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Rice Course Schedule, Spring 2000
Anthropology (ANTH)
Rice Course Schedule as of 01/03/2000.
This schedule is maintained by the Office of the Registrar
(reg@rice.edu).
ANTH 200 LANGUAGE Credits 3.00 Spring 00
* RESTRICTED DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
An introduction to the scientific study of language. The methods of linguistic
prehistory. The language families of the world and the interrelationship of
language and thought.
Also offered as LING 200
001 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA
ANTH 201 INTRO SOC/CUL ANTH Credits 3.00 Spring 00
* RESTRICTED DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
An introduction to the history, methods, and concepts of the discipline devoted
to the systematic description and understanding of cultural diversity in human
societies. A FOUNDATION COURSE.
001 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA
ANTH 205 INTRO-ARCHAEOLOGY Credits 3.00 Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Principles and methods of archaeology; an introduction to the elementary
concepts of the discipline through a series of case studies.
001 TBA - MWF 09:00AM - 09:50AM Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA
ANTH 206 INTRO TO WORLD PREHISTORY Credits 3.00 Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
A sequel to Anth 205, this course provides an overview of the human past as
revealed and reconstructed by archaeology. While the broader patterns of
prehistoric cultural development are explored, the course also focuses on
specific sites that have been particularly important in shaping our
understanding of these patterns. Coverage extends from the earlies use of
stone tools over two million years ago to the pre-literate foundations of early
civilization.
Prereq- Anth 205 or permission of the instructor.
001 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA
ANTH 220 CONTEMPORARY CHINESE CULTURE Credits 3.00 Spring 00
* RESTRICTED DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
This introductory ("foundational") course is designed to encourage creative
ways of thinking about "Cultural China"--a broad ranging concept that includes
the People's Republic, the newly established Special Administrative Region
(SAR) of Hong Kong, the Republic of China on Taiwan, and overseas Chinese
communities throughout the world. The course will be team-taught and will
employ a number of different media, including not only printed texts but also
films, videotapes, slides, and materials on the world-wide web. It will
involve group projects (emphasizing cooperation rather than competition),
wide-ranging discussions, and a number of interesting guest lecturers,
including Wang
001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max:
ANTH 280 ANTHROPOLOGY OF THE MIDDLE EAST Credits 3.00 Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
This course provides an introduction to and critical examination of the
extensive ethnographic literature written by sociocultural anthropologist on
the peoples and cultures of the Middle East (including North Africa). Major
themes of this literature are reviewed and analyzed, and current trends are
studied by reading recent works.
001 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA
ANTH 290 THE HISTORY AND ETHNOGRAPHY OF Credits 3.00 Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
This course focuses intensively on the history and ethnography of a single
people, the selection of which changes from year to year. Using all available
materials, this course provides an introduction to the approaches of the
discipline and how they have changed, registered by the different ways
anthropologists and others have represented over time, the same subjects.
001 TBA - MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM Marcus, George E. Enr: 0 Max: NA
Staff
ANTH 299 CONTEMPORARY CULTURES IN TRANSFORMATION Credits 3.00 Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Intended as a basic introduction to comparative cultural and international
studies. Using multidisciplinary approaches and drawing from a wide range of
materials including books, magazines, movies, the world-wide web, and the mass
media, the course looks at fundamental social and cultural changes in the
contemporary world.
001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max:
ANTH 300 LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS Credits 3.00 Spring 00
* RESTRICTED DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
English and other languages as objects of scientific analysis. Phonological
structure, morphology and syntax, semantic structures, and techniques of
linguistic analysis.
Also offered as LING 300
001 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA
ANTH 305 HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS Credits 3.00 Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Exploration of the nature of language change in its phonological,
morphological, syntactic, semantic, and sociocultural aspects, using the
perspective of language acquisition. Includes techniques of internal and
comparative reconstruction of proto-languages. Required for linguistics
majors; may substitute Ling 315.
