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Department of Courses of Study: Minor Major (B.A.) Combined B.A./ M.A. Master of Arts Doctor of Philosophy

Objectives substitute one internship for the ninth elective course option. Students doing summer internships register for course credit in the following fall semester. A minimum of a B+ grade point average in Undergraduate Major anthropology courses is required for eligibility. For information see The Department of Anthropology offers courses covering the Guidelines for Anthropology Internships available from the discipline’s four major subfields: sociocultural anthropology, undergraduate advisor. , physical anthropology, and . The major is structured to provide an introduction to the major concepts, methodologies, and theoretical issues of anthropology, How to Be Admitted to the Graduate Program while permitting each student sufficient latitude to pursue his or her own special interests. The general requirements for admission to the Graduate School, Graduate Program in Anthropology specified in an earlier section of the Bulletin, apply to candidates for The graduate program in anthropology, leading to the M.A. and admission to graduate study in anthropology. Admission decisions are Ph.D. degrees, is designed to produce scholars who will broaden based primarily on the candidate’s undergraduate academic record, our knowledge of and . Graduate training is based letters of recommendation, and the personal statement that is part of on required courses in the , theory, and method of the application form. It is also advisable that the results of the anthropology and on elective courses in the subfields of Graduate Record Examination be submitted. A personal interview on anthropology (sociocultural anthropology, archaeology, biological campus is encouraged, but not required. anthropology, and linguistic anthropology). Some graduates of the program accept appointments at colleges and universities; a Applicants to the Master of Arts program or for study towards the number take employment in government, private institutions, or joint degree of Master of Arts in anthropology and women’s studies foundations. Intensive training for independent research is need not have completed an undergraduate major in anthropology or stressed, with particular emphasis on comparative studies and sociology-anthropology, although they may be required to make up fieldwork. deficiencies while those of arts program in anthropology or anthropology and women’s studies may, after having completed the equivalent of their first semester’s course-work, apply for admission How to Become an Undergraduate Major to the doctoral program. Their applications will be considered along with the pool of candidates from outside Brandeis seeking admission directly to the doctoral program. Candidates for the Master of Arts Students who wish either to major in anthropology or to study program in anthropology or in anthropology and women’s studies for a minor in anthropology should see the undergraduate with demonstrated financial need may petition to the graduate school advisor, who will discuss specific interests and assign an advisor. for partial tuition scholarships. This consultation is especially important for those interested in a particular subfield. ANTH 1a (Introduction to the Comparative Students may apply for admission directly to the doctoral program in Study of Human ) and ANTH 5a (Human Origins) [(or anthropology. Preference will be given to those with an undergraduate ANTH 1a and ANTH 61b (Language in American Life) for background in anthropology or in sociology-anthropology. In any case, students on the linguistic anthropology track)] should be taken applicants to the doctoral program must demonstrate that their early in a student’s academic career. Majors are encouraged to anthropological interests are well defined and that these interests are select honors research projects, particularly those students congruent with and acceptable to those of the Brandeis anthropology considering graduate study in anthropology or other professional department faculty. Full-tuition scholarships and cash fellowships are training. awarded to students in the doctoral program on a competitive basis. Need-based tuition remission is also available upon application. The department sponsors credit-bearing internships (ANTH 92a Assuming satisfactory in the doctoral program, fellowship and b) for junior and senior majors and minors. Internships and tuition scholarship aid would be maintained for four years. combine off-campus work that provides a significant anthropological learning experience and academic study supervised by a departmental faculty sponsor. Majors may

Faculty Elizabeth Emma Ferry, Undergraduate Suzanne Joseph Advising Head Anthropological demography. Ecological . Political anthropology. Social change in pastoral and Richard Parmentier, Chair anthropology. Latin America. Mexico. peasant societies. Middle East. . Historical anthropology. Material culture. Language David Jacobson Sarah Lamb, Women’s Studies Liaison and communications. Oceania. Middle . Urban social Social-cultural theory. Gender studies. Ages. United States. organization. Psychosocial transitions. Anthropology of aging. Medical Families and households. Computer- anthropology. Immigrant and transnational Mark Auslander mediated communication. United States. communities. South Asia. Art and aesthetics. Museum studies. Africa. Religion. . Historical anthropology. Janet McIntosh Development. Africa. United States. . Linguistic anthropology. Religion. East Africa. Andrew Cohen Near Eastern archaeology. Ancient Assyria. Archaeology of Ancient Israel. Archaeology of Egypt/Canaan. Anthropology 77

Ellen Schattschneider Jody Shapiro Javier Urcid, Graduate Advising Head Religion. Anthropology of the body. Women and religion. and Archaeology. . Complex Commodification. Psychoanalytic theory. literature. Folklore. United States. Europe. societies. Writing systems. Comparative East Asia. Japan. aesthetics. Mesoamerica.

