Rojas-Perez
Limit 25
M 1:30-3:50
By surveying legal cases from various parts of the world, this course brings the tools of anthropology to examine how universal human rights discourses and institutions have interlocked with cultural norms, social relations and national politics.
Khan/Obarrio
Limit 80
W/F 3-4:15
Is every crime forgivable? Does faith have to be sincere and spontaneous? Is money real? Is it possible to plan for a catastrophe? With these questions in mind we invite you to an exploration of anthropology. We will draw upon the archives of the discipline to provide you historical, ethnographic and comparative perspectives on law, religion, money and the environment.
Cross-listing: WGS, PLAS
Cervone
Limit 25
M/W 12-1:15
This course analyzes theories of development that have been guiding international cooperation in developing countries since the late 1940s. Case studies focus on Latin America, the Caribbean, India, and Africa.
Cross-listing: PLAS
Daultzai
Limit 25
F 1:30-3:50
Dean’s Teaching Fellowship:
Inquiry will include critical analysis of historical and contemporary representations of Afghanistan and various tropes it has come to be known by: culture, gender, and Islam
Hatchell
Limit 40
T/TH 9-10:15
An introduction to the philosophy, practice, and lived experience of Buddhists in Tibet and Nepal, using traditional Tibetan texts and contemporary anthropological literature
Cross-listing: EAS
Pandian
Limit 20
M 1:30-3:50
Anthropology of the Self. This course examines various cultures, histories, and philosophies of selfhood, focusing especially on questions of desire, pleasure, emotion, embodiment, morality, sensuality, and the emergence of the modern self.
Cross-listing: Humanities Center
Han
Limit 25
TH 1:30-3:50
From embodiment, inscription, affect, and efficacy, the body has had multiple lives within anthropological thought. This seminar will consider how the body has been explored in anthropological texts and social theory. We will consider the relationships between body and language; embodiment, care, and ethics; and try to delineate together an unconventional genealogy of the body in anthropological accounts.
Cross-listing: WGS, Public Health Studies
Haeri
Limit 30
W 1:30-3:50
What kind of activity is prayer? Are we talking to God(s), to our ancestors, to ourselves? What are the differences between choosing our own words and repeating the words of an established prayer? The course will explore these and similar questions with particular attention to the language of prayers across a number of religious traditions.
Das
Limit 30
T/TH 12-1:15
This course will follow the life of the image in both religious and secular contexts in South Asia and ask how the image functions at the level of the domestic and the political.
Guyer
Limit 15
T 1:30-3:50
Reviews debates on theory and method, and examines the intersection of household studies with kinship, gender, labor force/dependency and political economy. Final emphasis on methods relative to research problems.
JOINT Undergraduate/Graduate Course (AS.070.668)
Birenbaum Quintero
Limit 12
F 1:30-3:50
This course asks how black Caribbean and Latin American musics are connected, firstly to the national societies in which they live, and secondly to the larger context of the African diaspora and its global representations, both theoretically and through case studies from various Afro-Latin and Afro-Caribbean populations. Open to graduate and advanced undergraduate students, although the latter might find the class reading-intensive. Musical training or experience are not required.
Cross-listing: PLAS, Africana Studies, Musicology (Peabody)
Guyer
Limit 15
T 1:30-3:50
Reviews debates on theory and method, and examines the intersection of household studies with kinship, gender, labor force/dependency and political economy. Final emphasis on methods relative to research problems.
JOINT Undergraduate/Graduate Course (AS.070.410)
Poole
Limit 15
W 1:00-3:00
How do political claims gain force? What makes a claim "political" and how does it acquire life in multiple social worlds? This course explores these questions through anthropological engagements with affect, aesthetics, visuality, and the state.
Obarrio
Limit 25
TH 2-4
For/giving? Anthropologies (Mauss, Sahlins) and philosophies (Derrida, Marion, Nancy) of the gift. Theories of justice: Rawls and the debates on community, liberal rights and utilitarianism.
Cross-listing: Political Science, WGS, PLAS
Das
Limit 15
M 4-6
Pandian
Limit 15
F 2-4
Tacking between theoretical and ethnographic texts on art and poetry, visual image and dramatic performance, living body and natural landscape, this course seeks anthropological ground for an impersonal and asubjective philosophy of creative expression.
Cross-listing: Humanities Center
Guyer
Limit 12
W 10-Noon
Organized around chronological units: The Unknown in the Present; Library and Field; The Primacy of Experience; The Idea of Logic; Defying Logic; Contingency and Emergence. Requests can be entertained.
Brown
In-depth reading and discussion at the intersection of visual culture and the political. Issues may include photography and colonialism, national symbolism, commodification of culture, visual and ethnographic display, the national museum, repatriation, modernity and the spectacle.
Shell-Weiss
Focused on the "Middle East" neighborhood, nearby the site of JHU's new biomedical park and the downtown campus, students in this course will document and explore this neighborhood's rich history from the 1920s to the present day. Collecting and analyzing oral histories with current and former residents and supporting the work of several community organizations dedicated to improving quality of life for those who make the neighborhood home today will be critical to our work. Interviews, photographs, and related material collected as part of this class will become part of the JHU Center for Africana Studies "East Baltimore Oral History Project," a part of the African Diaspora Pathways Project.
Cross-listed with Africana Studies
McCarter
Emphasizing theories about human biological and cultural development, this course consists of an in-depth survey of Neanderthal morphology and culture, a brief discussion of evolutionary theory and our fossil ancestors, and concludes with an exploration of the mechanisms and results of the shift from hunting and gathering to farming.
Goodfellow
Rodini
The course examines recent controversies in the conservation of major global art works and sites, raising questions concerning the basic theoretical assumptions, practical methods and ethical implications of art conservation.
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