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ANTH 200 INTRODUCTION TO THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF Credits 3.00 Fall 99
* 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.
A FOUNDATION COURSE.
001 MWF 10:00AM-10:50AM SH*309 Gildea, Spike *CURRENT ENR: 0
ANTH 203 INTRO TO PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY Credits 3.00 Fall 99
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
An introduction to, and overview of, physical anthropology, including
basic principles of genetic inheritance, human variation and
adaptability, primate behavior and evolution and the evolutionary
history of primates and hominids.
001 TTH 10:50AM-12:05PM SH*307 McIntosh, Susan *CURRENT ENR: 23
ANTH 299 CONTEMPORARY CULTURES IN TRANSFORMATION Credits 3.00 Fall 99
* 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 TTH 10:50AM-12:05PM SH*560 Elfimov, Alexei *CURRENT ENR: 1
ANTH 301 PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY Credits 3.00 Fall 99
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Theory and practice of articulatory phonetics and of methods of
determining the structural patterns which underlie speech sounds.
Also offered as Ling 301.
001 MWF 09:00AM-09:50AM RH*239 Copeland, James *CURRENT ENR: 0
ANTH 307 ANTHROPOLOGICAL DIRECTIONS: SECOND WORLD Credits 3.00 Fall 99
* 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 TTH 02:30PM-03:50PM SH*562 Faubion, James *CURRENT ENR: 1
ANTH 313 LANGUAGE AND CULTURE Credits 3.00 Fall 99
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Investigates the relation between language and thought, language and
world view, language and logic.
Also offered as Ling 313.
001 TTH 09:25AM-10:40AM SH*309 Tyler, Stephen *CURRENT ENR: 0
ANTH 322 CULTURES AND IDENTITIES Credits 3.00 Fall 99
* 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 T 02:30PM-05:30PM FL*414 Elfimov, Alexei *CURRENT ENR: 3
ANTH 327 GENDER AND SYMBOLISM Credits 3.00 Fall 99
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Examinations of beliefs concerning men, women, and gender in different
cultures, including the West, relating to issues of symbolism, power,
and the distribution of cultural models.
Also offered as Wgst 350.
001 M 02:00PM-05:00PM SH*460 Taylor, Julie *CURRENT ENR: 8
ANTH 328 VIOLENCE, TERROR, AND SOCIAL TRAUMA Credits 3.00 Fall 99
* 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 TTH 04:00PM-05:20PM SH*562 Taylor, Julie *CURRENT ENR: 18
ANTH 345 THE POLITICS OF THE PAST: ARCHHAEOLOGY I Credits 3.00 Fall 99
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
An examination of the way that archaeological evidence of the past has
been used and viewed by particular groups at different times. Using case
studies, the course considers issues of gender, race, Eurocentrism,
political domination and legitimacy that emerge from critical analysis
of representations of the past by archaeologists, museums, and
collectors.
001 TTH 02:30PM-03:50PM SH*560 McIntosh, Susan *CURRENT ENR: 8
ANTH 347 THE U.S. AS A FOREIGN COUNTRY Credits 3.00 Fall 99
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Texas plays a major role in the historical imagination, both in the
United States and globally, as a maddeningly proud, rule-busting anomaly
that the natives love and others love to hate. In this course we seek to
understand the particular cultural threads of the people who came to be
Texas, while never forgetting the wider context of U.S. expansion, the
Mexican independence movement, and European conflict. Although millions
of words have been written about Texas and students will need to read
some of them, the course will focus more on doing research. The goal is
for students to construct their own ethnographic project through field
trips, interviews, and primary documents.
For social science and humanities students who plan to live and work in
Texas or just want to know what happened to them during their four years
at Rice.
001 TH 02:30PM-05:30PM FL*414 Sutherland, Anne *CURRENT ENR: 2
ANTH 381 MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY Credits 3.00 Fall 99
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Cultural, ecological, and biological perspectives on human health and
disease throughout the world.
Enrollment is limited to 25.