Prereq- Ling 200, 300, or 301 or permission of instructor.
Also offered as LING 305
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ANTH 307 ANTHROPOLOGICAL DIRECTIONS: SECOND WORLD Credits 3.00 Spring 00
* RESTRICTED DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
A Sequel to ANTH 306/506, the course explores turns and trends in sociocultural
research and critique during the past half-century. Special attention is paid
to the rise and fall of structuralism, the problematization of "the primitive,"
and the proliferation of theories of "practice". Not offered 1998-99
001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max:
ANTH 308 HISTORY AS A CULTURAL MYTH Credits 3.00 Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Ideas of history and attitudes toward the past as culturally conditioned
phenomena. Emphasizes history as statement of cultural values as well as
conceptualizations of cause, change, time, and reality.
Also offered as WGST 336
001 TBA Taylor, Julie M. Enr: 0 Max: NA
ANTH 310 CONTEMPORARY CHINESE CULTURE Credits 3.00 Spring 00
* RESTRICTED DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
An enriched version of Anth 220 (and Hist 220). Students may not receive
credit for both Anth 220 and Anth 310 (or Hist 220/310 or any combination
thereof).
001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max:
ANTH 315 ANTHROPOLOGY OF MEMORY Credits 3.00 Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
In this course we focus on aspects of collective memory (or amnesia) and oral
history that directly affect the maintenance of social integrity or
group/national self-constructions. We sample psychological and philosophical
theories of memory, and read ethnographic studies of the operations of memory
in particular contexts.
001 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA
ANTH 316 CULTURAL ANALYSIS Credits 3.00 Spring 00
This course is specifically intended for lower level undergraduates as a means
of gaining familiarity with the analytical tradition of cultural anthropology
from the beginning of the Twentieth Century. The course is intended to provide
students with background for upper level courses in the department.
001 TBA Marcus, George E. Enr: 0 Max: NA
Staff
ANTH 317 CULTURAL THEORY & ANTH RSCH Credits 3.00 Spring 00
* RESTRICTED DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
A critical survey of the sources and senses of the working vocabulary of
contemporary social and cultural anthropology. Special attention is paid to
the strengths and shortcomings of the anthropological habit of borrowing
concepts and diagnostic categories from other fields. A FOUNDATION COURSE.
001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max:
ANTH 322 CULTURES AND IDENTITIES Credits 3.00 Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
How do cultural conceptions of race, ethnicity, and nationalism shape who we
think we are? How are these ideas related to Western views of the relations
between nature and society, and how do these differ from those in other
cultures?
001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max:
ANTH 325 SEX, SELF, AND SOCIETY IN ANCIENT GREECE Credits 3.00 Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
An introductory venture into conducting fieldwork in the past. The course
treats a wide range of artifacts, from philosophical essays to vase paintings.
It derives its focus from a rich corpus of recent research into the ancient
problemization of desire and self-control.
Also offered as WGST 332
001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max:
ANTH 328 VIOLENCE, TERROR, AND SOCIAL TRAUMA Credits 3.00 Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
This course addresses the central place of violence in our society and its
relations with social and political terror in other cultures. Readings, film,
and theatre probe everyday violence as well as spectacular violent events of
our times. Aftermath, including cross generational trauma, will be explored.
001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max:
ANTH 329 BODIES, SENSUALITIES & ART Credits 3.00 Spring 00
Cross-cultural approaches to art and the senses. Students my engage any
medium. Emphasis to be placed on issues generated from performance in the arts
rather than from academia. Contrasts art and academic knowledge to explore
alternative epistemologies and aesthetics.
001 TBA Taylor, Julie M. Enr: 0 Max: NA
ANTH 338 READING POPULAR CULTURE Credits 3.00 Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
The course examines a number of cases from popular genres -- romance novels,
television sit-coms, tourist sites, movies, rock music -- and submits them to a
variety of theoretical approaches from disciplines such as anthropology,
sociology, literary studies and philosophy.
