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Is Eros and Cupid the same?
Are Aphrodite and Ares still together?
Is Ares Aphrodite's husband?
What is Ares the God of other than war?
What is Ares best known for?
Eros was the Greek god of carnal love. In Latin he is called Amor (love) or Cupid (desire). Eros was the assistant, and according to some the son, of Aprhodite, the goddess of love and fertility.
Ares and Aphrodite remained together, but ancient writers did not say they were married. Although they were in love, Aphrodite had not been given a choice in her marriage. No matter how much she cared for another, she was expected to remain faithful to the husband that had been arranged for her.
In the Iliad, Aphrodite is the apparently unmarried consort of Ares, the god of war, and the wife of Hephaestus is a different goddess named Charis. Likewise, in Hesiod's Theogony, Aphrodite is unmarried and the wife of Hephaestus is Aglaea, the youngest of the three Charites.
Ares was associated with two other war deities: Enyalius and Enyo. Ares had many offspring, which is characteristic of nearly all of the notable Greek gods. He conceived more mortal children than divine children. In art, Ares is generally depicted wearing a spear and a helmet.
Ares was the Greek god of war and perhaps the most unpopular of all the Olympian gods because of his quick temper, aggressiveness, and unquenchable thirst for conflict. He famously seduced Aphrodite, unsuccessfully fought with Hercules, and enraged Poseidon by killing his son Halirrhothios.
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Major in Anthropology
The major in anthropology consists of nine 4-point courses (36 points), which include the following four required courses (16 points):
Culture, Power, and Society (ANTH-UA 1)
Human Evolution (ANTH-UA 2)
Archaeology: Early Societies and Cultures (ANTH-UA 3)
Language, Culture, and Society (ANTH-UA 17; offered only in the spring semester)
The remaining elective courses for the major (five courses/20 points) may be selected from any subfield of anthropology. Students must take at least five courses from the Department of Anthropology at New York University in order to receive a major in anthropology from NYU, and a grade of C or better is required in every course to be counted toward the major. Students are not required to focus on any one of the subfields of anthropology represented in the department, but rather are free to choose elective courses that accommodate their interests as narrowly or broadly as they see fit, in consultation with the DUS. Internships approved by the DUS are encouraged, but internship credits may not be applied toward the major. Independent study courses, conducted under the supervision of a departmental faculty member, are also encouraged and can be applied toward the major, up to a limit of 8 credits. Majors should consult regularly with the DUS in order to take full advantage of the seminars and research opportunities open to them.
Joint Major with the Department of Classics
The joint major in anthropology and classical civilization emphasizes the importance of anthropological approaches to understanding the social orders and institutions of the classical world. One anthropology course, Culture, Power, and Society (ANTH-UA 1), is required, along with four other anthropology electives chosen in consultation with the DUS of each department. Twenty points are required in classics. See classics section in this Bulletin for additional information. Joint anthropology classics majors should also consult with Professors in the Department of Anthropology and the DUS in the Department of Classics for aid in developing their program of study.
Joint Major with the Department of Linguistics
The joint major in anthropology and linguistics emphasizes the complementary nature of anthropological and sociolinguistic approaches to language. Students are required to take five 4-point courses (20 points) each from the Department of Anthropology and the Department of Linguistics, and a grade of at least C is required in every course to be counted toward the joint major.
Required courses in anthropology are Culture, Power, and Society (ANTH-UA 1), Language, Culture, and Society (ANTH-UA 17), either Cultural Symbols (ANTH-UA 48) or Language, Power, and Identity (ANTH-UA 16), and two other cultural or linguistic anthropology courses approved by the Department of Anthropology's DUS.
Required courses in linguistics are Language (LING-UA 1), Language and Society (LING-UA 15), and at least two of the following: Bilingualism (LING-UA 18); Language, Literacy, and Society (LING-UA 20); Sex, Gender, and Language (LING-UA 21); African American Vernacular English: Language and Culture (LING-UA 23); Language and Liberation at Home in the Caribbean and Abroad (LING-UA 26); and Language in Latin America (LING-UA 30).
The fifth course in linguistics may be an additional course from the above list or another course that the department offers, chosen in consultation with the DUS in the Department of Linguistics. See linguistics section in this Bulletin for additional information. Joint anthropology-linguistics majors should also consult with Professor Bambi Schieffelin in the Department of Anthropology and the DUS in the Department of Linguistics for aid in developing their program of study.
Joint Major with Global Public Health
The College of Arts and Science (CAS) and the Department of Anthropology offer students the opportunity to pursue a major that combines anthropology and global public health. Students pursuing this combined program will complete core and elective courses in both areas.
The major provides interdisciplinary training that embraces the natural convergence of society, culture and health, and draws on the Department of Anthropology's strength in bridging the social sciences, natural sciences, and humanities. A major in global public health/anthropology prepares students to analyze various cultural traditions through the lens of health; to examine complex relationships within economic, political, cultural, physical, and biological environments; and to apply anthropological approaches to public health problems. The major is designed to prepare students for multidisciplinary careers in a variety of settings and/or for advanced academic training in public health, anthropology, or other related fields.
Students in this combined major must talk to the DUS or departmental liaison with GPH in the Department of Anthropology to work out a course plan. The following are the fifteen courses (60 points) required for the major:
Global public health requirements (seven courses/28 points):
Health and Society in a Global Context (UGPH-GU 10)
Biostatistics (UGPH-GU 20)
Epidemiology (UGPH-GU 30)
Health Policy in a Global World (UGPH-GU 40)
Environmental Health in a Global World (UGPH-GU 50)
GPH Internship (UGPH-GU 60)
One semester of advanced foreign language (above intermediate II level). Students who present AP or other advanced standing credit that is equivalent to completion of at least one course above intermediate two have satisfied the requirement. Students who take an NYU language placement exam and demonstrate proficiency equivalent to completion of at least one course above the intermediate two level (i.e., they at least place into the second course above intermediate two) have also met this requirement.
One semester of study away
Anthropology core courses (three courses/12 points):
Medical Anthropology (ANTH-UA 35)
Global Biocultures (ANTH-UA 36)
Anthropology elective courses (three courses/12 points), chosen from:
Language, Power and Identity (ANTH-UA 16)
Conversations in Everyday Life (ANTH-UA 32)
Evolutionary Medicine (ANTH-UA 55)
Emerging Diseases (ANTH-UA 80)
Human Ecology (ANTH-UA 90)
Anthropology of Gender and Sexuality (ANTH-UA 112)
Race, Difference, and Social Inequality (ANTH-UA 323)
Introduction to Forensic Anthropology (ANTH-UA 326)
Human Rights and Culture (ANTH-UA 331)
The Social Life of Food: Producing, Selling, Cooking, Sharing, Eating (ANTH-UA 410)
Major electives (two courses/8 points):
Two additional electives must be completed in the GPH program or anthropology, by advisement. For descriptions of GPH (UGPH-GU) courses, and for all policies applying to the major (including those for transfer students), please see the global public health section of this Bulletin.
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Course Descriptions Spring 2021
ANTH-UA 1: Culture, Power, Society
Professor Bruce Grant
Tuesdays and Thursdays 2:00pm-3:15pm | Online
What does it mean to think anthropologically? This course considers historically foundational practices of anthropological thought, its core method, fieldwork, and its most influential product, the ethnography, in order to think practically and creatively along the lines of what constitutes cultures, societies, translation, and difference. A central goal is to advance the concept of culture, with its attendant solidarities, hierarchies, and exclusions, in order to better understand continually changing systems of collective identifications.
ANTH-UA 2: Human Evolution
Professor Shara Bailey
Tuesdays and Thursdays 12:30pm-1:45pm | Online
Investigates the evolutionary origins of humans. The study of human evolution is a multidisciplinary endeavor involving a synthesis of concepts, techniques, and research findings from a variety of different scientific fields, including evolutionary biology, paleontology, primatology, comparative anatomy, genetics, molecular biology, geology, and archaeology. Explores the different contributions that scientists have made toward understanding human origins and provides a detailed survey of the evidence used to reconstruct the evolutionary history of our own species.
ANTH-UA 3: Introduction to Archaeology
Professor Carrie Wright
Tuesdays and Thursdays 11:00am-12:15pm | Online
Introduces contemporary archaeology, its theories, practices, and early societies and cultures. Examines current methodological and theoretical viewpoints of archaeological scholarship within the discipline of anthropology. Focuses on key transformations in cultural evolution, such as the origins of modern humans, the emergence of food production, and the development of complex societies, urbanism, and early states. Explores gender roles, landscapes and settlements, technologies, art, cognitive systems, urbanism, and state formation.
ANTH-UA 16: Language, Power, and Identity
Professor Renée Blake
Explores how identity is a process of "becoming" rather than a mode of "being" by examining how speakers enact their gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, and socioeconomic class through everyday conversations, narratives, performances, literacy activities, and public debates. Also explores the moral and political consequences of people's identification strategies by examining how their beliefs about language reinforce or contest normative power structures. Readings on the relationship between bilingual education and accent discrimination, multilingualism and youth counterculture, migration and code-switching, media and religious publics, linguistic nationalism and xenophobia, and literacy and neo/liberalism in different areas of the world
