Spring Semester 2017

Anthropology

Course Descriptions Southern Illinois University Carbondale

ANTH 104: The Human Experience: Anthropology Instructor: Dr. Andrew Balkansky, abalakan@siu.edu,

When & Where: T/R 11:00- 11:50am, Quigley 0140B;

M/W 2:00- 2:50pm, Wham 0105; M/W 3:00- 3:50pm (half-semester), AG 0102; or online.

(In addition, all students will have a fifty-minute discussion section per week)

This course fulfills the requirement for a Social Science course in the Core Curriculum. What is evolution? What does it have to do with me?

Who made those arrowheads you found as a kid?

Is same-sex marriage traditional?

Is war an environmental adaptation?

Could there ever be a universal translator?

Do chimpanzees have culture?

If you wanted sex every single day, what primate should you be?

How many genders are there anyway?

Can forensic specialists really do what they do on CSI?

Course Description:

Anthropology is about the evolution of human beings and the relationships between biology and culture, language, and the material remains of ancient

civilizations. In short, if human beings are doing it or have done it, if our primate ancestors did it or our current primate relatives are doing it,

anthropologists are interested in it! Think Outside Your Boundaries!

Textbook:

Muckle, R. and Tubelle De Gonzalez, L. Through the Eyes of Anthropology. ISBN: 978-1442608634

ANTH 202: America’s Diverse Culture When & Where: M/W 9:00-9:50 am, Pullium 042

M/W 3:00-3:50 pm, Faner 1526

(In addition, all students will have a fifty-minute discussion section per week)

This course fulfills the requirement for a Multicultural course in the Core Curriculum.

Course Description:

In this course we explore both the diversity of North American populations and the common threads that join them. We see how these distinctions, and

similarities, affect different individuals’ and groups’ life experiences by looking at different ethnic groups, religious practices, family configuration,

occupations, and beliefs about health and illness. Students taking this course will learn through readings, videos, lectures and guest speakers as well as

through small-group discussions and field research.

Textbook:

Hill, Fuller, Sutton, Bauer, and Smith. (2009). America's Diverse Cultures, Dept. of Anthropology, SIUC.

ANTH 205: Latin American Civilization Instructor: Dr. Andrew Balkansky, abalkan@siu.edu

When & Where: T TH 12:35 – 1:50, Faner 3514

Course description: an introduction to the civilizations of Latin America, with special reference to the Aztec of Mexico, the Inca of Peru, and the Maya of southern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize and Honduras, as recorded at the time of the Spanish Conquest, during colonial times, and including their modern descendants. The peoples and cultures of Spain, Portugal and Brazil are also covered. There are no prerequisites. Required text: The Buried Mirror: Reflections on Spain and the New World, by Carlos Fuentes. 400 pages. Cost: $18.57. Mariner Books. ISBN-13: 978-0395924990. Recommended texts: Spain in America, by Charles Gibson, Harper & Row; and The Conquest of New Spain, by Bernal Díaz, Penguin Books.

ANTH 231: Introduction to Forensic Anthropology

Instructor: Jessica Spencer jessi.spencer@siu.edu

When & Where: T/Th 9:35am- 10:50am, Wham 0306

Textbook:

Steadman, D. (2009). Hard Evidence: Case Studies in Forensic Anthropology, 2nd Ed. Pearson.

Recommended: Byers, S. (2007). Introduction to Forensic Anthropology. 3rd Ed. Pearson.

Course Description: Introduction to the

anthropologist’s role in assisting the legal

community in identification of skeletonized

and badly decomposed human remains.

Students will learn how to estimate the age,

sex, ancestry, stature, and disease history of an

individual from his/her skeletal remains.

This course is required for the interdisciplinary

Forensic Science minor.

ANTH 240A: Introduction to Biological Anthropology Instructor: Dr. Ulrich Reichard (ureich@siu.edu)

When & Where: Lecture T/Th 12:35-1:50pm, Quigley 140B

Labs M 2-3:50, M 4-5:50, T 2-3:50, T 4-5:50, W 2-3:50, W 4-5:50, Th 2-3:50, Th 4-5:50

(In addition, all students will have a fifty-minute discussion section per week in Faner 3438)

**Required for all Anthropology majors**

**This course fulfills the requirement for a Life Science with Lab in the Core Curriculum**

Section 950 (online course) Instructor: Dr. Susan Ford

Course description: Explore human biology, our origins, and our closest living relatives; the non-human primates.

