Anthropology

Department of Anthropology			UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK

Spring 2010 Graduate Courses

* CORE COURSES: Only majors are allowed to register for these courses.

501 SIR - Teaching & Research Resources for Anthropology - Dr. Sirianni
Reg. #079729 - Sat. noon-2:00---158 Spauld.
Pedagogical aspects of instruction techniques, including laboratory and dissection.

509 LAN – Classic Ethnography – Dr. Lanz
Reg. #324476 – R 9:30-12:10 – 354 Film.
"Ethnography is the foundation of all anthropology. It is its empirical base and as such informs the way we analyze and think about the worlds we study. This seminar provides a survey over both the classic forms of ethnography and more recent developments in this important field. From Malinowski to Bourgois and from Evans-Pritchard to Tsing, we will read texts that have become considered classics of the art of ethnography because of their outstanding performance."

513 STV – Cultural Change – Dr. Stevens
Reg. #407512 – T,R 3:30-4:50 – 354 Film.
Survey of social science theories of socio-cultural change, 18th century to present. Culture is considered as a dynamic system. Emphasis on the impact of planned change and "development" on traditional systems, and on anthropological understanding of change in the modern world. Requirements: regular attendance, a short (c.1500 words) paper early in the course, periodic submission of brief notes on assigned readings, and a research project which will be presented orally to the seminar and submitted as a term paper.

521 TED – Linguistic Anthro. Dr. Barbara Tedlock
Reg. #311675 – R 12:30-3:10 – 354 Filmore.
Acquisition and practice of skills necessary in field analysis and description of unwritten languages. Phonetics, phonemics, basic surface grammar, discourse analysis, and the enthnography of speaking. Analysis of ancient and modern writing systems. Languages in performance. Weekly linguistic assignments and an individual project.

526 LUC – Intro. To Cognition – Dr. Luce
Reg. #482591 – T 12-2:50 – 280 Park.
Introduction to cognitive science is an interdisciplinary approach to the study of human cognition. This course will survey the methodology, assumptions, and research problems of cognitive science and such cognitive-science disciplines as anthropology, artificial intelligence, linguistics, neurosciences, philosophy, psychology, etc. Emphasis will be placed on joint efforts of these disciplines in investigating issues in the nature of the mind, intelligence, language, perception, memory, etc. Students will be encouraged to participate in colloquia sponsored by the Center for Cognitive Science.Prerequisites: Graduate standing, or permission of instructor.   Cross listed with LIN575, CDS575, PHI575, PSY575.

553 TED Culture as Practicum: Writing Culture & Performing Ethnography- Dr. B. Tedlock
Reg. # 070504 - W 9:30–12:10 - 354 Fillmore
This seminar introduces you to some of the literary history and current writing practices within the human sciences. It opens with an overview of the intersection between the Harlem literary renaissance and Manhattan Boasian anthropology. We examine memoirs, travelogues, poetry, ethnodrama, mysteries and science fiction, ethnographic novels and short stories, gonzo ethnography and flash fiction. Key topics include writing as a method of social inquiry, the observation of participation, theory as practice, doing writing culture, cultural poesis, mixed genres, crafting effective scenes and lines, transcultural ethnography, and nomadism. Key authors include Zora Neale Hurston, Bronislaw Malinowski, Oliver La Farge, Miguel Barnet, José María Arguedas, Clifford Geertz, Victor & Eddie Turner, Barbara Myerhoff, Laurel Richardson, Michael Taussig, Soyini Madison, Susan Krieger, Kirin Narayan, Ruth Behar, Dorinne Kondo, John Stewart, Alma Gottlieb & Philip Graham, Richard & Sally Price, Barbara & Dennis Tedlock, Renato Rosaldo, Paul Stoller and Amitav Ghosh. Our written work centers on response papers, workshop assignments, and experiments in documentary writing, performing, editing, critiquing, and publishing.