ANTH-UA 17: Language, Culture, and Society
Professor Sonia Das
Monday and Wednesdays 9:30am-10:45am | Online
Fundamental theoretical and methodological issues pertaining to the academic study of religion. Theories of the origin, character, and function of religion as a human phenomenon. Understanding and interpretation of religious phenomena through psychological, sociological, anthropological, historical, and hermeneutical perspectives.
ANTH-UA 35: Medical Anthropology
Professor Melissa Maldonado-Salcedo
Monday and Wednesdays 3:30pm-4:45pm | Online
Analyzes medical beliefs and practices in African, Asian, and Latin American societies. Studies the coexistence of different kinds of medical specialists (e.g., shamans, herbalists, bonesetters, midwives, physicians trained in indigenous and cosmopolitan medicine), with particular reference to the structures of health resources available to laymen and problems of improving health care.
ANTH-UA 60: Archaeological Evidence for Human Evolution
Professor Justin Pargeter
This course covers the archaeological record of human evolution spanning from ~3 million years up until 12 thousand years ago. This critical period in human evolution witnessed a three-fold increase in our brain size, our range/habitat expansion from portions of Africa to the entire subpolar world, and the emergence of fully "modern" Homo sapiens. During the course you will be introduced to the behavior, ecology, and technology of tool-using humans and their ancestors. We track human cultural evolution from the earliest evidence for culture to discussions about our continuing cultural evolution.
ANTH-UA 62: Primate Sexuality
Professor Jenna Lawrence
This course will explore the sexual lives of primates through an evolutionary lens. From sexual-selection theory to sperm competition to endocrinology, we will take a comparative approach to examining just how fundamental sexuality is to many aspects of both non-human and human primate biology
ANTH-UA 82: The Social Life of Museums
Professor Urmila Mohan
Mondays Only 2:00pm-4:30pm | Online
This course considers "the museum" as an object of ethnographic inquiry, examining it as a social institution embedded in a broader field of cultural heritage that is perpetually under negotiation. We reflect on how museum principles of classification, practices of collection and exhibition, uptake of media, technology, and archiving have influenced the ways in which knowledge has been formed, presented, and represented; and interrogate the role of museums as significant social actors in broad anthropological debates on power, materiality, value, representation, culture, nationalism, circulation, aesthetics, science, history, and "new" technologies. By the end of the semester, students will have gained both historical and ethnographic perspectives on how museums help us to know and reproduce ourselves and "others," and how these institutions craft, control, and circulate cultural heritage in various social lives.
ANTH-UA 112: Anthropology of Gender and Sexuality
Professor Anna Wilking
Compares women's and men's experiences, activities, resources, powers, and symbolic significance as they vary within and between societies. Social and historical approaches in the analysis of how gender relations are affected by major social transformations. Emphasis on such changes as gender roles, current transnational migrations, social movements, international relations, and the role of the military in a variety of world societies.
ANTH-UA 200: Archaeology of Anglo-Saxon England
Professor Pam Crabtree
Tuesdays Only 2:00pm-3:15pm | Online
This course will introduce students to the lives of people of Anglo-Saxon England from the end of the Roman period (ca. 410 CE) to the Norman Conquest (1066 CE) through the analysis of their material remains. The earlier phases of the Anglo-Saxon period are poorly documented historically, and this course will seek to answer such questions as: Who were the Anglo-Saxons? How did Britain change after it was no longer part of the Roman Empire? What can archaeology tell us about Anglo-Saxon settlement practices and burial patterns? How can we use archaeology to study the rebirth of towns and trade in later Anglo-Saxon England? The overall goal of the course is to show how archaeology can shed new light on early medieval society in England.
ANTH-UA 201: Animal Domestication
Thursdays Only 2:00pm-3:15pm | Online
Known as the Neolithic Revolution, the transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture and herding is one of the most dramatic changes in human history. Archaeologists, anthropologists, and biologists have been interested in the process of animal domestication since the 19th century. Much (but not all) scholarly attention has focused on cattle, sheep, goats, and pigs, since these animals played key roles in the development of farming societies in Asia, Africa, and Europe. This course will explore some of the other animal domesticates that have played important roles in human history in both the Eastern Hemisphere and the Americas.
ANTH-UA 214: Landscape Archaeology
Professor Panahipour
Wednesdays Only 2:00pm-4:30pm | Online
The ideas of space, place, and landscape have been at the center of debates in multiple fields of study, including archaeology. In this regard, landscape archaeology describes the intertwined relations between cultural and natural elements that formed or transformed landscapes through time. This course aims to provide students with understanding and necessary skills for investigating some of the most enduring questions about human-environment interactions. We will focus on different prehistoric and historical periods and will discuss case studies from across the world, including the ancient Near East and the Americas. This flexibility in temporal and spatial aspects is an opportunity for students to apply learnings to their fields of study and research. With an interdisciplinary approach, students will be introduced to theoretical underpinnings, methodological approaches, and some of the key empirical contributions of this field. Particularly, and through hands-on training, this course introduces remote sensing techniques, application of aerial and satellite imagery, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), geospatial analysis, historic landscapes analysis, and archaeological survey methods. This course combines lectures, exercise, and lab activities, and by its end, students will be able to apply critical thinking to reading and writing, advance their presentation skills, and attempt to find answers to questions such as what methods and theories may we employ to analyze and interpret ancient landscapes, whether urban, non-urban, industrial, agricultural, sacred, or frontier landscapes? What are some of the innovative approaches in the archaeology of landscapes, and what are some of the potential future research perspectives in this field? How can our academic endeavors into understanding ancient landscapes help address some of the current issues that we face today, such as water crisis, climatic changes, and social resilience or collapse?
ANTH-UA 220: Religion and Media
Professor Angela Zito
This course introduces the long-standing and complex connection between religious practices and various media. We'll analyze how human hearing, vision, and the performing body have been used historically to express and maintain religious life through music, voice, images, words, and rituals. Time will then be spent on more recent electronic media such as radio, film, television, video, and the Internet. An anthropological/ historical perspective on studying religion is pursued.
ANTH-UA 321: Topics Seminar: Environmental Anthropology
Professor Amy Zhang
Monday and Wednesdays 11:00am-12:15pm | Online
This course is an overview of social science approaches to the study of environment and society. Students will be introduced to key theoretical debates in critical environmental studies such as the relationship between nature and culture, the politics of knowledge, economy and environment, and development and conservation. The class focuses on applying an ethnographic lens to contemporary environmental issues, one that centers on an analysis of power and process, in topics ranging from natural resource extraction, environmental justice, climate change, science and technology, toxicity, pollution, disaster and infrastructure. Articles will be supplemented with film and documentaries throughout the course.
ANTH-UA 323: Race and Caste
Professor Aisha Khan
Monday and Wednesdays 12:30pm-1:45pm | In-Person | SILV 206
Among the most consequential expressions of human social organization are caste and race. Each is a familiar part of the American landscape, caste construed as exotic ("Eastern") and race as homegrown ("Western"), yet both are objects of critique. The presumed differences between caste and race have drawn attention to certain forms of social inequality while discouraging understanding them beyond conventional categories that define certain geographies. Although caste and race are symbols that represent particular master narratives about country and culture, and create and project discrete images of "the other," on-the-ground distinctions between them always have been slippery, with long histories of interaction between them shaped by varying contexts. Geared for students who have had a basic course in anthropology, history, cultural studies, sociology, or diaspora, or an area studies course on the Atlantic World or South Asia, this course will engage in wide-ranging, comparative, and interdisciplinary exploration of caste and race, both as distinct categorical entities and as imbricated relations of power.
ANTH-UA 326: Forensic Anthropology
Biological anthropology examines the evolutionary history and adaptability of humans and our ancestors. Forensic anthropology is an applied subfield of biological anthropology that provides expert analysis of the skeleton in a medicolegal setting by utilizing methods developed in skeletal biology, archaeology, and the forensic sciences. Forensic anthropologists play critical roles in identifying victims of mass fatalities (such as World Trade Center and Oklahoma City bombings), in investigating homicides (such as identifying the Russian tsar's family), and in distinguishing cause of death. We examine how forensic anthropologists approach modern and historic crimes in the laboratory and the field. Students are introduced to the underlying theory and the applied techniques that forensic anthropologists use to recover and identify individuals and assess cause of death.
ANTH-UA 331: Human Rights and Culture
Professor Elan Abrell