Topics include:

Evolutionary processes and genetics, and how they generate biological diversity and organismal adaptation.

The natural history of the primates, including anatomy, behavior, and ecology.

The fossil and cultural records of human origins.

The biology of living humans, including diversity and variation, the concept of race, adaptation to disease and

extreme environments, and the interaction between culture and biology.

Requirements: Exams, short projects, and laboratory exercises. $10 lab fee.

Required Texts: Jurmain, R., et al. (2013). Essentials of Physical Anthropology. 9th ed. Cengage Learning. ISBN: 9781111837181.

ANTH 240B: Introduction to Anthropological Linguistics

Instructor: Yuki Tanaka,

When & Where: M/W/F 1:00- 1:50 pm, Faner 3515

Required for all Anthropology majors

Requirements: Active attendance and participation, weekly homework exercises, mid-term exam and comprehensive final exam.

Textbook: Ohio State University, Language Files ISBN: 978081425703.

Course description: This course is an introduction to the theories,

methods and goals of linguistic anthropology. The first part of the

class covers the formal properties of language and fundamental

linguistic analysis (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and

semantics) as well as the psychosocial nature of language

(language acquisition and processing). Then, we will look into the

social nature of language (sociolinguistics, language and culture),

language change (historical linguistics) and writing systems.

Through readings, videos, group work and lectures by the

instructor, students will explore the functions of language in social

and cultural behavior, the variety of ways different languages

classify and organize the world and how this unique property of

humans called “language” is related to empirical understanding of

human being.

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ANTH 240C: Introduction to Archaeology

Instructor: Dr. Paul Welch, pwelch@siu.edu

When & Where: T/Th 12:35-1:50 pm, Faner 3515

Required for all Anthropology majors

Course Description: This course deals with the way that archaeology is done: where and why archaeologists excavate, how excavation is done, how

artifacts are analyzed, what can be told about the prehistoric past. By the end of the semester you should have a grasp of the techniques and logic that

archaeologists use in order to arrive at conclusions about the human past based on the physical remains of past human behavior.

Textbooks:

Renfrew, Archaeology Essentials

Kamp, Kathryn, Life in Pueblo 1998.

Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology ANTH 240D • Spring 2017

Dr. John C. McCall

Course Objectives In this course we will examine anthropological theory from the 19th century to the present. We will discuss ethnological research from different times and places that have contributed to the discipline as a whole. This course places emphasis on the theories and methods used by anthropologists, and the key issues and debates that have shaped knowledge in the discipline. Topics include: social evolutionism, functionalism, structuralism, cognitive approaches, symbolic anthropology, development anthropology, ecological anthropology, and new directions in anthropological theory. Required Books:

A History of Anthropological Theory. Paul A. Erickson & Liam D. Murphy. University of Toronto Press.

Readings for a History of Anthropological Theory. Paul A. Erickson & Liam D. Murphy. (Eds.) University of Toronto Press.

ANTH 261: Issues in Popular Biological Anthropology

Instructor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ulrich H. Reichard, ureich@siu.edu

When & Where: T/Th 11:00-12:15 a.m., Faner 3438

Course Description: Biological anthropology is a biological science that investigates how humans

have evolved and continue to do so. With a focus on human anatomical and behavioral evolution

revealed in the human fossil record and on living human variation, research in biological anthropology

is often in the spotlight of the media. In this seminar-style course we will use social and other media

releases as focal points to investigate and discuss popular biological anthropology topics.

Areas of interest include:

Paleoanthropology Paleopathology Primate paleontology Primate behavior Medical anthropology Forensic anthropology Nutritional anthropology Human biological variation and biocultural evolution

Prerequisites: none.