001 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA
ANTH 344 CITY/CULTURE Credits 3.00 Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
The course treats both the theorization and the ethnographic exploration of the
urban imaginary; urban spaces and practices; urban, suburban, and post-urban
planning; city-states, colonial cities, and capital cities; and the late 20th
century metropolis.
001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max:
ANTH 353 CULTURES OF INDIA Credits 3.00 Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Summary of the prehistory, ethnography, and ethnology of the Indian
subcontinent. Special emphasis on Hinduism, Buddhism, and Indian philosophy.
001 TBA Tyler, Stephen A. Enr: 0 Max: NA
ANTH 360 MODERNITY & SOCIAL SPACE Credits 3.00 Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Modernity can be usefully described as the transmutation of time and space. In
this course we will focus on specific changes in the pro- duction of social
space. How, for example, is global space produced-- legally, in international
law, economically by multinational corporations, and culturally through
satelite communications systems? While changes in the public spaces of
urban/suburban America tell us something about the values of those who produce
such space, they also tell us about the cultural and political
consciousness/unconsciousness of those who use it. Theories from a variety of
disciplines will be mobilized to help us understand these changes in social
space.
001 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA
ANTH 362 ARCHEOLOGICAL FIELD TECH Credits 3.00 Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Methods used in field work, laboratory analysis, and interpretation of
archaeological data from a local site excavated by the class.
Prereq- Anth 205.
001 TBA McIntosh, Susan K. Enr: 0 Max:
ANTH 381 MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY Credits 3.00 Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Cultural, ecological, and biological perspectives on human health and disease
throughout the world.
001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max:
ANTH 388 LIFE CYCLE: A BIOCULTURAL VIEW Credits 3.00 Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
The human life cycle from conception to death. Focus is on the interaction
between biological processes and culture.
Also offered as WGST 335
001 TBA Elfimov, Alexei L. Enr: 0 Max:
ANTH 402 SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS Credits 3.00 Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Study of semantic categories and their formal expression in morphological,
syntactic, and lexical units and patterns.
Also offered as LING 402
001 TBA Davis, Philip W. Enr: 0 Max: NA
ANTH 404 INDEPENDENT STUDY Credits Spring 00
Directed reading and preparation of written papers on anthropological subjects
not offered in the curriculum and advanced study of subjects on which courses
are offered.
001 TBA Marcus, George E. Enr: 0 Max: NA
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011 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max:
012 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max:
ANTH 406 COGNITIVE STUDIES: ANTH & LING Credits 3.00 Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Relations between thought, language, and culture. Special emphasis given to
natural systems of classification and the logical principles underlying them.
Also offered as LING 406
001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max:
ANTH 408 SPECIAL TOPICS Credits 3.00 Spring 00
Continuation of Anth 407.
Also offered as LING 408
001 TBA Gildea, Spike L O Enr: 0 Max: NA
ANTH 412 RHETORIC Credits 3.00 Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Overview of classical thoeries. Intensive discussion of contemporary thoeries
and applications in a wide variety of disciplines.
Also offered as LING 410
001 TBA Tyler, Stephen A. Enr: 0 Max: NA
ANTH 416 THEORIES OF MODERNITY/ POSTMODERNITY: I Credits 3.00 Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
An examination of the work of one important theorist associated with
poststructuralist thought, Gilles Deleuze. In the first part of the course we
will read three of Deleuze's main works: Difference and Repetition; A Thousand
Plateaux, and Kafka: Towards a Minor Literature. In the second part we will
examine works that use a Deleuzian framework to analyze the followiwing topics:
ecopolitics, feminism, global capital, cyberspace and colonialism.
001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max:
ANTH 419 LEGAL DISCOURSE IN MODERNITY Credits 3.00 Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
In addition to focussing on works associated with critical legal studies and
its anticedent legal realism, the course will examine a number of cases in the
international domain that challenge concepts of civil society arising with the
modern nation state.
Prereq- If undergrad, consent of instructor required.