This course offers an overview of the human rights system, looking at its basic elements and studying how it works. It focuses on the relationships between human rights and culture and between global ideas and practices and local ones. Human rights campaigns frequently encounter resistance in the name of protecting cultural differences. This is particularly common with issues concerning women, children, and the family. The course explores several issues that raise questions of human rights and culture, such as female genital cutting, trafficking of persons, food justice, and indigenous peoples' rights to culture. Using these examples, the course considers how the human rights system deals with tensions between global standards and local ways of life. It examines the meanings of rights and of culture in these debates and shows the implications of adopting an anthropological analysis of these situations. The goal of the course is developing an understanding of human rights in practice
ANTH-UA 401: Reading Environmental Ethnographies
Professor Anne Rademacher
ANTH-UA 603: Popular Culture in Latin America
Latin American Popular culture offers a "window" and a "mirror" into the many worlds and histories embodied and circulated by the national and imagined pueblos (peoples.) It remains an arena for ideas of nationalism and identity to be created, maintained, and shared within everyday life. This course explores Latin America's rise and evolution of popular culture. Anthropologically, in this course, we will inspect the varied and sometimes conflicting ways in which popular culture maintains a public commentary on violence and nationalism throughout the hemisphere. Additionally, we will examine the ways in which popular culture (re)solves social problems, whilst also casting a light on inequalities. In the context of Latin America, race, gender/sexuality, and class persist as dominant conceptual frameworks which complicate 'normative' definitions and expressions of nationalism, identity, and citizenship. For this reason, we will ask how do understandings of gender, class, race, and sexuality shape the ways they are (mis)represented in popular culture forms? How does Latin American popular culture migrate and shape the Latinx experience and culture industries abroad? Lastly, we will assess the social and political impact of popular culture on claims and affirmations of identity, belonging, and authenticity
ANTH-UA 636: Gods and Profits: Religion and Capitalism
Professor Elayne Oliphant
The course explores the 'enchanted' production and reproduction of capitalism and the effects of capitalism on ever-transforming religious practices. Through a combination of classical and contemporary approaches in political economy, religious studies, and anthropology, we will address what makes capitalism a unique mode of exchange and explore examples of the spirits that haunt the market's invisible hand as well as those that resist its powerful reach. Our readings and discussions will cover important debates surrounding the history and origins of capitalism in Europe; classical anthropological writings on "pre-capitalist" economies encountered during European colonial expansion; and current writings that refuse the distinction between the supposedly separate spheres of religion and the economy.
ANTH-UA 950 Honors Research I
Professor Tejaswini Ganti
Mondays and Wednesdays 12:30pm-1:45pm | Blended Format | 25 Waverly Place, Rm 706
Please contact Undergraduate Aide, Star Jimenez, to enroll. Open only to honors majors who have the permission of the director of undergraduate studies and who have secured the support of a faculty mentor to supervise the student's honors research and serve as the primary thesis reader.
ANTH-UA 997 Independent Study
Professor Varies
Prerequisite: permission of the instructor and the Director of Undergraduate Studies. 2 or 4 points per term; 6 or 8 points in exceptional cases.
Culture, Power, and Society
ANTH-UA 1 Das, Ganti, Grant, Myers. 4 points.
Surveys the general aims, methods, and findings of modern cultural anthropology and its ties with the humanities and social sciences. Economic, political, and family organizations and systems of thought, including religion, are covered with equal attention to "primitive," traditional, and modern complex societies, particularly non-Western societies.
ANTH-UA 2 Includes laboratory. Antón, Bailey, Disotell, Harrison, Higham, Williams. 4 points.
Archaeology: Early Societies and Cultures
ANTH-UA 3 Includes laboratory. Crabtree, Iovita 4 points.
Language, Culture, and Society
ANTH-UA 17 Prerequisite: Culture, Power, and Society (ANTH-UA 1) or permission of the instructor. Das, Schieffelin. 4 points.
Introduces students to theories and methods for studying communicative practices across a range of societies and settings. Ethnographic studies focus on the role of language in regulating social relations, identity formation, power and politics, verbal art and performance, literacy and education in multilingual and multicultural settings, and the development of new media.
Integrating Perspectives
History of Anthropology
ANTH-UA 45 Prerequisite: Culture, Power, and Society (ANTH-UA 1) or permission of the instructor. Dávila, Ganti, Khan, Myers, Rapp. 4 points.
Explores the development of some of the discipline's defining themes such as the culture concept, understandings of human commonalities and diversity, and participant observation research methods. Considers some of the key persons and institutions associated with these ideas. Focuses primarily on British and American sociocultural anthropology over the 20th century.
Special Courses (Including Honors)
Students must consult departmental policies on honors, internships, and independent study in the anthropology program section of this Bulletin.
Special Seminar in Anthropology I, II
ANTH-UA 800, 801 Open only to honors majors, or majors in cultural or linguistic anthropology who have the permission of the director of undergraduate studies. 4 points per term.
Honors Research I, II
ANTH-UA 950, 951 Open only to honors majors who have the permission of the director of undergraduate studies and who have secured the support of a faculty mentor to supervise the student's honors research and serve as the primary thesis reader. 2 points per term.
ANTH-UA 997, 998 Prerequisite: permission of the director of undergraduate studies. 2 or 4 pointsper term; 6 or 8 points may be appropriate in exceptional cases.
Human Behavioural Ecology
ANTH UA-90 Partager. 4 points
This course seeks to assess the degree to which variations in human biology and culture can be understood as adaptations to varying external conditions. We examine the relationship of human systems of action and the natural world in order to understand the various forms of human adaptation. Case studies of several living peoples, contemporary and past biological communities, and prehistoric cultures provide the material for interpretation and evaluation of theoretical positions.
Archaeology of Anglo-Saxon England
ANTH UA-200 Crabtree. 2 points
This course is designed to introduce students to the archaeology of Anglo-Saxon England from the end of the Roman period (ca. 410 CE) to the Norman Conquest (1066 CE). The earlier phases of the Anglo-Saxon period are poorly documented historically, and this course will seek to answer such questions as: Who were the Anglo-Saxons? How did Britain change after it was no longer part of the Roman Empire? What can archaeology tell us about Anglo-Saxon settlement practices and burial patterns? How can we use archaeology to study the rebirth of towns and trade in later Anglo-Saxon England? The overall goal of the course is to show how archaeology can shed new light on early medieval society in England.
Animal Domestication: Horses, Donkeys, Dogs, and Cats
The transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture and herding is one of the most dramatic changes in human history. Archaeologists, anthropologists, and biologists have been interested in the process of animal domestication since the 19th century. Much (but not all) scholarly attention has focused on cattle, sheep, goats, and pigs, since these animals played key roles in the development of farming societies in Asia, Africa, and Europe. This course will explore some of the other animal domesticates that have played important roles in human history including horses, donkeys, dogs, and cats.
Archaeobotany
ANTH UA-202. Instructor. 4 points
This course is an introduction to the field of archaeobotany, the study of botanical remains from archaeological sites aimed at the reconstruction and interpretation of human-plant relationships in the past. Through active participation, students will learn the processes underlying the inclusion and preservation of botanical remains in the archaeological record, understand the main methodologies and laboratory protocols employed for their recovery and identification, and explore the principal assumptions and analytical elaborations deployed for their interpretation. Through this work, students will be directly engaging with the central and current trends in archaeobotanical research. We will focus primarily on macro-remains, although we will also discuss pollen and phytoliths (microscopic silica-based plant structures).
Introduction to Bioarchaeology
This course provides an introduction to the field of bioarchaeology. Students will gain a basic understanding of human osteology and – through hands-on experience and lectures – will learn the methods and theories that bioarchaeologists use to study human remains. This knowledge will then be used to examine broader themes within bioarchaeology, drawing on case studies from across the globe.
Biological Anthropology
Fossil Evidence for Human Evolution
ANTH-UA 50 Prerequisite: Human Evolution (ANTH-UA 2) or permission of the instructor. Antón, Bailey, Harrison, Williams. 4 points.
Traces the evolutionary history of the human lineage from its origin in the late Miocene of Africa up to the initial differentiation and diversification of anatomically modern humans. Explores debates about phylogenetic relationships, taxonomy, paleobiological interpretations, and models for the origin of human behavior.
Human Variation
ANTH-UA 51 Prerequisite: Human Evolution (ANTH-UA 2) or permission of the instructor. Antón, Bailey, Disotell. 4 points.
Human evolutionary history and our ability to adapt to such a broad range of environments result in the patterns of human variability we see today. New techniques allow us to explore the different levels of human variation. Focuses on new data and methodologies, including molecular genetic techniques, and the hypotheses and controversies generated by these new perspectives.
Evolution and Biology of Human Behavior
ANTH-UA 52 Prerequisite: Human Evolution (ANTH-UA 2). Antón, Bailey, Harrison, Higham, Williams. 4 points.
