Courses in the Department of Anthropology

Courses

The listing below represents the range and variety of the curriculum, not the course offerings in any given year.

Sociocultural and Linguistic Anthropology

Core Courses

34000. Introduction to Chicago Anthropology
Staff

34100, 34200. Development of Social and Cultural Theory (2 courses each)
Kelly, da Cunha

37200. Language in Culture I, II
Silverstein, Gal

39000. Theory & Method in Archaeology
Morrison, A.T. Smith

42000. Anthropological Methods
Rutherford

42010. Media Techniques for the Social Sciences
Kouchoukos

46900. Archaeological Data Sets
Lycett

52200. Thesis Proposal Preparation
J. Comaroff, Gal, Silverstein

52210. Archaeology Research Design
Kouchoukos

52300. Craft of Anthropology—Methods and Ethics
J.L. Comaroff

54100. Post-Field Professionalization
Silverstein, J.L. Comaroff

Sociocultural Anthropology

30300. Gender Theory and Anthropology
Gal


31205. Historical Rituals
Lomnitz

31300. Rethinking the African Diaspora
Apter

31400. Media & Collective Identity in India
Mazzarella

31500. Ideology, Culture, Sexuality
Povinelli

31700. Slavery & Unfree Labor
Palmié


31800. Religious Movements: Native North America
Fogelson

32000. Topics in Native America: Native Americans and the City; Federal Indian Law; Indian Civil Rights Act; Legal Context American Indian Gaming; Ethnography of Native American Novels
Straus

32300. Anthropology of Science
Masco

32500. Military Theory & Practice
Kelly

32900. Introduction to Theories of Sex & Gender
Povinelli

33100. North American Indians I, II
Fogelson


33300. The Caribbean
Trouillot

33400. Narrative & Experimental Ethnography
Fernandez

33500. Lévi-Strauss
Carneiro da Cunha

33600. The Tswana of Southern Africa
J. Comaroff, J. L. Comaroff

33700. Capitalism, Colonialism and Nationalism in the Pacific
Kelly

33900. Trends in Amazonian Ethnology
Carneiro da Cunha

34300. Topics in Psychological Anthropology
Fogelson


34400. Fourth World Religion I & II
Fogelson

34500. Anthropology of Museums I & II
Fogelson, Fred

34600. History and Ethnography of Indonesia
Rutherford

34900. Big Science & the Birth of the Nation State
Masco

35500. Anthropology of Development
Kolata

40200. Neoliberal Predicaments
Mazzarella


40300. Medicine & Culture
J. Comaroff

40400. Colonialism/PostColonialim: Dialectics of Modernity
J. Comaroff, J.L. Comaroff

40500. Traditional Peoples’ Intellectual Rights
Carneiro da Cunha

40600. The Yoruba
Apter

40700. Aboriginal Australia
Povinelli

40900. Modernity and Its Margins: Southeast Asia
Rutherford

41000. Introduction to the Anthropology of Media

41100. Ethnography of Central and Eastern Europe
Gal

41200. Anthropology of History
Palmié

41400. Metaphor Theory
Fernandez

41600. Digital Culture: Ethnography in and of the Internet
Mazzarella

41800. Semiotic Technologies
Kelly

41900. Crowds and Publics
Mazzarella

42100. Kinship and Everyday Life
Rutherford

42200. Interpreting the Potlatch
Masco

42400. Anthropology of Christianity
Rutherford

42500. Anthropology of the Afro-Caribbean World
Palmié

42600. Cultural Politics in Contemporary India
Mazzarella

42505. Gandhi Today
Mazzarella

42700. Political Anthropology
Lomnitz

43700. Weber, Veblen & Genealogies of Global Capitalism
Kelly

44800. Contextualization of Anthropology
Stocking

44900 Multiculturalism
Povinelli

45100. Anthropology of the Body
J. Comaroff

45300. Oral Narrative
Fernandez

50100. Explorations in Hyperethnography
Apter

50200. French Africanist Ethnography
Apter

50300. State Fetishism in Africa
Apter

50400. Race, Geography & Transatlantic Discourse
Fikes

50500. Commodity Aesthetics
Mazzarella

51001. Science Studies-I: Military Science & War
Masco

51002. Science Studies-II: Reinventing the Body
Masco

51003. Science Studies-III: The Information Age
Masco

51100. Colonial Law Givers
Kelly

51200. Institutions and Ideologies
Rutherford51302. Topics in Psychological Anthropology: Culture Bound Syndromes
Fogelson

