Course Guide

Department of Anthropology

Fall 2011

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F a l l 2 0 1 1 C o u r s e sANTH 17 Latino Music, Migration and Identity* Deborah Pacini Hernandez J+ TR 3:00-4:15 PMANTH 27 Human Rights in Cultural Context Thomas Abowd L+ TR 4:30-5:45 PM

ANTH 50 Prehistoric Archaeology Lauren Sullivan M+ MW 6:00-7:15 PM

ANTH 99 Internship

ANTH 126 Food, Nutrition, and Culture Stephen Bailey G+ MW 1:30-2:45 PM

ANTH 130 Anthropological Thought Sarah Pinto D+ TR 10:30-11:45 AM

ANTH 132 Myth, Ritual, & Symbol Cathy Stanton F+ TR 12:00-1:15 PM

ANTH 148 Medical Anthropology Sarah Pinto E+ MW 10:30-11:45 AM

ANTH 182 Human Physique Stephen Bailey 12+ W 6:00-9:00 PM

ANTH 183 Urban Borderlands Deborah Pacini Hernandez ARR W 3:30-6:00 PM

ANTH 185-08 After Violence: Truth, Justice and Social Repair Rosalind Shaw 5 M 1:30-4:00 PM

ANTH 185-11 Cars, Culture, and Place Cathy Stanton 6 T 1:30-4:00 PM

ANTH 190 Directed Reading

ANTH 191 Directed Research

ANTH 198 Apprenticeship

ANTH 199 Senior Honors Thesis

*starred courses count towards the Anthropology area course requirement

Rosalind Shaw | Associate Professor | Department ChairEaton Hall, Room 311B | rosalind.shaw@tufts.eduTransnational justice, the anthropology of mass violence, local and transnational practices of redress and social repair, child and youth combatants, social memory, Atlantic slave trade, ritual and religion, West Africa, Sierra Leone

Stephen Bailey | Associate ProfessorEaton Hall, Room 307 | stephen.bailey@tufts.eduBiological and nutritional anthropology, growth and body composition, methodology, Latin America, China, Southwestern U.S.

Amahl Bishara | Assistant Professor *on leave Fall 2011*Eaton Hall, Room 304 | amahl.bishara@tufts.eduMedia, human rights, the state, knowledge production, Middle East, politics of place and mobility, expressive practices

David Guss | Professor *on leave Fall 2011*Eaton Hall, Room 305 | david.guss@tufts.eduUrban and aesthetic anthropology, theory, cultural performance, myth and ritual, popular culture, placemaking, Latin America

Deborah Pacini Hernandez | ProfessorEaton Hall, Room 309 | deborah.pacini@tufts.eduComparative Latino studies, racial and ethnic identity, popular music, globalization, transnationalism, Latino community studies

Sarah Pinto | Assistant ProfessorEaton Hall, Room 308 | sarah.pinto@tufts.eduMedical anthropology, gender, reproduction, social and feminist theory, caste, political subjectivity, India, U.S.

Thomas Abowd | LecturerEaton Hall, Room 303 | thomas.abowd@tufts.eduMiddle East and American urban life, critical race theory/studies, Palestine/Israel, popular culture

Cathy Stanton | LecturerEaton Hall, Room 311A | cathy.stanton@tufts.eduHistory and memory, cultural performance, heritage, tourism, myth and ritual.

Lauren Sullivan | LecturerEaton Hall, room 311A | lauren.sullivan@tufts.eduMesoamerican archaeology, Mayan archaeology, the rise and fall of complex societ-ies, prehistory of the American Southwest, Peleoindians of North America, human evolution, cultural anthropology, ceramic analysis

A n t h r o p o l o g y F a c u l t y

THE ANTHROPOLOGY MAJORTen courses distributed as follows:-One Gateway (introductory) sociocultural anthropology course (ANTH 05-39)-One Gateway biological anthropology or archaeology course (ANTH 40-59)-ANTH 130 Anthropological Thought-Seven additional Anthropology courses, at least one of wich must be an area- focused course numbered below 160 (gateway or mid-level), and two of which must be upper-level seminars (160-189).