540 MIL – History of Archaeology – Dr. Milisauskas
REQUIRED COURSE FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS SPECIALIZING IN ARCHAEOLOGY.
Reg. #217330 – W 3-5:40---261 Filmore
This course focuses on history of archaeology from the early 16th century to the present.
The course will be taught in a seminar format.

547 BER - Ethology Practicum - Dr. Berman
Reg. #365113 -ARR- ARR-158 Spauld.
This is a methods course in ethology for students who would like to learn how to go about observing behavior in animals and humans in a quantitative manner. In this course, you will learn both by doing and by reading and discussing. Students attend lectures on observational methods used by animal behaviorists in the field, in captive groups, and in the laboratory. With guidance, they complete a semester-long research project of their own at the Buffalo Zoo in which they pick an exhibit to observe, generate a research question about the behavior of the animals in the exhibit, design a protocol to answer their question, gather data, analyze them and write up the results in the form of a scientific journal article. In the last class of the semester, students present their projects to the class as they would at a professional meeting.

550 LAS - Evolutionary Colloquium – Dr. Lasker
Reg. #196425 - T 12:30-1:50 - 435 Cooke
This seminar is a focal point of the Graduate Group in Evolutionary Biology and Ecology. Students and faculty will review recent research in evolutionary processes by discussing topics in evolutionary theory, ecology, ethnology and paleobiology. This will also be a forum for students to present their research ideas and topics.

573 SIR - Primate Evolutionary Biology – Dr. Sirianni
Reg. #044693 - ARR ARR--158 Spaulding.
Primate specialization and taxonomy, fossil history, anatomy and behavior in the
primate order, odontology and human origins. Lecture course with some laboratory work.

575 HUT – Cultural Anthro. : Anthropology of the Body. - Dr. Hutchinson
Reg. #043454 – R 3:30-6:10 ---355 Filmore
This seminar focuses on anthropological interest in “the body” as a socio-culturally constructed category. We will examine some of the diverse ways bodies are conceptualized and experienced historically and cross-culturally. We will explore theories of the body in relation to topics such as medicalization, cyborgs, personhood, colonialism, commodification of bodies and body parts, scientific construction of sex and race, biopower, visualization of bodies, and bodies on display.

587 BIE – Anthro. Arch. In the Digital Age - Dr. Biehl
Reg. # 272688 – W 10-12:40 - 261 Filmore
In this seminar we will discuss “Open Knowledge” in the digital age and evaluate different conceptions of open knowledge and different approaches to digital archaeology and digital archives. We will also explore new tools for sharing knowledge and creativity across the disciplines of anthropology, classics, history, linguistics, art history and computer sciences. In small hands-on projects you will identify, evaluate and discuss existing key projects and websites relevant in the field of open knowledge and digital archives.

NB. The course is open to undergraduate student with the consent of the instructor.

588 BAR – Art Archaeology & Complex Societies – Dr. Barbour
Reg. # 424762 – R 5-6:40 – 354 Filmore
This course focuses on the definition, structure, and function of art in an archaeological context. Starting with theory and definition we will work from western concepts to ways of understanding non western and prehistoric “art”. From Pasztory’s “Working with Things” to McCloud’s “Understanding Comics” unusual paths are explored to try to bring meaning to art in the archaeological record. Though not exclusive, the primary focus will be on state level societies in both the old and new world. Readings will include the fields of archaeology, anthropology, philosophy, art history and sociology.

593 – Queer Anthropology – Dr. White
Reg. #224204 – T 9:30-12:10 – 352 Filmore
American anthropology has been shaped by its engagement with the social and psychological intersections of human sexuality since its inception. This course explores this dynamic history by presenting classic and contemporary ethnographic works that address cross-cutural variation and the discursive construction of sexuality. As a class, we will consider how these works intersect with traditional anthropological concerns such as kinship, community, religion, economics, power, and identity. We will also consider ways in which anthropology has changed through its encounter with social forces and trends such as race, class, nationalism, feminism, and globalization.