Requirements: In-class presentation; quizzes

Textbook: no textbook

New Human Ancestor

Discovered: Homo naledi

National Geographic,

October 2015

Anthropology 310E/310H/470E*: Peoples and Cultures of South America

Instructor: Jonathan Hill (jhill@siu.edu)

Time: 11:00 am -12:15pm, Tues-Thurs

Place: Faner 1226

Description: This course will cultivate an appreciation for the cultural and linguistic diversity of indigenous South American peoples living in the Amazonian lowlands

and the Andean highlands. Readings, films, lectures, and discussions will aim to develop a comparative perspective through exploring language, ecology, social

organization, religion, and history in three macro-regions of South America: 1) Southern lowlands, 2) Northern lowlands, and 3) Southwestern lowlands/Andean

Highlands. For each of these three regions, we will begin with an in-depth exploration of a specific sub-region before broadening the perspective to include other major

types of society in the region.

Readings: Required texts are Women of the Forest by Yolanda and Robert Murphy (ISBN: 978-0-231-13233-6, paper, $29.50), Burst of Breath: Indigenous Ritual

Wind Instruments in Lowland South America edited by Jonathan Hill and Jean-Pierre Chaumeil (ISBN # 978-0-8032-2092-8, paper, $45.00), Tsewa's Gift by

Michael Brown (ISBN: 978-0-8173-5364-3, paper, $22.50), and Mountain of the Condor (ISBN: 978-0-88133-143-1, paper, $20.95) by Joseph Bastien. A number of

journal articles and book chapters are also required and have been placed on Electronic Reserve in Morris Library.

Requirements: Undergraduate (310E) students are required to take three exams, give a 15-minute presentation, write two short (750-800 word) summaries, and take

occasional quizzes covering required readings, films, lectures, and discussions. Graduate (470E) students are required to take the first two exams, participate in class

discussions, and prepare 20 page essays on a specific Amazonian or Andean region on a topic of their choosing.

*The course is open to both undergraduate and graduate students. Undergraduates must enroll in the 310E or 310H sections, graduate students in the 470E.

Anthropology 410I: Identities, Global Studies in Culture and Power Instructor: Jonathan Hill (jhill@siu.edu, 453-4084)

Time& Day: TR 2-3:15, Faner 3461

Course description: Are you curious about the real story behind the culture war between Sacha Baron Cohen and the government of Kazakhstan? Have you ever

wondered how people can build new sociocultural identities in the process of solving practical problems at local, national, and international levels? Or have you

ever contemplated the human propensity to use history and memory of past events to recover meaningful identities in the present?

These are some of the questions we will seek to answer through surveying recent studies of sociocultural identities based on ethnicity, class, race, gender,

nationality, age, language, and other criteria, as aspects of broader struggles over power and meaning. Topics to be addressed are critical analyses of identity

politics in the Americas, Europe, Middle East, Asia, and other regions; historical approaches to studying identities; and ethnographic studies of transnational and

diasporic communities. We will view films and videos that illustrate these topics.

Readings: Most required readings will be selected from recent and forthcoming issues of Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, an international journal

that the instructor has edited since 2001. We will also read articles from Current Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, American Ethnologist, and other major

journals as well as chapters from edited volumes.

Requirements: Students are required to write three short (1,000 word) essays on topics covered in required readings and class discussions; participate in class

discussions on a regular basis and give two 15-minute presentations; and write a research paper covering topics of their own choosing.

ANTH 430F: Ancient Civilization of the Andes: The Inkas and Their Precursors Instructor: Dr. Izumi Shimada, ishimada@siu.edu;

When & Where: T TH 2:00 – 3:15, Faner 3515

Come and learn about one of the most remarkable civilizations of the pre-industrial world! The Inkas and the Inka Empire… just the names excite the 21st century

imagination. They evoke images of beautiful textiles used in a multitude of ways and magnificent masonry architecture set against majestic Andean landscapes.

All were created paradoxically within largest political system ever to develop in the New World, a system with no wheel, no market, no writing. But, how did they

accomplish them? What about various complex and impressive pre-Inca cultures?

In addition to an in-depth characterization of the Inka Empire, the course offers an up-dated, comprehensive synthesis of the development and key achievements

and material, organizational and ideological features of a handful of major pre-Hispanic cultures of the Andean region of western South America. The course

covers some 15,000 years of pre-Hispanic cultural developments, from the earliest hunting-gathering days to the Spanish conquest of the Inka Empire (1532-5

CE). Numerous PowerPoint presentations, videos and personal insights gained from four decades of active fieldwork in Peru and neighboring countries enrich the

course.