We strongly recommend taking Anthropology 130 in the junior year. A maximum of two courses cross-listed in other Tufts departments may be counted toward the Anthropology major. Students must achieve a grade of C- or better for a course to count for credit toward the major. The department encourages majors to explore the possibility of undertaking a senior thesis. DECLARING A MAJORAny full-time faculty member of the department can be your advisor. Try to meet with as many of the faculty members as possible to talk about your own goals and expectations. Select an advisor who seems most attuned to your interests. Fill out the blue “Declaration of Major” form. You can pick this up in the department office. Have your current advisor sign it, and collect your folder from him/her. Take the blue form to your new Anthropology advisor, and have him/her sign it. Take the signed blue form and your folder to our Staff Assistant. She will photocopy and initial your blue form and keep your file in the Department Office. Deliver the signed blue form to the Dean of Advising Office, Dowling Hall. You have now officially declared a major and henceforth relevant documents (transcripts, pre-registration packets, etc.) will come to your new advisor.

DOUBLE MAJORSThe same blue form should be used to declare a second major. Your folder will have to go to your advisors in both departments so have the department make an additional copy for the second department.

A n t h r o p o l o g yD e p a r t m e n t I n f o r m a t i o n

ANTH 17 Latino Music, Migration and Identity Deborah Pacini Hernandez J+ TR 3:00-4:15 PM CLST: AMER 194-04

This course focuses on the relationship between US Latino musical practices and the formation of Latino social and cultural identities in the context of continuing immigration from Latin America in conjunction with an increasing globalization of culture. Departing from the notion that music is a social activity rather than a thing (i.e. a verb rather than a noun), students will explore how Latino ways of music making have been shaped by their historical, social, cultural and spatial contexts over time and across space. In comparing the development and cultural significance of a range of genres such as mambo, salsa, merengue, bachata, corrido, conjunto, cumbia, banda and reggaeton, students will address various issues such how

changing concepts of racial and ethnic identity are articulated musically, the politics of representation, the roles of women, gender and sexuality in musical production, how immigration and economic globalization have affected the circulation of music, and how the music industry employs ethnicity to market their products. Assignments and classroom discussions include audio-visual materials. No prerequisites and no formal knowledge of music or Spanish required. This course counts towards the Hispanic Cultures and Diaspora Culture Option and the World Civilization requirement.

C o u r s e D e s c r i p t i o n s

ANTH 27 Human Rights in Cultural ContextThomas Abowd L+ TR 4:30-5:45 PM CLST: PJS 150-04

This gateway course examines anthropological debates about humanrights. It introduces key anthropological methods, like participant observation, reflexivity, and cultural critique, and anthropological theories on topics like culture, the state, indigenous peoples, and globalization. We will analyze controversies about cultural relativism and universalism, approaches to both violent conflicts and the structural violence of poverty, and the relationship between anthropology and human rights. We also study ethnographies of human rights work that elucidate how advocates strive to produce reliable knowledge and circulate it to authorities and the public in reports, documenta-ries, and other media.

ANTH 126 Food, Nutrition, and Culture Stephen Bailey G+ MW 1:30-2:45 PM

Interplay of the act of eating with its biological and cultural correlates. Topics include subsistence strategies, sex differ-entials in food intake, and the nutritional impact of modernization; hunger and malnutrition in the developing world; historical and symbolic attributes of food, including taboo, valences, and national cuisines, with a focus on Chinese and American. Relation of normal and abnormal eating behavior to gender and cultural norms of attractiveness. The rise of industrial and fast foods, with an emphasis on McDonald’s. Cultural meanings of fusion foods. Haute cuisines. Comparisons of East Asian cuisines, particularly Chinese and Japanese, to those of America and Europe.