Requirements for the Undergraduate Major B. Of the remaining courses required for the anthropology major, it is recommended (but not necessary) that students following the archaeology track include as many as possible of the following: A. Required of all majors: A minimum of nine semester courses ANTH 60a, ANTH 60b, ANTH 110a, ANTH 116a, ANTH 123a, in anthropology, to include ANTH 1a, ANTH 5a, and ANTH 83a ANTH 136a, ANTH 141b, ANTH 147b, ANTH 149a, ANTH 153a, (or ANTH 1a, 83a,186b, and LING 100a for students on the ANTH 187a, and ANTH 188b in their program. Linguistic Anthropology track). C. Candidates for a degree with honors must enroll in ANTH 99d B. Honors candidates are required to take ANTH 99d. One during their senior year. semester course credit from this year-long, two-semester course may be counted towards the above nine courses. Requirements for the Undergraduate Minor C. A student may petition to have a course taken in another department replace one anthropology course requirement, provided that course is clearly related to the student’s program. Five semester courses are required, including the following: An approved internship in anthropology, completed for credit, may be counted as fulfilling one course requirement for the A. ANTH 1a and ANTH 5a major in place of a course taken in another department. B. Three courses in anthropology, to be chosen in consultation with D. A minimum of five of the nine courses required for the major the student’s advisor in the department. must be taken from Brandeis anthropology faculty. C. A minimum of three of the five courses required for the minor E. No course with a final grade below C- can count toward must be taken from Brandeis anthropology faculty. fulfilling the requirements for the major in anthropology. D. No course with a final grade below C- can count toward fulfilling Linguistic Anthropology Track the requirements for the minor in anthropology. The following alternative track is recommended to anthropology majors with a special interest in linguistics. The purpose of this program is to introduce major issues and ideas in the study of Combined B.A./M.A. Program language, the study of sociocultural systems, and the study of relations between language, society, and culture. Students interested in linguistic anthropology should arrange their The four-year B.A./M.A Degree Program in Anthropology is designed programs in consultation with Ms. McIntosh. Requirements for to enable exceptional or gifted undergraduates to earn two degrees the major for students who choose this track are as follows: simultaneously during their period of study at Brandeis University. The program provides a strong academic grounding for those students A. ANTH 1a and ANTH 83a. who aspire to a professional career in anthropology and anticipate continuing their studies elsewhere for the doctoral degree. Eligibility B. ANTH 186b and LING 100a. for the program is normally limited to anthropology majors who have maintained a minimum 3.40 (B+) grade point average overall and a C. A minimum of four other anthropology courses chosen from 3.67 (A-) grade point average in anthropology courses for their first six those listed in the departmental offerings. semesters of undergraduate study. Students admitted to the program must fulfill all the requirements for a major in anthropology with D. A minimum of one other linguistics course from the LING honors, as well as the special requirements of the College of Arts and listing (selection to be approved by the student’s faculty advisor Sciences and the Department of Anthropology for the combined B.A./ in anthropology). M.A. Specifically, they must complete a minimum of three years residence on campus, one of which is at the graduate level; a total of E. Candidates for a degree with honors should enroll in ANTH 38 courses (vs. the 32 required for the bachelor’s degree); six 99d during their senior year. anthropology courses at the graduate level (100+ numbered courses), including ANTH 190a and ANTH 193b, beyond the nine (10 in Archaeology Track honors) required for the major in anthropology, with a minimum The following alternative track is designed to provide a coherent grade of B- in each; and an acceptable master’s research paper (or curriculum for anthropology students desiring to focus on honors thesis), evaluated by the student’s advisor and one additional archaeology. The curriculum is particularly recommended to anthropology faculty member. those students considering the study of archaeology on the graduate level. Such students are encouraged to seek the advice All candidates for the combined B.A./M.A. must complete all the of Mr. Urcid in designing their undergraduate programs. requirements for the program by the end of their eighth semester (for entering freshmen). If the requirements for the M.A. portion are not A. Basic course requirements for the archaeological track are the complete at that time then the student is only eligible for the B.A. same as those described under Requirements for the Major degree. (above), and include ANTH 1a, ANTH 5a, and ANTH 83a. 78 Anthropology

Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts 193b [formerly ANTH 203a]). All others must complete these two core courses during their first year of residence. These courses emphasize epistemological issues in cross-cultural research and the Program of Study relationship between scientific and humanistic modes of inquiry. Students admitted to the Master of Arts Program in Additional courses may be required as determined by the student’s Anthropology must fulfill the Graduate School residence advisory committee. From their courses and outside reading, students requirement of one full year of course-work. Course must obtain a high level of competence in a specific topical field of requirements will include a two-semester foundational sequence, anthropological research and in at least one culture area. ANTH 190a (formerly ANTH 200a) (History of Anthropological Thought) and ANTH 193b (formerly ANTH 203a) (Contemporary Graduate-level course offerings at Brandeis are augmented by the Issues in Anthropological Theory). In addition to the above, all University’s participation in a cross-registration program with Boston candidates for the Master of Arts degree in anthropology must College, Boston University, Tufts University, and Wellesley College. meet the following requirements: Anthropology students are eligible to take courses at these institutions with the approval of their advisor. Students with an A. Complete a program consisting of six elective courses interest in archaeology may also take courses offered through the designed around their anthropological interests, selected with the Center for Materials Research in Archaeology and , a approval of a faculty advisor to be assigned to each student upon Boston-area consortium comprised of faculty from Brandeis, Boston matriculation. University, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Museum of Fine Arts, Tufts University, UMASS B. Submit an acceptable master’s research paper, evaluated by Boston, and Wellesley College. Students interested in gender and their advisor and one additional faculty member. There is no women’s studies may enroll in interdisciplinary courses offered foreign language requirement for the Master of Arts degree in through the Radcliffe Consortium. anthropology. Candidates for the doctoral degree work closely with an advisory committee consisting of two anthropology department faculty Requirements for the Joint Degree of Master of Arts in members, one of whom, the principal advisor, is in a field of specialization related to the interest of the student. The advisory Anthropology and Women’s Studies committee has the following responsibilities: (1) to aid the student in constructing a coherent program of course-work leading to a high level of competency in one or more areas of anthropological theory Students who are candidates for the joint degree of Master of Arts and methodology; (2) to make certain that the courses selected in anthropology and women’s studies must: include exposure to other areas within the discipline; (3) to ensure that a component of interdisciplinary study is included; and (4) to A. Complete ANTH 144a (The Anthropology of Gender), ANTH ensure that the student is knowledgeable in the anthropology of one 190a (formerly ANTH 200a, History of Anthropological or more of the world’s culture areas. Each semester the department Thought), and ANTH 193b (formerly ANTH 203a, Contemporary faculty as a whole meets to evaluate the progress of students in the Issues in Anthropological Theory). doctoral program.

B. Complete WMNS 205a, the foundational course in women’s Teaching Requirement studies. Under certain circumstances an alternative course can be Students will be required to serve as teaching fellows as part of their taken instead of WMNS 205a. See advisor for approval. Ph.D. training.

C. Complete two elective graduate courses in women’s studies Residence Requirement chosen from the list of courses in the Bulletin, at least one of Candidates for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in anthropology are which must be from a field other than anthropology. required to meet the residence requirement as set forth by the Graduate School. D. Complete two additional elective graduate courses in anthropology, selected with the approval of their advisor. Qualifying Procedure During the year following completion of residence and course E. Submit an acceptable master’s research paper, dealing with a requirements (normally the end of the second year of full-time study) topic related to anthropology and women’s studies, approved by students must take a general examination that tests for their overall their advisor. The paper must be evaluated by their advisor and mastery of anthropological history, theory, and methodology. In one additional faculty member. subsequent years they will study independently in their area of specialization, completing additional course-work, including reading F. Attend the year-long, noncredit, eight-part Women’s Studies courses if needed, and writing a Specialist Essay. The Specialist Essay Colloquium Series. requires a student to focus on a theoretical and/or topical issue relevant to their proposed dissertation research. Upon successful There is a residence requirement of one full year of course-work. completion of the essay, students submit a brief prospectus, outlining There is no language requirement for the joint master’s degree in their proposed dissertation research, for approval by their advisory anthropology and women’s studies. Students interested in the committee. Students then normally apply for research grants to fund joint degree program should consult with the anthropology their project and engage in fieldwork and/or data gathering, followed department women’s studies liaison, Ms. Lamb. by the writing of a dissertation.

Language Requirement Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy A reading knowledge of at least one foreign language must be demonstrated by written examination prior to the third year of enrollment and, at some point before graduation, by the submission Program of Study of a research paper (such as a course paper) or doctoral dissertation in Flexibility in the curriculum allows doctoral students to organize which sources in the selected language contribute to the research. a program of study around their particular anthropological interests. At the same time, the program is structured so that a Dissertation and Defense broad familiarity with the anthropological discipline is achieved. The completed dissertation must be successfully defended in an oral Students entering through the Brandeis Master of Arts program examination, as required by University regulations, before it can be will have already completed the two foundational courses in formally accepted. At that point the department will recommend to anthropology (ANTH 190a [formerly ANTH 200a] and ANTH the dean of arts and sciences that the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in anthropology be awarded the candidate. Anthropology 79