Presents a synthetic approach to the biological, behavioral, and cultural origins of humans. Explores data and theories from paleoanthropology, archaeology, nonhuman primate behavioral studies, brain research, and sociobiology for their contributions to the study of human behavior.
ANTH-UA 53 Prerequisite: Human Evolution (ANTH-UA 2) or permission of the instructor. Disotell. 4 points.
In-depth analysis of the genetic component of human variability. Discusses mechanisms of inheritance, gene expression in individuals and populations, and alternative explanations for genetic variability. Explores the implications of modern advances in genetics, such as genetic engineering and gene therapy.
Primate Behavioral Ecology
ANTH-UA 54 Prerequisite: either Human Evolution (ANTH-UA 2) or Life Science: Human Origins (CORE-UA 305), or permission of the instructor. 4 points.
Studies how and why primates have evolved to be so social and varied in their social and mating systems, and why they exhibit so many unusual characteristics. Topics considered: primate biology and taxonomy, evolutionary theory and the history and philosophy of primate studies, natural selection and social systems, sexual selection and mating systems, and intelligence and communication.
ANTH-UA 55 Prerequisite: Human Evolution (ANTH-UA 2) or permission of the instructor. Antón, Disotell. 4 points.
Examines the interactions of environmental, genetic, physiological, and cultural factors in the expression and distribution of human diseases. Develops pathology profiles for nonhuman primates; prehistoric human populations; and hunting and gathering, agricultural, and industrial groups, with emphasis on the expression of infectious disease in human history and newly (re)emerging diseases.
Comparative Biology of the Living Primates
ANTH-UA 56 Prerequisite: Human Evolution (ANTH-UA 2) or permission of the instructor. Harrison, Williams. 4 points.
The study of the primates, our closest living relatives, is fundamental to a sound understanding of human biology and evolution. Surveys the anatomy and behavior of the living primates from a structural, functional, and evolutionary perspective. Examines different anatomical systems and behaviors: external features, the cranium, dentition and dietary behavior, postcranial anatomy and locomotor behavior, sensory and nervous systems, and reproductive anatomy. Emphasizes the role of comparative anatomy in functional and behavioral studies, taxonomy, and phylogenetic analyses.
Primate Communication
ANTHUA 59 Prerequisite: Human Evolution (ANTH-UA 2). Higham. 4 points.
Key insights into the evolution of human communication can come from studying our most closely related extant relatives, our fellow members of the primate order. Topics include the difference between signals and cues, signal honesty, and concepts of signal information content and evolutionary signal design. Considers communication in different sensory modalities (olfactory, auditory and visual), multimodal communication, and theories and issues related to the evolution of language.
Emerging Diseases
ANTH-UA 80 Disotell. 4 points.
Integrates evolutionary biology, genetics, immunology, ecology, and behavioral ecology with sociocultural anthropology, politics, and economics. General evolutionary theory and an introduction to Darwinian medicine frame an examination of viral, bacterial, parasitic, and prion-based diseases along with their hosts, vectors, and other organisms. Particular attention to how humans have purposely and inadvertently created both biological and cultural environments for the transmission of different diseases. Considers media representations and misrepresentations.
Evolution of Language
ANTH-UA 240 Prerequisite: Human Evolution (ANTH-UA 2) or permission of the instructor. 4 points.
Topics include human evolution and the study of fossil humans, animal and primate behavior and communication, anatomy of the vocal tract, neuroanatomy, language acquisition, language universals, the origins and diversification of modern languages, and the origins of writing.
Introduction to Forensic Anthropology
ANTH-UA 326 Prerequisite: Human Evolution (ANTH-UA 2) or permission of the instructor. Antón, Williams. 4 points.
Forensic anthropologists play critical roles in identifying victims of mass fatalities, in investigating homicides (both historic and modern), and in distinguishing cause of death. Students are introduced to the underlying theory and the applied techniques that forensic anthropologists use to recover and identify individuals and assess cause of death, both in the laboratory and the field.
Topical Seminar in Biological Anthropology I, II
ANTH-UA 511, 512 Open to majors in anthropology with the permission of the instructor. Antón, Bailey, Disotell, Harrison, Higham, Williams. 4 points per term.
Explores selected key issues and problems in biological anthropology. See the department's website.
All anthropology courses offered at NYU Study Abroad sites are taught by professional anthropologists and focus on aspects of the host society and culture. All aim to draw from -- and sharpen -- students' own experiences and observations in the study-abroad setting. These courses count toward the anthropology major and minor, but are also designed to be accessible and appealing to non-majors.
Fall/Spring: ACS-AD101X - Anthropology and the Arab World
Spring: ACS-AD203X - Heritage, History, and Memory in the Modern Middle East
Fall/Spring: ANTH-UA 9100 Cultura, Identidad y Política en Latinoamérica: un recorrido desde la antropología (in Spanish)
Fall only: ANTH-UA 9900- Anthropological Perspectives on Multicultural France (in English)
Spring only: ANTH-UA 9901 Urban Ethnography: Paris (in English)
Fall/Spring: ANTH-UA 9200 - Roma in Central East Europe: Ethnography & History of People without a State (in English).
Fall/Spring: ANTH-UA 9255- Migraciones y Diversidad Culturel in Espana: Un analisis desde la perspectiva antropologica (in Spanish)
Spring only: ANTH-UA 9252 Contemporary Perspectives on the Civil War and the Recovery of Historical Memory in Spain (in English)
Ethnographic Methods (SOC-SHU 318)
Pestilence (SOC-SHU 306)
Fraud (SOC-SHU XXX)
Ethnographic Thinking (SOC-SHU 245)
Image as Evidence (SOC-SHU 234)
Fall/Spring: ANTH-UA 9037 - Anthropology of Indigenous Australia
Fall/Spring: ANTH-UA 9038 - Indigenous Australian Art: An analytical survey
Anna Wilking
Research Interests: Gender, sex, sexuality, LGBTIQ, sex work, substance abuse, trauma, human rights, legal anthropology, documentary film, social media, psychotherapy, Latin America, Ecuador
Email: avw202@nyu.edu
Sociocultural and Linguistic Anthropology
Courses in sociocultural anthropology and linguistics are grouped in five areas of concentration. These are informal tracks students can use to develop expertise in a particular part of the discipline. The courses in each area complement each other, allowing students to study related topics from a variety of perspectives and develop a more coherent understanding of the field. The five areas are: 1. culture, symbols, and representation: media, art, language, heritage, and symbolic systems; 2. politics and society: politics, law, race, gender, sexuality, violence, economy, and the state; 3. science and medicine: medical anthropology, global health, and science studies; 4. religion, secularism, and the body; 5. cultures of the world: ethnographic studies of world regions.
Language, Power, and Identity
ANTH-UA 16 . Das. 4 points.
Examines how speakers enact their gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, and socioeconomic class through everyday conversations, narratives, performances, literacy activities, and public debates. Explores how identification strategies and beliefs about language reinforce or contest normative power structures. Considers bilingual education and accent discrimination, multilingualism and youth counterculture, migration and code-switching, linguistic nationalism and xenophobia, and literacy and neo/liberalism in different areas of the world.
ANTH-UA 29 Identical to RELST-UA 642. Zito. 4 points.
Explores the relationship between cultures of religious practices and the human body: the body as medium both for ritual and religious experience; the body as locus for virtue and sin; the split between mind and body. Looks at the body in various situations—gendered, sexualized, covered, naked, suffering, disabled, altered, missing—and interrogates notions of representations and ideals, from the religious ban on representing the human body to divine anthropomorphism.
Anthropology of Religion
ANTH-UA 30. Myers, Oliphant, Zito. 4 points.
Examines the cultural nature of basic beliefs and values manifested in both simple and complex societies. Discussion of time and space, causality, myth, prophecy and divination, witchcraft and magic, and mysticism.
Witchcraft: An Anthropological Approach
ANTH-UA 31 . 4 points.
Examines witchcraft through interdisciplinary study, including how theories of causation and reality are modified by culture and society and the way that social theorists have judged witchcraft in relation to social stability, conflict, and change. Considers both nonliterate, non-Western examples and cases from Europe and New England where historians have made extensive use of anthropological techniques.
Conversations in Everyday Life
ANTH-UA 32. Das, Schieffelin. 4 points.
We spend a great deal of our time talking: whether face-to-face, on the phone, texting, or via another communicative technology, our feelings and ideas are constantly being exchanged. Investigates how conversation shapes our lives in culturally and linguistically diverse urban communities and presents the theories and methods for analyzing the roles that talk plays in medical, work, and school settings, where miscommunication frequently occurs.
Salvation and Revolution
ANTH-UA 34 . Myers. 4 points.
Examines revolutionary movements in both traditional and industrial societies in terms of how violence, coercion, prophecy, and radical thought impel social change. Analyzes utopian communities, prophetic movements, cargo cults, religious sects, and terrorism from various social scientific perspectives.
ANTH-UA 35 . Hansen, Rapp. 4 points.
Analyzes cultural practices and belief systems surrounding illness, suffering, and healing in medical systems around the globe. Healing specialists may be trained in both indigenous and cosmopolitan medicine; patients and healers both confront the structures of health resources and problems of improving health care.
Global Biocultures: Anthropological Perspectives on Health
ANTH-UA 36. Hansen. 4 points.
Surveys the mutual shaping of culture and biology in diverse contexts around the world. Starts with sociocultural theories of biocultural process and ends with ethnographies of disability, drugs, food, place, pain, and biotechnology. Examines the relationship between larger political economic structures and individual subjectivities.
Anthropology of Indigenous Australia
ANTH-UA 37 Myers. 4 points.