594 DUG – Adv. Physical Anthropology – Dr. Duggleby
Reg. #226604 – W 2-4:40---158 Spaulding
Designed for students who have a background in genetics, this seminar addresses issues in molecular evolution. It will also cover areas of immunology and embryology to explore genetic conflicts in human reproduction.

600 MASTER PROJECT/THESIS GUIDANCE – variable credit
ARR ARR---PERMISSION OF INSTRUCTOR
Graduate students should register for their major professor’s section of this when they are writing their MA Project/Thesis.

601 INDIVIDUAL READINGS—Archaeology – variable credit
ARR ARR---PERMISSION OF INSTRUCTOR
If, after speaking to the Instructor and he/she agrees to work with you, the graduate student must fill out an Independent Study Form (form available outside the Anthropology Graduate Office), have the instructor and the Director of Graduate Studies sign it then give it to Margaret to put in your file which becomes part of your Application to Candidacy. Then the student may register for the appropriate number of credit hours.

602 INDIVIDUAL READINGS—Cultural – variable credit
ARR ARR---PERMISSION OF INSTRUCTOR
If, after speaking to the Instructor and he/she agrees to work with you, the graduate student must fill out an Independent Study Form (form available outside the Anthropology Graduate Office), have the instructor and the Director of Graduate Studies sign it then give it to Margaret to put in your file which becomes part of your Application to Candidacy. Then the student may register for the appropriate number of credit hours.

607 INDIVIDUAL READINGS--Physical – variable credit
ARR ARR---PERMISSION OF INSTRUCTOR
If, after speaking to the Instructor and he/she agrees to work with you, the graduate student must fill out an Independent Study Form (form available outside the Anthropology Graduate Office), have the instructor and the Director of Graduate Studies sign it then give it to Margaret to put in your file which becomes part of your Application to Candidacy. Then the student may register for the appropriate number of credit hours.

610 ZUB - Method & Theory Dr. Zubrow
Reg. #332261 – M 7- 9:40 – 355 Filmore
REQUIRED COURSE FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS SPECIALIZING IN ARCHAEOLOGY.
This seminar introduces archaeology graduate students to the critical theoretical and methodological issues that are central to Anglo-Americanist archaeology.

654 RDA - Graduate Survey Social Anthropology – Dr. Reed-Danahay
Reg. #186310 – T 12:30 – 3:10 - 261 Filmore
THIS COURSE IS REQUIRED FOR ALL FIRST-YEAR GRADUATE STUDENTS IN CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY
This seminar will introduce you to current theoretical issues within social and cultural anthropology. After gaining some historical perspectives on our discipline during the past 25-30 years, we will take stock of socio-cultural anthropology in the early 21st century. We will read theoretical and ethnographic work drawing from a variety of subfields and geographic regions. Themes will include issues of critical ethnography, reflexivity, and representation; practice theory, social agency, and resistance; immigration and diasporas; citizenship, nationalism, and transnationalism; globalization and postcolonialism; embodiment; materiality; sociality; and gender.