Courses of Instruction ANTH 60b Archaeological Analysis ANTH 83b Fieldwork [ ss ] [ ss ] Enrollment limited to 20. Signature of the instructor required. (1-99) Primarily for Undergraduate Introduction to techniques applied in the An introduction to the theory and practice Students analysis of archaeological remains. Topics of fieldwork. The course will include include cataloging, classification and discussion of classical and contemporary taxonomy, conjoining and reconstruction of accounts of doing ethnographic research. ANTH 1a Introduction to the Comparative objects, electronic databases, quantitative Students will conduct supervised fieldwork Study of Human Societies and qualitative analysis, statistical in a variety of local settings. Usually [ nw ss ] techniques, spatial analysis, archaeological offered every second year. Last offered in Examines the ways human beings construct illustration, reporting and exhibition of the spring of 2002. their lives in a variety of societies. Includes archaeological materials. Usually offered Mr. Jacobson the study of the concept of culture, kinship every second year. Last offered in the spring and social organization, political economy, of 2002. ANTH 90a Independent Fieldwork gender and sexuality, religion and ritual, Mr. Urcid Signature of the instructor required. Four symbols and language, social inequalities semester course credits, of which a and social change, and globalization. ANTH 61b Language in American Life maximum of two may count toward the Consideration of anthropological research [ ss ] major. May not be taken by students who methods and approaches to cross-cultural Examines the relations between language have taken either ANTH 90a or 90b in analysis. Usually offered every year. Will be and some major dimensions of American previous semesters. offered in the fall of 2003. social life: social groupings (the structures Students proposing to take this course are Ms. Lamb of ethnic, regional, class, and gender expected to work out a detailed plan of relations); social settings (such as study for one semester with the help of two ANTH 5a Human Origins courtrooms, schoolrooms, and homes); and anthropology faculty members. This plan is [ ss ] social interaction. Usually offered every to be submitted to the department for its Major transformations of humanity from year. Last offered in the fall of 2002. consideration before the end of the semester early hominids to civilizations. Fossils and Ms. McIntosh preceding the one in which 90a would be archaeological evidence serve to highlight taken. Approval depends on the the origins of bipedalism and language, the ANTH 62a Non-Western Musical department’s resources for supporting the shift from foraging to agricultural Traditions student’s plan as well as on the student’s economies, and the inception of urban life [ nw ca ss ] competence and the excellence of the plan and large-scale political centralization. Enrollment limited to 50. itself. Usually offered every year. Usually offered every year. Will be offered Explores non-Western musical traditions in Staff in the spring of 2004. social and cultural context, with some Mr. Urcid emphasis on sub-Saharan Africa. Through ANTH 90b Independent Fieldwork selected case studies, examines musical See ANTH 90a for special notes. Usually ANTH 26a Communication and Media systems in terms of their aesthetic offered every year. [ ss ] conventions, instrumentation, and Staff The exploration of human communication performance organization. Usually offered and mass media from cross-cultural every second year. Last offered in the fall of ANTH 92a Internship and Analysis perspective. Examination of communication 2002. No more than one departmental internship codes based on language and visual signs. Staff for credit. Signature of the instructor The global impact of revolutions in media required. technology, including printing, television, ANTH 80a The department sponsors internships for computer networks, and advertising. [ nw ss ] junior and senior majors and minors. Usually offered every third year. Last An introduction to the anthropological Internships combine off-campus work that offered in the spring of 2003. study of human religious experience, with provides a significant anthropological Ms. McIntosh particular emphasis on religious and ritual learning experience and academic study practice in comparative perspective. supervised by a departmental faculty ANTH 55a Models of Development Examines the relationship between religion sponsor. Majors may substitute one [ nw ss ] and society in small-scale, non-western internship for the ninth elective course Investigates in detail models of contexts as well as complex societies, option. Students doing summer internships development currently in use: the orthodox global , and world historical register for course credit in the following model of the industrial revolution, the religions. Usually offered every year. Last fall semester. A minimum of a B+ grade underdevelopment challenge to the offered in the fall of 2002. point average in anthropology courses is orthodox model, and a radically new model, Ms. Schattschneider required for eligibility. For information see sustainable development. Particular Guidelines for Anthropology Internships attention is paid to the development history ANTH 83a Anthropological Inquiry available from the undergraduate advisor. of selected Third World countries in the [ ss ] Usually offered every year. 20th century. Usually offered every year. Prerequisite: ANTH 1a or 5a. Staff Will be offered in the fall of 2003. An ethnographic and comparative survey of Ms. Ferry key paradigms of anthropological ANTH 92b Internship and Analysis explanation. Evaluation of exemplary No more than one departmental internship ANTH 60a Archaeological Methods theoretical statements and empirical case for credit. [ ss ] studies. Relationship of anthropological Usually offered every year. Enrollment limited to 20. models to contemporary social theory. Staff A practice-oriented introduction to field Usually offered every year. Will be offered methods, including surface-survey, in the spring of 2004. ANTH 98a Readings in Anthropology mapping, and excavation of archaeological Ms. Ferry Signature of the instructor required. features. Other topics include principles of Separate sections are offered on demand for stratigraphy and relative/chronometric the subdisciplines of sociocultural dating methods. Focuses on the exploration anthropology, archaeology, linguistics, and of a 19th-century farm near campus. physical/. Usually Usually offered every year. Will be offered offered every year. in the fall of 2003. Staff Mr. Urcid 80 Anthropology

