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Research seminar on classic and modern studies of various agrarian political economies. Focus on premodern and postmodern agricultural systems, globalization of agrarian polities, ancient and modern water control systems, and field research methods in agrarian settings.
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Archaeological approaches to settlement and land use at the regional scale. Issues will include settlement systems, agricultural and pastoral systems, the role of humans environmental change, and also the methods used to investigate them.
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Approaches to spatial patterning in human societies, including the structure of settlements and the regional distribution of populations. The seminar will consider how variation in settlement and settlement systems can be related to factors such as environment, economy, and social and political organization. Case studies will be drawn from a range of New and Old World societies of varying scales of sociopolitical complexity.
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Provides theoretical grounding and practical supervision in ethnographic interviewing. Addresses life history and inteview design, developing and managing intimacy, recognizing transference and counter transference, recording and transcribing data, and textual analysis.
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Examines nationalism, opposition to state power, and local perspectives that ordinarily escape "official" historians, the place of monumentality and archaeology in national and regional identity, gender, political affiliation, and status are examined for impact on interpretations.
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Focuses on feature-length commercial film (rather than ethnographic or documentary film) and some of the culture industries (Hollywood, Bollywood, and Iran) that produce them. What might an anthropology of film look like? Film theory and cultural studies will be examined for their contributions to the answer to that question. Topics include the culture industry, critical theory, the ethnographic gaze, media studies, modernity, nationalism, and transnationalism.
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The class covers archaeological method and theory emphasizing the 1950s onwards. Large-scale trends in social theory will be balanced with attention to the ideas and writings of significant anthropologists and archaeologists.
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Focus on physical science and engineering methods and techniques used by archaeologists in the reconstruction of time, space, and human paleoecology, and analysis of archaeological materials. Topics include 14C dating, ice core and palynological analysis, stable isotope chemistry of paleodietary foodwebs, soil micromorphology and site formation, Pb isotope sourcing of metal artifacts, and microstructural and mechanical analyses of cementitious materials used in ancient monumental buildings.
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Numerous theories are advanced for the structure of the ancient economy. Different perspectives on the nature of trade, the market, reciprocity-redistribution, etc. will be reviewed. An evolutionary and global perspective will be pursued from the Neolithic to the Iron Age.
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Archaeological data recovered from Harvard Yard provide a richer and more nuanced view of the 17th through 19th century lives of students and faculty in Harvard Yard, an area that includes the Old College and Harvard Indian College. Students will excavate in Harvard Yard and process and analyze artifacts and report on the results. Additional topics to be covered include regional historical archaeology, research design, surveying, archival research, stratigraphy, and artifact analysis.
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Open to students who participated in the fall term investigations in Harvard Yard, this course focuses on the detailed analysis of the materials recovered in the excavations, within the context of archival and comparative archaeological and historical research. The analysis will also include an evaluation of the results of the ground-penetrating radar surveys conducted prior to the excavations, as part of the research design for the next season of investigations of the Indian College site.
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An exploration of production in archaeological contexts. Topics include specialization, craft production, production and power, the practice/performance of production, production and gender, ritualized production, and the production of memory.
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Focuses on controversies in the interpretation of archaeological remains from northwestern South Asia. Readings in the primary, interpretative, and popular literature and from the press and Internet form the foundation for discussion of such topics as: agricultural origins, the Indus Civilization and its relations to later cultures, the Aryan invasion theory, and the Ayodhya affair. The nature and use of archaeological evidence, logic of academic versus popular discourse, and role of belief form underlying themes.
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In this seminar we shall study the warp and weft of human existence by crisscrossing between the anthropology of art and the art of anthropology. Both affinities and differences between art-making and anthropology will be considered, as well as alternative means of apprehending and expressing aesthetic and social experience cross-culturally.
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The world's first cities emerged in Mesopotamia and were the defining characteristic of ancient civilizations in what is today Iraq, Syria and Turkey. They were inhabited by large populations, powerful kings, and the gods themselves. The course will consider the origins, ecology, spacial arrangement, socioeconomic religious organization, religious institutions, and collapse of cities from Gilgamesh to Saddam. Through archaeology and ancient texts, students will become familiar with cities such as Uruk, Babylon, Nineveh, and Baghdah.
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Compares deep ways of knowing the person in his/her cultural, political, economic and, most especially, moral context. Reads strong examples from each field to learn about individual and collective experience under uncertainty and danger.
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Seminar for graduate students that will focus on grant and paper writing, and will also include selected case studies.
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New work on the anthropology of China will be the focus of this course. Special attention will be given to issues of: nationalism, consumption and globalization, impact of the one-child policy, gender inequality, changing family relations, individualism, and private lives.
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A detailed examination of Chinese social institutions, with emphasis on life in the countryside. Topics include: family and kinship organization, marriage and inheritance patterns, ritual and local religion, pre- and post-socialist cultural systems, and the effects of economic reforms on local life.
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This course surveys the language, writing and literary culture of the late Classic Maya (AD 600-900) of Central America. Following an intensive introduction to the grammar and vocabulary of the Classic Mayan script, we chart its historical development and genetic relationships with other Mayan languages. These comparisons allow a sociolinguistic appreciation of the significance of ancient language variation, and also facilitate deeper understandings of the historical, ritual and religious themes most central to Classic Mayan literature.
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An analysis of the similarities and differences in the emergence of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Central Asia, and the Indus Valley. Economic, political, and religious systems are compared as are technology and demography.
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