ANTH 50 Prehistoric Archaeology Lauren Sullivan M+ MW 6:00-7:15 PM CLST: ARCH 30

Survey of human culture from the earliest paleolithic hunters and gatherers to the formation of states and the beginnings of recorded history. Course provides an introduction to archaeological methods, a worldwide overview of prehistoric ways of life, and a more detailed analysis of cultural development in the New World.

ANTH 99 Internship in Anthropology

Supervised internship in wide range of com-munity organizations, health organizations, museums, governmental and non-governmental organizations. Twelve to fifteen hours work per week. Written assignments, with supporting readings, to place internship in critical analytical frame.Prerequisite: Permission of instructor; register in Eaton 302.

ANTH 130 Anthropological Thought Sarah Pinto D+ TR 10:30-11:45 AM

This course on the history of anthropo-logical theory begins with the premise that anthropology is as much as way of thinking as an academic discipline. By engaging writings, theories, and debates in the field of anthropology from the late 19th century to the present, we will try to understand what anthropological ways of thinking have involved over time. How have anthropologists thought about the world? What points of view have their writings brought to their own historical eras? What ethics and politics underlie ethnography? We begin with social evolutionist theories of the Victorian era, looking at the way Darwinian thinking and the colonial encounter shaped early anthropology. We will follow developments in American, British, and French anthropological theory through the 20th century, thinking about the “culture concept,” structure, function, ritual, performance, production, power, post-structuralism, feminist anthropology, representation, interpretive anthropol-ogy, and critical anthropology. Attention will be paid to contexts in which anthropologists developed their discipline and its theories, and to changes in the ways scholars have reflected on what it means to write about “the other.” All readings will be primary sources from the anthropological canon. We will read these texts “against the grain,” as we consider first how anthropological writing is part of a genealogy of ideas, and, second, how theories remain relevant as forms of social analysis and critique. Prerequisites: One anthropology course and junior standing, or permission of instructor.

ANTH 132 Myth, Ritual, & Symbol Cathy Stanton F+ TR 12:00-1:15 CLST: REL 134

Myth, ritual, and symbol exist in all human societies and play key roles in helping humans to comprehend, function within, and re-shape their worlds. Mythography—the study of these topics—can deeply enrich our sense of human possibility and creativity. The course will begin by surveying mythography’s own origin story and development over the past century. We will examine some of the ways in which anthropologists and others have explained myth, ritual, and symbol, including functionalist, historical- geographic, structuralist, psychoanalytical, and interpretive approaches. In the middle part of the semester we will explore some of the specific ways in which myths, rituals, and symbols can serve to organize societies, integrate individuals,

ANTH 148 Medical AnthropologySarah Pinto E+ MW 10:30-11:45 AM

This course is an introduction to anthropological approaches to illness, health, healing and the body, and their relationships to culture and power. In this course we will ask how social and political forces impact – and are themselves shaped by – illness, disease and bodily experience. We will address such issues as cross-cultural models of the body, the experience of pain and the social qualities of suffering, the structure and symbolics of healing in various cultural contexts, the culture of biomedicine, “on the ground” politics of health intervention, state interest in reproduction, and the dynamics of the clinical encounter. Throughout, we will be attuned to the ways concepts of race, gender, class, and ethnicity become meaningful in the politics of living, healing, and dying, and to the ways illness and wellness are shot through with moral concerns. This course counts towards the Social Sciences and World Civilizations distribution requirements, although it can only be counted as one or the other.

ANTH 182 Human Physique Stephen Bailey 12+ W 6:00-9:00 PM

Our bodies as adaptive biological landscapes. Growth from conception to early adulthood. Genetic and intrauterine determinants of prenatal growth and birth size; impact of extreme environments, under nutrition, and disease on size and shape. Puberty and sexual dimorphism. Quantitative assessment of body composition. Interplay between biological and cultural bodies in the construction of attractiveness, and its evolutionary significances.Prerequisites: Anthropology 40 or permission of instructor.