ANTH 98b Readings in Anthropology ANTH 116a Human Osteology ANTH 127a Medicine, Body, and Culture Signature of the instructor required. [ ss sn ] [ nw ss ] Separate sections are offered on demand for Signature of the instructor required. Examines main areas of inquiry in medical the subdisciplines of sociocultural Skeletal anatomy and application of anthropology, including medicine as a anthropology, archaeology, linguistics, and forensic techniques to archaeological sociocultural construct, patients and physical/biological anthropology. Usually problems. Hands-on laboratory sessions healers in comparative medical systems, offered every year. focus on methods of estimating age, the “discovery” of the two sexes and its Staff determining sex, assessing variability, ramifications, and the medicalization of the distinguishing bone disorders, and life cycle. Usually offered every second ANTH 99d Senior Research identifying cultural and natural year. Will be offered in the spring of 2004. Signature of the instructor required. modifications to bony tissue. Case studies Ms. Lamb Usually offered every year. exemplify bioarchaeological approaches. Staff Usually offered every second year. Last ANTH 128a Meaning and Material Culture offered in the spring of 2003. [ ss ] Mr. Urcid An investigation of the relationship (100-199) For Both Undergraduate between cultural meaning and material and Graduate Students ANTH 118b Peoples and Societies of the objects. Central objects are emblems of Middle East social identity (fabric, houses, monuments), [ ss ] objectifications of value (money, valuables, An anthropological introduction to the commodities), and aesthetic representations ANTH 105a Myth and Ritual ANTH 105a Myth and Ritual peoples and societies of the Middle East. (images, icons, statues). Usually offered [ nw ss ] Focus on Islam, family and kinship, every second year. Will be offered in the fall Enrollment limited to advanced communal identities, gender, and youth of 2003. undergraduate and graduate students. culture. Reading critical Mr. Parmentier and Mr. Urcid Myth and ritual studied as two interlocking develops sensitivities in understanding the modes of cultural symbolism. Theoretical variety of experiences in the Middle East. ANTH 129b Global, Transnational, and approaches to myth are evaluated by Usually offered every year. Last offered in Diasporic Communities looking at creation and political myths. the spring of 2003. [ ss ] Performative, processual, and spatial Staff Examines social and cultural dimensions of models of ritual analysis are evaluated by globalization from an anthropological study of initiation, sacrifice, and funerals. ANTH 123a Directions and Issues in perspective. Topics include the impact of Usually offered every second year. Last Archaeology global capitalism upon indigenous offered in the fall of 2002. [ ss ] communities, global forms of popular Ms. Schattschneider An examination of concepts involved in the culture and consumerism, transnational archaeological study of the human past. migration and diasporas, changing ANTH 108b History, Time, and Tradition ANTH 108b History, Time, and Tradition Selected readings will be discussed as inequalities and gender systems, global [ ss ] illustrations of major theoretical and sexual cultures, and the AIDS pandemic. Topics relating to the historical dimension methodological issues. Usually offered Usually offered every second year. Will be of societies are explored in cross-cultural every second year. Last offered in the fall of offered in the fall of 2003. and interdisciplinary perspectives: the 2001. Ms. Lamb cultural construction of the past, temporal Mr. Urcid and calendrical systems, the invention of ANTH 131b Culture and Economy in Latin tradition, ethnohistorical narrative, and ANTH 125b Investigations in an Unfamiliar America historical preservation. Usually offered Language [ ss ] every third year. Last offered in the spring [ ss ] Examines the cultural effects of political of 2003. Prerequisite: ANTH 61b or LING 100a. and economic forces in contemporary Latin Mr. Parmentier Using a native speaker of an unfamiliar America. Ethnographies, films, and other language (such as Turkish or Amharic) as a sources dealing with multiple localities will ANTH 110a Human Evolution ANTH 110a Human Evolution source of data, the class will investigate the focus on labor organizations, state [ qr ss ] structure of the language and compare it intervention, export agriculture, migration, Enrollment limited to 20. with the structure of English and other national identity, household structure, Evolutionary principles that shape human familiar languages. May be repeated for gender, and ethnicity. Usually offered every physical characteristics and generate credit. Usually offered every second year. second year. Last offered in the spring of variability of human groups around the Last offered in the spring of 2001. 2003. world. Exploration of the fossil record, Staff Ms. Ferry biological and behavioral relationships of humans and non-human primates, and ANTH 126b Symbol, Meaning, and Reality: ANTH 133a Tradition and the current changes in the genetic composition Explorations in Cultural Semiotics Contemporary Experience in Sub-Saharan of human populations. Usually offered [ ss ] Africa every year. Last offered in the fall of 2002. Provides a historical survey of the [ nw ss ] Staff development of theories of signs and Explores the variety and richness of symbols; comparison of Peircean and indigenous African social and cultural Saussurean foundations of modern forms, such as the organization of the semiotics; the structure of cultural codes family; indigenous political systems; rank (language, art, music, and dress), and the and slavery; traditional economics; ideas possibility of crosscultural typologies. about magic, witchcraft, and religion; and Usually offered every fourth year. Will be the arts. Usually offered every fourth year. offered in the spring of 2004. Last offered in the spring of 2003. Mr. Parmentier Staff Anthropology 81

