see Asian & Middle Eastern Studies 605;
also C-L: Literature 571, International Comparative Studies
611S. Global Mental Health. CCI, NS, R, SS, STS One course. C-L: see Global Health Certificate 560S; also C-L:
Psychology 611S
790S. Special Topics in Linguistics. CCI, SS Same as Linguistics 890 except instruction is provided in a seminar
format. Instructor: Staff. One course.
THE MAJOR
Major Requirements. A total of ten courses distributed in the following manner: Cultural Anthropology 101,
301, and 302; six courses at the 200 level or above, including at least one at the 400 level or above; one additional
cultural anthropology course at any level. Students must take at least five of their ten courses with instructors whose
primary appointment is in the Department of Cultural Anthropology. No more than three courses may be transferred
from other institutions or study abroad.
Suggested Work in Related Disciplines. Related courses in other departments are strongly advised. Each
student's advisor will recommend a program of related work to complement the student's concentration and interests
in cultural anthropology.
Departmental Graduation with Distinction
The department offers an intensive and personalized Graduation with Distinction program to qualified seniors,
who research and write a senior thesis on a topic of their own choice in close collaboration with members of the
cultural anthropology faculty. Admission to the program requires a 3.0 grade point average overall and a 3.3 grade
point average in the major, both of which must be maintained to graduation for the student to be eligible for
distinction. Qualified juniors will be notified each year by the director of undergraduate studies about their
eligibility. To pursue distinction, students must then enroll in the senior seminar, Cultural Anthropology 498S and
Cultural Anthropology 499S, in the fall and spring of their senior year, where they will learn about research methods
and prepare a thesis. Credit for Cultural Anthropology 498S and Cultural Anthropology 499S is given for a passing
grade whether or not the student is awarded distinction. The thesis can be based on original fieldwork on a topic of
the student's choice, archival or library research, or some combination of various anthropological methods. Previous
topics have ranged from studies of the influence of feminism in cultural anthropology to causes of revolution in
Latin America, patterns of socialization of Mormon youth in Utah, music in the African diaspora (drawing on
summer study in Ghana), and the consolidation of Korean-American identity through the 1992 Los Angeles
rebellion. The student also forms a supervisory committee for the thesis during the fall of the senior year. It should
consist of three faculty members who offer the student advice and support in preparing the thesis. At least two of the
members must be faculty from the cultural anthropology department. Due in April of the senior year, the thesis must
be judged of at least B+ quality by the supervisory committee to receive distinction. In addition, the student must
pass an oral examination on the thesis, which is given on its completion by the supervisory committee, and present
their findings to the public. Students who fulfill the above requirements graduate with distinction in cultural
anthropology.
A typical sequence would be: select a research topic; take the senior seminar in fall and spring; form a
supervisory committee; complete the research and writing by April and submit the final draft to the supervisory
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committee; schedule the oral defense for some time in early or mid-April; defend the thesis in an oral examination
given by the supervisory committee.
THE MINOR
Requirements. A total of five courses distributed in the following manner: Cultural Anthropology 101; three
courses at the 200 level or above; and one additional course at any level (this may include courses taken in the Focus
Program).