facilitate change, and explain and maintain our connection to the cosmos. Drawing on the work of Victor Turner and others, we will investigate liminality, shamanism, initiation, and the changing relationship of myth and science. We will also ask how myth, ritual, and symbol become located in bodies and landscapes, finishing with a focus on contemporary tourism— arguably the most characteristic and universal ritual of modernity.Prerequisite: Sophomore Standing

ANTH 183 Urban Borderlands Deborah Pacini Hernandez ARR W 3:30-6:00 PM CLST: AMER 183-01

This community-based research seminar integrates academic and experiential learning in an ongoing (since 2001) project documenting the history and development of Cambridge and Somerville’s Latino and other immigrant communities. In Fall 2011 student research will collaborate with and contribute to a project coordinated by the Welcome Project, whose goal is to increase public awareness of immigrant food-related businesses (restaurants, bakeries, grocery stores, etc.) Students working collaboratively will conduct and transcribe interviews with immigrant business owners, and synthesize their findings orally in an end of semester event open to the public; their written reports and accompanying documentation will be added to the growing Urban Borderlands oral history archives at Tufts Digital Collections and Archives. This course counts towards the Hispanic Cultures and Diaspora Culture Option.Prerequisites: Junior standing and permission of instructor; interested students are advised to email deborah.pacini@tufts.edu. Register in Eaton 302.

ANTH 185-08 After Violence: Truth, Justice and Social RepairRosalind Shaw 5 M 1:30-4:00 PM CLST: PJS 150-01

After violence, civil conflict, genocide, state-sponsored terror, and political repression, how do people live together? How do they rebuild their lives, social

relationships, and communities? How do states deal with past human rights abuses, establish accountability, and promote justice and redress. How can new cycles of violence be prevented? And how is the international community involved in these issues? In this upper-level seminar, we will explore a range of approaches that have been used in “transitional” situations: truth commissions, tribunals, alternative forms such as gacaca in

Rwanda, and local practices of redress and reconciliation. As an Anthropology class, we will focus on the ways in which “global” transitional justice mechanisms work in “local” historical encounters, how concepts of truth, justice, and reconciliation may be redefined through these encounters, how they foster new subjectivities and identities, and on critical perspectives from the ground up.Prerequisites: Junior standing and one sociocultural anthropology course or permission of instructor. Students may not enroll in this class if they have previously received credit for ANTH 140.

ANTH 185-11 Cars, Culture, and Place Cathy Stanton 6 T 1:30-4:00 PM

One of the most radically influential technologies of the 20th century, the automobile continues to shape places, policies, and everyday life in the 21st. This course will take an anthropological approach to the spaces, images, and practices of driving, drawing on an emerging multidisciplinary scholarship on cars and car culture. We will focus on the important links between modernity and automobility, and will explore the his-tory of how the U.S. and other industrialized countries became so car-centric, as well as inquiring into the meanings and uses of cars in a range of cultures and times. Students will also work in teams to develop syllabus segments around topics of particular interest to them; these might include environmental and health aspects of car culture, com-modification and advertising, car design and materiality, the gendered car, anti-car politics, efforts to “green” the car, etc. Through field trips and guest speakers, the class will also connect with two ongoing place- making projects near Tufts that involve creating urban spaces for and against the automobile: traffic redesign efforts in Somerville’s Union Square and development of the Battle Road Scenic Byway in Arlington. Students may not enroll in this class if they have previously received credit for ANTH 149-18.

ANTH 199 Senior Honors ThesisPlease see departmental website for specific details. Prerequisites: Permission of Instructor. Register in Eaton 302.

ANTH 198 ApprenticeshipAn intensive application of research techniques to projects currently under way with direct supervision. Please see departmental website for specific details. Prerequisites: Permission of instructor. Credit to be arranged. Register in Eaton 302.

ANTH 191 Directed ResearchAreas of directed research may include physical anthropology, social anthropol-ogy, and archaeology. Please see departmental website for specific details. Prerequisites: Permission of instructor. Credit to be arranged. Register in Eaton 302.

ANTH 190 Directed ReadingPrerequisites: At least one anthropology course and permission of instructor. Register in Eaton 302.

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