51500. Tropics Logics, Anthropology and Twentieth Century Portuguese Colonialism
Fikes

51600. Images, Idols, Icons: Problems in Representation
Carneiro da Cunha

51900. Semiotic Technologies
Kelly

52100. West African Ethnography
Apter

56200. Africanist Anthropology
J. Comaroff, J.L. Comaroff

52700. Anthropology of Security
Masco

52800. Politics of Reproduction
Gal

52900. The Fetish in History and Theory
Rutherford

53000. Postmodern and Experimental Ethnography
Fernandez

53100. Performance Theory
Rutherford, Levin

53500. Categories & Conceptualizations in the Social Sciences, I, II
Trouillot

53600. Critical Social Theory
Povinelli

53800. Pornography & Publicity
Mazzarella

54200. Historical Rituals in Latin America
Lomnitz

54400. Paradoxes of Race
Palmié

54500. Political Anthropology
J.L. Comaroff, A.T. Smith

54600. History & Anthropology
Lomnitz

54700. Performance & Politics
Gal

54800. Uncanny Modernities
Masco

55400. Utopia
Masco, Mazzarella

55500. Law & Anthropology
J.L. Comaroff

Language and Culture/Linguistic Anthropology

34800. Anthropology & Literature: Various Topics
Friedrich

34805. Comparative Poetry/Poetics
Friedrich

37000. Introduction to Linguistics I, II, III
Staff

37100. Culture History of American English
Silverstein

37200. Language in Culture I, II
Silverstein, Gal

37300, 37600. Phonology I, II (=Ling 308–9)
Staff

37400. Language, Power & Identity in Southeastern Europe
Friedman

37500. Morphology and Syntax(=Ling 310)
Aronson

37700. Phonetics (=Ling 306)
Staff

37800, 37900. Syntax I, II (=Ling 304–5)
Staff

45300. Explorations in Oral Narrative: The Folktale
Fernandez

47300. Historical Linguistics (=Ling 313)
Staff

47500. Semiotics of Culture
Silverstein

47900. Modern Spoken Yucatec Maya
Lucy

57700. Linguistic Anthropology Seminar: Current Research Topics
Silverstein, Gal

Archaeology

36000. Great Excavations
A.T. Smith

36100. Nomads & Settlers
Kouchoukos

36200. Ceramic Analysis for Archaeologists
Dietler, Kouchoukos

36300. Andean Prehistory
Kolata

36400. Archaeological Field Studies: Southwestern Archaeology
Lycett, Morrison

36500. Archaeological Field Studies: Design and Method
Lycett, Morrison

36800. Rise and Fall of Early Complex Societies
A.T. Smith

36900. Commerce & Culture: Indian Ocean Trade in Archaeological Perspective
Morrison

39100. Archaeobotanical Analysis
Morrison

39300. Logic & Practice of Archaeology
Morrison, Lycett

39400. South Asia before the Buddha
Morrison

39500. Archaeology of Eurasia
A.T. Smith

39800. Anthropology of Technology
Kouchoukos, Yener

39900. Instrumental Analysis in Archaeology
Yener, Kouchoukos

40100. The Inca and the Aztec States
Kolata

42300. Comparative Agricultural Systems
Kolata

46000. Mesoamerican Archaeology
Kolata

46100. Archaeology and the Politics of the Past
Dietler

46200. Archaeology of Industry
Kouchoukos

46300. Archaeology & Natural Science
Kouchoukos

46400. Ancient States & Empires of Caucasia & Eastern Anatolia
A.T. Smith

46500. Ancient Celtic Societies
Dietler

46600. Economic Archaeology
Dietler

46700. Colonial Landscapes: Ancient Western Mediterranean
Dietler

46800. Ethnoarchaeology and Material Culture
Dietler

48000. Vision, Image, Aesthetics
A.T. Smith, Kouchoukos

56000. The Preindustrial City
Kolata

56100. Long Term Histories of Tropical Forager-Traders
Morrison

56200. The Human Environment
Kolata

56300. Archaeology of Empires
Morrison

56400. The Intensification of Production
Morrison

56500. The Archaeology of Colonial Encounters
Dietler

56800. Power, Gender, Archaeology: Problems of Method
Morrison

56900. Landscapes
A.T. Smith

58100. Current Directions in Archaeological Theory
A.T. Smith

58200. Material Culture and Consumption
Dietler

58300. Andean Ethnohistory
Kolata

58400. The Industrial City
Kouchoukos

58500. Spatial Representation
Kouchoukos

58600. Social Theory and the City
Kolata

58700. Archaeological Approaches to Political Life
A.T. Smith

58800. Pollen Analysis
Morrison

Physical Anthropology

38000. Human Morphology I, II (=OrB/An 300–301)
Singer, Staff

38100. Evolution of the Hominoidea (=Evol 38100)
Tuttle

38200. Comparative Primate Morphology (=Evol 38200)
Tuttle

38300. Celebrity and Science in Paleoanthropology
Tuttle

38400. History and Theory of Human Evolution (=Evol 38400)
Tuttle

38600. Apes and Human Evolution (=Evol 38600)
Tuttle

38800. Bioarchaeology and the Human Skeleton
Lozada

48100. Advanced Problems in Paleoanthropology (=Evol 48100)
Tuttle

48500. Advanced Problems in Primate Locomotion and Comparative Morphology (=Evol 48500)
Tuttle

 

Last revised 9/09/2003