ANTH 134a South Asia: Tradition and the ANTH 139b Language, Ethnicity, and ANTH 147b The Rise of Mesoamerican Contemporary Experience Nationalism Civilization [ nw ss ] [ ss ] [ nw ss ] May be repeated for credit if taught by It is often assumed that language A library-intensive course. different instructors. differences divide people, while a common Traces the development of social Examines the diversity and richness of the language unites them. To what extent is complexity in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, cultures and societies of South Asia, with a this true? Taking cross-cultural and from initial colonization in the Late focus on India. Concentrates on the lived historical approaches, we examine concepts Pleistocene to the Spanish conquest in the experiences of class, caste, gender, religion, of “speech community,” tribe, ethnicity, 16th century. Review of major societal politics, and region in people’s everyday and nation. Explores what kinds of social transformations like agriculture, the lives. Usually offered every second year. groupings these terms might label; some inception of village life, and the rise of Last offered in the spring of 2001. ideologies connected with their use; and civilizations. Usually offered every second Ms. Lamb their relationship with communication year. Last offered in the spring of 2003. systems. Usually offered every second year. Mr. Urcid ANTH 135a Paradoxes of Peoplehood in Will be offered in the fall of 2003. Contemporary Israel Ms. McIntosh ANTH 149a Archaeology of Egypt and [ ss ] Canaan in Ancient Times Prerequisite: ANTH 1a or permission of the ANTH 141b Engendering Archaeology: [ ss ] instructor. Enrollment limited to 25. Exploring Women’s and Men’s Lives in the Enrollment limited to 15. Explores a wide range of materials about Past Surveys the major archaeological sites in social experience in Israel, with a particular [ ss ] Egypt and Asia from 2200 BCE to 600 BCE. focus on marginalized or frequently Prerequisite: ANTH 5a, 60a, or 110a Some 20 sites in modern day Egypt, Israel, overlooked social groups. Topics include recommended. Enrollment limited to 20. Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria form the focus of women in Israeli society, critical Explores people’s pasts through lectures and discussions. Particular perspectives on ethnicity and religion, the archaeology. Topics include theoretical attention is given to interpreting the relationship between gender and foundations of creating engendered pasts, cultural remains in the light of historical citizenship, disability and identity, and methodological aspects of “doing” and literary evidence. Usually offered nationalism and sexuality. Usually offered engendered archaeology, and intersections second year. Last offered in the spring of every fourth year. Last offered in the spring between political feminism, knowledge 2003. of 1999. production, and the politics of engendered Mr. Cohen Staff archaeology. Usually offered every third year. Last offered in the spring of 2002. ANTH 151b Folk Religion and Women’s ANTH 135b Modern South Asia: Society Staff Lives and Politics [ ss ] [ nw ss ] ANTH 143b Recovering Religion in the Cross-cultural anthropological and Examines the intricate relationship Archaeological Record folkloristic consideration of women’s lived between politics and society in modern [ ss ] religion. Considers the role of female laity South Asia. Topics include colonial-era Examines the complex relationship that the in shaping religion, especially in contrast British institutional development, the role ancient Egyptians, Israelites, with formal doctrines, texts, and officials. of religion in South Asian politics, the Mesopotamians, Greeks, and Romans had Areas to be studied include Greece, India, emergence of ethnic conflict, and the with the supernatural and the challenges Mexico, Ireland, Thailand, Korea, Morocco, performance of post-colonial government. faced by archaeologists in attempting to and several American communities. Usually offered every fourth year. Last recover, describe, and interpret that Usually offered every fourth year. Last offered in the spring of 1998. relationship. Special one-time offering. Will offered in the spring of 1999. Staff be offered in the fall of 2003. Staff Mr. Cohen ANTH 136a State Formation in ANTH 153a Writing Systems and Scribal Comparative Perspective ANTH 144a The Anthropology of Gender Traditions [ ss ] [ nw ss ] [ nw ss ] Prerequisite: One course dealing with Enrollment limited to 25. Compares graphic forms of communication, “ancient societies.” An examination of gender constructs, ranging from semasiographic to alphabetic Comparative and multidisciplinary sexuality, and cultural systems from a systems, from archaeological and understanding of the development of comparative perspective. Topics include the ethnographic perspectives. Explores the complex societies in the ancient world. division of labor, gender complementarity, social functions of early writing systems, Archaeological, ethnographic, and textual “matriarchy” and “patriarchy,” women’s the linkage of literacy and political power, data from exemplary case studies (Uruk, rituals, gender in language, and feminist and the production of historical memory. Hawaii, Bali, Teotihuacan, Minos, Angkor, anthropology. Usually offered every year. Usually offered every second year. Last Inca) are used to evaluate theoretical Will be offered in the fall of 2003. offered in the fall of 2002. models of state formation. Usually offered Ms. Lamb and Ms. Schattschneider and Mr. Urcid every second year. Last offered in the spring Ms. Shapiro of 2003. ANTH 155b Psychological Anthropology Staff ANTH 145a Anthropology of the Body [ ss ] [ ss ] An examination of the relationship between ANTH 138a Social Relations in Cyberspace Enrollment limited to 25. sociocultural systems and individual [ ss ] Explores a range of theories that use the psychological processes with a critical Signature of instructor required. body to understand society, culture, and evaluation of selected theories and studies Provides an introduction to various forms of gender. Topics include how social values bearing on this problem. Usually offered computer-mediated communication (e.g., and hierarchies are written in, on, and every second year. Last offered in the spring email, newsgroups, bulletin boards, and through the body; the relationship between of 2003. virtual communities) and the ways in body and gender identity; and experiences Ms. McIntosh which people interact in these different and images of the body cross-culturally. contexts of cyberspace. Students are Usually offered every third year. Will be expected to do online research. Usually offered in the fall of 2003. offered every year. Will be offered in the fall Ms. Lamb and Ms. Schattschneider and of 2003. Ms. Kahn Mr. Jacobson 82 Anthropology