Prerequisites: None

Requirements: Class participation, mid-term and final take-home essay exams and one (for undergraduates) or two (for graduates) thematic research papers (10-

15 pages).

Textbook:

Quilter, Jeffrey

2014 The Ancient Central Andes. Routledge, London & New York. Routledge World Archaeology Paperback

ISBN-10: 0415673100 |

ISBN-13: 978-0415673105. $37.95 at Amazon.co

Anth 455A: Dental Anthropology

Instructor: Dr Jeremiah Scott, jescott@siu.edu

When & Where: MW 10:00 – 11:15 Faner 3438

This course is an advanced introduction to the evolutionary biology of human teeth using a comparative approach. We will situate variation in human

dental morphology, development, genetics, and function within the larger context of mammalian dental evolution, with a particular focus on our

fossil ancestors and our closest living phylogenetic relatives, the primates. The course specifically addresses the following issues: human variation

and origins, including dental morphology, cultural modification, and the study of species and population affinities; primate behavior and ecology,

including functional aspects of tooth size and morphology, sexual dimorphism in tooth size and shape, and life-history correlates; and human health,

including dental asymmetry, dental pathology, occlusal variation, and enamel hypoplasia and other markers of physiological stress. In covering these

topics, we will emphasize how this information is used to test hypotheses about the biology and behavior of ancient populations and species.

Prerequisites: None

Requirements: Exams, participation in labs and discussions

Textbooks:

Dental Anthropology. Simon Hillson (1996). ISBN: 978-0521564397. Publisher’s price: $71.00 (paperback); $57.31 on Amazon.com.

Teeth: A Very Short Introduction (2014). ISBN: 978-0199670598. Publisher’s price: $11.95; $4.15 on Amazon.com.

SENIOR SEMINAR (480)

ADVANCED ANTHROPOLOGICAL WRITING

Dr. David Sutton

TTh 11-12:15

Course Objectives: This course is designed to give advanced undergraduate majors an opportunity to enhance their abilities to read and write critically about

selected theoretical topics in anthropology. Each student will choose a topic for research; refine and develop this topic into a set of specific research questions and

problems; locate, read, and annotate sources; and write a research paper. The topics, questions, and problems for research must be completed by the end of Part I of

the course. The course will emphasize the processes of critical reading, creative exploration of published literature, determining scope and structure of the paper,

and revision of drafts based on feedback from the instructor and other students.

ANTH 500b: Theory/Method Linguistic Anthropology

Instructor: Dr. Janet Fuller, jmfuller@siu.edu

When & Where: T TH 11:00 – 12:50, Faner 3461

Course description:

This course is an overview to enable students to identify, describe and understand the theories, methods and goals of linguistic anthropology. Emphasis is placed on the

relationships of language to culture and cognition from an anthropological perspective. Topics include descriptive linguistics, synchronic and diachronic variation,

language in cultural context, and discourse and pragmatics.

Textbooks: Department of Linguistics, Ohio State Univ., Language Files ISBN: 978-0814252703

ANTH 500C: Theory and Method in Archaeology Instructor: Dr. Izumi Shimada; When & Where: T TH 9:35 – 10:50, Faner 3461

If you feel like Satchel (above), then, you need to take this seminar!

This course aims to provide a comprehensive knowledge and critical understanding of the major controversies and the basic method and theory of Anglo-

American anthropological archaeology as practiced primarily in the U.S. since 1940s. Discussion topics are, to a large extent, chronologically ordered to elucidate

the intellectual and social contexts and interplay of ideas in the development of archaeological method and theory. Students will also be introduced to research

design formulation and ongoing debates surrounding issues such as identity formation, ethics in archaeology and the relationship between public and archaeologist.

Course Requirements: (1) two critiques of assigned papers to be presented in class (10%); (2) a critical evaluation of the approach and interpretive framework of

a prominent archaeologist who was active in any major region of the world between 1940 and 2000 (30% of the course grade); (3) a research paper on a major

theoretical issue or debate of the post-1960 era (30% of the course grade); and (4) a final take-home essay examination (30% of the course grade).