001 TH 07:00PM-10:00PM SH*305 Davis-Floyd, Robbie *CURRENT ENR: 25
ANTH 404 INDEPENDENT STUDY Credits 1.00 Fall 99
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 TBA Marcus, George *CURRENT ENR: 1
002 TBA TBA Faubion, James *CURRENT ENR: 0
003 TBA TBA Georges, Eugenia *CURRENT ENR: 0
004 TBA TBA Lee, Benjamin *CURRENT ENR: 0
005 TBA TBA McIntosh, Roderick *CURRENT ENR: 0
006 TBA TBA McIntosh, Susan *CURRENT ENR: 0
007 TBA TBA Milun, Kathryn *CURRENT ENR: 0
008 TBA TBA Taylor, Julie *CURRENT ENR: 0
009 TBA TBA Tyler, Stephen *CURRENT ENR: 0
010 TBA TBA Davis-Floyd, Robbie *CURRENT ENR: 1
ANTH 407 FIELD TECHNIQUES AND ANALYSIS Credits 3.00 Fall 99
Techniques and practice in the observation, analysis, and recording of a
human language.
Also offered as Ling 407.
001 TBA TBA Gildea, Spike *CURRENT ENR: 0
ANTH 414 HERMENEUTICS & LING ANTH Credits 3.00 Fall 99
Application of linguistic theory and method in the analysis of cultural
materials. Discourse analysis; the structure and interpretation of
texts and conversation.
Also offered as Ling 414.
001 TTH 10:50AM-12:05PM SH*460 Tyler, Stephen *CURRENT ENR: 0
ANTH 415 THEORIES OF MODERNITY/ POSTMODERNITY I Credits 3.00 Fall 99
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
An advanced course for graduates students and undergraduate majors
interested in theorizations of modernity and its permutations, and in
their relevance for anthropologist. Readings will draw on works by
Weber, Anderson, Foucault, Berman, Pred, Rabinow, Faubion, Harvey, and
others.
001 T 02:30PM-05:30PM PL*119 Fuller, Mia *CURRENT ENR: 4
ANTH 440 NON-WESTERN CINEMA: THIRD WORLD CINEMAS Credits 4.00 Fall 99
Deals with significant national cinemas, film movements, and filmmakers
of the third world from Africa to Latin America, from the Middle East to
China. Colonial and postcolonial discourses will be mobilized.
Enrollment is limited to 15.
Also offered as Hart 440.
001 W 01:00PM-05:00PM Naficy, Hamid *CURRENT ENR: 0
ANTH 447 MODERN ETHNOGRAPHY AND THE ETHNOGRAPHY O Credits 3.00 Fall 99
The course explores the strategies of representation, the methodologies,
and the diagnostic categories to which anthropologists have resort in
coming to terms with such phenomena as rationalization, economic and
informational globalization, and the commodification of culture.
001 W 02:00PM-05:00PM SH*460 Faubion, James *CURRENT ENR: 1
ANTH 490 DIRECTED HONORS RESEARCH Credits 3.00 Fall 99
A two-semester sequence of independent research culminating in the
preparation and defense of an honors thesis. Open only to candidates
formally accepted into the honors program.
001 TBA TBA Marcus, George *CURRENT ENR: 0
002 TBA TBA Faubion, James *CURRENT ENR: 0
003 TBA TBA Georges, Eugenia *CURRENT ENR: 0
004 TBA TBA Lee, Benjamin *CURRENT ENR: 0
005 TBA TBA McIntosh, Roderick *CURRENT ENR: 0
006 TBA TBA McIntosh, Susan *CURRENT ENR: 0
007 TBA TBA Milun, Kathryn *CURRENT ENR: 0
008 TBA TBA Taylor, Julie *CURRENT ENR: 0
009 TBA TBA Tyler, Stephen *CURRENT ENR: 0
ANTH 507 ANTHROPOLOGICAL DIRECTIONS: SECOND WORLD Credits 3.00 Fall 99
See Anth 307.
001 TTH 02:30PM-03:50PM SH*562 Faubion, James *CURRENT ENR: 1
ANTH 513 LANGUAGE AND CULTURE Credits 3.00 Fall 99
See Anth 313.
