The course showcase lists several commonly taught courses with a more substantial description by the professor.

 

ANTH 415/615 Theories of Modernity and Post-Modernity

The course is an intense and intensive survey of social and cultural theories of modernity and postmodernity from the Second World War to the Present.   Hardly a current buzzword passes unexamined. Required of graduates. James Faubion

 

ANTH 403/603 Analyzing Practice

The course is a genealogical exploration of the unfolding of the conceptualization of "practice" from Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics to the present. Not required of graduates, but I'd heartily recommend it to anyone who doesn't mind running the risk of possibly learning something. James Faubion

 

ANTH 605:   Fieldwork

I teach a course in "Fieldwork" which is an experiment in developing methods for qualitative research in contemporary complex societies.   It includes techniques and strategies for access, ethical and political issues of complicity, adjacency and accountability, technical uses of new and old media, and experiments in collaborative and comparative ethnographic methods. Christopher Kelty

 

ANTH 430/630: Experimental Writing

This course introduces students formally to modes of writing that  contrast with the use of words in academic analysis.   To understand this better, we also explore expressive modes in different forms of art, discussing them and attempting to write about them.   However, this course is not intended as an analysis of writing or the arts.   It is intended as a workshop to produce different experiments with forms of  writing.   This involves writerly concerns, but also the conceptualization of projects that are not amenable to analytic treatment.