Considers a range of Aboriginal Australian forms of social being and pays significant attention to the changing relationship between Indigenous people and the settler nation of Australia. Explores how Aboriginal people have struggled to reproduce themselves and their traditions in their own terms, asserting their right to forms of cultural autonomy and self-determination.
Indigenous Australian Art: An Analytical Survey
Focuses on regional and historical variations of Aboriginal art in the context of the history of a settler nation, while considering the issues of its circulation and evaluation within contemporary discourses of value. Topics include the cosmological dimensions of the art, its political implications, its relationship to cultural identity, and its aesthetic frameworks.
Family and Kinship
ANTH-UA 41 . Khan, Myers, Rapp. 4 points.
Explores cross-cultural diversity in the organization of family life and kin relationships. Discusses how anthropology's cross-cultural perspective helps illuminate new or controversial family arrangements in Western societies.
Memory, Heritage, History, and Narrative
Surveys memory, social continuity, and representation of the past and historical change in order to understand the techniques, locations, and kinds of social memory that bridge the gap between remembered personal experience and the externally received representations of museology and history. Focuses on narration and self-narration, embodied public performance, and struggles over remembrance.
Ethnography and Ethnohistory of the Andes
Examines the archaeological record, iconography, painting, music, chronicles, archival documents, and the social and cultural legacies of living peoples in order to understand pre-Columbian societies and trace the transformation of indigenous societies under Spanish colonialism and republican rule. Also introduces contemporary ethnography of the region, including rural indigenous peoples and urban social life.
Surveys various symbolic systems, considering their use in myth, ritual, literature, and art and the kinds of anthropological theories applied to explain their power and forms. Approaches theory through case studies, providing a diverse view of world cultures. Emphasizes non-Western, nonliterate societies, though some material from the West is also used.
Anthropology in and of Museums
ANTH-UA 100. Anderson. 4 points
This course considers "the museum" as an object of ethnographic inquiry, examining it as a social institution embedded in a broader field of cultural heritage that is perpetually under negotiation. We reflect on how museum principles of classification, practices of collection and exhibition, uptake of media, technology, and archiving have influenced the ways in which knowledge has been formed, presented, and represented; and interrogate the role of museums as significant social actors in broad anthropological debates on power, materiality, value, representation, culture, nationalism, circulation, aesthetics, science, history, and "new" technologies. The museum is never simply a repository of arts, cultures, histories, or scientific knowledges, but also a site of tremendous creativity and a field of complex social relations.
Peoples of Sub-Saharan Africa
ANTH-UA 101 Identical to SCA-UA 101. 4 points.
Examines accounts of traditional ways of life, the history of colonial contact with Europe, and consideration of life in contemporary African states. Utilizes anthropological studies as well as historical works, novels, and autobiographies, many by African authors. African material is related to broader issues of social theory, ethnicity, social change, and the ties between culture, society, and values.
Contemporary Issues in the Caribbean
ANTH-UA 102 . Khan 4 points.
Provides an anthropological perspective on Anglophone, Hispanophone, Francophone, and Dutch Antilles societies. Reviews how colonial history has structured the race, class, gender, ethnic, and national identities of Caribbean peoples and how these structures have in turn been shaped by the cultures and subjectivities of local communities. Contemporary topics include tourism, sexuality, the arts, health care, transnationalism, and diasporas.
Anthropology of Latin America
ANTH-UA 103 . Dávila. 4 points.
Surveys society and culture, with emphasis on class, ethnicity, and nationhood. Examines some of the fundamental characteristics of Ibero-American civilization both in its historical development and in its transformations across a variety of regional and class contexts. Discusses the complex interrelationships between country and city and between "popular" and "elite" culture by examining ethnographic case material and a few general interpretative works.
Anthropology of South Asia
ANTH-UA 104. Ganti, Rademacher. 4 points.
Introduces the cultures and societies of the Indian subcontinent. Focuses not only on the history and ethnography of South Asia, but also on the major concepts and debates in the anthropological study of the region. Topics include caste, kinship, gender, religion, material culture, nationalism, ethnic conflict, globalization, and the South Asian diaspora. It is a reading, writing, and discussion oriented course that is run along a seminar format – that is we will engage closely with the texts assigned for the course.
Anthropology of Europe
ANTH-UA 111.4 points.
Explores cultural systems and social structures in modern European societies. Uses ethnographic case studies and film to examine issues such as ethnic and national identity, the impact on everyday life of shifting territorial and social borders, ritual, and religious behavior.
Anthropology of Gender and Sexuality
ANTH-UA 112 Identical to SCA-UA 112. Rapp. 4 points.
Compares women's and men's experiences, activities, resources, powers, and symbolic significance as they vary within and between societies. Social and historical approaches in the analysis of how gender relations are affected by major social transformations. Emphasizes changes in gender roles, current transnational migrations, social movements, international relations, and the role of the military.
Culture, Power and Visual Representation
ANTH-UA 122 Ganti, Ginsburg.. 4 points.
Photography, film, and other visual practices as modes for representing culture and sites of cultural practice. Examines the emergence of, as well as the contestations around, the genre of ethnographic film and its relationship to wider debates about documentary and nonfictional film practice. Considers the relationship between representation, power, and knowledge as manifest in cross-cultural representation.
Media, Culture, and Society
ANTH-UA 123. Ganti, Ginsburg. 4 points.
This course examines the social and political life of media and how it makes a difference in the daily lives of people as a practice – in production, reception, or circulation. It is organized around the following key questions: What is media? What role do media play in producing or shaping our sense of reality? What is the relationship between media and culture? How is media implicated in social change? It provides an overview of the increasing theoretical attention paid to the mass media by anthropologists, and focuses on concrete ethnographic examples. It examines cross-culturally how the mass media have become the primary means for the circulation of symbolic forms across time and space and crucial to the constitution of subjectivities, collectivities, and histories in the contemporary world. Topics include the role of media in constituting and contesting national identities, in forging alternative political visions, in transforming religious practice, and in creating subcultures. The types of media forms we will examine range from commercially driven movie-making to small-scale video production, from cell phones to Facebook, and from news reporting to popular television. We will read about media practices in diverse parts of the world, from Australia to Turkey, from India to Nigeria.
Anthropology of Art
ANTH-UA 125. Anderson, Myers. 4 points.
The starting point is to ask "What is art?" in comparative cultural perspective. Analyzes aesthetics in cross-cultural context; the notion of style; the relation between art, technology, and skill; the entanglement of primitivism and modernity; the role of class and taste in appreciating art; art and value in the marketplace; art and museum practice; tourist art and the value of authenticity; and colonial and postcolonial art.
Religion and Media
ANTH-UA 220 . Oliphant, Zito. 4 points.
Analyzes how human hearing, vision, and the performing body have been used historically to express and maintain religious life through music, voice, images, words, and rituals. Examines more recent electronic media such as cassette, film, television, video, and the Internet. Students should note that an anthropological/historical perspective on studying religion is pursued in the course.
ANTH-UA 315. 4 points.
Nations and nationalisms have been among the defining phenomena of the modern epoch. Yet in some contrast to other central phenomena of modernity such as classes, cities, revolutions, industrialism, or capitalism, the terms of nationhood are extraordinarily plastic. A central aim of this course will be to encourage systematic reflection about the power of this plasticity, and to cultivate the habit of thinking about nations and nationalisms in the plural, as variable along a number of dimensions. By fostering a close and critical engagement with an emergent canon of key writings, this course leaves students equipped to do independent work in this or related areas.
Topical Seminar in Social and Cultural Anthropology I, II
ANTH-UA 320, 321. Anderson, Das, Dávila, Ganti, Ginsburg, Grant, Hansen, Khan, Merry, Myers, Oliphant, Rademacher, Rapp, Rogers, Zito. 4 points per term.
Analyzes and assesses selected key issues in the discipline. See the department's website for specific topics each term.
Race, "Difference," and Social Inequality
ANTH-UA 323 Identical to SCA-UA 323. Khan. 4 points.
Examines how historical, social, and cultural contexts shape the forms that identities take, looking in particular at ideas about race and racial identity. We work with two premises: (1) race must be understood in relation to such other identity categories as gender, class, sexuality, and ethnicity, and (2) race is expressed in both obvious and subtle ways; thus, racial identity is implicit as well as explicitly expressed. Utilizes nonfiction, fiction, and films.
Reimagining Community: Race, Nation, and the Politics of Belonging
ANTH-UA 325 Identical to SCA-UA 200. Dávila, Khan. 4 points.
Examines different notions of "community" through a variety of disciplinary lenses. Readings are drawn from anthropology, history, feminist studies, cultural studies, ethnic studies, and philosophy. We read these texts both as theoretical representations of "community" as well as historically embedded artifacts that are part of the larger machinery in the production of knowledge.
Language and Law
ANTH-UA 329 . Schieffelin. 4 points.