001 TTH 09:25AM-10:40AM SH*309 Tyler, Stephen *CURRENT ENR: 0
ANTH 522 CULTURES AND IDENTITIES Credits 3.00 Fall 99
See Anth 322.
001 T 02:30PM-05:30PM FL*414 Elfimov, Alexei *CURRENT ENR: 0
ANTH 527 GENDER AND SYMBOLISM Credits 3.00 Fall 99
See Anth 327.
001 M 02:00PM-05:00PM SH*460 Taylor, Julie *CURRENT ENR: 1
ANTH 528 VIOLENCE, TERROR AND SOCIAL TRAUMA Credits 3.00 Fall 99
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
See Anth 328.
001 TTH 04:00PM-05:20PM SH*562 Taylor, Julie *CURRENT ENR: 0
ANTH 540 NON-WESTERN CINEMA: THIRD WORLD CINEMAS Credits 4.00 Fall 99
See Anth 440.
001 W 01:00PM-05:00PM Naficy, Hamid *CURRENT ENR: 0
ANTH 545 THE POLITICS OF THE PAST: ARCHAEOLOGY IN Credits 3.00 Fall 99
See Anth 345.
001 TTH 02:30PM-03:50PM SH*560 McIntosh, Susan *CURRENT ENR: 0
ANTH 547 THE U.S. AS A FOREIGN COUNTRY Credits 3.00 Fall 99
Texas plays a major role in the historical imagination, both in the
United States and globally, as a maddeningly proud, rule-busting
anomaly that the natives love and others love to hate. In this course we
seek to understand the particular cultural threads of the people who
came to be Texas, while never forgetting the wider context of U.S.
expansion, the Mexican independence movement, and European conflict.
Although millons of words have been written about Texas and students
will need to read some of them, the course will focus more on doing
research. The goal is for students to construct their own ethnographic
project through field trips, interviews, and primary documents.
For social science and humanities students who plan to live and work in
Texas or just want to know what happened to them during their four years
at Rice.
001 TH 02:30PM-05:30PM FL*414 Sutherland, Anne *CURRENT ENR: 0
ANTH 581 MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY Credits 3.00 Fall 99
See Anth 381.
001 TH 07:00PM-10:00PM SH*305 Davis-Floyd, Robbie *CURRENT ENR: 0
ANTH 600 INDEPENDENT STUDY Credits 3.00 Fall 99
001 TBA TBA Marcus, George *CURRENT ENR: 12
002 TBA TBA Faubion, James *CURRENT ENR: 5
003 TBA TBA Georges, Eugenia *CURRENT ENR: 0
004 Lee, Benjamin *CURRENT ENR: 0
005 McIntosh, Roderick *CURRENT ENR: 0
006 McIntosh, Susan *CURRENT ENR: 0
007 Milun, Kathryn *CURRENT ENR: 2
008 Taylor, Julie *CURRENT ENR: 0
009 Tyler, Stephen *CURRENT ENR: 1
ANTH 601 PROSEMINAR IN ANTHROPOLOGY Credits 3.00 Fall 99
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 M 02:00PM-05:00PM SH*562 Marcus, George *CURRENT ENR: 1
ANTH 607 FIELD TECHNIQUES & ANALYSIS Credits 3.00 Fall 99
See Anth 407.
001 TBA TBA Gildea, Spike *CURRENT ENR: 0
ANTH 614 HERMENEUTICS & LING ANTH Credits 3.00 Fall 99
See Anth 414.
001 TTH 10:50AM-12:05PM SH*460 Tyler, Stephen *CURRENT ENR: 1
ANTH 615 THEORIES OF MODERNITY/ POSTMODERNITY I Credits 3.00 Fall 99
See ANTH 415.
001 T 02:30PM-05:30PM PL*119 Fuller, Mia *CURRENT ENR: 3
ANTH 647 MODERN ETHNOGRAPHY AND THE ETHNOGRAPHY O Credits 3.00 Fall 99
See Anth 447
001 W 02:00PM-05:00PM SH*460 Faubion, James *CURRENT ENR: 0
ANTH 800 RESEARCH AND THESIS Credits 3.00 Fall 99
001 TBA TBA TBA *CURRENT ENR: 13
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