694 TED - POETICS OF THE AMERICAS - Dr. D. TEDLOCK
Reg #225136 - Tuesday 12:30-3: 10 - C1emens 540
This seminar will be guided, in part, by a strategic (or provisional) essentialism. We will look and listen for poetry-whether past, ongoing, or projected-that is, specific, in some natural or cultural or linguistic sense, to the so-called Americas or New World or Western Hemisphere, or to Turtle Island. In the case of poetries from the indigenous languages of these worlds, we will try for modes of interpretation and translation that neither locate them on the margins of E urocentric poetics nor assign them to a prehistory of poetics.
    Texts dealing with the first contacts between Europeans and the peoples who were new to them will be read for clues to poetic differences, with special attention to native aCCOlll1ts of the invaders. We will also consider the radically indigenous writings of the Americas, with special attention to newly deciphered Mayan texts. Ancient Mayan literature, written in what turns out to be a largely phonetic script, begins earlier than English literature by about 900 years. Its re-emergence into readability, which comes at the same time as a major cultural renewal among contemporary Mayan peoples, poses major problems for E urocentric cultural schemes and suggests a reconsideration of Otarles Olson's human universe.
    One-page response papers will be due at each meeting, with a longer piece of work due at
the end. Alternatives to tenn papers may be negotiated, including translations, writerly
works, and performance pieces.
    Short readings will include poems or essays by Humberto Ak' abal, Paula Gunn Allen, Mary
Austin, Jorge Luis Borges, Daniel G. Brinton, Dell Hymes, Ah Maxam, Alonzo Gonzales M6, Q.arles Olson, Simon Ortiz, Andrew Peynetsa, Kenneth Rexroth, Jerome Rothenberg, Maria 'Sabina, Leslie Mannon Silko, GarySnyder, Luci Tapahonso, Nathaniel Tam, Cecilia Vicufia, Lady Xok of Yaxchilin, and Ray Young Bear. Listenings. It will include a wide range of recorded performances in various indigenous languages of the Americas.

700 - PhD Dissertation Guidance – variable credit
ARR ARR---PERMISSION OF INSTRUCTOR
Graduate students should register for at least 1 credit hour of their major professor’s section of this (every semester until the dissertation is complete) when they are writing their PhD dissertation.

710 MCE – Geographic Medicine – Dr. McElroy
Reg. #237414 – T 3-5:40 – 182 Farber (South campus)
An introduction to medical anthropology and medical geography with an intensive
review of communicable, parasitic, and nutritional diseases found in isolated populations,
developing countries, and among disadvantaged groups in industrial societies. The course is team-taught by a medical anthropologist (McElroy) and a physician (Richard Lee) who has done research in many countries and is an expert in travelers’ medicine. Cross-listed with the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine and with the School of Medicine, the class incorporates multiple disciplinary orientations and encourages a range of ethnographic, epidemiological, geographic, and clinical projects. Course work consists of lectures and seminars, case presentations, and library research. Students will be expected to present selected topics in seminars and to prepare a poster presentation on a topic of choice that integrates anthropology, environment, and medicine.

733 PER – Analytical Methods in Archaeology – Dr. Perrelli
Reg. #412086 – T 9:30-12:10 – 261 Filmore
REQUIRED COURSE FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS SPECIALIZING IN ARCHAEOLOGY
Analytical Methods in Archaeology for spring 2010 is a mixed seminar and laboratory course that will focus on analytical methods relating to lithic technology. Students will gain an understanding of various methods used in the analysis and interpretation of lithic artifacts- primarily chipped stone tools and debitage- from a design and organization of technology perspective. This will be achieved by working individually, in small groups and as a class, with readings and lithic raw materials to study production technologies, tool use, raw material selection, and discard patterns. These factors will be considered in the context of problem-oriented research relating subsistence practices, settlement patterns, land-use patterns, gender, political development, social organization and the interests of the class participants. Lab exercises will involve hands-on instruction and practice producing and recognizing different forms of lithic technology, but students are not graded on their ability to knap flint. Students will develop analytical approaches to quantifying and comparing lithic assemblages from different contexts, representing different technological choices of the tool maker. Some statistical analysis will be performed on assemblages of lithic artifacts- from archaeological collections and those produced by class participants. Students are encouraged to generate experimental archaeological data for use in this and future endeavors. Student achievement is measured based on class/lab participation, discussion of readings, a series of short writing assignments and a final research project or paper. The instructor is most familiar with North American lithic assemblages but students are encouraged to pursue interests in technologies from across the globe.

APY 736- Adv. Arch: The Archaeolog of Children and Childhood -Dr.Coskunsu
Reg. #294504 - M 2-4:40 p.m. in 261 Fillmore