Explores how speakers ranging from small children to litigants in courts attempt to settle their differences. Comparative materials illustrate theories of disputes and dispute resolution, examining the power of language and the language of power in a variety of settings (e.g., mediation, arbitration, trials). Class includes fieldwork trips to small claims court. Students audio-record cases and transcribe and analyze them according to different analytic perspectives.
Human Rights and Culture
ANTH-UA 331 Prerequisite: Culture, Power, and Society (ANTH-UA 1) or permission of the instructor. Merry. 4 points.
Topics include female genital cutting, honor killing, trafficking of persons, and indigenous peoples' rights to culture. Considers how the human rights system deals with tensions between global standards and local ways of life. Examines the meanings of rights and of culture in these debates and shows the implications of adopting an anthropological analysis of these situations.
Violence, Gender, and the Law
ANTH-UA 332 Prerequisite: Culture, Power, and Society (ANTH-UA 1) or Law and Society (LWSOC-UA 1). Merry. 4 points.
Explores the nature of violence as a concept that incorporates both physical harm and cultural meanings. Reviews law and violence in the context of non-state societies, colonialism, international law and human rights, and transitional justice. Focuses on gender-based violence, such as domestic violence, rape, sex trafficking, genocide, and wartime violence. Examines law as a system of ordering relations and controlling conflict in contexts as diverse as small bands and global institutions.
The Color of Race in the Americas:Post-Racial Mythologies
ANTH-UA 333 . Khan. 4 points.
Examines race and color as fundamental social and ideological building blocks of the Americas, as well as the related issues of identity, similarity, and difference in social relations. Considers how race and color are embedded in the cultural landscape and how "mixed race" and "color continuums" do (or do not) democratize social hierarchies. Employs ethnographic and interdisciplinary approaches.
From New Age sweat lodges to Soviet Siberia, shamanic spirit mediums have been construed as everything from healers to magistrates to visionaries to political subversives. This course explores anthropological literature on shamanism in Asia and the Americas in order to ask how we constitute and appropriate the exotic. By focusing on the core figure of the shaman, we look also to track a twentieth-century history of anthropological reasoning.
Body, Gender, and Belief in China
ANTH-UA 350 Identical to RELST-UA 350. Zito. 4 points.
Provides an extended and historical exploration of categories basic to social life such as gender, body, and family. Examines the images of family and positions of women in the classics; factors in ritualist and Taoist notions of body; and discusses changes in the practices of filiality over time. Analyses of secondary monographs are combined with work in primary sources.
Belief and Social Life in China
The Chinese word for "religion" means "teaching." Explores what Chinese people "taught" themselves about the person, society, and the natural world and thus how social life was constructed and maintained. Examines in historical perspective the classic texts of the Taoist and Confucian canon and their synthesis as well as Buddhism, especially Ch'an (Zen). Discusses the practices of filiality in Buddhism, Confucian orthodoxy, and folk religion.
After Religion? Rethinking Our Secular Age
ANTH-UA 352 Identical to RELST-UA 638. Offered every other year. Oliphant. 4 points.
By exploring some of the many different forms of the secular found around the world and over time, we call into question the power of the universal tale of modernization that sits at the foundation of the "secularization thesis." Explores what it means to live in a "secular age"—a framework which, although often invisible or implicit, establishes and limits much of what we experience, expect, and encounter in our daily lives.
Anthropology and Transnationalism
ANTH-UA 400. Das, Dávila, Ganti, Khan. 4 points.
Addresses the ongoing reconstruction of world order and its accompanying disorder. Examines changes in how people earn their livelihoods; how cultures are transmitted and hybridized; how migrating populations maintain connections to their homelands; how group identities are constructed and asserted; and how social movements arise around newly politicized issues. Discusses changing roles of nation-states and the growing significance of transnational, diasporic, and globalized social relations and cultural forms.
The Social Life of Food: Producing, Selling, Cooking, Sharing, Eating
Draws on ethnographic material from a wide range of cultures, as well as feature films and our own observations and interviews, to consider such topics as the material dimensions of food production, distribution, and consumption (e.g., food scarcity or abundance) and the cultural meanings and social distinctions encoded in food practices (e.g., how food is used cross-culturally as a marker of social identity and as a source of meaning).
Ethnographic Approaches to Urban Environmental Change: Theory and Method
ANTH-UA 490 identical to ENVST-UA 490. Rademacher. 4 points
Cities are dynamic, concentrated sites of human activity. They are often places we associate with social, political, and economic structures- of trade, investment, science and property. But what do cities have to do with ecology and environmental change? In this course, we explore the intersection of social and environmental processes in cities, and across the urban continuum. We will use scholarly resources and methods from anthropology to ask, how does nature come to be defined and delineated in cities? How are spaces of nature in cities governed, owned and controlled? When and how are people marginalized by environmental interventions, and how do they contest that marginalization? Our aim is to better understand how and why struggles over the environment and struggles for social justice and equity intersect.
LatinX Art and Visual Culture
ANTH-UA 533 identical to SCA 533. Davila. 4 points
This course examines the history of Latinx contributions to the artistic vitality of the United States and will introduce students to some of the contemporary artists, debates and institutions that support Latinx art in NYC and beyond. We will pay special attention to the relationship between Latinx and Latin American art and consider linkages between museums, private and governmental art stakeholders and communities. We will visit studios, speak to artists and also learn about the role of contemporary art markets in shaping Latinx art worlds.
Formations of Indigeneity
ANTH-UA 605 Formerly ANTH-UA 320. Prerequisite: Culture, Power, and Society (ANTH-UA 1) or equivalent. Myers. 4 points.
Through a case study of materials concerning indigenous people in Australia and North America, investigates the consequences (cultural, sociological, policy) of a development that has taken place throughout the world. Many of the peoples in whom anthropologists are interested—those organized into small-scale, kinship-based societies—are encapsulated as indigenous minorities within nation states dominated by other cultural traditions. Examines how the capacity and practices of these peoples to reproduce themselves and their traditions on their own terms has been limited, undermined, co-opted and, on occasion, reinforced.
Fieldwork is central to how anthropologists think, work, and communicate. The Department of Anthropology therefore encourages every student to spend time outside New York, to learn a new language, and to take advantage of the resources offered by your colleagues around the world.
While our majors spread out across NYU's global network, archaeologists will find particularly strong course offerings in Tel Aviv (with fall-semester students eligible for up to $12,000 in scholarship funding); biological anthropologists have access to excellent coursework offered by Global Public Health; cultural and linguistic anthropologists will find clusters of courses in Berlin, Buenos Aires, Florence, London, Paris, Prague, and Sydney.
The first step is to visit the Office of Global Programs where you will find information on all of NYU's campuses, as well as access to foreign universities outside the NYU network.
Anthropology courses offered at NYU Global sites are indicated below. These courses are designed to draw from and sharpen student experiences in the global setting; they count toward the anthropology major and minor, but are also designed to be accessible and appealing to non-majors. All courses are in English unless otherwise indicated.
We encourage all students to explore the funding opportunities offered for NYU study abroad.
ANTH-UH 1010 Introduction to Anthropology
ANTH-UH 2113 Memoir and Ethnography: Understanding Culture Through First-Person Narrative
CCEA-UH 1069 Cultural Appropriation
MUSIC-UH 1005 Anthropology of Music 1
MUSIC-UH 1611X Arab Music Cultures
PSYCH-UH 1004Q Statistics for Psychology
SRPP-UH 2211 Ethnographic Field Research
SRPP-UH 2416X Gulf Urban Societies
ANTH-UA 9062 Environmental Social Movements
ANTH-UA 9495 Urban Greening Lab
ANTH-UA 9076 Transnational Migration
ANTH-UA 9078 Argentina Today
ANTH-UA 9079 Myths, Icons, and Invented Traditions: A Cultural History of Latin America
ANTH-UA 9083 Cultural History of Latin America: Ciudad, Paisaje, y Arquitectura
ANTH-UA 9100 Cultura, Identidad y Política en Latinoamérica: un recorrido desde la antropología (in Spanish)
ANTH-UA 9063 Modern Italy
ANTH-UA 9071 International Human Rights
ANTH-UA 9077 Politics of Organized Crime: Italian Mafias in Comparative Perspective
ANTH-UA 9061 Climate Change
ANTH-UA 9084 Between Marx and Coca-Cola: Youth Cultures
ANTH-UA 9072 What is Islam?
ANTH-UA 9075 Immigration
ANTH-UA 9070 Languages of Paris
ANTH-UA 9900 Anthropological Perspectives on Multicultural France
ANTH-UA 9901 Urban Ethnography: Paris
ANTH-UA 9073 Religion, Culture, and Politics in Eastern Europe
ANTH-UA 9074 Law and Human Rights in Europe
ANTH-UA 9200 From "Gypsies" to "Roma": Ethnic Politics in a Global Prague
ANTH-UA 9252 Contemporary Perspectives on the Civil War and the Recovery of Historical Memory in Spain
ANTH-UA 9255: Migracion y diversidad cultural en España (in Spanish)
SOC-SHU 136 Human Society and Culture
SOC-SHU 245 Ethnographic Thinking
SOCS-SHU 254 Ethnographies of Change in China
SOC-SHU 318 Ethnographic Methods
GCHN-SHU 275 Memory Politics in China
ANTH-UA 9037 Anthropology of Indigenous Australia
ANTH-UA 9038 Indigenous Australian Art: An Analytical Survey
ANTH-UA 9060 Australia's Animals and Environment
ANTH-UA 9065 History and Archaeology of Israel
ANTH-UA 9066 Sexualities of the Middle East: A Cultural History
ANTH-UA 9067 Languages of Israel
ANTH-UA 9068 Invitation to Archaeology
ANTH-UA 9069 Seminar in the Archaeology of Israel
Dept of Anthropology