Required textbooks:

Johnson, Matthew

2010 Archaeological Theory: An Introduction. 2nd edition. Wiley-Blackwell. Paperback: ISBN: 0631202967. ca. $31.31.

Trigger, Bruce G.

2006 A History of Archaeological Thought. Second Edition. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Paperback: ISBN: 0521840767. ca. $30.45.

Preucel, Robert W., and Stephen A. Mrozowski (eds.)

2010 Contemporary Archaeology in Theory: The New Pragmatism. Wiley-Blackwell. Paperback: ISBN: 978-1405158534. ca. $41.79

Archaeological

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ANTH 500D: Theory & Method in Cultural Anthropology Instructor: Dr. David Sutton, dsutton@siu.edu

TTh 12:35-1:50

Course Description: This course introduces key approaches in Sociocultural Anthropology from the mid-1980s to the present. How does contemporary

anthropology address classical topics such as kinship, exchange, ritual, and the environment? What role does fieldwork play in anthropological understanding, and

what ethical and epistemological issues are raised by the process of turning fieldwork into written texts? How have issues such as gender, history and power

reshaped anthropological understandings and approaches. These issues will be explored as students write essays and book reviews that engage with contemporary

theories, methods and approaches.

Prerequisites: Graduate student in Anthropology

Textbooks:

1. Apotheosis of Captain Cook: European Mythmaking in the Pacific, by Obeyesekere, 1997, Princeton U Press ISBN 13- 978-0691057521. $25.00

2. How ‘Natives’ Think: About Captain Cook, For Example, by Sahlins, 1996, U Chicago Press. ISBN 13-978-0226733692. $21.37.

3. Sensual Relations, by Howes, 2003, U Michigan Press. ISBN 978-0472068463. $32.50

ANTH 528: Culture and Materiality

Instructor: Dr. Roberto Barrios

When & Where: M 9:00 – 11:30, Wham 0301A

Since the 1990s, anthropology has responded to critiques of modern epistemology that call for analytical approaches that do not rely on a neat separation between

objects and subjects, meaning and materiality, nature and culture. One of the realms of anthropological inquiry of this response is that of affect theory; that is, the

ways we understand how the sensing body is shaped through quotidian practices with the effect of material culture, values, and built environments becoming

embodied. This seminar reviews current trends in affect theory, highlighting the ways human ecological approaches in anthropology, the anthropology of space

and place, and the anthropology of the body can be fruitfully combined in the ethnographic and archaeological study of the sensing person.

All course readings provided by the instructor as PDF documents on D2L.

ANTH 532: Seminar in Human Biological Variation

Instructor: Dr. Jeremiah Scott, jescott@siu.edu

When and Where: M 1:00 – 3:30, Faner 3461

Course Description: This graduate seminar focuses on the origin, evolution, and biological significance of modern human phenotypic and genetic

variation. We will examine the theoretical issues underlying how we organize and classify biological diversity, including a discussion of the species

concept in evolutionary biology and its implications for the race concept. We will discuss the debate over modern human origins, including how

recent paleogenomic (Neandertals, Denisovans) and paleontological (Homo floresiesnsis) discoveries have changed our view of this event and our

interpretations of variation in living human populations. We will survey neutral, functional, and biocultural variation in various biological systems

(e.g., dental, skeletal, physiological, genetic) and ask how they inform our understanding of human biology. Readings for each topic will be selected

mainly from the primary literature.

Prerequisites: None

Requirements: Readings, participate in and lead class discussions, short summaries of the readings for each week, research paper

Textbooks: None

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ANTH/LING 544: Discourse Analysis Instructor: Dr. Janet Fuller, jmfuller@siu.edu

When and Where: W 2:00 – 4:30, Faner 3515

Course description:

This course covers a wide range of topics about how language plays a role in our lives, including various aspects of social identity (gender, sexuality, race,

ethnicity, age, social class), a variety of contexts (education, politics, personal relationships, new media), in many different languages and cultures. We will cover a

variety of theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of discourse, including spoken, written, and signed communication.