ANTH 156a Power and Violence: The communication, and the transition between ANTH 186b Social and Cultural Aspects of Anthropology of Political Systems online and offline relationships. Students Linguistic Analysis [ nw ss ] will do online fieldwork. Usually offered [ ss ] Political orders are established and every second year. Will be offered in the Prerequisite: ANTH 61b or LING 100a. maintained by varying combinations of spring of 2004. Advanced topics in linguistic anthropology, overt violence and the more subtle Mr. Jacobson including the study of linguistic meaning in workings of ideas. The course examines the context; pragmatics; the construction of relationship of coercion and consensus, and ANTH 178b Culture, Gender, and Power in social relationships through language; forms of resistance, in historical and in East Asia language and authority; language and contemporary settings. Usually offered [ ss ] religion; and linguistic ideologies. Usually every second year. Last offered in the spring Discusses the relevance of social theory to offered every second year. Will be offered in of 2003. the dynamics of culture, gender, and power the spring of 2004. Ms. Ferry in East Asia. Topics include exchange, Ms. McIntosh personhood, ideology, and historical ANTH 157a Families and Households consciousness. Students will read detailed ANTH 187a Materials Research in [ ss ] ethnographic studies set in urban and rural Archaeology, I Describes and analyzes several family types East Asia and view several contemporary [ ss ] and households in contemporary American films. Usually offered every second year. Enrollment limited to advanced life, interpreting them in their cultural Last offered in the spring of 2003. undergraduate and graduate students. contexts and comparing them with similar Ms. Schattschneider Signature of Mr. Urcid, the Brandeis arrangements in other cultures. Usually coordinator, required. Topics vary from year offered every fourth year. Will be offered in ANTH 182b Designing Ethnographic to year, and the course may be repeated for the spring of 2004. Research credit. Mr. Jacobson [ ss ] A series of courses, each focusing on a Signature of the instructor required. specific topic, such as archaeological ANTH 158a Survey of principal methodological issues in analysis of animal or plant remains; the [ ss ] anthropological fieldwork and analysis, analysis of lithic materials, pottery, or Comparative study of strategies used in including research design, technologies of metals; GPS; and statistical analysis. coping with the complexity of urban life. data collection, household surveys and Courses are offered each semester, taught Attention will be given to analyzing and genealogies, comparative methods, and by faculty from the Center for Materials evaluating the theories, methods, and data ethnographic representation. Usually Research in Archaeology and Ethnology, a anthropologists and others use in their offered every second year. Last offered in consortium including Brandeis, Boston studies of urban social organization. the spring of 2001. University, Harvard, Massachusetts Usually offered every second year. Will be Staff Institute of Technology, the Museum of offered in the fall of 2003. Fine Arts, Tufts, UMass Boston, and Mr. Jacobson ANTH 184b Cross-Cultural Art and Wellesley. Usually offered every year. Last Aesthetics offered in the fall of 2001. ANTH 161b Culture and Cognition (formerly ANTH 84b) Staff [ ss ] [ nw ss ] Explores the relationship between cognitive This course may not be repeated for credit ANTH 188b Materials Research in processes and cultural systems, cultural by students who have taken ANTH 84b in Archaeology, II differences involving people’s perception, previous years. [ ss ] classification process, memory or modes of A cross-cultural and diachronic exploration Enrollment limited to advanced problem solving, and their effect on the of art, focusing on the communicative undergraduate and graduate students. course of cognitive development. Usually aspects of visual aesthetics. The survey Signature of Mr. Urcid, the Brandeis offered every second year. Will be offered in takes a broad view of how human societies coordinator, required. Topics vary from year the spring of 2004. deploy images to foster identities, lure into to year, and the course may be repeated for Ms. McIntosh consumption, generate political propaganda, credit. engage in ritual, render sacred propositions See ANTH 187a for course description. ANTH 163b Production, Consumption, and tangible, and chart the character of the Usually offered every year. Last offered in Exchange cosmos. Usually offered every second year. the spring of 2000. [ nw ss ] Last offered in the fall of 2002. Staff Prerequisite: ANTH 1a, or ECON 2a, or Mr. Urcid permission of the instructor. ANTH 190a History of Anthropological This course is a survey of economic ANTH 185a Archaeological Science Thought anthropology. Major theoretical disputes are [ ss ] [ ss ] covered. Substantive findings concerning Prerequisites: One year of college-level A historical examination of major ideas and production, property, and transactions are chemistry, biology, and physics, or the perennial problems in social thought that examined through case studies. Most equivalent. Signature of Mr. Urcid, the have led to the development of modern attention is paid to “primitive” economies. Brandeis coordinator, required. theory and method in anthropology. Usually offered every year. Will be offered A lecture course in which leading experts Usually offered every year. Will be offered in the spring of 2004. from the faculty of the seven major Boston- in the fall of 2003. Ms. Ferry area universities and the Museum of Fine Mr. Parmentier Arts that comprise the Center for Materials ANTH 174b Virtual Communities Research in Archaeology and Ethnology ANTH 191a Field School in Archaeology [ ss ] (CMRAE) consortium discuss how they [ ss ] Prerequsite: ANTH 138a, or permission of apply scientific technology and engineering Enrollment limited to 20. the instructor. Signature of the instructor methods to archaeological analysis. Deals Training in methods of archaeological required. with topics such as radioactive and other fieldwork and analysis through A research seminar dealing with a selected methods of age determination, participation in the excavation of an problem in the social organization of online archaeological site formation and soil archaeological site. Students will normally communities. Possible topics include micromorphology, and the study of assist in excavation, artifact analysis, and impression formation in cyberspace, social materials used in ancient building attend lectures. Offered on an irregular control in virtual communities, the concept construction. Usually offered every second basis in the summer. Last offered in the of presence in computer-mediated year. Will be offered in the spring of 2004. summer of 1997. Staff Staff Anthropology 83