001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max:
ANTH 423 AFRICAN MYTHS & RITUAL Credits 3.00 Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Explore and analyze specific myths and rituals which provide legitimation for
community ceremonies and which serve as basis for the negotiation of power and
ideology for members within that community. Readings from classic theorists:
Gennap & Turner; and contemporary theorists: Werbner, Heusch, Comaroff and
Ray.
Also offered as RELI 423
001 TBA Bongmba, Elias K. Enr: 0 Max: NA
ANTH 439 DOCUMENTARYÐNOGRAPHIC FILM Credits 4.00 Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Provides a broad overview of the history of documentary and ethnographic
cinema. Maintaining a world-wide perspective, both canonical and alternative
films and film movements will be discussed. Particular attention will be paid
to the shifting and overlapping boundaries of fiction and nonfiction genres.
Also offered as HART 439
001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max:
ANTH 446 ADV TOP: BIOMEDICAL ANTH Credits 3.00 Spring 00
Seminar on contemporary research on the biomedical aspects of human health and
disease. Includes topics from medical ecology and epidemiology.
Prereq- Anth 381 or permission of the instructor.
001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max:
ANTH 458 HUMAN OSTEOLOGY Credits 3.00 Spring 00
Introduction to the analysis of human skeletal material from archaeological
sites.
001 TBA - TTH 01:00PM - 02:20PM McIntosh, Susan K. Enr: 0 Max: NA
ANTH 460 ADVAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL THEORY Credits 3.00 Spring 00
History and analysis of the major currents of archaeological theory from the
Encyclopaedist origins of positivism, through cultural evolutionism and
historical particularism, to the New Archaeology and current trends.
Prereq- Anth 205.
001 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA
ANTH 468 PALAEOCLIMATE & HUMAN RESPONSE Credits 3.00 Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Palaeoscientists have records extending through the Holocene of forcing
process, such as climate, that influence humans. We examine these records and
their impact on past and present society. We explore the concept of social
memory, used to understand how past communities use information about climate
change and past responses in long term adaptive strategies.
Also offered as GEOL 468
001 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA
ANTH 471 CULTURE, MEDIA, SOCIETY: EXILE & DIASPOR Credits 4.00 Spring 00
Examination of cultural productions as vehicles for communication across
national, cultural, and other boundaries, using contemporary theories of
culture and media. Includes the creation of meaning and cultural capital, the
representation of minority and alternative views, and the construction of
individual and group identities.
Also offered as HART 471
001 TBA Naficy, Hamid Enr: 0 Max: 15
ANTH 475 PLIO-PLEISTOCENE CLIMATE CHANGE & HOMINI Credits 3.00 Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP III
Junctures in the evolution of the hominids appear to coincide with shifts in
the Earth's climate record. We will explore the current status of our
knowledge of global climate in the Plio-Pleistocene and of the hominid record
from the end of the Miocene to the appearance of H. sapiens.
Also offered as GEOL 475
001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max:
ANTH 491 DIRECTED HONORS RES Credits 3.00 Spring 00
See Anth 490.
001 TBA Marcus, George E. Enr: 0 Max: NA
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ANTH 507 ANTHROPOLOGICAL DIRECTIONS: SECOND WORLD Credits 3.00 Spring 00
See Anth 307.
001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max:
ANTH 508 HISTORY AS A CULTURAL MYTH Credits 3.00 Spring 00
See Anth 308.
001 TBA Taylor, Julie M. Enr: 0 Max: NA
ANTH 515 ANTHROPOLOGY OF MEMORY Credits 3.00 Spring 00
See Anth 315.
001 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA
ANTH 516 INTRO TO WORLD PREHISTORY Credits 3.00 Spring 00
See Anth 206.
001 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA
ANTH 517 RESEARCH IN COMPLEX SOCIETIES Credits 3.00 Spring 00
See Anth 317.
001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max:
ANTH 522 CULTURES AND IDENTITIES Credits 3.00 Spring 00
See Anth 322.