Textbooks: Hyland, Ken and Brian Paltridge, The Bloomsbury Companion to Discourse Analysis, ISBN: 978-1441167866

ONLINE COURSES

ANTH 104: The Human Experience: Anthropology Instructor: Carlos Batres

This course fulfills the requirement for a Social Science course in the Core Curriculum.

What is evolution? What does it have to do with me?

Who made those arrowheads you found as a kid?

Is same-sex marriage traditional?

Is war an environmental adaptation?

Could there ever be a universal translator?

Do chimpanzees have culture?

If you wanted sex every single day, what primate should you be?

How many genders are there anyway?

Can forensic specialists really do what they do on CSI?

Course Description: Anthropology is about the evolution of human beings and the relationships between biology and culture, language, and the

material remains of ancient civilizations. In short, if human beings are doing it or have done it, if our primate ancestors did it or our current primate

relatives are doing it, anthropologists are interested in it! Think Outside Your Boundaries!

Textbook: Muckle, R. and Tubelle De Gonzalez, L. Through the Eyes of Anthropology. ISBN: 978-1442608634

ANTH 202: America’s Diverse Culture Instructor: Dr. Karen Wolf

This course fulfills the requirement for a Multicultural course in the Core Curriculum.

Course Description: In this course we explore both the diversity of North American populations and the common threads that join them. We see

how these distinctions, and similarities, affect different individuals’ and groups’ life experiences by looking at different ethnic groups, religious

practices, family configuration, occupations, and beliefs about health and illness. Students taking this course will learn through readings, videos,

lectures and guest speakers as well as through small-group discussions and field research.

Textbook:

Hill, Fuller, Sutton, Bauer, and Smith. (2009). America's Diverse Cultures, Dept. of Anthropology, SIUC.

ANTH 240A: Human Biology—An Introduction to Biological Anthropology Instructor: Dr Susan Ford

This course fulfills the requirement for a Life Science with Lab in the Core Curriculum.

Course Description: This course is an introduction to the study of human evolutionary biology. Topics will include: (1) evolutionary processes and genetics, and

how they generate biological diversity and organismal adaptation; (2) the natural history of the primates, including anatomy, behavior, and ecology; (3) the fossil

and cultural records of human origins; and (4) the biology of living humans, including diversity and variation, the concept of race, adaptation to disease and

extreme environments, and the interaction between culture and biology.

Requirements: exams, short projects, and laboratory exercises. $10 lab fee.

Required Texts: Jurmain, R., et al. (2017). Essentials of Physical Anthropology. 10th Edition. Cengage Learning. ISBN 978-1111837181.

Ford, S., et al. (2012). ANTH 240a Lab Manual, departmentally produced, available locally.

SPRING 2017

ANTHROPOLOGY 410N

Anthropology of Popular Culture:

The Social Life of Things

Professor David Sutton

OFFERED ONLINE THROUGH D2L

COURSE DESCRIPTION: In this course we will explore recent anthropological approaches to popular culture, material culture and consumption. We will

specifically be interested in the ways that objects, from the solid objects around us to the more virtual objects such as digital and celluloid objects, acquire

significant cultural meanings as part of our daily life and our ritual occasions. Objects will be explored from multiple perspectives including the symbolic, the

sensory, the social and the political. We will draw examples from U.S. society and elsewhere allowing for a comparative perspective, and with a special interest in

the relationship among material objects, memory and identity. Students will conduct several research projects in the Carbondale area and write research papers

presenting their results.

REQUIRED BOOKS:

David Sutton & Peter Wogan Hollywood Blockbusters: The Anthropology of Popular Movies.

INDEPENDENT COURSES: ANTH 460 Individual Study in Anthropology TBA

ANTH 465 Internship TBA

ANTH 484 Internship: Curation of Archaeological TBA

Collections

ANTH 499 Honors Thesis TBA

ANTH 501 Practicum: Education Anthropology TBA

ANTH 585 Readings in Anthropology TBA

ANTH 590 Internship TBA

ANTH 595 Field Methods in Ethnology TBA

ANTH 597 Fieldwork in Anthropology TBA

ANTH 598 Accelerated Thesis TBA

ANTH 599 Thesis TBA

ANTH 600 Dissertation TBA

ANTH 601 Continuing Education TBA

ANTH 699 Postdoctoral Research TBA