THE ANCIENT EMPIRES
The principal goal of this course is to examine the nature an histories of a range of early empires in a comparative context. In the process, we will examine influential theories that have been propose to account for the emergence an trajectories of those empires. Among the theories are the core-periphery, worl-systems, territorial-hegemonic, tributary-capitalist, network, an IEMP approaches. Five regions of the worl have been chosen, from the many that coul provie caniates: ,
Rome (the classic empire), New Kingom Egypt, Qin China, Aztec Mesoamerica, an Inka South America. These empires have been chosen because they represent a cross-section of polities ranging from relatively simple an early expansionist societies to the gran empires of the Classical Worl, an the most powerful states of the inigenous Americas. ,
There are no prerequisites for this course, although stuents who have no backgroun in Anthropology, Archaeology, History, or Classics may fin the course material somewhat more challenging than stuents with some knowlege of the stuy of early societies. There will be two lectures per week, given by the professor.
Section Number 001
Call Number 45273
Day, Time & Location
TR 11:40AM-12:55PM To be announce
- Instructor
ANCIENT EMPIRES-DISC
Section Number 001
Call Number 18806
Day, Time & Location
M 10:10AM-11:00AM 951 EXT Schermerhorn Hall [SCH]
- Instructor
ANCIENT EMPIRES-DISC
Section Number 002
Call Number 18807
Day, Time & Location
M 11:10AM-12:00PM 951 EXT Schermerhorn Hall [SCH]
- Instructor
ANCIENT EMPIRES-DISC
Section Number 003
Call Number 18809
Day, Time & Location
M 2:10PM-3:00PM 951 EXT Schermerhorn Hall [SCH]
- Instructor
ANCIENT EMPIRES-DISC
Section Number 004
Call Number 18810
Day, Time & Location
M 3:10PM-4:00PM 951 EXT Schermerhorn Hall [SCH]
- Instructor
ANCIENT EMPIRES-DISC
Section Number 005
Call Number 18811
Day, Time & Location
T 10:10AM-11:00AM 951 EXT Schermerhorn Hall [SCH]
- Instructor
Margaux L Kristjansson
ANCIENT EMPIRES-DISC
Section Number 006
Call Number 18812
Day, Time & Location
R 3:10PM-4:00PM 951 EXT Schermerhorn Hall [SCH]
- Instructor
Margaux L Kristjansson
ANCIENT EMPIRES-DISC
Section Number 007
Call Number 18815
Day, Time & Location
R 1:10PM-2:00PM 951 EXT Schermerhorn Hall [SCH]
- Instructor
ANCIENT EMPIRES-DISC
Section Number 008
Call Number 18816
Day, Time & Location
R 2:10PM-3:00PM 951 EXT Schermerhorn Hall [SCH]
- Instructor
SETTLER COLONIALISM IN N AMER
This course examines the relationship between colonialism, settlement an anthropology an the specific ways in which these processes have been engage in the broaer literature an locally in North America. We aim to unerstan colonialism as a theory of political legitimacy, as a set of governmental practices an as a subject of inquiry. Thus we will re-imagine North America in light of the colonial project an its ?technologies of rule? such as eucation, law an policy that worke to transform Inigenous notions of gener, property an territory. Our case stuies will well in several specific areas of inquiry, among them: the Inian Act in Canaa an its transformations of gener relations, governance an property; the resiential an boaring school systems in the US an Canaa, the murere an missing women in Juarez an Canaa an the politics of allotment in the US. Although this course will be comparative in scope, it will be groune heavily within the literature from Native North America.
Section Number 001
Call Number 45271
Day, Time & Location
M 4:10PM-6:00PM 963 EXT Schermerhorn Hall [SCH]
- Instructor
Language, Culture, Power
This course examines structuralist an pragmatist, poststructuralist an post-pragmatist approaches to language an culture antheir availability to a critical analysis of social power. The course is genealogical in spirit, beginning with a set of texts that have provie the touchstone forcontemporary language an semiotic theory. Insofar as contemporary criticaltheory continues to return to these texts, they continue to provie an originationof possible openings an blockages to theories of power.
Section Number 001
Call Number 10340
Day, Time & Location
T 10:10AM-12:00PM 467 EXT Schermerhorn Hall [SCH]
- Instructor
LAB TECHNIQUES IN ARCHAEOLOGY
Section Number 001
Call Number 13471
Day, Time & Location
F 10:10AM-1:00PM To be announce
- Instructor
PRIN/APPL OF SOCIETY & CULTURE
Prerequisites: grauate staning. Introuctory survey of major concepts an areas of research in social an cultural anthropology. Emphasis is on both the fiel as it is currently constitute an its relationship to other scholarly an professional isciplines. Require for stuents in Anthropology Department's master egree program an for stuents in the grauate programs of other epartments an professional schools esiring an introuction in this fiel.
Section Number 001
Call Number 45253
Day, Time & Location
M 2:10PM-4:00PM 467 EXT Schermerhorn Hall [SCH]
- Instructor
ETHICAL ISSUES IN MUSEUMS
Ethical questions about museum activities are legion, yet they are usually only iscusse when they become healines in newspapers. At the same time, people working in museums make ecisions with ethical an legal issues regularly an selom give these jugments even little thought. In part, this is ue to the fact that many of these ecisions are base upon values that become secon nature. This course will explore ethical issues that arise in all areas of a museum's operations from governance an management to collections acquisition, conservation, an eaccessioning. We will examine the issues that arise when the ownership of objects in a museum's are questione; the ethical consierations involve in retention, restitution an repatriation; an what ecolonization means for museums.
Section Number 001
Call Number 45126
Day, Time & Location
F 2:10PM-4:00PM 467 EXT Schermerhorn Hall [SCH]
- Instructor
MAKING ETHNOG:METHOD & WRITING
This course begins with two central an relate epistemological problems in conucting ethnographic research: first, the notion that objects of scientific research are ‘mae’ through aopting a particular relational stance an asking certain kins of questions. From framing a research problem an choosing a ‘research context’ story to tell, to the kins of methos one selects to probe such a problem, the ‘how’ an ‘what’ – or means an content – are inextricably intertwine. A secon epistemological problem concerns the artifice of reality, an the nebulous istinction between truth an fiction, no less than the question of where or with whom one locates such truth. ,
With these issues framing the course, we will work through some key themes an ebates in anthropology from the perspective of methoology, ranging from subject/object liminality to incommensurability an raical alterity to the politics of representation. Stuents will esign an ethnographic project of their choosing an conuct research throughout the term, applying ifferent methoological approaches popular in anthropology an the social sciences more generally, such as participant observation, semi-structure interview, iary-keeping an note-taking.
Section Number 001
Call Number 45244
Day, Time & Location
W 10:10AM-12:00PM 467 EXT Schermerhorn Hall [SCH]
- Instructor
METHOD AND THEORY IN ARCHAEOLO
This course is a seminar on research esign in anthropological archaeology. It examines the links among theory, metho, an ata analysis in project esign an interpretation.
Section Number 001
Call Number 45280
Day, Time & Location
M 10:10AM-12:00PM 963 EXT Schermerhorn Hall [SCH]
- Instructor
LAW HISTORY & ANTHROPOLOGY
To be announce
Section Number 001
Call Number 45275
Day, Time & Location
M 10:10AM-12:00PM 467 EXT Schermerhorn Hall [SCH]
- Instructor