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Q: Create work items in vsts with rest api using powershell? I am trying to create a work-item in VSTS using power shell that I will be using with some of my custom solutions
Can anyone help me with the script?

A: Refer to this script:
param(
[string]$witType,
[string]$witTitle
)
$u="https://[account].visualstudio.com/DefaultCollection/[team project]/_apis/wit/workitems/`$$($witType)?api-version=1.0"
$body="[
  {
    `"op`": `"add`",
    `"path`": `"/fields/System.Title`",
    `"value`": `"$($witTitle)`"
  }
]"
$user = "test"
$token = "[personal access token]"

$base64AuthInfo = [Convert]::ToBase64String([Text.Encoding]::ASCII.GetBytes(("{0}:{1}" -f $user,$token)))
$result=Invoke-RestMethod -Method PATCH -Uri $u -Headers @{Authorization=("Basic {0}" -f $base64AuthInfo)} -ContentType "application/json-patch+json" -Body $body

Arguments: -witType "task" -witTitle "PowerShellWIT1"

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Q: Reference a dynamic role name in a Cloudformation template In one Cloudformation template I create the following role:
  CRMPiccoRole:
    Type: 'AWS::IAM::Role'
    Properties:
      RoleName: !Sub 'crm-${Environment}-register'

In another Cloudformation template for an EC2 instance I am attempting to attach that role to my EC2 instance, however I am unsure how to reference a dynamic role name.
Resources:
  InstanceProfile:
    Type: 'AWS::IAM::InstanceProfile'
    Properties:
      Path: /
      Roles:
        - !Ref 'crm-${Environment}-register'

Can this be done?
When I attempt to validate the template I get an error:

An error occurred (ValidationError) when calling the ValidateTemplate
operation: Template format error: Unresolved resource dependencies
[crm-${Environment}-register] in the Resources block of the template

A: Ref does not work across stacks. Assuming you are using same account and region, instead you have to use Export and ImportValue functions.
So in your first stack you would have:
  CRMPiccoRole:
    Type: 'AWS::IAM::Role'
    Properties:
      RoleName: !Sub 'crm-${Environment}-register'

Outputs:

   MyCRMPiccoRole:
     Value: !Ref CRMPiccoRole
     Export:
        Name: !Sub 'crm-${Environment}-register'

Then in the second stack:
Resources:
  InstanceProfile:
    Type: 'AWS::IAM::InstanceProfile'
    Properties:
      Path: /
      Roles:
        - Fn::ImportValue:
            !Sub 'crm-${Environment}-register'


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Tlaib endorsement boosts Sanders in clash to lead progressive movement
Bernie Sanders rally at Cass Technical High School
By Malachi Barrett | mbarret1@mlive.com
Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders' latest campaign stop in Michigan scored a set of endorsements from influential progressive leaders, boosting his credentials while Sanders competes with Elizabeth Warren to lead the progressive movement.
The two Senators are running on similar campaign themes, putting them on a collision course while primary voters consider who is best equipped to champion Medicare for All and other dramatic reforms to address corruption and inequality. National polls found Sanders, I-Vt., and Warren, D-Mass., were deadlocked in second place behind former Vice President Joe Biden, but Warren began to pull ahead in September.
Sanders was losing ground when a heart attack forced him to suspend campaigning for two weeks in October. The Vermont Senator bounced back and participated in the next primary debate in Ohio, then held a large rally in New York and picked up endorsements from U.S. Reps. Rashida Tlaib, D-Detroit; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.; and Ilhan Omar, D-Minn.
Michigan Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib endorses Bernie Sanders for presidency
Michigan Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib has officially endorsed U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders for the presidency.
A thumbs up from other politicians isn't enough to secure the Democratic nomination, said David Dulio, director director of Oakland University's Center for Civic Engagement. However, endorsements are important in Warren and Sanders' competition to show who will be the best progressive alternative to Biden.
"I think those particular endorsements could be particularly important because you've got Warren and Sanders fighting for the same votes," Dulio said. "I think we're going to end up with an establishment lane and a progressive lane. At the end of the day, there's only going to be room for one in each of those lanes."
The endorsements show progressive leaders believe Sanders is "the only candidate running who has the guts to take on the corporate elites and the billionaire class," Sanders Campaign Manager Faiz Shakir said in a statement.
Warren also took a tour of Tlaib's district this year, visiting Detroit neighborhoods affected by industrial pollution. Warren endorsed Tlaib in 2018, while Tlaib praised Warren several times on social media throughout the primary.
Mike McCollum, Michigan state director for Warren's campaign, declined to comment on the value of endorsements from leading progressive figures.
"We're laying the groundwork in Michigan and all across the country to build a movement of grassroots supporters that will own a piece of this campaign and be in the fight with us," McCollum said in a statement. "From standing with GM workers on the picket line to meeting with mothers in the most polluted zip code in the state, Elizabeth Warren is working to earn as many votes as possible when the people of Michigan make their voices heard on March 10th."
Pro-Trump protesters gather outside of Detroit Bernie Sanders rally
Ahead of presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders' Detroit rally Sunday, a group of Southeast Michigan Republicans protested the event, calling the Vermont U.S. Senator's message the wrong one for Michigan.
One key difference between Sanders and Warren is the age of their supporters, said EPIC-MRA pollster Bernie Porn. Sanders is the oldest Democrat in the primary but is most popular among 18-29-year-old voters -- Warren's supporters have a more even age distribution but trends older.
Tlaib and the other progressive congresswomen are the young faces of a political revolution they said Sanders started with his 2016 presidential campaign. Tlaib endorsed "uncle" Sanders at a Sunday rally in Detroit after inviting him on a tour of her congressional district.
Tlaib told an energized crowd in Detroit that voters "deserve someone who writes the damn bill." Sanders has used the phrase at primary debates to demonstrate his unique authority on Medicare for All, a policy Warren also adopted as part of her healthcare agenda.
"There's something so incredibly inspiring about someone that we know is not going to sell us out, that's not going to bow down to these structures that are so built on racism, so built on choosing those that are wealthy," Tlaib said in a video explaining her endorsement. "He's consistent in saying he's with us first. He will always choose us first."
Mark Grebner, a Democratic strategist who founded Practical Political Consulting in East Lansing, said the endorsements help bolster Sanders' democratic-socialist image, but probably won't have much impact on the primary. Warren's persona offers more moderate appeal, Grebner said, and she wasn't likely to earn endorsements from "the squad" anyway.
Still, Grebner said Warren has surprisingly few high-profile endorsements from politicians.
Dulio said endorsements from divisive figures like Ocasio-Cortez and Tlaib could hurt Sanders in the general election if he secures the nomination. Sanders was already likely to face attacks for being too "radical" -- that was the message of a counter-rally staged Sunday by Michigan Trump Republicans -- and Dulio said Tlaib would be the star of anti-Sanders ads.
"In a state like Michigan that went for Trump last time, albeit by a small number of votes, that could be a yoke around his neck," Dulio said.
'Our job is to restore hope in America,' Bernie Sanders tells Detroit crowd
Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders sought to boost his Michigan credentials Sunday, securing an endorsement from Michigan Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib at a Detroit rally after spending time in her district.
Endorsements from a diverse group of Democrats could also help Sanders perform better with minority communities in Wayne County. Sanders fell 22 points behind there in the 2016 Democratic primary, despite winning Michigan by a narrow margin.
Biden leads the field in support among African Americans, according to Morning Consult polling, a key reason he remains the front-runner according to Porn. Sanders leads with black voters ages 18 to 29, but falls far behind Biden in other age groups.
Sanders and Warren have largely been cordial and avoided attacking each other during debates. National polling suggests supporters for Warren and Sanders would be likely to support the other candidate if their first pick fails to secure the Democratic nomination.
Warren's surge indicates she is picking up some of Sanders' supporters, Porn said.
"If Bernie were to continue to slide or if he were to end up getting out of the race all of a sudden, I think Warren would pick up a lot of support from Bernie and probably be catapulted into a stronger position to be the nominee," Porn said.
The Working Families Party, a labor-aligned progressive group, endorsed Warren after supporting Sanders in 2016. National Director Maurice Mitchell said Warren "strikes fear into the hearts of the robber barons who rigged the system," and acknowledged Sanders and Warren shaped the "ideological terrain" on which the primary is being waged.
U.S. Rep. Andy Levin, D-Bloomfield Township, endorsed Warren in July after embracing Sanders' Medicare for All plan during his 2018 congressional campaign. Levin, a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, said at the time that Warren is the best candidate to beat President Donald Trump and "lead a transformative government."
Former supporters are considering Warren in part due to Sanders' recent health issues, Grebner said, which "crystalize" concerns about his age and endurance.
"Bernie's just not gonna win the chess game," Grebner said. "Warren may. I think Biden may. Buttigieg may ... I mean, even if one of the horses ahead of (Sanders) falls, it doesn't matter because he's slower than the other horses ahead of him. You're a half mile for the finish line and Bernie is wheezing."
Dulio said it's too early to count Sanders out.
"I think that thought was more when he was off the trail, recovering from his health scare, but he's come back and there's really been little or no mention of it," Dulio said. "He's getting these endorsements from these from these key players in the progressive wing of the party, and I don't think I don't think you can write him off at all."
Related coverage on 2020 primary:
Bernie Sanders joins picket line at Detroit UAW strike
Rashida Tlaib, Bernie Sanders pay tribute to John Conyers at Detroit rally
Michigan-born musician Jack White says Bernie Sanders 'is telling the truth' at Detroit rally
Bernie Sanders says Michigan voters sparked 'political revolution' that will beat Trump


Polls are open until 1 p.m. at 11 sites around Buncombe County.
Saturday is the final day of early voting in North Carolina.
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Other photo identification issued by a government agency. It's OK if it has expired, but it must have your current name and address on it.
A copy of a current utility bill, bank statement, government check, paycheck or other government document with your current name and address on it.
For college students living in campus housing, any document from the school showing the student's name and on-campus housing address or facility name. Some schools provide lists of students to election officials and their on-campus addresses, in which case the student only needs their school photo identification.
If you can't vote by 1 p.m. Saturday, polls open on Election Day at 6:30 a.m. Voters in line by 7:30 p.m. will be allowed to vote.