ANTH 193b Contemporary Issues in 228b Advanced Readings in Archaeological 285a and b Readings and Research in Anthropological Theory Method and Theory Gender and Sexuality [ ss ] Mr Urcid Ms. Lamb Prerequisite: ANTH 83a for undergraduate students and ANTH 190a for graduate 231a and b Readings in Cognitive Culture 286a and b Readings and Research in South students. Ms. McIntosh Asia Intensive survey of the major theoretical Ms. Lamb models in contemporary anthropology. 232a and b Readings in Development Comparison of materialist, comparative, Staff 287a and b Readings and Research in semiotic, feminist, cognitive, linguistic, reflexive, poststructuralist, and Marxist 234b Readings and Research in Mr. Jacobson or Ms. Lamb approaches. Evaluation of theories in terms Anthropology of Law of philosophical coherence and empirical Staff 288a and b Readings and Research in adequacy. Usually offered every year. Will Immigrant and Transnational Communities be offered in the spring of 2004. 235a and b Readings and Research in Latin Ms. Lamb Ms. Lamb American Cultures Staff 289a and b Readings and Research in ANTH 196a Comparative Social Biological Anthropology Institutions 238a and b Readings and Research in Urban Mr. Urcid [ ss ] Anthropology Introduces students to key anthropological Mr. Jacobson ANTH 300a Master’s Thesis Research conceptions of social institutions and their Staff role in cross-cultural comparison. Included 241a and b Readings and Research in New are examples such as status and role, World ANTH 304a and b Readings and Research in household and family, lineage and descent Mr. Urcid Anthropological Field Methods group, network and alliance, and class and Staff stratification. Usually offered every second 243a and b Readings and Research in year. Last offered in the spring of 2002. Anthropology of Body ANTH 305d Anthropology Colloquium Staff Ms. Lamb and Ms. Schattschneider Staff

252a and b Readings and Research in ANTH 400d Dissertation Research (200 and above) Primarily for Specific sections for individual faculty Graduate Students Mr. Urcid member as requested. Staff 253a and b Readings and Research in Economic Anthropology Readings and Research Courses Readings and Research Courses Ms. Ferry (ANTH 225a-289b) Cross-Listed Courses 254a and b Readings and Research in 225a and b Readings and Research in 225a and b Readings and Research in Southeast Asian Ethnography NEJS 116b Cultural Analysis Cultural Analysis Mr. Appell The Archaeology of Ancient Israel and Its Mr. Parmentier Neighbors 256a and b Readings and Research in 226a and b Readings and Research in 226a and b Readings and Research in Religion SOC 188a Archaeology Archaeology Ms. Schattschneider The Politics of Reproduction Mr. Urcid 257a and b Readings and Research in 227a and b Readings and Research in 227a and b Readings and Research in Families and Households Linguistic Anthropology Linguistic Anthropology Mr. Jacobson Ms. McIntosh 258a and b Readings and Research in 228a Advanced Readings in Method and 228a Advanced Readings in Method and Computer-Mediated Communication Theory Theory Mr. Jacobson Staff 283a and b Readings and Research in Fieldwork Mr. Jacobson

284a and b Readings and Research in Archaeological Methods Mr Urcid