001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max:
ANTH 525 SEX, SELF, AND SOCIETY IN ANCIENT GREECE Credits 3.00 Spring 00
See Anth 325.
001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max:
ANTH 528 VIOLENCE, TERROR AND SOCIAL TRAUMA Credits 3.00 Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
See Anth 328.
001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max:
ANTH 538 READING POPULAR CULTURE Credits 3.00 Spring 00
See Anth 338.
001 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA
ANTH 539 DOCUMENTARYÐNOGRAPHIC FILM Credits 4.00 Spring 00
See Anth 439.
Also offered as HART 539
001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max:
ANTH 544 CITY/CULTURE Credits 3.00 Spring 00
See Anth 344.
001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max:
ANTH 553 CULTURES OF INDIA Credits 3.00 Spring 00
See Anth 353.
001 TBA Tyler, Stephen A. Enr: 0 Max: NA
ANTH 560 MODERNITY & SOCIAL SPACE Credits 3.00 Spring 00
See Anth 360.
001 TBA - M 02:00PM - 05:00PM Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA
ANTH 562 ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIELD TECH Credits 3.00 Spring 00
See Anth 362.
001 TBA McIntosh, Susan K. Enr: 0 Max:
ANTH 571 CULTURE, MEDIA, SOCIETY: EXILE & DIASPOR Credits 4.00 Spring 00
See Anth 471.
Also offered as HART 571
001 TBA Naficy, Hamid Enr: 0 Max: 15
ANTH 588 LIFE CYCLE: A BIOCULTURAL VIEW Credits 3.00 Spring 00
See Anth 388.
001 TBA Elfimov, Alexei L. Enr: 0 Max:
ANTH 600 INDEPENDENT STUDY Credits Spring 00
No description
001 TBA Marcus, George E. Enr: 0 Max: NA
002 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: NA
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ANTH 601 THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF ANTH Credits 3.00 Spring 00
Mapping the current fields of anthropological discourses, examining the debates
in and between each of these fields, and discussing how these debates are
conducted in the domains of fieldwork, ethnographic writing, and in the
construction of careers in anthropology.
001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max:
ANTH 606 COGNITIVE STUDIES: ANTH & LING Credits 3.00 Spring 00
See Anth 406.
001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max:
ANTH 608 SPECIAL TOPICS Credits 3.00 Spring 00
See Anth 408.
001 TBA Gildea, Spike L O Enr: 0 Max: NA
ANTH 612 RHETORIC Credits 3.00 Spring 00
See Anth 412.
001 TBA Tyler, Stephen A. Enr: 0 Max: NA
ANTH 616 THEORIES OF MODERNITY/ POSTMODERNITY: I Credits 3.00 Spring 00
See Anth 416.
001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max:
ANTH 619 LEGAL DISCOURSE IN MODERNITY Credits 3.00 Spring 00
See Anth 419.
001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max:
ANTH 646 ADV TOPICS: BIOMEDICAL ANTH Credits 3.00 Spring 00
See Anth 446. Permission of instructor required.
001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max:
ANTH 650 PEDAGOGY Credits Spring 00
Training in the basic elements of teaching in anthropology to be taken in
conjunction with applied graduate student teaching in ANTH 316.
Prereq- Third year graduate students and above.
001 TBA Marcus, George E. Enr: 0 Max: NA
Staff
ANTH 658 HUMAN OSTEOLOGY Credits 3.00 Spring 00
See Anth 458.
001 TBA McIntosh, Susan K. Enr: 0 Max: NA
ANTH 660 ADVAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL THEORY Credits 3.00 Spring 00
See Anth 460.
001 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA
ANTH 668 PALAEOCLIMATE & HUMAN RESPONSE Credits 3.00 Spring 00
Graduate version of ANTH 468.
001 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA
ANTH 800 RESEARCH AND THESIS Credits Spring 00
No description
001 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA
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