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Home Cinema Audio Systems Google Nest Audio smart speaker to go on sale in India on...
Google Nest Audio smart speaker to go on sale in India on October 16 during Flipkart Big Billion Days Sale
Google Nest Audio is a successor of Nest Mini
By Komila Singh
Today in India the California-based technology giant Google launched Pixel 4a. In addition to this, the company also announced the Indian availability details of Google Nest Audio. The smart speaker was launched globally alongside the company's 5G Pixel devices last week. The new speaker by Google comes with better audio quality as well as the design. Here are the price details and specifications of the audio device.
Google Nest Audio price and availability details
Google Nest Audio will be available in India on October 16 when the Flipkart's Big Billion Sale kicks off in the country during the festive season. The smart device comes in five colour options Chalk and Charcoal. The company has set the price of Nest Audio at Rs 7,999 but for a limited period the smart speaker will be offered at an introductory price of Rs 6,999 that is Rs 1,000 down from its retailing cost. Apart from Flipkart, Nest Audio will soon be available at retail outlets across the country at Reliance Retail and Tata Cliq.
Google Nest Audio features
Google Nest Audio is a successor of Nest Mini in terms of design, Google Nest has a slimmer profile and is made from 70 percent recycled plastic. It equips a 75mm woofer, a 19mm tweeter, 3 far-field microphones and a 2-stage mic mute switch. The smart speaker is powered by a quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 processor clocked at 1.8GHz and can be connected through Bluetooth v5.0 and dual-band Wi-Fi 802.11ac. According to the company it is 75 percent louder and has 50 percent stronger bass than the original Google Home.
The latest variant of the Nest equips a dedicated machine learning chip with up to one TeraOPS of processing power to learn your most common music commands and responds two times faster than the original Google Home. The device is compatible with other smart home brands like Philips Hue, TP-Link|KASA and more with your voice command you can ask Nest to play music from YouTube Music or Spotify Premium with the help of Google Assistant just say, "Hey Google, recommend some music".
The device comes with a Media EQ that enables Nest Audio to automatically tune itself to music, podcasts, audiobooks or even a response from Google Assistant. While the Ambient IQ allows it to adjust the volume of Assistant, news, podcasts and audiobooks based on the background noise in your home, so you can hear the weather forecast over a noisy dishwasher.
Komila Singhhttps://www.gadgetbridge.com
Komila is a one of the most spirited tech writers at Gadget Bridge. Always up for a new challenge, she is an expert at dissecting technology and getting to its core. She loves to tinker with new mobile phones, tablets and headphones.
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When children feel safe at home they will generally feel safe at school and pass on that feeling to others. School safety starts at home with the development of accepting and resilient children. There is no precise formula for accomplishing this, but there are three key ingredients that increase the chances of success.
First, provide a safe and nurturing environment at home — create a loving and unthreatening place that also has structure. This means being firm but fair. Parents set the ground rules ahead of time and then follow through with reasonable consequences. It also means spending time with your kids in order to play, contemplate, observe and talk. This is how rapport and trust is built. Between the ages of 3 and 9 they still look up to you, and they generally don't over-challenge you unless they feel unfairly treated.
Second, help children see their value and place in the family and community. Help them understand they are part of something larger, and that they (and their peers) have unique abilities and interests. Emphasizing strengths helps them feel valued. This can be developed beyond the house with special classes, scouts, teams, schools or clubs. For example, a student I knew was fascinated with rock collecting. As a student, he attended a lapidary club. He was the youngest member, and from there he started making jewelry with stones he found and polished, gaining the admiration of many adults and peers. He found value and was appreciated for what he learned and could make.
Third, walk the talk. Parents must lead by example. Kids are quick to notice discrepancies between what you say and what you do. If we expect our sons and daughters to develop good values, we must live by these values. If we don't want our children to be mean, we too must be kind to others. If we don't want them to be a bully or be bullied, we need to not bully family, friends or colleagues. But beyond not doing what's wrong, we must also model what is right; how to be kind and compassionate, how to speak respectfully even in disagreement, how to consider the wants and needs and feelings of others, whether in person or online.
You can then expect that the school will build on this positive foundation by teaching students what friendship, compassion, respect and honesty look like.
This collaboration between home and school provides the optimal opportunity for success in creating an environment in both places where students feel safe, secure and happy.
One final thought. Years ago I visited a large, racially mixed school that had paired each student with a staff or faculty member. Each adult met with his/her one or two students at least monthly for lunch, break or right after school in a public place on campus to just talk and get to know each other's issues and challenges as a student, cafeteria worker, teacher or administrator.
The school hummed. Staff and students seemed happy, and they greeted one another and visitors with "hello" or "good morning." It was an amazing environment.
School officials stated that problems on campus subsided nearly 70% when the program was implemented. It demonstrated the power and possibilities when people begin to be advocates and supporters for one another, rather than competitors.
The program begins at home.
Robert Frank is the executive director of the Hillside School and Learning Center in La Cañada. He holds a master's of science degree in special education and has more than 40 years of teaching experience. His column appears on the last Thursday of each month. He can be reached at frank@hillsideforsuccess.org.


Free Training – The only cost is materials & test fee.
The class will be 12 weeks, meeting one night each week.
Seneca Radio Club will be offering an introductory Technician License class this January. Classes will run on Wednesday evenings beginning January 10th and end with the License Exam on March 28th. Classes normally run from 6:30 PM till 9:00 or 9:30 PM.
We use the ARRL materials for the class, available from ARRL.org and other sources. The ARRL materials we typically use in class including a PowerPoint presentation (which matches the manual) as our lecture basis. We will provide "color commentary" with the slideshow, hands-on experience and demonstrations, and discussions with a number of local hams with extensive experience in various aspects of Amateur Radio.
All of us are excited about the opportunity to present another class in Seneca County and our response to the initial class was just super. There are plenty of opportunities to enjoy Amateur Radio, from contesting to using our local repeaters, HF DX'ing, digital and data modes, amateur television and of course Morse code or CW as we call it. Amateur Radio works when all else fails.


Interested in learning about photography in Cummings KS? No matter if you are a professional, beginner, or hobbyist, the most effective approach to improving your photography technique is through hands-on training with skilled instructors.
Kansas offers many accredited and recognized photography schools. Topics taught in photography classes include lighting techniques, digital capture, outdoor photography, exposure, composition, and many other basic and advanced camera techniques. Becoming an experienced photographer can pave the road to a lifelong hobby or successful professional career.


Want to Regain a Naturally Youthful Appearance?
As we get older, we begin to lose critical volume in key facial areas like the cheeks and underneath the eyes. All this volume loss can make you look older before your time, so if you want to correct volume loss and regain a naturally youthful appearance, it might be time for Juvederm Voluma® XC at Pure Beauty Skin Care & Medical Spa.
Why Do I Have Volume Loss?
Volume loss happens as a result of the aging process. Over time, youthful fat begins to break down, resulting in a noticeable loss of facial volume. In some cases, facial fat even drifts southward, which creates the appearance of jowls and excess fatty skin. Juvederm Voluma® XC can correct this volume loss by adding volume back to key facial areas.
Juvederm Voluma is an FDA-approved dermal filler that contains hyaluronic acid. This naturally occurring compound helps trigger collagen production, while physically increasing volume in the mid-facial region (i.e. the cheeks). The thicker HA gel adds instant volume, while hyaluronic acid increases water retention and improves the skin's elasticity.
Am I a Good Candidate for Juvederm Voluma?
You're a good candidate for Juvederm Voluma® XC if you have volume loss in your mid-facial region, including underneath your eyes and in your mid-cheek regions. You should be a healthy candidate with realistic expectations for your injections.
A typical Juvederm Voluma® XC treatment takes about 15 minutes to perform.
You'll begin to see results almost immediately; these results should last about 12 to 18 months after your procedure.